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      Assembly when the king was tried and comdemned . He was then on a mission at a considerable distance . He wrote a letter , indeed , to the President , expressing his clear opinion of the king ' s guilt , but yet condemning him not to die , but to live . He was decidedly adverse to

      inflicting upon him the punishment of death . It is worth inquiring how it has happened that ,, under these circumstances , and with so many around him , stained by still deeper shades of criminality , M . Oregoire should have become so generally obnoxious as to be rejected with indignation , and almost with abhorrence , from

      the Chamber of Deputies . To us the fact appears not difficult of explanation . In the first place , Gregoire stood forward singly in defence of Christianity , when proscribed by the almost unanimous voice of his revolutionary associates . His zeal in this hated cause roused the contempt and hatred of many even of his own

      political party . —In th 6 next place , he had been an active , and we may say leading , . member of the Society of Les Amis des Noirs ; and , even during the iron reign of Buonaparte , he ceased not to lift his voice with courage and energy

      against the Slave Trade , and against that frightful system of colonial bondage which Buonaparte sought to restore in St . Domingo . He stood long single in this cause also . He became , therefore , the mark for all the arrows of detraction and

      calumny which the eoc-colom , ( a most powerful and numerous body , ) the slave traders of Havre , Bourdeaux and Nantz , and all their adherents could direct against him . —But more than all this , since the restoration of Louis XVIII . he has exerted himself with extraordinary

      ability , perseverance and effect , in opening the eyes of his countrymen to the dangers likely to arise from the re-establishment of the Jesuits , and from the insidious pretensions of the Court of Rome to interfere in the affairs of the

      Galilean Church . He has become , therefore , on this account , particularly obnoxious to the bigoted adherents of the Papacy , and , above all , to that active , insinuating , restless and unprincipled body the Jesuits , who have spared no pains to blacken his character , and to confirm and increase the prejudices that had been excited against him on other grounds . Had he left the slave traders and Jesuits in

      peace , we believe that M . Gregoire might have very quietly taken his seat as a le ~ gislator . But the friends of the Pope ' s power and pretensions , and the friends also of Slavery and the Slave Trade , dreaded the presence of so powerful and so fearless an antagonist in the Chamber

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      of Deputies . The periodical work which expresses his sentiments ph * refigious and ecclesiastical subjects had already done so much to defeat the machinations of the Court of Rome and its satellites the Jesuits , and to prevent the revival in France of the more gross corruptions of

      Popery , and had so boldly asserted the right of all the members of the Catholic Church to the use of the Holy Scriptures , that the utmost alarm and consternation were naturally enough created by his election , and the utmost efforts were therefore made to nullify it . Those

      efforts , as might be expected , have proved successful . Whether the decision to which they have led be right , we will not presume to determine . Thus much , however , we feel ourselves bound in common justice and charity to say , in behalf

      of one who , whatever may have been his errors , has , on many grounds , deserved well of his fellow-men , but who seems at present to be abandoned by all the world . " * { Christian Observer , December , 1819 . )

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      64 Intelligence *—^ Foreign . —Italy .,

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      Italy . —Rome . M . Y Abbd Cancellieri ,- known throughout Europe as one of the most learned men living , author of Memoirs of St . MedieuSy Description of the Papal Chapels , &c , published in 1817 , a

      Catalogue of Works front the Propaganda Press at Rome , which is under his direction , and he has promised the public a History of the celebrated Propaganda Congregation . His advanced age and his great weakness , it is said , increase the impatience of the literati of Italy , for its appearance .

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      M . Alexander Manzoni , grandson of the celebrated Beccaria , has lately published in Italian , Observations upon Catholic Morality , ( 8 vo . 297 pp . ) in which he combats various assertions scattered in " The History of the Italian Republics of the middle * age . "

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      * <* The periodical work to which we have alluded above , is entitled < La Chronique Religieuse / and may be had of Treiitteil and Wurtz , 30 ^ Soho Square . It deserves the particular attention of the Christian world at the present moment ,

      being , perhaps , mthe first . public attempt , since the days of Erasmife , by members of the Roman Catholic Churchy to expose the errors and corruptions of their own body . The conductors of this work appear to be themselves Jansentsts in principle . ' *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1820, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2484/page/64/