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    Art. I.—Transactions Of The Parisian San...

    good for its own sake . His main ob- ject in calling theJews together was , we are persuaded , to devise some plan for making them good and Use- fill citizenfc , to repress their _usurious

    practices , and to convert them into manufacturers , husbandmen , and conscripts * The effects of the mea * Mire will exactly coincide with his views of policy . Paris is to be the

    metropolis of the world , and it is fit that there the Jews , who are dispersed overall nations , should have a representative council * The seat of the Sanhedrim will be their

    iome . They _niay look for gain m other _countricf _, _J ) Ut they will turn to France for respectability and comfort . Wherever they are they will secretly favour the French cause , and , like the Jesuits , will

    communicate important intelligence to the Emperor , distribute his bribes , and in short _> become his agents . Their opulence , which procures them access co prime ministers and princes and their mercantile activity , which carries ihem over all the

    world , will be subservient to the interests of their benefactor , the _** Centurion '' who ic loveth their nation and hath built them a

    synagogue . ' It may be necessary hereafter , for the security of _European states , that the Jews resident in them should take an oath of

    abjuration of the Grand Rabbi ana the Sanhedrim of Paris . The Jews in Fiance are to become soldiers , and Bonaparte would be at no loss how to employ an army composed of *** the children of Israel . * ' : He

    has not dropt his predilection for the conquest of Egypt , and thepeo * pie that should establish themselves in Palestine would easily subju . gate the neighbouring countries , . prom Italy to Syria is only a s ] bort voyage _, la consideration of favours

    Art. I.—Transactions Of The Parisian San...

    _j ~ t ] granted to the Sublime _Foffe Hi Europe the Hbiy Land may i > _£ quietly surrendered into the hands of _< the Christian Emperor .- Th _< _$ kingdom of Persia may be at any time won over to the side of France *

    A bribe would convert the Arabs into useful allies . The native Indian powers are easily stirred tip to revolt . And in such a conjunction of circumstances it might be wisdom iii the British to stipulate for their safety by engaging to leave Hindostan .

    Our opinion briefly is that the measures now pursuing in France with regard to the Jews , will lead to their restoration * How near this event may be is-not ' for us to pronounce . The signs of the times seem to -prognosticate its being at hand .

    The Jews in France and Italy amount , it seems , to about a huh _# dred thousand . Germany and Hoi * land , which are in some measure under the control of France , con _^ tain probably twice as many . The whole of this population would form but a weak state ; _buttons ! -

    dered as a body of non-conformists in religion , it is sufficiently strong to be respected , and important enough surely for the care of a wise legislator . The National Assembly of France had , in the year 17 _& 0 , _Enfranchised all those of the Jewish

    persuasion that took the civic oath ; a « d though , in the stormy period that succeeded , their rights could scarcely be pronounced _secure , their _condition was constantly improving till the memorable u Im

    perial Decree" of May 36 _^} S _06 f elevated them to a higher rank _Jthari the most sanguine among them _verexpected _to-attai _^^ _etAWi _& bi _^ g their _* _eUgipn _pqt » oi | _j $ i _% _~ m _3 < foundation of toleration , but on the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/32/