Gazette Of The United States

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE.

JANUARY 25.

The sitting of this evening was more tempestuous and disorderly, even to indecency, than any that has of late disgraced the majority of a deliberative Assembly. The devoted Ecclesiastics, driven to despair, by every possible mode sought to impede the progress of the measure proposed by the Ecclesiastical committee; it was however carried at length.—The purport is as follows :

" The Assembly decrees, that the law of December 26, ordering the replacement of such Ecclesiastics (Fonctionnaire Publics) as shall refuse the oath, is to be carried into effect by the administrant bodies and the municipalities; with exception however, to such cases as fall within the compass of the articles marked 6, 7, and 8 of that law, which are cognizable by the tribunals. Approves the particular conduct of the direction in the department of the Somme, and charges that body with the fulfilment of these its legal functions."

M. Maury, with infinite versatility and address (irritat, mulcet falsis terroribus implet,) endeavoured to defeat so dangerous a consignment of authority over spirituals tending even to the deprivation of all religious rites, if the non-conformists were displaced before successors were elected ; but it was all in vain. At length the enraged party, in retaliation, denounced the club-titled Jacobins, to be a nest of murderous ruffians, hunting with their pack, the people, a persecuted order to destruction.

The president continually interposed, but the hall was in the extreme of anarchy presenting neither the wisdom of the senators nor the language of gentlemen.