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PREICN 8A1G12.414.1 CLEAC;i". The following is a copy of the letter addrefred by Monfeigneur ERSKINE to each of the Catholic jiilbops refulent in London : ittvgralotts AND ar NNNNN D sta, In confoinufkt to the order. I have received from our Spiri tual Father, Pope Pius VII. I communicate to yen the pond- I ca ; brief which you will fled attached to this letter. i rmy to acknowledge the reception of It without delay, and to irinfinit me a Nimble anfwer with all convenient difpatch. His Han& has omitted no effort fur tic pref . , tratiou of your See; but he has beheld with the Ilvelieit regret that the ur- CY gm des renders your refignation indifpenGbie. Thisis required dimity for the fake of unity, of prate, and the I,cftablithment of the Catholic Religion in France. lilt Ho battik*. given me in charge farther to 'Ohre you, that he has in the warm* terms reeommatded your perfon to the retards of the Chief Caen] ; in tht fa* place, with the vim of in during hint to fix his choice on ydu in the nomination of a per to to fill the Want See; or, it that requeft Mould not be at t„ded to, at kilt to prevail (whim to make feline piwition for fopport. Such is, Monfeignettr, the deftre of St. Peter to contribute to your etudelation and relief in every poffiblc man ta, that he will late fight of no favourable opportunity to al irdate the weight' f misfortune which preffes upon yea, and to provide for your perfonal accomniodations. Haring thus folfilled the commands entrafted to me by the Sovereign Pontiff, it now Isn!y remains for me to trader you (say fervice in my power, Ned to affure you that I am, Mon. feigatur, &c. gto (Signed) Sept-16,180t. CMARLKS camomile: ,re. at, Omit Maryla-iamt-jimg. THE POPE'S BRIEF. FM VIP. TO HIS VENERABLE BRETHREN THB AtcHeintors AND BISHOPS OF FRANCE, HAVING THE COMMUNION ♦ND FAVOUR OF THE ♦FOS- TOLIC CHAIR: • &hit and the Apoanneal benediatne! So many and fo fignal are the fervices which, both as a general body, and as individuals of the Catholic Faith, you have performed. that on this account you have ever merited from us and from oar predeceffor Pius VI. now happily at reit, the higheß commendatioht and the higheß ptaife of your virtue. But although what you have done for the Church, and for the advantage of the Faithful, be very great and highly glorious to you, yet the Rate of the times forces us to notify to you, that you have apt yet rulfilled that meritorious career of glory for which the counfels of Divtus PROVIDFIICE have re ferred your courage in there times. Greater facri fees, 0 Venerable Fathers, Rill remain to be added t d thole by which you have di ft inguilhed yourfelves, and you have Rill to add higher claims to thofe which you now have to the gratitude of the Church. The prefervation of the Unity of the Church, the re-citabliflament of the Catholic Rtligion in France, demand a new example of virtue atW'ofgreatnefs of foul in you, which may teach all Nations, that the holy zeal with which you burn for the Church has fir Its objet its advantage, and not your own.— Your EcclenalticalSeats are voluntarily to be re. Igned, and the fame mull be given up freely into cur hands. It is requiring much of you, Venerable Brethren; it is, however, equally neccffary, both vat we fhould niuke this demand, and that you tottld comply with it, in order to re-eflablifh or dain Prance in the affairs of the Church. We id, indeed, how much it muff colt your hearts to abaadort thofe flocks which are lb dear to you, to tie fafety of which you have given fo much atten tor, and which, even in your abfence, have been the objet of your moll tender folicitude. —But the more bitter the facrifice, the more agreeable will it be to GOD; the reward which you sill have to eve& from it will be proportioned to IrLr grief and to his benevolence. With the whole yelp , of our foul, do we call upon your virtue; vL call upon you by the bleifcd name of Js sus, u :omplete this facrifice for the prefervation of tnity. A . knowledge of the diflinguillied piety, and e the remarkable virtue which we have