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a £ liberty to expatiate * It was perhaps owing to this also * that asoth ^ r act of £ : £ tfcnsive toleration on the part of-the French government has never yet reached the public ear . This occurred so ktf * g past as July l 804 r when the Paris papers could have infortma u £ that three members of the Lutheran consistory , M * M * Kierri , Pietsch 5 and Jacobi , were nominated members
of the Legion of Honour , in consequence of their presenting' an address to the Head of the government ^ upon his accession to the imperial dignity ; and that it was ordered , that in future th ^ se Protestan t representatives should be considered as equal in
rank to Archbishops . And thus- /* it was added , ** the Emperor preserved equal rights among the three religions existing in France , and invalidated the rancour of those intolerant oppressors of the liberty of conscience who had expressed their opinion , that France being under the government of one Head one predominant religion only should be tolerated . "
As it may naturally be asked how I came by the knowledge of these facts , in a manner exclusively , I am compelled to answer * that as a translator of languages they occurred to me in the common routine of business . But my motives for noticing ' and preserving these interesting traits of toleration arose from principle j I wished for an opportunity to give them publicity * and hive the satisfaction to add , that though these instances of
a happy change in favour of toleration were not copied into the English newspapers ; they did appear in several journals upon the continent of Germany , where it is still thought that religion is of some concern as well as commerce . I wish also to avail myself of this opportunity , for the first
tittle ^ to notice an article addressed to me in page 29 of The Universal Theological Magazine for March 1 S 02 , as the author o £ the feview of the Rev . Mr . Lancaster ' s Assize Sermon , in the Orthodox Churchman ' s Magazine , a short time before . I can now admit the justness of the reply of an - Universalist ; 1 am iiot ashamed to say , that I have escaped from the illusions of
that party spirit which too fatally leads men to discredit and disgrace their opponents , rather t \ ian to confute or even to give tiiefn a candid hearing ; in a word , I admit the whole of the UniversaJist's reply , excepting where he thinks , that as the editorship of the Orthodox Churchman ' s Magazine had passed into other hands , their moderation would exceed that of their
predecessor . While that office was in my hands * from the prospectus to the last page of number nine , I confess I never found that nriy want of moderation towards any of the Dissenters received the . Jea&t check or censure from older and wistfr heads thaa my own , and whose age , and > experk £ Boc
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Orthodox Churchman * s Magazine * 6 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/13/
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