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would announce, by such a sea eiehe Bu’ 
yefusal of any accommodation, any peace with marks, that primitive 
the Emperor, and would even declare hosti- 
lities against him. 
supposed, that his Holiness should-be capable 
of declaring war aga.nst any power? He has 
long’ been enduring the most hostile treat- 
“ment, and is therefore prepared to endure the 
threatened loss of his temporal dominions. 
«© Heaven is witnefs of the purity of his 
*Holinefs’s idtentions, and the world will judge 
If it was poflible to. have conceived fo exira~ 
ordinary 3 fcheme. Ardently defiring to 
compromife, and to be in peace with his Ma- 
jetty,” ‘he manifefted, in his note of the 28th 
of January Jaft, his compliance, as far as it 
was yeMible to comply —his Majesty, however, 
does: not praciife al] chofe, condeicenfions 
which he might practife towards the Holy 
See 5 he po shifts inflexibly in demanding what 
bis Holinefs neither can nor will accede to, 
mamely, in bipding him to a war, and toa 
“perpetual arid ag spreflive War, under the pre- 
“tence of feeurin: his tranguillity, What can 
Italy have to fear if his, Holinefs {ould not 
enter into the propwfed Jcazue, 
“ Sotiptinded as the Papal dominions are 
by phofe of his Majefty, no rational fear 
eobld te entertained but of the ports ; yet his 
Holinefs having offered to fhut them during 
the prelent war againft the enemies of France, 
and to guard the coaft, he thus propofed to 
corttibute, a5 far as was in his power, with- 
out betraying his facred duties, to the fecu- 
rity and tranguillity of Italy. JF, in fpite of 
ail this, his Majefty thal] teke pofféflion, as 
he has’ thrcatened, of the Papal dominions, 
refpeéted by all, even the moft powerful mo- 
narehy, during a e of tem centuries and 
upwards, and fhall overturn the government, 
his Hovinels will’ be unable to prevent the 
fpoliation, apd can. only, in’ bitter afliion 
of heart, lament the evil which his Ma- 
jefty will'commi in the ght of God; tru&- 
mE in whofe protection, his Holiness will re~ 
main in pérfcet tranquillity, enjoying the 
confcioafnefs of not having brought on this 
difafter by imprudence or by obftnacy, but to 
preferve the independence of that Sove- 
reipnty which he ougit to tranfmit unin yjored. 
to hi§ fucteflors, as lie received it; and to’ 
maihtiin, in ifs integrity, that conduct which 
aay fecure the univer(al concurrence of all 
‘Princés, fo ‘neceffery te the welfare of reli- 
gion. For this fidelity to his focred duties, 
his Holinefs will receive confol tion frdm the 
words of his’ Divine Maffer, ‘* Bleffed-are 
they who’ are perfecuted for righteoufnefs 
fake » 
‘State of Public Dhiirs é in BS 
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xe domicile of many years, his Holinefs re- 
allegiance cannot 
avail againft the sacred obligations .under- 
How could it ever be :taken by the Cardinals of the Church of 
God, the oaths they take on receiving the 
purple, and their eminent office of Council- 
lors to the Sove:cign Pontiff in his fpiritual 
concerns; and thar, Ehesefanee they cannot 
be torn from his bofom. 
«© With regard to the eeffation of the fune- 
tions of the Legate, and to his departure, his 
Holinefs could hardly have expeéted that 
they would have been attributed to the moe 
tive afligned in .M. Champagny’s note. His 
Holineis will repeat them once more. After 
having tried every method to recal his. Ma- 
jefty to his previous fentiments towards the 
Papal See, and to, concert the defired repay 
ration of fo many religious innovations—af> 
ter having endured, for fuch a length of 
time, with unfubdued patience, and with une 
alterable meeknefs, fo. mony ‘outrages and 
infults—after having feen how fruitiels were 
all the remonfrances urged againft the hoftile 
proceedings of the French—safter having 
peaceably burne the homiliation of imprifon- 
ment, and feeing thefe infults, thefe con- 
tempts, thcfe violations, increafe with every 
hour, his Holinefs found it neceflary, though — 
with the deepest regret, 40 determine on the 
recal of his Legate, in order to overthrow, - 
at Jeast'in the face of the world, the falfe 
and fcandaious opinion, that whatever might 
occur, even the moft flagrant wrongs, would 
receive his tacit confent. 
‘* In this very recal, the precife period of 
which could not have been anticipated hy his 
Holinefs, he profefied, along with thofe con- 
ftant affeGtionate regards which he enter- 
tained for his Majefty, that could he but cons 
fent to the demand of the evacuation of Rome, 
and be satisfied with thofe conceffions which 
are compatible with the duties of bis Holi-: 
nefs, the Legate might continue in confor-: 
mity with his inftru@ions, to exéreife hier 
fon@ions. But his Majefty proved inflexible, 
and inftead of receding a fingle ftep, preferred> 
the difcontinuance of the, Legation, and the 
depart vre of the Pontifical Reprefentative. 
‘¢ It is not, therefore, hie Holinefs, who 
by this hypothetical recal of his Legate, has 
declared war againft the Emperor—it is the.’ 
En. peror who chufes to declare war againft 
his Holinefs—and, not content with de- 
clating it againk , his temporal Sovereignty, 
he threatens to raife in his Spiritual, a wall: 
of civifion between the Catholics of France» 
and the Sovereign, Pontiff, in the afiurance, » 
according to M. Champagny’s note, that the 
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“ With refpe&t to the articles relating to _ Cardinal Legate having given up his fundtions, wood 
the difmiffal of the Cardinals, his Hblivels, 
in the complaints alledged, had'no nee Mis 
examining the principle of their allegiay 
Pyefuming on that freedom which the BREE 
of nations allow to every. nian, to. live under 
that iky which is mioft congenial to hinr 5 
prefumiog on that néw amen acquired ey 
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the Gallican Church refumes its peer d in 
ali its integrity. 
' *© His Holinefs has too good an opinion of 
tie illuftrious Clergy of France to doubt that 
the Gallican Church, however jealous of its 
prerogatives, is yet fo attached to the chair of « 
St. Peter, that it will maintain itfelf un- 
Shaken 
