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36) ANNUAL REGIS/‘TE R;1 2797. 
deavours to stifle them. The tems 
poral ‘and spiritual power of the 
clergy have both received such a 
blow, that neither, in all likelihood, 
will ever recover its former import- 
ance. The minds of a large pro- 
portion of the people are in fact so 
completely revolutionized, that al- 
though they may be necessitated, for 
their own safety, to submit for a 
while to. the coercive Jaw of the 
sword, they wil embrace every op- 
portunity of shaking off the yoke of 
foreign rulers,.and will reiterate 
those attempts so frequently, that it. 
is probable they will succeed at last, 
especially if the .French republic 
should remain unshaken : as in that 
case they will always depend on its 
intervention in their favour; they 
will, from that metive, be reacy to 
act with the more ¢pirit and energy 
acainst those whom they wil] hence- 
forth consider much more as their 
ty:ants than their sovereigns, 
These appear to be the current 
ideas of the majority of politiciane, 
In France, and in those countries - 
that are not averse to the interests 
and principles of the republican par-, 
ty, no doubt is entertained that if 
it stands its ground, Italy will soon 
or late assume those forms of go- 
vernment which Buonaparte was so 
anxious to, establish, 
All these considerations operated 
strongly at the period of the ne- 
gociations, to which the court of 
Vienna was compelled to accede. 
The Imperial ministry, discouraged 
by the repeated inefficacy of the ex~ 
traordinary exertions that hed been 
made to resist the victorious armies 
of France, yielded to nécessity, and 
subscribed to the conditions dic= 
tated by the conqueror, in hopes, 
however, that fortune might, at a 
more auspicious crisis, atone for 
the calamities now become un- 
avoidable. 
CHAE 
