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REVIEW. € * gtill pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame/'-^Pope.
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Art . I . —Remark ' s upon the Con * sumption of Public fFealth by tfiQ Clergy \ Sfc \
( Continued from p . 625 . ) HUNGARY contains about 8 , 000 , 000 of people , of various sects , living * harmoniously together under the regulations established by
the Emperor Joseph II ., who laboured most laudably and , as the event ii * some parts of his dominions has proved , successfully , to eradicate intole ^ ranee and banish discord . The sects
of Hungary are—the Catholics , Latin and Greek , estimated at 4 , 750 , 000 ; the Greek Church at 1 , 150 , 000 ; Calvinists at 1 , 050 , 000 : the Lutherans at 650 , 000 ; the Unitariaas at 46 , 000 ; other sects and Jews at 200 , 000 . —In
the Latin Catholic Church pf Hungary . appears oiie of the greatest mstafice ' $ f oil the Cq #$ ipe # t of Europe , of the abuse of ChurcU property : e- g \ to about 4 , 000 , 000 of hes ^ era there are , 5 , 46 $ clereymen , includin g three archbishops , TS bishops , 1 b titular bishop ? , and 274 prebendaries and car nous . The CEur ^ h revenues are
320 , 000 / ., bewg' 80 , 080 / . per million of hearers : x > f this , the archbishops ^ ad bishops ^^ vjp 96 , 000 / ., and the pxeb £ XMJ # n £ s # nd oanons , 58 , 000 / ,,
leaving only 170 , 214 / . ( or little jpore tfyan Jialf the aipQU&t ) for 5 15 Q wpj * kimj clergy , w | iose incomes average . 3 $ Z . pe ? wjwpv , Tijfi e ^ f lanatioa of this dipproportiop iu JtJue distributor * of the ecclesiastical revenue i& , tji crt
the richest benefices are considered a ^ a provisiop for the junior pi ^ nabers of the grew tyimgftriapL fowiUies , —The C » lviii ^ tip Ct * ur $ h ot Hj ^ g ^ ry taa 1 ^ 84 clergymen tQ 1 , 050 , 000 of heaiv ^ rs : the iiwoiqe p'f ilife ejiurch is little
rpore than 60 , 000 / . per mmuna ., being an average of 441 . to each ipLpister . — , "l ^ he Lutfeera n ? ^ rc m ore econo naica ^ in theijr ecqle ^ i ^ a ticaJ arrangeraents , liavi ^ g . paly 456 clergymen for 650 , 000 hearers , the higheat clerical sti p eQd beiag 80 / ., the average 65 / ., an < f the expense being at the rate of 40 , 000 / . per mHiion of hearers . —Of the finances of the other sects , the particu-
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lars are not known . By a law of the Emperor Joseph , no man is obligetf to pay tithe w t $ x to a religion to which he himself does not belong . Xhe chief University of Hiuigary , that of Pest , though founded for Catholics only , is now attended by all Christians aad e ven by Jews .
The estimate of expenditure on the clergy iu the United States of America must be in a great measure conjeetural « The author sets , down the hearers ftt 9 , 600 , 000 , of whom Ue reckons tU ^ t there are 1 , 600 , 000 people of colour and blacks , and % jae
clergy at 8 , 000 , with a total income of 560 , 000 / ., } . e , about 70 / . for each , which is at the rate of 60 , 000 / . per million of people . The Uaited States have no established church , and yet
religion is popular aud fashionable . We ars told by this author that an assessment on every man for some place of worship to he named by himself , was enforced for some time in a
few States , but Jhe clergy joined in getting the l ^ Av repsa ) e ( J , for it was found that ; k > % \\ & States which left the contribution free , places of worship a # d plergrymfn wejre more liberally supported thtm in tl ^ e ot ^ ersr In Italy yve should expect tp find tlie clergy most r > ct 4 y endowed ^ b ^ vt here the Prenjcji Revqlution extended
its ^ nti-pj ^ estly iufl ii ^ ce , and i ^ atiomJ sales have b « een mafle of qhurch-pro-P ^ rty . Our fleets protected ,, for a time , the lands of tn § churqji in S ; - eily , Jiut since t ^^ peace , tjbuess , being the choicest in the inland , and yearly one ^ fourth of the whole , have been
guaranteed tp the holders of tUe Sicilian loan of 182 ! I . Tfye bearers in all Italy are estimated at ) 9 3 ^ if 2009 and the clergy at 20 . 400 , including pppe , 46 c ^ Jjinals ^ 38 archbishops , 62 bisjiops , 853 other tiffl iiptifaj * * Q&d } 9 , 400 working dLa ^ gy np ea : 7 k # wclesi ^ 8 t icai iucomc ia ra ^ d at 77 ) 5 r OPO / .,
being 40 , 000 ^ per Hi ^ QP of fcearers * TUe titjb ^ is a fortie th ^ « fn 4 if t&Js £ ji ju » kind : a prosecution by a clergyma » for t ^ the is nearly uaknowa . Thor ^ $ re no pluralities , and ; residence it * Utricrtjr ^ nfort ^ a . TOj lowfesi reg ^ iw :
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Review. € * Gtill Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame/'-^Pope.
REVIEW . € gtill pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame /' - ^ Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1822, page 758, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2519/page/38/
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