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utmost to save the valuable li- 

 brary and manuscripts of his absent 

 friend, Mr. North ; in the course of 

 his exertions, he received a blow 

 upon his thigh, for which an opera- 

 tion was subsequently deemed ne- 

 cessary, and which was soon fol- 

 lowed by his death. 



France. — Buonaparte has issued 

 orders to the French bishops to of- 

 fer up thanksgivings for the victo- 

 ries of Enzerdorf and Wagram. In 

 these orders he makes use of the 

 following extraordinary language : 

 " Though our Lord Jesuo Christ 

 sprang from the blood of David, he 

 sought no worldly empire, on the 

 contrary, he required that in con- 

 cerns of this life men should obey 

 Caesar. His great object was the de- 

 liverance and salvation of souls. We, 

 the inheritors of Caesar's power, are 

 firmly resolved to maintain the in- 

 dependence of our throne, and the 

 inviolability of our rights. We 

 shall persevere in the great work of 

 the restoration of the worship of 

 God ; we shall communicate to its 

 ministers that respectability which 

 we alone can give them; we shall 

 listen to their voice in all that con- 

 cerns spiritual matters and aftairs of 

 conscience. We shall not be drawn 

 aside from the great end which we 

 strive to attain, and in which we 

 have hitherto succeeded in part — 

 tlie restoration of the altars of our 

 divine worship; nor suffer ourselves 

 10 be persuaded, that these princi- 

 ples (as Greeks, English, Protes- 

 tants, and Calvinists affirm) are in- 

 consistent with the independence 

 of thrones and nations. God has 

 enlightened us enough to remove 

 such errors far from us. Our sub- 

 jects entertain no such fear." 



10. Italy. — Rome. — The jour- 

 nal of the capital contains a variety 

 o! decrees of the new government. 



One of these abolishes the tribunal 

 of the inquisition, and all the esta- 

 blishments attached to it. The 

 archives and papers belonging to 

 these several jurisdictions are put 

 under seal, and consigned to the 

 depot of the archives ; an inventory 

 of them being made. By another 

 decree, a great number of especial 

 tribunals are also abolished, as well 

 as every temporal jurisdiction hi- 

 therto possessed by the clergy, se- 

 cular or regular. All clerical privi- 

 leges are annulled. The right of 

 asylum remains no longer; in con- 

 sequence, the authors or accom- 

 plices of crimes will no longer be 

 sheltered from the vengeance of 

 the law. A new establishment is 

 made of justices of the peace, &c. 

 all of whom are nominated by the 

 emperor. By a third decree, a 

 committee is appointed for the pre- 

 servation of all the ancient and mo- 

 dern monuments of Rome, and the 

 Roman states. This committee is 

 in particular charged to take pre- 

 cautions for preserving the cupola 

 of St. Peter from lightning; and 

 the paintings of Raphael, which 

 are on the loggi of the Vatican, 

 from injuries arising from the air. 

 This committee consists of Marto- 

 relli, director of the imperial ar- 

 chives; Marini, director of the li- 

 brary of the Vatican ; Canova and 

 Carauccini. 



13. Captain Barclay This gen- 

 tleman on Wednesday completed 

 hisarduous pedestrian undertaking, 

 to walk a thousand miles in a thou- 

 sand successive hours, at the rate 

 of a mile in each and every hour. 

 He had until four o'clock, j). m. to 

 finish his task, but he performed 

 his last mile in the quarter of an 

 hour after three, with perfect ease 

 and great spirit, amidst an immense 

 concourse of spectators. For the 



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