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unto true repentance. We ask thee. do hear us.

That thou vouchsafe to reign over and to guard entire thy holy church. We ask thee, do hear us.

That thou vouchlafe to guard the Papal dignity, and all the orders of the church in the holiness of their function.. We ask thee, do hear us.

That thou vouchsafe to bring down low the enemies of thy holy church. We afk thee, do hear us.

That on chriftian kings and governors thou vouchsafe to bestow peace and true concord. We ask thee, do hear us.

That to all thy christian people thou vouchsafe to impart plenteously peace and unity. We afk thee, do hear us.

That thou vouchfafe to ftrengthen and preferve us altogether in thine holy bondage. We afk thee, do

hear us.

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and to fanctify thy chofen one here
prefent. We ask thee, do hear us.
That thou vouchfafe to blefs
and to fanctify and to confecrate
thy chofen one here prefent.
We ask thee, do hear us.

That thou, vouchfafe in mercy to hear us We afk thee, do hear us. O Son of God. We afk thee, do hear us.

O Lamb of God, who beareft away the fins of the world. Spare

us, O Lord.

O Lamb of God, who beareft away the fins of the world. Hear us in mercy, O Lord.

O Lamb of God, who bearest away the fins of the world.

mercy on us, O Lord. O Christ hear us.

us.

Have

O Christ hear

O

O Chrift, mercifully hear us.
Chrift, mercifully hear us-
Kyrie eleifon. O Lord, have

mercy on us.

Chrifte eleifon. O Chrift have mercy on us. Kyrie eleifon mercy on us.

O Lord, have

Our Father, to the end fecret.

Then the Confecrating Bishop takes
the book of the Gofpels, and with
the affiftance of the Bishops, tent-
ly places it on the fhoulders and
neck of the Elect. In this manner
it is fupported by one of the Cler-
gy until the tradition of the Gof-
pels, as hereafter, to the Elect.
Next the Confecrating Bishop,
and the Affiftant Bishops, touch
the head of the Elect, with both
hands, faying:
Receive thou the Holy Ghoft.

ftooping over this thy fervant thine horn of Priestly gracè, fpill forth upon him thy mighty working benediction. Through our Lord Jefus Christ thy Son, who along with thee liveth antl reigneth, ia unity of the Holy Ghost;

Next follows the Preface.

Confecrating Bifhop fays aloud:
GRAND PREFACE.

C. B. Through worlds without end. So be it.

C. B. The Lord be with you.
And along with thy fpirit.

C. B. Let hearts be raised.
We hold them towards the Lord.
C. B. Let us give thanks to our
Lord God. It is worthy and just.

C. B. Amen. It is worthy and juft, it is equitable and falutary, that always, and in every place, we yield thanksgivings to thee, O holy Lord, O Father Almighty, O God everlafting, who art the crown of all the dignities, which in hallowed fubordination are attendant upon thy glory. O God, who with Moyfes thy ferv nt, when in fecret and familiar converfe, amongst the other leffons of heavenly worthip, inftructing him concerning the attire of priestly veftments, didft command that Aaron, thy Elect, fhould be robed in myste rious dreffes, during the performance of facrifice, that an enfuing pofterity might learn deep wifdom from the antient example, and that all generations might be availed by the inftructions thou didft vouchfa'e; whereas for them of old the mere beauty of thof fymbols purchased

Standing uncovered the Confecra ing awe, while amongst us the truth we

Bifbop prays:

Be condescending, O Lord, and appeafible to our fupplications, and

experience' is the object of our reafon, and not the dark language of the figures; for, of that obfolete priefthood, the array but fignified what for

us

us is the attire of fpirit, and the majefty of priesthood no longer has its value from the grandeur of vestments, but from the radiance of fouls; for even those things which then courted the wonder of eyes, demanded a knowledge of what they contained by fimilitude; and therefore upon this one, thy fervant, whom thou haft elected in the high priesthood to mi nifter before thee, we beseech, O Lord, thou mayft abundantly betow grace, that whatsoever thofe typical habits reprefented by their glare of gold, by their fparkling of precious ftones, and by their toil of embroi. dery, may beam forth in his morals and in his deeds. Fulfil in this thy Prieft the ultimate truth of thy minif try, and having fully decked him out with all that beautifies in majefty, accomplish his confecration with dew of the chrifm which is from heaven.

HYMN, Veni Creator Spiritus.

Creator Spirit, come; poffefs

The minds acknowledging thy fway :

With grace celeftial come to blefs The hearts that quickened from

thy ray.

Thou Interceffor from on high, Thou Gift from Deity's abyfs, Spring-fource and Fire and Charity, And Chrism of ecflacy and blifs.