uver re marked in you in the moll trying circumilances of the Church, makes us certain that you tx 11l imme icely forward to us your voluntary Let ters of b dkaion. We cannot entertain a doubt that any of tl.e wife and virtuous Mot s of the French Church, can for a moment hefitate to comply with our pa. terra] advice, and to follow the illußrious example e GiECORY NAZIANZPNE, when he refigned the Bifhopric of Conßantinople. And certainly, in the lituation in which we Rand, what reafon can ave to fufpea that any of you would refill out ounfels and our intreaties, if he recolleas what the Church in general has refolved, and what Sr. t . Cusrmae has laid—Castro Crricatirm, Lib. 2, 1,1 •••-•" We are not Bifhops for our own fakes, but r the fakes of thofe to whom we adminifler the crament of the LORD; and, for there, as Inca it Y 11 require, we ire either to be or not to be, a s r Is not for ourfelves, but for them that we govern. For you know, Venerable Brethren, that many rf th e mo ll difli ngu ith e d pre l ates of he Church, 1114 they might conform to this principle of the Church and preferve unity, have voluntarily abdi cated their feats ; and almoll goo Catholic Bilhops k little before the celebrated collation of Carthage, oPenly profelled themfelves to be ready, and IhPught themfelves bound to abdicate their hilltop ricks, if it fhould be conceived that their abdication ton Id cc-Mt° remove she fchifm of the Donatifts(a). ( may of you indeed, Ver-emble Brethren, bad be fnre your eyes thefe exam' and adopted (imam ftntimr-- the let of Jents_,_ when in cont h oence of the letter .e 3d of May 1791, of the to Pius VI. of harpy 'emnry, our predeceffor, you profeffed yourfe yes Idling and ready to reign your charges. if the t,od of religion lhould require it, for which that 2164 wife Pontiff bellowed oo them the greaten CWife (h). Nor were therewasuingforne of you late- F who fignified to us in your letters, that you would thcerfully do the fame, if it fhould teem neceffiry For die prcfervation of religion in France. Now irce we have arrived at thole times, in which the voluntary abdication of your charges is abfolutely Asguilla lb.& Gel, es ("MIIIL Ada collat. Car -01 r. , 12. Cenci*. lAA. 4,i? In Win facultatues eimaisrms at 10 Sapaisabrle t3a. .atarystrapis Lagdmacaty Parr /Orgami bc. notary for the goon of the Catholic Reli ion, we cannot doubt that you wiil yield this obedience to COD by making this new facrifice, to'offer which to him you know yourfelvcs bound, and have al ready to laudably profeffed you rferiel ready, lhould the . good of the Church requ i re . Confidently trolling, therefore,in confequence of the opinion which we have always entertained of your religion and virtue, that on perufing our let ter, both to increafe your merits to the Church, and to prefervc the unity cf it in France, you will, without delay, implicitly comply with our exhor tation ; we fira congratulate you on account of that immortal glory which you will obtain from this fplendid teaimony of virlkie, religion, and obe dience, which you are now about to give to the whole Church. This glory, indeed, will be fo great as to he far fuperior to the praifes you have already obtained, by undergoing fo many dangers and enduring fo many calamities with lb much Conflancy, for preferring religion in the churches entrufted to your fidelity—For, according to what the fame St. Augullinc writes, in hi; letter to Caficrius, " It is far more glorious to have laid down the burthen of Epitcopacy, in order to ward off the dangers of the Church, than to have un dertaken it - for the fake of ruling(c)."