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hatidri , et de deux cultes—Protestants and Catholics . The support of the clergy is a heavy burden upon the government j it is conjectured therefore by some , that the Emperor will
reestablish the tythes , a measure the Jess to be wondered at as Such a large proportion of the present landholders hold their lands ori such easy terms ; Mr . W . however , thinks it more probable " that the dependance of the church upon the state will be wholly dissolved , and that it will have no means of sup * port but what it can derive from its own virtue ^ and the genu * ine influence it produces on the minds of men /*
The Catholics m France have , it seems , recovered little of their former zeal for their faith and abject devotedness to their priests since the establishment of the Concordat . Their worship is ill-supported , as the government salaries but one minister to a church , and their altars require a number of servitors and assistants . The priests are in a low condition , in respect both of education and wealth ; the assistants are much worse *
The clergy altogether are fallen almost into contempt ; they are many of them itinerants and mendicants ; they frequently go through a whole service for twenty-pence , and often are not
paid at all . They have revived many of the ancient shows and ceremonies and anniversaries , but their poverty will not permit them to make their fooleries as dazzling in the eyes of the multitude as they were formerly . Their tricks are , as might be expected , laughed at by all who rank above the lowest vulgar .
The number of Protestants in France is small ^ and has not increased since the revolution . They make no converts from the church of Rome . They are scarcely found except in the South pf France ; in other parts of the empire the most absurd notions are entertained of them , as here of the Methodists .. Mr *
W . gives a particular account of a society of them residing in the neighbourhood of the coal-pits ^ in the department of Jemappes ; the description reminded us of the large body of Wesley ' s followers which exists in the Collieries of Kingswood hear Bristol . We wish the author had given a more particular
statement of the theological opinions of the Protestants , and particularly of the degree of toleration enjoyed by those they call neither Luther nor Calvin master . We have heard it said that a great part of the respectable Protestants are very liluch disposed to Unitarian ism . ar
The present work adds nothing to our knowledge , cj £ the manners of the French or the Flemings * It gives however am interesting description of the national institutions in France for * education and charity . Education is a favorite object of Bonaparte ' s attention * A wise law has been established that no one shall exercise th $ pro-
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TVorsley * s Slate of France % 153
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vol . i . x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/41/
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