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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT

This book is under no circumstances to be taken from the Building

form 410

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Some of my reader's cannot be perfuaded that the Inquifition has been abolished in Spain. For their fatisfaction, Igive them the following extract from the Annual Regifter.

"The King of Spain has at length stripped the Inquifition of those powers which rendered it odious and terrible. It will for the future be little more than a college of enquiry into reliligious matters. Its jurifdiction and prifons are taken from it, and thofe powers happily reftored to the civil tribunals. This measure will have an extraordinary effect in promoting arts, manufactures, commerce, and learning. Spain, in future, will be a fecure and happy refidence to ftrangers." Annual Register for the year 1774, page 39.

"The regency of Milan has given a late inftance of that general difpofition to reduce the powers of the Church, by abolishing for ever the tribunal of the Inquifition in that Dutchy, and appropriating its eftates for the fupport of an Hospital of Orphans." Annual Regifter, page 149, for the year 1775.

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