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INTELLIGENCE.
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FOREIGN . Persecution of the Vaudois , We request the attention of our liberal and feeling" readers to the subject of a new persecution of our Protestant brethren , commenced in another quarter , a
persecution which , though in appearance not so glaring as that already noticed in France , is in reality more atrocious . It has not , we believe , as yet been brought before the public eye in this country , and should any reader not be aware of the circumstances
which render this persecution an aci of peculiar meanness as well as of atrocity , we beg leave to state a few historical facts which will serve to represent tV # e matter in its proper colours , and ; also enable every candid mind to judge . how far our ministers have been anxious for the honour of
this country , and th& interests of the Protestant religion abroad , for which at home they profess so much devotion . The dreadful persecution commenced by the King of Savoy , in 1654 , against his unoffending ' Protestant subjects , a persecution during which several hundred of innocent victims
perished by the sword , and many others amongst Alpine snows , is unfortunately too well known to require any detail of its atrocities . When the account of that persecution reached England , Cromwell , who was at the head of the government , immediately wrote on the subject to the
different powers in Europe , and to the King of Savoy in particular : so strongly did ne express his abhorrence of the barbarous outrage , that the persecutions were not only put an . end to by his interference , l > ut even a treaty was made , by which the
Protestant inhabitants of Piedmont , known under the name of Vavdois , were specially placed under the protection of Great Britain , This treaty was ratified at different times , and the worshi p of these Protestants was , in fact , supported by English contribution down to the time in which the
present ' Sardinian King was expelled from Piedmont . Regardless as the Fren . cn Revolutionary government was in many instances of church property , yet so great was the respect paid at all times to the virtues and poverty of the Vaudois , that even
that government not only endowed the proteatftnt church of the Vaudois with a provision arising out of the revenues of the cmintry , larger than the sum thejr bad been in the tmbit of receiving * from fing-, 4 a « & i t > ut tftey ja * d $ that perpetual wbjcll
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was before precarious , and they also g&rt them perfect aud complete civil equality . When at length the French were obliged to give up Italy , and the King of Sardinia was restored among the other legitimates , he issued a proclamation , declaring as null every act which had taken place during his absence * By this general declaration
the Vaudois have been actually deprived of the revenues for the support of their religion , and as our minister has neglected to insert , in the new treaties , the old covenant in their favour , they are thus subject to the fury of a bigotry which may
again break out with the same rage as it did formerly , and in the mean time their teachers are deprived of all subsistence . A single word from our minister might have prevented the possibility of such an event .
The following genuine letter , which we have received from Piedmont , will give our readers a fuller description of the calamity which this persecution has brought upon that inoffensive people . Here , at least , there cannot be alleged against them the crime of Buonapartism . *—" La Tom- de Pelis , l % th Dec . 1815 . u Consternation is in our valleys— -we are
threatened by the Agents of our King with being robbed of the little which bad been granted to us by the preceding" governments , for the support of our religious worship . The Court of Turin pretends not to be bound by any convention on this subject , and professes to do in , thU case as in every other , whatever pleases itself , or rather whatever pleases the cabal of Monks which rules under its name . In
reality , neither the treaty of Paris in 1814 f dor that lately concluded , makes any mention of the special protection granted by preceding treaties , particularly by that oi Aix-la Chapelle , to the Protestants of the valleys of Piedmont , known under the name
of Vaudois . Can England , who iormerlj acted so generously towards thejo , have now changed her system with regard to these eldest sons of the evangelical religion , whose aversion to the Roman Church is anterior even to the Reformation of
Luther ? Can this population of 30 , 000 soul * have appeared to the £ ^ ngli « h minister an object too unimportant to employ hi * a ttention amidst the political disinejnberiiient of so man y nations ? We canno * believe it ' , for nothing- ia trifling- which involves ft gvreatMQx *! princip le , Howevej , if at *
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philanthropy- Religion had ia © r . Vin-icent an enlightened friend of its cau !* , p , and a bright example-of its excellence and d consolation . — Weekly Mag , No . VI .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/48/
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