I. Statement of Facts PRESENTED TO THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, P. Pius VII. MDCCCXVIII. II. A LETTER TO THE Cardinal Litta, CARDINAL-BISHOP OF SABINUM, AND LATE PREFECT Propaganda Fide. MDCCCXVIII. [Not Published.] 2.26. l. 74. The term Rescript, as used in the following Pages, is to be taken in the largest construction of Pontifical Bulls—Brieves—and other instruments, whether proceeding, immediately, from the Sovereign Pontiff, or any of the Ministers, or functionaries of the See of Rome:-and, also, extending to Letters, mandatory, of the Generals of Monastic Orders. ERRATA. Page 5, line 8,-for nearly read substantially 13, line 8,-before intercourse add the 33, line 19,-for n' executée read ni executée 46, line 24,-for receive read exercise 50, note,-dele annexed 66, line 20,-for Card. Companelli read Card. Campanelli 81, line 22,-for legis read leges 90, note,-dele garde 116, line 14,-for vivera read viveva 117, line 1,-dele the LETTER TO CARDINAL LITTA. Page 20, line 24,-for alarms read claims Many inaccuracies of punctuation also require correction. REFERENCES TO THE "STATEMENT OF FACTS." Extract of the Address and Remonstrance of the General Board of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to H. H. P. Pius VII. dated Dublin, July 19th, 1817. Page 4 Extract of a Letter of Dr. Dromgoole, dated Rome, 6th March, 1816. .. 7 Extract of a Speech of Dr. Dromgoole, at the Catholic Board of Dublin, (printed by his authority) on the 8th of November, 1813.. .. 8 Extract of Resolutions of the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland, relating to Elections by Chapters. 17 25 Of Cardinal Quarantotti's Rescript. 32 Extract from an Edict of the King of Naples, respecting the intromission of Papal Rescripts, dated 2nd September, 1817. 33 Extract from the Speech of the Minister of the Interior, of the French Government, on the 22nd of April, 1817, respecting the publication of Papal Rescripts.. 33 The R. C. Vicar Apostolic, in Sweden, licensed by the King. 37 Statement respecting the Ex-Jesuits in Great Britain and Ire44, &c. land. Copy of an official Note of the Cardinal Secretary of State, to the Minister of Portugal, in Rome, respecting the Bull of Revival of the Order of Jesuits, dated 22nd October, 1815. 53 Extract of a Letter, containing many gross misrepresentations respecting the Cardinal Secretary of State, the Hanoverian Minister, the British Consul, &c. dated, Rome, 4th October, 1817. 60 2 Of the Reform of the Colleges of the National Secular Clergy in Rome. . 64 Of the commercial Relations between the Pontifical State and Great Britain. 69 Extract of a Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke. 70 Extract of a Letter from H. H. Pius VII. dated St. Georgio, Venice, 10th May, 1800. . 72 Extract from an Edict of the French Government, dated St. Cloud, 1315. 73 75 Extract of a Letter from the late Rev. Mr. Eustace. Of the report of the Friar, Richard Hayes, styling himself "late "Delegate of the Roman Catholics of Ireland," dated 25th December, 1817. 79 Of the Concordatum between Rome and Naples, dated 2nd September, 1817, and the subsequent Edict of the 6th of April, containing an explanation respecting Pontifical Rescripts.. Of Bishop Collingridge's Pastoral Letter. Of the vacillating conduct of Bishop Milner. 83, 84 86 . 87 References to the Notes. Extract from the Pontifical Brief, dated 1st February, 1816 addressed to the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland. Pa. 94 Address and Remonstrance of the General Board of Roman Catholics of Ireland, to H. H. P. Pius VII. dated July 19th, 1817. . . · 97 The Pope's reply to the above, and, particularly, respecting the Father Richard Hayes, dated 21st February, 1818.. 101 Extracts from Bishop Milner's Letter to a Parish Priest, dated 1st August, 1818. . . . . 108 Extract of Bishop Milner's proposal to the late Rt. Honble. George Ponsonby. 109 Extract from a Letter to Sir J. C. Hippisley, to H. H. P. Pius VI. respecting the National Institutions of Rome, dated Rome, 17th February, 1795. . . 112 Reply of H. H. P. Pius VI. to the preceding Letter, dated 26th February, 1795. 112 |