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tfie Dissenters will know the ground they stand on , and we should suppose take such measures as the case requires , and the * liberality of the times will not think inexpedient . The established sect disavows persecution ; of course they cannot countenance a measure , that would deprive their brethren of other sects of teachers . This would be a refinement
of persecution , -which has escaped the sagacity of former times , and weuJd render toleration nugatory : and the more we think of it , tKe more are we impressed with the solemn words of our . Saviour , c My kingdom is not of this world ;* it cannot be upheld by its rules of politics , nor destroyed by its censures or persecution . But difficulties arise , it seems , in the Establishment ^ and recourse is had to temporal jurisdictions on the subject of their ministers . A gentleman , supposed to be of the evangelical persuasion , ha $ been elected into a lectureship , to which
it seems the confirmation or the bishop is necessary . In this case it has been denied , the prelate declaring , that he cannot conscientiously approve of him , and the object of the motion was to compel the bishop to give satisfactory reasons for this refusal . With this the
court would not comply , arid the elected minister has one resource left in laying his complaint before the archbishop . A court of law would indeed be curiously employed in sifting the merits of a knotty point of divinity , in which the bishop and the priest chance to disagree . But much is to be said on both sides of this
singular case . The bishop is to look to the edification of his flock , and though preaching , in his opinion erroneous , may be approved of by a congregation , his pious cares will be employed , that they should have better instruction . As the making of priests and deacons rests with the bishops , their superintending pare seems equally requisite after they are made : but such difficulties could not occur in a community , framed on the plan of the gospel , where the idea of
going to law on the nature of their own officers would seem as strange as did to Paul the application to Pagan tribunals
on differences between Christians . The Catholic Question is at rest for a time in Ireland . ^ The government has gained its point , in the conviction of one person un ^ er the Convention Act , and has ^ used its superiority in a manner , which we hops will conciliate aJJ parties
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and bring them to a better temper m * tfrls great question * Mr . Kirwan , on trie cause being given against him ; was not apprehended , but permitted to be * at large , and , when brought up for judgment , at trifling fine was imposed upon him , and he was released . The judges in passing sentence spoke with great asperity : but
the main point is sei tied , and as government has withdrawn ail the other prosecutions , and the Cathplics are still at liberty to present petitions from their several districts , we do riot see why they may not continue their exertions within ( he limits allowed to them ; and the caifse of liberality has not lost any thing by this conflict . Indeed , as one
verdict was for them , and one against them , neither party has cause of triumph over the other : if they wish to triumph , let them do it , by shewing which can give up the most to the other , ' which can most prove themselves to be Christians , by possessing most of that temper , which was in Christ , our common Lord and Saviour .
The Regent is now without restrictions ,-The situation in which he was to be placed , occasioned much discussion > and the great question was , Is there to be a change of ministry ? Time has proved the conjectures of the Opposition , as they are called , to be fallacious \ and Mr . ^ bv . — . _ « . m m m "W •* \ i
* ^ Perceval is still prime minister . A sort of negotiation was entered into , through the mediation of the Dute o £ York , between the Prince and the lords Grey and Qrenviile ^ and the letter of the Prince to the Duke , and that of the lords to him in reply , have been published . The lords conceived , that they could not take part in the administration , under or with the present minister , and the Prince ' s letter manifested such jscrttiments with respect to Ireland and ^ S paxn , as rendered it not very expedient ftfl * these lords to be in the cabinet . Margins TVellesley has however resigned , but there seems to be little likelihood of a change of measures .
The Prince had scarcely taken his independent seat in thecouncil , when there was a rumour of peace with Sweden , anil overtures were said to have arrived to this purpose . Such a proposition was
not unlikely to come at the tune it did , as it might suit thjc purpose of the grcac Ruler of the Continent , to make an ap ^ plication , when a change in the councils of the sovereign was to be expected . The quarter * from which it comes , may
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134 State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/70/
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