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      character ; yet , strange to tell , these cringing attitudes have been a successful mean of operating on the imaginations of the ignorant a belief of

      their sanctity . I am happy in the conviction that no pretensions of this , or any other sort , will reconcile the people of France to the restoration of tithes or ecclesiastical domination -

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      There are some particulars in the habits and customs of the French in common life , which an Englishman would hardly tolerate after three apprenticeships . For instance , The habit of spittin g up and down their houses and churches , not confined to the gentlemen .

      The abominable custom of cheapening every article in dealing . Their Voitures , waggon-diligences , and their carriages in general ; -with all their harness and trappings . Their prodigious saddles , and bridles , and boots .

      The Cabinets d ' aisance ; and , in some places , the utter want of them . The streets , without flag causeways The stench of their populous towns , particularly in the South , for want of a cleanly police . The frequent discharge from the windows .

      The sabots , or wooden shoes . The ceremony at meeting and parting—a little overdone . The perfect abruptness with which

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      Sir , Higharn Hill , Feb 1 , 1815 . LOOKING the other day into the Evangelical Magazine , I was struck with the following passage in the Review of Dr . Williams ' s Essay on the Equity of the Divine Government and the Sovereignty of Divine Grace .

      " Interminable misery is the natural and spontaneous effect of sin , unless God should interfere by a sovereign act to cut off the entail ; which he is in no respect whatever bound to

      do If in any instance he do so interfere , he acts as a munificent sovereign : if he decline so to interfere , he acts in equityy he does no > wrong to any . "

      On this paragraph I immediately wrote the following observations , vrhich if you conceive them to be worth inserting in your Repository ,

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      domestics , male , or female , enter you chamber on all occasions . Their long meals , and countless dishes .

      The lean mutton of 6 lb . per quarter ; and the leanness of the meat in general . Cards and billiards all day long , for want of better employment . The paucity and extreme barrenness of journals , from a restrained press .

      The immense standing army , and the increasing number of priests . The two last items are somewhat out of catalogue ; but they deserve a place somewhere . There are also a few circumstances

      and habits in which they excel the English . Their drinking no healths * and their temperance in general . Neatness in their linen , of every description .

      Their great propriety of manners , and general politeness ; including all ranks , but most remarkable in the lowest . The good treatment and excellent condition of their unmutilated horses , of every sort .

      The activity and consequent good health of the women . The superior condition of the labouring class 5 and , as a set-off against some political grievances , exemption from tithes , poor-rates ; and , in comparison , from taxes .

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      are very much at your service . " Interminable misery is the natural and spontaneous effect of sin . " As this is by no means a self-evident truth , I am at liberty to call it in question . I then deny that there are any data from which this conclusion can be drawn . It has , however , been said that sin is an infinite evil ,

      because it is committed against an infinite Being , and therefore deserves a punishment infinite in duration . To this I reply , that it is at least as reasonable to measure the evil of sin by the attributes oY the being who commits it as by those of the being against whom it is committed . I will

      therefore venture to confront this axiom with another . Sin is not an infi nite evil , because it . is committed by » finite being , and therefore does not

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      ' 6 Mr . Cogan ' s illustration of Phil . iL 6 , from Heliodorus .

      Miscellaneous Communications.

      MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/12/