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and then sent the boy to the Lyceum at Versailles . The FRENCH GOVERNMENT AT GENOA , with a view to preserve the morals of the people against the influence of som-e ancient local customs , has instructed the mayor to order that the theatre and lobbies shall not be
opened a moment before they are completely lighted up , nor any of the lights extinguished before the whole of the company have departed . No persons are allowed to stop under the piazzas ; no fire , no dogs , no snioaking to be permitted . Any actors or actresses , transg !» essing the rules of decency , are to be seized on the spot ; as a police officer is present , charged with carrying these laws into execution .
The KING OF HOLLAND having heard complaints of immoral practices at Middlebourg , in Zealand , has * instructed the magistrates to warn the dancing-masters there against admitting feoth sexes indiscriminately' into their looms . They ar € to be taught separate-M . de HOOGSTRATEN AT
AMSTERDAM , has received fom one of his friends in England , the sum of iooo florins , as a cont ibution towards the relief of the poor sufferers jit Ley den in Holland , on the 12 th of January last , -vvhen a vessel lying in the canal with gun-powder exploded , killed and maimed a number of persons , and de troyed several hundied houses and some public buildings .
PECULIARITIES OF THE FRFNCH INHABITANTS OF BRITTANY . —A pari > paper obse ves , Among other conscripts lately passing from the western to the eastern
departments , on thf ir way to the grand army , was a detachment entirely composed of countrymen from lower Brittany . They seemed animated in no sma . l degree in the cause we are engaged in , and often exclaimed in their old Celtic dialect ,
Torribcn ar Russia ? sy Woe to the Russians . " ft is we'l known that the Breton ' s differ much from the rest of the Tfrcnch nation in their language , c u 6-tc ; ms and manners ; and thi- exclamation calls to mind what an ancient writer said of them , ^ htam terri 6 iles suut i > yi : ~ t ^ nti quando dicunt L QRRlB ] Lh \
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UNITARIANISM IN FRANCE . Sir , A writer , who signs himself Crit& , fri the Universal Magazine for March , 1807 , assert that a Protestant Consistory of Calvinisms ,, at Rouen , in Normandy ,
have lately had some unpleasant discussion ^ with a member , upon the subject of the trinity . The treasurer being- appointed to answer these objections , 'he , in the usual high style of these peremptory gentlemen , treats the inquiring brother as a heretic , who endeavoured to
introduce exploded notions into the church , and to act contrary to the Confession of the Reformed Churches . The treasmer ' s conduct has excited an abler opponent at Paris to take up
the pen ; and , in that city , where , twenty years ago , a similar publication would have been followed by perpetual impri * sonment in the Bastile , the writer advances notions equally repugnant to the faith of both the Protestant and
Catholic churches of France . He contends that the doctrine of the Trinity is an innovation unknown to the primitive ages of the chu ; ch ; that all disputes which harass Christians about the persons , distinctions , divisions , and essences in the
Godhead , are all chimerical notions , of which the scriptures take no notice ^ and that their language is plain , clear and decisive ; that one single person only , is God , and that there is no other mediaetor between him and man , but the man , Jesus the Chiist , &c .
Cou'd Louis the Fourteenth , says the enlightened writer , be raised from the grave , how would he be astonished to read the above paragraph ! he who by his * erne ! decree exterminated or drove into banishment nearly a million of his Protestant subjects . This wmcr lastly observes , that if this
6 pirit of toleration in France brings the Prote tants to make the holy scriptures the rule of their faith , instead of being guided by the dreams and freaks of Calvin , the advantage to the country will be immense . If France , he remarks , has
advanced one step befo . e us in religious toleration , we will hope that we shall not lung be behind her , and that a laudable emulation may subsist between the two countries in endeavouring to restore the profusion of Christianity to tfw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/60/
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