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FOREIGN . France . A considerable emotion has been excited in France by a tumult occasioned at Bbest , by the appearance of a company of Catholic missionaries . [ The character
of these missionaries is given p . 701 . ] The mob is said to have risen upon them , and to have used them very harshly . Irreligious cries aie also said to have proceeded from the populace . The people of Brest are hence accused in the Paris papers of impiety . It is reported , as a further
instance of their profaneness , that when Mademoiselle Georges appeared at the Theatre of that town , all covered and blazing * with diamonds , some persons began to sing- the Adoremusy and this beingended , the canticle of Sur cet autcl , ah ! que vois Je paroitre /
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i 76 S Intelligence , —Foreign . France Germany . Hanover * Holland .
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A Paris correspondent of ours says in a letter of the 8 th instant , ** The Jesuits are busy here and throughout France . There have been some tumults at Brest , in consequence of the intolerant barbarism of the missionaries . Their friends are as a
cipher against millions ; but there is no miserable intrigue that is not at work for them . —Llorenti has been deprived of his privilege of saying mass at his parish church , because of his books on the Inquisition and the Concordat . "
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The Abbe Gregoire continues to excite public attention . He has been prevented from taking * his seat in the Chamber of Deputies . But he will not voluntarily betray his constituents . Before the decision for his exclusion , he addressed to them
nn interesting- letter ( Letire aux JElecteurs du Departement de I Is ere J breathing the pure spirit of liberty and the gospel . He says he goes to take his seat beside the veteran of freedom , ( La Fayette , ) who has so gloriously defended it in both worlds . The following passage we translate as a specimen of this Election-Address : —
li Religious Hatred . —This expression , taken literally , is an absurdity ; for it connects ideas which are incapable of connexion . That hatred which murdered Catholics in Ireland , and Protestants in the South of France , and which , beyond the Rhine , is now persecuting the children of Israel , would seek in vain its justification in the gospel - would attempt in vain to render the gospel the accomplice of those crimes on which its malediction falls . Religion has no other arms than truth to convince the mind , and charity to « Ljibdue the heart : we are deceived if ,
in-N . stead of contemplating religion in her own form , we are resolved to view her through the habits and conduct . of some of her ministers , "—Pp . 10 , 11 .
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A new periodical publication has appeared at Paris , entitled Annales Protestantes : A Miscellany specially devoted to the Defence of the Reformed Reli gion . B > y a Society of Protestants and of Men of Letters . The first Number , ( for Octo , ber , 1819 , ) has been sent to us , and we
are happy to recommend this specimen of the work , on account both of its talents and spirit . The deluge of the French Revolution is succeeded by a freshness and sweetness whjch are grateful to the heart * The French have paid the price of liberty and know its value .
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preached at Dessau , are on the following subjects : Concord , Causes of Unbelief , Reflections upon the new Year , Characters that distinguish the People of Israel , Vanity of earthly Good , Trust in Divine Providence .
Germany . A novelty appeared last year at Dessau , a Selection ( in 8 vo . ) of Sermons for Israelites ( Auswahl njehrerer predigten , &c ) , by G- Salomon . These Jewish Sermons ,
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Hanover . The Prince Regent of this kingdom in consequence of the resolutions passed by the German Diet , * ' has issued an ordinance
subjecting the press to a rigorous censorship . How uniform is this hatred of princes , and especially German princes , to the press ! There would , we fear , he sedition in the answer to the question , why they hate it .
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HOLfJLND . M . Van der Palm , profrssor of oriental literature in the University of Ley den , and minister of a conoieg-ation there , well known by his volumes of excellent sermons and his translation of Isaiah , has announced a l > few Dutch Version of the
Mible , and in less than six months lias received more than two thousand subscriptions . The First Part is published and is well received . It consists of 276 pp . 4 to . and contains the five Books of Moses . The Version is accompanied hy
short notes . M . Van der Palm adopts the hypothesis that Moses used in the composition of the Pentateuch , and especially of the book of Genesis , ancient original memoirs , preserved by song's or some other means in the patriarchal families .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 766, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/50/
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