the
same dutiful address. The memory of such faith and devotedness can never
perish. A selection of letters and addresses to the Holy Father was
published at Naples in two large quarto volumes, under the title: _The
Catholic world to Pius IX., Sovereign Pontiff, an exile at Gaeta from 1848
to 1850_.

(M8) When Peter himself was in prison the whole Church was moved, and
prayed for his release. It speedily followed. Prayer, no less earnest, was
made in behalf of his successor. With what success a few words will show.
The deliverers were the Princes and people of Catholic Europe. If there
was still some delay it was only that for which diplomacy is proverbial.
Austria, that had more than once obeyed the voice of the Holy Father, in
withdrawing her troops from the Roman States, and against which he had so
often refused to allow war to be declared, was the first now to propose
that measures should be adopted for his restoration. In a note addressed
by this State to the other Powers we find the following words: "The
Catholic world is entitled to require for the visible Chief of the Church
the plenitude of liberty which is essential for the government of Catholic
society, and the restoration of that ancient monarchy which has subjects
in every part of the world. The Catholic nations will never allow the head
of their Church to be robbed of his independence and reduced to be the
subject of a foreign Prince. They will not suffer him to be degraded by a
faction which, under the cloak of his venerable name, is endeavoring to
undermine and destroy his power. In order that the Bishop of Rome, who is
at the same time the Sovereign Pastor of the Church, may be able to
exercise the duties of his exalted office, it is necessary that he should
be also Sovereign of Rome."

Spain came next. On the 21st December, 1848, the Spanish ministry
addressed to the other Catholic nations the following circular letter:
"The government of her Majesty has decided on doing whatever shall be
necessary in order to reinstate the Holy Father in a state of independence
and dignity, which will admit of his discharging the duties of his sacred
office. With a view to this end the government of Spain, having been
apprised of the Pope's flight, addressed the French Government, which
declared itself prepared to sustain the liberty of the Pontiff. These
negotiations, nevertheless, may be considered as insufficient when we
glance at the turn which affairs have take