National Gazette

The late bishop of Lucon, in a phrenzy of ecclesiastical rage and despair, has issued a pastoral letter, in which he recommends to the anti-constitutional clergy of France to continue instructing the faithful as heretofore, and to do all in their power to inspire them with a contempt for the conforming clergy. He endeavors to make the peasantry believe that to attend at a mass said by a conforming priest is a mortal sin, and that children, the offspring of a marriage, the ceremonial of which was performed by one of them, are no better than bastards; and that burials, baptisms, and other acts of religious duty, are no other than blasphemies, when under the management of these intruders.