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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant
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+Title: Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793)
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+Author: Frances  Burney
+
+Release Date: June 15, 2009 [EBook #29125]
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+ Transcriber's Note
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+ The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully
+ preserved.
+
+
+
+ BRIEF
+
+ REFLECTIONS
+
+ RELATIVE TO THE
+
+ EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY:
+
+ EARNESTLY SUBMITTED
+
+ TO THE HUMANE CONSIDERATION
+
+ OF THE
+
+ LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
+
+
+ _BY THE AUTHOR OF_
+ EVELINA AND CECILIA.
+
+
+ London:
+ PRINTED BY T. DAVISON,
+ FOR THOMAS CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
+ 1793.
+
+ [Price one Shilling and Sixpence.]
+
+
+ [Asterism] _The profits of this Publication are to be wholly
+ appropriated to the Relief of the_
+
+ EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY.
+
+
+
+
+APOLOGY.
+
+
+However wide from the allotted boundaries and appointed province of
+Females may be all interference in public matters, even in the agitating
+season of general calamity; it does not thence follow that they are
+exempt from all public claims, or mere passive spectatresses of the
+moral as well as of the political oeconomy of human life. The distinct
+ties of their prescriptive duties, which, pointed out by Nature, have
+been recognised by reason, and established by custom, remove, indeed,
+from their view and knowledge all materials for forming public
+characters. The privacy, therefore, of their lives is the dictate of
+common sense, stimulated by local discretion. But in the doctrine of
+morality the reverse is the case, and their feminine deficiencies are
+there changed into advantages: since the retirement, which divests them
+of practical skills for public purposes, guards them, at the same time,
+from the heart-hardening effects of general worldly commerce. It gives
+them leisure to reflect and to refine, not merely upon the virtues, but
+the pleasures of benevolence; not only and abstractedly upon that sense
+of good and evil which is implanted in all, but feelingly, nay awefully,
+upon the woes they see, yet are spared!
+
+It is here, then, in the cause of tenderness and humanity, they may come
+forth, without charge of presumption, or forfeiture of delicacy.
+Exertions here may be universal, without rivality or impropriety; the
+head may work, the hand may labour; the heart may suggest,
+indiscriminately in all, in men without disdain, in women without a
+blush: and however truly of the latter to withdraw from notice may be in
+general the first praise, in a service such as this, they may with yet
+more dignity come forward: for it is here that their purest principles,
+in union with their softest feelings, may blend immediate gratification
+with the most solemn future hopes.----And it is here, in full
+persuasion of sympathy as well as of pardon, that the Author of these
+lines ventures to offer to her countrywomen a short exhortation in
+favour of the emigrant French Clergy.
+
+
+
+
+BRIEF
+
+REFLEXIONS
+
+RELATIVE TO THE
+
+EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY.
+
+
+The astonishing period of political history upon which our days have
+fallen, robs all former times of wonder, wearies expectation, sickens
+even hope! while the occurrences of every passing minute have such
+prevalence over our minds, that public affairs assume the interest of
+private feelings, affect domestic peace, and occupy not merely the most
+retired part of mankind, but even mothers, wives, and children with
+solicitude irresistible.
+
+Yet the amazement which has been excited, though stupendous, though
+terrific, by the general events that in our neighbour kingdom have
+convulsed all order, and annihilated tranquility, is feeble, is almost
+null, compared with that produced by the living contrast of virtue and
+of guilt exhibited in the natives of one and the same country; virtue,
+the purest and most disinterested, emanating from the first best cause,
+religion; and guilt, too heinous for any idea to which we have hitherto
+given definition.
+
+The emigrant FRENCH CLERGY, who present us with the bright side of this
+picture, are fast verging to a situation of the most necessitous
+distress; and, notwithstanding the generous collections repeatedly
+raised, and the severest oeconomy unremittingly exercised in their
+distribution, if something further is not quickly obtained, all that has
+been done will prove of no avail, and they must soon end their hapless
+career, not by paying the debt of nature, but by famine.
+
+That the kingdom at large, in its legislative capacity, will ere long
+take into consideration a more permanent provision for these pious
+fugitives, there is every reason to infer from the national interest,
+which has universally been displayed in their cause. To preserve them in
+the mean time is the object of present application.
+
+So much has already so bountifully been bestowed in large donations,
+that it seems wanting in modesty, if not in equity, to make further
+immediate demands upon heads of houses, and masters of families.
+
+Which way, then, may these destitute wanderers turn for help? To their
+own country they cannot go back; it is still in the same state of
+lawless iniquity which drove them from it, still under the tyrannic sway
+of the sanguinary despots of the Convention.
+
+What then remains? Must their dreadful hardships, their meek endurance,
+their violated rights, terminate in the death of hunger?
+
+No! there is yet a resource; a resource against which neither modesty
+nor equity plead; a resource which, on the contrary, has every moral
+propensity, every divine obligation, in its favour: this resource is
+FEMALE BENEFICENCE.
+
+Already a considerable number of Ladies have stept forward for this
+Christian purpose. Their plan has been printed and dispersed. It speaks
+equally to the heart and to the understanding; it points out
+wretchedness which we cannot dispute, and methods for relief of which
+we cannot deny the feasibility.
+
+The Ladies who have instituted this scheme desire not to be named; and
+those who are the principal agents for putting it in execution, join in
+the same wish. Such delicacy is too respectable to be opposed, and
+ostentation is unnecessary to promulgate what modest silence may
+recommend to higher purposes. There are other records than those of
+newspapers, and lists of subscribers; records in which to see one fair
+action, one virtuous exertion, one self-denying sacrifice entered, may
+bring to its author, _that peace which the world cannot give_, and a joy
+more refined than even the praise of the worthy.
+
+Such names, nevertheless, will ultimately be sought, for what now is
+benevolence will in future become honour; and female tradition will not
+fail to hand down to posterity the formers and protectresses of a plan
+which, if successful, will exalt for ever the female annals of Great
+Britain.
+
+The minutest scrutinizer into the rights of charity cannot here start
+one objection that a little consideration will not supersede. No
+votaries of pleasure, ruined by extravagance and luxury, forfeit pity in
+censure by imploring your assistance; no slaves of idleness, no dupes of
+ambition, invite reproof for neglected concerns in soliciting your
+liberality. The objects of this petition are reduced, indeed, from
+affluence to penury, but the change has been wrought through the
+exaltation of their souls, not through the depravity of their conduct.
+Whatever may be their calls upon our tenderness, their claims, to every
+thinking mind, are still higher to our admiration. Driven from house and
+home, despoiled of dignities and honours, abandoned to the seas for
+mercy, to chance for support, many old, some infirm, all impoverished?
+with mental strength alone allowed them for coping with such an
+aggregate of evil! Weigh, weigh but a moment their merits and their
+sufferings, and what will not be sooner renounced than the gratification
+of serving so much excellence. It is to _itself_ the liberal heart does
+justice in doing justice to the oppressed; they are its own happiest
+feelings which it nourishes, in nourishing the unfortunate.
+
+By addressing myself to females, I am far from inferring that charity is
+exclusively their praise; no, it is a virtue as manly as it is gentle;
+it is christian, in one word, and ought therefore to be universal. But
+the pressure of present need is so urgent, that the ladies who patronize
+this plan are content to spread it amongst their own sex, whose
+contributions, though smaller, may more conveniently be sudden, and
+whose demands for wealth being less serious, may render those
+contributions more general[1].
+
+Nor are the misfortunes we would now mitigate so foreign to our
+"business and bosoms" as we may lightly suppose: all Europe is involved
+by the circumstances which occasioned them, and with indignation as
+strong, though with sensations less acute, has watched their wonderful
+progress[2].
+
+Whatever by unbelievers may be urged in defence of what they style the
+_religion of nature_, its inefficacy, even for the exclusive purposes of
+morality, is now surely exposed beyond all theory or controversy: and
+the _religion of God_ has received a testimony as clear of its _moral_
+influence, by the atrocious acts of the Convention since it has been
+cast aside, as of its _divine_, in the voluntary sacrifices offered up
+at its shrine by those who still adhere to its holy doctrines.
+
+And shall we, with our arms, our treasures, our dearest blood, resist
+the authors of these wrongs, yet forbear to protect their victims?
+
+All ages have furnished examples of individuals who have been
+distinguished from their contemporaries by actions of Heroism: but to
+find a similar instance of a whole body of men, thus repelling every
+allurement of protection and preferment, of home, country, friends,
+fortune, possessions, for the still calls of piety, and private
+dictates of conscience, precedent may be defied, and the annals of
+virtue explored in vain.
+
+Shall we deem it a misfortune to be burthened with beings such as these?
