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lntelNgehce .- ^ En £ lish CHutch at Brussels . f 87
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* J-- ^ ' T he JhqfdstHbm ri Att article" f Rome , dated the 11 th of January ^ sa ^ r - ^ The Tribunal 6 f the riaJy Office vvi / 1 , it is said , be modified in . ihe course of 1817 , so as to render its functions the same as those of ordinary tribunals , it
appearing dangerous tp the government to support a body now become useless , &nd which is considered to he armed against human reason . The Inquisition may be said to exist no longer .
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and committed a thousand extravagancies , which Would have ended ; it is impossible . to say where , it some of the municipality had not ali ; ea ^ ty spread the report that Jfie Commufcton cup , Sec . had been found . r JThe whole population exclaimed , ISTostro Sigjicne si e travato , and relumed to their own
abodes . Some houses were . pillagqcU and some individuals ill-treatetL ilie day after , when the falsity of t } ie report was known , the people , who shewed symptoms of wishing to / recommence the preceding scenes ^ were restrained by the presence of tfje troops of the line , and the campdgnpf ^ or militia , who had been prudeivtjy assembled . The processions '
however , continue every day , nor < 3 p they dare to open the tribunals pr shops , to work in the port , Sec . Kven the soldiers nave covered meir arms with crape . " A JLetter from MTesskia of a later , date announces that the cup ? has tyeeji really found and tranquillity entirely re-established . W ( ^ ~
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Religious Fanaticism in Sicily-( Extract of a private letter from Messina , Doc , 14 . ) -= — We were all witnesses of an event which might have produced fatal consequences . On the 10 th the Communion cup , with the Host , was plundered from the Church of St . Auforne . The whole town was in movement ; the people ordered the gates to be shut : neither coffee-house , nor shop , por
theatre was left open- The streets ivcr ^ crowd ed with processions ^ and the ihqrch bells set a ringing . The populace obliged the old infirm archbishop to accorp ' pany the Jrrocessions ; he had at last tiie ^ ood fortune \ p escape in a convent : The people were absolutely furious ; they passed thlou ^ n the city with torches * , menaced to set fire to tbe houses of the unbelievers 3
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. Prottsiant Church at Rome * By a letter from Rome we learn thata meeting was held in that city on the 24 th of December , by the Knglish residents there to consider the case of the suffering poor in England , wiien it was resolved to make . a general subscription for that purpose , and
ip remit the same to the society at the XBatclied House . A previous meeting had been held , ( the Marquis of JLansdowne in the Chair , ) to take into consideration the relief also of the pocrr of Rome , when it was agreed to
apply the produce of the sacramental collection after the service on the following sunday . Dec . £ 9 . This day was opened the first regular place of worship in the City of Rome , in the Foro Trajano : the public duties of the day concluded by a collection at the door for the poor at Rome , which amounted / to upwards of < £ i 20 .
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/ English Church at JSrmseh : '' Brussels , Dec . 31 . —WTiat scan-d a ^ what divisions , what spirit oT party is there in this world ! The JEng li ^ colony at Brussels desires to have ^ a place of religious worship established ,
in which they may adore the Supreme Being after trie forms of the Engljsji Church : nothing can be more natural or more edifying ; but the chiefs ^ ot this' holy enterprise , illustrious noblemen , marquisaes and lords , do riilt choose to be mingled in the cro . wxf : ; they desire , even in the house of God , to be separated from what is called the
swinish multitude . A regulation is made , w hich decides , that people shall pay at the entrance of the church * as at the entrance of a theatre , ; thdt those who pay shall be convenient ^ seated 011 handsome chairs , painted , blue and red ; and that the Christian canaille , if perchance any should appear , should he placed in the . back ground , in an obscure corner' where " they should stand , seeing there is there neithei * chair nor bench . ' " \ i :
This corner of the temple fernaiped ' emYjity for corner time j bbt at last" one nnS Sunday' morhirig 'iUkfe ; Hme ' if piolisf oltf wbftaW : 'ifcSi * i ' fofie& 'tor } iej ticKeV ;^ - * hatf '' rfc *?; " she is tHen , desired to ^> ay a franc in money ; she
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/59/
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