—We alto congratulate you on thofe ample rewards to which this facrifice will entitle you from GOD, the rewarder of the good. For as the fame Sr. GREGORY NA MANZ IN Writes " ThOft Who abdi• cam thrones will not late Gov, but will acquire a heavenly throne, much higher and fafer(d)." In the lag place we congratulate you, confidering thofe advantages the whole prieflhood will derive from thefe memorable examples of minds labour ing, not for themfelves, but for the things which belong to Goo and the Church : thefe inflances of obedience, humility, faith, and of all epifcopal holinefs; with which you are about to crown the end of your epifcopacy—this virtue of yours, in deed, will Phut the mouths of thofe detraFlors of the priefihood, who calumniate the minifiers of the fanftuary by afferting, that they find nothing in them but pride, haughtinefs, and avarice. This new glory by which you will render yourfelves lultrious, will extort an involuntary admiration of your virtue from men who will be obliged to confefs, in regard to the Church, what the fame Sr. AUGUSTINE affirms in the above-mentioned letter to CASTORIUS ' 4 That there are tome men in its bofom who tech not thofe things which are their own, but the things of JESUS CHRIST." We are compelled by the exigency of the times, which even exercifcs its violence on us, to fignify that it is abfolutely neceffary for you to give a written anfwer within ten days, and that your an- Aver be tranfmitted to the perfon by whom the prefent letter will be delivered to you, which you ought to teflify by an authentic document, that you have received : we mull alto lignify to you for the fame urgent caufes, that the anfwer given muff be definitive, not dilatory; fo that unlefs a de finitive anfwer be given within ten days, (and that you will do fo, we entreat you again and again,) if a dilatory anfwer is returned, we (hall be obliged to confider you as having refuted to comply with our reqneft. But, that this you will not do, we have realms to hope, from your ardent defire both to preferve re ligion, and to promote the peace of the whole Church • and from your obedience to us, which is the peculiar duty of children,and from that anxiety which you have always (hewn of affifling by your virtue,nur infirmity, under that great load of cares with which we are oppreffed. Nay, we are cer tain that, with cheerful and ready minds, you will obey our commands, with which we are obliged to try your virtue, in order to eaablifh the good of the Church; efpccially, fine you poffefs too much penetration not to know, that if you refute to comply with our requeft, that no obflacles may be oppofed by us to preferving the unity of the Catholic Religion, and reaming the tranquility of the Church ; (we declare with grief, but we mull declare, while fo much danger hangs over the Gal lican hurch from us) we muff neceffarily have recourfe to that condo& which will remove all im pediments, and by which alone the good of reli gion can be promoted. By the favour and good-will shich we have al ways (hewn towards you, venerable Brethren, by the opinion we have always had of your virtue, dignity, and merits, we flatter ourfelves that you arc fo perfuaded that we do not think it necelfary to expend many words in alluring you, that nothing has been omitted on our part which could tend to prevent you from being expoted to this hitternefs. But it is with great grief we mull confab that all our anxiety, and all our labour to refill the necef fity of the times, has been fruitlets. We are com pelled to yield, that the Catholic Religion may be benefited by this facrifice. After maturely weigh ing theft circumflances, we Arnold teem to queflion the fincerity of your religious profellion,if we thould conclude that you will prefer your own advantage to the prefervation and good order of the Church, forgetting what Sr. Auousrms fad, in name of the African Bilhops to the Tribune Marcellinus, when he declared that thole hilltops were ready to abdicate their chairs : "Why fhould we hefitate to make that facrifice of humility to oar Ramis:e st ? Did he defcend from Heaven in the human form that we &mid be members of his body, and (hall we fear to defcend from our chairs to prevent his limbs from being torn by cruel divifion Per tonally we are only faithful and obedientChriffians. This we always are, but we were ordained Bilhops for the Chagrin people. As Bilhops, therefore. let us do what may benefit Chriaian people, by pro moting Chriflian peace. If we are ufelul tenants, why Mould we prefer our temporal grandeur to eternal gain in the