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in both hemispheres , the happy event j s to be ascribed . After many conferences with , the Protestants , and particularly with- the lamented Rabaut St . Etienne , he brought forward in the Assembly of the Notables , an address
to the King in their favour , which was followed by an edict of toleration , the reg istering of which was accompanied by " tears of the fanatics and the declamation of Despremenil , who apostrophized , rather in anger than with piety , the crucifix which adorned the chamber of their sitting . " ( P . 20 . ) The Protestants hailed the
Revolution a 3 the epoch of their complete deliverance , but they appear not as a body to have taken any active share in it . As , however , their enemies and those of liberty were the same , they were from the beginning contemplated
in all the intrigues carried on by the Royalists in the South of France . A civil war was begun by the priests and the accredited agents of members of the Bourbon family , and had not the new government promptly interfered , the same scenes would have been
acted in the year 1790 , that we have seen four and twenty years afterwards . It is remarkable that the very individuals that have figured in the recent persecutions , were the agitators of the troubles of the former period . One of these , Froment , to remind the
present dynasty of his services , or rather to reproach them for their ingratitude , has published a memoir of his attempts , for a quarter of a century , to convulse the South of France with religious dissensions . He has given to the world copies of the
instructions under which he acted , signed by the hands of the Bourbons , and nothing is now wanted to set in a true % ht the principles on which those princes wish to govern , and the character of the late persecution in the department of the Gard . * Others of
This sanguinary ruffian was , before tne Revolution , receiver to the Chapter ot the Cathedral of Nismes , an office to winch , in reward no doubt of good ser-^ ces , he has been restored . He avows hat ne was a pensioner on the British
governmen t up to the period of the Restoration ; and he , or his partisans , were 11 one occasion served with ammuni-* on from the British fleet in the Medi ^ w ranean , to enable them , ( as the event
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these worthy Catholics were ? preparing themselves for service , ia the interval between theitwo commotions , by first practising as furious . Jacobins at the guillotine , and by then employing themselves as tools of Buonaparte in enforcing the conscription and the other bad measures of his reign .
When Louis XVIII . re-entered France in 1814 , in the rear of the allied armies , these savages set about the work for which they had been in training . They caused to be carried to the foot of the throne , the declaration , which the king did not disdain to
accept , that there must be in France but " One God ^ on e King , and one Faith . " The fooleries of Popery were exhibited in open day to inflame the zeal of the populace ; and the conspirators-of Nismes engaged the people of that city to make a solemn vow of
dedicating to God a silver child , if the Duchess d * Angouleme should prove the mother of a boy . Monsieur , the King ' s brother , made a visit at this period to Nismes , and smiled upon the Protestants , while they who have since boasted of having been in
correspondence with him were plotting their destruction : and our author states it as " a curious fact , that however kind the disposition evinced , and the more powerful the protection promised on these royal visits , the enemies of the Protestants
invariably became more hostile , more furious and more audacious" after them . ( Pp . 120 , 121 . ) At this juncture , the monsters of 1790 gathered mobs and warned the Protestants of their doom by inscriptions on
shewed , ) to pursue their pious project of exterminating Protestant heretics : yet this prote ' ge' of Mr . Pitt ' s says , in one of his recent publications , " For more than twenty years I have maintained , that it was not in Paris , but in London and
Petersburgh , that the foundations of every throne were sapped , and the fetters for every nation forged , and this , even when an opinion prevailed that jacobinism would make the tour of the world ; that there was always a design to ravish front
the Bourbons the crown of their ancestors , and * o dismember our unhappy country ; and , unhappily for Europe , from Pitt to Castlereagh , the English ministers have not' had intentions rao ' ite noble , more profound , or more humane than the Jacobins . " P . S 3 .
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Review . —JVUk&s Persecutions of the Pffrtestants of Frtmce . 671
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/39/
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