1807.] 
many other iastitutions, and it is in this 
desolaie state that we have reached the 
present times. 
6" "Yet: that opinion prevailing, that 
imagined, we were attached to another 
terrestrial country, continued to form an 
obstacle to our being incorporated with 
other nations, so as to efface for ever 
the line of Hemarcaian between Israclite 
and Christian. Thus reduced to form 
unavailing vows, we have long shared ia 
the duties of subjects, without participat- 
ing in their rights, and 3 in the charges of 
society, without enjoying its advantages. 
With the ins stletion W hich religion pro- 
duced, a civil and political insulation was 
combined. We were strangers to whom 
government granted an asyiuin ; > men ra- 
ther subjected than subjects; rather do- 
miciliated than citizens; men to whom 
humanity would bettew natural rights, 
but to whom false politics denied to & grant 
civil ones. 
“‘ Is it surprising, when we reflect on 
the moral effect of each an order of things, 
that this eitect Ped manifest itself 
amcng an ignorant multitude, by a vile 
and degrading character? Among men 
endowed with some elevation of soul, by 
a desire of seeking, in the e acquisition of 
wealth, some indemnification for being 
deprived of serving their coun try, and 
distinguishing themselves in civil and mi- 
litary ‘employments? 
“In refasing thus to the Israelite the 
sweet happiness of saying to limself, L 
ice a country, some, in truth, mioht 
asily have belie pel “uu certain moments, 
a this people had noue — Witha noble 
pride we uow declare we possess one.’ 
The eloquent president then sums 
up the argument, which turns on the 
distinction made between the com- 
minds ef the Law of Moses; one 
class being essent Jally religious aud ire- 
vocable, and the other political institu- 
tions, liable to change. jae French go- 
.vernment required ‘that this distinction 
shonid be authorised by a Great Sanhe- 
drim, because many Israelites, whose 
consciences were scrupulous, and whio 
deciared that the spiritual and temporal 
sovereiynties were united, could not con- 
ceive that the religious ordinances could 
ever be separated from the political ones; 
but the Declaration the Sanhediim adopt 
unites the triple benefit; 1. To have 
given this guarantee to the government. 
2. To take away the scru iples Safien some 
appear to have felt. 8. To do away the 
errer which attributes to the Israelite a 
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want of attachment to the country he 
inhabits. 
** Such, Doctors of the Law and No- 
tables, is the advantage of areligion which 
has particular rites, but an universal wor- 
shi. ‘Vhe universal worship remains, 
but the particular rites ceased, when they 
became iunpracticable by the transporte 
ation of that rejgion of a particular coun- 
try, into such varicus climates. 
“\neverylegislation formed fora particu- 
lar countiy, there necessarily must belaws 
of locality. God, who established ours 
by the means of Moses, assuredly chose 
that his prophet should consider and refer 
to those laws which God had, establish- 
ed betore Moses, in creating Nature her- 
oe 
‘ Permit one reflection which the me- 
morable event vf this day suggests. 
‘“* Among the sovengns whoia history 
presents as truly great, there are few who 
have not been either anders or protecs 
tors of religion; but too often, in main- 
aining the majesty of areligion, they have 
sullied its sple ndour and ouccured their 
awn ‘glory, m becoining persecutors of 2 
different religion. It could only apper- 
tain to a sovereivn, whose valour and 
whose genius astonish his contemporaries, 
as they will posterity, to re-establish 
the Catholic religion and at the same time 
to place by its side two religions, of 
which one, the common source “of both, 
rises tor the first time sin ce eighteen cen- 
ye from the obscurity ee disguised. 
end-concealed it.” LIlere the president, 
overwhiclmed with cea and meta- 
phors, adorns the genius of eee le 
Grand. 
He concludes, ‘Till now those who 
have read the history of the modern [Te- 
brews, have found no thing, but an unin- 
terrapted series of exiles, ‘confiscations, 
vidlauions of public taith. rebellions and 
massacres, the shame of reason and the 
opprobrium of humanity. The reader is 
fi tiga { with this continuity of terrific pics 
tures, where the innocent and the feeble 
are Seeu gasping under the powerful op- 
We and where men transtorm them- 
selves to tigers auong a handful of mise- 
rable te How: belbes w Howe onty crime con= 
sisis in adoring the Eternal in a diiferent 
manner. At le noth in this histery exists 
ai epoch, on which the virtuoas friends’ 
of humanity way pause with delight, aud. 
this epoch is the reign of the magnanle 
mous price whovoverns us.” * 
in the sittings of the Oth of March 1807, 
the Chict of the Sanhbedrim closed if ath 
ananiumated cration:—he declares that the 
inh Law 
