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* heir homage to the Duke < T Angouleme . In traversing' on their way the territory of Caloisson , they shouted Vive le Hoi \ A das les Bonapartistcs . The inhahitants of Caloisson believing themselves insulted by these demonstrations of joy , shouted on their side . A bastes Brigands / this evening on
on your return we shall have more than 600 . The national guards on their return in the evening " , having * demanded to he lodged at Caloisson , because it was night , and they could not return to their Communes 5 a tumult ensued , in which one of them , named Marcel , of Montpezal , was killed by a
musket shot , and another national guard was dangerously wounded in the thigh . As snon as this event was known at Nismes , 200 men of the troops of the line , and a brigade of gendarmerie set out in the night between the 7 th and 8 th to put a stop to the disorder . Eight individuals who were
pointed out as the principals in this affray , were arrested and conveyed to the prison of Nismes . —Some troops remain at Caloisson , both to maintain order , and to guarantee the inhabitants from the vengeance which the neighbouring Communes would otherwise take for the death of the Royalist who has been killed .
From a private source we have an account of another atrocious act of assassination committed at Nismes , on the person © f General de la Garde , the commanding officer there , who , in endeavouring to quiet the turbulence of a bigoted mob was shot through the heart . This was a very few days after the Duke d'ANGOULEME had
been there , who , as some of the French Journals would have us believe , endeavoured to allay the spirit of persecution , and whom policy would of course induce publicly to profess principles of liberality and moderation ; but who originally instigated
the abominable persecution of the Protestants . The sycophants of the Angouleme faction may prate about the instructions he gave , and the sorrow that he feels—but who let loose the fury of the bigots to whom he gave aims and the green-edged cockade —formed them into battalions—and
denominated al ) Protestants to he Bonapartists ? When Lord George Gorpon roused the blind bigotry of the mob in St . George s Fields against the Catholics , he did not foresee that they would burn down London . Bigotry in all sects is the same , every where and at all times . We see ^ by the French Journals , in the article from Nismes , that the presence of the Duke was the signal for
tumult and re-action , in which the lives of individuals were sacrificed , and what can be inferred from this , in spite of professions of moderation , but that such professions are at complete variance with secret instructions , or at least with private hints and insinuaations . It is fitting * that against persecution for religious opinions the feeling's of mankind should be arrayed , and that bigot *
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should be taught that they cannot tyrannise over the minds of others with impunity . Morn . Chron . Nov . 24 .
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718 Intelligence . —Wright and Cooper ' s Missionary Tour in Cornwall .
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DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . D / Tessrs . Wright and Cooper * Missionar y Tour in Cornwall . [ Extracted by order of the Unitarian Fund Committee , from R . Wright ' s Missionary Journal , from June to October , 1815 . ]
This I deem one of the most important missions I ever engaged in , and will , I trust , through the divine blessing , on which all our success must depend , be productive of happy effects . Thougb full of labour , the execution of it afforded me high pleasure , and I bless God , that , in the course of hi *
providence , he hath called me to so good a work , and is pleased to enable me to perform it . What can afford greater satisfaction , or purer joy , than to witness the spread of divine truth , evangelical righteousness , and Christian charity , and to promote their progress ?
In Cornwall I spent * twenty-eight days , preached thirty-seven times , and in nineteen different towns , viz . the following . 1 . Falmouth . In this town I found a respectable , though not numerous , Society of Unitarians . Most of them w ere formerly Methodists , and were
excluded from the Methodist Society merely on account of their opinions . They meet regularly for public worship , and the ministration of the word , three times on the Lord ' s day . They have also a prayer meeting on the IiQrd's-day morning , at seven o ' clock , and a week evening lecture .
Considering the opposition they have met with , and still meet with , from other religious parties , the progress they have made as a society is considerable , and their meetings are respectably attended . They hold
their meetings in a large room , which is very inconveniently situated . They retain the best part of Methodism , zeal , a high degree of the devotional spirit , and the habit of attending diligently- to public worship and other religious exercises . They are
* We left Tavistock on Thursday , Aug . 17 th , and during that and the two following days had no opportunity of preaching , owing to the rain , and other unfavourable circumstances . After leaving Truro , on our way back , Tuesday , Sept . 12 th , no further opportunity of preaching offered till
we reached Plymouth , Thursday , Sept , 14 th : and , indeed , previous fatigue , and the heat of the weather , which rendered traveling on foot very laborious , rendered me unfit for preaching" in the open air * which requires great exertion : consequently the days employed in preaching" wen twenty-three only .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 718, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/54/
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