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TRANSLATION. DREiSiD BY MO NSE IGNE UR ERS.KIIit tACII OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS RESIDENT IN LpN- IN conformity to the Orders I have received from our Spi ritual Father, POPE Pius VII. 1 communicate to you the Pontifical Brief which you will find attached'to this Letter. 1 pray you to acknowledge the reception of it without delay, '.d to transmit me a suitable answer iVith all convenient dis patch. His Holiness has omitted no effort fur- the preservation of Your See; but Ile • has beheld with the liveliest regret, ' ll3 t the urgency of circumstances renders your resigna:. tio r l indispensible. This is required equally for the sake of Unity, of Peace, and the re-establishment of the Catholic Religion in France. His Holiness has given me in charge farther to assure you, that he has in the Wzmest terms recommended your, person to the regards of. the Chief Consul ; in the first place with the view of in ducing him to fix his choice on you in the nomination of a person to fill the vacant See ; or, if that request should not be attended to, at least to prevail on him' to make some provision for your support. •Such is, Monseigneur, the desire of St. Peter to contribute to your consolation, and relief in every possible manner, that he will lose sight of no favourable opportunity to alleviate the weight of mis fortune which presses upon you, and to provide for your per sonal accommodations. Having thus fulfilled the commands entrusted to me by the - Sriiereign Porititr, s it now only remains for me to tendqi you every service in my power, and to assure you that I am, Monseigneur, &c, &c. Sept. 0,18 . 0 r. (Signed) - CHARLES ERSKINE. 'No. 42, Great 111dg/657x-street. I ' o . THE VENERABLE BRETHRE, ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF FRANCE, MOLDING TIE COM". lIUNION AND GRACE OF THE APOSTOLIC SEE. PIUS P.P. HI. • VENERAIcLE Health and Apostolic Blessing. , niany and so signal are the services which, kinth as a general body, and as individuals of the Catholic Faith, you have performed, that un this tcount you have ever merited from us and from _bur prede cessor Pi us VI. n ow happily at rest, the Highest commendations and the highest . praise of YOUr virtue. But although what you have done for the Church, ;triedatfor the advantage of the Faithful, be very and . highly gloriotts to you, yet the state of the times forces us to notify to you, that you have t 2s't yet fulfilled that meritorious career of glory fur which the counsels of Divine Providence have re served your courage in these times. Greater sacri fices, 0 Venerable Viithers, still remain to be added to those by which you have distinguished yourselves, and y o u have still to add higher claims to those which you now have to the gratitude of the Church. The preservation of the Unity of the Church, the ±e , establishment of the Catholic Religion in France, demand a new example of virtue and of. greatness of t aul in you, which may teach all Nations, that t h e Ol y zeal with which you burn for the Church, has 'o its objet it s a dvantage, and not your own,— ~ " r Eccle s iastical Seats are voluntarily to be re nedt and the same must be given up freely into n'nlds. It is requiring much of you, Venerable r ethren ;' it is, however, equally necessary, both ie i" at we should make this demand, and that you ..iiofald comply 'with it, in order to re-establish or der in F ra n ce i n t h e af f a i rs o f t h e Ch urc h. 'W e e el, indeed, how much- it must cost your hearts .to . abandon . those flocks which are so dear to yOu, to safety of which you have giv'eti so much atten,. 1° ", and which, even in your absence, have be en' the objea of your most tender solicitude. 11 nt the more bitter the sacrifice,C the more . 