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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian's Survey of the Political IVorld.
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Te DeuM has been sung , and a grand high mass performed , In a Roman Catho'ic Chapel in London , by way of thanksgiving for the great victory obtained by the Spaniards over the French . At this ceremony were
present the Spanish deputies , and the chapel "was crowded ; the majority of the audience being protestants . The galleries were kept for the admission of those only who had tickets ; the lower part was open to all . In the galleries Were the ladies of the chief
nobility of this country ; and we arc by ho means sorry , that many protestants were introduced to a ceremony , of which otherwise they would hear only the name , and attach to it many false and idle notions . They should now corn * pare it with the service in their own common prayer book , and examine ,
-whether king James the first said right , that the service of the church of Engw land is " only an evil-said mass without the liftings •'* This introduction of protestants into the Romish chapels , and the union of protestants with papists in a common cause , will soften die asperities of the bigots of the church ri £
England , who cry out No Popery , without knowing what it means ; and , who have embraced , without thinking , as 6 ad a popery as that which is established at Rome . It matters not by whom an unsciiptural power is upheld ; and " he , who s , an swallow the Trinity , need not make any wiy faces at
transsubstantiation ) ' said a learned Jesuit at the visitation dinner of Bishop Burnet . AH England is rejoicing at the suetesses of the Spaniards : the Np Fopery parcy not omitted . Perhaps these latter gentlemen will now mdf that popery is not su £ ] h an enemy to liberty as
they imagine ; for , while the protestants of Germany have giyeh up , witljour striking a blow excep * by tftefr mercenary troops , the papists of Spain , the most bigoted papist * m the whole world , have risen as one man to resist the grcaj : conqueror of Europe . Qoc
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battle decided the fate of the prote 3 tant kingdom of Prussia , and that battle was fought without its territories . The protestants received the conquerorp without making the least effort at resistance : amf the same " was tftt case with the protestants of Saxony a& 3 the
protestants of Hanover . Surely this will open the eyes of the people of this united kingdom , or rather , we should say , of that part of the people , which is the minority but in possession of political power , by the law which excludes all but members of the church
of England from places of trust and from the privilege of defending their country . If this united kingdom were invaded , we doubt not that it would be as strenuously defended by those in the majority as by those in the minority of the population ; by those who are not , as well as by those who are members of the church o £ England .
These reflections will arise from the consideration how the peace of families is torn by political distinctions being assigned to religious opinions ; yet Spain , which is now so gloriously defendingitself remains a melancholy proof of the degradation of the human mind * At this moment » she ascribes her
victories to saints , to the mother of God , and such idle and abominable fictions of priestcraft . Superstition , it is to be feared , has had great part in her success ; and , though she will be assisted by heretics , yet there is reason to apprehend , that she will not rglax in her own attachment to the church pf Rome ,
nor in her severities against any of her subjects , who should swerve from its doctrines . In this case her triumph * arc of little consequence ; for the slave * ry of the mind is worse than that q £ t | ie body , and a Buonaparte with
religious toleration is much better than the Cortez with an inquisition . We will however hope for better things : and when the Cortez is assembled , it is not imprpbable , that some npble spirit will arise , and § Urc the question oif Kty&tf
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Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian's Survey Of The Political Ivorld.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the Political IVorld .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/42/
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