Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

June 18. The Emperor has lately published a law which it would be worthy of the wisdom of the British legislature to adopt: It declares that in future no clergyman shall hold two benefices to which cure of souls is annexed, because it is impossible that they should duly attend to the duties of one, without neglecting the functions of the other: and so strictly is the law to be observed, that it is to extend even to bishops and prebendaries of the metropolitan churches, so that those who had hitherto been permitted to hold several rectories which were served by curates, must now resign them all but one. Were this law to take place in England, how many fat pluralists would become thinner; and how many half-starved curates turn rectors, and gather flesh!