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¦ fi&e pieces of eloquence , though many persons may exclaim—Vox et pr&terea nihil . "For your next number * I will endeavour to afford you a specimen * London , June l ( X W . H . R . POLITICAL RESTORATION OF THE JEWS * P . & . This Postscript refers to an event which those who are mindful of the signs of the times will view with considerable attention . It is a circumstance from which the mere religionist and the mere politician will expect too much , or too little ! The reformation of the Jews , now taken up by a powerful and enterprising monarch , will lead the former to renew all his sanguine expectations of the rebuilding of a temple at Jerusalem ^ and the gathering together of the visible Jews from all quarters of the world , in order that they may be conveyed to that small and unproductive spot of land they once inhabited in
Palestine , and where they imagine these Jews will command the worship and homage of all the kings of the earth ; while the newspaper politician , on the contrary , will deem this design of the French Emperor a mere expedient to raise money . I beg leave to observe that , be the motive of this conduct in Napoieon what it may , it will lead lo a general rectification of men ' s judgments upon a point of no small importance in speculative religion : I mean that it will have the tendency of proving that the restoration of the Jews to their own country , literally understood , was never intended by the sacred predictions of the
Old and New Testament , You will judge , Sir , by these preliminaries , that I allude te a deer-ee passed by the French Emperor , at St . Cloud , May 3 O , 1806 , authorising a Congress of Jewish Deputies and French Commissioners , to meet at Paris on the 1 5 th day of July next * . Now , as the preamble to this decree states the urgent necessity of giving life to the principles of morality which have been for ages past almost extinguished arjiong the people professing the
Jewish religion , in consequence of that servility under which they have languished , and which the French Emperor says , " it never was his intention to maintain or renew ;* ' is it not a moral and civil restoration of these people , that he has undertaken ? It is not impossible but that ad captctndum vulgum , he may establish a colony at Jerusalem , or procure soi ^ ie privileges for the Jews who may ehuse to reside there . A very short time will determine this point . In the interim , I would ask any
* For a translation of this decree , sec our Politico-Religious department . Thii , with some other interesting articles of intelligence , -were excluded from our lajst number ' for want of room , —Ep i tor . m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/11/
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