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      Bited from burning herself , of befog burned by fcfre babble S # si gftf rt YetV let a rupee be deficient , and the European collector feels no scruple of offending the Hindoo ^ morbidness bj demanding summary payment , and shooting the refractory . ' * But tne burning is supposed td be a rite of religion . Even if it were .

      we have rid scruple of taking possession of pagodas , and making ourselves the disposers of the Brahminical influence on all occasions that suit our convenience . We guard the passes of the Ganges , and knock the pilgrims on the Mad if they are unruly ; we plant our sentinels in the very house of Juggerftatit , and raise a handsome revenue out of their pious foolery , to their infinite indignation ; we cudgel , confine , axfci mulct the whoFe holy mob

      without earing a sixpence whether we hurt the feelings of a worshiper of Mahomet or Brahma . But the moment that the question comes unconnected witn money or power , and merely calling upon common sense and contnton humanity , our East India governors discover that the religious prej udices of the natives are very solemn affairs , and not to be touched , but at the risk of the overthrow of the whole Indian empire .

      " Now , the burning of the widows is not a religious ceremony , nor a part of Hindoo religion , for it is not enjoined in any of the standard book £ of their religion , and the command of them is simply , that the widow should devote herself to a reserved and correct life . It is merely an act of presumed voluntary effort to gain a place in the state of future happiness , or to shake off the inconveniences of a solitary life ; the act , however , is attended by fabricated ceremonies , by Brahmins who are paid by the relatives * who divide the property of the sufferer . ' '

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      To the Editor * Sir , You lately laid before your readers an account of the origin of this Sodety , nearly as we find it given by an American writer in the Christian Disciple * Having since received from Paris a continued series of the Journal and Reports , I propose to notice the proceedings of this Association , which have produced a considerable sensation in France .

      The Journal , which it is one part of the plan of the Society to publish periodically , gives us an idea of the gradual increase in the numbers and resourced of the Society . They have met with some opposition * of course , from ignorant or bigoted persons but th& was soon surmounted * and every year brings fresh encouragement to the members of an institution which is among the best signs of the age we live in . True , they have had to lament

      the death of some of their most able and distinguished champions . But the services of such men as M . Llorente , the Duke of La Rochefoucauld Lian * court , and the Baron de Stael * are permanent . The influence of such minds upon society is not to be estimated j it works unseen , and produces effects the extent of which is hot to bd traced . The annual meeting in May , 1824 , was the last &t which the illustrious founder presided . His opening speech declares the gradual progress of the Society * the steady direction of its efforts towaras the destruction of the evils which torment and degrade human nature , and the happiness enjoyed by those who kfovfe tlfctt * M& *

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      FRENCH SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/11/