The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-13

express train, starting at 10 A. NJ, reaching
Civita Vecchia at II, and making connection
with the steamers, whether bound to Naples
or to Leghorn or to Marseilles. But no. He
must lose his nights rest, and start at A.
M. in private carriage to travel fifty miles
and reach French steamer touching at Civita
Veechia at half-past twelve.
But if our secretary, in his recolectons,
can spurn facts, it would be supurhuous to
ask him to respect mere probabilities.
The real method Of the Cardinals depar-
ture from Rome and his journey to Naples
was the following very prosaic one:-Oa the
| 10th of June, 1864, he drove in his own car
riage from his own residence, the Paazzo
Gabrielli, to the railway station in Rome, and
took ticket to Velletri, to which city he was
accustomed to go, from time to time, to
attend to the interests of the estate Girgenti,
of which the family had requested him to be-
come the administrator during the minority
of the heirs. His valet alone accompanied
him. The carriage was ordered to be at the
station in the afternoon, as he might come
back by the returning train. At Velletri the
cardinal was met by his man of business in
that city, who had possibly made
the necessary arrangements, and both pro-
ceeded in the same train to Isoletta on
the Neapolitan frontier. The cardinal con.
tinued on to Naples. The agent came back
to Rome, found the carriage at the station,
! rode in it to the Palazzo Gabrielle, and in
formed the cardinals chancellor and the
household that the cardinal had gone to Naples
for his health, and was not able to say when
he would return.
This is the plain, matter of-fact occurrence
which the secretarys memory has changed
into something like chapter from one of
Mrs. Radcliffe's novels sixty years ago.
We have already said that Cardinal d dAudrea
took this step without the permission which,
according to the rules of the Sacred College,
he should have previously obtained. He had
asked for that permission, and it had
not been granted. When he publicly
violated the rule on this point, the
power of the Pope hoped that they had un-
expectedly found a cardinal in such posi-
tion that they might, by degrees, make hia
their tool, and use him against Plus TX.
Voices were heard limiting that it might be
proper even to make him an anti-pope. The
wiser ones among them saw from the
beginning how absurd such hopes and
history and the real character of the
cardinal; and they rightly judged that what
ever might be the motives of his present un-
expected and most unusual proceeding, they
must be personal. The step could not spring
from any policy opposed to that of the court
of Rome. They knew too we'll that he had
always been strenuous defender of the
Pope; they had often found him their active
and energetic opponent. Later events proved
rect.
In the spring of 1864, the cardinal took up
the idea that his health would be restored if
he went to Naples, his birth place. He asked
permission to do 80. Special circumstances
made the request one to be considered very
maturely. The Government at Rome
was in critical and delicate position, which
required it to avoid most carefully any step ca
pable of a doubtful Interpretation, or liable to
be made a pretext for certain false charges
then current against it. The ex-King of
Naples was refugee in Rome. Dethroned
sovereigns generally seek and find an asylum
there. His friends and adherents in Naples
were busy concerting measures to get him
back on his throne. The Italian Govern
ment and the italian papers charged the
court with assenting and aiding in these
plans. Even France seemed to be growing
cold, and to be manifesting those dispositions
which, a few months after, eliminated in the
iniquitous convention with Victor Emmanuel
for the withdrawal of the French troops from
the duty of protecting Rome. All these
things made the court of Rome trebly eau
tious to commit mo mistake.
1t was felt that for Roman cardinal to go
then to Naples, even under the pretext of i'll
health, more especially cardinal like Cardi-
nal d'Andrea, whose family had been for
several generations closely connected with
the dethroned royal family, and whose
personal antecedents had been those
we have recited, would be too dan
! gerous. No explanations, however sim
cere, no disavowals, however explicit, could
silence the charges or avert the troubles that
might follow. Hence the permission asked
for was refused, the more readily as the idea
was looked on as the cardinals own fancy
and was not based upon the advice of physi-
clans. The Pope himself explained the mat
ter to the cardinal and offered him per-
mission to go to Malta, to Spain, to
Pau, in France, to Nice, in Savoy,
or anywhere else that the physicians would
advise, or he desire. But to Naples, under
the circumstances, it would not do for
him to go. The cardinal seemed to as
sent at the moment, and to..acquesce in the
decision. But some time after he returned to
the fixed idea, repeated his request, waited
some weeks, and not receiving any reply,
started on the 10th of June 1864, without
permission, and, in the manner we have
stated, went to Naples At first he spent seve-
raj months, perhaps year, at Sorrento, well
known to those who visit Southern Italy for
their health. After some time he moved to
the city of Naples itself, and lived there
until his return to Rome.
Concerning the cardinals stay in Naples
our secretary" remembers only two points
'He was located in ill-furnished lodgings on
the Chiaja, at Naples, sorely distressed for
money More than this, his good name was
suffering - suffering, he means, in the
opinion of the Mazzinians, the followers of
the policy of Cavour and ''the party of
action" The Roman Committee seems to
have been particularly exercised in reference
to him.
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