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. ^ b ^ thejftte JBap a s torn fromMi **} iippite \ + by tW orders of |)* a JFvevgh Directory , atuj dragged piri ^ on ^ r 4 n tt > |?^ ancef the
cardiaais were > baiii $ hed * of deported with circumstances of peculiar cruelty ,-.-4 # c | -the cardinal Chiarafnvnte of cqurse shared in commoa with bis brethren- the hard .
$ faip § ax * d the , dangers of this persecution * ; Oo the death of Pius VI . the cardinals assembled in conclave at Venice * and ia a short time
uuanjqaoiisly proclaimed cardinal Chiaramonte Pope , This election took place in the month of March 1800 * The French were obliged to evacuate Rome about the same
period , and the Pope embarked foe An £ on& , r ancf made his public entry into Rome in , tbe following April * . :,.. > ; j ..,-. k , Wl&iW&y ef&ily , ffonceive the 19 $ r botjb <} f , the Pontiff and of the
peof ^^ n | hi& happy occasion . J ? fc e s $ f ne jv # s visually splendid , but if . o \^ e 4 i > s . ^ pj £ Qdor not to the « p * 4 ence of the sovereign , but to Ui £ seal of thQ t subject . The guar 4 tbat lined tbe streets and executed the Pontiff , consisted of
a nuiBecous body of young patricians ; the triumphal arches and decorations were supplied by the Ron > &n people , and the equipage of the Pontiff himself was the voluntary homage of the generous
Cplonua ^ a prince truly worth y of the name of a Roman . In fact , tbe Pope was personally as poor as the Apostle whom he succeeds ^ find iike him brought to bis flock
Nothing but the piety of the pastor fi ^ id t £ e affection of the father . 4 t s the procession moved towards the Uatiaany tears were observed itttM ^ tha n one © streaming down tos cheeks , and the details which
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he afterwards received of the distrfes £ dceafcidried by the rapacity q £ th ^ late invadeirs , could only increase his anguish .
T 6 relieve the sufferings of his people , and to restore the finances of the country , was bis first object , and to attain it he began by establishing a system of the strictest economy in his own house .
hold and around his own person * He next suppressed all immunities or exemptions , and subjected the nobility and the clergy to thq same or to greater burthens than the lower orders : this regulation ,
so simple in itself , and so just , is yet little practised on the continent , where in general the weight of taxation falls upon those who are least capable of bearing it * The French republic affects indeed to adopt it , but in fact uses it
only as a convenient ttiethod of plundering the rich without re . lieving th $ poor . Such are the berieficial effects of this regulation * that though some oppressive and unpopular duties have , I believe , been removed , arid the gum
imposed on each individual diminished , yet the general amotint of the taxes is corisitlerably increased . Other salutary afr&rigement £ afe , it is said , in contemplation , and
the good intentions , the sense , and the virtuocrs feelings of Pius VII . encourage Hit hope that his reign if he be rtot thwarted in hi * designs , vt ^ ill be the commencement of an et * a of reform and of
prosperity . The Pope is of a middle stature ; his eyes are dafk , And his hair is bl&ck and curly ; his couritetidnc ^ is mild and benevolent , expressing fattier the tranquil virtues of his first pfdfesaiotf , than the sentiments congenial to his latter elc-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/11/
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