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with no sparing hand , the finger of haired and of scorn points them out to the execration of betrayed and suffering millions , while their names will go down to posterity , accompanied with reproaches , curses and infamy . If those be forgiven who
have gone on in one consistent career of servitude and degradation ; who have betrayed no cause of liberty—for they are by habit and by election slaves ; who have sacrificed no manly principles—for manly principles they had none;—still no charity can wash away the stains of those traitors to
Nuestro suspirado monarea el mas justo de los reyes . ' * Of himself : " Mi conducta me granjeo el favor de todos los buenos de Galicia , que roe miratxm como una columna del partido servil . El consejo de Castilla me honro confiandome la censura de vaiios
papeles qui califique de sediciosos , subeisivos e injuriosos a la soberania de S . M . El primer nombrado por la Junta de Obispos por la censura de todos los escritos revolucionarios e impios fue el Padre Martinez nemine discrepa ? ite . El ayuntamiento de Santiago me comisiono qae diere gracias a S . M . por el reestablecimiento de la Inqxtisieion pidiendo a S . M por los P . P . Jesnitas . c El Rey en atencion al distingiiido inerito y servicios del Padre Martinez' me nombra su predict dor supernmnei-ario : y despues , ' S . M , en considcracion a la solida literatura de V . S
y a los servicios hechos a su real persona , la religion y al estado , ' le nombra Coiisexero de la Suprema- de la Inquisicioii !" Of the above sermon : " liable con la ligereza y superficialidad de un orador que babla de lo que no enti < mde . Era poco
kistruido on el derecho publico Espafiol . l-lable constiLucional y por conseqilentc disparafadamente . Sermon de adomos , floret , y exagerados hiperboles , sedicioso , subersivo e injtirioso a . la soberania de S . M . "
Another disgraceful example may be quoted in that of" Fattier Velez , the present Bishop of Cewta , who has lately published a hoolv , entitled Defeiisa del Altar y del Trono , so infamous , so full of outrages , insults , and shameless mendacity , that the very Inquisition refused to license
its impression ; and our mitred libeller delivered a copy to the king- , whose taste it so admirably suited , that he issued an immediate man date , signed by hjs rOyal hand , ordering its instant publication , f believe it is the only book which lias been printed for years without the Inquisition ' s authority .
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freedomr to humanity , to Spain , who so atrociously deserted the banners of their country ' s welfare , to range themselves around the standards of a profligate and unexampled tyranny . The most notorious of those ,
however , who co-operated to establish that fatal and ferocious despotism which now degrades and oppresses Spain , have already become its victims . In their sorrow and sufferingand exile , let the unshaken friends of
constitutional liberty , who are scattered over Europe , console themselves with remembering that their personal fate is no more severe than that of the base tools of a wretched monarch ,
who have nothing to accompany their wanderings bat sadness , shame and self-reproach , dark and barren prospects , and desolate remembrances ; while those shall receive from all
around them , the smiles and the praises of the wise and good . They may look back on the ** bread ' of virtue which they have " cast on the waters , " and forward in the confident hope that they " shall find it again after many days : " but they who sacrificed their country to their coldhearted and selfish avarice , have
wholly erred in their calculations . Their country is fallen indeed , but they , too , have 'been buried in its ruins . Ferdinand , who has just as much of gratitude as of any other virtue , * has already trampled on the miserable tools of his early tyranny . It were well if those who " put their trust in princes , " would study the
many impressive lessons which the reign of the Spanish tyrant affords . It is consolatory to turn from the profligacy and vice so often prominent amidst extraordinary political revolutions , to the spirit of truth and liberty which they always elicit ; and
• Spain has had a most triumphant list of patriots . Their names must not be recorded : for , to receive the tribute of affection and gratitude from any hater of a tyrant , would be sufficient
* The title of Tntrrato is , in fact , the Spanish despot ' s light par excellence . A fow more such examples would dissolve the . spell which holds so many slaves in l > oncla . o-e , and lead them to douht whether " Suck divinity as doth Ledge a king ^ < ran really he of celestial origin .
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598 State of Religion in Spain .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/10/
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