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GERMAN PAPERS. REMONSTRANE of the BOMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS of BELGIUM C , to the KING of the NETHERLANDS, Itgail et die foies.ATION eajOined by the New CONSTITUTION. WPM.. 41 Sine - We believe it our duty no longer to delay expressing to your Majesty the surprise and the grief which our Proclamation of the 18th of this month (July) has caused us. 46 In the conviction that his the first duty of the Bishops to speak the truth to the throne, when the ?rend interests of religion are in question, we moo fulfil this duty with the more confidence and frank . sees, as your Majesty frequently testified to us your inieotion to protect religion with all your power ; and as in that very Proclamation, which is the cause of our ureasieess, you assure to the Catholic Church its estahlishineut and its privileges. . 44' Sire - Toe existence and the privileges of the Catholic Church in this part of ror kingdom are in. consistent with an article of the plan of the new Con stitution, by which equal favour and protection are promised allleligions. 64 Since the conversion of the Belgians to Chris. . tinnily, pitch a dangerous innovation has never been introduced in these Provinces, unless by force. The • attempt of Joseph the Second to maintain it was fruit less. The tyranny of the last French Government established it io theory; but no religious trot hies en sued, because the head of the Sate protected titre Pioteetion sects, as little as he did the Catholic Church. After this power, the deducd enemy of all religion, was overthrown, the Belgian Church recove-ed ad her spiritual rights. 66 la t:;e Ordinance of 7th Mardi. 1814, which the Commissioners W the Allied Po Nets expressly . confirmed, the general GoVernrnent of Belgium de clated-4 Henceforward the Ecclesiastical Power and the Temporal Power will be inviolably main tained in tlver respective limits, as they are filed by the C inon Lill and by the ancient Constitution of the Country.' 44 Sire—We do not hesitate to declare •to your Majesty, that the cationical laws, which are sanc tioned by the ancient Constitutions of the country, are incompatible with the projected Constitution which would give in Belgium equal favour and pro tection to all religions. 44 *lle canonical laws have always rejected schism and heresy from the bosom of the Church. The Christian Ennievas thought it their duty to main. rain these laws, and to . secure their execution. as spay h• easily seen in the colkction of Edicts upon this subject. 44 From Charlemagne down to the unhappy epoch of 17Si, and the fell-min:4 years, all Vie Soveri.:gos of this coontry, in every age, exclusively protected t'ie A postel.c :led Itoarac Catlairc ieligien. and secured to it the undisturbed enjoyment of all the sigh:: and privileges in the possession of which they •foend it. al 'fix Council of Trent, ell whose resolutions were published in these Provinces, and have there ' the free of ecclesiasticel law, after confirming all the old laws of the Church which fix the jurisdictions, the rights of the Bishops, of the Chapters, of the Uni eersitii s, and in general of the regular and secular .. Clergy;, commanded the Bishops to see the execution of teem, and carefully to_ wire% int only over the maititenacc of the sacred pledge of the faith, but ,also that of the laws which concern the essential dis cipline of the Catholic Church, and secure the con sistency and the inviolability of its Government.— tTliese, Site, are the duties of the Bishops of these • Provieces, and the laws of tie country have con stantly, allowed and facilitated the fulfilment of them till a high( r power prevented them, in part, from diseharging them. - 44 If your hlajesty, when you secure to the Belgic Church her elisteace and privileges, has the inten tion. as we conjecture, to maintain the entire execu tion of the holy canon law, we are incapable of duly impressing our thanks to your Majesty for it. 44 But we most respectfully take the liberty to lay before your Majesty an article of the new Constitu. • lion, which, in seeming the same protection to all religions, would be incompatible with the free and entire exercise of our official duties. . 