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cancompromising. From the ‘heights of the Pyron-
nees, the inquisition frowned down upon the m prone:
‘ter Philosophism, which had every reneon to:hate
d to tremble.
‘the numerous volumes of infidelity which rolled jrom
the mountains with all the destructive fury of the
avalanche. ofhem, liowever, as eluded the
With sleepless caution it watch ‘| mea
ith con
bili dshaken
arge scale had
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branch of the British Em-
th.
vulsive re one entire
t ;pire,and compelled a unanimous abandonment of the
sure. The next question for the house to take into
tconsideration. was, the number. and “character of the
persons seeking relief. The petition | was signed bya
of the country, aiid otto sepzrare the
inst link that bound the. religion of the country to
the Tegislat re and | government.
Ma, —One word.
approving orthe petition by reason
which it raised, he thought it-exactly w e house
number of persons. o
)
power and vigilance of this tribunal
to. ensur' thé uwsurper,. such subjects as were
worthy of him, while. the great mass of the nation
remained loyal and true-to their countr
i e cou
lawful sovereign in the RC
‘when it .had the misfortune. of being deprived. of
them.”
It is impossible, sir, to give a reasonable answer
‘to such observations ; but what is very extraordina-
ry iy very Tittle known, as | presume, is the satis-|
fact and triumphant apology which the impious
Voltare himself & bas made i in ‘avor
and which I shall now
onument of the good s
ate facts, and of the passion which will not see their]
true and genuine cause.
‘\ In Spain,” ‘says he, ' “during the
be,
seventeenth centuries,there were none of those bles:
dy revolutions, conspiracies and cruel punishments
te horrors aft ine ‘inquisition, Spain sould. have
:been jeeproachab
* Had Voltaire lived long enough to witness the dis-|
graceful b ut unmerited fate of the unfortunate Lewis an
his the cons
ed this which coul Her kings were
mot auasrinate, “neither did “they ie “under the hands of the
ex oner,as was the case in England and Braves.
ssuy On “Ge nerat History. TV. Chi tap. 177. p. 1
-Ocuyres Catspless in 8vo. T. XIX,
errr
ENGLAND.
‘DISABILITIES ( Or THE JEWS
In .the British House of Commons on ihe 22d off.
Febraary, , in rising do present a petition
from the civil “aisobilites under which they laboured,
observed, that a misapprebiension of his ohject had
gone forth to the, publie it
ad given a notice of a mo tion on the subject
Me orcas all that he had-done was, to give notice nf
his intention to present a peti ition, When
House . considered that for.a eighty years no
collective ‘body of the Tewish comunity had
peared befure that house, and when they co onsidred|
the object which the petitioners hadi
trusted they would fecl-that the subject well desery. ve
le was.about
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°
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rich in such exal
g they. “did not
“|they set them forward i in language of profound r
the other courts of Europe.—}:
sorts Marie Antoinetie, re might have alter- of
wu
5.Jof accumulated injustice and
ng been stated that| er
clot the ee in favor of concessions to the cat
not t only: for ‘situation and
weal, but pr robit of
ought to approve of.—Hear.—Instead.o a separating
the legistature from ‘christianity,+by conceding the
claims
ity a
eachable yonour and integrity, and ¢ deen ed}
this cnetnree w hie& -
atv
peaceable, uno ering, useful, and industrious, and
a more exemplary body of persons did-not exist. | If}
any opportunity offered, with-very few exceptions,
the great body of the Jewish persuasion throughout
the Unite es
estimnated a:
ing to about “hing thousind persons ; an nd
attempt toe their claims, but
pect for the legislature. “Concessions toa body 80
,|Peaceable and layal, however powerful they might
laims.of..the Jewa, we shall prove cnnclvee still’
{more christian by doing as we- would be ‘done by,
yjand carrying into effect... perfect freedom of consci-
enc oa prin rin
| cial te ney, and which
cial te more widely it was oxtonded. —(H
~ IRELAND. |
“INFIRMA RIES.
of properly. and fairl conducted, whilo
there ro “others, “which, from the thanner in which
they. ar ric onfer tulleeen o benefit whate-”
ver. upe on © poor + W whose goud and comiort should
be their end and ain. ‘Tbe n of such an in
uld not be regarded with the shightest
rence to this unfortunate race,
expatiate upon at great length, but h
from h a tivic, reverving | bimnseit to a future oc-
casion.
Co onsidering: the ° atrocious persecutions to which
these people had been exposed: for centuries—con- |
sidering those persecutions in all their horrible}
der every law calculated to make
them bad citizens, he ould not but trust that the
house and nation would see that so long au arrear|
oppression n could not
e atuned y any partial or “parsitnofious ‘con-
cession. ~ hea and: had. heaped iniu-
ries with extreme seatigalte upon this persecuted
race, and let -ber not be niggardly and sparing in in
r measure of reparation.
for -
lsesyment -up:
generally too- genteel aman to vatiead 1
sickness int rags, though at the same time he i is | not
above converting the house of the poor into a conve-
nient drug-shop for such of the wealthy as are mean
[a sow some e who are 60
les in the. miserable
infirmary, i is paid for by public money, raised by as-
on the land, and is, from the objects for.
which it is given. the exclusive property of the poot
who may stand of it ; nar can it, without
wh 1h djthe pommiasion of cries felony. be -appropriy’
intelligent and beneficial exertions la any else. Yet, * horrible. °
ted to* the one e| ‘orri
dictv,.” jn.a part, of the co untry, not forty miles
from Dublin,’ vith which [ am acquainted, it is not
unusual for the surgeon of the county infirmary to
eat a good dinner and drink old Port, in liew ofsup:-
plying pills, mixtures ond draughis y from ue store of *
county’. medicine: poo ature urin
under, sickness, ees ihe cinallest. morsel ‘tanedieine ,
from one of thes insti tut ions; he will net getit |
ithout a recommen ndation from a governor, which
is is often very difficult to. obtain, frum the distance at.
