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    of ¦ ¦ E stamene . They shew us the Virgin feeding a monk from her own bosom ; angels habited like friars , chanting the matins of the convent , because the friars were asleep . They paint the meekest and holiest of men torturing and murdering the best and the wisest for professing a different religious creed .

    " We have indeed much religion , but no Christian chanty . We hurry with our pecuniary offerings to advance any pious work , but we do not scruple to defraud our fellow-men . We confess every inontl ) , but our vices last us our lives . We insist ( almost exclusively ) on the name of Christians , while our conduct is worse than that

    of infidels . ] n one concluding word , we fear the dark dungeon of the inquisition , but not the awfiil—the tremendous tribunal of God . " * This is the representation of a Spaniard , Though the colouring is high , it is a copy from nature , and the shades might have been heightened had he witnessed the conduct of

    numbers of the monastic orders during the late convulsions of Spain . There arc , indeed , few examples of such infamous want of principle as was exhibited by many of them on the king ' s return . Those who had gone about preaching the rights of man ,

    proclaiming the wisdom and exalting the blessings of the new constitution ; exhorting their hearers , often with a vehemence little becoming their situation , to live and die for its preservation , and hurling their bitterest

    anathemas against those who dared to questio n the wisdom of a single article , —when the king refused to sign'that constitution , became the eulogists of every act of tyranny , the persecutors of the liberates t and the chosen friends of "Ferdinand . + They have had their

    * Translated from a little tract called " Van y Toros , " attributed to Jovellanos . It was written before the Revolution . -f Such men as Father Martinez , ( Mercenario ) who'has been appointed one of the preachers of the royal chapel , should he held up to public detestation .

    u , Grande epoea de nuestra felicidad y de nuestra reg-enemeion ! Rubricad ) a constitution con un juramento inviolable , selladla con la sansrre de vucstras venas . Sus legisladores han sido inspirados per la SaViduriadivina—; Gloriosa inatalacion de

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    reward : and though a few of them have occupied the vacant sees , and have been caressed and recompensed las Cortes ! Peliz transito de una casi mortal agonia a una vigorosa robustez politica . Mejor de los * roh » iernos—Cortes ! precioso nombre qui despierta en nuesira almatodas las ideas de la antig-ua libertad y

    grandeza Espanola ! Solo reinedio . de nuestros males , suspi rados por todo Espaiiol , amante de su patria . Constitueion sabia y liberal —exceisa fabrica I j Que ofrecen Greeia y Roma comparable a . nuestro augusto congreso yasu codigo fan completam elite acabado ? jNacion sabia yentendida , que proclama con voz energica su liberta ^ j su

    independencia y soberania ! Libre e mdependiente , y no el patiituonio de iringuna familia 6 persona . El Rey no puede . JEl Rey no puede . - Averguenzense los brutales idolatias del Atila 6 Gengis Khan de la Euro pa—la Espaiia tiene una barrera firmisiiua contra el despotismo .

    EmancipadosEspaftoles—seg-unda vez loor sempiterno , bimnos de bendieion a nuestrossabios leg"isladores ! Leyes fnndamentales , liberales ysabias—despues del catecismo deJa religion estudialas , meditalas , canonizalas —a la par del catecismo de la religion pon en las manos de tus hixos y nietos el codig-o constitucional . Pronnnciad con

    entusiasmo el juramento inviolable que va a ser rnbricado con la sangre del divino cordero , y que los angeles liabran ya escrito en las columuas del empireo . Los corazonesCastellanos dicen nincho mas que lo que los labios pronuncian , ardientemente desean que al la do de aquella ara au « "usta

    se erija una pirarnide , donde sea escrita en letras de oro esta inscription sencilla , Juramos ser fieles d la constitucion : por ella viviremos gloriosos : y por ella ^ si menesler fuer ¦

    This recreant friar in e lei for to the Patriarch of the Indies , dated 20 lh February ? 1815 , thus writes : Of the Cortos : " Hicieron pnbiicar y jurar con la mas escandalosa premura una

    constitucion ig'norada . Jbu formacion fue viciosa c ilegal ; el codio « o fue hecho por los amaiios y mains artcs'dc una faccion de anarquistas . Cortes—noinbrc hoy de in fa us to a ^ ilero—Junta de cabalas Gaditanns . ' *

    Of the constitution : a Se la publico casi en la forma qui se publico el Alcoran todo por sorpresa , todo preinura y todo militor . ; Sus tlias de torrorismo ! Jure uu odio eterno a los prineipios dernocraticos de la Haniada constitucion y las ideas amirquicas c irreligiosas del partido liberal . Of Ferdinand : ci Nucstro idolatrado rey ,

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    &tate of Religion in Spaift . ,. 597

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    vol . xiv . 4 it

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/9/