Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-09-04

mouths of tie Ems, Of Tie Weser. and Of
the Elbe place in our possession all the
timber which Germany furnishes. Tie
frontiers ofthe empire lean on the Bale,
and thus having a direct communicating
with the North it will be easy for US to
draw from it the sIars, the hemp, the
conner, and other naval stores which we
NAV have occasion for. We now com.
mand all the materials necessary in tie
construction of ships, produced by France,
Germany, and Italy.
The Simpion having become French.
secures to us new communication with
Italy.
The reunion of Rome has caused to dis
anpear the inccnyenient, intermediary
space which existed between our armies
Of the north of Italy. and those of the
south, and has given us on the Mediterra-
mean new and useful coasts. necessary 10
Toulon, as those of the Adria!ic are TO
Venice. The reunion carries also with it
the double advantage, that the Popes are
no longer sovereigns and strangers to
France. We have only to examine his'o.
~ to discover the evils which the confu-
sion of the temporal and spiritual power
have occasioned to religion. The Popes
have necessarily sacrificed holy things to
those Of a temporal nature.
It was not the divorce of Henry the
eighth that separated England from the
church of Rome: il was the trijnie to St.
Peter. If is advantageous TO TIE state,
and to religion. that the Pope should no
longer be sovereign, it is equally advan-
tageous to the empire that the bishop Of
Rome. the chief Of our church should not
be stranger to us. and that he should IL
mite to tie love Of religion. that Of the
country, which cLaracterizes elevated
minds. This is besides the only way to
render compatible the just influence which
the Pope is to have OVER spiritual matters,
with the principles Of the empire, which
do not permit that any foreign bishop may
or should exercise any influence in it.
RELIGION.
The emperor is satisfied with the spirit
that animates all his clergy.
The attention of the administration has
been directed to the wants Of the de
cesses. The establishment of seeon-
dary ecclesiastical schools, commonly
called small seminaries ; the founda-
ton of great many large seminaries for
the most advanced studies tie re estab-
lishment Of the churches wherever they
had been destroyed, and the complete.
ment Of several great metropolitan sees,
the building of which had been Interrupt
| ted on account Of the revolution, are ma.
n;fest proofs Of tie zeal that the govern
ment bestGws on the splendor of worship
and prosperity of religion,
Religious dissentions; the consequence
of our political troubles, have entirely
disappeared; there are nolonger in Frame
bat priests in communion with their bi.
shops and united in their religious p'in-
cipIes as they are in their attachment to
their government.
Twenty seven bishopricks having been
vacant for a long time. and the Pope hav-
| ing refused at two different epochs, from
1905 to 1907, and from 1903 to the pre-
sent time, to execute the clauses Of the
concordates which oblige him to institute
! the bishops nominated by the emperor.
! this refusal had rendered the concordais
| void; it no longer existed. The emre-
ror has therefore heen obliged to convohe
! all the bishops of the empire. that they
might consult on the means Of providing
| for the vacant sees, and Of nominating to
those that should become vacant, in CON
formity to what was done under Charlie
imagine, under st. Louis, aud in all the cen.
turies that proceeded the concordatc OF
Francis 1st and Leo X; for il is the es-
sence Of the catholic religion not to be a.
bic to dispense with the ministry ana us
sion Of bishops.
Thus has ceased to exist that famous
transaction Of Francis 1st and Leo \. a.
gainst Which the church, the university
the sovereign courts have so long contena
ed, and which led the writer's Oh ruDlf
law and magistrates Of those times TO say