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impieties upon the stage . For this reason the prohibition of Moliere ' s play appeared totally unaccountable ; particularly as the author had ever been esteemed the most moral , as well as the most celebrated of all theatrical
writers . The prince of Conti beings asked why Moliere ' s play should be forbidden when it contained nothing offensive to genuiue religion and morality ^ and only exposed hypocrisy . The prince answered with great spirit and judgmeat , " I am not at all surprised at this , for Harlequin onl y ridicules religion in general , whereas Tartuflfe has ventured tn expose its first fninist ' erS *
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No . XXXVIL
Carnal Reason . Many of the teamed Turks , says Thornton ( Pres . St . of Turk . ) refuse an implicit belief to all the miracles recorded in the Koran ; but none of them so far contradict the national prejudices as publicly to withhold their assent . An ejfendif skilled in mathematics , 'was asked howiJie could believe
that Mahomet broke the star of ihe moon , and caught half of it falling from heaven , in his sleeve ; he replied , that indeed in the course of nature it could not be dcmey nay was contrary to it ; but as the miracle is in the Koran
affirmed to be wrought , he resigned his reason and embraced the miracle , ioty added he , God can d " o whatever he pleases .
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XXXVIII . Mischiefs of an Equivocal Expression . It will be recollected * that after the battle of JFriedland , so fatal to the Ku * 5 ian arms , ;» ft 4 the
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treaty of Tilsit * so adyautageQ ii * to France in its resets , Russia offered her mediation to effect a peace between Great Britain and France and her allies . The reply to this-offer was , that there xwr *
secret articles in the treaty of Tilsit which militated against British interests . General Budberg , the Russian minister ^ said in answer , that there were some secret articles in the treaty which in no way con *
cerned the interests of England * This expression it will be perceiv . ed is equivocal , and may ltiean , either that there were secret-ar ^ tides , some of which in no way
concerned the interests of ERg « land ; or that there some secret articles , none of which in any way concerned the interests of England . The Russian minister meant , there can be no doubt , to be understood in the latter sense . It was convenient to the ministry in the House of Commons to inpret him in the former , and then
to add one more to the many false and wicked pretexts which bare been alledged for the rejection of all overtures to negotiation , a , od for the continuance of war .
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XXXIX , Recantation of William Barrett , A Fellow of Gonville and Caws college , Cambridge , ( William Barrett ) ventured April 29 , 3 595 , to preach an ArminiaK sermon ia the face of the university , at St .
Mary ' 8 ; a bold and dangerous attempt at that time , when $ <* church of England was in Calvinistic $ lory . So Barrett found . it . The university wer
fended , both at ms presumptl 0 < P ' in daring to avow his novel , heterodox opinions , and for mentioning some great divines in t ^ rms ^ &c
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/34/
