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    Signal victories , tut We want intelligence on the conduct of - the French , and the measures pursued by them , for the establishment of their power . Portugal is also roused . A day of

    superstition has brought them forward . The catholics have a feast , which they Call the feast of God or that of the body of Christ , on Which day they- are accustomed to carry in procession through the streets of * their cities their various

    abominations , stach as dead men ' s bones in $ hrines of silver and gold , golden and silver images , and their god of paste or flour ,, which are religiously reverenced By every person : and not to be oh one ' s knees , when the wafer god passes by , is esteemed to be a very great impiety and a profanation of the

    day . On this day the French standard appeared in the procession at Oporto , ^ The peo ple were indignant . Their passions were raised . They seized the arms in tk town , drove the French out of it , organized a new government , issued proclamations , and are preparing to extirpate the French in their

    vicinity . At Lisbon the fear of the Erench has kept the populace under : but the news is daily expected , that our fleet off the Tagus will enter the river , seize the Russian squadron , and assisting the inhabitants , free them entirely from the French yoke . The prince regent has been proclaimed at Oporto , and every thing is done und £ r

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    The death of the fcev . JOSEPH BRADFORD , , aged 67 , at Hull , was attended with circumstances that made a great impression on his numerous acquaintance and friends in all parts of iireat Britain and Ireland .

    In consequence o £ several paralytic seizures , he had , for imore than six months , been reduced to a state of mental imbecility , which did not admit of " * 3 * PPort >» g * rational conversation and at time * of knowing his local aitua * * Jgn * In the morning of Saturday , May 2 $ tb , he rosfc early , leaving Mrs , Bradford in bed , and with a razor , which unfortunately hapjfcfced t * lie ©» tht

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    his auspices : but the clergy seem to have very gjreat sway , and however useful they may be in exciting the people , they arc scarcely able to conduct them through a very difficult contest . The result of the whole is in the hands of Providence , who will conduct xc to its

    destined end : but we cannot imagine , that the fine peninsula between the Atlantic , the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean , shall be doomed to groan for future years under a pernicious despotism and a degrading superstition * ' In the North strange things have appeared . A great British force has been sent out to Sweden , but has returned without having been , landed . Disputes have arisen , and the king of Sweden » is supposed not onl y to be displeased with Us , but likely to fall into the measures of Russia . Of course the Baltic will

    be shut up against the Ehgli h . THc reasons , of this conduct remain to be developed . At any rate Sweden will probably be a loser in Finland , and its king will have enough to do to satisfy his people for the sacrifices he has compelled them to make in this disastrous war . Strange are the events of the

    times ! England commenced its caredr by uniting With the jnonarchs of Europe against the people of France : she is likeiy to see ^ them all united against herself , atid her only allies will be the people of Spain and Portugal , fighting for their liberty and independence .

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    chimney-piece in the kitchen , cut h \ $ throat in a nxos * shQcJdqg manner , and was foumd fallenojp , the floor dead . Mr . Bradford was In very high reputation in the Methodist connexion ; the esteemed friend of the late Rev .

    John Wesley , and for many years his travelling companion . Not distinguished by any brilliancy of genius , or claim to literary acquirements , he was a man . « taking , him all in all , that we shall not soon look on his like again . **' His piety was sincere , and if 'nof free from the taint of superstition and enthusiasm , the * fervency of it did not cvroorat * in long and loud prayers ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/43/