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ing to humanity . It is , however , to be observed that not a trace of this supposed fact is to be discovered in scripture * and the reverence paid to the wife of Joseph in modern days , receives no countenance from our Saviour , who so emphatically seems to h ivc warned his disciple * against it , by that beautiful expression , ' « Who is my mother and who my brethren , " to require such extraordinary marks of deference !
In Spain , Superstition has reigned in all its follies , and a most beautitul and romantic situation was devoted to her cause , and that of Indolence , her sister . In the Romish church have been nourished * set of idle fellows under various names , and at Montserrat , in Catalonia , a set of them , uncjer the name of hermits .
wasted away their lives in lntle cells , thinking that they did God service by being useless to their fellow-creatures . The troubles ot the country have disturbed the repose of these idle dreamers . Montserrat , from the nature of its situation ,
became a military post , and a depot for arms and provision . -As such it was an object to the French , who have seized it with a facility , which is astonishing ; . Much as we abhor the superstition that enslaved the inhabitants of this
mountain , we cannot but feel a concern fot them , and could have wished that at least the old . might have ended their days iri peace , in the mode of life which they bad adopted . But the mountain
will no longer be an asylum for this superstition ; and , if men choose to be hermits , there are garrets enough in large towns , in which they may doze out" their days unobserved and disregarded .
It would be the glory of reason , that superstition fell not by the force of arms ., but by the power of truth ; and there is ample roem inTHrs kingdom forthedisplay of thetriumphs of the latter . A very large proportion of our felloyr subjects arc still bound ! in the fetters of the pretended holy see , aiid their Ifrp'testant brethren increase the galling yoke , by subjecting them on this account to civil restraints ; The
consequence , as might naturally be expected , is a tenacity of old dpi nions - and with all the expense of a very large establishment , JftEiAKb sees its numerous inhabitants preferring the mass house to the church . Tlie difference in the doctrines of tnc two churches is slight , yet various reasons tevc ptfetfetited / th « Caiolics from fetaining an equality with
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their brethren . In civil rights , fhe * have petitioned Parliament , butinvain ^ yet every year has shewn the powers J eloquence md strength of argqnient cx erted in their favour . Their advert ries , in fact , could urge little against them , when they allowed of the ^ rnploy ing of French Catholics in our army and were so strenuous in the support of Spaniards , the most bigotted of men in that persuasion .
By perseverance , the Catholics , y arc happy to say , have gained over a v ery great numbc r of Protestants to their side , and a singular occurrence has manifested this in its strongest colours They have a Committee i a Dublin to
manage their petitions , and it was determined , that for the better conducting of the future application to Parliament , Delegates should be appointed in the different counties * for thesuperptendia ^ of these -petitions , arid settling in Dublin the mode of presentation . This was
s tated in resolutions from the Committee , published in the public papers , which gave great umbrage to the yiccio ; and his Council , by whom a proclamation was issued , calling upon the magistrates t 6 apprehend and hold to bail all persons who acted as delegates ., or took part in the election of them under the
resolutions . The Catholics denied that they were acting illegally , and persisted in the course laid down for them : some were apprehended in Dublin andreleased upori bail . TThe cause will of course come to be argued before a jury , and We ^ hall be anxious to-see in
whatmauner an Irish jud ^ e and jury t reat tire right of a subject to petition the legislature . But though several Catholics have been thus apprehended , yet this seems to have been chiefly confined to Dublin , for in the counties
they have not been molested ; nay ' i so far from it , they have been encouraged by the countenance of the mag istrates at their meetings * This is a g *> od sign that enmity on account' of difference oi opinions is wearing out , and ve trus that Protestants are beginning ^ D f tr tily ashamed of the irh propriety . ° * their conduct . If' they have , as * ncy pretend , truth on their side , they capw * stand in fear of the other party ; W
in fact , by riicetfnig together ini «** affairs the . Qatthft&d hai to dr&d w his aumbrtrs W 01 be v ^ eakened , pr ^ occasioiial ar ^ urtiCBf « used on f ^ l ! i ysubjects by the m « rc « alighti » ca n-
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50 ft State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/58/
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