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country , can justify such a grant . Respectable as he was in private life , he does not appear , in his public character , to have any great claim for . public regard . H-s want of liberality in matters of religion and his participation in the
abuses which are as notorious as the sun at noon day , would be a blot upon a character that had the highest claims to respect : but however fit tor a subordinate part , he was , as Marquis Wellesley properly observed , totally out of his element in the office of premier .
By the death of Mr . Perceval , an end was put to his administration . A . negociation was entered into with Marquis Wellesley and Mr . Canning to join it , to which * hey bo'h , with great dignity and propriety , refused to accede , and a vote of the House of Commons
frustrated the attempt of the feeble remains of administration to patch up a ministry by themselves , and a few feeble adherents , who were willing to run the risque of managing the state . A motion was made for an address to the Prince to form an efficient administration , which
"was carried by a majority of four against the ministry ; and to this address the Prince returned a gracious answer . At this moment c .-f wri ; ing > the arrangements are not completed ; but it is expected that Marquis Wellesley will be premier , and Mr . Canning , Lord Holland and Lord Erskine , the latter as
lord chancellor , will be received into the cabinet . Earl Moira is said to be intended for Ireland . A vigorous administration is evidently to be formed ; and , at any rate , from what we have seen of Lord Wellesley , he is freed from those narrow and bigoted views of toleration which disgraced the Perceval administration .
From this melancholy subject we turn to others , on which , if our limits allowed , we could dilate with great pleasure . The Bible Society has had a meeting very numerously attended , and peers and prelates vied with each other in manifestations of respect for the sacred scriptures and the propriety of diffusing as widely as possible the light of truth .
The opposition excited by Dr . Marsh has evidently produced very little effect . The Bible is triumphant j and we hope that it will produce the proper effect on the Prayer-book , by giving to the latter more of consistency with that original , on which its claims to respect are founded . This , however , is the business of
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the established sect , and on this its time would be better employed , than in wasting its < fTorts in vain attempts to prevent the influence of a society , which , has the noblest ends in view , the diffusion of the light of the gospel , and the removal or alleviation of party
differences . The Lancasterians have also had a meeting and a dinner , the latter graced by the presence of two Royal Dukes , one in the ckair , and a great number of the nobility . Nothing could be more pleasing to a liberal mind than to witness
the union of birth , talents and wealth in the promotion of this noble scheme for giving instruction to the lower classes . The Bellians could not find any rational ground for complaint in this meeting ; for their exclusive system was treated with great respect , and we cannot but augur well for the country from the
rivalry which prevails between the two parties . It will make them both more alert in their respective departments , and the established sect will probablysoon discover the folly of adhering to the system they have laid down , ot attending so much to human formularies , particularly that catechism of their ' s , which is unfit for the education of chiL
dren as it is unintelligible to the learned . The established sect patronises the system of Bell against that of Lancaster ; but something was warning to oppose to the Bible Society . This defect is now to be supplied by a Prayer-book and Homily Society . When we read the advertisement for this meeting , we almost were led to think it intended as
a banter upon the establishment ; but the signature of a very respectable clergyman prevented us from looking upon it in that light ; and in our next we shall probably have to announce some of their proceedings . An extensive circulation of the Book of Homilies will , tend to shew the state of religious opinion at the time of what is called the Reform
ation , or what ought rather to be called the separation from the sect of Rome : for it must never be forgotten , that in the main articles of faith , and in the three creeds , the two sects agree , and both stand equally in need of
reformation . An event in a minor sect must not pass unnoticed . A very respectable member of the Quakers has been disowned by his body for being an Unitarian , that is , for holding the opinions , for which
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State of Public Affairs . 343
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/63/
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