Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-04
should forthwith make Malta the headquarters

snoulu lortlwlth make Malta the headquarters
of the church.
M. Drouyn de Lhuys wrote as follows to
the French minister at Rome on the goth of
December:-l have heard in an indirect man
ner that Mr.. Odo Russell, on being received
by the pope, gave to his holiness, in the name
of Earl Russell, the adUice to guit HalV. adding
i'll such case, her Britannia maiestys govern
ment would willingly offer to him the island
OF Malta as place of residence; that Eng
hsh vessels would be at his disposal and that
the pope might rely upon the eagerness of
England to give him, in the asylum that he
might accept, all the conditions of an es-
Enlistment worthy of him. These PROPOSE
tons were made in an official form, adopted
for the first time in the intercourse which MIR.
| Odo Russell has held with the Holy See.
| Mgr. Chgi having come to see me, | told him,
in abiding tie the above, that | had learned
that lce had neW auTtla1ieS and competitors
in the protection which we gave to the HOLY
See. The NunciO having confirmed the in.
formation which had been given me, | add
ed while avoiding to take the matter more
seriously than was necessary, that we hoped
very much that if the pope, which God forbid,
ace'e compelled to gut Italy, he tcould ggant
as the preference oyer England, and that ne
should ask 1t Of 1t.
In reply to this dispatch the Prince LatOur
dAuvergne wrote to Paris hasten to send
you the information which l have received,
and which | have reason to believe is correct,
concerning the proposition recently made to
the holy see by lord Russell to put the island
Of Malta at the disposal of the pope, IN the
case of his consenting, as England advised
him to do, to give up Rome to Italy. In the
course of the summer Mr.. Odo Russell, who
was about to take leave, solicited an audience
OF the pope. Admitted to the audience Mr.
Russell pleaded, as usual, but in decorous
terms, the cause Of Italian unity, for the sue
cess of which, he said, his government enter
tanned the most ardent desire. At the mo-
ment Of his taking leave of his holiness, when
he was already upon the threshold of the cab-
net, the holy father addressed to him, it
seems, without attaching to them the leas It
Importance, these words: Adieu, dear Mr..
Russell Who knows if one day shall not
be forced TO go to you to ask for hOSpitaLityF"
At these words Mr.. Russell Immediately
returned into the cabinet of the holy
father, to ask him if he had indeed
feared that he should be compelled to quit
Rome; and if, in that case, he would really be
disposed to go to England? The pope very
quickly treasured Mr.. Russell, by adding that
ne was ignorant ofthe trials which Providence
reserved for him; but that for the moment he
had no apprehension, and did not at all dream
of removing from Rome. Mr.. Odo Russell,
who doubtless reported this conversation to
his government, giving it, perhaps, more i'm
portance than it really possessed, was imme-
diately, we are assured, summoned to London
by telegraph. On his return to Rome, in the
month of November last, Mr. Odo Russell
went to Cardinal Antonelli, and gave him a
note, in which Lord Russell, after having sup
ported the cause of Italian unity and tbl ,.i0bt