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      9 KII . 7 , S . ] The Chronique cannot be oom-[ pared -with our English magazines ; but it us compiled with ability and displays some spirit , and has now and then some interest * iing" articles of intelligence . The design of like Abbe Grtegoire and ihis associates , is tto uphold the liberties of the Gallican dhurch , against the Vltra ^ montane ^ or

      IPepish faction ; to expose the bigots in Ithe church of -Fraaee , who are disposed to introduce the doctrine of the Infallibility \ u > ftkeJ * Qpe and the habit of unconditional submission to Rome ; to defend . and pro-Itect the clergy who took the liberal side an the Revolution ; and generally , to

      opipose and correct superstition , and to ( encourage as much freedom of thinking and acting' as is consistent with the Catholic religion in its most liberal form . The Gallicucti is , in some degree , a cRefarrned Church . Such , at least , it appears in the eyes of the Pope , and , we are sorry to say , of some of the English Catholic

      priests . Dr . Poynter , Vicar Apostolic of the London District , » has lately adopted * a measure of some severity towards the French priests residing- . in his province , ¥ vho amount in . number to nearly 4 t * 0 . JHe has required them to < aign , under pain of interdiction , a declaration of absolute subjection to Pius VII ., and Pius himself , by a bull , dated September ID , laid , has

      approved the Vicar ' s proceeding . He declares the . naftsubscribere schismatics . A papal bull is , however , not what it once was : "while some of the French priests , within the titular see of London , have

      subscribed unconditionally , others have done so only with qualifications , and the majority have refused all subscription whatever : these are suspended from their functions .

      The new Concordat y proposed in & 8 A 7 , had in the middle of last year , givsen i i « e in France to about thirty publications , pro a 4 id con . The 'controversy is yet warm and appears likely to continue . Since the pe ^ o ^ ScJtoois for all hasp been introduced into . France , aird , though

      the oldest is not yet three years old , there are already eight hundred of them ! Those schooja prqpa ^ iitc themselves : to establish one ina ^ province , it has been well said htf our henevo \ eut neighbours , is to sow the seed of mom , llhey have had to encounter in France the same objections which hav ^ obstructed their p rogress in

      Eng-liMid , but the press ensures their suecess . . The French call them 'Schools of mutual Instruction . The Society which promotes tttetn have individually and co \ - Jecti v ^ ly issued many ^ u&l ic ations relating to them : they have now established « t M 09 tfthiy Journal of Education to g ive ip ^ orwation of the success ^ f the « new jn ^ tiod . To crown alL a iBibte fjooiety bus fcten

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      K 08 - Intelligencer -Foreign * -Frafoee .

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      established at Pans , under the sanction of the gpa ^ erament . The Iluke de RickeUeuh ^ s ln ^ y shew n a degree of disinterestedness and g-e » e ** osity which is not cotmnon with statesmen . On bis retirement from office , to make way

      for the present ministers , the twoXUham % ers , oh a message to that effect From the king * , passed a law creating' in bis favour a major at of 50 * 000 francs ( up wat < tls of £ 2 , 000 per annum ) . Whilst the law was in progress , he signified his intention of not accepting * the proposed grant . The Ifratitude of Louifr X ^ III ., however , to a man who had contributed so m » c % to the

      reslaiiation of 11 te Bourbon family , wfekfh was also felt or feigned by the ministers and the chambers , urged on the 'na ^ asii re . It is now law ; but the Duke , adhering to his resolution ( a resolution di&erin ^ from that of a royal English . Duke , on-a recent occasion ) < ef not adding to the burdens of the state , has signified to the mayor of

      JBourdeauar , that the pension , so honourably ^ granted to 'hmfi , shall be devoted to < some . establishment for the relief of ^ humanity " in that town , with which his 'family wa ^ formerly connected . Whatever j mr » y l be thought of the fluke ^ de Richelieu ^ services to the peopleof France , his patriotic and benevolent exam ^ pfce deserves to be recorded ifor the admonition of statesmen and in liunour of ihiHiiun nature .

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      X . MM ^^ W , , t . .. Several sanguinary and fatal duels have lately taken place in * Fr » nce , in consequence of which $ he Attorney-General in the royal ^ court of Paris , ( M . Bellart , ) has instituted prosecutions against the survivors . Me stares that this measure 4 ms been

      adopted u not on account of any violation of the rules consecrated hy usage . in ce # es of single cotnbat , % ut becawse voluntary haioici * le , according to the 'laws of France , is a crime , even tliougli fbe result of a dnel , unless the dvrel is imprCtvi ^ ditat ^ d and en-g-a ^ ned in ' sofely from khe mscessity of . self-defence ; beoaus ^ e a t > i » e-concerted

      duel is an iw&qjt to Jthc 'laws , 'W ^ hicdi gives jno sane the . right of a ^ v » ewgting his own -cau ^ e ; because the * pn > Wic miiiistry , specially appointed to fonforce the e ? tec > titron of the iaws , wo * i * kl-betipay all its ^ wfies -i n not prosecuting the known artth < vrs of ascertained homicides ; and beca ^ ifie tlie maintenance 4 > f pofelic soeibrk y ^ itn ' d Xh&

      peace < if families « tnd sofci ^ ty i « deeply interested in ptewnting" the prof ) agation ef the fatal and anti-socictl error , tkftt iuimafi lif-e may be < destfo ^ ed ' , provid « d it is in a 'duel , withaut the 'fear of iiiourring a » y kind of jp&mokment ";

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      Marriage appears atfift 4 o * be regarded * s a civil ^ < 4 Htra

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/70/