GENERAL HISTORY. 



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protect the peace of these dis- 

 trictSj commands as follows : 



1. According to the proclama- 

 tion of the 20th of March, and 

 the 4th of December last, that 

 every person bearing arms with- 

 out licence be treated with rigour 

 if found with arms either about 

 his person or in his house ; let 

 him suffer the punishment which 

 the law decrees to such an offence. 



2. After dusk, and within the 

 city, no peison shall dare to go 

 armed, except the patiol appoint- 

 ed to preserve the public peace, 

 military officers, noblemen, and 

 persons who are privileged by 

 their rank of cavaliers de espada 

 or sable. If any other persons are 

 found with arms, defend them- 

 selves, or fly at the name of the 

 King, the patrol shall be autho- 

 rized to fire upon them, or to 

 pursue and apprehend them. If 

 when so apprehended and impri- 

 soned, it shall appear that they at- 

 tempted to make resistance, they 

 shall be hanged within twelve 

 hours afterwards. Against this 

 sentence there shall be no appeal, 

 whatever be their excuse or num- 

 bers. 



3. Athousand reals shall begiven 

 as a reward to those who shall in- 

 form against any of the authors of 

 the late disturbances. 



From the apparently guarded 

 manner in which this letter is ex- 

 pressed, and especially the hint 

 given respecting the dispute be- 

 tween the civil and military autlio- 

 lities, it may be conjectuied that 

 the disturbance was of greater 

 consquence than it appears to 

 have been. 



EDICT JRCHISITIKG BOOKS. 



An edict prohibiting books was 



published at Madrid on the 2d of 

 March. These books are divided 

 into two principal classes: in the 

 first are included those which are 

 prohibited even to those individuals 

 to whom the Holy Office allows 

 particular licences or permissions : 

 the other class comprehends works 

 which are forbidden only to those 

 who have never obtained any li- 

 cence. 



The works of the first class are 

 eight in number: they are pro- 

 hibited as defamatory of the su- 

 preme authority of the Roman 

 Pontiff, and of the ecclesiastical 

 authority ; as containing propo- 

 sitions scandalous, impious, false, 

 seditious, rash, erroneous, blas- 

 phemous, schismatic, heretical, 

 and injurious to the Roman Pon- 

 tiff, to the Bishops, and to the 

 Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition : 

 conducive to error, superstitious, 

 ridiculous, contrary to the sacred 

 Canons^ to the evangelical doc- 

 trine, and to the example of Jesus 

 Christ. 



Although by the edict of the 

 ISth of August, 1762, the Works 

 of Voltaire werp prohibited even 

 to those who had obtained regulai 

 licenses ; and although, according 

 to the rule established on this 

 jjoint, works prohibited in one 

 language ought to be equally pro- 

 hibited in another ; it has been 

 thought convenient to renew the 

 prohibition of the Henriade, trans- 

 lated into Spanish verse by Drs. 

 D. Pedro Bazar and Mendoza, 

 with the prologue, printed at Alais 

 (Gaidi in the year 1S16. 



The prohibition of the second 

 class falls on forty-seven works, 

 as containing a corrupt and revo- 

 lutionai-y spirit, propositions inju- 

 rious to the Holy Office and to the 



Clergy, 