Loan? The Epircopal dignity will be more fruitful to us. if by laying it down we collea the flock of CHRIST, than if we Omsld difperti it by retaining it . for with what face in future can we hope far the honour prousifed by CaelsT, if Chriftiaa unity is inspected by oar world ly honour (e) !" As we cannot therefore doubt. when we mile& on your tried virtue and religion. that you will (9) Agra. 4 fw. axe Msesis. (!) Oral p. es.. I. ow eat. lady. p W Bra ft. mob as. cp. /Ili Admin. eohfult the advantage niche Church, ind good ut the Faithful, while we implore the ALMIG Hrs GOD to ttrengthen your virtue, that with more readlneft, as becomes willing givers, you muy offer to Him this gift; and while we promife, as far as in us lies, to take care that you fhall be hereafter provided for, we confer on you our Apoftolic frog, as a pledge of nut paternal love Given at some, at St. Maty the Greater, under the Fifherman's Seal, Auguft isth, tBor, in the fecund year of our pontificate. (Signed) PIUS PP. 1711. MICHAEL, Patriarch of Jerufalem. A true copy. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind E. •autsn z Hamburgb, Sept. Is I Dublin, o Waterford, ocpt. z 7, PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER IL Arrived the LATON A, of 38 guns, Capt. Sol-HE RON, from North Yarmouth ; and SERPENT, of 16 guns, Capt. ROBERTS, from Cork. SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER is. Paired by yeflerday the Leeward Maud fleet, un der convoy of the DIAN♦ frigate, with a fine breeze for the Rivet. Arrived the PROVIDENCE tranfport from Plymouth, with naval (pores for the Dock Yard. The MAGICIFNNE frigate has come into, harbour, to be repaired. This being the Corona tion of his prefent MaJFETY, the Royal Standard were hoilled in the Dock Yard, and on board the Admiral's fhip : at 12 o'clock, 21 pieces of can non were fired from the batteries, and repeated at one o'clock, by the (hips of war lying at the Nored Wind at North, blows hard. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, Sset. oz.—Arrived the Evatrucl fri gate, with a large fleet under convoy, from (be bee. Wind N. N. W. blows hard. GRAVESEND, SE►T. 12.--Paffed by, the Louifa Henrietta, —; Crown, STOREY; Uriana, Mum' ; Milnes, ALLEN ; Lord Dalevall, —; and Reliance, SANDLAND, front Surinam ; Royal Charlotte, —; Ceres, NELSON ; and Bell, PARE, from Santa Cruz; Ceres, WELL; Ifabella ; DUN EAR; Fanny, DUNCAN ; Albion, LINRLATER ; Queen Charlotte, CLARK ; and Primrofe, BAT TERY, from Martinique ; A area, HARRINGTON, from Montferratt ; Duckingfield Hall, LOR ANC, from Antigua ; Mariner, STEWARD, from St. Kitt's ; Hopewell, Wit. crams, from Tobago; John, ; and Hope, BAYLEY, from Grenada; Rofalia, SINCLAIR, from Dominica; Rebecca, CROWDER, from Jamaica t-Enterprire, ; and Zolewood, —, from Riga.—Sailed the Fame, —; Concord, WELSH ; and Elizabeth An derfon, Vs'ILNINs, for Africa. ARRIVED In the Downs—Robert, Aylward, from Jamaica; King George, Cotter, from St. Vincent's ; Golden Grove, Carty, from Demerara; Ann, —, from Antigua; Thetis, Payne, from the Welt-Indies; Afplialon, Smith; Marquis of Carmar then, Bennett; Enterprise, Sumner ; and Antrim, Linklater, from Martinique ; Peggy, Sinclair, from Trinidad ; Bridge- l town, Goodwin; Sufannah, Hewfon; and floras, Sinclair, from Dominica ; Ilk of Thanes, Goodwin ; and &sky, Hall, from Basbadoes; North Star, Perry; and Johannes, Wolf, from Santa Cruz ; Rofalia, Jacobfon, from St. Thomas's • Pa cific, Moore, from New-Vork ; Governor Milne M offatt, from Grenada ; William and Elizabeth, —; Shadforth; and Printrofe, Buttery, from Surinam. At Liverpool—. Sally, Cooper, from Tortola; Carlton, Sharp; and Dominica Packet, Ferrufon, from Barbados; Alfred, Forger, from Martinique; Elizabeth, Cubben, tram St. Kitt's; Friendihip, Griffin, from St. Vincent's; Harlequin, Turner, from Maffachuktts ; Active, Hamby; and Haley, Dutton, from Demerara; Re-Union, Redman; and Cumberland, Daw fon, from Virginia. At Briltol—Britilit Queen, Under, from ftuebec ; Milford, Baker, from Surinam; Amelia, —; and Trufty, White, from r/anarara. —..