+No; let us, more justly, conclude it a blessing. Prosperity is apt to be
+forgetful, to confound what it possesses with what it deserves; but the
+claims we here feel to give, awaken us to remember the abundance we have
+received.
+
+Thankfully, and not disdainfully, let us bow down to an admonition thus
+mildly instilled through the medium of borrowed experience. What a
+contrast to the terrible lesson given to the distracted country which
+offers it! where both crimes and afflictions are of such enormous
+magnitude, as to engross the whole civilized earth between resentment
+and compassion!
+
+Already we look back on the past as on a dream, too wild in its
+horrors, too unnatural in its cruelties, too abrupt in its succession of
+terrors, even for the exaggerating pencil of the most eccentric and
+gloomy imagination; surpassing whatever has been heard, read, or
+thought; and admitting no similitude but to the feverish visions of
+delirium! so marvellous in fertility of incident, so improbable in
+excess of calamity, so monstrous in impunity of guilt! the witches of
+Shakespeare are less wanton in absurdity, and the demons of Milton less
+horrible in denunciations.
+
+Of the present nothing can be said but, _what is it_?--It is gone while
+I write the question.
+
+The future--the consequences--what judgment can pervade? The scenery is
+so dark, we fear to look forward. Experience offers no direction,
+observation no clue; the mystery is as impervious, the obscurity as
+tremendous, as that we would vainly penetrate for our destinies in the
+world to come. Ah! might the veil but drop to clearness as refulgent!
+
+Let us not, however, destroy the rectitude of our horror of these
+enormities, by mingling it with implacable prejudice; nor condemn the
+oppressed with the oppressor, the slaughtered with the assassin. Are we
+not all the creatures of one Creator? Does not the same sun give us
+warmth? And will not _the days of the years of our pilgrimage_ be as
+short as theirs? It is an offence to Religion, an injury to Providence,
+to suppose That vast tract of land wholly seized by evil spirits; though
+licentiousness, rapacity, ambition, and irreligion have given rulers to
+it, of late, abhorrent to all humanity.
+
+We are too apt to consider ourselves rather as a distinct race of
+beings, than as merely the emulous inhabitants of rival states; but ere
+our detestation leads to the indiscriminate proscription of a whole
+people, let us look at the Emigrant French Clergy, and ask where is the
+Englishman, where, indeed, the human being, in whom a sense of right can
+more disinterestedly have been demonstrated, or more nobly predominate?
+O let us be brethren with the good, wheresoever they may arise! and let
+us resist the culpable, whether abroad or at home.
+
+The world, in all its varied stores of good, contains nothing that can
+vie with Philanthropy--that soft _milk of human kindness_, that benign
+spirit of social harmony, that genuine emblem of practical Religion!
+seeking some extenuation from goodness even amongst the fallen,
+accepting some apology from temptation even amongst the sinful; lenient
+in its judgments, conciliating in its awards, forgiving in its wrath!
+and receiving in bosom-serenity all the solace it humanely expands.
+
+But while to the individual we talk of alms, and plead distress,
+sickness, infirmity; to the community we may be bolder, juster, firmer,
+and talk of duties.
+
+Flourishing and happy ourselves, shall we see cast upon our coasts
+virtue we scarce thought mortal, sufferers whose story we could not read
+without tears, martyrs that remind us of other days--and let them
+perish? Behold age unhonoured, disease unattended, strangers unfed? and
+not till they are no more, till the compassionating hand of Death has
+closed their miseries, learn to do them justice? _then_, when we can
+only lament,--not _now_, when we may also succour? Is it to that period
+we must wait to enquire, to exclaim "How came they to this pass?"
+
+Anticipate the answer, anticipate the historians of times to come: will
+they not say, "These holy men, who died for want of bread, were Priests
+of the Christian Religion. They had committed no sin, they had offended
+against no law: they refused to take an oath which their consciences
+disapproved; their piety banished them from their country; and the land
+in which they sought refuge received, admired, relieved--neglected,
+forgot, and finally permitted them to starve!
+
+"And what was this land? some wild, uncultivated spot, where yet no arts
+had flourished, no civilization been spread, no benefits reciprocated?
+no religion known? Where novelty was the only passport, and where
+kindness was the short-lived offspring of curiosity? Unhappy men! to
+have struck on such inhospitable shores, amidst a race so unapprized of
+all social, all relative ties, as to confer favours only where they may
+be expected in return, unconscious, or unreflecting that every
+unoffending man is a brother!
+
+"Or--were they thrown on some bleak northern strand, where life is mere
+existence, where the genial board has never welcomed the wearied
+traveller, where freezing cold benumbs even the soft affections of the
+heart, and where, from the first great law of self-preservation,
+compassion is monopolized by internal penury and want? Ill-fated
+passengers! it was not here, in the chill atmosphere of personal misery,
+your woes should have sought redress; the commiseration which is your
+due can only be conceived by those who have known the height from which
+ye have fallen, who have enjoyed the same affluence, and blessed Heaven
+for similar peace and joy--"
+
+But no; this, at least, has not been their doom--nor will this, I trust,
+be their fate. No land of barbarians has been insensible to their worth,
+no ruthless region of the north has blighted sensibility for their
+misfortunes from ignorance of milder life: the land to which they
+sailed was Great Britain; in the fulness of its felicity, in the
+meridian of its glory, not more celebrated for arts and arms, than
+beloved for indulgent benevolence, and admired for munificence of
+liberality.
+
+Here, then, ye reverend fathers, blest at least in the choice of your
+asylum, here rest your weary limbs, _till the wicked cease from
+troubling_! secure of the kindest, and, when once your exigency is
+known, the most effectual succour. Calm, therefore, your harrassed
+spirits, repose your shattered frames, look around you with fearless
+reliance; you will see a friend in every beholder, you will find a
+sympathizer in every auditor.
+
+It ought also, to be remembered, that though the money now gathered will
+be paid into foreign hands, it is wholly among ourselves it will be
+expended; it is all and entirely our own by immediate circulation.
+
+Yet--were it not--what is it but a refined species of usury? a hoard
+lodged beyond all reach of bankruptcy? a store for futurity? exempt from
+the numerous losses and disappointments of those who mistake the
+blessing of wealth to consist in its power of selfish appropriation?
+
+Whoever bestows, whether promptly from impulse, or maturely from
+principle, will alike be content with the recompence of doing good: but
+in justice, in delicacy to the uncommon objects of this unexampled
+contribution, we should suggest what cannot fail to pass in their own
+minds, and anticipate what we cannot doubt will be the result of their
+restored powers: that those who survive the anarchy by which they are
+desolated, who live to see their country rescued from its present
+despotic tyrants, will still be strangers to repose, even at the natal
+home for which now every earthly sigh is heard, till, with their
+restituted property, they have cleared their dignity of character from
+every possible aspersion of calumny, and returned--not to their
+benefactors--whose accounts, far more nobly, will be settled
+elsewhere!----but to the poor of the kingdom at large, that bounty
+which has sustained them in banishment and woe.
+
+Who is there that can look forward without emotion to the period of
+their recal and departure? With what blessings and what prayers will
+their hearts overflow! "Farewell, they will cry, ye friends of the
+unhappy! ye protectors of the houseless! ye generous rich, who thus
+benignly have worked for us! Ye patient poor who thus unrepiningly have
+seen us supported! Blest be your kingdom! Long live your virtuous
+sovereign? Be heavenly peace your portion! and never may ye know the
+sorrows of national divisions!"
+
+Yet, to many it may appear, that where so much has been done, nothing
+more can be required. This is rather a mistake from failure in reflexion
+than in benevolence. To such, it is sufficient to ask, "Why gave ye at
+all?"
+
+The answer is obvious; to save a distressed herd of fellow-creatures
+from want.
+
+And are they less worth saving now, their helplessness, unhappily, being
+the same? Was the novelty of their appearance and situation a plea more
+forcible than acquaintance with their merits? than the view of their
+harmless lives, their inoffensive manners, their patient resignation to
+the evils of their lot?
+
+But--_are we to give_, ye cry, _for ever_?
+
+Ah! rather, and for more generously, reverse the question, and, in
+_their_ names exclaim, "Must we _receive_ for ever? will the epoch never
+arrive when our injuries may be redressed, and our sufferings allowed
+the soft recompence of manifesting our gratitude?"
+
+O happy donors! compare but thus your subjects for murmuring with the
+feelings of your receivers! and do not, because ye see them, bowed down
+by adversity, thus lowly grateful for the pittance that grants them
+bread and covering, imagine them so unlike the human race to which they
+belong, that sometimes, in bitterness of spirit, they can forbear the
+piercing recollection of better days; days, when beneficence flourished
+from their own deeds, when anguish and poverty were relieved by their
+own hands!