4 , 1 greeabl e will i t b e to God; the reward which , you ill have to ex e& from .it will be proportioned to. Y t ( *r grief an d to his benevolence. With the whole ti n . e rgY of our soul; do we call upon your virtue; •`Cali. upon you by the blessed name of Jesus, U e n. mplete this sacrifice for the preservation of Ity. A. k (If nowledge of the distinguished doarine i and r remarkable virtue which we have ever re th.reld in You in the Most, trying circumstances of ,-nurchi makes us certain that' you. will imme- PtelY forward to us your voluntary Letters of i-ltcation. We cannot entertain a. doubt that any of ' t ile es wise and vi r tu ous P astors o f th e French Church, ‘-' l n for a moment hesitate to - comply with our pa ' ternal advice, and to follow the illustrious example '3 GREGORY NAZIANZENIUS, when he resigned the Bishopric of Const4ntinople. And certainly, in the situation .in which we stand, what reason can we have to suspect that any of .you would resist our ounnels and our intreaties, if he tecolleas Whit t he Church in general has resolved ; and ',what S. kt :Cusut4 has said—:-Clntra Creicentiuni, Lib. Z. We are not Bishops for our own saxes, but c the sa k es o f t h os e to whom weadmiiiisfer the , s e al Trneni of the Lord ; and,- these, as necessity the v r equire we are either to be or not to be, as "''Y require ; as it .is not for ourselves; but for `-- that tine govern." tf; ?. °l)t know, Venerable Brethren, that tinny th r 6.45 , Heads of t he Church have, for the benefit of u e " Churches, as w e ll a s for the preservation of ah n itY) voluntarily resigned their Sees, and that / a „ e °r t time before the famous Council at C;rrthage, e arl Y 300 Catholic Bishops thought it necessary to , tiClare, that they should. be ready to resign their s hoptics, i n case t h e i r a bdi cat i on s h ou ltl c o n duce to the des tration of the schism of the Donittists. Several , I ha. • Your venerabl e B o dy mu s t cert ainly ve had these ;nPles before their e y es , an d their minis penetrated oa th the se max i ms , w h en i n t h e i r l etters o f t h e 3 d q t -- k ‘'Y 1791, , they declared to Pius VL.- our Pie .`'esl-)t,r, that they • were disposed to res-ign their • 4 :]. if the good of Religion required it 4 ". A - ,ineasurdi which well deserved the praise 7_%lowed upon :it by -the • Sovereign Pontiff. In times there have been found. among us .men. * Sort,l ac 17,r—thc ArphblAops of Lyons, Paris, arid . „ who have propottd, tetteii . , to niAke the- same sacrifice if the preseiation'of Religion , 'in France required it. We have now reached, thoLt times, in which this volUntary abdication'ofyour Sees kab solutely indispcnsible,to the goca;of'rhe Catholic Religion, and-we have no doubt that-you will ma nifest this homage to GOD, a-nd that you will offer him this new sacrifice to' Which you know you are bound, and which you have so generously olcfed for the Church. With a certainty therefore, from that opinion ,which we have ever entertained of your Religion and of your Virtue s. that you will upon the perusal of these letters manifest the greatest desire .of ser ving the Church and of preserving unity in France, and that you will yield without delay and with the greatest dOcility to our exhortations;we congratulate you on that immortal glory which this new testimony of Virtue', Religion, and Obedience which you are about to manifest to the Catholic Church will ensure - you. - So great will be this glory, that it will far surpass all that you have already acquired by your perils, your calamities and your' constancy in the service of Religion and of the Churches entrusted to your care. It is thus that ST. AUGUSTIN in his 'Epistle to CASTORIUS writes, " It is by far more : glorious to have laid aside the burthen in order to . avoid the danger, than to have taken it up for the sake of ruling."