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worship different from their own . At Wickham Market , in Suffolk , some Dissenters , we know not of what persuasion , met together in a place duly licensed : but it seems their neighbours did not approve of their doctrine , and the mode they took to express their disapprobation was by noises of all Jcinds , by fireworks and stones , by rotten eggs and various kinds of filth smeared over the walls , and all the windows were broken . Leave was given for a criminal information against six persons concerned in these outrages . A name of ridicule was fixed on the Dissenters , to which we cannot affix any meaning : but we should be much , better plea&ed to hear that
the clergyman of the parish had brought his flock , to a sense of thqir duty , than that it should be taught them by a civil magistrate * Where have these men learned Christ and him crucified ?
On the Continent rumours prevail of approaching war between the Russians and the French , but little confidence can be placed in them . Finland might easily become the bone of contention , as it might be demanded by Sweden ,
and the French Emperor would naturally support his general . The Russians , however , keep their ground in the Turkish territory , and are not likely to relinquish their acquisitions . The same rumours relative to France and
Russia intimate disagreement between the cabinets of Vienna and Paris , but they are probably on as little foundation as the others . The nations of the continent bend
under the influence of the great conqueror . He is employed in France in striking a deadly blow against the liberty of the press , and he items to be endeavouring to make
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it the instrument of his tyranny . He has reduced the number of printers in Paris to sixty , having taken away the presses from the others * and he supposes , that by means of his inspectors over the
presses , whom he permits to remain in the country , his subjects shall have ih > information , either of present or past times , but what he pleases to communicate * His
example will probably be s followed in other countries ; and we are sorry to see that even in this country , the excellence of a free press is not so much admired as it deserves . Some consolation how
ever remains : should tyranny succeed in depriving Europe of the benefits of this invention , still America is open , and there will be preserved the works of antient
and modern times- free from the manglings of inspectors ; and when Europe has succeeded in rendering itself barbarous , and presenting an aspect similar to that now in Minor Asia , it will be remembered
on the banks of the Ohio and the Missouris , that it was not entirely enslaved until it made war upon literature and science * A modification has taken place with respect to British
commodities * They are not now burnt in every place , but many of them are turned to useful purposes : some are given indeed to the French army for covering , but many are sent to the hospitals and orphan houses . However hurtful to our
commerce this is , we must agree , that the works of meu ' shands are not entirely frustrated , and we would much rather see the poor
clothed than our goods consumed in the fire . In either casp , however , the war carried on . against trade and commerce is producti ve of very bad no ^ sequences . It keeps
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120 State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/56/
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