+
+Still a little nearer let us bring reflexion home, and entreat those
+who having done much, would do no more, to suppose themselves, for a
+moment only, placed in _l'Eglise des Carmes_, in Paris, on the 2d of
+September, 1792, in full sight of the hapless assemblage of this pious
+fraternity, who there sought sanctuary--not for the crimes they had
+committed, but for the duty they had discharged to their consciences,
+not from just punishment of guilt, but from fury against innocence.
+
+Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed
+within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions
+of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and
+incorruptible in purity.
+
+Now, then, in mental retrospection, witness the unheard-of massacre that
+ensued! Behold the ruffians that invade the sacred abode, each bearing
+in his hand some exterminating weapon; in his eye, a more than
+fiend-like ferocity. Can it be you they seek, ye men of peace? unarmed,
+defenceless, and sanctuarised within the precincts of your own religious
+functions!----Incredible!--
+
+Alas, no!--behold them reviled--chaced--assaulted. They demand their
+offence? They are answered by staves and pikes. They fly to the
+altar--to that altar where, so lately, salvation seemed to hang upon
+their benediction.--
+
+Here, at least, are they not safe? At this sanctified spot will not some
+reverence revive? some devotion rekindle? Will not the fell instruments
+of destruction fall guiltless from the shaking hands of their contrite
+pursuers? Will not remorse seize their inmost souls, and vibrate through
+the hallowed habitation, in one universal cry of, "O men of God! live
+yet--so forgive--and pray for us!"--Ah, deadly shame! indelible
+disgrace! not here, not even here, could compunction or humanity find a
+friend--
+
+"Would not those white hairs move pity?"--
+
+No!--the murderers dart after them: the pious suppliants kneel--but they
+rise no more! They pray--and their prayers ascend to heaven, unheard on
+earth! Groans resound through the vaulted roof--Mangled carcases strew
+the consecrated ground--derided, while wounded; insulted, while
+slaughtered--they are cleft in twain--their savage destroyers joy in
+their cries----Blood, agony, and death close the fatal scene!
+
+And ye, O ye who hear it, revere the immortal faith that, proof against
+this consummate barbarity, preferred its most baneful rage, to uttering
+one deviating word! And then, while your hearts bleed fresh with
+sympathy, will ye not call out, "O could they have been rescued! had
+pitying Heaven but spared the final blow, and, snatching them from their
+dread assassins, cast them, despoiled, forlorn, friendless, on this our
+happy isle, with what transport would we have welcomed and cherished
+them! sought balm for their lacerated hearts, and studied to have
+alleviated their exile, by giving to it every character of a second and
+endearing home. Our nation would have been honoured by affording refuge
+to such perfection; every family would have been blessed with whom such
+pilgrims associated; our domestics would have vied with each other to
+shew them kindness and respect; our poor would have contributed their
+mite to assist them; our children would have relinquished some enjoyment
+to have fed them!"
+
+Let not reflection stop here, nor this merciful regret be unavailing:
+extend it a little farther, and mark the question to which it leads:
+can ye, wish this for those who are gone, and not practice it for those
+who remain? Sufferers in the same cause, bred in the same faith, and
+firm in the same principles; the banished men now amongst us would have
+shared a similar fate, if seized upon the same spot. Venerate them,
+then, O Christians of every denomination, as the representatives of
+those who have been slain; and let the same generous feeling which would
+call to life those murdered martyrs, protect their yet existing
+brethren, and save them, at every risk, and by every exertion, from an
+end as painful and more lingering; as unnatural, though less violent.
+
+Come forth, then, O ye Females, blest with affluence! spare from your
+luxuries, diminish from your pleasures, solicit with your best powers;
+and hold in heart and mind that, when the awful hour of your own
+dissolution arrives, the wide-opening portals of heaven may present to
+your view these venerable sires, as the precursors of your admission.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] The females of that miserable country whence these meritorious
+outcasts are driven, had the happiness, in former and better times, of
+exercising a charity as decisive for life or death as that which the
+females of Great Britain are now conjured to perform. St. Vincent de
+Paule, _aumonier général des galeres_, to whom France owes the chief of
+its humane establishments, instituted amongst the rest, the Foundling
+Hospital of Paris. His fund for its endowment failing, after repeated
+remonstrances for further general alms, which though not unsuccessful,
+proved insufficient, he gathered together a congregation of females,
+before whom he presented the innocent little objects of his prayers. His
+address to them was at once simple and sublime: "I call not upon you, he
+cried, as Christians, nor even as fellow creatures; I call upon you
+solely and singly to pronounce sentence as judges. To the largesses you
+have already bestowed, these orphans owe their natural existence: but
+those largesses are exhausted, and without a further supply, their
+existence is at an end. You are their judges--pronounce, then, their
+fate; do you ordain them to live? do you doom them to die?"
+
+[2] 5000 French ecclesiastics _live_ in Switzerland, 4000 in the
+ecclesiastical State, 15,000 in Spain, more than 20,000 in Germany,
+Holland, and the Austrian Netherlands; and shall 6000 be suffered to
+_die_ in England?
+
+
+N.B. _A Translation of this Tract is preparing for the press by_ M.
+D'ARBLAY.
+
+PLANS and ADVERTISEMENTS, proposed to the LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN for
+the relief of the Emigrant French Clergy, may be had at the Publisher's.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<div class="tn">
+<p class="center"><big><b>Transcriber&#8217;s Note</b></big></p>
+<p class="center">The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved.</p>
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+
+<h1><small>BRIEF</small><br />
+
+REFLECTIONS<br />
+
+<small>RELATIVE TO THE</small><br />
+
+EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY:</h1>
+
+<p class="center">EARNESTLY SUBMITTED<br />
+
+TO THE HUMANE CONSIDERATION<br />
+
+OF THE<br />
+
+<big>LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.</big><br /></p>
+
+
+<p class="center"><i>BY THE AUTHOR OF</i><br />
+EVELINA <span class="smcap">AND</span> CECILIA.</p>
+
+
+<p class="t1">London:</p>
+<p class="center">PRINTED BY T. DAVISON,<br />
+FOR THOMAS CADELL, IN THE STRAND.<br />
+1793.<br />
+<br />
+[Price one Shilling and Sixpence.]
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p class="center"><br /><br />
+&#8258; <i>The profits of this Publication are to be wholly<br />
+appropriated to the Relief of the</i><br />
+<br />
+<big>EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY.</big><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="APOLOGY" id="APOLOGY"></a>APOLOGY.</h2>
+
+
+<p class="noin"><span class="letter">H</span><span class="caps">owever</span> wide from the allotted boundaries and appointed province of
+Females may be all interference in public matters, even in the agitating
+season of general calamity; it does not thence follow that they are
+exempt from all public claims, or mere passive spectatresses of the
+moral as well as of the political &#339;conomy of human life. The distinct
+ties of their prescriptive duties, which, pointed out by Nature, have
+been recognised by reason, and established by custom, remove, indeed,
+from their view and knowledge all materials for forming public
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span>characters. The privacy, therefore, of their lives is the dictate of
+common sense, stimulated by local discretion. But in the doctrine of
+morality the reverse is the case, and their feminine deficiencies are
+there changed into advantages: since the retirement, which divests them
+of practical skills for public purposes, guards them, at the same time,
+from the heart-hardening effects of general worldly commerce. It gives
+them leisure to reflect and to refine, not merely upon the virtues, but
+the pleasures of benevolence; not only and abstractedly upon that sense
+of good and evil which is implanted in all, but feelingly, nay awefully,
+upon the woes they see, yet are spared!</p>
+
+<p>It is here, then, in the cause of tenderness and humanity, they may come
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span>forth, without charge of presumption, or forfeiture of delicacy.
