590 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



and bishopricks of the empire and 

 the kingdom of Italy, the pope 

 shall give the canonical investiture 

 in conformity with the Concordat, 

 and by virtue of this indulto. The 

 preliminary information shall be 

 given by the metropolitan. The 

 six months being expired without 

 the pope having accorded the in- 

 vestiture, the metropolitan, or in 

 default of him, where a metropoli- 

 tan is in question, tlie oldest bishop 

 of the province, shall proceed to 

 the investiture of the new bishop, 

 in such manner that a see shall 

 never be vacant longer than one 

 year. 



5. The pope shall nominate to 

 ten bishopricks, either in France 

 or in Italy, which shall finally be 

 designated by mutual consent. 



6. The six suburban bishopricks 

 shall be re-established. They 

 shall be at the nomination of the 

 pope. The property actually exist- 

 ing shall be restored, and measures 

 shall be taken for recovering what 

 has been sold. At the death of 

 the bishops of Anagni and of Rieti, 

 their dioceses shall be united to 

 the six bishopricks before mention- 

 ed, conformably to the agreement 

 which will take place between his 

 majesty and the holy father. 



?■ With regard to the bishops 

 of the Roman states, who are, 

 through circumstances, absent from 

 their dioceses, the holy father 

 may exercise his right of giving 

 bishopricks in partibus in their 

 favour. A pension shall be given 

 to them equal to the revenue be- 

 fore enjoyed by them, and they 

 may be replaced in the vacant sees, 

 either in the empire or in the 

 kingdom of Italy. 



8. His majesty and his holiness 

 will, at a proper time, concert 

 with each other on the reduction 



to be made, if it should take place, 

 in the bishopricks of Tuscany and 

 the country of Genoa, as likewise 

 for the bishopricks to be established 

 in Holland and in the Hanseatic de- 

 partments. 



9. The propaganda, the peniten- 

 tiary, and the archives, shall be es- 

 tablished in the place of the holy 

 father's residence. 



10. His majesty restores his 

 good favour to those cardinals, 

 bishops, priests, and lay-brelhren, 

 who have incurred his displeasure- 

 in consequence of actual events. 



The holy father agrees to the 

 above dispositions, in consideration 

 of the actual state of the church, 

 and in the confidence \vilh which 

 his majesty lias inspired him, that 

 he will grant his powerful protec- 

 tion to the numerous wants which 

 religion suffers in the times we 

 live in. 



(Signed) Napoleok. 



Pxus, P. P. viu 

 Fontainblean, Jan. 25, 1813. 



Address to the People of France. 



Louis XVIII. &c, &-c. 

 The moment is at length arrived,^ 

 when Divine Providence appears 

 ready to break in pieces the instru- 

 ment of its wratli. The usurper 

 of the throne of St. Louis, the de- 

 vastator of Europe, experiences 

 reverses in his turn. Shall they 

 have no other effect but that of ag- 

 gravating the calamities of France; 

 and will she not dare to overturn 

 an odious power, no longer pro- 

 tected by the illusions of victory? 

 What prejudices, or what fears, 

 can now prevent lier from throw- 

 ing herself into the arms of her 

 king ; and from recognising, in the 