—We congratulate you still more on the immense reward which your sacrifice will receive from pop, the remunerator of the Just,.for as ST. GREGORY NAZIANtENIUS writes, "' They, do not lose God - who resign their high " situation, but they shall have an exalted seat far " abOVe,, and more safe than that which they re " Sign." We congratulate you, lastly, on the advantage which these memorable instances of self-denial must produce, and on the evidence of obedience, humi lity, and faith, which this glorious retirement from Episcopacy will afford: This' devotion eiti your part, will doubtless silence all detratiors of the, sacerdotal charaCier, and - all those who calumniously represent pomp, last, 'and pride, as the attribUtes of the Ministers of the Sanauary, The new splen dour with which you will be adorned, will draw from them in spite of themselves, admiration of such virtue ; and they will be forced to confess with respeft to the Church, what ST. - 'AtrouStrx himself preaches in the before-mentionid Letter to CASTOItIUS, " That those are in JESUS CHI& iST, " not who seek their own advantage, but that of " JE3tra CHAisT." . We are compelled by the urgent necessity of the times, which even in this exercises its power over us, (27141 in 1.78 c etiam in nos , z;im slum exercet), to signify to you, that it is absolutely necessary that you should send an answer in writing is ten clay's at farthest, and that you deliver it to the person from whom you receive this letter, of which you will not fail to acknowledge the receipt. We have further to signify to you, considering the urgency of the same causes, that your reply to our letter must be absolute, and not at all dilatory, and that if you do not, In the space_ of ten days, send an absolute answer, or if you send a dilatory reply, we shall - be compelled to look , upon you as having:refused to obey our commands. That such, will not be the case, we are induced to hope, from the ardent zeal which you have for the preservation of religion, and the peace of the Church ; from your filial piety ; from the obedience. which you have ever manifested, and the care, amid all our solicitude's, to alleviate. our burthen, and to afford us all the assistance of your virtue. You will, with zeal and alacrity, submit to our exhor tations, and to the pressing intreaties with which we are compelled to solicit your piety. .We can 'the less doubt this, because from your information, you must know, . that in case you should re fuse to accede to our' . request, (we speak , it with grief, but in the imminent peril's in which the interests of Christianity stand we are. com pelled to say ,i 1), the necessity of opposing, as far as 'we are concerned, no obstacle to the preserv ation 'of the unity of the Catholic Religion,' and'. to the re-establishment of tranquillity of the Church, would oblige us to take a part_ ,prOper to remove all obstacles, and to prochre- the "advantage , of Religion. Of our respell, our zeal, and our good will to wards you, Venerable Brethren of our constant esteem, for your virtue, your dignity, and your me rits, we consider .you sufficiently cOvinced•to stand in need of no 'assurance that, on 'our part, nothing has been omitted to spire you so bitter an afllidion. Nevertheless, it must be confessed with great grief, that no solicitude on Our part, no labours have been equal to resist the necessity of the times to which we have all been condemned to submit, in order 'that by this your sacrifice the Catholic Reli gion may be preserved. Having weighed this in an equal_bilance we should, we conceive, do injustice to your Religion if we should Oppose that you could prefer your own reasons to the prekrvation of the Church, and that you could forget what St:An n irs-r it 4, in the name of the BishopS' of Africa; wrote to the Tribune MARC ELL iNUSi when he declared that those heads of the Churth were ready to resign "What," said he, shall we hesitate to make thii sacrifice of htunility to our Redeemer? Did not he descend from Heaven to take upon him, humanity; that we might become menibers of -him . , 'and shall we, 'to void the cruel laceratiod of his , members, fear to descend from our seats t" Nothing mote is re quisitt to ns than that We should be faithful and obedient Christians: Thii We Must ever be as Bishops, we are merely ordained for the benefit . of Christian People. Whatever therefore conduces to the peace of the Christian World is part of our Ecclesiastical Duty: if we are useful Servants, why should we grudge to interchange high temporal offices for the eternal gain of our Loin'? The Episcopal dignity will be more profitable if the flock of Crt-it rs'r be rather colletted by, our laying it aside, than