+Exertions here may be universal, without rivality or impropriety; the
+head may work, the hand may labour; the heart may suggest,
+indiscriminately in all, in men without disdain, in women without a
+blush: and however truly of the latter to withdraw from notice may be in
+general the first praise, in a service such as this, they may with yet
+more dignity come forward: for it is here that their purest principles,
+in union with their softest feelings, may blend immediate gratification
+with the most solemn future hopes.&mdash;&mdash;And it is here, in full
+persuasion of sympathy as well as of pardon, that the Author of these
+lines ventures to offer to her countrywomen a short exhortation in
+favour of the emigrant French Clergy.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BRIEF<br /><br />
+
+REFLEXIONS<br /><br />
+
+<small>RELATIVE TO THE</small><br /><br />
+
+EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY.</h2>
+
+
+<p class="noin"><span class="letter">T</span><span class="caps">he</span> astonishing period of political history upon which our days have
+fallen, robs all former times of wonder, wearies expectation, sickens
+even hope! while the occurrences of every passing minute have such
+prevalence over our minds, that public affairs assume the interest of
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>private feelings, affect domestic peace, and occupy not merely the most
+retired part of mankind, but even mothers, wives, and children with
+solicitude irresistible.</p>
+
+<p>Yet the amazement which has been excited, though stupendous, though
+terrific, by the general events that in our neighbour kingdom have
+convulsed all order, and annihilated tranquility, is feeble, is almost
+null, compared with that produced by the living contrast of virtue and
+of guilt exhibited in the natives of one and the same country; virtue,
+the purest and most disinterested, emanating from the first best cause,
+religion; and guilt, too heinous for any idea to which we have hitherto
+given definition.</p>
+
+<p>The emigrant <span class="smcap">French Clergy</span>, who present us with the bright side of this
+picture, are fast verging to a situation of the most necessitous
+distress; and, notwithstanding the generous collections repeatedly
+raised, and the severest &#339;conomy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> unremittingly exercised in their
+distribution, if something further is not quickly obtained, all that has
+been done will prove of no avail, and they must soon end their hapless
+career, not by paying the debt of nature, but by famine.</p>
+
+<p>That the kingdom at large, in its legislative capacity, will ere long
+take into consideration a more permanent provision for these pious
+fugitives, there is every reason to infer from the national interest,
+which has universally been displayed in their cause. To preserve them in
+the mean time is the object of present application.</p>
+
+<p>So much has already so bountifully been bestowed in large donations,
+that it seems wanting in modesty, if not in equity, to make further
+immediate demands upon heads of houses, and masters of families.</p>
+
+<p>Which way, then, may these destitute wanderers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> turn for help? To their
+own country they cannot go back; it is still in the same state of
+lawless iniquity which drove them from it, still under the tyrannic sway
+of the sanguinary despots of the Convention.</p>
+
+<p>What then remains? Must their dreadful hardships, their meek endurance,
+their violated rights, terminate in the death of hunger?</p>
+
+<p>No! there is yet a resource; a resource against which neither modesty
+nor equity plead; a resource which, on the contrary, has every moral
+propensity, every divine obligation, in its favour: this resource is
+<span class="smcap">Female Beneficence</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Already a considerable number of Ladies have stept forward for this
+Christian purpose. Their plan has been printed and dispersed. It speaks
+equally to the heart and to the understanding; it points out
+wretchedness which we cannot dispute,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> and methods for relief of which
+we cannot deny the feasibility.</p>
+
+<p>The Ladies who have instituted this scheme desire not to be named; and
+those who are the principal agents for putting it in execution, join in
+the same wish. Such delicacy is too respectable to be opposed, and
+ostentation is unnecessary to promulgate what modest silence may
+recommend to higher purposes. There are other records than those of
+newspapers, and lists of subscribers; records in which to see one fair
+action, one virtuous exertion, one self-denying sacrifice entered, may
+bring to its author, <i>that peace which the world cannot give</i>, and a joy
+more refined than even the praise of the worthy.</p>
+
+<p>Such names, nevertheless, will ultimately be sought, for what now is
+benevolence will in future become honour; and female tradition will not
+fail to hand down to posterity the formers and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> protectresses of a plan
+which, if successful, will exalt for ever the female annals of Great
+Britain.</p>
+
+<p>The minutest scrutinizer into the rights of charity cannot here start
+one objection that a little consideration will not supersede. No
+votaries of pleasure, ruined by extravagance and luxury, forfeit pity in
+censure by imploring your assistance; no slaves of idleness, no dupes of
+ambition, invite reproof for neglected concerns in soliciting your
+liberality. The objects of this petition are reduced, indeed, from
+affluence to penury, but the change has been wrought through the
+exaltation of their souls, not through the depravity of their conduct.
+Whatever may be their calls upon our tenderness, their claims, to every
+thinking mind, are still higher to our admiration. Driven from house and
+home, despoiled of dignities and honours, abandoned to the seas for
+mercy, to chance for support, many old, some infirm, all impoverished?
+with mental strength<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> alone allowed them for coping with such an
+aggregate of evil! Weigh, weigh but a moment their merits and their
+sufferings, and what will not be sooner renounced than the gratification
+of serving so much excellence. It is to <i>itself</i> the liberal heart does
+justice in doing justice to the oppressed; they are its own happiest
+feelings which it nourishes, in nourishing the unfortunate.</p>
+
+<p>By addressing myself to females, I am far from inferring that charity is
+exclusively their praise; no, it is a virtue as manly as it is gentle;
+it is christian, in one word, and ought therefore to be universal. But
+the pressure of present need is so urgent, that the ladies who patronize
+this plan are content to spread it amongst their own sex, whose
+contributions, though smaller, may more conveniently be sudden, and
+whose demands for wealth being less serious, may render those
+contributions more general<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p><p>Nor are the misfortunes we would now mitigate so foreign to our
+"business and bosoms" as we may lightly suppose: all Europe is involved
+by the circumstances which occasioned them, and with indignation as
+strong, though with sensations less acute, has watched their wonderful
+progress<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p><p>Whatever by unbelievers may be urged in defence of what they style the
+<i>religion of nature</i>, its inefficacy, even for the exclusive purposes of
+morality, is now surely exposed beyond all theory or controversy: and
+the <i>religion of God</i> has received a testimony as clear of its <i>moral</i>
+influence, by the atrocious acts of the Convention since it has been
+cast aside, as of its <i>divine</i>, in the voluntary sacrifices offered up
+at its shrine by those who still adhere to its holy doctrines.</p>
+
+<p>And shall we, with our arms, our treasures, our dearest blood, resist
+the authors of these wrongs, yet forbear to protect their victims?</p>
+
+<p>All ages have furnished examples of individuals who have been
+distinguished from their contemporaries by actions of Heroism: but to
+find a similar instance of a whole body of men, thus repelling every
+allurement of protection and preferment, of home, country, friends,
+fortune,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> possessions, for the still calls of piety, and private
+dictates of conscience, precedent may be defied, and the annals of
+virtue explored in vain.</p>
+
+<p>Shall we deem it a misfortune to be burthened with beings such as these?
+No; let us, more justly, conclude it a blessing. Prosperity is apt to be
+forgetful, to confound what it possesses with what it deserves; but the
+claims we here feel to give, awaken us to remember the abundance we have
+received.</p>
+
+<p>Thankfully, and not disdainfully, let us bow down to an admonition thus
+mildly instilled through the medium of borrowed experience. What a
+contrast to the terrible lesson given to the distracted country which
+offers it! where both crimes and afflictions are of such enormous
+magnitude, as to engross the whole civilized earth between resentment
+and compassion!</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p><p>Already we look back on the past as on a dream, too wild in its
+horrors, too unnatural in its cruelties, too abrupt in its succession of
+terrors, even for the exaggerating pencil of the most eccentric and
+gloomy imagination; surpassing whatever has been heard, read, or
+thought; and admitting no similitude but to the feverish visions of
+delirium! so marvellous in fertility of incident, so improbable in
+excess of calamity, so monstrous in impunity of guilt! the witches of
+Shakespeare are less wanton in absurdity, and the demons of Milton less
+horrible in denunciations.</p>
+
+<p>Of the present nothing can be said but, <i>what is it</i>?&mdash;It is gone while
+I write the question.</p>
+
+<p>The future&mdash;the consequences&mdash;what judgment can pervade? The scenery is
+so dark, we fear to look forward. Experience offers no direction,
+observation no clue; the mystery is as impervious, the obscurity as
+tremendous, as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> that we would vainly penetrate for our destinies in the
+world to come. Ah! might the veil but drop to clearness as refulgent!</p>
+
+<p>Let us not, however, destroy the rectitude of our horror of these
+enormities, by mingling it with implacable prejudice; nor condemn the
+oppressed with the oppressor, the slaughtered with the assassin. Are we
+not all the creatures of one Creator? Does not the same sun give us
+warmth? And will not <i>the days of the years of our pilgrimage</i> be as
+short as theirs? It is an offence to Religion, an injury to Providence,
+to suppose That vast tract of land wholly seized by evil spirits; though
+licentiousness, rapacity, ambition, and irreligion have given rulers to
+it, of late, abhorrent to all humanity.</p>
+
+<p>We are too apt to consider ourselves rather as a distinct race of
+beings, than as merely the emulous inhabitants of rival states; but ere
+our detestation<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> leads to the indiscriminate proscription of a whole
+people, let us look at the Emigrant French Clergy, and ask where is the
+Englishman, where, indeed, the human being, in whom a sense of right can
+more disinterestedly have been demonstrated, or more nobly predominate?
+O let us be brethren with the good, wheresoever they may arise! and let
+us resist the culpable, whether abroad or at home.</p>
+
+<p>The world, in all its varied stores of good, contains nothing that can
+vie with Philanthropy&mdash;that soft <i>milk of human kindness</i>, that benign
+spirit of social harmony, that genuine emblem of practical Religion!
