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London, England, 1809-01-12 00:00:00

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ttit~ted. for obodieuee to Consar s )aid any ettetapP
without his perfect :concurrence, to establiSh new con-
gregations within those bounds Which before bad con-
stituted one parish, subjeded the actors tOtIC9IIW
monication as schismatics, for 44 dividing the sock
with the bishop, -.separating tile sheep from their pas-
tor, and the children ,from their parent, and dissipa,
ring CHRIST'S members."l-
- sum up the whole, the servant: of the churches,
by a steady, cautious, persevering policy, at last made
themselves the-master:, and openly maintained that
they were the Lord., of the heritage ! Nor will it
pear surprising that they should have .been able .to
effect this, when we consider of what kind of mem-
bers the churches were at length composed, dried
many slave to them byfatteries (Dan. xi. 84), after thel'l
Ruling Powers began to take them under, their pro-I
tectiort, and when whole nations of Pagans wag
constituted Christians by virtue of a compact between
a King and Priest, or compelled by the sword to pro-
fess their belief in the creed of a fanatical conqueror.

• A quotation or two from Cyprilts, who wrote about the
middle of the third century, mill thew tbe.kind of declamation
that waR now substituted for scripture authority : " Neque mint
aliunde nata aunt alleviate, quaat lade quad Sacerdati Del now
obtemperatur, nec unus in /Letitia: ad tesnpus Sacerdas, et ad.
tempus Jude; vice Christi eegitur" Epist.lv. § 6.—" Hi aunt or-
tus atque coratus schismaticorunt male cogirantium ut sibi pla-
ceant, ut prapositum superbo tumor. contannant, sic de Ecele-
sia receditur, sic altare profanum twit callocatur, sic contrapa-
tem Christi, et ordinationern atque .sanitatein .Dei rebellatur".
Epist. 65. § 4.—" In4e sebismata et.liscrr,se.s ohertse:suut.et.eri-,
untur, dum Episcepus qpi unus est, et Ecelesia przear, superlia'
quoruudam prastunptione contemniou, et harnattlustatione Mel
honoratus intlignatus Itaminibut judicatur."—Afirt. 09. $ 4.
$ CY?. Enid. 1.

SUBSCRIPTION for the SPANISH PATRIOTS.

A donation of Fifty Pounds accompanied the fol-
lowing letter, which the Committee far the Spanish
Patriots have great pleasure in making parblic, trust-
ing that the amiable writer VFM pot plead in vain
TO TJ LADIES Cl' GJIEAT JSIUTADi arip ji‘ELAND.
Lames—Having waited in vain to see someper-
son of higher rank than myself set forward a sub-
Scription amongst the females of thellnited Kingdom,
for the assistance of the brave Spaniards, in order to
.chew to the whole world that we are not deficient in
those generous feelings that so nobly clutractoise our
countrymen, I at last venture to appeal to you on
this most interesting subject. There can be no im-
propriety surely in our giving this public testimony
of our sentiments, and contributing the only support
in our power to a cause in which the best and noldest
passions of the heart are so deeply engaged.
Let me remind you, that it is the battle of England
which is now fighting in Spain ; and that if the Ty-
rant of the Earth is successfully resisted in that coun-
try, it will be the means probably of adverting for
ever, from this happy island, the danger of inva-
sion, and the chance of its becoming the seat of war;
a calamity replete with evils too terrible even for the
imagination to encounter. This, surely, is an argu-
ment which cannot be lost on my fair countrywomen,
since, in its consequences, it involves our homes, our
children, and ourselves—all that is venerable in age,
or lovely in infancy—every thing, in short,, that to a
woman can make life dear, honourable, and happy.
Can we then remain insensible to the glorious
struggle that is now making in Spain ? Can we for-
get that the very scenes which we dare not contem-
plate are now actually passing in that devoted coun-
try, and may, too soon, be realized in our own ? Im-
possible ! All that is required of you is some slight
sacrifice, some trifling instances of self denial, which
temporary economy may replace, and which will
leave behind it in recollection, a more pure and per-
manent pleasure than any gratification vanity can
confer.

There are sore amongst you possessed of large in-
dependent fortunes ; and, for such there is no ex-
cuse ; but the generality of those to whom I address
myself, are probably in the same situation with my-
self—mothers, and mistresses of families, receiving,
for their private expences, an allowance from their
husbands suitable to their respective conditions in life.
Let me intreat these to consider that if the merit is
greater on their part, so also is the reward, and that
if they have the least to spare, they have also the
most to lose.
Let us all, then, chearfully contribute without de-
lay, the assistance we can afford, and let no one be
deterred by the insignificance of the sum, provided it
be such alone as her circumstances fairly enable her
to offer.

Let us give this public proof to the Spanish Ladies
of the deep interest we feel in their cause, of our ad-
miration
for their sourage, and of our sympathy in
their distress : and let sit, in seeing my hopes ful-
filled, have still another reason for the pride and glory
I have ever felt in being AN ENGLISHWOMAN.

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