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Embryos and kliota * eremites and fnars , White , blfu * aud gray , with all their trumpery . The Church-lands were disengaged from their corporate proprietors , and sold fpr the benefit of the nation to the people , from amongst whom has arisen a great body of freeholders , who are the best guarantee of the morals and liberties of France . The
clergy of that country are now put upon salaries , paid by the Government , ajid the only difference in this respect between the three recognized communions , the Roman Catholic , Lutheran and Calvinistic or Reformed , is , that the ministers of the two latter churches are paid more than the national clergy , -probably in consideration of their
having , or being allowed , by their faith to have , families . The salary of a Catholic Rector is 48 / ., of a Catholic Curate , 31 / ., while that of a Protestant Pastor is 561 . The highest salary is that of the Archbishop of Paris , which is 4 , 160 / . There are eight other archbishops at a salary each of 1 , 041 / .,
and 41 bishops at a salary each of 625 / . The number of clergymen in France is 36 , 286 Catholic and 357 Protestant , i . e . 183 Calvinists and 174 Lutherans . The total expense for thirty millions of people is 1 , 050 , 000 / . or 35 , 000 / . per million .. The population of Scotland is-estimated at 2 , 000 , 000 , of which 500 , 000 are computed to be Dissenters of the various sects . Attached to the Kirk
are about 1000 places of worship , with nearly the same number of clergy , of whom 938 receive a national stipend . The average of their incomes is 230 / . per annum . None can receive leaa than 150 / . per annum , and with
the manse or parsonage house belonging to each living and a glebe of land , the average is somewhat higher . This revenue is derived from a charge on rents , payable by the landlord at a valuation renewable every 20 years . On cultivable lands the teinds or tithe
amount to about mne-pence per acre . The income of the Church is reckoned at 20 $ , 360 / ., which is a little more than 135 , 000 / . per million of hearers . Spain is yet in an unsettled state . Before her Revolution , the Spanish clergy and religious of both sexes amounted to 1-80 , 242 . The property of the Churfcb , exclusive of tithes and
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various other dues , was estimated ( ;* t 186 , 6 OQ , iG 0 & * i Tkeiwtoole o * tHis ^ pp 6-perty is now on sale , for thie redemp tion of the national debt . Monasteries ate suppressed , except ten or twelve * which are reserved as asylums for the present generation of monks and nuns . An annuity of from 30 / .
to 60 / . is g iven to the dispossessed religtous . Church-kolidkys , which were a neavy tax upon industry , and a heavier upon morals , are abolished . The clergy are prohibited to take fees , even Christening and Burial fees , after which the Jnoependent minister of Saffron Walden hankers . No gift ? are henceforward to be sent to Rome , but
the old gentleman there who as Pope may have reckoned upon "the customary expressions of respect ** , on the part-of the faithful , €€ required by 1 st Cor . ix . 9 , 10 , 11 , " ? is to receive for his life a commutation of about 2000 / .
per annum . The population of Spain is 11 , 000 , 000 , ali Roman Catholics , and , notwithstanding their being Revolutionists , zealous Roman Catholics . Places of worship are said to be in the ratio of one far ^ very thousand inhabitants . The number of
clergymen is 16 , 552 , i . e . of working clergymen : the number of dignitaries is not yet fixed , and will probably depend upon the behaviour of the higher order of priests during the present crisis . Allowing 8 archbishops at 1000 / . per annum , 44 bishops at 600 / .
per annum , and 500 other dignitaries at 150 / . per annum , the expense of ( this mass of dignity will be 109 , 400 / . per annum . To this we must add the charge for 16 , 000 working clergy , viz . 500 rectors of large parishes at 200 / . per annum , 1000 ditto of smaller at 140 / .. 2000 ditto of smallest at 80 /! .
and 12 , 600 , curates at 50 / ., which will give us 1 , 025 , 000 / ., and this with the cost of dignitaries will amount to an annual Church Charge on Spain of 1 , 134 , 400 / ,, being at the rate of 100 , 000 /^ per million of inhabitants .
The Church of Portugal also has been lately reformed . Before the Revolution in that country , ( for it is in this way we must date the improvements of nations , ) her Church pos-• See Mr . W . Clayton ' s Letter to his Deacon , in the present volume , p . 504 .
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€ & 4 . Review . — Church Property and Church Reform .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/40/
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