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cannot apprehend the least danger to a country where this is the case ; and , if the Pope should send foreigners Into the kingdom , their dismission is provided for by the alien act . But a plan was devised last year for ( he accommodation , er it might rather ..
he called the establishment of the Popish religion ; that the government . of its religious concerns should remain on its present footing , except that the king should ^ have a veto on the " persons presented to the Pope for his choice in th « election of a bishop . This concession
on the paTt of the catholics is with great clamour drawn back ; a . nd they seem to be very fearful of granting * , what a Protestant king most assuredly caught to refuse to accept . The Dissenters are a large body iiv this kingdom , but the king does not interfere in the choice of their ministers . Where
ministers are paid by the state , and form a corporation in the state , and are held together by articles , of faith framed by the state , it is right that their appointments in every respect should depend on the state . They are state officers , appointed to perform certain devotional , just as officers of the navy and
army , military , services . But the union of a Protestant kins ; with a Pope , in the forming of a bishop ,, seems to be such an inconsistency as could not . be desired , but with a view to some base political purposes . The Protestants are justified in refusing to sully their crown vrith such a prerogative ; the catholics
« eem to have little reason to be indig-Cant about it The question , however , of the emancipation of the catholics , from the degrading tenure under which , in common with other Dissenters , they Bave been held by their Protestant brethreu of the Church of England , a church , which does not contain a third
part of the population of the two-islands , t » 0 t a fifth part of the population of the empire , is again to be tried in parliament . We are fully convinced , that the true way of converting the Papists to protestantism is to grant them the whole of thejr requests . The Protestants have behaved to them in a manner unworthy
of the Christian religion . It is time to revert to the precepts- of fslxeir common Saviour , to love one another , instead of hating , persecuting , reviling each other , and proving- to the world , that , whateyerthey ni ^ y call themselves , they arc far from , fraying embraced the spirit of
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the gospel . Common pmdence a ! g& points out the true line of conduct . The English and Irish papists are the most bigoted part of the Romish church , for
obvious reasons . Jup iter , in the fable , could not make the countryman cast off his coat by storms of wind and rain ; but he gladly threw it aside when he was favoured by the genial ray $ of the sun , and fine weather , r
Whilst the papists of these islands seem so zealous for their head , his followers in another great kingdom seem likely to be emancipated from his yoke by a very different course of affairs . Spain was a rich mine to the Romish see ; the wealth bestowed on its-ministers in
that country was immense * Apparently al ^ o the people was devoted to his cause . ; for the terrors of the Inquisition crushed the spirit of inquiry , and all * were , at least outwardly Christians and Papist ? . Such an infamous subjection of the human mind to the galling yoke of popery was infinitely worse than any thing th «
Papists have suffered in these islands from Protestants ; but the . conduct of Spain cannot be brought as an argument of the general spirit of popery ; for in no other country were such severe and oppressive measures pursued * How *
ever , the wickedness of the Inquisition , and the galling yoke of priestcraft seem now to be nearly at an end . That arm which has declared tnat the Pope shall be subject to the civil power , seems to have nearly accomplished its purpose .
Spain has been , distracted by two powers 3 the Gallo-spanish king and its Junta . The measures of the former were plain and decisive , tending to one end , the subjection of the whole kingdom ; those of the latter were confuted , indecisive , inadequate to the cause , in vyhich they were engaged- They wMv ed to preserve the kingdom from the common enemy , yet tney knew not how to unite the people in one common cause . The kingdom had been miserably governed j yet for a long time they held out no hopes of a better disposition of affairs ; and , when they summoned a Cortez , it seemed to be the last effort o
despair , rather than a wish to form * rational and popular constitution . It ii no wonder then , that they gradually lost the confidence of the people ; that they broke up in confusion from Seyill 6 that they fled ia various directions , aoi that some of them wept , ovcr to tfa enemy , and others were imprison ^
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t > £ iSteite of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/50/
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