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spreads before him a plaintain-ieaf . When this is done , rive Bishop , standing in the church-door , pronounces the benediction , and the elders , walking through between the rows , give to each his portion . **—We should be glad to
obtain a fuller account of this interesting people . We are anxious especially to know their doctrines , and to ascertain how far they have escaped the monstrous errors of the Trinity , atonement , &c . which have prevailed in the Western part of the world . Religion in Inefta . — 'A : clergyman of the English church in India ( C . Buchanan ) , is bringing forward this subject before the public , and is full of complaints on the neglect of the Company to the eternal interests of its subjects . He represents the English as losing all sentiments of their paternal religion on landing i » India , and as recognising no traee of it
except by the flag which declares to them the return of Sunday . They have but few churches and but few priests ; the padre , as they call the priest , is not held in very high reverence , arid , as is usual with gentlemen in that character , he bears it exceedingly ill , that he
does not receive greater countenance from the highest authorities . We may judge of the notions of our countrymen in this respect , by an anecdote related of a Colonel , who was exemplary in his attendance on the Padre ' s instructions , and pointed out by the parson to his brother officers as a model of due
religious subordination . From some circumstance the Colonel was transferred to the command of a native corps , and the Padre sav ? him no more by the Sunday drum . The : other officers had now their turn , and when spoken to on their non-attendance at Sunday service , constantly referred to the religious Colonel , who now seemed to think such service
no longer necessary . The Padre was thus obliged to call the Colonel to account , who replied , with the utmost *<* ngfroidy that when he was in an European corps , it was . his duty , he knew ,
to attend his men to church ; but as in his new regiment his men never went , nor were expected to go to church , he had no business there himself , and was at liberty to follow his own inclinations .
POLlTICO-RELIGfOUS . Negro-Slavery . —The Spanish Government , which has hitherto pursued a more rigorous policy Cowards its colonies than
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any other European power , seems to-have relaxed its jealousy , and to have adopted the design of meliorating the condition * and ultimately liberating the slaves in its Trans-Atlantic possessions . A law has been enacted at the Havannah , which
requires that every slave imported there , shall be publicly registered ; that the master shall allow every slave one day in the week to labour for himself ; and that if the slave by his labour on this free , day acquire sufficient money , his master
shall sell him another free day , and-so on till he have bought off all the six days , when he shall become perfectly free ; the price' of each day being , the fifth part of the sum paid by the master for the slave * Amidst all the
evils of the times , such proofs of the progress of knowledge and the cdnsequent increase of liberality and humanity are truly encouraging ! Religious Liberty in Holland . —~\ xi the
new constitution imposed by tne Emperor Napoleon upon Holland , there are two articles concerning religion , which we copy with pleasure , as a new evidence of the prevalence of liberal sentiments on the Continent . " Art . 1 . Tha
King and the Law extends equal protection to all the modes of religion professed in the state . By their authority shall be regulated every thing that may be judged necessary relative to the organization , the protection , and the exercise of ail kinds of worship . The
exercise of religious duties shall in all cases be performed within the walls of the respective churches of the different sects . —II , The King shall enjoy in his palaces , and in any and every place where he may : fix his residence , the free and public exercise of his religion . "
Disturbances in Turkey . —The Turkish empire is far from being tranquil towards the Danube , and the pilgrimages to Mecoa are impeded by the progress made by the new sect of the followers
of Wechal , in Arabia . We know sg > little of the latter country , that we have no means of ascertaining the real power and extent of this sect ; but it seems by all accounts to be very formidable , and may be the instrument in the hands of Providence to , overthrow the delusions
of Mahometism . The two pests which have for so long a period disturbed and harassed the Christian world seem to be on the point of expiring , and the next generation may witness the downfal of
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44 * Religious and Politico-Religious Intelligence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/52/
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