The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-25
THE MORNING MESSENGER SUNDAY DECEMBER IS

Z. 80 - -
or was lately, in the South Kensington
Museum, where il, no doubt, excited the
wonder and troubled the mind of many q
good Protestant.
Turning now for few moments from the
statesmen, let US see what was the feeling
of the greatest Of English seamen towards
our naval forces off the west coast of Italy,
wrote on the I'd Of March to the British
Minister at Florence: Your Excellency's
account of the treatmentsOf the poor old
Pope makes my heart bleed and curse,
in the bitterness of my grief, all those VINO
might have prevented such cruelties."
few months later Nelson thus addressed the
English General commanding in Minorca
Rome would throw open her gates and
receive you as a deliverer, and the Pope
would owe his restoration to the Papal
Chair to hereto. / can take upon me to
say that our King Eyes, George III.) would
be much gratitled that Britain, not Austria,
should reinstate the Pope" He wrote TO
Troubridge ;" send you an order respect
ing the establishing of the Sovereign
Pontif as far as my power extends"
When the new Pope, Plus VII, had ar
rived at Rome, Nelson addressed him thus:
Holg Father-As an individual who, from
his public situation, has had an opportunity
of using his utmost endeavors to assist in
bringing about thes happy event of your Holt
most sincere congratulations on this occasion |;
and with nay most fervent wishes and prayers
that your residence may be blessed with health
and every comfort this world can afford Your
Holiness will, am sure, forgive me mention
ing circumstance which, although at the
time it was spoken appeared impossible. yet
the fact did happen. Father M sI n
friar, coming to the house of Sir William Ham
ilton, in September, 1898, to congratulate me
on the battle of the Nile, said Gas can be testi-
ied),, What You have done is great, but you
x,t1l 10 ofnv inn xrIlt fnI RnVnA
with your ships.' And although I did not be-
lieve that tho Father had the gift of prophecy,
yet his guess was so extraordinary, and has
turned out SO exactly that could not in my
! conscience avoid telling your Holiness of it.
l will now only tresAaes on your time by as
surfing your Holiness with what respect am
your most obedient servant,
"BRoNTE NELSON of the Nile"
There is no need to quote any words of
Castlereagh, Liverpool or Wellington.
Their actions speak for their sound and
| righteous judgment in this matter, 1t was
to the two former, if not also to the third,
that the Holy See owed the restitution of
the Legations, which were, with the rest of
his temporal dominions, guaranteed to him
by Great Britain in common with the other
parties to the treaty of Vienna.
| When Cardinal Consalvi, in 1914, fret
| demanded the restoration of the Legations,
some difficulties were made, even at the
Congress of Vienna; but a letter from the
Prince Regent of England, to whom the
Cardinal appealed, decided the question.
l"My Prince Regent" wrote Consalvi,
Is effects wonders; the restitution is de-
cided in principle, and accepted by the
Emperor Alexander; we shall re-enter into
possession of our beloved provinces, and
| we shall owe them to q combination very
/ unexpected"
n When the Duke of Wellington, in 184S,
| wished to meet the objections of those who
opposed the bill for legalizing diplomatic
relations with Rome, he proposed that, in
stead of calling the Pope by any ecclesias.
tical title, the Holy Father should be styled
Sovereign of the Roman States"
On the 5th of January, l849, Lord Pal
merston ,commenced q dispatch TO the Mar
I auis of Normandy, then our Ambassador
the present position of the Pope, have t.
observe that no doubt it is obviously>de.
sirable that person who, in his spiritual
capacity, has great and extensive influence
over the internal affairs of most of thu
countries in Europe, should be in such 6
to be used by one European power as al
J instrument for the annoyance of any othe
power; and in this view it is much to b
wished that the Pope should be Sovereigi
, of a territory of his own. Great Britain il
indeed a Protestant State, but her Majest.
f has many millions of Catholic subjects, an;
f the British Government must, therefore
{ be DESTROYS, with n view to British interest
3 that the Pope should be placed in such
7 temporal position as to be able to act wit
t entire independence in the exercise of hi
f spiritual functions"
3 We, therefore-who hold the possession
of the temporal power to be, in the presen
t state of the world, necessary to the indie
Y pendence of the spiritual authority of tn
f Holy See-have on our side the judgmen
:. of all the greatest statesmen of Protestan
d England; of men whose natural bias mus
: in nearly every case have been strongl
p the other way. We have for us Pit, Gren
d vile, Burke, Castlereagh, Liverpool, Ellen
s borough, Lansdowne, Brougham, We
# lington and Palmerston. But our state:
y men would seem at this time to have abaI
e doned, where the Holy Father is concerned
: every dictate of justice and of commo
is sense. can is well, provided Popery
q crushed"
=. Enlightened England.