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tton . Its gratitude * to the great deliverer has been manifested in titles and largesses , but we do not hear of the crown being offered to him . Whoever shall possess it will find it Very different from what it has been under the wretched government of the Bourbons . The people have now acknowledged
rights , and there is a mixed constitution . But still the clergy have too much influence . The formation of an auxiliary af Madrid , to our Bible Society would be a great advantage , and the spreading of a Bible in Spanish without note or comment may be a great measure in the recovery of that kingdom from its intellectual darkness .
The bravery displayed by the Portuguese , and their free intercourse with the English , cannot fail also to have some effect upon , their government , so that on the return of peace , the Peninsula will make a different appearauce , from what it has done under th g mismanagement of the two last centuries . Bat its innuence in America will be
cat off , and it must now depend on its own internal resources . The Americans have found that the conquest of Canada is no easy matter , add' that it would have been better to suffer a little inconvenience under exiting calamities than to increase it by an appeal to arms . Their debates upon this subject shew , that they
follow too close / y the systems of the old world . Their attempts with Torpedoes have not hitfierto had any sue . cess , yet they have been made with a great deal of industry . A bold adventurer has advanced with them near to one 6 f our large ships , but he has found
it not quite so easy to bell the cat . He does riot however despair , and the Americans entertain sanguine hopes of'his gnccess , not recollecting that our shi pV having been forewarned will keep too good a look out to suffer the a pproach of any boat with such an ^ lenient of destruction in it . The
spirits of alienation from the mother country continues to increase iuSpaii-Is » America . © tiring the suspension of the mind om the sanguinary conflicts abroad
: * J 5 ™ "' atrocious murders at home n «« d it with horror . Two of them WerHa'Still&ui 8 bed *> y * he remarkable coto fessious of the unhappy perpetrau ?* 'f ? ^ ° ne imputed hiH guilt 10 * diabolical impulse , and the other
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maintained his innocence to the last of the murder , though he confessed that he was present at the scene . This notion of diabolical impulses is sanctioned by the writings of many learned men , and countenanced by our courts of law : yet we cannot but regret that it should find so much support in the
higher , * and should be brought into action by the lower classes . The worthy Granville Sharp was a great patron of this fanciful notion , which according to him was the cause of many of tbe actions of princely
cabinets . But surely the passions of men uncontrolled hy religion are sufficiently active without this foreign agency * Nor can we imagine the devil to have had more influence on t be poor footman ' s mind than on that of the officers
convicted of , and sentenced to death for , the murder af a brother officer in a duel . These latter murderers were saved from the gallows by the clemency of the Prince , who accompanied his pardon with a strong sentiment of indignation at their atrocious conduct .
which was ordered to be read to every regiment in the service . They were all cashiered , and the most guilty of them was rendered incapable for ever of serving his majesty . By a strange prejudice these officers escape the abhorrence that is felt for the crime
of Nicholson , who is supposed to have acted under diabolical impulse ; yet surely if that is the case he is rather the subject of our compassion than those gentlemen , who in cool blood instigated their associates to murder each other .
The Unitarian Fund has had a meeting on the repeal of the act in support of the Trinity , and passed several appropriate resolutions on this subject . Mr . Alderman Goodbehere presided on this occasion , and the meeting did not confine itself to congratulations merely on i he repeal of the act , but testified
their wish and hopes , that every man , whatever might be bis religious sentiments , might equally participate in every civil right with tbe rest of his country men . This is the true senti .
mem of Christian liberty : for all , who under the name of Christian , or of any particular * ect ot Christians desire under the former title to exclude non . Christians , or under tbe |« ttcr title to excJu ( e v . hristian * pf a difirrmt denomination from themselves from civil
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/63/
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