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London, England, 1801-10-19 00:00:00

TNE BISHOPS.

Tranllation from tie Latin of the Letter written by the
teen French Bifhops, Mic:lit in London, to the Por.:,
anfwer to his Brief of the xsth of Auguft, z 8: t.—Lstel
Odlober zR ,tBoz.

We will noeconceal from your Holinefs the
heavy anxiety which prelfed upon our minds when
firll we received the 'Letters of your liolinejs, dated
on the igth of Auguft, tBot, in the tecond
y♦ear
of your pontificate; which is the greater, 111.,t
we, who at all times thought nothing more incinn.
bent on us, and had nothing more at heart, titan
zealoufly to promote, as far as in our power, your
paternal council:,, (hould now be found not only
uncertain and fluduating, but, in a duty of this
nature, compelled to be even reluClant to obey.
,4 Such is the force of thefe letters, that if that
be done which they enjoin, all the Epifcopal Secs
in France will be left vacant at one and the fame
point of time. By what means this fudden abdica-
tion of all the Churches of that moll extenfive Em-
pire is to produce, throtighout France, the falntary
effeift of unity, and of preferving or relloring the
Catholic aeligion, your Efolinefi has not informed
us, nor, to confcfs the troth, do we, as yet fug.
ciently forefee. Truly the very experience of ail
the calamities with which our country has been af.
}lifted for many years, fufficiently (hews that it is
not without reafon we dread that, by this volun.a-
ry and univerfal abdication of all the Churche,,
more grievous inconveniences would refult to the
Catholic caufe ; for which, to acquaint your Hs.
line!} with the means of prevention, belongs 011: f
to a convocation of all the Bithops of the Callican
Church.

" Nor indeed do we mean to fay this, as if I:
would feem grievous or a hardfhip upon us tore.
fign our rank in thole melancholy and trot:Lie:bi-:2
times, but rather that it would as much as pQilil
conduce to the private happinefs of each of us,
have our infirmity relieved from fo great a borthil,
if we may Hill think of any thing of happinefs or
confolation with minds broken by the weight of fa
many misfortunes. But the line of our duty fcems
to us fully to require, that we fhuuld never fuller
that tie which has bound us, and the Churches
immediately committed, by the providence of the
moft great and good GOD, to our care, to be
broken;
" We eameftly befeech your Holinefs, that, in
foal; writing to be ['prettily drawn up, we may be
permitted to difclafe and enter fomewhat more
at Lc!, into the arguments upon which we thought
right • aft in this marsur, and the grounds of
our refolution. In the mean time, greatly confi-
ding in the paternal affeCtion of your Hand's to-
wards us, we hope it will fo happen that noth ng
further will be determined in this buftnefs before
you fhall, in your confummate equity and pru.
dente, weigh the reafons upon which your ch;l-
- (hall plead their caufe before their mull pious
father.

" Proftrate at the knees of your Haines, molt
ardently we invoke the Apoftolic Denojulion of
your Holiners.
The moft devoted and dutiful lons
NARBONNE, MAYON,
ANCOULIMA, PERIGULVI,
ARRAS, ST. POL Di LkON4
AVRANCNIES, VANNES,
LOASSIZ, Usti,
mowrrimuss, RHODES,
MANTES, MOULINS.•
• Nominated in 1791. •

At Cambridge, on Saturday the toth, being the
firll day of term, the followiag Gentlemen w•crt
elefted Unirerfity Officers for the enfuing year:
Praetors, Spain Hopkins, M. A. Chriit's Coll.
Benjamin Parke, M. A. Pemb.

Moderators, William Deal try, M. A. Trim. Coll.
John Palmer, M. A. SL John's.
Scrutators, John Davies, E. D. Trin.
CoA
N. L. Hendry, B. D. Bene't Coll.
John Holase, M. A. St. Peter's Coll.
Robert Jones, M.A. St.
THE cApur.
The Vice Chancellor.

Tazors,

W. 1.. Manic!, D. D. Matter of Trin. Coll. Divinity.
lorepla Juwctt, L. L. D. Trinity Hall, law,
Bawl Harwood, M.D. Emrttan. Cull. Preface of Anatomy,
and Downing Profeffur of Phyfie. .
Richard Buck, M.A. Maga. Coll. Sen. Non-regent.
Gca. Adam Browne, M. A. Trio. Coll. Sm. Regent.
The Rev. WILLIAM Nz tsow, of Chrift's College*
brother to Admiral Lord Vilcount NELSON, DuLe
of Blowrs, is admitted to,the degreee of Doctor
in Divinity.
The Brewers of Dorchefler have lowered ti.e
price of beer one penny per quart, in confequente
of the abundance and cheapnefs of malt and bops ;
their example (hould be univerfally adopted, for
nothing can warrant the prefent charge in the Me-
tropolis, &c.
On Monday Lill, as Mr. Earns, glazier, of
Park-lane, was employed in cleaning the two-pair
windows of the back-front of Mr. Cocasasti's
houfe in Piccadilly, his foot flipped, and he fell
down upon the garden fpikcs, which feparate the
garden from Mr. CRAWFORD'S. The fpikcs bcirg
very (harp, they ran in at two places, entirely
through both thighs and the left ribs. Affulance
was immediately procured, when he was with dif-
ficulty removed from off the (pikes, and carried
to St. George's Hofpital, where, after languithing
in extreme mifery till fix o'clock on Thurfday
morning, he expired.
Suspicion or Mu anan.—The following mclac-
choly circumflAnce occurred yeneiday morning :
—John Starking, a (hop man to a Cheefemongcr
near St. Clement's Church, and who occafionally
blacks (hoes at the corner of Hand-court, Holbort
having inhumanly beat his wife the night befori,
curiolity induced a woman living in the lame hoax
to go into Starking's room (after his departurc
for Hand•court) to enquire how his wife was?
when, to her ailoni(hment, fhe found her dead,
and her infant child fucking at her breath Upon
the alarm being given, two perfons Were difixitch-
ed to Hand-court to (tile the offender, whore the!
found him, and lodged him in St. Clement'.
watch-honk,