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    at least , and the late discussions will still more remove their prejudices . As to their doctrines , it must be continually enforced , that it differs very little from that of the Church of England , the offensive part of which , the damnation of

    all who are not within the pale of their creed , being maintained equally by both churches , and as the Roman Catholics can scarcely

    now be called Papists , no more can the majority of persons who go to church be called members of the Church of England . A transaction in Spain has been supposed to bear hard aeainst the

    Catholics ; but it strikes us in a very different light , it may shew the nature of the court of Rome and of priestcraft , but it does not involve in it the faith of a Catholic :

    a man may be a good Catholic and yet detest the acts of a popish nuncio . A nuncio in Spain was , it seems at the bottom of the opposition to the abolition of the

    inquisition , and endeavoured to creat edelays by his suggestions to the clergy . In these acts he was discovered , and the government issued a truly Protestant proclamation against him , in which it-maintained the supremacy

    of . the temporal sovereign , in every thing that is not spiritual . This is the more remarkable , as the head of the Spanish government is a Cardinal , and it shews that however bigoted a nation may be its subjection to the Pope in spiritual concerns , does not alter their

    opinion of their civil rigbrs , and ic may be thence inferred , that an Englishman would certainly be as jealous of the interference of the Pope , in the concerns of this country , as a Spaniard in those of Spain ,. The House of Commons is very much divided upon this

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    question , for after much battling , the Bill has received its death-blow , by a division on the question , whether Catholics should be admitted into Parliament , when

    there appeared , for the admission two hundred and fortv . seven

    against it two hundred and fiftyone : so small a difference shews that , if vulgar prejudices are not entirely , overcome yet religion ^ liberty has made considerable pro gress .

    The affairs on the continent wear a present at dubious , but most afflicting aspect . It has pleased Providence to permit the passions of men to continue to bring desolation on those regions , where civilization and Christianity were supposed to have fixed their

    seat . Germany has seen another of those dreadful battles , of which so many have disgraced Europe within the last twenty years , where hail-stones of a talent weight have fallen upon the earth , yet men have not repented of their sins , nor has the spirit of the Prince of Peace entered into the hearts of those who profess his religion , so that they should convert their spears into prtming-hooks , and their weapons of war into instruments of agriculture . The mighty hero , whose army was so wonderfully destroyed in the winter , has brought another into the field , and is now with it in the heart of Germany . The extent of its numbers cannot be ascertained , as it is his interest to swell the account at present to intimidate his

    adversaries . Scarcely had he joined his army , when every thing was prepared for an attack ; nor were the confederatesovereigns behind-hand in their efforts to oppose him . Multitudes like Ihe sand on the seashore were assembled oath *

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    State of Public Affairs * 355

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/71/