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\ &ct readily , thejfollowing plan of jnnking'him feel was ad ^ qpted :: a lighted jcandie , was procured , and one gf this lelj ^ iaus , , cauple held down one of the boy ' s hands .
whilst th ^ other applied toe flame icf it ! ' 1 l * e * e . xperijn £ nt was continued ., I suppose , itiH'it appeared tP ba , ve # n * iwexed tjie pjinpose . The boy jwas afterw . ands seen by his neigb , boij £ S wi ^ h his'himd tiediup ;
this Jed to inquiry ; the uyct came out ; it even reached ith , e neig h , bousing magistrates ; noilegal steps \\ e $ e ta ^ n } but & general indignation was excited in the neighbourhood .
This indignation is the best security against such atrocities ; and thert fore I venture to communicate the story to you and your readers . Unless the depraved
perpetrators of such 3 . deed were taught their error , by the expressed abhorrence of society , who could tell how £ i ^ h the glooiny spirit of fanaticism n ^ ight arise , and whether it miolit not become
a popuJar practice to burn the body for the good of the soul . I sim not disposed to charge ¦ upon a sect the misdemeanour of x > ne of its teachers ; but surt ly the leaders of the rlenomination should
jrnake some disavowal of such a method of conversion . My inforrjiai ^ t ( whose name I cam give up if required , ) told me that tins sect boast of a recent revival , ( as their phrase is ); I replied that I hoped 9 whatever might be the case iji another world , no prostv lytists would be allowed in this world to save wen so as by fire * Your ' s ROBERT BROOKE .
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502 Lord Sidrnouth and the dissenters .
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Lord Sidmouth and the Dissenters Srit , I congratulate you and your readers upon the passing of the New Toleration Act , which I regard as the most important
legislative measure , next to the Act for abolishing the "' traffic in slaves , that has been carried in true present century . For this Act we are indebted to Lord Sidmouth ; he first united the Dissenters , and next alarmed * the magistrates , and hurried thfcm into constructions oF
the Acts of Toleration » that coulcj not * be maintained , consistently with the Dissenters' security , and this again led them to united efforts which have teen crowned by 3 most wise and beneficent law ..
It is now useless to discuss Lord Sidmouth ' s merits as a legislator m religion , in any other light than as a question of history , l > ut in this -view it is not unimportant to have the matter rightly understood .
The Dissenters have been complained of and reproached for mistaking and misrepresenting Lord Sidmouth ' s Bill ; he meant , it is said , to improve their condition . Unfortunately for his advocates ,
his Lordship did not remain silent in the discussions on the rtew Act , but revealed what his apologists have denied , rharhis origins I and still prevailing desire tvas to curb the Dissenters aitd to break down
the constitution of'their churches . ] find him in the Newspaper reports of the proceedings in the Mouse of Lords , July 23 ' / , ^ h-
jeeting to the repeal ' of the Conventicle Act ; and F < iretelling lamc ntai ) le abuses from the prop < jSifi extension of civil immunities . " He lamented , particularly ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/26/
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