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.France Is Restored Again To Enrope. The...
3 & 2 State of Public Affaitsi
b ^ catee h ^ diflSe m in opinion from arfy t ) tffer fee f . * r Ptfis is a great and in ^ ltoiyie pfivilegi ?; for it must be ever keptf ft miiid , tfrat the worst civif ^ tostitutidiri wtth religious
libertjrW'better than the best without it . Vfertpbiistn of the worst kind will be med-ified by the influence of religion j but , where that is taken away , and human power or caprice interferes in the concerns of man
with his God , the people will be briftified , as in Spain , and lose the finest energies of their nature . The moderation shown by the conquerors is without example in history . The allies have kept their Words : they have realised the promised in their proclamations . France has received an increase instead of
suffering adimimition of territory . Its ^ H & iits are enlarged from what they 'were in the year 1722 The additions indeed are not very considerable ; but where they had so
little reason to expect such clemency , this moderation and generosity 06 the part of the conquerors cannot be too highly applauded . Parrs , also , which was for a lime , and this
eatf *& ever be forgotten , under a Russi & n governor , is not divested of its e ^ fttfmeuts . It has still to show many trophies of H » victorious emperor . Oae melancholy feature in the treaties must however afflict every mind endued with h * nnanity . France , in recovering its liberty , does not seem to have felt as she
© m < gh ± to others ; and the allies h ** e allowed her to exercise a tyranny Which is far Worse than that under which she lately groaned . Sheistohav ** the privilege of exercising ttoe slave trade , that ig , of pleading desolation in Africa ; and wickedly tort \ liMii £ its inhabitant *
itf ; ^ Ve « hlps , f 6 r five years . We wotiid hojl ^ that tfbis article wafs introd « H * etl merely to give her the bpportmiity <* f Wiioiiinict A £ of Kir o ^ n accord ttii * iivfltmous traffic ^ though w # 4 onf ^^ wie aibouki much-rather have Hm » a tfecl & Hitidrt ffdirt aH the po ^ feis , thtrt tlic siav * tWHete flfdi * - eiiccl *& tine sfetkm that ^ tetcfikfdit ,
.France Is Restored Again To Enrope. The...
and such a dis ^ raetf a ^ 6 u ! a effectually cut off that irMbn frohi Mi | communication with civiUzed stated Besides , if France is to exercise this wicked trade , we fear that the iSw ^ made against it in this country wftl be rendered nugatovy , and that eveft
part of the capital of England friay be employed under Frem . h colours in this atrocious species of commerce . Popery is slowly raising her heach Processions are again to take place in France . They were prohibited , and very wisely , under the former
government , nor can they be used consistently with the freedom df religion established by the coriisti ^ tution . For how cah a prore ^ tarit do reverence to the waffei" god tfc ^ t is carried about by the prieit ; antl if he does not doit , he wilt bejguilt ^ it seems of an dflfencel fnt iti ^ o &
dered that all men should revei'ettc ^ the host . As th ^ French Kave ' tt ^ t been accustriinnieft t & t minry "y ^ ars'tt ? mis im nuicuious
pious ana , ceremony , it is to beftopied thrat if'wtH full of itself ititd contehijit ^ but :, M the other h ^ nd , there tea ^ re ^ i daiS ^ - ger that a nation tha ^ t has run ih % 6 the excesses of impiety and atheisin may fallback into its fbrtrt ^ rtr ^ fi :
of credulity and sttperstiti ^ . - ^ P 6 pery is itiakifl ^ sl 6 w aclvSft ^^ in France : in Sjpaitt it er ^ ctfitis ^ ek ^ with boldness ^ ' and ha ^ th ^ pe ^ le ' for its chAmpion ^ t ^ he t ^ tii thM king has produced with tUe greartesi ease the most unexpected ¦ trewl &; - ''• tion , driven the Cortez from tj ^ ei f seats , and annihilated aH ^ h efr
tiecrees . © own with liberty , nd ^ vvitfe the Inquisition , is -the p 6 r > Wi » T ^" cry ^ e All who have s ^ afeteij m ddvini ^ o ^ ft the Freiich ^ attd in fact id ^ fwtpr ^ ing the kingdom for this wifetcftfeidt man , so lately estapied frbin ' coaBti ^ ment , are the bbjects < if piersecUtitfrift
many imprisoned , atnn most of 1 oem disgraced , ' lh ^& ti 6 dsl 6 ) t t ^ bh & Vc % are to be' re ^ tbred , tlife tterfgi ^ co ^ rriiiiirtie ^ " i 6 * v % feJ & teb YisH * ty ev & y thliir ifi Mori * Vs Wb & BxWgm to 1 ft aAti & it'fWbtitig # iiid trtfh ^ p ^ V SpWt ffef ^ Wi *^ ircha ^ c ^ bffeieffi ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/62/
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