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by the public ministry ( the law-officers of the crown ) who demanded the condemnation . They rested these arguments on a regulation of 1757 , which they cited at the audience as their authority , and which you will observe renewed the rigour of the
persecutions against the Protestants , the exile of their pastors , interdiction of their assemblies , the annulling of their mar * riages , the declaration of bastardy on their infants , &c . What must we think , in the age in which we live , of seeing- such atrocities dug up from their grave ? No attempt is made , it is true , to bring them at the
a ^ ain into exercise present moment , and the attempt could not succeed though made ; but it might be expected that shame would restrain them from recalling those barbarous decrees , especially as by so doing they violate existing laws , add aim a direct blow at rights consecrated by the Charter . Article 5 of the Charter is thus ex .
pressed : — Every man professes bis religion with equal freedom , and obtains for his worship the-same protection . ' * It is evident that , if the Protestants can be com . pelled to put out hangings , then to bend
the knee , See ., acts prohibited by their conscience , there is no longer any toleration in religion , and by degrees we may expect the revival of former abuses . Attempts of the same kind appear to have been made in the whole of the South , We know of energetic representations made , addressed to the government by divers consistories , and we think it necessary to display zeal and firmness in the delicate * circumstances
in which we are , with regard to the con . cordat . The concordat presented to the Chambers , but not discussed , threatens us with a revival of all the laws of the churchy and you are not ignorant what the ultra-montane party mean by these
expressions . I know that some of the provisions of this Charter may be amended , but is it not deplorable , that the idea of proposing them should have been entertained ? If we shew weakness or indifference , can we tell how far our supineness or want of energy may be abused in tlie discussions of the approaching session of the Chambers , to extort from them
concessions which inay endanger our liberty of conscience ? A peculiar system of management appears to be adopted by those who move in these affairs . They appear to . act in concert , as the same attempts have been made
in dHferent places . The condemned have demanded signed copies of their sentences 5 they have not received them , and probably never will . This mode of proceeding appears a tacit confession on the part of the authorities that their decision * are not founded on law * It is to be remarked like * wise that though 5 ^ V € raJ FrotottanU re-
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404 Intelligences—Persecution dftfce Vtentih Protestant */
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Miscellaneous . Persecution of the French Protestants . [ From the Times . ] Private Correspondence . Bourdeaux , June 17 , 181 ft . Wb are now very much occupied with an incident which interests the whole of the reformed church of France . One of the deacons of our church has just been condem ned to pay * &ne hy the Tribunal of Police , for not having decorated the front ot bis house with the usual hang-ings , lring the procession of the host on Corpus Shtisti day . This prosecution appears to w a manifest violation of the 5 th articl e of tne Charter ; but what appears more surprising still are tye argument * employed
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/60/
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