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    Catholics of Ireland , but oply on condition that their king shall take upon him * self the same civil authority over * their proceedings , so far as they could dis * turb civil order , as Catholic sovereigns make no scruple in exercising ; and he

    proceeds to shew how unreasonable it would be , on their part , to object to this , when the regulations of the . Court of Austria , which hanre been quietly acted upon half a century , are taken into consideration . The Emperor , he . observes , is head of the temporal affairs of the churches in his dominions , whatever be their creed and whatever should be his own ; and he sees no

    reason why the Protestant King of England , or any other king , should not be the same . . .: T lx > . ; .. The Count , in considering the concessions which the Catholics of Ireland should make to the state * has involved himself in greater difficulty than was necessary , by not observing tbkt the Austrian government goes much further than the English is asked to go , and that the latter consequently has still less occasion / of apprehension of dissident creeds . The former not only

    tolerates , but recognizes as established and endowed , several religions in the same state . It conceives itself to be ^ as a government , properly speaking , of no religion , bu ^ to . be bound to proteet and keep fair play between all ; and the coexistence of these establishments of course renders many regulations necessary , and creates many embarrassments , which can never arise where all that seceders venture to sue for is liberty of worship and an absence of

    proscriptions . Count Pozzo , iii his reasonings with the Irish Catholics ^ | who , by the bye , have never shewn the slightest inclination to be of the Curialist , or high-temporal-pretension , party of the Church of Rome , ) seems to be contemplating all those points of contact with the government which arise in his own Country , where they form a powerful establishment * co-existent with one or two other less influential establishments , between

    which jealousy might reasonably be expected . In Ireland , the only possible interference which the government could want to exercise , would be to provide a few regulations against those actions which should have a tendency to interfere with its internal or external political relations , if any such should occur worthy of notice in the members of a body without power or institutions capable for an instant of rivalling those of a wealthy and influential establishment .

    But the Count ' s book is a curious one , as developing the cunning , despotic policy of the Imperial Court , and displaying the mode in which it uses religion as a mere state engine , and the degree in which all this is quietly submitted to , and , in fact , rendered conducive to the quiet of society and its exemption at least from sectarian jealousies and priestly persecutions . We

    shall proceed to give , within as short a compass as we can ^ an outline of the Austrian code of law as it respects the state ' s connexion with ecclesiastical matters ; a system foqnded , as it asserts , on ancient practice and the wellunderstood relative rights and duties of governments , and of the societies which unite for religious purposes within its sphere .

    The Episcopal Chancellor of Lintz , George Richberg , composed a work , entitled " Enchiridion Juris Ecclesiastici Austriad , " forthe use of the clergy and the civil functionaries of the empire , which had . become the more necessary as the laws of Austria had almost altogether rejected what is commonly called the Canon Law , compiled with a complete subserviency , as was con ^ . ceived , to the grasping purposes of the Papal court , and founded on pretensions which the Austrian court never conceded . This book became a textbook in the , .. universities of Germany and in the Italian states under the Austrian dominion . An Italian translation was published at Venice , ia

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    Mepidtv . - ^ Catholicism in Austria . STB

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/43/