The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

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CE'R/OUS COMPARRON.
(rime A FRENCH PAPER.)

N irlV OF THE CENsolitHilp OF THE EREsS.
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STATE (►F' RELIGION IN SPAIN.

All error is evil; and thee.rrtir which stiltstinites the
PNlernitl forms of worship, for its internal inlinenee on
the heart. is a colossal evil. Here we have a religion, if
such it may be called, that is purely ceremonial. Its
duties are not tliseliergell in the daily walk of life, not
by the cultivation of pure and pintas Am) benevolent af-
fections, bid by attending 111.111Sr‘, by reciting Pater
Rosters and Aye 3laries, by pecuniary offerings for souls
in purgatory, and by a tlonissend childish oliservances,
whit+ affect remotely, if they .slice. at all, the conduct
andv, the cliaraeter. The Spaniard attends his p•rish-
I !ourela to hear a service in an tusks n tongue ;he bends
his knees and heats his bosom at certain glinteds familiar
to his ear, but not to his settee; he confesses and com-
municates with undeviating regularity; and s 1111 l mimes,
perhaps, he listens to a sermon in the eloquent style and
beeutiftil language of his country. soot, indeed, instruct-
ing Idles in the moral claims of his religion, but cele-
brating the virtues ant) recounting the mirecles of sonic
slint or tnartt r tgi n I the slay is deilirated. lie reads
his religious duties, not in A Bible, lust an .%Intasiark ;
and his Almanac). in but a sort of Christian mythology.
His saints are more loom-rims than the deities of Our
Pantheon ; and, to say the truth, there are many of them
little better than these.
He is told, however, that his country exhibits the
pr oldest triumphs of orthodox Christianity. Schism
and heresy have been scattesetl, or at least silences) ;
and it in Spain the eye is constantly attracted, and the
heart distressed, by objects of unalleviated human
y ;—if the hospitals are either a holly unprotected or
abandoned to the care of the venal anti the rile—if the
prisons are crowded with a p 'fa nous mass of inn°.
s ence att I `'silt. in all its shades and shapes of enor-
Lsity—what does it matter ? Spain, Catholic Spain, has
her faith unadulterated and am-banged and
rer priests assure as that an error in creed is far more :
Angereoi (or, to use their own mild I inguage), far •
i.. ire damnable than a multitude of errors in conduct.
.i deprave.' heart may be forgiven, but not an erring
I cad. This is, in fact, the fatal principle whose poison
fc.;:-eads through this strongly-cemented system. 'ln
tf.is we may an ninttr its absurdities, its errors, its crimes.
Th:s has reale I Ifonsinicks and Toroluensatlas.
In a word, intolerance, in its widest and worst extent,
is the fosifol divot On which the whole sof rhe Spanish
Astics! edifice rests. It has been called the florin
,::'as' of the Constitution, and is so inwrolight with the
habits atad prejudices of the nation, that the Corte,
nick all their general siberality, dared nut allow the
profession gif any other religion than this' " Catolica
Apostolic:* unica Vertladera.- The cry of
icv.textinn there., as elsewhere, became a dreadful •
*teapot' in the hands of those who profess to believe
tl.at errors become sanctified by age. Toss true it is,
t...at if long usage can sanction wrong, persecution
:night tin.) its jlt•tilication in every page of Spanish
fcstory, froin the time alien Revered°, the gothic Mo-
narch, abandoned his Aria.; principle (with the almost
-solitere exception of the intermit and ill-treateil Witisa).
rsg. hefore the Inquisition had erected its fright-
ful pretrn.ions into a system, or armed itself with its
bloody sword, ifs spirit was broad and active. Thou.
sands and tens of tl ands of Jews and Moors had
been its I-it-tints, and its founders did no snore that
utataiti is regal sir a papal licence, for the murders which
wsteltl otherwise have been probably rot/omitted by a
leerharuns and frenzies' b, excited by incendiary
• monks anti friars.
The 111 l has, 11l lIOUISt, been greatly humanised
by the progress of tins.; as, 41 order to maintain its in-
fluence in these snore "'defied and inquiring days,
it has availed itself of smut of superior talent ; these
11... e softened the asperity, or controuletl the malignity
and petty tyranny of its inferior agents. Its vigilant...
and its persecutions are, indeed, rontinnally at work, yet
believe its will never again be lighted. Its
greatest zee] is now directed against freemasons, of
ts si immense notioshersovenpy its prisons and slicsKessirs,
I bare conversed with many who have been incarcerated
by Cie Ingnisirinn, and they agree in stating that
tO: ILI *e is no longer administered. Hut its intlit-
ence on literature is perhaps greater than ever ; fur
tilting). Spain possesses at the present moment a great
number of adisiirahle writers, the press was tarter so in-
active. 'floe di sponsin exercised over authors and pith-
fishers is !.0) I 111 l !entitle. that few have courage Volls 11.
tafilv to %Wind! to it. I lften, after anthorizing the poi!,
lica•ion of a work, !key girder it to be suppressed, and
every copy NO be burnt, and never think fr reparation to
those who are so cruelly injured. Their presumption in
contlefunine- wl. stecer they cannot understand, their do-
micil:arc visits, their arbitrary decrees. against which
then' i; no security and no appeal, make them fearful
enemies and faithless friends.

17riday eyeteinz List, at nine o'clock, as a •ohlier of
the Beard• w.t. rr••ssing the Cleautp-tlenilar4, on ises war
In his quarters. he ti;l,4 met by three pi•PlOil4, o•te of
whom accostr•l hint by saying, •. Don't you belong. to
to the !loyal tietarel ?" •' Yes," said the veteran, •' I
tb.tt hemmer ; • at the same time he laid his on his
sword ; but the strangers leaped upon him, 'wised his
:erns, and, throning him on the ground, would parr hint
try o,t " Viet• l'Emperetsr!" 'flee soldier hesitated.
•• Cry out Vire l'Enapereur ! or you die." lint hr would
only gear. •' Vise le Hot." Upon this, they struck him
repeatedly• and rave biro many sabre wounds on the
head and arms. 'they bad drstpred him Inwards the
quay, in order to throw him into the river, het the al -
pestsch of some person*, drawn by his cries, made them
es. The wounded man has been taken to an hospital,
with little hopes of his recoyct.—(Puris Parr )