44 We are bound, Sire, incessantly to preserve the people intrusted to our care, from the doctrines which are in opposition to the doctrines of theCatholicChurch. We could not release ourselves from this obligation, without violating our most sacred duties; and if your Majesty, by virtue of a fondamental law, protected in theie Provinces the public profession and spreading of these doctrines, the progress of which we are bound to oppose with all the care and energy which the, Catholic Church expects from our office, we shoold be in formal opposition to the laws of the State, to the measures which your Majesty might adopt-to maintain them among us—and in spite of all our endeavours to maintain union and peace, the public tranquillity might still be disturbed. • 64 And since, by Article 136 of the preposed Con stitution, the public exercise of a forin cf worship may be hindered, when it might iiisturbothe public tram. . quality, it follows that the tree exercise. of our reli. •gion might be hi idered by a Foisible consequence of the rights and liberties of the Catholic Church in these rrovinees. 44 We dare not conceal froth you, Sire, that such reguktions, if they were confirmed by your Majesty, could only tend to a renewal of the troubles, whiff desolated these provinces in the 16th century, and - that they must sooner or later alienate the hearts of your faithful subjects in this part of your kingdom, where the att:ichavent to the Ca th olic kith is stronger and more lively than in any other country in Europe. Already the Proclamation of your Majesty, which announced that the nevi Constitution should insure the liberty of religions, and give all equal favour and protection, filled every heart with consternation. 46 it is known that this defterous system is one of the main articles of the hem philosophy, which has been the source of so many misfortunes to us— that eyidetitly aims a; excitlag indifference to all re ilgiGns, at lessening their influence fro day to day, and at destroying them in the end entirely. 44 We are bound, Sire, VI tell you the truth in its foil eoent. The clergy of these provinces have not , oluerved without pain thilt your ay has been rsuaded to e2;clude them from the tmlblies i n hien the great interests of the state W eee discussed; that the plan of rho gent vonstitutioa contains ho. liMbif 4 4 040491 N fe; he oNil/ MO that coq T LIE EVEN IN G STAR. I,ONDON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1815. ST. MATTIIEW.--EoF day at the Bank. Some additional Continental Papers came to hand list night. We are happy to we, by the Hamburgh Papers, which arrived last night, that a notification has been made to the Senate of that city, stating that England will exert itself to procure from France the restaution of those funds, which the robber DAvouar stole fromi , the Dank of Hamburg!). This, rebel and plunderer has one of the finest hotels in Pails, furnished . in a style of unrivalled splendour : he bas large estates, and abundance of wealth, accumulated by that sys tem of pillage, which had rendered the name of a French General almost synonimous with that of a rubber : wh' are not his ill gotten treasure seized by the law to pay the Hamburghers ? The &amen Gazette of the 16th instant contains a copy of the Remonstrance presented to the KING on the 28th of July, by the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Netherlands, against that clause of the New Con stitution which gives equal rights to all subjects, whatever may be their religious opinions. We alluded to this Remonstrance some time ago, and gave a copy of the judicious and firm Answer that was given at the time by tbas Minister of the Interior, which was in subsume*, that it was not referred to any par ticular classes to deliberate op this particular article, which wasfsidasentral, and had been setded by the Sovereigns at Vienna, who bad resolved to establish the independence # tote Kingdom, as one of its Omer. —The document t bowqrter s deserves to be mode generally know% wqg at only Kt Fe" the Pe ceuitT a' legal resenio4 being imposed ore men who can maintain such impudent dogmas...v. They tell the KING, that if the existence and the pri vileges of the Catholic Church in this part of your kingdom are Inconsistent with an article of the plan of tha New Constitution, which promises equal favour and protection to all religions." Here are two pro positions rather incorrectly involved together : first, that the exitiame of the Roman Catholic 'religion is inconsistent with equal favour granted ib others; and, secondly, that its privilege/ in Belgium are 60.. The first is clearly a libel on the doctrines of the Catholic : it is stating, in other words, that they can not stand a fair competition with those of other Churches—that they must have exclusive protection, or they will cease to exist; and this is most satisfac , torily, answered, by the fact, that Roman Catholics are, and always have been to be found, where their tenets are not only not encouraged, but positively dis couraged by law. The other propos'tion, viz.