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magistrates and other civil func- 

 tionaries, was posted at the right 

 hand, and by Bishop Rugge, and 

 the other members of the eccle- 

 siastical body, at the left hand. 

 Within the triumphal arch the 

 King and the Crown Prince were 

 received with songs suited to the 

 occasion, performed by the 

 Countess Trampe, and 12 other 

 young ladies. His Majesty con- 

 tinued the remainder of the way 

 on foot. Before the Palace 

 another triumphal arch was erect- 

 ed, when a number of ladies, 

 dressed in white habits, strewed 

 flowers on their way. When 

 arrived at the Palace, the King 

 was again complimented by the 

 Norwegian Council of State, and 

 by the Deputies of the State of 

 the Swedish empire. The accla- 

 mations of the joyful people did 

 not subside till the King and the 

 Crown Prince had retired to the 

 apartments prepared for them. 



4. The German Roman Catho- 

 lics. — On the death of the late 

 Prince Primate, who was also 

 Bishop of Constance, the Baron 

 Von Wessenberg, his General 

 Vicar in the diocese of Constance, 

 was nominated to succeed him. 

 The Pope refused to confirm the 

 nomination, but the Grand Duke 

 of Baden, his Sovereign, main- 

 tains him in his situation, in 

 defiance of the Pope's authority, 

 and in so doing he is supported 

 by all the Sovereigns of Germany. 



The Grand Duke of Baden 

 contends, that as Sovereign he is 

 entitled to nominate to the vacant 

 Diocese, and that such nomina- 

 tion ought to be held good till it 

 be ascertained by competent 

 judges in paHihus, that an im- 

 proper person has been chosen. 



In this case, after the most 

 rigorous inquiry, he has found the 

 Baron Von Wessenberg's qualifi- 

 cations of the highest kind, and 

 his conduct to have always been 

 most exemplary ; and the refusal 

 on the part of the Pope is there- 

 fore an arbitrary act to which no 

 deference ought to be paid. 



The whole case is laid before 

 the public in a memorial from 

 the Court of Baden, accompa- 

 nied by a number of very curious 

 documents. 



It appears that the Baron Von 

 Wessenberg, in his capacity of 

 Grand Vicar of Constance, sanc- 

 tioned by the Prince Primate 

 and the Chapter, has been the 

 author of many important reforms 

 in the church that have long 

 given great umbrage to the Court 

 of Rome. 



Among his other reforms, it 

 appears that he absolved Monks 

 from the oaths of celibacy, quot- 

 ing the well-known language of 

 the Apostle Paul on the subject 

 — that he caused the service to 

 be translated into, and celebrated 

 in, the mother tongue — that he 

 dispensed with the use of the 

 Breviary — that he altered a num- 

 ber of inconvenient forms with 

 respect to baptism, <S;c. — that he 

 appointed stated examinations of 

 the clergy — that he abolished all 

 but a few festivals, and prohibited 

 all ringing of bells on the days 

 and eves of those abolished; that 

 he, with the consent of the civil 

 authority, converted monasteries, 

 &c. into places of education and 

 hospitals, formed a new and more 

 commodious division of parishes, 

 and distributed the livings into 

 classes, which were bestowed 

 according to merit, and in which 



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