{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
French iQg2.-i law was enacted last win
ter, professeAlt to frcpeW sacrilege; the
purport Of which is, that it any Individual,
IN passing a st,tac OF the Virgin Mary, shall
treat It with di,respcet, (without specifying
what the disrcspect is) he shall be liable to
lose his right hand-or, as the case may be,
his life. While this law was under debate,
Protestant peer, from the south of France
waited on the king, and told him that If the
bill should pass, and an attempt were made
70 enforce it,it would produce an insurrection
in that part Of the Kingdom; and earnestly
besousht that it might not be sanctioned by
the throne. The king told him he should
have gon. with his complaint to the Min
istcr of Religion He replied that he had
done 50; and because his application was re-
jectcd tnere, he now appealed to his Majes-
~. The king is said to have turned on his
heel, with the declaration, 'You know, sir,
there is no salvation out of the Catholic
Church"