—that the privileges of the Church in Belgium are inconsistent with the pro• posed article of the Constitution is either a solecism, 'or it is a trefitio /triad/di. It is a solecism to say, that privileges which have never yet been granted by any authbrity known to the National Government, are consistent or inconsistent with its constitution ; and ,it is a tutitie prinapii to say, that the privileges in question have been ever granted by such authority.— Who did, or who mold grant privileges of any sort in a kingdom which had not existence t It was in consequence of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna, that the different Provinces of the Nether lands were first united in their present form. But let us, for a moment, go to the existing state of things before the establishment of this new Go vernment. How did the fact stand under the reign of BONAPARTE ? Did they . then enjoy any exclusive monopoly ?—quite the reverse. Had they greater privileges when their country was occupied by the French • under the worshippers of the Goddess of Reason ? They will not say so.—But the Canon law is for them I ! That is, the laws concocted by their own body. Pray what body of men eesr enacted laws to lower their own supposed or assumed dignity ? There exists, however, a law older than any they can quote—the taw of common sense, which directly opposes them. If we were not convinced that the laws of CHRIST had no authority with such men, we might also quote them as directly opposed to all such claims. To-day we received the Paris Papers of Monday : ttley assure us again and again that Peace has been signed, but nearly in the same breath, they enume. rate five or six fortresses as being still vigorously be. sieged by the Allied troops. Count LYNCH, the loyal Mayor of Bourdeaur, has been raised to the Peerage; and from other promo 'Vous and presentations, k appeal that the Bows.' partists and Jacobins (for they are the same persons), are kept at a due distance. The majcrity of the Addresses from the Depart ' menu continue to urge the KING to bring the trai tors to justice : the Members of the Electoral College of the Gironde thus express their sentiments 66 What are the wishes which it behoves us now to forni ? The misfortunes of The country are great, but their source is at length known : the baseness of your enemies has been extreme ; but they have taken care . even to designate themselves to the vengeance of the laws ; their ingratitude has drawn out and separated that which your Majesty wisheckto confound —they tarnished with their own handS that admirable treasure of clemency, with which the Haavzws had endowed your royal mind; theyhastened theday when France will receive from you the satisfaction which jus tice expects, and which can alone secure the repose of your people and the Throne to your august House : they have proved, Sire, that which your inexhaustible goodness may still incline you to doubt, but which is nevertheless true, namely, that the duration of Governments will be always uncertain, so long as the public functions are not confided. to upright citizens and devoted Magistrates : the bad have taken away from you the power of being indulgent, and they have imposed upon you the obligation of being severe. Your Majesty, although, doubtless afflicted. will con sole yourself in 'recollecting that we owe these expia tions to themselves, and all true Frenchmen will Cease to fear for the safety of the State :d "soon 114 .4 they shall have obtained them." PARIS, SEPTEMBER Is. Salina k still vigorously besieged, the cannon can be heard perfectly at Dole. A'report is circulated at Dole that the Austrians, will continue to occupy Besting m. By the continual augmentation of the Austrian troops at Dijon, it may bi presumed that the camp at Geniis will be immediately occupied. The regiments of the line that were at Befort are disbanded. General Lecaserbe, Governor of the place, has only retained three regiments of Cavalry for the service of the city. The blockade of Sussbourg is vigorously main tained. The apartments destined to receive she Allied So. vereigns at Lyons are entirely prepared. Requititions of grain and forage continue to be demanded from Chalons-our•Saone, for Dijon, where immense: magazines, are established to provision the Austrian camp. Sault in has a garrison of 600 Bavarians. Feu; thousand waggons have been put in regt.isi. to to transport the Austrian mai rack in Montbeliard. Private accounts state that the stadt has surrendered to the Allie , The tirue for the ttial of Mat'sha, saed. The Casette Oleiclle contains an King concerning the new orgAnizati gendarmerie, they will form eigl , twenty-four legions, 16.50 brigs; eight men. and 620 brigades of f men—total, including (Acct.