Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-08-28

dered to leave the port and the Portuguese
ships that shall sail tor any port, shall e.
/ cuaIly be obliged to take a manifest OF their
cargo recognized and certified by the con-
sui or vice consul Of the nation to which the
port of her destination belongs. With re-
card however. TO what concerns English
! ships, there shall continue to be observed,
! what is stipulated by convention.
| 10. And the above determinations shall
commence to be put into execution from The
lst January, of the coming year, Of 1872! and
thence forward continue in force.
! We publish this morning an interesting ar
ticle. translated from our late French pa
pers, relating 10 the affairs Of Spain, and the
character of their clergy. From the manner
in which this article is drawn up, it would
seem to have been done by some person well
acquainted with the subj ect. 1t he be corr
rect, the state Of things is, in this particu-
lar, much better than we had Supposed
| We had been LED to conclude, that the
greatest danger of eventual disturbance and
difficulty under the new order of things,
would arise from the feelings and influence
| ofthe clergy But ifa considerable portion
| of the eccesiastics are well informed, and
friendly to the constitution, and still great
er number of the lower are Of a similar des-
cription, that large and influential division
of the nation will be divided, and either
neutraized or placed in array against each
other, and thus their energy be weakened
at least, if not destroyed.
Translated fer the .Nszo York Daily 3D.
ve1tiSer.
Madrid, June 27.
A new decree of the king. dated the
4t!l of this month. relates TO instruc-
ton. A commission OF persons distin-
guished as we'll for their zeal for the
cause as their extensive knowledge, has
been charged with the preparation of
plan of general and uniform instruction
for the whole peninsula, conlormablc to
the constitution and having respect to
the decree of 1914. and which shall yet |
be subject to a new examination.
The Constitutional Of the | 9Th inst.
contains the following article -
"Nany articles inserted in our pre-
.ious numbers have given rise to be- |
lief among some lovers of Interpretation
that we experience blind prejudice a
sainst the high clergy Of Spain, and
that some hostile feeling sours us TO-
wards The individuals who compose it.
This suppusition is SO far from the truth
that the closest friendship attaches US
to the many of those respectable eccle
siastics whose virtues we admire and
by " hose talents we strive to profit
,,'he clergy of Spain have in all their
departments, persons r"spe table for
their p!ety and their learning.
Information is perhaps found more
extensively among the low than high |
clergy. But tn re are among the lat,
Ter iiIusrious champions of wholesome
doctrines, attached by conviction to use
full reforms and declared enemies to u
surpation of every kind. In the unfor |
tunate period which has just passed by. |
letters, which tho nobility despised |
from bad education, and the lower
classes could not cultivate on account
their debasel and mis-. rahle cond,
ton, took refuge in the confines Of cou-
vents. For entrance into them, preli-
min.ary studies were required which,
although essentially bad, must through
necessity suffer some rays of truth to
beam through the darkness OF truth
whose Course is as irresistible as its
diffusion inevitable.
Such is the course the progress Of
intellectual light ha, taken IN every
age and country. In England, theo
logical disputes Immediately preceded
the study of philosophy In France, the
Jansenltes broke path for the philo-
sophers: Germany would not have had
that imposing body of scientific learning
10 which Europe is SD much indebted
for lis advancement, if the difference Of
opinions produced by he reformation
of Luther had not prepared the soil out
OF which the sciences afterwards sprung.
Spain has in every age, had eccleslas
tics opposed to the usurpatien OF che
Court of Rone, and this opposition has
always numbered in its ranks talents
VI the first order.