The National Register.
London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

RE I ,IGION.

After expressing the Emperor's satisfaction at the spirit that
animated his Clergy, this article mentions the establishment of
secondary ecclesiastical schools, commonly called small schools :
the founding of many large seminaries for higher studies : the
re-establishment of the churches that have been destroyed,.and
the completion of several grand cathedrals, of which the revo-
lution had interrupted the construction. It then describes the
means adopted to elect Bishops without the Pope's consent.
Twenty-seven bishoprics having been fora long time vacant,
and the Pope having refused, at two different periods, front
1805 to 1807, and from 1808 up to the present moment, to exc•
cute the clauses of the Concordat which bind him to institute
the Bishops nominated by the Emperor; this refusal has
the Concordat—it no longer exists. The Emperor has
been, therefore, obliged to convoke all the Bishops of the em-
pire, in order that they may deliberate about the means of sup-
plying the vacant sees, and of nominating to those that may be-
come vacant in future, conformably to what was done under
Charlemagne, under St. Louis, and in all the ages which pre-
ceded the Concordat of Francis I. and I.eo X.; for it is of tkie
essence of the Catholic religion not to be able to dispense with
the ministry and the mission of Bishops.
Tnus has ceased to exist that famous transaction between
Francis 1. and Leo X. against which the Church, the Onlvei-
sky, and the Supreme Courts, so long protested, and which
made the publicists and magistrates of that period say, that the
King and the Pope had mutually ceded that which belonged
neither Lu the one nor the other. Henceforward it is to the
deliberations of the Council of Paris, that the fate of episcopacy
is attached, which will have so much influence upon that of re-
ligion itself.
Fhe Council will decide whether France, like Germany, shall
be without episcopacy.
As fur the rest, if there have existed other causes of dlsunion
between the Emperor and the temporal Sovereign of Rome,
there exists none between the Emperor and the Pope, as the
head of religion ; and there is none which can cause the least
inquietude to the most timorous souls.

JUDICIAL 012,DER.
Here we are informed that civil has been united to criminal
justice, and that Imperial Courts have been instituted afsnied
with the right of accusing and pursuing to conviction and exe-
cution of their sentence. Witnesses are also ordered to be con-
fronted, and examinations to be public. Men who still re-

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mained of tkie old'Parlianients have been appointed to the dife
terent ujifices of these Courts.
ADM Isl -sx RATION.
This article states that some alterations proposed in great Pre-
fectures have been rejected, as the Emperor has adopted as a
principle to consider what has already been done. • it boasts
that the mass of revenue of the Communes, the administration
of which is directed and checked by budgets examined iu the
4...0nucil of State, amounts to upwards of 80 millions. That
the tax called Octroi, which every where else belongs to the
Sovereign, has been left to the Communes, in consequence of
which they are almost ali erecting Town-halls, and forming
market places, public magazines, and other useul works. Tile
nourish/es state of the Hospitals is then adverted to, as wIAI al
the number cf beneficent donations and legacies fur their sup-
port. 'the article closes with an account of the endowment of
Charitable Sisters, under the direction of their respective
Bishops, And the establishments of Depots at Mendacity in
05 Departments, in 3.2 of which they are already in activity,
and begging is no longer permitted.

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
Some improvements are noticed in the University. Domestic
education is mentioned as that which deserves most encourage-
inent, hit as it is not always in the power of parents to give it,
the organization of the University is extended to all colleges,
and, the shutting up of all private seminaries is anntunced. All
public education is to be regulated on the principles of military
discipline.

SCIENCES AND ARTS.
Chemistry has arrived at the extraction of sugar from the
grape, the maple, and the beet-root; woad, which had enriched
leanguedhc, and part of Italy, but which was unable, in the in-
fancy of art, to support the competition with indigo, resumes
the superiority in its turn : chemistry at this day extracts from
it a re.Sidutim'which gives over indigo the advantage of price
and of qtiality.

PUBLIC WORK S.
great works have been undertaken within the last ten years,
and are advancing every year ‘vith new zeal, and a new increase
of nwans. In 1810, 138 millions were appropriated fur these
wurki •' 155 millions are appropriated in Isll. (I lere there is a
table, shewing.the different sums appropriated to each branch,
such as roads, bndges, &c.)
FO WTI rICATIONS.
The Report enumerates works constructed in the Texel and
at Antwerp, Cadsand, Ostend, Boulogne, Cherbourgh, and
Havre.
At Corfu, a place already very strong, great works have been
constructing for the last four years. New plans have been
•dopted, and this key of the Adriatic is guarded by 12,1000
troops, having provisions for two years,, and a numerous artillery
provided for a siege of the longest duration.
The Report then mentions new additions to the fortresses on
the Rhine, and thus proceeds :
PORTS.

At. Antwerp, since the end of the last year, they have removed
the dam from thebason. Eighteen ships of the line, even three-
deckers, can enter and go out, fully equipped. In the beginning ,
of this year, two eighty-gun ships have been coppered and re-
fitted there. The works arc going on with great activity,
Before the end of next September, the bason will be able to hold
thirty ships. •
, Ships of the lire can only enter the bason of Ilttshing without
their guns. The sluice is now dried and insulated, and they
are busied in lowering it, so that SZO ships will he able to enter
it with their guns. Ihe quays which the English damaged are
flow restored. They are labouring now at reconstructing the
sa3agazine, and in making it bomb-proof.
The ground has already been chosen for the hason of Ter._
Reuse;. its foundAions are now laying. Twenty ships, of th'e
line, fully equipped, will be able to leave this bason in one tide.
It will be able to held forty.
The sluice of the Race of Ostend is finished; that of Dunkirk
will be finished by the end of the year. The sluice of Havre is
finished:
At Cherbourgh, the first operation is to raise the dyke above
thel.iT-water mark, and this wili.be accomplished in the course
of the present year; the second is to construct forts at the ex-
tremities of this dyke to defend the road : the fort of the centre
is just finished. Nine-tenths of the port are executed. Ships
of the line will be able to lie in the port and bason. The avant-
port and basun wilt be finished in 1812. The building docks and
frames already exist. •
CAN4L3.
The'Canal of St. Quintin is finished, The Cabal Napoleon,
which joins the Rhine and the Soane, will be finished in foul.
Years. I'hree nailli.ms a-year are applied to it. The Canal of
Burgundy, which joins the Soane and the Seine, is continued
avith spirit. 'ltie Canal of Arles,Which brings le Mine to

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