80] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Return of the Pope to Rome. — His Measures for restoring the Ecclesias- 

 tical Authority'jand Property of the Church. — Re-establishes the Order 

 of Jesuits. — Festivals renewed. — Suppression of Freemasons and other 

 secret Societies. — Re-establishment of the regular Orders. — King of 

 Sardinia restored to his territorial Possessions. — Genoa annexed to his 

 Dominions.— Austrian Occupation of the rest of the North of Italy. — 

 Milan, Venice. Italian Regiments removed to Germany. — Naples. 

 ~— Measures pursued by King Joachim. — His Occupation of Part of 

 the Papal Territory. — Alliance with Austria. — Sicily. — Resumption 

 of Authority by the King. — Proceedings of its Parliament. 



f\P all the Sovereigns whom 

 ^-^ the subversion of the tyranny 

 of Buonaparte restored to their do- 

 minions, no one appears to have 

 resumed his authority with the re- 

 solution of exercising it more fully 

 to its former extent, than Pope 

 Pius VII. In his proclamation is- 

 sued at Cezena, on May 5, pre- 

 viouslj' to his return to Rome, he 

 applied to himself the ancient title 

 of " God's Vicar on Earth ;" he 

 spoke of his temporal sovereignty 

 as essentially connected with his 

 spiritual supremacy ; and acquaint- 

 ed his people, that although he 

 could not at this moment resume 

 the exercise of it in all the ancient 

 possessions of the church, he did 

 not doubt shortly to recover them, 

 being confident not less in the in- 

 violability of his sacred rights, than 

 in the justice of the Allied So- 

 vereigns. 



A proclamation issued at Rome 

 by the apostolic delegates on May 



15, declared in the name of his 

 Holiness the abolition of the Code 

 Napoleon, and the restoration of 

 the former pontifical, civil, and 

 criminal code ; also, the suppres- 

 sion of what was called the civil 

 state ; and that all the funds, rents, 

 &c. of every corporation shall be 

 placed under the administration of 

 a commission formed of ecclesias- 

 tics, which commission is imme- 

 diately, " even previously to the 

 examination of the respective and 

 legitimate rights," to restore the yet 

 un-alienated property of all reli- 

 gious establishments, and to cause 

 the regulars of each sex to be paid 

 a two month's pension, and to pro- 

 vide for the public service in the 

 churches. The Pope, on resuming 

 his functions in person, at his ca- 

 pital, at first contented himself 

 with requiring the retraction of 

 those who had taken part in the 

 late usurped government, and for- 

 bade by a proclamation all inqui- 



