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    [ In the Monthly Repository for March last ( p . 150 ) a letter was inserted from Mr . Bow ring on the present state of religion in Holland and Germany , which has excited considerable attention and some discussion in

    those countries . It has been republished at Hamburg , in No , III . of a work entitled " The Gleaner , or Specimens of the Periodical Literature of Great Britain and the United States' * ( edited by C . F . Wurm , Phil . D . M . A . ); with some animadversions on Mr . B . ' s reference to the views of Professor Paulus and other Continental Protestants on the question of Catholic Emancipation . We shall quote the two passages of the letter to which those animadversions relate :

    " The only strong sectarian feeling among Dutch Protestants is that which hangs about their * Catholic question , ' a question not quite so divested of difficulties as our Catholic question , since their Catholicism wields instruments of prodigious influence , and has unfortunately shewed itself on all occasions the hearty ally of civil despotism . " And afterwards , speaking of Professor Paulus : " But he , like most of the Continental Protestants ,

    and particularl y those who look up to Gothe and to Voss , have the same prejudices against the Catholics which I have spoken of as existing in Holland , and would deem the success of the * Emancipation question' an European calamity . In looking at a few numbers of his Sophronizon , you would find evidence enough of the state of his mind on this important matter . "

    If injustice be done to Professor Paulus by these passages , and perhaps their juxta-position exhibits ah ascription to him of " strong sectarian feeling" which the writer did not fully contemplate , it will , we trust , be remedied py the remarks of the Editor of the Gleaner , who , it will be seen , coincides in opinion with Mr . Bowring on the Catholic question , as we are

    sure Mr . Bowring does with him on the pure and elevated character of the illustrious Paulus . We insert his " Note" entire , and cannot but express pur pleasure at the manner in which he has spoken of our countryman and friend , our admiration of his command over our language , and our hearty coincidence in the reasonings with which he concludes . Ed . 1

    Note by the Editor of the Gleaner on Mr . Eowring * s Letter * Interesting as the above letter will doubtless be to many of our readers , we should not have thought it right to insert it , were there not evidence on the face of it that it has been intended for publication . But having inserted it , we cannot pass it over , as the Editor of the Monthly Repository has done , *• without note or comment . "

    The writer of that letter has obviously mistaken the spirit in which one class of enlightened Protestant Divines have opposed the princi p le of Catholic Emancipation . At this we are not surprised . We can easily account for the difficulty which he finds , of reconciling their liberality on all other points with their illiberality on this . It is not only that national peculiarities will insensibly steal upon the judgment ; there is also the diversity of pursuits , of individual predilections and associations , and the tone of mind corresponding to the surrounding literary atmosphere—which will go a

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    OPINIONS OF CONTINENTAL PROTESTANTS ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/18/