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reader of this Retrospect upon his children , that it is in vain in any man or body of men to assume the name of Protestant or Christian , unless he discards from his I > reast the spirit of the Church of Rome , aiid embraces the spirit of love , the spirit of Christ , the true spirit of the g'ospel of |> eace . This will teach him , that any
assumption to himself of civil privileges , in consequence of his belief of Christianity in any of its modes , is a violation of hid duty to Christ , is a preference of the traditions of man to the commands of God , is countenancing * in a degree tyranny and
^ persecution . The committee of the Protestant Society was summoned to a meeting- called for the especial purpose of faking * into consideration the case of thejir unhappy brethren
in France , and it has published a series of resolutions , which ought to be read in every Protestant meeting- of this king-dom . The principles of religious liberty are laid down with firmness and precision ; the case of the French Protestants is
commiserated as becomes Christians ; the assistance of their brethren in this country is promised to them ; the administration is called upon toexert itself in remonstrances with the French government upon this occasion ; and copies of the resolutions are directed to be presented to the
meml > ers of the cabinet , and to be circulated throughout Europe . They are not likely to gain admission into the French papers ' ; where the press is held in a state of abject slavery : but there are others on the continent which are not completely devoted to the cause of tyranny and irreligion . It will be a consolation at least to our
brethren in France to know , that they have advocates in this country . The impious cruelty of Louis the Fourteenth drove jnany of their ancestors to take an asylum in this country , readily granted by our ancestors . Indelible will he the disgrace of the Bourbons , if , forgetful that the best man of their family was a Protestant *
they should imitate the wicked conduct of the worst man in it , and that having received an asylum for inany years in a Protestant country , and Laving * been restored to the throne solely by Protestant force ( a very unhappy expression ) tliey should prove themselves the decided enemies ot Protestants and of religious toleration .
The Protestant Society is not the only ne which , has taken an interest in the cause of humanity and religion . The ministers of the Three Denominations of Dissenters in London and its vicinity , have also had a very numerous meeting ' , and it
cannot be doubted , tbat every congregation of Protestants in this island will thus be made acquainted wiili the su ^ erings of ttoeir brethren in France 3 and the voice of humanity . tlau » raise 3 in England , will
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reach to the thrones of the allied powers and produce an amelioration if not ia the hearts at least in the conduct of the persecutors . Indeed , a recent event will nave excited an alarm in the cabinet of France . Thft Duke of Angouleme has been in the south of France , and in consequence of the
petitions of the Protestants , leave was given for the opening * of their chapels at Nismes The very circumstance of leave "being given for the opening * of their chapels ought to lead into the inquiry , by whose authority and by what arts they had been
kept shut . This inquiry , it is to be hoped , wiJl be carried on with perseverance and integrity , and whatever may be the station or the rank of those who instigated the persecution , it is right that their names should be brought forward , and
they should be subjected to the just indi gnation of every man of humanity . The populace , which had been stimulated to the preceding- acts of violence , were not easily brought to the new change , an the General of the place called out bis troop *
for the maintenance of public order . In the exercise of his dnty ^ he was shot by an assassin , probably thought that he was now doing * equal service to that in which lie had been employed in the massacre of the Protestants . The assassin
has , however , been secured , and it will be seen , whether , if he is brought to trial , he may not make some important discoveries . This cfise will not pass- unnoticed in France , as the public is now alive to the important subject , and even the papers in England , which have endeavoured as much as possible to conceal or palliate
these enormities , begin now to express kind of return to Protestant feeling * . It would be unjust , however , not to withdraw from this censure the Morning Chronicle , which , from the beginning * , ha * advocated the cause of the Protestants ii
France , and been the means , in great measure , of exciting * the public attention . On this account , it lias undergone the census of another paper , conducted by a man of talents and education , whose only aim seem * to be to stifle the principle of relit
gion , liberty , honour and morals . The cry of the legitimate right of th # Bourbons to the crown of France has excited a . re-action in that country , and i » spite of the censors of the press , the ques ^ tion has been agitated by a very able pen , A judge had the impudence to assert , that kings reigned by the grace . of God , and not by any constitution ; thus destroying at once the legitimate right of the reigning family in this king dom to the throne . But ho throne in Europe * established on better principles than that of England . The Brunswick family vva called to teiffd over jis , by , Ae . Ay a constitutional powers , th * ' Queen ' , the Lord * ,
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7 $ Q State of Puttie Affair * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/62/
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