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to enter into any argument about it ; though it was worthy of his serious consideration how far either express passages of scri p ture , or the general spirit of Christianity warranted such epithets in speaking of those , who , whether mistaken or not , had jtrofessed to be Christians , whose lauguage
when speaking on religious subjects , was grave and respectful , and against whose characters nothinghad even been alleged , much less substantiated . We were vastly civil and reasonably cold ' These anecdotes nnd many more which might be detailed , may serve as a sample of the candour and
ingenuousness of the orthodox , who , notwithstanding they make a common cause against usy are greatly divided among themselves : for instance , Bishop White says , our Lord is * God the Son , having derived front the Father all the essential attributes of the Godhead , " but Dr , Wilson will have it that in the Godhead are three somethings ,
yet only one person : in the teeth of this is the Litany and Shorter Catechism . These good folks , who contradict not only each other , but even their own standards , are all Christian brethren and sound in the faith " /' June 16 , 1814 .
" Last year two of the ministers of Boston visited us , a circumstance highly gratifying . We consider it of importance to our cause that , we should appear , not as a sect of yesterday , but as the followers of Christ and in communion with other Christian churches .
The orthodox do us the honour to rail against us every Sunday . Blessed illustration of the spirit of Calvinism ! Alas I for the craft * if a small handful of people without a
regular minister can create and keep up & constant alarm . To complete the climax of Presbyterian absurdity , the General Assembly of that church have decreed that no Christian ordinance
or ministerial act is valid , if the person who officiates holds Unitarian errors ; und they are to rebaptize some persons who had been baptized in their injhacij h the late Dr . Priestley . "
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We are happy to learn , notwithstanding the distraction of the public mind in Paris by recent events , that measures of internal improvement are
still pursued . We have received the most gratifying information concerning the introduction of the British System of Education into France . Monsieur Martin , who acquired a knowledge of that system at the royal free school in
the Borough-road , has formed a preparatory school in Paris for the training of monitors , in which , during less than two months , he has full v established
on the Continent the reputation of this excellent mode of teaching . This school is visited daily by persons of the first condition , and also by many of the British officers , who ta . ke
delight in patronising tills example of the schools , which do so much honour to their own country . The British and Foreign School Society have experienced the most
perfect success in their laudable efforts to assist those benevolent characters * who were desirous to procure for France the blessings of the new system of education . The King , impressed with a sense of the benefits which
France must derive from an universal education , has re-appointed the Committee , which was nominated by the former government , fuid has confirmed to Mr . Martin a buiiding , to be appropriated as a model school for 40 O
boys . Lessons , on the plan of the British system , have been printed at the royal press , and those for the higher classes consist of extracts from the Old and New Testament . We
understand that in P ~ ris measures are now taking for organising no less than jive schools , one of which is at the expense of the Duchess de Duras , a lady in high esteem with the roval famil y * Letters have been rtceived from the departments , announcing their intentions to establish schools on the British
system , and at bordeaux they only wait the return of tranquillity to establish a model school , from which masters ma } be supplied toother towns in the South of France , Regarding , as we do , the exertions now being made to promote general education , as the thief consolation of our times , we rejoice at the rapid progress of this
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Intelligence . —Foreign —Miscellaneous . 659
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w >*—Naples , Sept . 28 . —His M : ij < sty has appointed a committee for the revision of the penal code . We are assured that the torture will not he reestablished , and vhat the existing forms of process will be retained . —An edict ° f the 3 rd grants a peusiou to a des-
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cendant of the celebrated Beccaria , author of the work on Crimes and Punishments .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/59/
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