the Hon. member who- bat eat “in fav vor of which governors usually live from afflicted beings,
the worthiness of that class hersons who werejand they not peing often known tothose high gentry,
now before the house in the f petition-| while a goo the only recommendation re-
He had the opportunity of Iknowing. a very| qu Ika, w e base
ired byt the surgeon i from other folka,
hy
large potion of this body of persons, and could say
without any fear of contradiction, that a_more hon-
eforable class did not exist. As be bad disapproved |
tholics,
~|he felt it his dus . that-a more safe concession |
could, hot be cane than that t prayed for in the pe-
Ife was prepared ty assist the hon. member
in rail ‘his views in favor of the petitioners.
Sir B. Inglis. said, that-there was a clause in the
-| the Jews were preclu rom certain civi ‘adv anta-
last catholic Relief By M by which, among others, |”
enough to physic themselves at the public expense.
By such practices as these, a double burden is thrown
bupon the occupier ‘of land, who, | inthe first instance,
|pays by assessment for medicine and advice for the
poor. and is afterwards obliged, by. humanity, to ob-
tain them. elsewhere than’ at the infirmary, for his”
sullering. neighbour, to save bim from. death,——
‘| Lan
oo ‘SOImNE,
try. it was. signed oy 97 persons, all .resident in} ges, but part of these were withheld in order to pre Par — Raya Society. —The President ‘in the .
and the metropolis, comprehending ithe serve gomne, portion of christianity at least. ‘t'wo chair. The firs t part of a paper on achromatic te
5 th by », the pe orernmment separated th Ir. ‘fully, was-read, Jn the library,
he persons of the Jewis:
influence ; and, in the second place,
antial tradesmen ‘of t
having been taken that only. individuals of res-
: peetability ‘should be permitted to sign (he, petition
‘fhe ‘petitioners stated, :that by the oaths at pre
prescribed by. the Jaw, they were excluded from those
civil offices and benefits enjoyed by their fellow sub-
jects. T he petition set forth, fully and temperately
“the evils-u which persons of the Jewish persua-
sion pow labored. "Many of these arose more from
the peryersion of the law, an fi mere usage,
posed upon them one of the obnoxious oaths that
debarred them from their civil rights. e could
not but implore the house to recollect that, until
bill which so wisely” gave relief to
enot practical-,
Pro
ly vaubject to nany. of thé difficulties to which they
were now -exposed. ‘Ere the.passing of the me
res alluded to, he Jews miglit annually claim the
benefit of the indemnity act ;
longer the case,,it conld not: be. pretended that the
rievances under ‘which the Jews laboured were not
_ grievances, or that they” had not been
whilst the similar grievances under which
others had laboured had at fengtt been entirely re:
This was so eviden t he would not
make any attempt to establish it by ‘ergumnent. A de-
bate upon.a similar case, and an attempt to remove
hat persuasion — last y
ro
than from any itself; fur. it was’ usage which: im-|2
but. this being no|the
of England from the legislature, and when Macy had
car. made a still Further separation, he had then
predicted that in another year they would ome
christianity iteeld from the legislture—(Co 1g)
The last act had been spoke Sloubted'ta
preserve inviolate all the institutions of ‘the conniry
He regarded a bill of this k
the Chavelee Aldini, of Milan, exhibited bis appa-
ratus and material ‘intended - to reserva persons °
from injury who are exposed to es, Chev’ alice
Alding, t is s stated rel by pereeverace, been a
nd ave —the, clothe: cs prepared
froin it are not “OF ver vale jose texture, the threads
-5th of an inch in- diameter, and of con-
link w hich bound the religion of the country 7 with the
legisla slat
Jews was so
=
just and pea
that they we vB to ‘be adinitted to the practice of the
law and to corporate oflices’; but they required
seats in parliament, .and eligibitity to all the exe
was ne spirit
i Hele
not, by acting
country, or that t they-could not inflict very Tovini,
dable’ injur: ‘In the present form of Parliament
very ‘many Jews. might be'able to enter the legisla-
ture by. means” well understood by those- who heard
n{ bim’; but in the event of those reforms which some
were ufging, probably there might not be a single
Jew able | © procure a seat in that house. “ But it
any calculation of numbers, but upon a
co
‘The hon. member had stated that the number of
siderable sirongth. ‘This material in. union with a
mly | gi rasped th
large. poker, which he held for a considerable time
without appearing to experience any inconvenience;
one or two of the fellows of the society ‘performe
the same feat
arried oun by ‘the sevans of Paris, wo were lately:
struck by the details ‘of eucecss which had attended’
o}the experiment of “inflating the juegs of a still-born
child, by blowing into thems o was reported
of wstill-born infaut, which was taken. to M. Portal,
who, when about to diszect. i conceived the idea
of blowing - into its mouth. - of two
three minutes, bee mth returned. “the heart began to
Leat, and the. ‘child was sent back again to its: par---
nts. similar thing. was stutedto have occurred, -
to a-surgeon at had
point of principle c, that he wished to preserve the
time to M. Porta
Instead -of. d
n of te princi ints :
wha
iple that already manifested its benefi- ©
uld-be the mere benef: .
at.)
o yo: shares with
pitta ce -
he
or”
ns, who communicated it at the
4 ro .
\
As to ¢ county infirmarios, F will admit that some.”
Life Restored. he none their curious inquiries, os
Pa ‘
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