The "war on religion"

[Tribunal of the Inquisition in Mexico].
Nos los inquisidores apostolicos contra la heretica pravedad, y apostasía en la ciudad de Mexico, estados, y provincias de esta Nueva España, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Islas Filipinas, sus distritos, y jurisdicciones . . . Sabed: que el prudente, y religioso zelo del exmô. Sr. Virrey de este Reyno, há puesto en nuestras manos una proclama del intruso Rey José . . . .
[Mexico: s.n., 1810]. (BRB0032)

This broadside prohibits several politically seditious works as well as the novel Lettres à Eugenie, here listed erroneously under the authorship of the French scholar Nicolás Freret, but actually the work of the renowned atheist Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723–1789). The novel is said here to have “declared war on religion, its dogmas, mysteries, ministers, and ceremonies.”.