The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-03-20

Copper, lead and silysr mines are working
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Commerce.
Commerce applies itself in general to awaiting
itself as much as possible OF the produce of ag
riculture and industry ours suffers no doubt by
the extraordinary state, which, making as il were
two masses, the one of the continent Of Europe,
the other of the seas and the countries from
which it separates US, leaves them without any
possible communication. Nevertheless the To-
tcrnal consumption, IN which much greater
number of individuals participate, since ease is
known by classes OF the people who were here
tofore ignorant oft, and our relations with our
neighbors, keep up great activity in the exchan.
ges. Our relations with the DATED States are
suspended bur being formed BY a,:atuat wants,
they will soon resume their coxrse. Lyons sees
renewing the prosperity of her manufactures,
which receive the orders of Germany, of Russia,
and ofthe interior. Naples supplies us with cot
ton, which its soil produces every day in greater
abundance; and which, diminishes the quantity
OF foreign importatlons
Finances.
The connection oftrade with public credit will
naturally call your attention to a phenomenon
which strikes us less at present, because every
year re-produces it : the punctuality of all the
payments without any fresh contributions, with
out any loans, without any anticipaticns, and in
the midst of a war for which, at any other time
the most extraordinary efforts would have ap-
peared below what such enterprises required
An Admirable effect ofthe simplicity of the springs
and movements, of rigorous order and of the
exactness of the calculations into the details of
which his majesty himself docs not disdain to en-.
ter e. -
The terrier is carrying on the fruits Of it are
reaped IN great number Of cantons and com
munes; we shall soon be indebted to it for the
general improvement oftie system ofthe land tax
| and the Just proportion ofthe contributions with
the products.
|, lniernH Zd.ninis.rdffan and fust;ce.
The internal administration has followed the
game course in 1909 as in the preceding years
order and tranquility have been maintain
ed justice has been speedily and equitabiy adj
blessed in all families, joyful at the internal
peace.
The departments of Tuscany have received
| the benefit OF the general organization.
Divine Worshit.
In hts respectfor the conxeisnces, the govern.
ment has not deviated from the line which it had
traced out to itself Its principles upon religion
| have had their application this year, as the pre-.
ceding years.
1t does not confine itself,o tolerstng all forms
OF worship, 1T henors. it encourages them.
The christian religions. founded upon the mo-
rality of the Gospel sire all useful to society.
The Luthsrans ofthe Faubourg ST. Anthoine,
the number OF whom amounts to upwards of
5000, had no temple, and from time immemori.
al, 1T was in the chapel of weden, that they ex-
ercsad their worship-Their church has been
| acknowledged, their ministers have been ap-
pointed by the emperor, and are supported at the
expence 0fthe state.
"a a school OF Caynistical theology has been IS.
| tablished at Montauhar.
| With regard to the religion which is that of
the Emperor, OF the Imperial family, and of the
4 immense majority ofthe French, ii has been en-
the part or government, the object of their most
assiduous cares. New semnaries have.been
formed iniali of tbem,s foundations have been
\ made Tor the young men who devote them selves
to the ecclesiastical profession the editices OF
divine worship have been repaired-the number
| OF the chapels of ease has been augmented The
public treasury, by taking charge of the salaries
| OF the curates, has honorably withdrawn them
from the dependence of the communes Succours
nave been secured with liberality.to the curates
| either servants of the church to whom age
| and infirmties rendered them necessary. In
| fine, his majesty has called several Archbishops
| and Bishops to seats in the Senates, and in the
| Council OF the University .-Ee proposes to call
others to his council of State.
| His majesty has had differences with the soye.
| reign OF Rome, as temporal sovereign. Con-
slant IN his resolutions, the emperor defended his
rights OF his crown and of his people; he did
| what was required by the grand political system
| which is regenerating the West; but without
touching the spiritual principles.
Nobody is Ignorant of the evils which the tenn
poral sovereignty of the Popes has caused to re
ligion Had it not been for that sovereignty, the
| halt OF Europe would not now be separated from
the Catholic church.
There was only one single means of withdra W.
ing 1t forever from such great dangers and of re-
concllinS the interests of the state with those of
religion 1t was necessary that the successor of
St Peter should bea pastor ike St Peter (; tina,
solely occupied with the salvation of souls, and
with spiritual interests, he shouid cease to be a.
gltated by worldly ideas, by pretensons of sove-
reignty, by discussions of limits of territories and
OF provinces.
1t is, therefore, benefit to have separated re-
bgion from what was foreign to it, and to have re-
placed it in its state of evangelical purity.
Tho Concordate, which re.established religion
in France, has been faithfully executed. The en-
peror has even done more than his engagements
required of him. The Pope ought on his side to
observe its conditions.
Whenever there wae no personal reproach to
be made on the Archbishops and Bishops appoin.
ted BY the emperor, he ought directly to give
them the canonical institution. Ii that condition
was not fulSlled, the Concordate would become
null, and we should find ourselves replaced un.
der the same regime as before the Concordate of
Francis and Leo x that regime was one of
the Pragmatic Sanction OF St Lewis, so much
regretted by our churches, by the School of Pa
ris and by the Parliamcnts.
lncendiary writings and bulls inspired by gno.
rance and the most criminal neglect Of the prin.
ciples of religion, were hawked about in differ
proclamatons meet with the contempt they de-
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