The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-09-04


RELIGION
The Empcrour is satisfied with the spirit
that animatcs all his clergy.
The attention OF the administration has
Lccn directed to The wants of the diocesses.
The establishment Of secondary ccclesiasti-
cal schools, commonly called email seminaries; /;
the foundation of great many large semina-
ries of the most advanced studies the re-cs-
tablishment of the churches wherever they
had been destroyed and the complement OF
several great metropolitan fees, the building
of which had been interrupted on account Of
the revolution, are manifest proofs oil tue
gcal that the Government bestows on the
splcndor Of worship AMI prosperity OF iclig-
ion.
Religious dissentions, the consequence OF
our political troubles have entirely disappear
ed there are no longer in France but priests
in communion with their bishops and united
N their religious principles as they are in
their alta chment to their Government.
Twenty seven bishoprcks having been va
cant for long time, and the Pope having re-
fused two different epochs, from 1905 to
1907, and from sos to the present time, to
execute the clauses Of the Concordates which
obllge him to institute the bishops nominated
by the refusal, this refusal had rendered the
Concordatc void it no longer cxiss.s The
Empcrour has therefore been Obliged to con-
woke all thc bishops Of the empire, that they
might consult OH the means for providing for
the yacant fees, and OF nominating to those
that should become vacant, IN conformity to
what was done under Charlcmagne, under
ST. Louis, and in all the centorics that pre-
ceded the Concortatc OF Francis l. and Leo
< for it is the essence of the catholick re-
ligon not TO be able to dispense with the min
istry and mission of bishops.
Thus has ceased to exist tha: famous trans
action OF Francis |. and Leo X. against which
The Church, the University and The sovereign
Courts have SO long contended, and which
led the writer's on publick law and magis-
tratcs OF those times to say, that the King
and Pope had mutually yielded 10 one another
what did not belong to either. Icncciorh
it is to the deliberations of .hc Council Of
Paris ,hatthc stoss of episcopacy which will
have so much influence even Oh that OF rcliy- |
ion, is attached.
for the rest, ii other divisions have cx- |
isted between the Emperour and the tcmpor- |
III sovereign Of Rome, there has not existed |
my between the Emperour and the Pope, as
Ihe chief of religion, and tIcr: is nothing |
that can excite the least uneasiness in the
most timorous souls.
JUDICL3RY
Civil Justice had been separated from Grim
nal justice the magistrates pursued crimes
,nly when these were. pointed out by the po-
ice. The late code that you have adopted
has reunited civil and criminal justice it
has instituted imperial courts invested with
the right Of pursuing and accusing, and has
armed them witt. the necessary force to'causc
The laws to be executed. The maintenance
and perfection Of the jury, and conformation
'f Witnesses and the publicity of the trials
rave brought together what was good in the
I'D and new system.
In nominating to the different Offices, His
Majesty has sought the members that yet re-
NAMED of the former Parliaments, and whose
iyc and knowledge qualified them Tor en-
doyment in the imperial courts; he has call
cd them to it of his own accord, thus giving
proof OF his constant desire TO sec The !
french forget their former quarrels, and
hnally to blend themselves in the only interest
Of their country and OF the throne
ADMINISTRATION
Many rcclanations have been presented |
lpon the limits of the different departments.
Even opinions have been intimNcd which !
would wish to substitute great pcrfcc,nrcs to
he actual partecturcs but Ills Majesty has
rejected them, and has set as principc TO
consider what has been done as established
md permanent Instability destroys every
hing. A great revolution has taken place in
his the organization Of the departments il
) an act of property which His Majesty docs
ot wish tn touch Those departments have |
cen formed, consolidated in the midst of ;
wtul circumstances which have brought 20.
ether their Inhabitants, and they shall al.
ays remain united in the same manner.
The communal administrator has been :
7ery where perfected The budget, deGb-
'atcd upon in the Council Of State, direct :,
ID ccnsurc thus the administration OF all the -
'mmunes of the Empire which have more " !"
'o,ooo frames enthusiastically the :.