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Trench on the comment gave every reason to believe that the public affairs of the Ration could net be conducted on any narrow plan , but required the utmost skill and sagacity . We have seen several thrones overthrown of late , and their ruin may be attributed more to pernicious counsels than to external force .
That the times are critical , could not be denied , but where are the persons capable in such times , of steering the vessel of the state ? In this situation of public affairs , a day of rejoicing occu ' pied the minds of the principal persons of the city . Wfe are on the eve of the fiftieth year of
his Majesty ' s reign , and such a year in domestic , as well as public life , has been peculiarly noted . . It arose from the year of jubilee in the Jewish dispensation ; a year of great import in that country , since it was connected with a variety of privileges . In that dispensation . the seventh day is marked in a particular
manner , and thence the seventh year . It was natural to conclude , that the repetition therefore of seven such years would have some appropriate mark . And the year following it , or some say the fortyninth year , was called the year of jubilee , but whether we are right in taking the fiftieth year , or whether the forty-ninth
was the year of jubilee , the circumstances attending- it are the same . These were the return of property to the original family , and the restoration of personal liberty to every Israelite . We need not be surprized at such a year becoming distinguished . The imprudences of a father of a family , whose debts had occasioned the alienation of his
estate , were now rectified . The unfortunate man , who from any cause had entered into the bonds of slavery , now saw his chains broken . The jubilee year was therefore a year of joy . In imitation of the Jewish festivities , the merchants and bunkers of London
have agreed to nine together on the enduing day of the king ' s accession , and the corporation of . London has formed a committee , to take into consideration the mode of celebrating this- day . The personal cpniplimezit , paid to the sovereign , \ v . li receive general approbation t > but it would be useful to connect with it
< , omething . that should render the year Aijiorc conformable to the divine original . s \ vl 3 ti the course of a long reign , some abuse *? K » iay liavc crept in ; the fiftieth year if a
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good year for correcting them * Some * tKing may be very fit to be done ; the fiftieth year is a good year to commence the good work . We could mention one , the translation of the bible ; towards which the helps afforded in this reign are such , that the good work ought no longer to be deferred . l £ any one doubts it , we recommend to him the perusal of Dr . Clarke ' s two sermons , the bne entitled ' < The Church . of England Imperfectly Reformed ; the other , " The Eternal Fire of the Athanasian Creed /'
The worthy doctor is vicar of great Waitham in Essex , and speaks of the necessity of reform with great . propriety , Christian toleration is another subject , which would do honor to the fiftieth year Of his majesty ' s reign : and the restitu tion of civil rights to all who are
deprived of them on account of religious opinions would mark the jubilee with distinguished credit . Other circumstances will naturally occur to f . he reflecting mind , and as we would have the per * sonal compliment to the sovereign well observed , so also would we
reconimend something reciprocal from the sovereign to his people . The honour and happiness of both parties would thus be effectually consulted . An attempt was made some time ago to rescind the vote of thanks to Mr . Wardle , which was defeated : but though the majority was decisive in favour of
the vote , it does not seem to have soften ^ ed the animosity that exists against the champion of reform . The ground is to be again gone over , at least notice has been given of a motion to this effect in the mean time , the circumstance which gave rise to the pretext thus-to attack Mr , Wardle , is to be brought
again before a public tribunal . - Mr . Wardle , as he promised , has brought an action against the unhappy woman , who has been the instrument of so many important discoveries , an < 3 the upholsterer , for a conspiracy ; and the grand jury has found the bill of indictment against them . In such a state of the
case , it would be improper to say more , but it ought to be sufficient to preserve Mr . Wardle from attacks , till y * » ** a ^ the question is completely- decided . For our own parts we cannot however ^ ee > th ' fit the private actions , against Mr . Watdle or the unhappy woman , have any thing to do with the grand < jue # * tion , on which the opinion of thenatfgP has been so decisive . They can m 6 wC
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624 . State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/50/
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