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cially that the spiritual wickedness in high places * against which our fathers prayed and argued , and the far distant prospect of whose fall they hailed
with grateful rapture—that this man of sin was suddenly brought to desolation , or at least despoiled of his baneful influence wherever the genius of Napoleon prevailed .
He is no sooner fallen than the Pope re-ascends the throne of St . Peter and calls around him his Jesuits . The beloved Ferdinand again invigorates the Holy office , while the Restoration of the Bourbons is speedily followed by a persecution of French Protestants . This persecution JLouis
appears , publicly , to disavow . Whether the king or his family took any measures to prevent such a catastrophe , or whether the orders or neglects of his government were calculated to encourage the persecution are questions of a serious import . But we must return to M . Testu and notice
his Royal Almanack . M , Testu is one of the children of this world , wise in his yeneration and equally prepared to become an Imperial , or a Royal Editor , a Vicar of
Bray—whatever King shall reign . This Almanack fc % 1818 , like the former , had been specially recommended and patronized by the Emperor , but M . Testu hac } no inclination
To fall uneourtly with a falling . Court , He thus worships the rising sun in an Avis des Editeurs : " The Almanack for the year 1814 was ready for publication when an ever-memorable Revolution restored to France her
lawful sovereign . All our labour became useless , and the expense incurred a total loss . We sustained a consideiable iujury but we were consoled by the hope- of happiness to come . That hope indulged by all good Frenchmen , is every day realizing " under the paternal government of Louis XVIIIth . Let us be permitted here to
render the homage of our fidelity , our affection and our profound gratitude towards the August Monarch who has granted to *** a signal ^ rpof of his j ustice and benevolence by securing to us , for twenty years , the exclusive right to the publication and ate of the Royal Almanack / ' P . 2 .
After some details respecting the arrangement of the work , the Avis "closea . wfth the following significant declaration : Nous nous som rates conform&s , pour sa redaction , au * ordres ttp ^ rien ri que no uravons recus . " We
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have been regulated , in forming ttiif compilation by the commands we have received . Under such well-understood ordres superieurs these editors introduce indeed the Protestants in the Section of Administration Ge ' ' rale desCaltes ,
under the head of a public office for th § affairs of Cultes non Catholiques ; but appear , in a very marked manner to separate them from the Catholic Clergy , to whom they assign a station immediately after the Foreign Ambassadors and before the Royal Household , under the head of "Clerge de France . ' * This Denxieme Partie
occupies only one page , and that contains nothing but the following Note ** Le travail relatif a lanouvefle organization du Clerge n ' etant pas termine , nous n ' aVons pas cm devoir donner de details sur cette partie . " The arrangements for a new Organization ,
of the Clergy not being completed , we have thought it our duty to omit any details on this Part . ( P . 38 . ) Thus the editors , by securing a new and more dignified station , for Clergd de France provide easily for the entire omission of that Chapter in the
Imperial Almanack , entitled , Organization des Cultes , in which the Protestants ranked in company with th& Catholics , as equally recognized and respected by the government . What must France understand by this
omission but that the eldest son of th * Church forbad the further profanation of Culte Catholique by such an a « so ~ ciation \ and at the same time refused to sanction heresy by describing the Clergy and Colleges of the Protestants in a Royal Almanack ?
It is well known that many of the Protestants in France , whatever might be their political attachments , became alarmed for their toleration soon after the first return of JLouis . They
considered themselves as secured by the success of Napoleon ' s enterprise from Elba , and again exposed to danger by his defeat at Waterloo . Had Louis , indeed , returned in 1814 with
sentiments of toleration , like those of his Imperial predecessor , would he have directed , or even suffered , the names of the Protestant Ministers and an account of their churches and institutions to have been excluded from a Royal Almanack , published at such a critical juncture ; while the ad mission of them could not possibly injure the Catht ^
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Review . A —Imperial and Royal French lmanacks . Q 7 « ¦ k
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/33/
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