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    Unitarianism at Ne&York . SiB Liverpool , July 6 , 1819 . As nothing : tettds more to excite zeal , and to ei * coii * a § re the-efforts tff our Unitarian brethren , than the knowledge of the success of their fellow-labourers at

    a distance , I think it will afford pleasure to the readers of the Repository to find ^ at the friends of religious truth are not inactive on the otber side the Atlantic . What has been done at Baltimore , Charlestown , Georgetown , &c , is sufficient to prove , that we way expect the most important

    results to the cause of pure Christianity in a country where greater facilities are afforded for the spread of liberal opinions than any other in the world . The following extract of a letter from a friend , dated

    29 th May last , will shew that a new and ex-tensive field of usefulness is opened in one oi the most populous cities in the American Union , where hitherto , I ; believe , oar doctrines have been little known , and certainly not preached .

    " An Unitarian society is about being , formed in New York , where Mr . Channing and Mr . Palfrey , of Boston , conducted services a few days ago to very crowded audiences . *' Probably some of your readers are enabled to give some farther particulars of the progress of this infant church . H . T .

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    South America * Thjc following passages , literally translated fram six sermons preached in Caracas in 1816 , have just appeared in the daily papers . The sermons are printed and circulated by order of King Ferdinand ' s Governor , sanctioned by the Archbishop , and commanded to be read after divine service

    in all places where the Spaniards h&d the upper hand . We should like to know how many recruits their exceeding stupidity and impudence added to the Patriot armies . When the reader reflects that it is Ferdinand

    whose divinityship is so spoken of , he will think of the Egyptian vulgar who used to worship onions and cats . " . A king partakes of the divinity : he is another man from the moment he is invested with the august divinity . The name itself of Christ , a

    name consecrated to designate the Son of the Most High , belongs to him . hi power 'he exceeds all the great , as well as the very body of his empire , « cc- « tc . "~ P . 20 . " Americans , I now address myself to you , Tjhe Kings of Spainare they who have always alleviated your distress $ x wl | o have at all times protected

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    you against a multitude of dangerous enemies ; who have preserved you in peace and happiness ; who have always 4 ieen anxious for yoi , ir mental improvement , careful of your productions and of those manufactures and

    mercantile pursuits analogous to your circumstances ; and if they have deprived you of a free trade With foreigners , it has been to preserve you from freedom , from fanaticism and from thf spirit of independence and irreligion * which people of that kind usually introduce with their merchandize . '—P .. 72 .

    *' Our princes have also in their favour the sanction oi the Holy See , more particularly that of Pope Alexander 6 th , who , after most serious deliberations by his bull , declared them Lords of the West Indies ^ and imposed the heaviest excommunications against whatsoever person , even

    emperors or kings , who , without special permission from our monarchs , should interfere in the conquests of these said Indies . And can any one doubt that all the insurgents of the present day , who have invaded the possessions of our monarchs , stand liable to the penalty of this excommunication ?" - — P . 77 *

    " The sovereign authority of prince * does not depend on any contract they may have celebrated with their subjects , but on the will ? uid determination of God . It is the work of Dtrine Wfcdom that there should be princes , monarchies and empires , in like manner as there should be inferiors and

    vasH&ls . It is God who , by the election of sovereigns , maintains the order of nations . There is ho power in heaven nor in earth that does not emanate from God . Princes receive their power immediately from God , and not from the people . That

    dazzling chimera of equality , which is the very principle of insubordination itself , was also , Venezuelans * that which was about to deprive this so Catholic a country of its religion and

    king . The freedom of worship and religion was already > abouMo be sanctioned < as a principal ^ atticle of the impious plans <* f that system ; and beforethese horrors were sanctioned , the freedom of conscience and of

    worship were seen practised among you . * —P . 34 , ( This alludes to the time when the Patriots were in possession Of Caracas . )

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    Inttmgtnft . —vFertign * South America . 1 459

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/59/