No. 3.-Extracts of Letters from the Right Hon. Lord Hood, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, to Sir J.Hippisley. Victory, Toulon Road, October 7, 1793. You were very good in anticipating my wants. In addition to my fleet, I have now to provide for 10,000 troops and all the inhabitants of Toulon, not one of which, I believe, has tasted animal food for several weeks. In all my letters home, I have expressed how much I felt myself obliged to the Pope for the readiness which his Holiness manifested in furnishing me with whatever his dominions would afford.

No. 4.-Dated Victory, Toulon Road, October 19, 1793.

As the enemy has cut off the water from all the mills, the inhabitants of Toulon are in great want of flour, which leads me to desire that you will have the goodness to cause this circumstance to be made known to the Pope, with my earnest and humble request that his Holiness will be pleased to grant permission to import from Civita Vecchia as much flour as can be spared.

No. 5.-Extract of a Letter from Adjutant-General Sir James St. Clair Erskine, K.B., to Sir J. C. Hippisley.

Bastia, May 25, 1794. I must entreat you to avail yourself of the most favourable opportunity to return thanks in my name and that of the regiment to his Eminence the Cardinal di Zelada, for the very flattering manner in which he has expressed himself in notifying the high and honourable mark of distinction which the partiality of his Holiness to the English nation, and his gracious condescension for the officers of the 12th Light Dragoons, have induced him to bestow upon them. It is impossible for me to find expressions that can do justice to our sentiments, and I can only beg that his Holiness will be assured that we shall never cease to entertain the most lively remembrance of the protection and kindness we have received, &c.

No. 6.-Extract of a Letter from the Right Hon. Sir William Hamilton, K. B., his Majesty's Envoy, &c., at Naples, to Sir J. C. Hippisley.

Caserta, April 14, 1795.

I am sorry that your private affairs should call you from Italy at so interesting a crisis, when the continuance of your patriotic and disinterested exertions, which have already been of so much public benefit, might still materially contribute to the advantage of his Majesty's service. I have great satisfaction in expressing my personal obligations for your constant and useful communications, and I can say with truth that their Sicilian Majesties and their Ministers are not less impressed with the value of your communications and of your zeal and ardour to promote the common cause, &c.

No. 7.-Extract of a Letter from his Excellency the Viceroy of Corsica to Sir J. Hippisley.

Bastia, May 22, 1795.

If you are still at Rome, your departure seems so near that I need say nothing of business, farther than thanking you most sincerely and cordially for all the assistance you have on many occasions given me, and all the labour, which has been immense and indefatigable, you have bestowed on this as well as other interests of the public. You carry with you the praise of industry and zeal beyond most, if not all, public men. I shall be ever of opinion, and have often expressed it, that you have laid in a stock of public merit, which cannot, because it ought not to be unproductive, &c.

No. 8.-Official Note of Monseigneur Barberi, Secretary of the Congregation of State, to Sir J. Hippisley, in the name of the said Congregation.

Chambers of the Vatican, May 26, 1795. Instruite du prochain départ de M. Hippisley, de cette capitale pour Londres, la Sacrée Congrégation d'Etat a cru que la justice et la bonne foi demandoient qu'à l'exemple du Saint

Père lui-même, qui lui a donné les plus éclatantes preuves de la satisfaction qu'il avoit de la conduite qu'il a tenue, soit en particulier, soit en traitant diverses affaires très graves-la Sacrée Congrégation lui fit offrir aussi en son nom un témoig nage permanent de la sienne.

Elle m'a chargé à cet effet, en qualité de son secrétaire, d'assurer M. Hippisley de l'admiration sincère avec laquelle elle a vu la souveraine integrité, le zéle, la loyauté, et la perspicacité, qu'il a fait éclater dans ces négociations, et la manière dont il a heureusement réussi à faire connoître et procurer les communs intérêts des deux nations, et à établir une bonne harmonie entre la Cour de Rome et la Cour Britannique. Monsieur Hippisley peut juger par là combien tout ce qu'il a fait a été agréable à la Sacrée Congrégation, quelle profonde reconnoissance elle fait profession d'avoir pour lui, et avec quelle juste confiance elle espére que partout, et dans toutes les occasions, il voudra bien continuer à agir d'après les mêmes principes, et chercher à resserrer toujours plus les liens de réciproque intérêt et de correspondance amicale, qui unissent aujourd'hui les deux dites Cours et les deux nations.

