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THE events of the last twejity-five year * are acknowledged , by the men of the world , to be among * st the most surprising * that have been recorded in the pages of history ; yet they seem to have made but little impression on what is called the religious or serious or evangelical public . To this Protestant country the conclusion of the war and the facts daily announced are deeply interesting *; and every true Christian will , notwithstanding the alarming * appearances they wear , preserve his confidence in God , that however triumphant the cause of the pretended Holy 'Church iriaybe , yet its inquisitions , its infallibility , its rising * pomp are hastening to
destruction final and complete . The European world has been set against republics . Every thing republican has , with- the utmost care , in every instance , except that -which is the most important , been either weakened or destroyed . Holland , Genoa , Venice , and most of the smaller repuh \\ c&n
states have disappeared . Yeh &n& republic remains , and before it , as in former times before its prototype , sovereigns"bow down with awful reverence , and receive its mandates in the government of their own estates . The former republic was founded on force , the latter on fraud . The writing's of our ancestors for the last three hundred
years are filled with protestations against the latter : their descendants , in these days , view it with- complacency , and have been mainly a&sissting in restoring it to a state , from which at one time it seemed to have been precipitated for ever . The Papal republic stands again upon its legs , for a republic it is , and of the
worst species . The members of this republic are spread through the nations of Europe , each individual in it deriving some power from its head ; and all who have sufficient talent may aspire to the highest dignities of this extraordinary state . The Pope , the pretended Holy father , is elected from the dignitaries who form his council ,
and who for the greater part are Italians ; but policy requires that some should be admitted from the kingdoms which pay their homage to the republic , and in general this , men selected possess great talents natural and acquired . With the nomination of their subjects the kings are much pleased ,
and the House of Bourbon , the great protectors , sons and servants of this republic , has been lately gratified by the--nomination of three persons ^ on whom the French king placed , with solemn { pomp , the Cardinal ' s bat received from the pretended Holy Father , after the usual pretended apostolical benediction .
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MONTHLY RETROSPECTofPUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , , ^ j The Christian s Survey of the Political World «
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< 4 In addition to these dignities , conferred upon three subject * ,. of France , | he Bourbon king has entered , into a treaty with the republic , oy which he is permitted to make a new arrangement of ecclesiastical benefices in his kingdom . The number of archbishoprics and bishoprics is to be increased , by which rheans the kingly authority is . expected to be more firmly consolidated , and the republic , by the increase nf its higher dependents , cannot bat be benefited . This is one of the most extraordinary delusions that Las ever * taken place . A sovereign applies to a foreign state to erect offices in his own doimnions .
A sovereign , priding him . sejtf on his birth , bows down to one , perhaps , born in the lowest situation of HfeVh ' e ; whtf boasts of descent from kings ftir ; a tlfo'tistyhxl years , who looks updn le ^ ifiriiate' skrthfcrity to be vested iu Irtm by a kind of Divtfte right , is content to reig * n with divided authority ; the republic possessing * the homage of a
great part of hi $ subjects , of whom some one may come to be its head , a-nd to claim from his king- allegiance next to Divine . ThaJ the sovereigns of Europe , with unbounded authority , several oft W&m in their respective staiesy should feel it n > cessary to be dependent cm a foreign republic , which at times has exacted obedience in a 1
very harsh and severe manner , 1 sofnly another proof of the power of delusion over the minds of men ; though , perhaps , in this case they are not so completely shortsighted as may be imagined . There are two parties in the fraud . The priest is to support the despot , and the despot the priest , in the common cause , by which each
is to gain an advantage at the expense of the people . This does not prevent the two parties , when the latter are not concerned , from eirdea von ring to get the better of each other ; and , as circumstances require , each calls the people to his assistance . This the Protestant sees through well enough ; but the peopje , who are in subjection to the ic mai j
pretended noiy repum , re n , ana »« likely to remain for sonra time , subject to the delusion . The necessities of Spain have also required the assistance of the pretended Holy See . A great part of the revenues of that country is possesed by the subjects of the
republic , according to whose doctrines they are hallowed , and to be kept inviolate from the touch of the state in which they are situated . But the republic has a power over these revenues , and by an humble petition of the king and an explanation of his circumstances , the republic has granted to him a certain portion of these revenues , for
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/60/
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