dispersed by oar holding it: With what face shall we hope for that honour froM CFt a IST, which is promiSed hereafter, if our temporal - honour is an impediment 'to Unity here ? As therefore we entertain little' doubt but that, from -your- tried Religion' and approved wisdom, yoU will consult the, interests of the Church, we beseech the A i.rs i G livrk .to give energy to your virtue ;. that, as it becomes Donors both to be ready and arful; so. you mar oirei' this -gift the inore , readily proii ising tor - Our part,. to spare no lia'ins•.to provide - as •advantageotisly as pOssible for yobr, pro:,perity; bestowing on you at the same time,. with tenderness, the: Apostolic Benedidion, a a pledge of our paternal charity. - • - • Given at Rome, 15 August, 180 r, , and the second year of: our Pontificate; under the Seal of the Fisherman.' ••• ' • -• ‘• PIUS P.P. VII. (Compared with the original) MICHAEL, Patriarch of Jerusalem. THE- PRINCE OP WALES, His Royal Highness, not apptehcnding any thing serious from his fall at first, received no medical advice until early the. morning afterwards, when 'Mr. I3ARRAT was called in;. Who found his. Royal Patient in great pain, and unable to turn himself in bed, upon which Mr. BAKRAT pronO,unced it a case that required much Confinement : and in consequence Mr. KEATE, the PRINCE'S Surgeon, was imme diately sent for from Town; who on his arrival - the same day, confirmed Mr. BARRAT'S opinion. To satisfy the many inquiries after His 'Rayal Highness, at the Pavillion an Tuesday, Mr. KEATE issued, a Bulletin, and repeated- the same on each Succeeding morning, until he left Brighton, on Thursday : since which, Mr, BARRAT has adopted the same means of satisfying the public Mind, and on Saturday issued the following " BULLETIN " His Royal Highness tile Pi Isee of WA Lts still Con " times to sutler pain and inconvenience from his accident " but HIS Rbyat Highness is pert - cal) , well in health." • 'His Royal Highness complains principally of his back ; but the fall was so violent, that almost every `muscle has felt the painful effects -of it. He quits his bed only to make used the tepid bath, which is prepared in An adjoining icom, and to and_ from which he' is under the necessity of being carried by his attendants. The Duke of. BoNTI has purchased Merton Place, the beautiful villa of the late CHARLES GRAVES, Esq. at Merton, in Surrey. It is quite appropriate to the Noble Admiral, for he is surrounded by his own element An Irish Gentleman who had attended a Funeral, at which the Service was performed by the Uncle rical Curate of , St. klartin's - ; when he heard his real charaaer, expressed his fear's, that ‘i the Burial was not a good one." Mr. WEICHSEL, Mrs. 1314.1INGTON'S Brother, is to have,sool..from each Theatre, for leading on the nights of her appearance; Mr. SHEIODA.N perseveres in his resohitiOn Of writing, an Opera for Mrs: 131 IA I NOTON. We sin. cerely hope that his resolUtion will hold, — bdth for his oWn sake, and that of the Public. STdRAC E declares, it seems; that she has acquired more money abroad than she knows what. to do with. COnsidering the present situation, of things on the demtinent, it appears rather strange that the people should be so well able to give cosh for such kirtel of notes. • Mrs: BILLINGTorz, - it seems, iu subs - er;bing tho Article; of her Contraa with Covent Garden Thea tre, adopted the name of her French husband, and signed herself Fi nti— We trust that this signa ture, though ealli'a".;,is expressive of the zeal and reattude with which she Means to forwaid the pur pose of so expensive . an engagement. Mr. COOKE'S complaint of • bleeding in his chest, is of longer standing . than is ascribed w it in the accounts from the North. That entleman has always had the art of making hi's i Chest bleed 'very freely. There seems to be an expeetatio'n on the part of the Publk, that some further explanatiO will be given upon Mr. COOKE'S return to, Town, of, their disappointment on the first night of the Season.