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Edinburghfe \ i f $ er * Mr . S . is an 'indent ypuiig man , and , as a cofttToyfersialiit , spirited in dltatk and iii defence : his mariner of
vritrog is not" adapted to conciliate an opp . onefit , or to bespeak courtesy : but we " are not convinced tfidt the Barrister ' s catise wotild have lost " airy thing by his refrainihg frorri certain personalities and strong insinuations ,
which occur m a note , p . 60 . 61 . This note , we are' told by the Evangelical Magazine , is to come under review in a different court frofn that pf criticism ; we shall therefore pass no judgment upon it , nor should we have introduced
the subject , but for tlie sake of remarking , that this sort of reviling ^ Is wholly beneath gentlemen and Christians i and that Mr . Styles , and the Eclectic Reviewers , and the hum bier authors of the
Evangelical Magazine , would do well , in future , riot to set ah eXample of the vice Which they sire the first fo reprobate ^ when they feel its effects . * We objected from the first to the Barrister ' s referring his cause to the Legislature ^ regarding all
interference of the secular power , in tnatters of religious opinion , as decidedly wrpng , and , in its degree , real persecution . He disavows the character of a persecutor , but his explanation on this head fully convinces Xis that he is disinclined to the cause of religious liberty , in the setise in which it
J vas taken up by LoCke and Hoati-« -7 « He Would ' riot punish a riiari for any peculiarity of thinking on ieligioM $ ^ u ^ jects ; b uilx e disputes Jhe right of individuals to obtrude their i ^ Hgrotigf toqeuiiarities upon t hepi ^
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Whnt then tecomesr 6 t '' t » at ion , ' which refeiii tidf td *' * . ' man ' s thoughts , ( ttie / c ^ anno ^ be ' hindered , ) but to thi ^ precise ?' avoival of them , objefcteii to by ' the Barrister ! The Inqmsitioiik ' wanted nothing more than lie pleads for : that horrible court "
never burned an human cre&trire for heretical thoughts , but for not keeping such thoiigbts'to himself : the object of their subterranean prisons , their mid night judicial processes , and their Auto da fes was simply to silence the propagators of heresy .
There is no real difference in . the case we are arguing , between preaching and printing ; and { he Barrister must either abandon Tiis principle or go the length of setting up licensers of the . press . No argument , indeed , can ' be
advanced for putting down an evangelical preacher , that may hot be employed for suppressftig the Evangelical Magazine . ° Buf what Englishman can etidure tBat the Legislature should have" the
powef of dictating to free-men " , hx the choice of their reading !''** The Evangelical Magazine may b& proscribed to day ; but 'Ihe Monthly Repository and th * e Monthly Review' may be pro * scribed to-morrow ; and hereafiter , no periodical works may * be ^ Ho wed to enlighten the mind an < t gratify the taste of the public ^ besides the British Critic tH 4 Anti ^ jacobin Magazine , and tKej Quarterly Review . But the Barrister would 4 ' eny the Drivileeeof soeech to none bill ?
the aniLmorial teikcheb , ' '* W gij * then is to judge of tfee moral ten ^ <^ ency of a doctrine ! Here , is not a U ^ tte fallacy ih $ 0 * ife ^ Otti ^ ¦ f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/33/
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