The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-04 00:00:00

VACCINE INOCULATION.

THE efficacy of this System 3ppears to have been
rendered in some b.;ree tLubtful, by. the following
• Case, which -ive hid has undergone the investiga.:
•
tion of many respedable Members of the Faeuity,
who seem to have conftitierett it as a'strong proof
rs •
hgatnst ithe 1E N t A ri•)covery.
Two female children; the danghters of a Mr. I-folic Es,
,Tailor, in: Fulwood's Rents; Holborn, the one five, the
other three years old,- hail both. been inoculated by the Me-
- dical-Attendant at the Snr4ll- Post Hospital, near St. Pan-
cras the former .abour,jbor years, and the latter about two
years ago, anti on both the in redion took place, and passed
regularly through all its stages.' For oear,six weeks
.past,
the Ordinary Small-Poll ha; bee', extremely prevalent in the
neighbourhood of Ftt I wood's Rents, •and both the children,
it is supposed, caught ti',c Discaie, with which they have
• been a Ilitcted to a very dak,.:ons degree, and narrowly escaped
' with their lives, having. been covered with ha prodigious quan-
tity of,the pustules, though of wAlt are usually esteemed a
.very good sort. Riot children have died in Fulwood's
Rents of the Disease, tn. e of which, a tine boy of tour years
old, .caught the inteciii,n, it is ittiagined, by 'playing with
those two children and iron the goodness of the Pock,
many Mclical Praditioners were induced to take Variolus
flatter from those children, in order to inoculate others.
We shill be glad, however, to bear what D.} for
Pe Aw,ON, and other eminent and enlightened Friends
of this Enscovery, say on the subjeLt of the forego.
„tog Statement.
•

The following is. A Translation of the Circular
Letter which has' been addressed by the Senator
Fovo4e, Chief cf the Police, to the Bishops of the
grupire:

" Part,

" There is more connekioni Sir, betvt,ieen my
office and your's than is getierally imagined. It
is my duty ,to prevent crimes, to avoid the, neces.
sity of puniqiing them. It is your's to stifle in the
hearts of men all .criminal projeds, and even the
very idea of crime. Oar common object is to
estahlish the security of the Empire upon virtue
and g mtl order. With the vic!ws and most bene.
ifnient intentions which you possess, •the d
-authority with which you are invested, would
only h prod'Uffive of very limited and uncertain
advantages, if it did' not find in the co.oPer:ition
my office, 'the Means .of diastisingall opposition
to i(„

'' A Plince of the' Church ! title will be
disputed with you for 'some time to wipe, and by
an incont;iderable number of Bishops of the old
Fait:lbli4hment, who have abandoned the unkn of
the Church, and by -some Priests whose passions
hive been increased, but whose understandings
'lave not been enlarged by the. Revolution. The
first would arrogate to themselves a striOer Atte.
tence to the faith cif your fathers than you are sup.

poses to proless ; "the second as:,ert, that , they. are, I
more true to the Revolution and its principles.
-• You are place] between those exiu:.mes, acid your
' place is that .. of wisdom and of. truth. You are.
wracked:on. one side by . the errors of barbarous
and ignorant ages, and on the other yoU are as.
sailed by those excesses that are inseparable from a
yeriod-of Revolution.
,1 What pretexts, however, can those Bishops
, have, who have abandoned the union of the Church?
Where can they seek for it, or hope to find it ? Do
they imagine . that the true worship is not restored
in our Temple., because the BOURBONS have not.
been restored to the Throne ? But what other
Throne. than that of the ,Sovereign . Pontiff has
ever :imeared to have a necessary.connexion with.
the C4ticolic Relizion ? In what symbol of faith, or
in what venerated tradition can the smalleit, con-
nexion between the Dynasty of. the BOURBONS
and the pure and spotless existence of the G,llican
Church, be pointed out ? The union of our Church
with all other Cation;lii, Churches, and with the POP!,
was not br,ken by rhe trartsfe; of the Roman Em-
pire to 'the M-rovingean Dynasty, froth that to
CHARIAMAGNF,,,or from that to the . race of CA-
' PET; nor-was it broken by„ the change from the Dy.
lusty of the BOURBONS to that of the BONAPARTES.
Political CilleStionS appertain to Nations, and not. to
Religion'; and France has always decided them ac.
cording to her inclinations, or the lessons of eXpe-
aioc.e. ~ . • .
4; 'You are too well informed, sir, to render it
incumbent on me to suggest; to, you the great tie.
..cessityof attending' to the rigorous -execution of.
those IJiwti• which have for their ohjeet the liberty
and the regulation of, Public Worship, •If you allow
-those. Pastors. who arc subjett to your authority,
either to modify or infringe 11sem, there, will he no
longer illy 'bounds to 'arbitrary encroachments. ' The
passions invariably extend, beyend all boundS,
those indulgences which they have extorted froth
weakness. /
,
• " Fieedoni ° Religion is TAW of thC tmpire,
e(
a
, . and ~ one of th rights of man, and is at 'present
established in ery enlightened State. You are
'no longer at-liberty tostextend the conquests of Re.
ligion, of which you .are the. Chief .Ylioisters,:, than
-by -your talents and. your li;vaitelictil viriues. In
the age in which we live, that May be denominated
the best Religion wid Most forcibly inculcates
the principles ta( M:,rality, and obedience • to the
Laws. The" div;ne impress of a Religion •isto be
as beneficent 'a the A i...tm i otiTt hi.a-lelf.
41 Ilia Majesty the Eiar sttott will' acknowledge
that you have justified the. coal lence-he has Placed'
in you, 'when, under the kfluenee of your doftrine,
he shall perceive that all hatred and disstntiop has
disappeared ; that the love of every thing th+t can,
tend to the. advantage of your COuntry, - has been
•,,nourished ia the places of worship in the presence
of the images of the Divinity,- and the posterity
of the Empire become to rill ibose- whose 'et,ricienees
you tiirea, themast certain pledge that they-have
merited those rewards which. Religion holds Out to
....them.

(Sriett)

cc FOUCtil."

Vt.c►eits, Antw4rp, who has been blind