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virtue must be pleasing to
“fore, to be virtuous, but our nature does not. admit of
- fection which.is not natura uch is myc
ts very plain and exceedingly bref Taave ma far
: e He° ot
sensible Englishman o of the Protestant “rlth aie a
nowled
have felt a o
as inffcting 2 a merited pundghenent upon such impi-
Wniied States Catholic Miscellany.
“conantss SHALL MAKE No LAW RESPECTING THE =
BREE EXERCISE THEREOF, ART. I
VOL. IX. NO. 62.)
INQUISITION, |
(From te Jesuit) :
R IV..
(Continued from page 393. ) Te
d'in the letters of Madame.Du Deffant a
confit - im for the re-
e shou not purposely Je fond hi im:
0 him and we ought, Sheree
God, th erefore, does not require ope.
serv
rigid felt examination mus! e that his
wn creed is similar to-that of ‘the Earl’ of Ox-
Another proof of the indifference about reli igion
thy of the judici-
Wallast
demned to perpetual imprisonment for his discours-
eson the Redeemer ; e that Eason was
set in the pillory about twa years ago, for having at-
-tempted to-upset the religion of the country.|
We should howeve r be upon our guard: these
and many more, whose fate I shall not pretend
to decide, wera, in every respect, what is common-
ly c¢ profligate wretches without fortune, prin-
ciple, or'pro
It is possible that the constituted authorities | may
esire of making an experiment as wel ell |®
us offenders ; but however unusual this may be, is
it not obvious that the demoralizing Bolinbroke, \y-
ing Hume™* and infidel Gibbon had acquired a
* Th @ latent poison of Jansoniem, or Calvinistic malice | ¢
may bo found in this expression ; but provided a man docs
not aot precisely with the view of offending the deity, it may
so far, pass for a rati tional sent iment.
+ Th is, however, is not t eed of tho apostles neither
feit that of St. Athanasius, “Nice e, Constanti inople,
ar Trent; it certainly is not the confession of Augs
burg, nor the faith of the thirty- nine articles, &e.
t See Walpole’s letters to this lad
§ Unless he secre
and in that case it is.an additional proof ofm
“I "Seo the Morning Chronicle, 5th June 1912. No.
13, 441." contains a letter ‘in which the writer,
who blames the severity oft ej nd who
n, proves, at least, that
e concludes with the
never supported by persecution. As if it were pos:
sible to destroy a hostile: system without supporting
reli Tt tis, jus st as
but
‘gave the life of the patient.
remark thatin a late Dictionary, the condu
judiciary in defending the costablished religion of
the State is called persecutto
** Whilst on the subjec of Deism, F shall take
this opportunity of alluc to a circumstance inthe
death of the historian ind philosopher, Mr. Ifume,
which has never vet been made properly clear. —
r christen religion ha hav
pointi
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y- to
tly inclines ‘to another: systens,
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CHARLESTON, SSTURDAT, JUNE 26, 1830,
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over those taunts in which christian orators
ara fen “ispored to indulge.
be observed ‘at the preachers of the
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their principles, with their depo
moments. ‘They have appealed-i in particular to the
Hume in his ast moments ; and his-deistical friends } enc
{withstanding Dr.‘ Adam Smith
2) ssqanuisinter ‘OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE
MEND. CON. U.
UNITED STATES,
(TOW. NO. 337."
| righteousness, by their blasphemous prodactions. :
Now the fact is, that not-
lays considerable
stress upon Hume’s cheerfulness during his illness,
‘telling the public thathe amused himself 3 in reading
‘“Lucian’s Dialogues of the dead,” and in joking
about ‘* Charon and his boat,” (which by the bye
e fora christian ! !
Ad
is last visit to him
death of Vo ltaire, e vigilance
of persons about ‘him, desirous of concegling what
had passed, is known by tbe evidence of his physi-
cian, to exhibited on his: “deat h-bed the most
shocking spectacle of raging despair that’ was ever
witnessed. Hell itself, according to. .his account,
¥) could not present any thing more terrific. But
pune, the cotemporary and rival. of Voltaire, was
and
by plilosophers to have died with the calmness and
‘composure of a christian saint! This, they say, 7
one can contr adict! Such is: their language ° 1
have been
ies have never failed to
e@ upo Controvertists, of ‘establishing facts by
oft not to retalia to vin this: instance, and tor
quire from these Deisticul opponents somo Pron
before I wd the fi uestion. ~‘Theré ts @ s0-
t has never
sertion should
be hacked by proof. But although it it: may be often
o much accustomed <to attend to the |¥e
difficult to contradict an assertion, silence Is not to
be fic w into admission.
