Father was carried away from Fontainbleau, and slept that night at Oreans 1 They made him travel under the marne of the bishop of Imola. Afterwards the Cardinals were carried away, each by himself, and each conducted by a gens d'arme; and they were not to be told the place of their destination till after they had set out.

On the 2d of April it was not generally known at Paris where they were gone; when the Provisional Government published the decree," that all obstacles to the return of his Holiness to Rome should instantly cease, and that all due honours should be paid to him.”

Proclamation of Pius VII. to his beloved Subjects

The designs of Divine Providence towards us are at length accomplished. Precipitated from our pacific seat with unparalleled violence, torn from the hearts of our dear subjects, dragged from land to land, we were condemned so groan in slavery for five years. We have shed in our prison tears of lamentation, first for the Church confided to our care, and whose wants we were aware of without being able to afford her assistance; and secondly, for the people under our Government, because the ery of their tribulation reached our ears without the possibility of our affording them consolation The profound degree of our affliction and misery, was nevertheless, assuaged by our firm belief that the most merciful God, justly irritated by our sins, would one day-be appeased, and that he would raise his all-powerful arm to break the bow which the enemy had stretched against us, and burst the chains which environed his Vicar on earth.

Our confidence was not misplaced. Th pride of man, which in its madness dared to oppose itself to the Most High, has been humbled; and our deliverance, which was also the aim of the august coalition, has been effected by an unexpected prodigy.

Convinced that we are indebted for all that has hap pened to the Almighty Providence which rules the desLies of mankind, we will never cease to bless his holy pame and chaunt his praise.

We have therefore resolved to consecrate the com

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mencement of our liberty to the good of the Church—that Church which cost its Divine Founder his blood ought to become the first object of our paternal solicitude.

With this view we wished to accelerate our return to the capital, both as being the seat of the Roman Pontiff, and the residence of our Sovereignty, where we might effect our ardent desire of ameliorating the faith of our good subjects. In a little while we shall be able to press thein to our bosom, as a tender father, after a long and painful pilgrimage, embraces his beloved children.

Meanwhile, we send our delegate before us, who, in virtue of a special Rescript, under our hand, will resame for us, and respectively for the Holy Apostolic See, as well at Rome as in our provinces, conjointly with the other subaltern delegates, already chosen by us, the exércise of a temporal sovereignty, so essentially united with our independence and our spiritual supremacy.He will proceed, in concert with a commission of State, by us appointed, to the formation of an internal Governiment; and will adopt, as far as circumstances will permit, whatever measures may contribute to the happiness of our faithful subjects.

And although, in consequence of the preconcerted military arrangements, we cannot, at this moment,resume the exercise of our sovereignty in all the other ancient possessions of the Church, yet we do not doubt that we shall Boon re-acquire them, in full confidence of the inviolability of our sacred rights, seconded by the enlightened ideas of justice displayed by the Allied Sovereigns, from whom we have already received the most positive and consoling as

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Minister of Peace-We exhort all our subjects to strivé zealously for the restoration and maintenance of tranquiJity; which is the wish nearest to our heart Whoever shall dare to disturb it, be the pretext what it may, he shall be immediately punished to the utmost rigour of the law.

We farther declare to all our subjects, that if any one amongst them renders himself amenable to our laws, by the cominission of offence it belongs to our sovereign au

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thority alone to take cognizance of the crime, and to apportion the punishment. We desire that all shall conduct themselves (as they should do) as dutiful children That no one amongst them shall dare to arrogate or usurp our paternal authority; and that all alike be obedient to the laws, and to the will of their common father.

In the perfect confidence that all our good subjects will faithfully conform themselves to our sovereign and påternal intentions; we hereby bestow upon them, from our inmost heart, our holy apostolic benediction.

Given at Cesenna, the 4th May, 1814, in the 15th year of our Pontificate.

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PIUS, P. P. VII.

Cesena, May 17.-To-day his Holiness Pope Pius VII. left this place and proceeded for his capital, by the way of Ancona, Loretto, and Maceraita.

Paris, May 19.-On this day Cardinal Maury who had for a length of time occupied the Archiepiscopal Palace, and usurped the administration of the Metropolitan Church, resigned the Palace, and left this City.