+seeking some extenuation from goodness even amongst the fallen,
+accepting some apology from temptation even amongst the sinful; lenient
+in its judgments, conciliating in its awards, forgiving in its wrath!
+and receiving in bosom-serenity all the solace it humanely expands.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p><p>But while to the individual we talk of alms, and plead distress,
+sickness, infirmity; to the community we may be bolder, juster, firmer,
+and talk of duties.</p>
+
+<p>Flourishing and happy ourselves, shall we see cast upon our coasts
+virtue we scarce thought mortal, sufferers whose story we could not read
+without tears, martyrs that remind us of other days&mdash;and let them
+perish? Behold age unhonoured, disease unattended, strangers unfed? and
+not till they are no more, till the compassionating hand of Death has
+closed their miseries, learn to do them justice? <i>then</i>, when we can
+only lament,&mdash;not <i>now</i>, when we may also succour? Is it to that period
+we must wait to enquire, to exclaim "How came they to this pass?"</p>
+
+<p>Anticipate the answer, anticipate the historians of times to come: will
+they not say, "These holy men, who died for want of bread, were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> Priests
+of the Christian Religion. They had committed no sin, they had offended
+against no law: they refused to take an oath which their consciences
+disapproved; their piety banished them from their country; and the land
+in which they sought refuge received, admired, relieved&mdash;neglected,
+forgot, and finally permitted them to starve!</p>
+
+<p>"And what was this land? some wild, uncultivated spot, where yet no arts
+had flourished, no civilization been spread, no benefits reciprocated?
+no religion known? Where novelty was the only passport, and where
+kindness was the short-lived offspring of curiosity? Unhappy men! to
+have struck on such inhospitable shores, amidst a race so unapprized of
+all social, all relative ties, as to confer favours only where they may
+be expected in return, unconscious, or unreflecting that every
+unoffending man is a brother!</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p><p>"Or&mdash;were they thrown on some bleak northern strand, where life is mere
+existence, where the genial board has never welcomed the wearied
+traveller, where freezing cold benumbs even the soft affections of the
+heart, and where, from the first great law of self-preservation,
+compassion is monopolized by internal penury and want? Ill-fated
+passengers! it was not here, in the chill atmosphere of personal misery,
+your woes should have sought redress; the commiseration which is your
+due can only be conceived by those who have known the height from which
+ye have fallen, who have enjoyed the same affluence, and blessed Heaven
+for similar peace and joy&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>But no; this, at least, has not been their doom&mdash;nor will this, I trust,
+be their fate. No land of barbarians has been insensible to their worth,
+no ruthless region of the north has blighted sensibility for their
+misfortunes from ignorance<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> of milder life: the land to which they
+sailed was Great Britain; in the fulness of its felicity, in the
+meridian of its glory, not more celebrated for arts and arms, than
+beloved for indulgent benevolence, and admired for munificence of
+liberality.</p>
+
+<p>Here, then, ye reverend fathers, blest at least in the choice of your
+asylum, here rest your weary limbs, <i>till the wicked cease from
+troubling</i>! secure of the kindest, and, when once your exigency is
+known, the most effectual succour. Calm, therefore, your harrassed
+spirits, repose your shattered frames, look around you with fearless
+reliance; you will see a friend in every beholder, you will find a
+sympathizer in every auditor.</p>
+
+<p>It ought also, to be remembered, that though the money now gathered will
+be paid into foreign hands, it is wholly among ourselves<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> it will be
+expended; it is all and entirely our own by immediate circulation.</p>
+
+<p>Yet&mdash;were it not&mdash;what is it but a refined species of usury? a hoard
+lodged beyond all reach of bankruptcy? a store for futurity? exempt from
+the numerous losses and disappointments of those who mistake the
+blessing of wealth to consist in its power of selfish appropriation?</p>
+
+<p>Whoever bestows, whether promptly from impulse, or maturely from
+principle, will alike be content with the recompence of doing good: but
+in justice, in delicacy to the uncommon objects of this unexampled
+contribution, we should suggest what cannot fail to pass in their own
+minds, and anticipate what we cannot doubt will be the result of their
+restored powers: that those who survive the anarchy by which they are
+desolated, who live to see their country rescued<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> from its present
+despotic tyrants, will still be strangers to repose, even at the natal
+home for which now every earthly sigh is heard, till, with their
+restituted property, they have cleared their dignity of character from
+every possible aspersion of calumny, and returned&mdash;not to their
+benefactors&mdash;whose accounts, far more nobly, will be settled
+elsewhere!&mdash;&mdash;but to the poor of the kingdom at large, that bounty
+which has sustained them in banishment and woe.</p>
+
+<p>Who is there that can look forward without emotion to the period of
+their recal and departure? With what blessings and what prayers will
+their hearts overflow! "Farewell, they will cry, ye friends of the
+unhappy! ye protectors of the houseless! ye generous rich, who thus
+benignly have worked for us! Ye patient poor who thus unrepiningly have
+seen us supported! Blest be your kingdom! Long live your virtuous
+sovereign? Be heavenly peace your portion!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> and never may ye know the
+sorrows of national divisions!"</p>
+
+<p>Yet, to many it may appear, that where so much has been done, nothing
+more can be required. This is rather a mistake from failure in reflexion
+than in benevolence. To such, it is sufficient to ask, "Why gave ye at
+all?"</p>
+
+<p>The answer is obvious; to save a distressed herd of fellow-creatures
+from want.</p>
+
+<p>And are they less worth saving now, their helplessness, unhappily, being
+the same? Was the novelty of their appearance and situation a plea more
+forcible than acquaintance with their merits? than the view of their
+harmless lives, their inoffensive manners, their patient resignation to
+the evils of their lot?</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p><p>But&mdash;<i>are we to give</i>, ye cry, <i>for ever</i>?</p>
+
+<p>Ah! rather, and for more generously, reverse the question, and, in
+<i>their</i> names exclaim, "Must we <i>receive</i> for ever? will the epoch never
+arrive when our injuries may be redressed, and our sufferings allowed
+the soft recompence of manifesting our gratitude?"</p>
+
+<p>O happy donors! compare but thus your subjects for murmuring with the
+feelings of your receivers! and do not, because ye see them, bowed down
+by adversity, thus lowly grateful for the pittance that grants them
+bread and covering, imagine them so unlike the human race to which they
+belong, that sometimes, in bitterness of spirit, they can forbear the
+piercing recollection of better days; days, when beneficence flourished
+from their own deeds, when anguish and poverty were relieved by their
+own hands!</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p><p>Still a little nearer let us bring reflexion home, and entreat those
+who having done much, would do no more, to suppose themselves, for a
+moment only, placed in <i>l'Eglise des Carmes</i>, in Paris, on the 2d of
+September, 1792, in full sight of the hapless assemblage of this pious
+fraternity, who there sought sanctuary&mdash;not for the crimes they had
+committed, but for the duty they had discharged to their consciences,
+not from just punishment of guilt, but from fury against innocence.</p>
+
+<p>Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed
+within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions
+of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and
+incorruptible in purity.</p>
+
+<p>Now, then, in mental retrospection, witness the unheard-of massacre that
+ensued! Behold the ruffians that invade the sacred abode, each<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> bearing
+in his hand some exterminating weapon; in his eye, a more than
+fiend-like ferocity. Can it be you they seek, ye men of peace? unarmed,
+defenceless, and sanctuarised within the precincts of your own religious
+functions!&mdash;&mdash;Incredible!&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Alas, no!&mdash;behold them reviled&mdash;chaced&mdash;assaulted. They demand their
+offence? They are answered by staves and pikes. They fly to the
+altar&mdash;to that altar where, so lately, salvation seemed to hang upon
+their benediction.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Here, at least, are they not safe? At this sanctified spot will not some
+reverence revive? some devotion rekindle? Will not the fell instruments
+of destruction fall guiltless from the shaking hands of their contrite
+pursuers? Will not remorse seize their inmost souls, and vibrate through
+the hallowed habitation, in one universal cry of, "O men of God! live
+yet&mdash;so forgive&mdash;and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> pray for us!"&mdash;Ah, deadly shame! indelible
+disgrace! not here, not even here, could compunction or humanity find a
+friend&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Would not those white hairs move pity?"&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>No!&mdash;the murderers dart after them: the pious suppliants kneel&mdash;but they
+rise no more! They pray&mdash;and their prayers ascend to heaven, unheard on
+earth! Groans resound through the vaulted roof&mdash;Mangled carcases strew
+the consecrated ground&mdash;derided, while wounded; insulted, while
+slaughtered&mdash;they are cleft in twain&mdash;their savage destroyers joy in
+their cries&mdash;&mdash;Blood, agony, and death close the fatal scene!</p>
+
+<p>And ye, O ye who hear it, revere the immortal faith that, proof against
+this consummate barbarity, preferred its most baneful rage, to uttering
+one deviating word! And then, while your hearts bleed fresh with
+sympathy, will ye<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> not call out, "O could they have been rescued! had
+pitying Heaven but spared the final blow, and, snatching them from their
+dread assassins, cast them, despoiled, forlorn, friendless, on this our
+happy isle, with what transport would we have welcomed and cherished
+them! sought balm for their lacerated hearts, and studied to have
+alleviated their exile, by giving to it every character of a second and
+endearing home. Our nation would have been honoured by affording refuge
+to such perfection; every family would have been blessed with whom such
+pilgrims associated; our domestics would have vied with each other to
+shew them kindness and respect; our poor would have contributed their
+mite to assist them; our children would have relinquished some enjoyment
+to have fed them!"</p>
+
+<p>Let not reflection stop here, nor this merciful regret be unavailing:
+extend it a little farther,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> and mark the question to which it leads:
+can ye, wish this for those who are gone, and not practice it for those
+who remain? Sufferers in the same cause, bred in the same faith, and
+firm in the same principles; the banished men now amongst us would have
+shared a similar fate, if seized upon the same spot. Venerate them,
+then, O Christians of every denomination, as the representatives of
+those who have been slain; and let the same generous feeling which would
+call to life those murdered martyrs, protect their yet existing
+brethren, and save them, at every risk, and by every exertion, from an
+end as painful and more lingering; as unnatural, though less violent.</p>
+
+<p>Come forth, then, O ye Females, blest with affluence! spare from your
+luxuries, diminish from your pleasures, solicit with your best powers;
+and hold in heart and mind that, when the awful hour of your own
+dissolution arrives,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> the wide-opening portals of heaven may present to
+your view these venerable sires, as the precursors of your admission.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">FINIS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> The females of that miserable country whence these
+meritorious outcasts are driven, had the happiness, in former and better
+times, of exercising a charity as decisive for life or death as that
+which the females of Great Britain are now conjured to perform. St.
