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    ing : any other in Spain . Adieu to all hopes of this country . Better to bend under the severest yoke of political tyranny with religious freedom , than to enjoy the utmost possible civil liberty tinder such an abominable ecclesiastical thraldom . We cannot expect a country to be crowned with success which thus devotes its inhabitants either to groan under a superstition which debases the human mind , or to sink into an apathy and contempt of all religion . Fine speeches were made on the occasion by

    the Regency and the president of the Cortex , magnifying the prospects of happiness and glory under the new system , looking forward to it for the preservation of true religion and real liberty ; but , alas ! these are all pompous words , and when divested of their glare , they proclaim the melancholy tale :

    Spaniards , ye are doomed to be the dupes of your priests ; the words of our Saviour and eternal life shall not reach your eyes or your ears , but under the contaminating hands of the Inquisition . No man shall dare to utter his thoughts on religion , without exposing himself to the rancour of priestcraft . We quit this

    melancholy subject , impressed with the sincerest regret for the unhappy nation , and trusting that if this wretched constitution should succeed in Spain , still the colonies will think for themselves , and separate from a country which imposes such a yoke upon its subjects . In rhe interiorfof the country , the guerillas con-

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    1812 . Fe 1 » . 8 th . died at Woolton , Mr . TH # MAS LLOYD , assistant teacher at the Rev . W . Shepherd ' s school He was a man of singularly extensive acquirements , being well versed in the Latin , French and Italian languages , and possessing a tolerable acquaintance with the German and the Greek . In

    mathematics he was profoundl y skilled . Hia integrity was unimpeachable , and his manners were at once simple and cheerful . About fourteen years ago the exercise of his poetic talent unfortunately became to him the fruitful source of distress * and in its consequences brought him to an untimely end . Having com posed a song * which was pronounced

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    tinue their usual occupations , but the French interest is gradually strengthen * ing itself . The English have marched out of Portugal and are besieging Badajoz , which is defended by an able engineer . An outwork has been taken , and our troops are only three hundred yards from the walls , but still the place is expected hot to surrender without much loss on the part of the assailants . The report of the * Spanish colonies is more favourable to the mother country , for the insurgents at Mexico are said to be completely subdued ; but little

    dependence can be placed on accounts from these distant possessions . The United States continue their warlike preparations , but there is every reason to hope that they will not give up their love of peace on account of the inconveniences that have befallen them from the folly and wickedness of Europe .

    In parliament many questions have been agitated * , among them the flagellation of soldiers was peculiarly interesting : the allowance to the Princesses brought forward many pertinent remarks on a book , said to have been printed , but not published , by Mr- Perceval , relative to the conduct of the Princess of Wales : but the most

    important question is that relative to the Catholics , which has been decided against them by the house of hoxd $ 9 and is expected to occupy the House of Commons for two nights with the same success .

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    by a jury of his country , to be seditious , he was sentenced to suffer two yeats imprisonment , and to pay a fine of 50 L Soon after he was conveyed to the House of Correction , at Preston , which was appointed as the place of his confinement , his brother addressed to him a letter in

    which he expressed himself in terms of strong indignation at the result of his trial . This letter was opened by the jailor , and by him transmitted to a magistrate , who , instead of proceeding against the writer , gave orders that the unconscious prisoner * to whom it was addressed , should be put into close confinement . These ordert were but too well obeyed * Every morning Mrv Lloyd

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/70/