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      and faithful service , a ground of hope , a source of pious gratitude and humility , and through the promises of the gospeJ , an earnest of " . final acceptableness with Ood for Chrises sake / " ( See Christian REFORMER * -V . ^ 64 . )

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      FOREIGN . 1 France . The Cardinals , Archbishops and Bishops in France have addressed a letter to the Pope , in which they draw a gloomy

      picture of the present state of the Gaxucan Church , which they say is becoming daily more deplorable . They complain bitterly of impious books and pernicious doctrines , and , in short , predict that u the Church of France will fall , never to rise again . "

      The Pope has assented , it is said , Concordat ( or agreement ) similar to the famous one negotiated hy Buonaparte . - jk reserve , however , is made of certain papal pretensions . The vacant sees are soon to he filled .

      But the Revolutionhas given a shock to the papal hierarchy in France , from "which it is not likely to recover . The church-lands were the foundation of this political church , and these being ( we hope ) for ever alienated , the edifice has nothing to stand upon but the superstition of the people , of which the Revolution has left little remaining .

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      The priesthood has shewn its ancient spirit at Lyons . A woman died who fead been divorced and had married a second time . Her second husband had wished the church to consecrate by the aacrament of marriage the union already made legal by the civil authorities , but this was refused . On the death of the wife , ounai

      was also denied , on the ground that the deceased , though in the eye of the civil law a wife , was in that of the canon law a concubine . In vain did the Prefect issue his order . The graiid vicar then interfered , but it was not till a secpnd order of his that the priest consented to the interment ; and , at last , the corpse was

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      refused admission into the church , and would not have been carried thither if the ' populabe had not broken open the door and compelled the performance of the

      whole ceremony . u This scandalous affair , ' says the foreign Journalist , " bad nearly given rise to very serious consequences . "

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      Sunod of Ulster . —The most interestingquestion as yet discussed in Synod during * its present sittings is decided , namely—Whether permission would be granted to Scotch clergymen to preach in the Presbyterian pulpits of Ireland . The same liberty is denied to the Irish in Scotland by the General Assembly of that country . The question was carried in favour of the Seotch clergymen preaching in Ireland , by a majority of six . Wo learn that the ministers divided equally . The elders , therefore , decided this very important , and in our minds , national question . —Irishman *

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      The brutal persecution still rages against the Jews in Germany , but it is consolatory to learn that they find an asylum in France . A considerable number of them have emigrated thither in families . A Paris paper , of the date of Sept . 12 , savs of these

      unhappy people , " Among us they will enjoy constitutional liberty and that security which is its fruit . It is now 150 years since French Protestants went to Germany in quest of peace and liberty . What a progress have justice and public prosperity made in our country !"

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      We are informed by a gentleman just returned from the South of France , that the Protestants in that quarter are far from feeling secure , though at present in peace . The etfect ^ of their persecution has been so

      far good as it has put them upon serious investigation of the principles for which they have been , called to suffer . They take much interest in the progress of opinions at Geneva and in England ; and a religious journal is about to be established at Nisines to encourage and aid free inquiry .

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      Denmark . The tremendous cry of a Hep , Hep , ( the signal of persecution against the Jews in Germany , ) has been propagated hither . A report , it seems , prevailed that protection bad heen promised at

      Copenhagen to the Jewish exiles from Hamburgh . The populace of Copenhagen ,, taking the alarm , attacked the Jews already in that city . A report that they would be driven from all the public promenades induced them to keep within their houses ; but even here they were sought out , their windows were broken

      their houses were assailed , and the presence of the military alone saved their property and persons . Placards are said' to have heen posted up by the rioters against the Jews and the government . ' * His Majesty has consequently issued a proclamation offering a reward for the discovery of the seditious , and appointed a commission for the immediate trial of such as

      should be apprehended . There is a mystery in this sudden and general rising against the Jews , who are , we believe , every-where distinguished by peaceable conduct , and by what might be almost called an-abject spirit .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/63/