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disposition to do what was forbidden ; and stich was the increased demand for ' Vdliaiie , that seven new editions were published and sold rapidly . " These were followed by new editions of Rousseau , and ether French classics , who now agaiu descended from their shelves , and became { or a moment the order of the day . "—Pp .
105 , 106 . The ancient ardour of the French for literature has given way to zeal for politics . a Such is the present avidity for political intelligence , that Paris is filled with reading-rooms , which are crowded from morning-till night , with old and young , all
alike eager to seise upon some new pamphlet , and obtain information of what is passing * . At the Athenee ^ a long established Wterary institution , nothing attracts so brilliant a crowd of both sexes as the discussion of some political question by M . Benjamin Constant , with that analyzing precision , and that persuasive eloquence of which he Las so eminently the secret , ' *
—P . 108 . i According to Miss Williams , the French are no longer irreligious : u It is a pleasure to relate that , although enlightened persons in France give no quarter to superstition , a general respect for religion now prevails in this country .
No glory can any longer be acquired by the miserable boast of infidelity . la the first years of the Revolution , those deplorable doctrines were so prevalent , that they had descended even to the vulgar . i II faut une religion pour le peuplej said a cobbler to a friend * At present the sneer of irreligion is as distant from the
tone of good company , as it is from the principles of right reason . The infidel now bears his gloomy system as well as he can in silence , and no longer obtrudes his incredulity on others ; on those who , perhaps , in the bitterness of adversity , lean for their sole support on a creed that tells them of pity that partakes—of mercy that l consoles
consoes , misfortune : and of P-oodness , misfortune ; and of goodness that will remember virtue . —Pp . 115 , But with this respect for religion , there is littje disposition in the French people to bigotry : they are said to view the missions of the priests with indignation . Of these Miss Williams
says , c Catliolic missionaries are sent hy nobod K y knows whom , to wander , nobody nows why , over France , with pilgrim- feet and preach , the dogmata of the Catho-JI « taith , as if they were as little known «* U » e hanks of the Garonne as of the " itsrasi ppi . They plant great iron crosses
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in the principal squares or streets of the towns or villages where they pass , and on which they engrave fig-ures of hearts , inscribing- on each heart tlie name of one of the faithful . "—P . 116 . In a Supplementary Letter , Miss Williams vindicates the French
Protestants from some charges which she understands have been preferred against them in England , and particularly by a reverend gentleman of the name of Raffles . , From the vagueness and pompousness of the defence we can scarcely collect the nature of the ccusation Sabbathbreakin
a . - g anaccusauon . oaDDam-oreaKing appears , however , to be one of the offences in question ; and in treating this , Miss Williams breaks out into oratorical exclamations which mean
nothing , instead of replying that the foreign Protestants do not hold the same notions as the English Nonconformists of the sanctity of the Sabbath , or rather the first day of the week .
One fact stated by our author ( p , 195 ) shews the intimate connexion between civil and religious liberty . When attempts were lately made by the Ultras to violate the Charter in
respect of the law of elections , persecuting movements were made at Nismes . On that occasion , the ardour of the bigots in the town was cooled by an intimation from the Protestant
peasants of the Cevennes , that if one drop of Protestan £ blood were spilt , the mountains would descend , and " it would be woe to the Catholics . " Happily ( as Miss Williams concludes
pp . 197 > 198 ) , the peasants were not compelled to fulfil their menace , the Charter triumphed in tbe Chamber of Deputies , and the Protestants at Nismes are in safety .
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7 Review * —F # x $ Sermon on tJiz Duties of Christians towards Deists , 701
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Art . III . —The Duties of Christians towards Deists : A Sermon , preached at the Unitarian Chapel , Parliament Court , Artillery Lane ,
Bishopsgate Street , on Sunday , October % 4 9 1819 , on occasion of the recent Prosecution of Mr . Carlile , for the Repnhlication of Paine s Age of Reason . By W . J . Fox * 3 vo . pp . 48 . !*• 6 dL
' . riHHE argument against the pu-JL nisliment of opinions appears to us unanswerable . There can , in fact , be no liberty of inquiry , if there be not liberty for the avowal of the result
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/49/
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