Sevenfold Diftributor of good,

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Finger of God's right-hand, thy with thy fpirit.

name,

The Father's Promise last bestowed,

Enriching speech with tongues of

Aame.

(To be continued.)

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Report on the Progress of the Sciences from the Epoch of the French Reva. lution (1789) to the year 1808, made by a Commission of the Institute of France, by order of the Emperor Napoleon.

His majesty being in his council of state, a deputation from the class of history and ancient literature of the institute, composed of messrs. Levesque, president; Boissy-d'Anglas, vice-president; Dacier, perpetual secratary; Sylvestre de Sacy, Visconti, Pastoret, Gosselin, Degerando, Brial, Sainte-Croix, Dutheil, Ameilhon, being presented by the minister of the home department, and admitted to the bar of the council, the president spoke

as follows:

SIRE,

All the sciencies with which the class of history and ancient literature of the institute is occupied, and of which it has the honour of presenting to your imperial majesty the actual state, have one common centre: all concur in preparing their materials and their modes of proceeding; all have made a gradual progress, and criticism which throws a light upon them all, is in some measure, a science of our time.

Modern history, which originated in France nearly at the same time with the monarchy, cul. tivated in France during ages in which it was silent in every other Country, either bore away the palm, or gloriously contended for it, in the ages of learning. Reduc

FEBRUARY, 1810.

ed to a temporary silence, while public confusion stifled its voice, it appeared at one time likely to be buried under the ruins of all social institutions. It is to your majesty that it owes its regeneration.

M. Dacier then read the following report.

It is not with literature, Sire, as with the accurate and the natural sciences, the real state of which may at every instant be known, and their progress calculated; the state of literature can only he es:imated by the works it produces. If they be good, literature supports itself; if but middling or bad, literature either declines or retrogadas: if they excel, it advances. Thus the report which the class presents to your majesty, is and can be only the result of the examination which it has made of the

works published in Europe since the year 1789, with a statement of of the most effectual means of maintaining or encouraging each denominated ancient literature; a of the branches composing what is literature which is the primitive and everlasting model of taste, the grand and beautiful in letters, as the monuments of ancient sculp ture and architecture will ever be models in all the arts of design.

K

This

This labour, which would have required a longer space of time to be prepared and executed in a manner worthy of the subject, and, if it were possible, of the hero who has ordered it, includes, under the general titles of philology, antiquities, history, oriental languages and literature, ancient geography, almost the whole circle of letters, with an indication of the efforts made within the last 20 years by French and foreign literati, to make some additions to the immense and magnificent edifice of human know ledge. The class has thought fit to join to their report, a view relative to legislation and philosophy, in order to discharge a portion of the debt of the class of moral and political sciences, to which it has in part succeeded.

Your majesty will see, that not withstanding the political troubles which have agitated France, it has not hitherto remained behind hand in any branch of literature; but it is with pain that we are obliged to to state to you that several of its parts are threatened with a speedy and nearly total annihilation, philology, which is the basis of all sound literature, and that on which rests the certainty of history, and the knowledge of what is past, which has shed so much lustre on the academy of belles letters, scarcely finds any cultivators. The learned men whose labours still fertilize its domain, for the most part the remains of a generation about to disappear, see rising about them but a small number of persons capable of replacing them. By pointing out the evil to your majesty, we are assured that your powerful hand will apply the proper remedy.

Nevertheless, Sire, these learned men, the faithful guardians of the precious deposit of acquired know.

ledge, and of the temple consecrated by the present time, to the times past and to come, appear to redouble their zeal and energy in proportion as their number diminishes, and as they approach nearer the end of their career. Of this an unquestionable testimony is given by your volumes of the post humous memoirs of the academy of belles lettres, which will shortly appear, and which they have greatly contributed, as well as by the two volumes of the memoirs of our class, which have already begun to be printed at the imperial presses, agreeably to a decree of your majesty; and these we do not deem unworthy of forming a continuation of the valuable collection of the works of that illustrious academy. This testimony, may, if necessary, be confirmed by the important translation of Hérodotus, the father of history, become in our language a treasure of knowledge as various as it is profound and uncommon; by the critical examination of the historians of Alexander the great; by the translation of Eschylus, the most difficult of the Greek tragic poets, works eminently philological and critical: and by multitude of others, extremely commendable, and which we refer to in our report.

The language of monuments and inscriptions, that department of latin literature which is to transmit to posterity, in a manner at once simple, noble, and concise, the events of the present time, has lately been reduced to more certain rules, and recalled to the imnitation of the most excellent models.

The science of antiquities has made very considerable progress, which is an a great measure due to France. The study of monu

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