— Mr. COOKE was engaged to play, at Newcastle the whole - of the week previous..to the opening of the London Theatres. Of that engagement, the AL., nagers here could hardlylie ignorant ; or at, any:. • rates they should not have announced a Performer, whose arrival in Town in time they could not en sure; As, the matter stands at present,' we do not think the public disappointment wholly imputable to. Mr. COOKE. : We are assured, that Mr; PARitYS; of Saltash, in Cornwall, has a 'spaniel which constantly carries viduals 'to an old blind dog which lies in a ruin at a distance from the Town ; but thai on Sunday he conducts hint td the house to dinner;' and when he finishes his meal, he leads hini by the ear back again to his lodging: , An innkeeper of Manchester lately accOmmodated a small seled party with a brace of partridges.- 7 One who Odtticipatea of the dainty, imniediately after went to a Magistrate, and lodged an informa tion agaitist the landlOrd; 'for which the latter paid ten pounds ! At the Conrt which was last Week held in the Borough; for the purpose of releasing Debtors .un der the Insolvent At, a curious circumstance Oc curred; in a Father's opposing the liberation of his Son; and a Brother also joining in the opposition. The objediatts, however; after a discussion of five or sit hours; prevailed, .arid the Prisoner was re_, manded; it having heed proved that the debt fOr which he was confined was money which he colleted a's the Agent of his Father; and did not afterwards account for:, Last week a tobster ofa very Uncommon size was caught at North Betwick ; it weighed between six and seven pounds. The extreme joint of the claw measured nine itiches length s and at the thickest (part fen inches in cireUmfetence. On Tuesday se'nnight, GEORGE STolktr, Esq. Ptincipal Clerk of His Majesty's Kitchen s after visiting j. H. BANBS, Esq. at Eastcot, near,South all, was about to 'return, when the servant, in some unaccountable manner, slipped his fingen into the horse's mouth or nciStril, just as Mr. STONE had mounted, and unfortunately caused the animal to rear, and fall backward upon Mr. STONE, who, en deavouring to extricate himself, broke his leg near the ancle. The bone came through his boot• He is, however,: as well as can be expetid, ÜBL QFFIEE ROW-STREET. • YEsTETO - )Ay -Thomas Scott Smith, . the canonical, • • tinpostort. - was finally examined before A; GRAHAM; Esci...rzfin'g the forgery of the Draft on Messrs; s'inith; .:'ay-re, and arniths, for the suni.of , Whirl', Draft he ife . gTtiated to Mr. Capper; of the tiengerford _Coffee-hou'se, in the Strand; as die Draft of . 11i: , :father, although his .father' name' is Richard Smith, and- the Draft Was signed Robert Sinrth. A Clerk in the house of Messr. Smith, Payee; zed Smiths, said, 'that Mr. Richard Smith, the Pris Oner's father, kept cash at their house; but that the Draft in question was not his hand-writ; ins: The charge of the forgery, therefore, being suf. fi:skently established to carry the matter before a Jury; the parties were bound over to proseedte Ern' at the next Old Bailey Sessions. The Prisoncr during the examination appeared extremely unconcerned, and stared about him with a most unmeaning vacuity of countenance ; when asked by.Nlr. GRAHAM, if he would wish to make any reply to the charge, he just answered, that.he left the matter to,Mr. CONST, who attended as his • Counsel. We 'understand that the new Ships Vuilt for the Eastlndia.Company's S:trl'i6e this season, of the buithen ,of !zoo 'tons and ppiards,- are to be manned and equipped in such manner as to yeniove, every apprehension of their being easily capturet.4 The weight of metal will he heavier,-and the cert.