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The year 1798, which saw the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, also saw the launch of the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine that would campaign so vigorously against what it saw as Catholic attempts to subvert the constitution. Yet in that same year, General Berthier removed the 81-year-old pope by an “Act of the Sovereign People.” When Pius VI asked to be allowed to die in Rome, Berthier replied, “One can die anywhere.” The pope kept the “fisherman’s ring” to pass it on to his successor, though Berthier evidently believed that there would not be another pope. Pius VI died the following year, a prisoner at Valence (Hales 114–15). Before hearing the news, Dr. John Sturges, Prebendary of Winchester and a champion of the Protestant Reformation, wrote in his Reflections on Popery:
No time can seem more unfavourable than the present for the success of the Roman Catholic Religion in every part of the world, or more discouraging to the hopes of its zealous partisans. We see it abolished as a national Religion in one vast country of Europe [France] … its Pontiff, a venerable old man, degraded, insulted, expelled from his capital, harassed with removals from place to place, treated with every kind of indignity and brutality … (Sturges 252)
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Andrews, S. (2011). The Shadow of 1798: Rebellion and Union. In: Robert Southey. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230338067_1
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