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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. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793), by Frances Burney *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIEF REFLECTIONS *** ***** This file should be named 29125.txt or 29125.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/9/1/2/29125/ Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.
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