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Indirect
Raising Evidence
In France, when a crime appears to have
been committed, but the criminal is unknown,
the officer whose business it is to prosecute applies
to the temporal civil magistrate and wh gets permission
is granted him to obtain a monitoire. This monitoire is
an exhortation addressed by the bishop or parson
of the parish to the all good Catholics who may chance
to knowing any thing of the matter to repair
to the civil magistrate, and give in their evidence.
It is wonderful what a deference is paid
to these salutary exhortations. The people are persuaded
All who believe are
persuaded their salvation
depends upon the
punctuality with which
they comply with this
injunction
This applied religion
is of clear and real use. O si sic omnia!
The Catholic religion which is capable of doing
I never heard in or read any such thing as a
sermon preached in England to [endeavour to]
persuade the people faithful to carry what they know to
the ears of justice do perform this service to
society. This is a recourse which Catholic
governments enjoy and which Protestants are debarred
of. A Briton may find proof of this in abundance in
the Douglas cause.
The Catholic religion is capable
of doing a great deal more good as well as
a great deal more harm than any of those
which
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