The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-03 00:00:00

PARTS, .7Av. 29.

The eirennistince Of NI. RIGOMER BAZIN hnving
been killed in a dilel ha. been earefitllv inserte t a 9
an article of news :n all the French I".qiers, but
tht CensOri. with their shears, lopped off all that
was p7cluant or ateiestitte, in the article. The
rvfnied honours, the Civil
AuthoritieS interfered. hut threat. arid intreaties
were alike in Vain,ttoi a Priest was to he found
e.riudd linty t tie corpse'. Whitt we's his crime?

Ihey might have urged with trlith thßt be was a
Revoluti'onilt ; hut fin, they did tlot that
Ohio rtioU,--he was a Di le and thiiief6re they

watrld not .liury
It would be well that the Church .shnnuld make
some definite and publiCreglations as to the per-
sons it 'ebonies to adinit to the kooours of its
functions, and the more so, as we have reason to
apprehend, that should any of our Protestant
Countrymen die in Prance, *here there is not to
be found a Protestant Clergyman, their bodies will
have to be interred in fields or gardens, or indeed
any where except in a cburch yard, without any
other ceremony than the tears and regrets of the
friends or relations who accompany the corpse to
its silent mansion.

The Roman Catholic Clergy have been obliged
to inter bodies they refused to bury, by order of
Government, as 'jots would have been the con-
sequence of persisting, as in the case of the late
actress Mademoiselle de RAUCOUR, but in the
Country no authori►y is able to compel the Church
to act otherwise than it pleases. A striking in-
stance of this occurred a few weeks since at Arles,
in Provence.

M. ANTONELLE, one of the richest and the I
most benevolent and beneficent men in the City,
died. His nephew, the Mayor, went to concert
with the Church for the funeral, the regulations
were made and a Priest sent to attend the body,
as is usual amongst Roman Catholics ; a few
hours afterwards the Priest was withdrawn ; the
Mayor sent to kiiow the reason, the answer was
that the whole of the Clergy had met on the subject,
and they had decided Oat M. ANTONFLLE Cold('
not receive funereal honers►rs, haring lived and died
a Philosopher. The Mayor threatened in vain,
he applied to the Missionary who happened to he
there. The Missionarradhered to the decision of
the Pilests, and told them not to flinch in the
least. At length, by prayers, in:reaies, and other
arguments, to which even Priests are not insen-
sible, it was agreed upon that one Priest should
attend the body to the Church and the grave, but
only a low ina-s be said. The bells tolled to apprize the
inhabitanis of the funeral ; immense crowds flecked
to i►is house, for he was the benefactor and barker

of the poor. The bell ceased tolling, the people
murmured, a single priest was found to accom-
pany the body, who whisper,d the usual prayers,
indignation mingled with s' row ; the procession
art iveu at ;he Church—no priest was there to of-
ficlate. The body was conducted iii silence to the
grave. - The public indignation was now at its
height, and had not the Mayor, M. JoNavIERRO,
nephew of the deceased, laid aside his sorrow to
exert his public functions and authority with the
populace, intreating them not to let the instilt and
the snperstition ofa few bigoted Priests lead t hem to
do criminal acts. He told them he would demand
justice to be done on the offenders • ( which, it is
said, the Government has promised) ;—by this
means he kept them quiet, and prevented the
massacre of every Priest in Arles, for .the Pro-
mica's are hot-headed, and once set on, they
know not where to stop.

To return to the point ;—many English go to
France for health, To those who do, not recover,
it would be•a great consolation in their last mo-
ments to k:;oxv they would not be buried like
dogs, and therefore we wish to attract the atten-
tion of the French Government to the point,
%% hid) will no doubt be done if the question be
publicly stared.