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asked . What would be the answer if these half-pay clergymen were called upon to serve again ? ¦ mm
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The news from abroad is not characterized by variety . The United States of America are rapidly reducing their debt , and at the same time increasing the means of national defence and improving their civil institutions . A proclamation lias been addressed to the citizens of the
United States by the Greek Senate at Kalainata , claiming their sympathy and aid as freemen on behalf of a people struggling for liberty against barbarous and sanguinary oppressors . The cause of the Greeks is in abeyance . The greater part of the Morea and of the islands
seems to be in their possession . Their capital , the seat of their senate and government , is Kalainata ( just named ) in Messenia . Here they have established a pruitittg-oflSce , from which the Acts of
the Senate and the Bulletins of the armies are regularly issued , and from which ajso proceeds a new Journal , called Tfte Hellenic Trumpet , edited by Theoclftos , a learned ecclesiastic . Their leaders judge rightly , that a free press is a formidable
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weapon against imposture a » d tyranny The tragical end of ihe Persian pHnee ' Mahomet AH Mirza , a powerful enemy of the Turks , who was fbund dead line tent , is said to have damfffed ( though we trust but for a moment ) the enthusfe ^ of the Greeks . The negociations between
Turkey and Russia are not as yet brought to a conclusion . Some students at Constantinople , training upas teachers of Islamism , lately made a stir on occasion of the banishment of one of their Professors for alleged seditious expressions , which recalled the government to
moderation : a proof that even here , under the throne of ignorance , there is felt the impulse of that popular feeling which agitates the rest of Europe . — The leaden sceptre of Austria presses upon the heart of beautiful Italy . The despot knows his enemies by instinct rather than wisdom , and we hear of the
suppression of schools in Lombardy — Spain and Portugal are consolidating their free governments : the Priesthood mi these lands of promise are declining daily in numbers and influence . A cloud is over France , portending , as some think , an explosion at no distant period .
Superstition has shewn itself in a disgusting form in the conversion of the two daughters and the niece of Mr . Loveday , an English gentleman , to Popery : the actors in this gloomy farce were a Parisian school-mistress , certain priests and prelates , and , it is said , a prince of the blood in a mask . The event will , we trust ,
operate as a warning to our countrymen who send their children to France for education , some of whom have not scrupled to place their daughters for that purpose in religious houses . The new Royalist Ministry have succeeded in carrying through the Chambers a law with regard to the press , of a more despotic character than any measure brought
forward in Europe for the last half-ceristury . The discussions amongst the Deputies were exceedingly stormy : a considerable body of the patriots withdrew before the passing of the law , that they might not seem by their presence to give the colour of legislation to so fatal a violation of the Charter of Liberties . By this law it is a crime to question " the Dinnitv of Christ : " the French are not
theologians , and the phrase may loosely mean the denial of the Christian religion ; but the ambiguous wordingof the law may be strained by bigots to the oppress ?** of the liberal Protests . How well was the present reigning femily i « France described by their late ttival , as having , in their exile and their experience doring the Revolution , "learned nothing antiTorgotten nothing" !
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128 Intelligence . — Foreign .
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FOREIGN . Memorial of Mr . Locke . —We find the following in the New Monthly Magazine tor January , " Histor . Reg . " p . 20 . It is not stated where the intelligence is picked up ; probably from some French Journal . We confess that we regard the story with suspicion .
" MvntpeiHer . —A workman employed in removing the foundation of an old house near this city , found a glass bottle hermetically sealed ; it was found te contain , in an excellent state of preservation , the following Latin inscription on vellum : —
* Mortalis ! In thesauros incidisti Hie in Christo Fides , rebus in humanis Modus patent . Ampulla nee vacua , nee vilis , quae animohilaritatem , corpori salutem , affert . Ex hac imbibe , et haustum , vino vel Falerno vel Chio , gratiorem hauries . Scripsit Johannes Locke , Anglus , A . D . 1675 . The following is a translation :
" Mortal ! Thou hast found a treasure ! Here are placed before you Faith in Christ and Moderation in things terrestrial . The bottle is neither empty nor of little worth , which affords cheerfulness to the mind and health to the
body . Quaff of this , and thou shalt imbide what is more precious than the juice of Falernum or Chios . So wrote John Locke , Englishman , in the year of our Lord , 1675 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/64/
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