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pie , killed some of them , ^ and took some prisoners . The persecutions are goii > g on in many other parts , with great severity . The prisoners upon Ac galfies * earnestly desire our prayers , and are sent from Marseilles to
Toulon , where they are far from their friends , who _ ^ used now and thejx to give them some help !' ' * Such was the situation of the persecution in France but a . few months ago . I have learnt since , from th ^ e Rev . Mr . Bourdillon , the Secretary to
the Society for the Relief of the Protestants that fl y into this kingdom for the sake of religion , that there is na remission of the cruel edicts ; that thse people have been miserabl y exhausted by taxes , &c . z that the ministers are
driven away by the severity of the persecution ; and that religious assemblies have been in a manner totall y suspended . Such is the mournful state of the Protestants in France , whose number is computed at 3 , 000 , 000 of souls . **
Such were some of the blessings which distinguished the reign of Louis le Hen tLimi , from whom the modern Louis le desire * delights ta trace his descent and his r 6 yal
authority . A few years after in 1761 , occurred the horrid tragedy of the Calas family , a striking result of the prejudices excited against the Protestants . The Continuation &es Causes Celehres
( Vol . 4 , 18 mo . Amst . 1771 ) , in addition to the interesting details respecting Calas , records other proofs of the antipathy excited against fhe Protestants at the same period ; ' particularly noticing ( p . 308 ) , th <* p leasure with whieh some ladies at Tholouse attended Aie execution of a I ^ rbtestant minister who was hanged in that city and of three
* " A galley is a low-decked vessel , ge- » nerally from 120 U ^ , 13 $ feet long , 18 feet broad , and (> feet < k : ep . They a * e ftavi- * rated by oars , and chiefly # sed \ a t £ p Mediterranean sea . / the ? iayes are chaip ed to the oars , their shirts- beibg stripped down to their waist , / and exposed to a 9 } weathers . T ^ i ey mt ^ st , strike the oars all together * or they axe severely handled . [ The chains sometimes gnaw tietn to tho bone , and occasion gangrenes . The slaves , excepting Protcstitnts for their religion , are notorious niatefectoris who , ttstvitif escaped the sentence of < tefcthr ar » cfett * ^ emned to tlrl ^ pTin ^ hme ^ t for & * jme , a * for life . See TonjV * Aowd ** p * 30 . "
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^ renvk ^ "Mffitge& s dated f 3 fotf , 14 , *** Our d $ ar brethren are more and more persecuted in Rrauce . Tiiey increase every day ; and bv the last letters which were read tne day before
Wterday at pur society , ve hear that the troops in Languedoc search in the night-time , not only for the pastors , wno are inostl y fled to woods at * d dens , but fpr tneir defenceless flock . A great many of the faithful have
teen taken and confined to prisons . T ^ ie teTror is spread every wxiere . The worship pf the L « ord suspended . Few congregations meet together . Courage is abated , ^ eal slackens . . They have pothing left but their private prayers la the midst of their alarms and
sorrows . " tExtract of a Letter-Jrcm ihe < Rev- Mr Isaac Toms , minister ; at JJadleigh in Suffolk , dated Dec . 30 , 17 S 4 * f Very affecting accounts from
France . Does a spirit of concern for the , dear sufferers increase ? One minister s&ys , I hkve been these five weeks . like a wild , goat gGing from rock to rock ^ ahd have not Km in a house " . Atid this to attend the interests of his
persecuted ftqaek , when he might have lived at ease in a city ; but he says , We are accustomed to pursuits , and rgmce that We are counted wofrthy to « itffer foif tlie . common faith / " J&xfrfictjrf \ L a etter from the same gen-, tieman \ da ^ edMflrch 13 . J 755 .
** I have to acquaint you that Mr . ^~ - * h as infonned me by last post but one , that in iSfoJrmandy things are nwre cjuiet , ^ but thtit they . h ave very few iruiiiateta fot above 100 , 000 souls . In Lansruedoc things are worse and
worse . Ministers ' are so closely followed , that , fthere being no possibility of being useful to the flocks , they are ** tired to , Switzerland , Sec . There *^ n * ar : ei g hty men now in the gal-« e » for their religious zeal , and very *** ftp , great ' numbers , m prisoii ^ and fatera /
( A ' V J « B ¦ mm h $ ^ ppendix Jo the Jlev . / Mr . f ^/^ ^ m ^ s ^ n ^ Uils u nder ihe Mpnth 4 gr # JL 7 ^ , p . 8 . •* ^ e have heard that in * February ^^ aa ^ noU ^ 4 f Froteatants being j&tP * divine eervice towards Bour % 2 ^ Ae c | iem | had notiee of it f tent ^¦ Jte , ^ h 6 / ftrw ^»{ toa the -poor pco-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/17/
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