En m'acquittant par ce respectueux billet du devoir qui m'a été imposé par la Sacrée Congrégation, je regarde comme un bien grand avantage pour moi de pouvoir y joindre l'hommage des sentimens de profonde estime et de l'invariable dévouement avec lesquels je fais profession d'être de l'incomparable M. Hippisley,

Le très humble, très sincère, et dévoué serviteur,

GIO. BARBERI. A M. Hippisley, Membre du Parlement Brittannique.

TRANSLATION.

Chambers of the Vatican, May 26, 1795.

Informed of the approaching departure of Mr. Hippisley from this capital for London, the Sacred Congregation of State has conceived that justice and good faith required that, after the example of the Holy Father himself, who has conferred on him the most striking proofs of

the satisfaction which he felt at the conduct which he had held, both in private and in negociating divers important matters, the Sacred Congregation should cause also a permanent testimony of its own to be presented to him in its name.

Accordingly, it has charged me, in quality of its Secretary, to assure Mr. Hippisley of the sincere admiration with which it has witnessed the sovereign integrity, the zeal, the probity, and the perspicacity which he has displayed in those negociations, and the manner in which he has happily succeeded in explaining and promoting the common interests of both nations, and in establishing good harmony between the Court of Rome and the British Court. Mr. Hippisley may thence judge how agreeable all that he has done has proved to the Sacred Congregation, what deep obligation it professes to feel to him, and with what just confidence it hopes that, everywhere and on all occasions, he will be pleased to continue to act upon the same principles, and strive to knit more and more closely the ties of reciprocal interest and of friendly correspondence, which now unite the two said courts and the two nations.

In acquitting myself by this respectful note of the duty which has been imposed upon me by the Sacred Congregation, I consider it as a very great advantage to be able to join with it the homage of the sentiments of profound esteem, and of the invariable devotion with which I profess myself to be the incomparable Mr. Hippisley's

Most humble, most sincere, and devoted servant,

GIO. BARBERI.

The reiterated declarations and acts of the late Venerable Sovereign Pontiff1 in his correspondence with Sir J. Hippisley might have been here adduced. The grant of the Civic Armorial Ensigns of Rome notified with his own hand to Sir J. Hippisley, was one of the distinguished proofs he had the honour to experience of his favour and confidence-a concession without example to a Protestant, and of which no instance occurs since the thirteenth century.

'Mr. Pitt (3d of February, 1800), speaking of the outrages offered to Pius VI. by Joseph Buonaparte, adds-" A transaction accompanied by outrages and insults towards the Venerable Pontiff, in spite of the sanctity of his age and the unsullied purity of his character, which, even to a Protestant, seems hardly short of the guilt of sacrilege."

The preceding official act of the Congregation, or Council of State, sufficiently recognises the sentiments of the Sovereign and his Ministers. The functions of that Congregation were analogous to those of the British Cabinet. It consisted of the Cardinal Secretary of State, and six other Cardinals, chiefs of the principal departments of the Roman Government, several of whom individually1 also addressed Sir J. Hippisley, to the effect of the aggregate act of the Congregation.

With this document the present Summary is concluded. September 8, 1800. J. C. HIPPISLEY.

Appendix A.

In the 5th page of the preceding Summary, speaking of the prohibition of bulls, briefs, &c., created by the 13th Eliz., c. 2, it is observed, "that it does not appear that either in Scotland or Ireland such a prohibition exists."

The statute of Elizabeth, made before the Union, it is presumed, does not extend to Scotland, but it may be obligatory on Ireland. Lord Coke 4, Inst. 351, reciting Poyning's Law, 10 Hen. VII., says, "that Acts of Parliament made in England since that time, whenever Ireland is not particularly named or generally included, extend not thereunto."

The English prohibitory statute of 13 Eliz., c. 2, has the words," any place within this realm, or in any of the Queen's dominions," (which sweeping words were not noticed in the original correspondence from which the preceding Summary is compiled)-under these words it is submitted this act2 may be held to be obligatory on Ireland. That it has never been extended to Scotland is pretty strong evidence against the necessity of the law, and that it is worse than obsolete and useless may be clearly collected from the preceding pages.

1 Cardinal Secretary of State, Cardinal Albani, Cardinal Campanelli, Cardinal Gordel.

2 This must depend upon the enumeration of the several Acts contained in the Act 23 Geo. III.