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    the M ?» ( sr pretended ) Times . So ex > - travagfettt , * ad therefom 90 iunaxtDU * , is tills wretched joara&l * that it rebukes tlie € &Mri 4 ry { the regular ministerial paper , } # <» speaking with d £ < ee * icy of t&e Opposition * a the Chamber of Deputies , aad espedaJly for naming Benjamin Constant with re . spect . Constant is the

    friend of La Fayette , of Gregoire , of Lanjuinais , an-d was the friend ( which of kseif is a testimonial that might carry him with honour through the civilized world ) of the wise and virtuous Romiliy ; but lie 4 tsu » d * up for the Charter , and » ot merely for the family of the Bourbons , and therefore the ex-iacobia Dr ~

    Stoodart , points him out as a revolutionary monster , whom the majority of the Chamber would do well to impeach . The paragraph referred to is in the paper of March the L 9 th # and runs thus : We perceive from the Paris journals that the police exerts itself with laudable diligence in the seizure of blasphemous and

    seditious publications . A writer named uupuis , several years ago wrote a book entitled , De V Origine de torn les Cultes , which was intended to prove , among other things , that thea * e never was such a person as Jesus Christ , In order to bring

    the substance of this impious work withiu the reach of the common people , an abridgment of it has been printed at Paris , which , we are happy to find , was knmediately seized , and we trust that the vender , M . Cuasserian , will be made an example of . "

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    PORTUGAL and SPAIN . A disposition to Loosen the shackles of Popish authority has been for some time visible in the former country , and thai disposition has been much encouraged and strengthened since the establishment of the constitutional system . * The office of the Palriarca , or suprenae Bishop of

    Lisbon , has been extinguished * The respect witk which the regular clergy have been regarded by the people is singularly diminished , and even among the peasantry questions as to the utility of the iwanastic establishments , are sometimes started aad answered iu a spuit of bold inquiry . l > uring the Lent just over , the Cortes applied to the Pope for a Bull to

    allow the people to eat flesh . His holiness refused ior s&mts time ; biU , being given very plainly to understand that his vefusal would not alter tlje doteriuiuatkm ^* f the uatioaal representatives , wha were resolved to root out soxne of the faolisJU Sttpsmi turns of the Portuguese * hq at last consented n he UuH was r ^ Mpeiyed * put } . Uafred , and Lent has been observe d with-, out those forms to which folly atni \ gno-

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    t&nce attached ^ imscii irapbftatoes , ^ m which fraud and . funning ina ^ e ara iline for their slhM ^ r in teresis * Tfcere jj many ecclesiasfics in the Port ug ^^ Cortes , but they are generalry dispose ^ t 0 support the independeace of the Lusiu . niah church . Ecclesiastical reform has

    not , however , oh the whole , made such rapid progress as in Spain . No church or convent property has been hitherto confiscated . Jn half a century the re ] I gi 0 U 8 orders will , however , he extinct by the non-admission of noviciates . In Spaia their suppression is much more rapid ; a « they have been there deprived of much of

    their revenue , « very encouragement has been given to secularization ; and many convents have . been already alienated where the number' of Friars was small , or where a neighbouring convent existed of the same order . Of the most enlightened among the Friars in Spain , a considerable portion have been absolved from their

    religious vows . The Spanish Cortes have assumed a high tone in their intercourse with the Church of jflome . An animal sum was formerly paid in the shape of tribute to the Holy See . Since the Revolution that sum has been very much diminished , and the Cortes refused to allow

    any thing unless it were received as a free gift , —not claimed as a recognized right . The Jansenists are becoming stronger in Spain . To that party belonged the leading ecclesiastics of the last Cortes . One religious journal is published at Madrid , called the Cronica

    Religiose * . Its character is liberal , and its object is to destroy the Papal influence ; but involved as all men are in party-politics , it does not Seem to excite much interest or obtain much circulation . The remnants of old intolerance have been but too visible in Spain during the late discussions on the Penal Code ; many

    of whose articles breathe the most furious bigotry * The stropgest assurance was given that they wouW not be permitted to pass ; however , they wre a pproretl almost without discussion , ip epite of a ve ^ y general conviction of their absurdity and cruelty . " Let ,-us make this cession ( they said ) to the umpjrarj ^ e of the- clergy ,

    as no Spaniard can be affejet-ed by it . To us , all the forms of > religion < ar < e indifferent , and the common ^ people are too sound in their faith to fye * xf > os € < i to tkq consequences of heretical pravity . Th $ t

    ecclesiastics wiii allow xivi } reform « move 041 ward , if w ^ gjve tbtui . enough ° } church tyranny as the price of tlieir . acqu * escence 1 " Thus it ia ,, that fancied wisdo m becomes ^ he all y qf f $ ly « , and # H W ! t £ itself is made tW herfU ? u . &u < i the handmaid of error . ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1822, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2510/page/64/