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When we expressed our surprise to our 
kind hosts, bow they could think of he- 
 nouring a patron, who had not yet been 
canonized, they began to laugh, and to 
ery out, ‘ What! can any doubt of Lis 
being a saiat, when he has periormed 
30 many miracles? 
« At length, the festival arrived, and 
it was celebrated with the usual cere- - 
monies. During the evening a gencral 
illumination took place, and the roofs 
of all the houses were ornamented with 
lanthorns composed of oiled paper. We 
enjoyed this spectacle in conjunction 
with our geod friends; and joined in 
the cries of joy that echoed .on all 
sides. They poimted out with a certain 
degree of respect, some houses. that 
were better hghted up than others: 
« there,’ exclaimed our hests, ‘ lives a 
_yelation of our saint:—here is one of his 
nieces” ‘ Julio’, added the father of the 
family, ‘will make an offering to our pa- 
tron? He accordingly repaired to the 
barn, whence he took an old tar-barrel, 
and having set it on fire, after amusing 
himself some minutes in contemplating 
the flames, he rolled it down a preci- 
pice, ahd at the same time uttered 
screams of joy. 
“ It appeared as if wejhad resolved to 
spend the whole of our life in Ischia! 
-At length, however, it became neces- 
sary to separate, and when we took our 
leave of the worthy people, they pro- 
mised to repair te Sorrento, in order to 
visit us.” ; 
Lettre Gun Pretre Espagnol, sur la 
Lettre du Eveque Gregoire, a VArchete- 
gue de Burgos, Grand Inquiseteur @is- 
.pagne : This is the:translation of a little 
pamphlet entitled “ Carta de un Pres- 
bitero Espanol sobre la carta del Epis. 
-Gregoire al Arzabispo de Burgos, Inqui- 
asidor General.de Espana.” (A Letter 
_from a Spanish priest, in answer to a 
Letter from the Bishop Gregoire to the 
Archbishop of Burgos, Grand Inquisitor 
of Spain). 4 
The present is a curious production, 
and is well calculated to excite public 
,euriosity, at a time when Spain, fighting 
in a just cause, has the.church on her 
‘ide, anda regiment of mquisitors in her 
amy, Allmustlament, thatthe pedple 
shave been kept in such gross igno- 
rance, andthat their clergy ave uniformly 
preached up such slavish,and degrading 
doctrines as are calculated to render a 
nation unfit to.contend for their freedom ! 
True itis, however, that this production 
@ppeared antecedent to the present con- 
Retrospect of French Literature—Miscellaneous. 
test; but we are afraid that the senti- 
meuts contained in it prevail at this very 
mloment, and by inspiring narrow ideas, 
both in respect to religion and politics, 
will long continue to emasculate a peo- 
ple, who in ather respects have dis- 
played no. inconsiderable share of mag- 
nanimity. 
- Itis a matter of some curiosity to 
jearn how the inquisition canbe jauded,. 
but it renders the paradox still more 
extraordinary, when it is observed that 
it 1s, expressly undertaken, not only to 
praise, but to glory in that simgular 
monument of human degeneracy. 
Iiere, as was usual with all such 
writings during the existence of the an- 
cient government, the reverend author 
wishing to rivet the chains of the nation, 
attempts to support one anti-social pre- 
judice by another; to flatter the op- 
pressors at the expence of the victims, 
and in short, to proscribe all hberal 
ideas. ‘To achieve this, our industrious 
priest has examined into tae annals of 
superstition during the:middle ages, and 
_has not only. dared to justify those hor- 
rors, but to present them as a model 
worthy of imitation, in order to conform + \ 
to the spirit of religion, and the interests- 
of holy ehurch. / 
This liberal Spaniard begins with 
indignantly rejecting that toleration 
preached. by the early fathers of the 
‘church, as not in the least appropriate 
to its present situation, which he terms 
“triumphant.” Intolerance, according to 
him, is only bad, when employed against 
truth, for it is. exceedingly laudable when 
exercised against error. We shall quote 
a fevy passages, illustrative of the senti- 
ments exposed in this. little work with 
the utmost efirontery, and with an un- 
punity, that nothing could affect, in a 
country where the press was subjected 
to the most odious restraints, and liberty 
of conscience subjected to the regula- 
tions of interested bigots. 
“ The laws,” says she, p. 20 (meaning 
the penal laws.against heretics), were not 
enacted in order to force consciences, 
but that such rebels, (7. e. men of tender 
consciences), affrighted by chastisement, 
may incline to. repentance, and that 
their hearts may be changed when they 
perceive that they are to suffer without 
reaping any advantage. ‘These penalties 
will not deprive them of free will... 
the arm of the civil power, on the con-* 
trary,.is very compassionate in respect 
to them, for it withdraws.all such, not- 
withstanding their own efforts, fromthe 
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