----- At Southampton—Thereto, —, from Balboa. At Clyde—Mercury•, Scott, trim New Etrunfwick ; Mora ben Cattle, 111•13ridc, from Virginia; and Sally, Cummings, from Santa Cm. At CorM—Bone Fim, 001711 S: and Martha Carina, from St. Übe's; Vittoria, Rohinfon, from Malta; Middleton, Rambla, from Surinam ; and Feronia, Willem, from Grenada The Mips for Hamhurgh, under convoy of the Jane, failed from the Humber on Wednefday with a fair wind. The Minerva, CM1111111,14.01, from Grenada, to Londms, having 101 l her mans, and received con• fiderable damage, is condemned at St Kitt's. The Madona, VALLI/ M, and the Pacific, Wm sow, from Portfmouth, are loft at Martinique. The Proteus, NixoN, from Surinam to London, foundered at Pea.—Crew rayed. The —, Capt. NAUMANN, from DaritziF to London, got on lhore the loth intl. on Stedding's point, Elfinore, and is szpeeted will be totally 1011. Another Dantzic veffel is reported to be on Sand holm. The Grecricaale, FRIN [LIN, from Jamaica and St. Michael's to Liverpool, captured the 6th of July, near St. Michael's, is carried into Tenerife. The Louisa, TAILDIfs, from Gtiernfey to Vir- ginia. was taken on the 26th of April by the Spa- Milt (Lip Proferpinc, of 18 guns and 115 men, and carried into Laguira, where Ihip and cargo were condemned. The Lout►a fought one hour on the '2sth, and three hours on the a6th, and had two men killed. One of our lan papers from Halifax (under date aid of Auguil), received by the Panics Ellilarr, has the following paragraph :•.0. The brig George Clinton, Wartime', lately arrived at New• York, on the ihth of July, lat. 43. so. loos. 30. (poke a French frigate on a entice.— The Came day at 4. P. M. (poke his Majelly'sfrigate CONCORD, then in chic. of the Frenchman." DISTILISOTIOII Or PIM& Moms V.—The LATOIIA and Juan, for the capture of the Neptuuns, in company with his Male4ly's (hip ASTREA, l'Es. risme, Fos (No. 1), GRI►►IM, DILIOINT, and Facie Nis, hired cutters, will be paid their pmpoe sions of the ball, cargo, and returned duties on board the raid !hips on their arrival At Yarmouth. iLb PAIL:E'r. Yellerday twenty-nine prifoners were tried, one of wh om was capitally conviaed, viz. .701,4 Gotifried, a Oerman, for flealirg a gm-it coat and var;ous articles of wearing apparel. i.f the value of 41. in the dwelling-hunk cf Benjamin Lay, at Small'aury Green. _ . Prifoner was feen coming out of the honk with the property in his poffeßioti. The Prifoner in his defence, Rated through the medium of an interpreter, that he is by trade a blackfmith ; that he came horn Heffe Cath.l to feek employment in this Country ; that he landed at Portfmouth ; that on coming up to London, he was attacked by three men who yobbcd and Ittip ped him of every thing he had in the world, ar,d that he was induced to do this at to cover his nakednefs. He called no Witnefs, but produced a Paper, purporting to come from tome Municipal Officer in his own Country, being in the nature of a Cer• tificate of the good charader of the Prifoner. Gado —Death. Eighteen were conviaed of felony. Samuel Richartroa was tried for felonioully Real• ing and embezzling a sot. Bank Note, in the courfe of his employment as fervant to John Burrows, the property of the Laid John Burrows. The Profecutor being fworn,faid, " I live at Ken. fington ; I am an Upholder and Cabinet-maker ; the Prifoner was my fervant, employed to fetch and carry, and to do every thingthat was required of him. He was employed a lto in writing for me as a Clerk, or to do any thing that was requited of hint. He was a weekly fervant. On Saturday the sth or September, I trulted him with a Sol. Bank Note, to go to London to take up a Bill of mine due that day for zBl. made payable to a Mr. Wright, of Bloomfbury. The Prifoner went away from me about three o'clock in the afternoon ; he did not return; on the Sunday morning I went to my friend Mr. Wright, to enquire if he had been there; I was informed he had been there, and re ceived inftruklion where the Note lay, which was at Mars. Hodfol and Stirling's, Bankers, in the Strand. On the Monday morning as loon as the Banking-houfe was