The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-26 00:00:00

PAPA b P RUC LA M ATION.

imert•Le.A. rtnatigAL noNqAtst, or TM? 4.11. c. ORACoN
.4. A. maRiA AD DARTTIOL4, secarT‘RY or sTATs TO
11:4 OUR Lops POP? sacs vit.
Ilis Holiness, being informed that the Austrian
corers which, in consequence of dispositions made by
the High Allied Powers, were assembled on the fron-
tier of the Lombardo-Venetian kin•zdoni, have passed
. the.. Po, and are marching as friendly troops towards
the kingdom •of Naples, to protect the execution of
thsse determinations which his Sicilian Majesty has
antsontioesl to his people to have been adopted by the
said Sovereigns fur the peace and trinqnilnty of (Pal y
and of all Europe, is desirous that his well hetoved
subjects should be assured respecting the object of
this military expedition, and at the same time inform-
ed of what, in the existing circumstances, he expects
irons the tinalterable.fidelity and filial attachment to
his sacred person.
The Duly Father takes a pleasure in flattering him-
self that the Neapolitan nation, united with its King,
wil! be anxious to preservr.tu itself and to Europe the
inestimable
_benefits of that peace which WAS but lk
few days ago regained by so many sacrifices, and at the
expense of so mock blood. His Holiness offers his
sssss st fervid 1 ravers that Heaven may in its mercy keep
for ever far frosts us the set:invite of war. Hitt if, by
the inscrutable decrees_ of Divine wisdom, the people
of Italy are to be again afflicted by that dreadful evil,
the Holy Fitthitr, in his quality of head of the church
and as Sovereign essentially pacific will not cease to
maintain, as he has hitherto maintained, a perfect
neotrality towards all nations. But at the same time
his Holiness feels too strongly the force of his pater-
nal solirittide for the welfare of the people whom Di-
vine Providenre has intrusted to his temporal govern-
's:en?, to neglect, under sorb important circumstances,
to protect atilt secure their interests.
If the geographical position of the Pontifical States
render it indispensable that foreign troops should pass
through them, be knows not how lie can oppose them.
Iltit Isis Holiness will not fail to require that during the
unavoidable passage ofany foreign troops, his neutrality,
as recognised by all the powers, shall he religiously
respected ;—tlia• not the slightest obstacle shall he
opposed to the ecelesiastieal, civil, and military au-
thorities of the Papal States in the exercise of their re-
speetive powers ;—that the persons awl property of his
f titliftil sabjeets, and of all the foreigners who enjoy
t:os h:spitality of his pacific dominions, shall be insist-
! ;bly respected t—anol that, though the passage of the
troops through many c:ties and parts of his tetritorirs
cannot be preventeli, that the capital of the Catholic
w arid. through which there can be no necessity for the
fareign troops passing., shall he entirely excepted. .1
,at moaner sy. actiog on the part of the foreign
troops, will entitle the Holy Father to consider them
ro longer as friend*, and to oppose, with all the means
in his power, their passage through his states, and to
have recsourse to the protection of the high powers.
tinidrd by these principles, the Holy Father has
a:ready caused strict orders to he given to the civil and
ilitary authorities of his states, to the effect that Mr
firs rrerelar troops, un entering anal passing through
e pontitieal dominions, shall be regarded as friends,
toot oppose:l its their passage, lint that any of the
,rho mai, dire hi eittlnte the pontifical
t. rritury .M4ll he rig...twisty resistril ; anti for this
rorpos.• his Holiness also ordered the fortresses of his
0 saiittions to be put in a state of ile fenre.
ifie nolioetS nor Lord, in malting known to his
sithjects in the usual manner, and in order to
give them perfect confidence, the object of tne present
expedition, his sentiment' as expressed above,
the meastires adopted for securing tranquillity in
I. states, has at the same time thought fit to mani-
fest 1.", sovereign will that they shall show towards
ti e f 'rig,: troops all those attentions which they owe
to the ttons of friendly powers, and that uo one shall
ta::e upon himself to injure them by word or deed.
:flee fidelity and the attachment constantly and
s. oat strikingly manifested to his Holiness, our lord,
I.: lii' peopl., afford to his Holiness the surest
guarantee that they will in the present circumstances
contribute. hy the prudence of their conduct, to the
tenanre of that tranquillity which, with so murk
satisfaction to Lis paternal heart and so much honour
tea the ;Teeple of his states. has hitherto been pre-
se, veal tinds•t the sacred of the laws and the yigi..
Isola. of Cos government. Hitt if any turbulent spirit
shall wickedly slam dttrinw the present rircumstances,
tlllof-1..: opportnnities for plottits., misrhicf, sat expert
to be RM.% even fair a short while, to disturb the pub-
lic tratiquiliity. be it known tie them that the most
circumspect vigilance will watch their proceedings,
anal that their crimes trill be punished by all the ri-
"roar s.f the laws.
(liven at the Quirinal, Feb. 7, IRV.
11, CARDINAL CONSALVL

Nottwtett, FED. I:l.—Two persons. were latch- ap-
prehended on suspicion of having heen concerned in
the rohlter neon the person of 31r. Thortell. It ap-
pears that the apprehension of these persons, together
with another man, arose fr.ent the voluntary confection
of a man named Smith, who was apprehended in the
night of Thursday, the 13th inst. hv William Palmer,
the gamekeeper of the lion. Mr. Printro:e, MI a
charge of having committed a linrelary iu the dwell-
ing-house of Mr. Meek, at PratitinEleam Pignt. Smith
in hi: confession stated, that he, in company with two
men and a woman whose persons he descrihed, had
volifieel Mr. Titurtell 0f1,5041/. between g and 9 tl'eholi
une evening, about three "reeks before; and this state-
a.ent he nestle at different times in the presence of se-
veral persons. and gave such particular information us
ter the robbery sad the contents of the packet-book
chalets from Mr. Thltrtell, and partieniarited some
drafts that were in it, as left no doubt upon the minds
tit several persons that he was coneernest in the theft.
-- -In Ltrusequenee, an examinatiun took place before
several Magistrates of the city ; when Smith finding.
a, it is apprelsetoled, !hit he euuld not be exonerated
front the burglary, refused to give effort to his former
estntes:ina. The other too 10,1 t and the u uman, against
whom there appeared on ground of suspicion, sorer sc.
eurdiogly discharged, anti Smith was committed to
the Castle for further examination, un the charge fur
the burglary, and it is believed that a detainer will be
lodged against him fur Mr. Thurteirs robbery, it be-
ing held that a man's v:tiuntary confession is good
against betaself, although nut sufficient to implicate
others.