- plement of m6i in prop6rtibii. By the Packet-boat trim - New-York, which,ar rived at Falmouth on Friday last, after an extraor dinary shOrt passage ; New:Y . ork and Philadelphia Papers, down to the Igth of 'August, have bcen received. It stated in these Papers that Tousiii.tvr has, at last, .openly declared himself the Sovereign of the Istan4 of Sr. domingo. Mr. I‘./11.rityt6.Y, the AMerican Minister at the Hague, is re:called; and is to be succeeded by Mr, Livpioi - rosr, of New-York. • . On Monday the rii.th September; was married JANtes RosEitTSON, Esq. Merchant, in dlasgoW, to Miss GRAY, daughter of the late WILLIAM GRAY, Esq: ofGarteraig. We have authority to; 'state; that accounts are just received of the death of Sir FRANCIS FORD, Bari. Hedied its Essequibo; oh the I zth of June, of A . fever, and is 'succeeded in title and es,. tatei by his eldest sin q at yonth at school. THOMAS BoNHANi and JOHNCARTER,Esgrs; were on Saturday chosenAidermen of the Corpora:. tion of the Borongh of Portstnouth: The Piotens; Nixon; frOni Sutinthi to London; foUndered iii sea—crew saved: Ah event lately took plaCe iii the neighbourhood of Stivoisy, near Di/in!, which, for extent of horror; is hardly , to be paralleled:. A Soldier who Was upon flirloitgh, having on the 3d inst. spent the (by in thinking, inet a man and his wife in the Woods: The Soldier attacked the womanin a very gross Manner ; and the iitan.as was naturally to be expeaed, attempted to defend .his cOmpanion. A battle took plate; but as their arms were . by no means' e'quar, the husband was obliged to take to flight. 'The Wretch, indignant at the escape of the man, fell on the woman with redoubled fury, and murdered her : Her daughter was not 'far off, and she shared the satne fate; while an unfortunate pas striger;, alarmed. 'at her cries, ran up, and was cut to pieces by his sabre: „The monster is not yet' been taken. pry.Fri4 4 y nitirning, Mr. Evans, constable, and Mr. Parkes;.. beadborough, of Birthirigham, appre heridtd J. Mary Hill, and Sarah Brazier, whom they, hnd . for a long time strongly sufipeetcd of being. tJie m:rntifaclurers,offorged Bank ; of England paper. —Theo found Hill With his press ready, his paper stamped, .and every thing but the plates ready for: working.,, After a strict search; they discovered the bill plate in the garden, and the water-mark plate in the cellar, concealed under some bricks. Monday a Melancholy accident ,took place in'tbe nighbourhood of Highgate: • The son of Mr" Dewi of that place, who held an office the enitornsi having a holiday; Went to fish in ifi'e ponds ; and, while amusing himself, slipped in; as it is supposedi and was drowned. The accident happened about two o'clock, but the body was not found till it was: too late to.attempt any means of resuscitation. Ori Saturday,,last, a rnelanclinly accident happened at Mr. Robs - on's Dock; in. Stinderland Wm,; ,Crawford, .smith at the Doc 1; was leaning over one .of the quarter rails of a large vessel then in' the dock; arid driving a bolt therein; the rail unfortu. nately gaVe way, and lie fell head-foreMou upoti some thither lying (beneath; by, which his skull 'as dreadflilly fraas red; andflie died „in a few hourl-after.." He belonged to the Surideilan4 Volunteer Artillery; "and, on the proposal of Major Sca.rth,, on Monday last; the Corps . ‘both Dicers and men) generously, and with the utmost unanimity, agreed to give one day'S pay. each to the widow, who is at this tittle' pregnant; and; front the aboVe lamentable misfortunei in the utmost distress. PLiBLIC-OtFICE HATTON-GARDEN.-On Mon day a perion of the name of Tranfield Was charged before Wwi. BLAMIRit andßOuiltr BAKER, Esqrs. by a Mr. BroWn; for passsing a bill of exchange for 251: upon him, for which he obtained goods of hint to the amount of it. It was acceptei by john.; Ruggles; of Downing-street,' &tiling himself an Army iilgent,, indorsed to the Prisoner by a per s on of the name of Lee; who; and the acceptor; are nor to be found ;, consequently the bill was brought Welt to ., the Priioner for payr,Cnt he affeaed not to kAlow the amount of it; as he could not read nor write, but acknowledged that he directed a person to in 4 dorse his name for him to pass it .to Brown; add took the bill of Lee in part of a bad debit that . due to It, appears that this person is closely conneted with Shaw; and ether persons .who have disappeared in c...usequ'ence of Sha - w' . s apprehension, The Prisoner was. called upon to give an account himself,. whin he said—that 1 was-a_ tobacconist, but could not pro've any regular settlement. ,A ma. , terial witnes being'absent i . he cvas committed fet re-exairi ;4. -