If then, Mr. David Hume's death was tranquil
and eaten as it had been described, where is the ev?-
dence, where are the proofs? As he quitted this life
dinburgh i in the year 1776, 1f his death, as that
ermit
d the christians above all,
to the bedside of the dying Atheist, to hear. from his
n hips some disquisition on the material elements
of the ‘human soul, when on the point of dissolving |™
into chaos,—as well as some nora reflections on
the Peele extinetion of vice and virtue in geal Dy
~all t -to confirm those e gen
oble
principles, mmainta tained by him through ‘public life.
and now sealed with his last breath. Surely the
public curiosity. at Edinburgh, as well as through
the wor, a was excited to know how Mr. Hume{$§
meant to die ; and inall probability many requested
‘visit the expiring philosopher, tint they might
have the evidence of their own sens orthen
is their testimony collected ? Where i is the reid
of his servants, his household:?, Where are his dying
wrrorieme. minuted like those of Socrates of old ?
Where is his written testament, in his‘oten hand, to
be pro duced aga t ;
christian saints ask where i
ne
are ther ! And is the christian expected to
believe “this “miracle n assertion? There never
was a question ‘where proofs could havo been more
easily -pro , if existing,—there r
uestion, where they were’ more necessa are
never, was a question more, completely lost ad self-
contradicted wilh them. We cannot den’
Now let us see-what has heen considered a prog
and what.is the only evidence before.the public.—
Nothing but a letter from Dr. Black to Adam,
Smith, “introduced into the latter gentloman 3 own
account of Hume’s last sickness, which w em-
ingly written with the’ special design of persuading
~| the world that, the philosopher had died with his
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Hume is known to have “professed. and
atheistical principles in seyeral of his works, aie
has been represent ed by his biographers as an indi-
vidual, who after having openly. ‘professed.them thro’
Tile, had the courage to maintain therm to the end ;
and with the mo: and tranquility
r. Adam Smith must nat nin of imposing
so easily. on the sense of m e last sentence
of hisletter, written three meme a ae Hume's
cease, suiicjently unveils a object i in writing. —
** Upon whole,”? e always con-
sidored im [itu me] b oth in’ his Tite time and since
d {cause he often spoke to |
whe a
here | &
thof August, 1776, when going into
the country, he left his. patient’ at, Edinburgh in the
‘care of Dr. Black, who attended<him a his death,
which took place on the 25th of the onth,
ee. Dr. Smith's published letter, well printed at at
the'head of Hum oD pean En d.) Under
these suspicious s have en circumstan-
ces of Hume’s death reontinued nearly to this period,
when providence accidentally enabled me to throw
in some new light upon. the subject.
The late Governor Franklin, who died about two
ars ago atthe advanced age of eighty, and who
was son of the famous. philosopher Dr. Franklin, of
tica, ba e intimate friend o
{and ‘was present at ‘his ‘dea th.. This Go
tm whose wife was a most pious catholic, had.in his
fimily a young catholic lady, ,a relation of Mrs. ~
I raniklin, The yo!
ing decline a few months back, at about thirty yea
age, was highly gifled with good sense and. riety,
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and liaving addressed herse “me in quality of di-
very intimately scqisined with
her. T here suppress her nam e I have rea-
son to believe it the wish of her hriends | that I should.
Expressing her desire to me one day in conversa-
tion ernor Franklin might be brought to
Init, revealed religion before his cath, she said
she was the re astonishe his blindness, be-
dia
her.most Neelingly of Hame’s
death, which had made a lasting impression upon
bis mad Of course I © repeat. to
all she had beard from Governor “Franklin on
the mba which she did without the smallest hesi-
ation ; and rw:
versed with her on the subject, repeatedly at differ-
ent thnes, and remem mber that ‘sho never
swerve her statem: twas at length
settled, with her full approbation, when she after-
ards into the country, that, I should at-
tempt to’ obtain a confirmation of her account from
Governor Franklin self, by procuring an intro-
duction to him. ven” ‘it was her opinion that [
should not oasily induce him to cpen himself to me.
Inthe mean tim
oung lady, his friend, was accidentally destroy-.-
od with other papers. No other resource therefore
Or @ Se-
wo hand, and da cel i Tanuasy
uestions, which may be gathered »
from her answers, she sent me. the following state-
ment which she Gierwards confirmed to me orally
when under a ine.
*Tdo ratrocalt ihe Governor + (Branklin) have
ling ever mentioned -
ticular, (present at the “death, ‘ Hume). he only
said that the servants were in the room, and took
if I recollect right, there was no one, present ‘when
he gpoke on thé subject, as striking to
of his own principles. For he aeegred me that noth-
friends, an Pp
has been the extraordinary miracle operaed by Mr.
h, as epproaching as ® nearly t a of a
ne “and virtuous man, a aps the natu ura of hue
men frailty will permit.” * What a blasphemots sen-|
“ting could give “atone. evidence of the existence -
ung lady, who died of a linger- :
om the coun-
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