+Vincent de Paule, <i>aumonier g&eacute;n&eacute;ral des galeres</i>, to whom France owes
+the chief of its humane establishments, instituted amongst the rest, the
+Foundling Hospital of Paris. His fund for its endowment failing, after
+repeated remonstrances for further general alms, which though not
+unsuccessful, proved insufficient, he gathered together a congregation
+of females, before whom he presented the innocent little objects of his
+prayers. His address to them was at once simple and sublime: "I call not
+upon you, he cried, as Christians, nor even as fellow creatures; I call
+upon you solely and singly to pronounce sentence as judges. To the
+largesses you have already bestowed, these orphans owe their natural
+existence: but those largesses are exhausted, and without a further
+supply, their existence is at an end. You are their judges&mdash;pronounce,
+then, their fate; do you ordain them to live? do you doom them to die?"</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> 5000 French ecclesiastics <i>live</i> in Switzerland, 4000 in
+the ecclesiastical State, 15,000 in Spain, more than 20,000 in Germany,
+Holland, and the Austrian Netherlands; and shall 6000 be suffered to
+<i>die</i> in England?</p></div></div>
+
+
+<p>N.B. <i>A Translation of this Tract is preparing for the press by</i> <span class="smcap">M.
+D'arblay</span>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Plans</span> and <span class="smcap">Advertisements</span>, proposed to the <span class="smcap">Ladies of Great Britain</span> for
+the relief of the Emigrant French Clergy, may be had at the Publisher's.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant
+French Clergy (1793), by Frances  Burney
+
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+Title: Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793)
+
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+
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+ Transcriber's Note
+
+ The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully
+ preserved.
+
+
+
+ BRIEF
+
+ REFLECTIONS
+
+ RELATIVE TO THE
+
+ EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY:
+
+ EARNESTLY SUBMITTED
+
+ TO THE HUMANE CONSIDERATION
+
+ OF THE
+
+ LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
+
+
+ _BY THE AUTHOR OF_
+ EVELINA AND CECILIA.
+
+
+ London:
+ PRINTED BY T. DAVISON,
+ FOR THOMAS CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
+ 1793.
+
+ [Price one Shilling and Sixpence.]
+
+
+ [Asterism] _The profits of this Publication are to be wholly
+ appropriated to the Relief of the_
+
+ EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY.
+
+
+
+
+APOLOGY.
+
+
+However wide from the allotted boundaries and appointed province of
+Females may be all interference in public matters, even in the agitating
+season of general calamity; it does not thence follow that they are
+exempt from all public claims, or mere passive spectatresses of the
+moral as well as of the political oeconomy of human life. The distinct
+ties of their prescriptive duties, which, pointed out by Nature, have
+been recognised by reason, and established by custom, remove, indeed,
+from their view and knowledge all materials for forming public
+characters. The privacy, therefore, of their lives is the dictate of
+common sense, stimulated by local discretion. But in the doctrine of
+morality the reverse is the case, and their feminine deficiencies are
+there changed into advantages: since the retirement, which divests them
+of practical skills for public purposes, guards them, at the same time,
+from the heart-hardening effects of general worldly commerce. It gives
+them leisure to reflect and to refine, not merely upon the virtues, but
+the pleasures of benevolence; not only and abstractedly upon that sense
+of good and evil which is implanted in all, but feelingly, nay awefully,
+upon the woes they see, yet are spared!
+
+It is here, then, in the cause of tenderness and humanity, they may come
+forth, without charge of presumption, or forfeiture of delicacy.
+Exertions here may be universal, without rivality or impropriety; the
+head may work, the hand may labour; the heart may suggest,
+indiscriminately in all, in men without disdain, in women without a
+blush: and however truly of the latter to withdraw from notice may be in
+general the first praise, in a service such as this, they may with yet
+more dignity come forward: for it is here that their purest principles,
+in union with their softest feelings, may blend immediate gratification
+with the most solemn future hopes.----And it is here, in full
+persuasion of sympathy as well as of pardon, that the Author of these
+lines ventures to offer to her countrywomen a short exhortation in
+favour of the emigrant French Clergy.
+
+
+
+
+BRIEF
+
+REFLEXIONS
+
+RELATIVE TO THE
+
+EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY.
+
+
+The astonishing period of political history upon which our days have
+fallen, robs all former times of wonder, wearies expectation, sickens
+even hope! while the occurrences of every passing minute have such
+prevalence over our minds, that public affairs assume the interest of
+private feelings, affect domestic peace, and occupy not merely the most
+retired part of mankind, but even mothers, wives, and children with
+solicitude irresistible.
+
+Yet the amazement which has been excited, though stupendous, though
+terrific, by the general events that in our neighbour kingdom have
+convulsed all order, and annihilated tranquility, is feeble, is almost
+null, compared with that produced by the living contrast of virtue and
+of guilt exhibited in the natives of one and the same country; virtue,
+the purest and most disinterested, emanating from the first best cause,
+religion; and guilt, too heinous for any idea to which we have hitherto
+given definition.
+
+The emigrant FRENCH CLERGY, who present us with the bright side of this
+picture, are fast verging to a situation of the most necessitous
+distress; and, notwithstanding the generous collections repeatedly
+raised, and the severest oeconomy unremittingly exercised in their
+distribution, if something further is not quickly obtained, all that has
+been done will prove of no avail, and they must soon end their hapless
+career, not by paying the debt of nature, but by famine.
+
+That the kingdom at large, in its legislative capacity, will ere long
+take into consideration a more permanent provision for these pious
+fugitives, there is every reason to infer from the national interest,
+which has universally been displayed in their cause. To preserve them in
+the mean time is the object of present application.
+
+So much has already so bountifully been bestowed in large donations,
+that it seems wanting in modesty, if not in equity, to make further
+immediate demands upon heads of houses, and masters of families.
+
+Which way, then, may these destitute wanderers turn for help? To their
+own country they cannot go back; it is still in the same state of
+lawless iniquity which drove them from it, still under the tyrannic sway
+of the sanguinary despots of the Convention.
+
+What then remains? Must their dreadful hardships, their meek endurance,
+their violated rights, terminate in the death of hunger?
+
+No! there is yet a resource; a resource against which neither modesty
+nor equity plead; a resource which, on the contrary, has every moral
+propensity, every divine obligation, in its favour: this resource is
+FEMALE BENEFICENCE.
+
+Already a considerable number of Ladies have stept forward for this
+Christian purpose. Their plan has been printed and dispersed. It speaks
+equally to the heart and to the understanding; it points out
+wretchedness which we cannot dispute, and methods for relief of which
+we cannot deny the feasibility.