% 16 The Duke de refire, wl:o had for the benefit of his health, has ret: in his country house of Puteau. General kibanegre, who deft has arrived at Paris. The I , illowing are some poshive divid , ial w:.O has travelled through meats of th: - S..uth, passing himself “ This adv-rturer is named of age, is a n Cr. f Piedmgeit, and whom he atrindoro-i ; his sgure, neral appearance, give him some personage whose r.:.?tne he has be more absurd t tan I.? fables being has inventri. In the stn. he was arrested he - n Bonaparte ; that foe- ot hR f:i him in that village, and that hi them to put them at the head 4 with which he 1.1.-?•!nded Allied troops in ;;11 pal of th. he added such absurditic. . itt rumdman. The Mayor, :10 vt tr CI t / arrest him, and this ..I(.oltit. any resistance. Eve') t• nortseme now shun him. He is Vienne, (in the Isere) where he In the night between'the licit a fire broke out in the Forest of C tont Dessolle. The brigade Vitryaux.Lnges instantly mereh tendod by the in'oabitants of t h e seven hours of hard work, the fit not until it had consumed from wood 2a or 2l years old. The dent is unknown. Several Journals have announi ceres was about to sell his magi Duchess Dowager 'of Orleans, to send the proceeds to the Royal the information we have teceivr deny this assertion of these gossips generously of what does not belong whole fact is - that to Duchess purchase the Hotel of M. Mole, spected tor that purpose. Letters trots Cousammlisopie ! jun. the Trench Consul, was ti , mary who refused, weds M. Duval, authority of Bonaparte, when w:,s announced by his messenger, spite of the order received by . French Legatiun, be did Rat make the 2e Dan which was sung the partixins of Bonaparte. A Jo..r:tvl of tie-day asserts Marshal Ney's accusation has commenced. sided that he is to be tried in one Palace ofJustice. Dr. Murray, Archbishop of of Dublin, and Dr. Murphy, rived at Paris on the 15th. Thy on their we./ to Rome as Deput Board of Ireland. Civet' surrendered to the Pru They catered the same day as wt of Mont-d'Or; situated on the Meuse, in front of the citadel of i: Gormands. The siege and defence of Long prosecuted. This city seems determined the last extremity. -It appears that the Allied Troops the siege of Charlemonc, a fortress ficult to take, and now occupy with the siege of Montmedi, troops of the line, and 200 mil gatviscrn. The Castle of Bouillon is still French. The city is occupied " conduct themselves with great , The siege of the fortress of k porously ; the firing is heard dr COURIER EXTRAORDINARY 01 . His MAjesty the Emperor of duke Ferdinand, and the Grat yesterday visited the King : and nesses the Hereditary Prince of dukes Ferdinand, Charles, and Princes the nephews of the King with his Majesty. Letters from Lyons assure us, ♦ereigns will not accompany the ' on his visit to that city. We are assured that M. Mint pointed Commissary of the Kin! We are again assured that was signed at Paris on the 27th riled at London on the Ist integrity of the French territory but 150,00 U Allied troops will guarantee the payment of the contribul The Duchess of Angouletpe Rambouillet, tgazines from L ot , fortress of BcLe e . es. that Ney is not in ordinance of sled zation of the 110 7 ,1 ght inspecti ons ail ides of horse, f 'eat equally of ti..t. ;.°4 8,010. gone to the wat t , returned—he te l i s k ; efended Huningui.: re details as to th e wgh several dep nt , self off as Bonapa rte Felix —he is 45 ye ir. tad married a woni. l 4 size, vo .. ,ce, and gee to resemblar.ee u, taken. Noth:,,i; ca es which this to•• 14 41 cominuze ./. 1 , . 1 ti , t ,rte ti. v. 14111 f, ~i 4. .0;I* efri6 (P. i ttri t, Av, • sure sinii 0. 4 • :n. To stet ; .•e w. • sk-n fors • • At f us was .. b et h.. I:ad belie, 4 a .itv in the prisA e awaits his trial" and 10th Slp:tu4ei if Et; ni t b01 , )97:. ig to of gell.l'alftl.rte died to tlic at. te environs ; nal awe ire was gat uncler,b. , m 18 to 20 AC:e“. lie origin of tt), ~r• sowed that M. Carriii gniticent H itch toth , and that he intadk )yal Treasury. F.