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The grand feftival of the Proteftants 
took placeon the fame day. The great 
church, or place of affembly, at Paris, 
was crowded nearly as much as that of 
Notre Dame, and the conftituted authori- 
ties attended. 
The following is a correc? Copy of the Con- 
vention or Concordat concluded between 
Bonaparte and the Pope. 
Copy of the late important Convention between the 
French Government and His Holinefs the Pope, 
Pius VII. ratified the 23d Frudidor, year 9, 
(10th September, 1801. ) 
Tue Chief Conful of the French Republic, 
and his Holinefs the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius 
VII. have named, as their refpe€tive plenipo- 
tentiaries, 
The Chief Conful, the Citizens Jofeph Bo- 
naparte, Counfellor of State; Cretet, Coun- 
fellor of State; and Bernier, Doctor of Divi- 
nity, Curate of St. Laud d’Angers ; furnifhed 
with full powers : 
His Holinefs, his Eminence Monfeigneur 
Hercule Confalvi, Cardinal of the Holy Ro- 
man Church, Deacon of St. Agathe ad Su- 
burrum, his Sectetary of State; Jofeph Spina, 
a8 of Corinth, Domeftic Prelate to 
his Hclinefs, Attendant on the Pontifical 
Throne ; and Father Cafelli, his Holinefs’s 
Advifer on points of Theology ; in like man- 
ner furnifhed with full powers in due form: 
Who, after exchanging their full powers, 
have concluded the following Convention: 
Convention between the French Government and 
bis Holinefs the Pope, Pius VII. 
The Government of the republic acknow- 
ledges that the Catholic, Apoftolical, and 
Roman religion, is the religion of the great 
majority of French citizens. 
His Holinefs, in like manner, acknow- 
ledges that this fame religion has derived, 
and is likely to derive, the greateft benefit 
, and the greateit {plendour from the eftablifh- 
ment of the catholic worfhip in France, and 
from its being openly profefied by the Confuls 
of the republic. 
This mutual acknowledgment being made, 
in confequence, as well Ee the good ee reli- 
gion as for the maintenance of interior tran- 
quillity, they have agreed as follows: 
Article I. The Catholic, Apoftolical, and 
Roman religion fhall be freely exercifed in 
France. Its fervice fhail be publicly per- 
formed, conformably to the regulations of 
police, which the government fhall judge 
neceflary for the public tranquillity. 
Ji. There fhall be made by the Holy See, 
in concert with the government, a new divi- 
fion of French diocefes. 
I1J. His Holinefs fhall declare to the 
titular French bifhops that he expeéts from 
them, with the firme confidence, every 
facrifice for the fake of peace and unity—-even 
that of their fees. . 
State of Public Affairs in May, 1802. 
{June 1, 
After this exhortation, if they fhould refufe 
the facrifice commanded for the good of the 
church (a refufal, neverthelefs which his 
Holinefs by no means expeéts,) the fees of 
the new divifion fhall be governed by bifhops 
appointed as follows: 
IV. The Chief Conful fhall prefent, 
within three months after the publication of 
his Holinefs’s bull to the archbifhoprics and 
bifhoprics of the new divifion. His Holinefs 
fhall confer canonical inftitution, according 
to the forms eftablifhed in France before the 
revolution (avant le changement de gouverne- 
ment. ) 
V. The nomination to the _ bifhoprics 
which become vacant in future, fhall like- 
wife belong to the Chief Conful, and canoni- 
cal inftitution fhall be adminiftered by the 
Holy See, comformably to the preceding 
article. 
VI. The bifhops, before entering upon 
their fun&tions, fhall take, before the Chief 
Conful, the oath of fidelity which was in 
ufe before the revolution, expreffed in the 
following words: 
‘‘ I fwear ana promife to God, upon the 
Holy Evangelifts, to preferve obedience and 
fidelity to the government eftablifhed by the 
conftitution of the French republic. I like- 
wife promife to carry on no correfpondence, 
to be prefent at no converfation, to form no 
connexion, whether within the territorjes of 
the republic or without, which may, in any 
degree, difturb the public tranquillity: and 
if, in my diocefe or elfewhere, I difcover 
that any thing is going forward to the preju- 
dice of the ftate, I will immediately commu- 
nicate to government all the information I 
poffefs.” 
VII. Ecclefiaftics of the fecond order fhall 
take the fame oath before the civil authori- 
ties appointed by the government. 
VILE. The following formula of prayer 
fhall be recited at the end of divine fervice 
in all the catholic churches of France. 
Domine, falvam fac rempublicam, 
Domine, falvos fac Confules. 
IX. The bifhops fhall make a new divifion 
of the parifhes in their diocefes, which, 
however, fhall not take effecttill after it is 
ratified by government. ; 
X. The bifhops fhall have i appoint- 
ment of the parith priefts. P 
Their choice fhall not fall but on perfons 
approved of by government. 
XI. The bifhops may have a chapter i in 
their cathedral, and a feminary for the div- 
cefe, without the government being obliged 
to coe them. 
XII. All the metropolitan, cathedral, 
parochial, and other churches which have not 
been alienated, necefiary to public worfhip, 
thall be placed at the difpofal of the bithops. 
XIII. His Holinefs, for the fake of peace 
and the happy re-eftablifhment of the catholic 
seligion, declares, that neither he nor his 
 fucceffors 
