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that they wetfe departing further and farther from the Usual road . They should immediately have quitted the procession and returned to the church , but their presence of mind forsook them , and in sad perplexity they continued to advance .
The procession was led by the Abb £ Juyon , one of the most artful and trickish of the Jesuits , and Whither did he conduct the unfortunate Cour Royale , that , ouly a year before , had refused to attend the ceremony of fixing up the cross of the mission ? Precisely in front of that same cross ! Here the Abbe *
Juyon , to complete his own triumph , and to enjoy the embarrassment , and what has heeu termed here the false position of the Cour Royale , began to deliver a speech , a thing never done on similar occasions . During this mystification , the bystanders were at a loss to guess what the members of the court intended to do , whether they would withdraw or stay and hear the speech . You must know , that as judges are immoveable in
France , they may , if they possess any degree of spirit , safely brave the power of the disciples of Loyola . The affair has been so much laughed at , and the poor members of the Royal Court of Amiens were so ashamed of the trick played upon them , that , on the day after the procession , they met together and drew up a declaration which naturally commenced with an account of the fatal
adventure . This official document , which has been inserted in all the journals , concludes as follows : — " To obviate the effects of the above-mentioned deception , and to prevent its being taken advantage of in future , the members of the Cour Royale declare that it was their intention to have attended only the procession of the vow of Louis XIII ., aud that the
circumstauce can in no way compromise the independence and dignity of the court . " By this unfortunate declaration the Royal Court of Amiens frankly acknowledges having been duped . English sober sense wijl scarcely conceive the electric effect which this affair has produced
in the native land of vanity . Every court of the first instance , every petty justice of the peace , whose emoluments do not exceed eight hundred francs , is now in fear of being tricked by the Jesuits , and , finding that they may be braved with impunity , takes pleasure in snarling at them . The declaration of the Cour Uoyale has been a fatal blow to the potor society of Jesus . —New Monthly mag .
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Prosecutions fot Offences against Religion . A prosecution has lately been successfully directed in France , against an author of the anti-superaaturalist school , who published a volume of selections from the New Testament , with the
avowed object of inculcating its moral precepts , and holding up our Saviour's example as a model for imitation , but omitting all allusion to miraculous agency . The absurdity of selectiug as a pattern , of moral rectitude the example of Him who , if the author ' s theory be correct , devoted his life to the maintenance of a
monstrous imposition upon human credulity , might provoke a smile ; but the work has been actualry prosecuted and the publisher severely punished , as for an offence against the religion of the state , for an atheistical and immoral work . The affair has excited much attention , and an angry discussion . in the public journals . On the one side , the abuses
of the established system are attacked ; oil the other , it is replied , that It still fe established ; that it is necessary for politl * cal order that some religion should be so established ; that whether it be a bad one or not is a matter of secondary con ^ sideration ; and , therefore , that the pro * - sedition of opinions hostile to any establishment is justifiable and for the good of society .
The present state of religion in France is an anomalous one , and will require our attention . It is Idle to suppose that a regenerated political system la to aris 6 out of the Revolution , yet that its admi- * - lustration should at the same time re < - establish the worst forms of religious bondage . At present , if we are to believe even its official defenders , there appears
to be only the lamentable dilemma of either maintaining by authority the worst abuses or dissolving the bonds of religious obligation altogether . In the mean time ) one cannot help admiring the ingenuity , either of the offender or his prosecutors , in so managing matters " as that a selection from the Scriptures should be made out
to be an irreligious and atheistical work , and not for what it contains , but for what it does not contain . The suggestio falsi has been a subject of judicial correctiou in many places \ in England , we have lately added the suggestio veri to the class of offences ; but it is certainly new to ptinish the suppressio veri .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/62/
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