The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-23 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH, Strn, 2Y.

THE ROYAL FAMILY last night did not visit
STAG I E'S Rooms, but walked for some time on the
Esplanade, where they were met by Lord LEvEsog
GOWER; who was taken great notice of by THEM
MAJESTIES.

This morning thy. KING, QUEEN, and PRIN•
C ESSE s arc going on board, accompanied by the Earl
of UXBRIDGE, Earl ROSL IN, Countess of Ay LES.
BURY, Lord WALSINGHAM,'. Lady C. DURHAM,
Lady M. ERSKINE, Mrs. DR AX GROSVENOR, Mrs.
FR Pm ANTLE, Miss COTES,' 'General GARTH,
Colonels CARTWRIGHT and.FrrzßOY. 'The witid
blows N.W. accompanied with rain.
PRI NC ESS .Amr. L IA comes on shore soon after
three, Her Royal Highness not being able to beat
the fatigues of the whole day. •
THEIR MAJESTIES have commanded at the
Theatre this evening, the Comedy of The Clandes-
tixe Marriage, and the Entertainment of Who's the
Dupe.

THOMAS MORR is, Esq. is duly elated. Mayor of
this Borough.

The Gentlemen nominated to serve were jolof
HERBERT BROWN, Esq. JOHN CROUCH, ESC?
RICHARD TuCKER STEWARD, Esq. and the present
Mayor,

Yesterday the Master and Wardens of the Bakers'
Company attended the Right Honourable the Loßp
MAY OR at the Mansion-House to set the Assize of
Bread, when his Lordship upon examination of the
Mealweighers' Reports, and it appearing that Wheat
and Flour had risen 135. Sd. per quarter, and 7s. ill.'
per sack, ordered the Bread to be raised two assizes,
or 4d. in the Peck Loaf, to commence :and take
place to-morrow. The Quartern Loaf Wheaten
will be' sold for is. ad. and the Household for is.
• In some of the Northern Counties, canvanillt
for the next General Ele&ion, has become ptetty
g.er.eral. This, at least in Borough Towns, excites
animation.

:Lord CARL ISLE having raised his rents at Mor-
peth, a considerable clamour has been raised against
him there, in consequence of which Mr. REN-ropf
of Lapierton, in Scotland, has 'been canvassing thati
Borough, but, we believe, without 'much- hope of
ultiMate success.
The Present of the Pavilion, made by the Armed.
Yeomanry of Kent to the Earl of ROM N E Y, is EqUltily
creditable to him that accepts, and to those who
. give. Ther? are few exarnplei•in our latter history,
of so much:munificence and good old English ho 9--
,pitality, as marked the 'character of that much,.
esteemed Nohlemau.. in the ;Entertainment he gave
to TH E IR I\IIAI ESTI ES and the Volunteers ofKent ;
and it was but a just tribute of Gratitude, that the
day, should be commemorated by somolasting mark:
of the tiffeaionate regard of e
the County to the Noble_
Donor.

The Opposition Papers are filled with allilsims
to the. glorious state of narrow fortune, in whicfp
the late .CHAscELLOP, of the EXCHEQUER retired
from Office, as if is were possible the Public ,l)(1ulti
have forgotten the char;tahle , for thcic
the 11.7z...111endica;it, and cnuid retrain 11.013
a 'comparison. which must redound so much to the
honour of the former.

