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bie atiy Iofgcr to keep the records of phristianity from r # er * * s inqqixies , or to fix legal boundaries to tiie incursions , of learning , it is £ igh time to destroy the disgusting restrictions imposed by 3 , pro - fligate and tyrannical party , who Conscious of the weakness of their
claims , to engross all civil and Teligjous power and emolument , have endeavoured to make up by law , what they wanted in point of right . If we carry our views to the accession of the house of
Brunswick to the British throne , we shall iind the claims * of the Dissenters to be as strong as the claims of any party in the state ; and a sense of the justice of these claims has been publicly acknowledged by many distinguished members of that house . The
propriety and justice of our claims of emancipation , has been ^ so often and so ably stated by men , whose talents and integrity , have
raised the body of Dissenters to such proud eminence , that it \ vould be most unnecessary and insulting to repeat them ; but in some of the late resolutions of our
Catholic brethren in Ireland ,, they have been so forcibly sef fprth , that every one who bears the honourable title , of advocate for the most extended religious , liberty , will find pleasure and profit in perusing them .
If we are agreed in qut objects , vte have but to consider the time and means most fit tq prosecute them . ^ Vh y I think the present times most favourable , I briefly
stated in a letter you honored tyith a place in your last Repository . I should deem it very de ~ 3 * ralL > I , e , that the application to parliament , or to the king , shpuld be recommended by the body of
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deputies from % he Protestant Dis . se * He ? s ; to whict * end , those sol cieties who are anxious for eavan - cipation , should assemble tola . struct their representatives , in the views and wishes they enterof
tain ; at the ir ^ eeting the de * puties which would be consequent to those instructions , the various views entertained by different societies would be discussed , and one object animating the whole , we
might hope such a result as would be compatible with the desires of every society . A petitioa thub prepared , would receive the si gnature of those , who feeling they
have an arm to defend , and a head and heart to govern their country , are anxious for a free and equal participation of danger and emolument . To those
societies whp are distant from the metropolis , a plan of the intended petition might be sent , and as they would probably convene &a early meeting of their members , the wishes of the Dissentas
through the whole country would soon be collected . But if so general a measure is not to be effected , I would not for that cause .
the whole should be abandoned , but that a meeting of such , as are friendly to equal laws and liberties should ' be assembled * whea tht ; ir claims would be stated m
such a manner as the majority approved . Let us not be deterred from the atcerapt , by the reports so industriously spread , that we cannot at the present moment entertain
any just hopes of success , having to oppose determinations long and resolutely maintained in a quarter , frooi whence if opposition ar ise , it will be fatal : for not to insist , that these repoiifc are pro *
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: 264 Jfi > . Wj / vilPs Intended FetiHon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/18/
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