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Wheels good— 8 guns, 30 how- 

 itzers, 18 carrs. 



Sixty handspikes; 12 tarpaulins; 

 3,000 French flints; 10 slow match- 

 es; lOOspunges; 30 copper ladles. 

 G. HowARTu, Brig.-Gen. 

 Royal Horse Artillery. 



Protest against Buonaparte.— 

 Pius VII. Pontiff. 



The dark designs, conceived by 

 the enemies of the Apostolic See, 

 have as length been accomplished. 



After the violent and unjust 

 spoliation of the fairest and most 

 considerable portion of our domi- 

 nions, we- behold ourselves under 

 unworthy pretexts, and with so 

 much the greater injustice, entirely 

 stripped of our temporal sovereign- 

 ty, to which our spiritual independ- 

 ence is intimately united. In the 

 midst of this cruel persecution we 

 are comforted by the reflection, 

 that we encounter such a heavy mis- 

 fortune, not for any offence given 

 to the emperor or to France, which 

 has always been the object of our 

 affectionate paternal solicitude, nor 

 for any intrigue of worldly policy, 

 but from an unwillingness to betray 

 our duties. 



To please men, and to displease 

 God is not allowed to any one pro- 

 fessing the Catholic Religion, and 

 much less can it be permitted to its 

 Head and Promulgator. 



As we besides owe it to God 

 and the Church, to hand down our 

 fights uninjured and untouched, we 



Erotest against this new violent spo- 

 alion, and declare it null and void. 

 We reject, with the firmest reso- 

 Uition, any allowance which the 

 Emperor of the French may intend 

 to assign us, and to the individuals 

 eomposing our College. 



We should all cover ourselves 

 with ignominy in the face of the 

 church, if we suffered our subsist- 

 ence to depend on the power of 

 him who usurps her authority. 



We commit ourselves entirely to 

 Providence, and to the affection of 

 the faithful, and we shall be con- 

 tented piously to terminate the 

 bitter career of our sorrowful days. 



We adore with profound humi- 

 lity God's inscrutable decrees ; we 

 invoke his commiseration upon our 

 good subjects, who will ever be our 

 joy and our crown ; and after hav- 

 ing in this hardest of trials done 

 what our duties required of us, we 

 exhort them to preserve always un- 

 touched the religion and the faith, 

 and to unite themselves to us, for 

 the purpose of conjuring with sighs 

 and tears, both in the closet and 

 before the altar, the Supreme 

 Father of Light, that he may 

 vouchsafe to change the base de- 

 signs of our persecutors. 



Given at our Apostolic Palace, 

 del Quirinale, this 10th of June, 

 1809. (Locus SigniJ 



Pius Papa VII. 



Excommunication of Buonaparte. 

 Pius VII. Pontiff. 

 By the authority of God Al- 

 mighty, and of St. Paul and St. 

 Peter, we declare you, and all your 

 co-operators in the act of violence 

 which you are executing, to have 

 incurredthesame excommunication, 

 which we in our apostolic letters, 

 contemporaneously afBxing in the 

 usual places of this city declare to 

 have been incurred by all those 

 who, on the violent invasion of this 

 city on the second of February of 

 last year, were guilty of the acts of 

 violence, against which we have 



protested, 



