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    tt > take them gently out of the pulpits , and lead them into the confessixjg-boxes . On the other hand , the Publiciste , of the 27 th ult . 'descants very largely on a Treatise upon Toleration * by M . Duvoisin , Ancien Docteur de Sorbonne , " and now Bishop of Nantes .

    In my last , page 253 , I observed that every wind that blew from the Continent brought new instances of the power of trutljt over error . An instance more conspicuous than the late proceedings of the Government of Spain against the Archbishop of Gompostella cannot probably find its parallel in history , Don Raphael de Musquer y Adunate , it is observed in an article

    from Madrid , dated May 12 , by feigning those virtues he did not possess , had formerly obtained the general esteem , and that of the Prince of Peace in particular . At length two Canons of his cathedral , whom * he had reason to believe , were watching his conduct ^ became the objects of his hatred to such a degree , that he never ceased persecuting them , till they were

    compelled to leave their situations ^ and the kingdom also . One of them has been at Paris for some months past . This conduct on the part of the Archbishop was at first attributed to aa excess of religious zeal , but at length the representations of the injured parties reached the foot of the Throne . The cause has been investigated before the tribunals , who have unmasked the

    hypocrite , and avenged his victims . The sentence passed upon the Archbishop enjoins , * that he shall ask pardon in the pulpit for the scandal he has brought upon religion , declare the innocence of the parties , reinstate them as Canons , and afterwards , deprived of his own dignity , submit to be shut up in a castle for life /* Who can now take upon him to sav * that

    a serious reformation is not going on in Spain ? Is there an Episcopal see , is there a clerical dynasty in Europe , that does not feel itself wounded through the sides of this Archbishop ? In other respects the work of reformation proceeds : it is not long since a Papal Bull was obtained by the King of Spain to dispose of ecclesiastical property to the amount of three millions . Now , as the superstition of popery is not like Hebrew

    roots , that are said to thrive best upon barren ground , the consequences of all this sppliation may easily be traced . In Portugal , likewise , the lower orders of people are becoming more enlightened . About four years ago , I saw a series of a small periodical pamphlet , published by an Ecclesiastic in Lisbon , who appeared to be a man of science and of liberal ideas . This publication consisted of anecdotes and" pleasantries , calculated

    to afford an innocent and rational entertainment . Most of them , I observed , were translated from the French and English

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    ) French Applicdtioii of the Prophecies , SO : - S 4 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/9/