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of private judgment in matters of conscience , would have placed religious liberty on its only true and legitimate basis . VASSAL HOLLAND . STANHOPE . NORFOLK . LANSDOWNE .
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Letters of Mr . Wm Smith and Lord Stanhope ^ To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle . Sir , In the account of Lord Stanhgpe ' s speech , given in your paper of this morning , I observe so
very extraordinary an attack made on me , in so very extraordinary a manner too , by name , in a place where I could neither reply , nor even elsewhere regularly notice what was there said , that I cannot but hope that your reporter has been incorrect ; as otherwise
I am unavoidably reduced to the necessity of doubting the decorum , the accuracy , and the candbur Of the . noble Lord . —I am , Sir , Your obedient humble servant ,
W . SMITH Park Street , Westminster , July 4 , 1812 . To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle Sir , In consequence of a strange let .
te > , signed " W . Smith , and elated Park Street , Westminster ^ \ Juty 4 th , 1812 , which has ap-^ e ^ red in the Morning Chronicle ^ p |^ l ye 6 $ h instant , I deem it quite M ^ ssja ry to interrogate a little jfchat , gentleman |> efdre the public . mfWJMitm Stoitb , so interro" $ | fed , shallhqlbhVe H r Jiave ( 6 say , SrW'ii ** ^ e ^ n his printed ^ M ^ h * i * he cih neitite * re . mffivbr U 94 gii \ atn notice" mf WStiSipiftf '** * ' * * " "" '" ' ** 1 Brlrwiw ^ * & »*>*< ¦** & **{ & cere friend of religious liberty , it
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is my duty towards those million * of clients , whose just arid sacred cause I have voluntarily espoused , to expose to their particular notice every attempt , either to maintain the foul and execrable * cause of intolerance , or to support the no less despicable system of mere toleration . Liberty , duly recognized , in matters of religion , breaks the people ' s chains ; but , toleration ( which always necessarily implies a right to be intolerant ) tends to rivet theni .
I have now to ask this Mr . William Smith a few plain and honest questions ; and to which questions the public will expect clear and distinct answers * First , let me ask him , What the future system of Inns would have been , supposing that his intended bill had actually passed ?
I mean by that question , What would have beien those laws , if carried into execution , which his project would have left unrepeaied ? Secondly , to come with him to closer quarters still , I will ask
him , Whether any Methodists , or Protestant Dissenters , or any Nonconformists , either men or women , could , notwithstanding the passing of his Bill , go to any meeting-house legally , and without fear of punishment , till aftef such men or sueh wottien
respectively , shall have travelled to the Gene ' ral Sessions 6 f the Pcace ^ in order , in open court , to qualify themselves , even to hear at a meeting * house a discourse about religion , or to say their prayers there publicly , supposing them to be so inclined ?
Thirdly , The expduce attandiiig '^ the f carrying the Workshire JWeelwlitev * only to * h& ptecfc of -poll , at the last general election ,
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156 Lette r * of Mr . W , Smith and Lord Stanhope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/48/
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