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^ fl * the miserable p roject Mr . WfHiam » Sttiitli « In my letter of the $ th i&fctaflt r 1 asked him , iC What tkeJW&W * system of laws would & $ ve ^ &i ? ttn * supposing that his
intended Bill had actually passed ?" Jtw \ i * to hisjelfce-r of concession , ^ f&r ^ iu tpustj soconsider it ) to the Editor of the Morning Qhronicle 9 dated July 1 lib , he does not venture ^ o deny the perfect accuracy
jpf my pointed questions respecting ^ the state in which his abominable ^ rft ) € § ct would have left the laws ^ bout rel igion . Por he does not ~ e * en assert , that " nonconformists ,
;« kberf . men or womtn , could , nor-^ ith > raiula ug the passing of his billy * go ; ta any meeting-house legally , mad ; without tear of punishment , « , i $ \> iafter such - « n $ n or such wo . ^ Bmu « espectivel t shall have trav
elled : to th e general sessi ons of the ipeaqe , in o r ^ der ^ in open cotirt , to juaji * y durnuyelvrs . " Nor do £ s she attempt to deny the enormous sixpences that this ' . would wantonly . have occasioni / d to > them , ¦ indc i pe-n - fidetitly of the loss of their valuable ttitirfe - >* < . ¦ ¦ i- ^ .- ' ^ ¦ ¦ ¦' . '• •
- IVly fourth-qWstion was as fol-Jawii ? 5 V Uoe ^ Al r . WilJiatn Sniith , ? w ! k > i aftVcts itv ^ Ms letter sti ^ h , ia ^ ignty reject fov dgtQfumi , -de ^ fn 4 teither dtecent ^ r decorous , that the
Ihe ien ^ al ^ pact 6 t community , vefiaJUagt ^ Hha « lsd be stuck up in ^ optji >^ court s in presence of a grave iiwncjti ot laical anO clerical justices , ^ and a . gazing pu blic , to take oaths , r-ajid to tnakp declarations bcfpH rjf ^ bse feraiilts are , by law , to be
iperhiitted to attend a place of ^ worship , an < j to offer U P to tile JBi ^ iT ^ f either 4 hek thanksgivings ~ mn th ^ eir fwray « r $ t | ' » h AM fe ^ * 4 p * S ^ iot den y that that WQUld be the v 4 d < $$ as ^ t ^ ihe J ayK ; s but fa ^ observes , ^ toi hq « rf ^ 4 fcb : i ^ tWfpgi ^ tory states
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a fcartf possibility . " What is ijt that Mr . Smith means by b ft ^ possilnlityV ^ Let me ask b ^ irn ! Whether it wpuld , or ^ wouia riot , have been intlie yo \ ver npToni ^ of every clerical justice , biit dtsb of every bigoted , priesl ^ Tiddi n , of malignant common informer ^ sb \ b have enforced t ^ e statute " lawif And let rne then ask hijni , Svhetli ^ th at abject state \ vere s u ch * H si tiii . tion as the Methodist ^ ' t ^ ie ^ i | . senters , and the non-cofiforhiisls ought , by law , to ° be len in ^ W Mr * William Smith , \ vho 66 stUrely 'tills us of the maghffrcent feats wbi < rh he t » as beerc eridekvquri ^ ng toido for the Dissenters ? < If suca were the wretched result of atf his
doings } then my sai / ingS { as he tert | t » them ) were surely a ^ r ^ at -deaf ' befeter ; for I have prociainiied it * tb the World , in the , preamble to mV Bill ^ these two grancl prindiplig ; namt ly , 1 st , that < * liberty gf conscience is an vna $ i ^ a £ fe ri / £ nt of all mankind , and ) uy $ ith Otf £ fo £ txer tope ttltt < mpftiaerfdy ** ) $ b& 2 dlyj tbaf 6 . a mii ^ c ^ vnl ^ ^ f ^^ a thing lawfull y % when no , mhn Japftijry cofi kz ^ ider Ais t Mjo ^
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of " ' L JDo ^ d Stanhopts Second etter . 4 ^ 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 461, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/53/
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