* wed, we are entitle ossips who dispose s, belong to them. t of Orleans intends:• le, which she has se suns Ant 14. Refs the only French ba• Duval, to recogrf.rdt his return to fen nger, M. Jarben. I 14. Ruffin from it Hake his appearam St upon this °Unit:ilk that the drawing opt' commenced. It is trolsr of the rooms dd. liicrapolis, Coadjer , Bishop of Cork, a• Chtse two PrelAtts aties from the Cathee ?russians on the lg well as into the form he right bank ot d of Charlemont, uric , Longwy is vigorooil• determined to relit!: :imps have abatidei 'tress which is rapt' themselves exclio:ti witich has only 6t listion.il guards for still ip the bands di' by Dutch treoptil l balin p s proriety. is carried rev' distinctly at Dole. IP MONDAY MORNING' of Austria, toe Av i Ind Duke Corns o `' nd their Ron' * Austria, We M c , Id Leopold , 'chi's! :iog of Sono , Os is, that th ing at St. Hele n ,,, at the Treaty of fr; t h o f A u gust, all ,rp t of Septemb er. thereby re c° g l94 • 11 rema in Y is • n • Roo t ' contributions. lc; ontchenu ne sets out t°4°7 hashe Empero e r A of a A been !. jos.. Clergy, once the first' class in the State, is deprived of them, that it will not even have the right of being represented in the Provincial Assemblies ; that its in fluence on the acceptance of the new .Constitution is carefully removed, so that the most distinguished Members of the Clergy, According to the expressions of your Majesty's Proclamation, are not among, the persons must worthy of the confidence of their fellow citizens ; lastly, that they are not allowed to inscribe their disapproving votes on the lists of the Notables. All these area:Aires (we say it with grief to your Majesty,) which can appear to us only an unhappy omen for the future, since your Majesty's Ministers already account the opinions and votes of the whole Clergy as nothing, upon subjects which are as much within their cognizance as that of other private per sons, nay their peculiar province, as far as the interest of religion is conceived. " It is impossible to calculate all the ill come. nuances that may kriselroin the continuation of such a plan. For if the Catholic Clergy are no more to be consulted upon the concerns of - ale Church, if it is decided that they can have no share, or at least only an accidental share in making the laws, espe cially those relative to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, how can they hinder any encr oachment upon the inalien able rights of the episcopal dignity which belong to the Catholic Church, and to the privileges which your Majesty ensure to it ? May they not be arbi trarily lessened in national assemblies, when the clergy hive no influence, or at the most a very pre. carious one ? " Experience has proved how important it h thei the Clergy possess a high rank in the State. The respect they enjoy extends to the religion itself, wbiok teaches it. However great the personal merit of the servants of the Church may be, yet in MN times, if it is not supported by high rank and legal privates, which ennoble the functions of the priesthood its the eyes of the people, the Clergy can oppose but a weak bulwark to the disorders which it has continual) to contend with. " The interest, peace, and welfare of a State de pend chiefly on the state of morals—there ate no good morals where there is no religion. As things uow stand religion is snore or less respected, in pro portion as its servants are more or less honoured and respected, according to the existing laws. It is easy to confine the good in due bounds, but the wicked dare every thing against a elegy, which does not e.ijoy a certain respect in the Stare. " Your Majesty has doubtless remarked that the Catholic religion, which was established again in France by the emeordat, did not produce the ex pected effect, because by the system of the Sovereign the clergy eejoyed no rank, no e•msideration, no m floence tine State—they were to be accounted as nothing ; they were oppressed by all the inferior au thnrities—they soon became, as it was intended they should, incapable of exercising good, or of prevent• ing evil. “ We have the confidence that your Majesty will deign, in the submissive and respectful representa tions which we make to you, in the frank expression of our smniments, to see only the fulfilment of one of our most important duties under present circum stances, only a new proof of our devotion to your sacred person, only the sincere wish that your Ma jesty may reign over these fine pprovinces in constant piece, by a perfectly imersial and by 1 a powerful and durable union between the Clergy nod the Royal Authority. " We are, with the profoundest veneration, " Your Majesty's most humble, obedient, and taidiful servants, (Signed) " Prince MAURICE of Baeosto. Bishop of Ghent. " J.A. Bea RZTT,Vicar-Gen. Capitularyof Liege. "J. Foeoeua Vicar-General of the Archbishop. rick of hilalines. • la CMAII.FRAN. Jos. NSANI, Bishop of Namur. " FRANCIS burn, Bishop of Tourney." ts July Qs, 1815." HAMBURGH, Auclusr 30. A notification has been sent to our Senate on the part of the English Government, that it will exert itself in the negotiations at Paris, to procure from France the restitution of the fucds of the Hamburgb Bank. This news has excited uncomm , n joy here, for we are convinced, that if England seriously insists upon this restitution it will most assuredly be made.