Mr. Fox's History makes but small progress, the
Hon, .Author perhaps finding himself somewhat up,
equal to the task. There is. a Book which he
might make, however, that would not fail of a large
circulation, A True and Impartial L'istory air Mr,
It might rival in celebrity, the Memoirs of
Gqvine.t Agnew, or of Col. Hanger,
A very extraordinary Robbery took place otl
Monday night in the House of Lords. The whole
of the gold lace, and all the ornaments of the
Throne, the King's Arms excepted, were stripped
pff and carried away. The •House of Lords is un,,
dergoing some alterations, and it is supposed, thac
some of the Labourers employed committed tit()
robbery. . .
It must appear a very extraordinary, circumstance
that such is the prevalent influence of Country Banks"
the Notes of the Bank of England are adually re'
fused in some of the remote parts of the Island, ag,
Notes which the People don't know. This is 4(l'
'evil which is certainly worthy the notice of the
.Legislature, and furnishes ore amongst the nianY
evils attending the establishment of Country Banks,,
of which some Villages, in the .Northern parts of
the Kingdom especially, can boast of
t.wO or three !.
The. Country Banker who issued his Notes for
must,. at least, have been furnished with
a good-stock-of brass !
Dr. DARWIN clearly admits that flowers are
married, as he says that some of them are guilty•
of adultery. It would be right in the Dodor tv
proceed in his inquiries, and endeavour to deter.
mine which of the floral tribes are happiest, those
who Marry, or those who are content to wither
on the virgin thore"

The practice of the Hindoos, in buying their
money to escape the jealous notice and'confit,cating
hands of Government-, was adopted in France 001
after the Revolution. Much property was doubt"
less concealed that will never be discovered. It 15
well known, however, that Revo/utionag Seai.cherrs
have been at work wherever they had reason fat
"suspefting that property was buried, with as mock
zeal and industry as the Italians dug for the rarities
of Heradaneum.- -

•
The War between the partizans of the Vaccine
System, and the Friends to the-old plan of Inocula-
tion in France, assumes a more serious aspect.
The Enemies to Vaccination assert, that it in-.
troduces pains in
.the bowels, complaints in the
throat, scarlet and miliary fevers. The patrons
of -the Cows are not,
,however, to be silenced by
such.objeCtions, and a furious reply is prepariog-..
On. Wednesday last, a poor old man, named
Threadaway, belonging to the Workhouse in New-.
ington, Surrey, was unfortunately scalded to death.
The infirm old man was employed in brewing beer
for the use of the Workhouse, and, by ,ome un:
lucky accident, he fell into the boiling liquor, and
was taken out in a very shocking condition.

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LETTER '

DON.

ILIDSTRIOUS AND REVEREND SIR,

THE POPE': BRIEF.

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,
'll3t the urgency of circumstances renders your resigna:.
tiorl 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, sit 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 predecessor Pius VI. now 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
t2s'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 you 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
taul in you, which may teach all Nations, that the
Oly zeal with which you burn for the Church, has
'oits
objet its advantage, and not your own,—
~ "r Ecclesiastical 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
rethren ;' 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 France in the affairs of the Church. 'We
eel, 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
been' the objea of your most tender solicitude.
11nt the more bitter the sacrifice,C the more .
4,1 greeable will it be to God; the reward which, you
ill have to ex e& from .it will be proportioned to.
Yt(*r grief and to his benevolence. With the whole
tin.ergY of our soul; do we call upon your virtue;
•`Cali. upon you by the blessed name of Jesus,
Uen. mplete this sacrifice for the preservation of
Ity.
A. k
(If nowledge of the distinguished doarinei 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
'tilees wise and virtuous Pastors of the French Church,
‘-'ln 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
the 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 sakes of those to whom weadmiiiisfer the
,sealTrneni of the Lord ; and,- these, as necessity
the vrequire 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
thr6.45, Heads of the Church have, for the benefit of
ue" Churches, as well as for the preservation of
ahnitY) voluntarily resigned their Sees, and that/a
„e°rt time before the famous Council at C;rrthage,
earlY 300 Catholic Bishops thought it necessary to,
tiClare, that they should. be ready to resign their
shoptics, in case their abdication shoultl conduce to
the des tration of the schism of the Donittists. Several
, Iha.
• Your venerable Body must certainly ve had these
;nPles before their eyes, and their minis penetrated
oath
these maxims, when in their letters of the 3d
qt-- 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 Virtues. 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