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Respect to ecclesiastical discipline , analagous to the Concordat already established between his Holiness and the French Government .
FRENCH DECREE CONCERNING * THE JEWS . " Palace of St . Cleud i May 3 p . " Napoleon , Emperor of the Trench , and King of Italy . c < Accounts having reached us , that
in several of the Northern departments of our Empire , certain Jews , not exercising any other profession than that of usury , have , by extorting an enormous interest , reduced a number of farmers
to a state of great distress ; we have conceived it our duty to succour such of our subjects as have been reduced to these sorrowful extremes hy an unjustifiable avarice . These circumstances have , at the same time , furnished us with an opportunity of knowing the urgent necessity of re-animating the sentiment of
civil morality among those persons who profess the J ewLh religiora , in the countries under our jurisdiction ; sentiments which unhappilyJiave been extinguished among a great number of them in consequence of the state of debasement under which they have long languished , which it has never entered into my views either to maintain or renew . For
the accomplishment of tliis design , we have rgsphted to , collect the principal persons among the Jews in an assembly , knd then , though the means of Commissioners , yrhom ^ re bhall nominate for the purpose , to communicate our intentions ; and who will , at the same time , learn their wishes in respect to such
means as they may deem inost expedient to awaken among their brethren the exercise of the arts and useful professions of life , in order that an hongs t industry may take the place pi those scandalous resources , to , which , so mamr per *
sons among the Jews have given themselves up frprfv * the father to the son , for several years p ^ st . i ? o this end , ant } upon the report of our GrancJ Judge , Minister of Justice , our Minister of the Interior , our Council of State , £ ^ c . we declare as follows :
" i . The execution qf ajl contracts or actions against farmers , not merchants , shall be suspended for one year , reckoning from the da ^ e of the present 4 ecrec > simple conservatory acts excepteel , such farmers belonging to the departments of JUp Sarre , Rocr , Mon £ Tonnere , Haut
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and Bas Rhin , Rhin and Moselle , Moselle and Vosges , in cases where they have been granted in favour of Jews , , " 2 . On the 15 th of July next , an assembly of those individuals professing the Jewish religion shall be held in . our good city of Paris . This assembl y is only to be formed of those Jews who inhabit the French territory .
" % - The members shall be regulated according to the table Jxereunto annexed , taken frpm tjie various departments , and selected by the Prefects from among the Rabbins , the proprietor of land , jand other J ews the most _ distinguished by their probity and intelligence .
" 4 . In tjxe other departments of our empire not named in the annexed table , should any individuals be found profes * . sing the Jewish religion , to the number of iqo , and less than 500 , the Prefect sjiall select 3 deputy for 500 , and above that number to 1000 , twp deputies ; an £ so on in proportion .
" 5 . 1 he deputie s chosen sl > all be at Paris before the 10 th of July , and shall announce their arrival , and their place of residence , to the Secretary b ? pur Minister of tke Interior , who shall inform them of the place , the day , and ^ he hour when the Assembly shall meet * " . Our Minister of the Interior is
charged with the execution of the pre ? sent decree . ( Signe 4 ) ** Napoleon . [ Here follows a last of the number of the deputies required from each of the departments , making in the whole seventy-four persons . ]
LITERARY . The " Criterion , or , Miracles Exa * mine ^ , ' * a work published many year $ by Dr . Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , is re-printing , w ^ ith corrections and additions by the author . Mr . Cumberland is printing a supplemental addition to his Life , which is now passing through a second edition *
] VIr - Johnes intends to publish a sup » pleme ^ ta ry volume to his q ^ uartp edition of Froissart ' s Chronicles : it is to contain Memoir * of the Life of the Author : the various readings produced by M . Dacicr for tjie projected new Louvre edition ; an account of the celebrated MS . of the Cnronicles at Breslau , with . its various readings , and additions ; and an account of the death of Richard II .
of England , extracted torn a ^ M § . in the National Library at Paris .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/51/
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