+
+The Ladies who have instituted this scheme desire not to be named; and
+those who are the principal agents for putting it in execution, join in
+the same wish. Such delicacy is too respectable to be opposed, and
+ostentation is unnecessary to promulgate what modest silence may
+recommend to higher purposes. There are other records than those of
+newspapers, and lists of subscribers; records in which to see one fair
+action, one virtuous exertion, one self-denying sacrifice entered, may
+bring to its author, _that peace which the world cannot give_, and a joy
+more refined than even the praise of the worthy.
+
+Such names, nevertheless, will ultimately be sought, for what now is
+benevolence will in future become honour; and female tradition will not
+fail to hand down to posterity the formers and protectresses of a plan
+which, if successful, will exalt for ever the female annals of Great
+Britain.
+
+The minutest scrutinizer into the rights of charity cannot here start
+one objection that a little consideration will not supersede. No
+votaries of pleasure, ruined by extravagance and luxury, forfeit pity in
+censure by imploring your assistance; no slaves of idleness, no dupes of
+ambition, invite reproof for neglected concerns in soliciting your
+liberality. The objects of this petition are reduced, indeed, from
+affluence to penury, but the change has been wrought through the
+exaltation of their souls, not through the depravity of their conduct.
+Whatever may be their calls upon our tenderness, their claims, to every
+thinking mind, are still higher to our admiration. Driven from house and
+home, despoiled of dignities and honours, abandoned to the seas for
+mercy, to chance for support, many old, some infirm, all impoverished?
+with mental strength alone allowed them for coping with such an
+aggregate of evil! Weigh, weigh but a moment their merits and their
+sufferings, and what will not be sooner renounced than the gratification
+of serving so much excellence. It is to _itself_ the liberal heart does
+justice in doing justice to the oppressed; they are its own happiest
+feelings which it nourishes, in nourishing the unfortunate.
+
+By addressing myself to females, I am far from inferring that charity is
+exclusively their praise; no, it is a virtue as manly as it is gentle;
+it is christian, in one word, and ought therefore to be universal. But
+the pressure of present need is so urgent, that the ladies who patronize
+this plan are content to spread it amongst their own sex, whose
+contributions, though smaller, may more conveniently be sudden, and
+whose demands for wealth being less serious, may render those
+contributions more general[1].
+
+Nor are the misfortunes we would now mitigate so foreign to our
+"business and bosoms" as we may lightly suppose: all Europe is involved
+by the circumstances which occasioned them, and with indignation as
+strong, though with sensations less acute, has watched their wonderful
+progress[2].
+
+Whatever by unbelievers may be urged in defence of what they style the
+_religion of nature_, its inefficacy, even for the exclusive purposes of
+morality, is now surely exposed beyond all theory or controversy: and
+the _religion of God_ has received a testimony as clear of its _moral_
+influence, by the atrocious acts of the Convention since it has been
+cast aside, as of its _divine_, in the voluntary sacrifices offered up
+at its shrine by those who still adhere to its holy doctrines.
+
+And shall we, with our arms, our treasures, our dearest blood, resist
+the authors of these wrongs, yet forbear to protect their victims?
+
+All ages have furnished examples of individuals who have been
+distinguished from their contemporaries by actions of Heroism: but to
+find a similar instance of a whole body of men, thus repelling every
+allurement of protection and preferment, of home, country, friends,
+fortune, possessions, for the still calls of piety, and private
+dictates of conscience, precedent may be defied, and the annals of
+virtue explored in vain.
+
+Shall we deem it a misfortune to be burthened with beings such as these?
+No; let us, more justly, conclude it a blessing. Prosperity is apt to be
+forgetful, to confound what it possesses with what it deserves; but the
+claims we here feel to give, awaken us to remember the abundance we have
+received.
+
+Thankfully, and not disdainfully, let us bow down to an admonition thus
+mildly instilled through the medium of borrowed experience. What a
+contrast to the terrible lesson given to the distracted country which
+offers it! where both crimes and afflictions are of such enormous
+magnitude, as to engross the whole civilized earth between resentment
+and compassion!
+
+Already we look back on the past as on a dream, too wild in its
+horrors, too unnatural in its cruelties, too abrupt in its succession of
+terrors, even for the exaggerating pencil of the most eccentric and
+gloomy imagination; surpassing whatever has been heard, read, or
+thought; and admitting no similitude but to the feverish visions of
+delirium! so marvellous in fertility of incident, so improbable in
+excess of calamity, so monstrous in impunity of guilt! the witches of
+Shakespeare are less wanton in absurdity, and the demons of Milton less
+horrible in denunciations.
+
+Of the present nothing can be said but, _what is it_?--It is gone while
+I write the question.
+
+The future--the consequences--what judgment can pervade? The scenery is
+so dark, we fear to look forward. Experience offers no direction,
+observation no clue; the mystery is as impervious, the obscurity as
+tremendous, as that we would vainly penetrate for our destinies in the
+world to come. Ah! might the veil but drop to clearness as refulgent!
+
+Let us not, however, destroy the rectitude of our horror of these
+enormities, by mingling it with implacable prejudice; nor condemn the
+oppressed with the oppressor, the slaughtered with the assassin. Are we
+not all the creatures of one Creator? Does not the same sun give us
+warmth? And will not _the days of the years of our pilgrimage_ be as
+short as theirs? It is an offence to Religion, an injury to Providence,
+to suppose That vast tract of land wholly seized by evil spirits; though
+licentiousness, rapacity, ambition, and irreligion have given rulers to
+it, of late, abhorrent to all humanity.
+
+We are too apt to consider ourselves rather as a distinct race of
+beings, than as merely the emulous inhabitants of rival states; but ere
+our detestation leads to the indiscriminate proscription of a whole
+people, let us look at the Emigrant French Clergy, and ask where is the
+Englishman, where, indeed, the human being, in whom a sense of right can
+more disinterestedly have been demonstrated, or more nobly predominate?
+O let us be brethren with the good, wheresoever they may arise! and let
+us resist the culpable, whether abroad or at home.
+
+The world, in all its varied stores of good, contains nothing that can
+vie with Philanthropy--that soft _milk of human kindness_, that benign
+spirit of social harmony, that genuine emblem of practical Religion!
+seeking some extenuation from goodness even amongst the fallen,
+accepting some apology from temptation even amongst the sinful; lenient
+in its judgments, conciliating in its awards, forgiving in its wrath!
+and receiving in bosom-serenity all the solace it humanely expands.
+
+But while to the individual we talk of alms, and plead distress,
+sickness, infirmity; to the community we may be bolder, juster, firmer,
+and talk of duties.
+
+Flourishing and happy ourselves, shall we see cast upon our coasts
+virtue we scarce thought mortal, sufferers whose story we could not read
+without tears, martyrs that remind us of other days--and let them
+perish? Behold age unhonoured, disease unattended, strangers unfed? and
+not till they are no more, till the compassionating hand of Death has
+closed their miseries, learn to do them justice? _then_, when we can
+only lament,--not _now_, when we may also succour? Is it to that period
+we must wait to enquire, to exclaim "How came they to this pass?"
+
+Anticipate the answer, anticipate the historians of times to come: will
+they not say, "These holy men, who died for want of bread, were Priests
+of the Christian Religion. They had committed no sin, they had offended
+against no law: they refused to take an oath which their consciences
+disapproved; their piety banished them from their country; and the land
+in which they sought refuge received, admired, relieved--neglected,
+forgot, and finally permitted them to starve!
+
+"And what was this land? some wild, uncultivated spot, where yet no arts
+had flourished, no civilization been spread, no benefits reciprocated?
+no religion known? Where novelty was the only passport, and where
+kindness was the short-lived offspring of curiosity? Unhappy men! to
+have struck on such inhospitable shores, amidst a race so unapprized of
+all social, all relative ties, as to confer favours only where they may
+be expected in return, unconscious, or unreflecting that every
+unoffending man is a brother!
+
+"Or--were they thrown on some bleak northern strand, where life is mere
+existence, where the genial board has never welcomed the wearied
+traveller, where freezing cold benumbs even the soft affections of the
+heart, and where, from the first great law of self-preservation,
+compassion is monopolized by internal penury and want? Ill-fated
+passengers! it was not here, in the chill atmosphere of personal misery,
+your woes should have sought redress; the commiseration which is your
+due can only be conceived by those who have known the height from which
+ye have fallen, who have enjoyed the same affluence, and blessed Heaven
+for similar peace and joy--"
+
+But no; this, at least, has not been their doom--nor will this, I trust,
+be their fate. No land of barbarians has been insensible to their worth,
+no ruthless region of the north has blighted sensibility for their
+misfortunes from ignorance of milder life: the land to which they
+sailed was Great Britain; in the fulness of its felicity, in the
+meridian of its glory, not more celebrated for arts and arms, than
+beloved for indulgent benevolence, and admired for munificence of
+liberality.