Basle, May 24.-The Pope's Nuncio has addressed a Note to the Diet, requesting that in the new Federal Act, the guarantee of the Catholic Religion, and of its worship, the re-establishment of the Monasteries as they were in 1798, together with the exemptions and privileges enjoyed at that period, should be taken care of. The Note was referred to a Committee.

Rome, May 27We hasten to place before our readers the details of an event, which constitutes an epoch in the history of our times. The event we mean is the return of our Prince and Pastor, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, the chief of the Church, that bark saved from shipwreck by the constancy of him who watched for its preservation, and who is at length restored to his celebrated capital of the Catholic world. The notice published by the Apostolic Delegate, M. Rivarola, of the approach of the Sovereign Pontiff, had accelerated all the preperatious made by the Public for the reception of his Holiness

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by the break of day on the 24th. Before sun-rise crowd of carriages had left the city; all the streets by which his Holines, was to pass were thronged, the shops were shut and the work shops deserted. The only business attended to was that of giving an appropriate reception to his Holiness. All the people were in holiday dresses. It was foreseen that the windows and balconies would not be sufficient to accommodate the multitude of spectators, and therefore vasi scaffoldings were erected at the most convenient places of the streets, from the Ponte Maile to the Vatican and the Quirinal. Towards ten o'clock all these were crowded. Garlands of flowers, ribbons, and other similar decorations were every where exhibited. The carriages of the Cardinals with the servants in state liveries: those of the foreign Ministers, and Public Functionaries Bodies of troops were seen in motion towards their several stations. The joy of the people burst forth into peals of applause, when, after the passage of the Hungarian troops, sert to do honour to his Holiness's public entrance, they saw the Austrian Envoy' Extraordinary, M. Lebzeltern, going out to meet his Holiness, in a carriage drawn by four horses. Numerous bands of music were placed in the most convenient stalions, had by this time filled the air with joyous harmonies. His Majesty Charles IV. of Spain, will the Queen his Consort, the Queen of Etruria, the Infant Don Francisco, attended by all their Court, went to meet his Holiness at the country-house called La Justiniana, where he was to take repose. When the carbage of the Sovereign Pontiff arrived, their Catholic Majesties, and the other Members of their Royal Family, presented themselves at the moment of his alighting from his carriage. The meeting cannot be described; all the spectators were so affected as to shed tears. The Sovereigns entered the apartments together, and conversed particularly for half an Lour. King Charles and his family then set out for Rome preceding his Holiness. Among those who were present at La Justi..iana, were Messrs. Dowdall and Fagan, the British Consols, who were received in a distinguished manner, After an hour of repose, he pronouned his blessing

blessing on the people who filled the fields and covered. the hills in the neighbourhood. He then proceeded to the Pont Molle, where the train that was to accompany him in precession was collected; the Austrian and Portuguese Ambassadors, the commandant of the Neapolitan. troops, the Marquis of Montroni, and several other perSous of distinction received him. His Holiness alighted from his travelling carriage, received their homage, and gave them his hand to kiss. The moment that the Pontifical standard was hoisted on the new tower at Ponte Molle, the Castle of St. Angelo saluted it with the fire of its guns; and the first shot was a signal for a shout of joy, which was echoed from street to street throughout Rome and its vicinity-hals were thrown into the air, and every countenance exhibited the marks of inward satisfaction. His Holiness waited in the Casino, at the Ponte Monte, only to change his dress; he then mounted the state carriage, presented for the occasion by Charles IV. Sixty-two young men dressed in black, with crimson scarfs, insisted on drawing the carriage., The State Commissioners in their state carriage led this brilliant procession-the Austrian and Neapolitan cavalry followed. -At the people's gate the Roman Senate presented an Address of Congratulation, towhich his Holiness made an appropriate reply, and gave the Senate his blessing...

To attempt to describe the exultation that followed would be in vain: it surpassed all that is told of the gratitude of the Greeks, when the Consul Flaminius proclaimed the liberty of their country at the Olympic games. The Sovereigns of Spain, Etruria, and their suites, retired from the procession to their several Palaces, but went, in the course of the day, to several of the most convenient places, to witness the effusions of the public joy. The King of Sardinia received his Holiness at the Vatican, where the two Sovereigns embraced After his arrival at the residence of the Quirinal, his Holiness had to come, several times, to give his blessing to the successive multitudes collected to behold and congratulate him; and a considerable time clapsed before this happy interchange ceased, so as to allow his Holiness to take a little repose.

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