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    INTELLIGENCE.

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    DOMESTIC . Religious . Persecuted French Protestants , The Committee appointed by the general body of ministers of the Three Denominations have published the following address : —

    " Dr . Williams ' s Library , Red ' -Cross Street , London , May 17 , 1819-** De ^ r Sir , * When the General Body of the Ministers of the Three Denominations commenced those proceedings in

    favour of the Protestants of France , which the Committee appointed by them have now happily terminated , the most timid or prudent calculator could not have imagined that their duties would have become so delicate

    or difficult as they have been rendered by subsequent events . Impelled by the principles of the Christian religion , and pursuing its simple but sacred dictates , they found themselves

    suddenly assailed by violent opposition , involved in political disputes , and exposed to the most offensive calumny and abuse . To have abandoned the cause , or to have relaxed

    their efforts in the face of such unmerited and unexpected hostility , would have been as base ou the part of the Committee , as it would have been gratifying to their envious or intolerant opponents . They persevered ; and success has rewarded their

    motives and their constancy . Independently of the real and important benefits which they have been able to confer on the victims of oppression and cruelty , they have eminently served the general interests , of truth

    and freedom . They have cleared away the misrepresentations and aspersions under which virtue was obscured an <| guilt was concealed , and have given a great moral lesson to persecutors of this and succeeding ages . 4

    * The existence of a religious persecution , more extensive and more fatal than the Committee had represented , is now acknowledged through France , and is become rather a sub-

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    ject of history than . dispute . The Mission and Report of the Rev . C . Perrot have produced national dis * cussion y and the most eloquent orators and the ablest writers of France ,

    have justified the calumniated Protestants , and recorded the infamy of their unprincipled oppressors . The solitary voice of an intrepid Deputy , Mon . D'Argenson , is no longer drowned in clamour and invective .

    In the present session the father-inlaw of M . De Cazes , the first minister of Louis 'XVIII ., has exposed , from the Tribune , the spoliations and murders in the Department of the Card , of which he is a representative . The truth which the lamented Komilly

    ( at the request of the Committee ) revealed in the British Parliament , M . De Setre , keeper of the seals , and invested with all the authority of his high office , has proclaimed amidst the acclamations of the Senate , to his country and to all Europe . * We can no longer be silent , ( said lie , )

    however afflictive may be the scandal y and let me observe , it is crime that is scandalous , and not its exposure , not the cry of blood unjustly and profusely spilt . Shall this Tribuue , which exclaims against abuses , be dumb when general and notorious outrages exist ?* *

    " The historical relation of these deplorable events , which the Committee had announced , prepared and printed , they have determined not to publish : because , though substantially correct as far as it embraced the subject , and as far as facts could be collected under the tedious reign

    * " At the moment that this letter was sent to the press , the Earl of Westmorland , in the House of Lords , referring * to the persecutions of the Protestants of Nisnies , formerly denied by Lords Castlereagh and Wellington , as unquestionable facts , and

    argued on them against the petitions of the Irish Catholics . Neither the Duke , who sat near him , and who supported his arguments , nor any other member of administration , attempted to correct the statement of the noble Earl /'

    Intelligence.

    INTELLIGENCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/30/