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i enee strengthen the call of patriotism , V be it your first prayer , and endeavour ! kAt ' the earth may enjoy her sabbath . March 29 th , 1815 . Ed . ———^^^^—
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and had made a play according * to the custom of their country , when Thomas dug a grave , in which he laid himself down , desiring- his companions to cover him up for the space of one hour , but yet if he did not rise ag ^ ain in another place in that time , they were to open the grave . Aberdeen and Preston were appointed to >
close up the grave , and Adam to play on the g-ombah , ( African Music ) all of which was punctually performed . Some other Negroes belonging to the estate appeared , however , before the ceremony was completely finished , and had sense enough to open the grave 5 but it was too late , the unfortunate victim of his own credulity being- dead . His honour the custos charg-ed
the Jury on the crime , whea they found them g-uilty of manslaughter ; and the following- sentence was passed , viz . each to receive thirty-nine lashes , on the spot where the catastrophe took place , in the presence of all the estate ' s Negroe v s , then to be severely burnt in the hand , and to suffer one month ' s solitary confinement in the county gaol .
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- There are new editions of the Bible now printing at Warsaw , Posen , Thorn and Cracow . This has appeared the more
necessary , as since the creation and aggrandizement of the Duchy of Warsaw , the constitution of which has made the people free * more than a thousand parish schools have been built , and endowed by the liberality of the noble proprietors , to enlighten the respectable class of the industrious peasantry . These establishments
hafe been made after a plan formed by the commission o-f public instruction , under the precedency of the Count Stanislaus Yotocki . The provinces , the most distant from Poland , will be ready to do the same if they are permitted . Editions of the Bible are also making- at RorsemienielL
atWilna , in the Poionese and Lithuanian languages ; and even in Samogitia , in the language of the country . It is g-ratifyingto the heart , ( says the Morning Chronicle , from which we extract this , ) to hear of this progress to light , for it is the true and certain path to liberty and happiness .
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( France J— Paris , Feb . 1 . The Sixth Chamber of Correctional Police , this day , condemned to five years' imprisonment , a fine of 200 francs , and the expenses of suit , a man named Nagede ^ who called
himself Le Bon JDieu ^ on account of his alleged inspiration from heaven ! It appears this audacious hypocrite had swindled many of his neighbours out of various mms of money—particularly the female * ex—in consequence of his blasphemous pretensions .
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The Catholics of Ireland have resolved to petition Parliament for unqualified emanci pation . But their divisions will weaken the effect of their application . They have broken with their old parliamentary friends , Lord Donouglimore and Mr . Grattan , and Lord Fing-all will no longer be their chairman .
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Jamaica . African superstition . A special slave court was held at the Allay " * Vere , on the «> th of December , for the trial of the following slaves , viz .
Ab-^ deen , Adam and Preston , belonging to 3 « t Savanna / h Estate , charged with the murde r of another slave , named Thomas , «*© Property of John Holmes , Esq . by b «* rymg him alive , It appeared from the eviucirc e that the parties were all congees .
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Early in the present month will be published the long-promised work on Education by Messers Shepherd , Joyce and Dr . Carpenter . It will , we understand include a great variety of topics , treated in different ways according" to the nature of the subjects . In some cases - as in the
Belles letters , Geography , Chronology j mental and moral , natural and experimental philosophy , &c . The articles contained in " Systematic education" may be considered in themselves , as introductions to the several d « i > artmentsof knowledge :
in others as in history , the various branches of the mathematics , & , e . an elucidation of the first principles will be given , and a course of reading pointed out by which the student may by his own industry gradually ascend from the lower to to the higher branches of science .
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The Inquisitor-Geneial of Spain has issued a proclamation against Free Masons , \ vhich is ordered to be read in all churches , and to be fixed up at all church-doors . This wise and pious personage charges the Masonic Societies with " seditiou , insubordination , every error and all crimes . "
The Pope is inclined to act his character with zeal and assiduity . He has banished from the Ecclesiastical States , the consulgeneral of the King of Naples ( Murat ) , and assigns for this harsh measure , among-st other reasons , the cousuPs circulating anti-christian opinions .
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Intelligence . — -France . —Spain . 197
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/69/
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