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    Reviews—Transactions ofthe Parisian Sanh...

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    VOJU II* 4

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

    immutable providing respectability . It is not our _intention to relate in this place the history of the Jewish Convocation , That has been given in part and will be , from basis of justice and for its permanence and

    time to time more tully given in another department of our work . The members of the . Assembly seem to have displayed greater talents than was to have been expected from persons who had been hitherto detained in such political obscurity _, that they Their deliberations shew are as well qualified for

    civil _government asany other class of men , and afford ground to hope that when the occasion arises Hebrew senators will not talk less eloquently or decree less wisely than an equal body of Christians .

    We may wish that they had not been quite so lax in the interpretation of their law , or so cxtrava _* gant in their praise of Napoleon , but , comparing their past with their present condition , their feeling * heretofore with those which must now spring up in their bosoms , we cannot allow ourselves to _charge _¦*»» _~

    them—after the English mannerwith impiety and blasphemy . We are acquainted with men who _rea- _* dily sacrifice better principles than those Moses , and o asgross nted by monarch _presc to a rojc , or so Bonaparte Having nil reflections we shalJ _notice the which , as arc more i their subj ( Jhnr subject than _therr cx . eeutio _^ Tlie _Transactions" i _* a trans * lation from the _original of M * Di and offeiadulation _disgustingas any _deputies , theJewish altogether so or so tolerant beas not > wise , or so _loieiaiu as . )* ; indulged in these gene * ions we shaU now briefly ; publications before us may be easily conceive _^ interesting on account ot

    ogene Tama , who is , we apprehend , a Parisian Jew . The former part of the volume is filled with extracts from soine dull Jewisti controversial pamphlets ; the latter contains a Journal of the < k » libera « _-

    tions of the Deputies * The whole is as immethodical as French works commonly are . The translation is respectable . F . D . Kir wan , Esq _* is we conjecture a mere _booksellers name . The " Preface by the

    translator is ill wntten _, and displays the most vulgar _prejudices and the most contemptible ignorance of the principles of religious _lijjerty . In scurrility it is not surpassed by the London ministerial newspapers _. The title of this vohime is a sheer

    deception , for instead of being an account of the Sanhedrim , it concludes with the breaking up of tb _& Assembly of _Deputies some _time before the Sanhedrim had been convened /

    _" The New Sanhednn " ( m ) is a work of less pretension . It contains the accounts of the Jewish As _^ em _* bly and Sanhedrim , which hav _<*

    appeared in the _JMomteur . it was evidently compiled in haste : th _£ translation is _sometimes incorrect , and the names of the Jewish depu ~ ties and members of Sanhedrim are

    here and there _misprinted . It eof * - tains however much novel and _usdful _inforrxuition , and _, to the credit of the bookseller , is published in a cheap and popular form . Th « author is truly "An Advocate for the House of Israel . " He thinks

    that Bonaparte is raised up to be their _temporal Messiah . He _spirittfali ; zes _$ he prophecies andeojitends that France may prove the holy land , Paris the h _<>* y city , He has no tenderness for the whore of

    Babylon , but he argues that _religious tyranny is every where « _tnu- £ hri £ _tj

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    _Reviews—Transactions ofthe Parisian Sanhedrim . 653

    Voju Ii* 4

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/33/