+
+Here, then, ye reverend fathers, blest at least in the choice of your
+asylum, here rest your weary limbs, _till the wicked cease from
+troubling_! secure of the kindest, and, when once your exigency is
+known, the most effectual succour. Calm, therefore, your harrassed
+spirits, repose your shattered frames, look around you with fearless
+reliance; you will see a friend in every beholder, you will find a
+sympathizer in every auditor.
+
+It ought also, to be remembered, that though the money now gathered will
+be paid into foreign hands, it is wholly among ourselves it will be
+expended; it is all and entirely our own by immediate circulation.
+
+Yet--were it not--what is it but a refined species of usury? a hoard
+lodged beyond all reach of bankruptcy? a store for futurity? exempt from
+the numerous losses and disappointments of those who mistake the
+blessing of wealth to consist in its power of selfish appropriation?
+
+Whoever bestows, whether promptly from impulse, or maturely from
+principle, will alike be content with the recompence of doing good: but
+in justice, in delicacy to the uncommon objects of this unexampled
+contribution, we should suggest what cannot fail to pass in their own
+minds, and anticipate what we cannot doubt will be the result of their
+restored powers: that those who survive the anarchy by which they are
+desolated, who live to see their country rescued from its present
+despotic tyrants, will still be strangers to repose, even at the natal
+home for which now every earthly sigh is heard, till, with their
+restituted property, they have cleared their dignity of character from
+every possible aspersion of calumny, and returned--not to their
+benefactors--whose accounts, far more nobly, will be settled
+elsewhere!----but to the poor of the kingdom at large, that bounty
+which has sustained them in banishment and woe.
+
+Who is there that can look forward without emotion to the period of
+their recal and departure? With what blessings and what prayers will
+their hearts overflow! "Farewell, they will cry, ye friends of the
+unhappy! ye protectors of the houseless! ye generous rich, who thus
+benignly have worked for us! Ye patient poor who thus unrepiningly have
+seen us supported! Blest be your kingdom! Long live your virtuous
+sovereign? Be heavenly peace your portion! and never may ye know the
+sorrows of national divisions!"
+
+Yet, to many it may appear, that where so much has been done, nothing
+more can be required. This is rather a mistake from failure in reflexion
+than in benevolence. To such, it is sufficient to ask, "Why gave ye at
+all?"
+
+The answer is obvious; to save a distressed herd of fellow-creatures
+from want.
+
+And are they less worth saving now, their helplessness, unhappily, being
+the same? Was the novelty of their appearance and situation a plea more
+forcible than acquaintance with their merits? than the view of their
+harmless lives, their inoffensive manners, their patient resignation to
+the evils of their lot?
+
+But--_are we to give_, ye cry, _for ever_?
+
+Ah! rather, and for more generously, reverse the question, and, in
+_their_ names exclaim, "Must we _receive_ for ever? will the epoch never
+arrive when our injuries may be redressed, and our sufferings allowed
+the soft recompence of manifesting our gratitude?"
+
+O happy donors! compare but thus your subjects for murmuring with the
+feelings of your receivers! and do not, because ye see them, bowed down
+by adversity, thus lowly grateful for the pittance that grants them
+bread and covering, imagine them so unlike the human race to which they
+belong, that sometimes, in bitterness of spirit, they can forbear the
+piercing recollection of better days; days, when beneficence flourished
+from their own deeds, when anguish and poverty were relieved by their
+own hands!
+
+Still a little nearer let us bring reflexion home, and entreat those
+who having done much, would do no more, to suppose themselves, for a
+moment only, placed in _l'Eglise des Carmes_, in Paris, on the 2d of
+September, 1792, in full sight of the hapless assemblage of this pious
+fraternity, who there sought sanctuary--not for the crimes they had
+committed, but for the duty they had discharged to their consciences,
+not from just punishment of guilt, but from fury against innocence.
+
+Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed
+within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions
+of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and
+incorruptible in purity.
+
+Now, then, in mental retrospection, witness the unheard-of massacre that
+ensued! Behold the ruffians that invade the sacred abode, each bearing
+in his hand some exterminating weapon; in his eye, a more than
+fiend-like ferocity. Can it be you they seek, ye men of peace? unarmed,
+defenceless, and sanctuarised within the precincts of your own religious
+functions!----Incredible!--
+
+Alas, no!--behold them reviled--chaced--assaulted. They demand their
+offence? They are answered by staves and pikes. They fly to the
+altar--to that altar where, so lately, salvation seemed to hang upon
+their benediction.--
+
+Here, at least, are they not safe? At this sanctified spot will not some
+reverence revive? some devotion rekindle? Will not the fell instruments
+of destruction fall guiltless from the shaking hands of their contrite
+pursuers? Will not remorse seize their inmost souls, and vibrate through
+the hallowed habitation, in one universal cry of, "O men of God! live
+yet--so forgive--and pray for us!"--Ah, deadly shame! indelible
+disgrace! not here, not even here, could compunction or humanity find a
+friend--
+
+"Would not those white hairs move pity?"--
+
+No!--the murderers dart after them: the pious suppliants kneel--but they
+rise no more! They pray--and their prayers ascend to heaven, unheard on
+earth! Groans resound through the vaulted roof--Mangled carcases strew
+the consecrated ground--derided, while wounded; insulted, while
+slaughtered--they are cleft in twain--their savage destroyers joy in
+their cries----Blood, agony, and death close the fatal scene!
+
+And ye, O ye who hear it, revere the immortal faith that, proof against
+this consummate barbarity, preferred its most baneful rage, to uttering
+one deviating word! And then, while your hearts bleed fresh with
+sympathy, will ye not call out, "O could they have been rescued! had
+pitying Heaven but spared the final blow, and, snatching them from their
+dread assassins, cast them, despoiled, forlorn, friendless, on this our
+happy isle, with what transport would we have welcomed and cherished
+them! sought balm for their lacerated hearts, and studied to have
+alleviated their exile, by giving to it every character of a second and
+endearing home. Our nation would have been honoured by affording refuge
+to such perfection; every family would have been blessed with whom such
+pilgrims associated; our domestics would have vied with each other to
+shew them kindness and respect; our poor would have contributed their
+mite to assist them; our children would have relinquished some enjoyment
+to have fed them!"
+
+Let not reflection stop here, nor this merciful regret be unavailing:
+extend it a little farther, and mark the question to which it leads:
+can ye, wish this for those who are gone, and not practice it for those
+who remain? Sufferers in the same cause, bred in the same faith, and
+firm in the same principles; the banished men now amongst us would have
+shared a similar fate, if seized upon the same spot. Venerate them,
+then, O Christians of every denomination, as the representatives of
+those who have been slain; and let the same generous feeling which would
+call to life those murdered martyrs, protect their yet existing
+brethren, and save them, at every risk, and by every exertion, from an
+end as painful and more lingering; as unnatural, though less violent.
+
+Come forth, then, O ye Females, blest with affluence! spare from your
+luxuries, diminish from your pleasures, solicit with your best powers;
+and hold in heart and mind that, when the awful hour of your own
+dissolution arrives, the wide-opening portals of heaven may present to
+your view these venerable sires, as the precursors of your admission.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] The females of that miserable country whence these meritorious
+outcasts are driven, had the happiness, in former and better times, of
+exercising a charity as decisive for life or death as that which the
+females of Great Britain are now conjured to perform. St. Vincent de
+Paule, _aumonier general des galeres_, to whom France owes the chief of
+its humane establishments, instituted amongst the rest, the Foundling
+Hospital of Paris. His fund for its endowment failing, after repeated
+remonstrances for further general alms, which though not unsuccessful,
+proved insufficient, he gathered together a congregation of females,
+before whom he presented the innocent little objects of his prayers. His
+address to them was at once simple and sublime: "I call not upon you, he
+cried, as Christians, nor even as fellow creatures; I call upon you
+solely and singly to pronounce sentence as judges. To the largesses you
+have already bestowed, these orphans owe their natural existence: but
+those largesses are exhausted, and without a further supply, their
+existence is at an end. You are their judges--pronounce, then, their
+fate; do you ordain them to live? do you doom them to die?"
+
+[2] 5000 French ecclesiastics _live_ in Switzerland, 4000 in the
+ecclesiastical State, 15,000 in Spain, more than 20,000 in Germany,
+Holland, and the Austrian Netherlands; and shall 6000 be suffered to
+_die_ in England?
+
+
+N.B. _A Translation of this Tract is preparing for the press by_ M.
+D'ARBLAY.
+
+PLANS and ADVERTISEMENTS, proposed to the LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN for
+the relief of the Emigrant French Clergy, may be had at the Publisher's.
+
+
+
+
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