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2'ZO SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH FRA:NCE' rN' 1814.'The dissenters * are extremel'y numerous tHrougnout these sontIicflltracts.They oecupy thal most respectable middIe c1ass, whicn residlIpon property, ~md I:i\'es~in competence, without dèsiringto ~mar. rrheyare extremel'y strict in tlleir rcligious principles and discipline; andtheir pastors are men of mostexemplary assidhity and decorum~t·. Ttmay wen be judged what thefr opinions of things are.Be this, ho,v,­ever, as it may, nothing could preveiIttheir taking thèmostdecidedsteps, in the late unhappy event~in sup~p.o~~'~!}:0~~:si~~the:~~B:l~~vern ment, as by làw and'constitution esta1:fl,Î51lcd;< Enrolmentfol' thatpm'pose, on the' 6rst alarn]l,tb6kplaèé\~ltlîtH~grê~têsfspirit ;- fiftêelll1undred volunteers enteni1g tliêlllselves n'()m 'the' One toWÎl, in the cohtkeof four days, eight hundred of wlwm actually Inarched.Misforftineshave made the FrencH a reflecting people'; ancl/tne rcfiectioDdf" ~navis r referent té in mm-v:," oècurred to every Iilihd. Nothing coulelexceed the desponcfency of the people of thélô,vns in HlC sŒlltl1·, onhe~ring the Jânguage usedby cern{in of thé .1iHlitary in marchingthrougli: and Hiis was universal. lu no instancê didwith concurrence; no, noeftom the very lowest order, who, it lllight besupposed, wouldcc_rub the handscc. At sound of burly discontt'nt." ..The universal wish of men in France i& to sit cach under his 0'''11.. The protestants amount to tWenty~f(lul' tholfso.nd,' Œh~yha.ven,ow· (far di:ff't-rellt from thetimes when they were fain. to creep into holes and corners to worship, theirGod) a consistorial churchfor every six thousand'souls. Five snch churches complete the circuit of a synod. Binee catholfcpersecution has ceased, the protestants gain" but. few piselytelll,î anll their numberiB in, the present.day rather on the decline.t They are, like the viear (lf Wakefield, strict monog.o.®'ist~"