Star.
London, England, 1817-05-12 00:00:00

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There are nnw in circulation manuscript copies of
a Memorial presented to his Majesty by the Bishops
of Ghent, NASSaII, Tournay, and the Vicar-General
of Liege and Malines. This Memorial is relative to
the Mode of lastruction presented for the Universities
by the Regulations of 25th of last November --
The Bishops first state, that being bound by their
duty to watch over the great interests of religion,
they are obliged to prevent the intranction ot .3 sys-
tem of education which might corrupt youth and
violate the dogmas and the discipline of the Catholic
Church. It is with this view that they point out se-
veral points of the regulations which have appeared
to them susceptible of priiducing this result. It is
laid down as a principle, that it is to the Catholic
Church that the world is indebted for the estai,lish-
rnent eif Universities, which have succeeded to the
Episcopal Schools. The principal object of this in-
stitution was to propagate all the branches of human !
knowledge, and principally religion. Abbe Fleury
says, that it WAS " to preserve the holy doctrine that
Universities were founded." It is to preserve youth
from the contagion of philosopl ical errors that rely.
On has presided over all studies under the interven-
tion of. the Bishops, who alone have received the
power of teaching, or causing others to teach, eccle-
'Atm ical service. The Catholic Sovereigns who were
themselves interested in the maintenance of trligion,
themselves invoked the authority of the Sovereign
rontiff to direct the high schools by mist regulations.
Tiles was clinched the celebrated University of Lor-
raine, • which has been to religion a nursery of intn
whose names will be ever illustrious. Pope Martin
V. in his Bull creating it, speaks of the duty wi.ich
is imposed on it of encouraging, as much as lios,ible, •
sciences ut every kind, by the means of wl ich the
science which has for its object the maintencnce of
the true faith and of Divine worship, is propagated
more and more. The interest of the State and of the
Church are now the same, and tegoile the applica-
tion of the same principles. The Bishops assert that
in the Present state of morals religion is now more
than ever necessity. The great princip!es having
appeared to them to be violated by the regulations ot
the 251 h of November, they have laid before his Ma-
jesty the observations contained in this Memorial,
which may contain a doctrine too exclusive, and 11/A.-
nifest fears exaggerated by zeal, but %%hid' has the
merit of being written with a moderation not always
sound in writings of this nature.

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FLANDERS MAIL.
A Flanders Mail arrived last night, bet the only
article decaying notice—and that on account of its
impudence—is the substance of a Memorial presented
to the King by some of the Catholic Bishops against
the Regulations issued by authority of Government
for conducting Education in the Universities. These
Memorialists have the arrogance still to maintain
that the interest of the State and of the Church
(meaning themselves) are the same, aod require the
application of the same principles I
It is not in our own country only that a stagnation
of wade is complained of. It appears by an advertise-
ment in the Leipric Gazdie that a meeting of the Ger-
man manufacturers was held on the 28th ultimo, at
Lsipsic, to consider of the ruinous WIC of their con-
cerns, and agree upon measures for their protection
and salvation.
Dutch and Hamburgh Mails arrived this morning.,
Letters from Lisle, in the Brussels Papers, state,
the persons who were. arrested at Dunkirk, Calais,
and Boulogne, with a suspicious correspondence,
have been conveyed under a good escort to Paris.
Tien ancient Offiters of the Old Guard, who were
going to travel to those provinces, have also been
arrested ; it is supposed that they had suspected pa-
pers about them. They have beat conducted for
the present tip Lisle, till instructions respecting them
shall be received from the Minister of Police. The
Same accounts say, that the opponents of the Govern-
menl begin again to be more busy than hitherto;
fresh seditious pamphlets continually gat into circu-
lation in the open country. Again, too, the burning
dower of farms, &c. by malicious persons, becomes
more frequent. However this be, they are increasing
at Lisle the strength of the Gend'armerie, for the
Warr preservation of tranquillity : old soldiers, who
eta give sufficient proofs of their good conduct, are
invited to serve in it.
Numbers of French Officers continue to pass
through the Netherlands in quest of Forts from which
to transport themselves to South America, to join
the Patriots. The French Government are, it is said,
about to adopt measures to hinder, if possible, dos
• military emigration.
On the 6th the King of the Netherlands set out on
a tour to visit Tournay. Mons, and Charlerop—soon
after, which hit Majesty will visit Liege, Numur,
sod Maestricht, to inspect the works lately erected
at these places.
VIENNA, APRIL es.
Hie Majesty fbe Emperor, a few days since, gave
the regiment of infantry, which has become vacant
• by the death of General Lind.nan, to the Prince of
ruis, son of the Archduchess Maria Louisa.
The aped stated in many derma° papers, that
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the Ptincess of Wales, while she was in ttiv city,
was visited by their Imperial Highnesses the Arch-
dukes John, Antony, Rainer, and Charles, is wholly
unfounded.