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VIEWS OF FRANCE IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM * ON THE CONTINENT . * Les t ^ ontifes Bom&Ins s * appercevant cjue le sceptre da Latium et les Cleft de S . J * ierre penvent echapper ensem&te , abandonneront cellcs ci , pour consenrer Tatitre . L ' sncouragement de la population , un gouvernment mieux entendu , des alliances * et pltis encore les interets des autres puissances , les soutiendront jusqu * a ceque i'ltaiie soit , ainsi que rAllemaghe , reunie en une bti deux grand masses de potivoir . L , e grand edifice politique de 1 'Europe , ne sera Hen tot plus constrtiit , <| ue de grand pierre , et runirormiie de leur coupe est peut- ^ tre necessaiie U ** aolidite /'—JL'Hermite Philosophe , ^ 783 .
To the Editor of the Monthly Itepository . Sir , The unexpected and extraordinary changes projected by tht Emperor of the French in the Germanic empire , I beg leave to make the subject of my present letter .
A $ the hurry of a newspaper frequently prevents an accurate statement of any complicated affair , I shall endeavour to supply you with a true representation of the alterations generally understood to be intended to be carried into effect under Cardinal Fesch , the new Coadjutor appointed by France , and the Electoral Arch-Charicellor . In the first place , a Federative Union beino- formed , under the guarantee of France , between the Electoral Arch-Chancellor ( whose territory is to be augmented
with the city of Frankfort , its dependencies , &c . ) Bavaria , WurtembergV Baden , Hesse-Cassel , and Darmstadt , the deputies of these states are to meet at Frankfort ^ which is also to be the residence of the Electoral Arch-Chancellor . After Baden
Hesse-Cassel , Darmstadt , and a part , if not the whole , of Westphalia , are erected into kingdoms , matters of greater moment for Germany are to be brought forward , viz . a form of churchgovernment correspondent with the enlightened spirit of the times- —universal toleration- — -a complete and unlimited liberty
in matters of conscience and modes of thinking—the resignation of every place and exclusive privilege in the hands of the Clergy to their respective Sovereigns—the imposition of an oath of allegiance , not excepting the bishops and archbishops- —a declaration acknowledging the nullity of ecclesiastical obligations , mandates , &c , unless sanctioned by the secular power- — the abolition of aji the cloisters and religious foundations
remaining in Germany ( the Brothers and Sisters of Charity , an Order which binds itself to the attendance and relief of the sick , and some schools , excepted)—the erection of more seminaries adapted to the circumstances of the times- ^ -the curtailment of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/29/
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