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    • NARRATIVE OP A RESIDENCE OF POUR MONTHS AT NAPLES AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER, 1827. BY GEORGtf KENRICK.
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      THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XVII .

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      MAY . 1828 .

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      fto .-III . ( Conclusion . ) According to the census taken in the present year , the city of Naples contains 357 , 000 souls . For this vast population , the word of God is , as we have already seen , a sealed book ! Nor have the natives any opportur nity of hearing the gospel of Christ preached in any other form than that in which the Church of Rome has garbled and corrupted it by her traditions .

      With the exception of the Waldenses , there is , I believe , no Italian Protestant church in existence . Foreigners are , in the different cities , permitted to exercise their worship , which they do in their respective languages ! But in Naples there is , properly speaking , no Protestant church of any description . The ambassadors and consuls of Protestant states have the privilege of opening their houses for Protestant worship , and the Prussian ambassador has service at his palace every Sunday , in German and in French on alternate Sundays , the German a ^ corcKng to the Lutheran forms , and the French

      according to the church of Geneva . But the situation is remote from the principal part of the city , and very few of the German Protestants take the trouble to go there . The English merchants and other wealthy inhabitants are , I am sorry to say , still more indifferent ; the natural consequence , f fear , of long residence in a country where religion appears in so contemptible a ljght ,, either as a mere form , as the associate of buffoonery , or as the handmaid of vice . Although their numbers are considerable , and their

      property wojild make the endowment of a bishopric a trifle to them , they have never beep at the expense of having a chaplain , half of which would be defrayed by the British Government , which offers to double whatever stipend may be raised for foreign chaplains . The consul had service in his house , for six months last year , but it is doubtful whether it will be repeated next winter ; and I have been assured , on undoubted authority , that our countrymen take very little interest m the subject Tjie more intelligent class of Italians are more indifferent than the foreign residents , but not only

      Narrative Op A Residence Of Pour Months At Naples And Its Neighbourhood, From June To October, 1827. By Georgtf Kenrick.

      NARRATIVE OP A RESIDENCE OF POUR MONTHS AT NAPLES AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD , FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER , 1827 . BY GEORGtf KENRICK .

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      VOL . II . Y

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/1/