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      ^ i # —History &f the Penseentiom endured by tke PreteatianU of the South of France and more especially of the J > epertment of the Gard r during the years 1814 , 1815 , 1816 * Sfc . Including a Defenee of their Conduct from the Revolution to tke present Period . By Mark Wilks . 2 vols . 8 vo . pp . 626 . With a Map . Longman and Co ., and Westley . 1821 .

      OUR former volumes ( XI . and XII . ) have registered both the persecutions of the French Protestants and the generous efforts of the Protestant Dissenters of England , at the instance of the Ministers > of the Three Denominations , for their relief : and our

      readers cannot have forgotten that attempts were then made to throw suspicion upon the statements of the Dissenting Ministers , and even to expose them to political reproach for their interference . * The Duke of

      Wellington wrote a letter to justify the French government at the very moment that the department of the Gard was reeking with Protestant blood ; [ Mon , Repos . XI . 58 $ ] Lord Castlereagh palliated the enormities of the Catholics , and maintained , in

      order to disparage Sir Samuel Rotaailiy ' s too forward humanity , that not more than 300 persons had been mmrdered at Nismes , and not more than 1000 in the neightwurhood , and that the vietims had been unfriendly to the legiti-Jaate government of the descendants

      * The present editor of ttie Hew ( or Mock ) Times wrote a series ; o £ articles m the Times to counteract the efforts of the Dissenting Ministers , whom ,, in all * is jon to their being of Three Denamina ~ to ° as , he characterized as " the treble * taced rogues . " Thiswriter had the

      boldness at one time to question jthe fact of t « e persecution and the cruelty at another to represent the Protestants as entitled to no compassion on account of their political predilections . He has always Maimed , nevertheless , the distinction , * ° * excellen ce , of a friend of religion and * xaal order !

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      of Louis XIV . 5 [ see the Debate , Men . Repos . XL 357 and 438 - ; J and Mons ; Masron , aa the head of the ftotestents of Paris , wrote an official

      letter to the Dissenting Mmr 3 t « rsr digclairning and rebuking their tiimeees &ary and naisehievoaar interposifion , enclosed in a private one to the editor of this work , ia which he stated that

      the French Protestants were consoled and gratified by that very interposition , and that the result was likely to be very beneficial . [ Mon . Repes . X . 780 , XL 59 , 229 and 180 . 1

      Truth is the daughter of Time , and not many months had elapsed before the persecution was universally allowed , and the only object of the Aieadb of the Bourbons was ta vindicate them

      from the charge of exciting or conniving at the foul deeds that could no longer be concealed . With what sue- * cess they pleaded , may be determined by Miss WiHiaams- ' s specious pamphlet * [ Mon . Rep « & . XI . 228 , &e . ] Tben came the Euloghitn of M . Ben ^ r Con * ¦

      stant on Sir Samuel RomilLy , in the Royal Athenaeum of Paris , pronounced at the end of the year 1818 , in whicb he asserted the truth of the representations made by the English Dissenting * Ministers , and ascribed to them and

      Sir Samuel Romill y the cessation of the hopror * that had so ^ long stamped the South of France with infurny . A& lirst , the Chamber of Deputies woutki not permit any FrenebnMHi to- name the atrocities perpetrated atNismeai ; the mention of them was an act o £

      disloyalty ; bat in the course of tiine ^ the Protestant reeeiwd the poor satis faction of haying their suflerin ^ s acknowledged amd detailed ia ^ legislative speeches and official docum «» ts » Powen may thus triumph for a time over hm ~ inanity and truib , but the latter wilt in the end prevail and overwhelm their

      impotent enemies with ignominy . In ord « r to lay » sure foundation for their proceedings , the Dissenting Ministers deputed Mr . Clement Pferrot , an intelligent and respectable whU nister of their persuasion m th ^ Island of Guernsey , on a mission t& France , that amongst the Prole ^ tanDs ttoem-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/37/