open, I went there to enquire whether the Bill had been taken up. I found it was not ; I have the Bill now in my pocket. Frem thence I went to the Bank, and gave the number of the Note, to put a flop to the payment. I then went to the Tower, to inquire if the Prifoner had been imps -did, or whether any thing of that kind had happened to him. On fccond thought, I ima gined that the Prifoner might himfelfhave been at the Bank to get the Note called. The Clerks there fearched from my deferiptionof the Note,andfnund that it had been calked on the Saturday. I then went to Bow-ilreet and got a Warrant, and after having made Come endeavours to find the Prifoner without effea, I gave the Warrant to a Conflable, who at IA apprehended him. Here is the Bill which I direEted the Prifoner to take up for me, and for which I gave him the pal. Bank Note, which Bill the Prifoner did not take up, and which, confequently I was obliged to pay. 1 have known the Prifoner from a child, and he was in my fervice for two years. I had no charatler with him ;he was always of an artful and avaricious difpoti. tion, but I had no reafon before this to fufpett his bonen y." [This tail part of the evidence was given in con. fequence of the Prifoner having afieed the Profe cutor whetherhe had evcrdepended on him before?) A Conftable who apprehended the Prifoner (aid, he found him at a Public-houfe at Gravefend ; fearched him, and found n•thing on his perfon, but under the pillow where he flept, there was a pocket-book containing fome gold and (liver, and a Oue Pound Bank Note, which was produced in Court. The Clerk of the Bank then proved that the Prifoner changed there on Saturday the sth of September, about five o'clock in the afternoon, a Bank Note for 501. and had fifty tl. Notes for it. He was pofitite as to his perfon; the Notes he had in change were numbered from 9151 to woo. The 501. Note was then produced, and alfo the 11. Note, and they were both proved ; the pl. one to be the Note which the Profecutor gave to the Prifoner to take up the Bill, and the 11. Note to have been givcn to the nil - otter in change for this 501. Note at the Bank, on Saturday th:. sth of Sep tember, the day on which he went off at three o'clock from the Proferutor's honk. The prifoner in his &fence Laid, tb.tt he never be fore this time did any injury to the property of his mailer, but had alive) s lcrvcd hint faithfully.— That he had, unfortunately, got into bad com pany, had loft, by gaming, a fortnight's wages, and he was advifed by a man he met on the Sa turday, to take this note to the Bank and change it. The COMMON St Itit•NT (*rimmed up the evi dence, and obferved to the Jury, that this was a profecution upon a Statute pallid about two years ago, making it Felony in any Clerk or fervant to embezle the property of a mailer, by whom fuch fervant was nulled, and employed, fubjeCting the perfon conviBed to tranfpottation—a feverity which the difhonelly of fervants had made abfo lately necefikry. As to the chant:kr of the pri foaer (for he had propofed to call witneffes to his charaCter), as far as that could go, he mull be taken to have a good one before this aet was done ; the very circumfiance 04 the profecotor having trolled him with the col. note, was a proof that he thought him trua.worthy on the day when this took place : but good charaeter, although very valuable in the time of peril, was only valuable in a doubt ful cafe. When the jury were perfdlly fatisfied on the fads, charalter was of no ufe, becaufe cha rafter could not alter the lefts. lithe jut y were fatisfied upon the feels. as they were related by the witneffes, he need not tell them it was a duty they owed the Public', to pronounce the prifoncr guilty. If they entertained any ferious doubt on the cafe, they would give the prifoner the benefit of that doubt, and acquit him—Gni/0. Aged a 6: Was Aferzau alias Davit, for felonioully ttc.ll - on the tzth of September, a cloth great coa.. valued at ts. 6d. the property of John luois. The prithner, it appeared. was pefil . ng one of the turnpike toads tier t' U . l` tdc .MEMIN, ,-* " A