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of necessity , as it seems to us , be able to accomplish every thing that is the object of power / ' Is this self-evident ? We are conscious that knowledge gives power to a certain extent ; hnt are not we conscious also that
knowledge beyond this limit only displays the want of power ! Can we not conceive at least of a Being whose knowledge should indefinitely exceed his power ? It may perhaps be proved that a Being who is infinite in any one attribute , must be infinite in all ,
that is , he must be perfect ; but in the order in which the Divine attributes are apprehended by the human mind , it appears to us easier to begin with the attribute of power than with that of wisdom . * We make these
remarks with deference to the able writer who has occasioned them , and less for the sake of objecting than of giving an opportunity of our being corrected , if we have erred .
On the moral attributes of God , the preacher frequently expatiates , and there is a peculiar glow of eloquence in those passages of his sermons which relate to the Divine
character , in its connexion with the present and future state of man , and its influence upon his affections and deportment . We may refer , generally , to the discourses on Providence , under several titles , and particularly to that <* On the Benevolence of the
Deity / ' from which we shall make a short but most interesting extract : " There is , indeed , no truth in the whole compass of intellectual inquiry , that can be compared in point of importance with the goodness of the Deity . It is this that makes existence a blessing , it is this that at once gives the relish to present good .
and enlivens the expectation of future being- It is this tliat soothes the uiiiid amidst the trials and . perplexities of life , that robs calamity o » f its sting * , an < J death of its terrors . It is this that makes our meditation of God to be sweet , and that draws frail , fallible man by the bands of love , into a union with a Being * , eternal , omnipotent and perfect . "—I . 26 . [ To be concluded in the next Number ,. ]
— - — - . I - , . * u God is wise , because he knows all things , and he knoweth all thing's because fe made them all . " Religio Medici , ( 12 mo . 1736 , ) pk 32 . VOL . XXV . 2 N
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Art . II . —A Letter to Viscount Sidmouth . Secretary of State for the Home Department * on the transportation Laws , the State of the Hidks 9 and of the Colonies in Neiv South Wales . By the Hon . Henry Grey Bennet , M . P . 8 vo . pp . 137 * Ridgway , 181 9-
INHUMANITY requires only to be exposed in order to be detested and put down . Arguments on abstract rights influence not the majority . Plain facts excited that humane spirit which abolished the Slave Trade , and
the same means are now happily employed to enforce the melioration of our system of punishments , in spite of the opposition and the artifices of Secretaries of State . Mr . Bennet here exhibits statements
which must make Englishmen rebuke themselves for having been so Ions asleep , while such atrocities were perpetrating in their name , under the pretence of justice , u After having" pined and rotted in their respective county gaols for a given portion
of time , which varies from three months to as many years , the prisoners are removed on board the different hnIks designed for their reception . There are various modes of transport 5 some ape chained on the tops of coaches ; others , as from London , travel in an open caravan , exposed to the
inclemency of the weather , to 11 ; e gaze of the idle , and the taunts and mockeries of the cruel ; thus exciting as tliey pass along , the shame and indignation of all those who feel what punishment ought to bewhat ought to be its process as well as its fruits . Men and boys , children just
emerging from infancy , as young i * n vice as in years , are fettered together , and ( such are the triumphs of our criminal code ) paraded through the kingdom 5 they are besides generally fettered in the crudest manner . Mr . Brown , the keeper of Newgate , stated last year in his evidence before the Prison Committee of the House of
Commons , that the convicts from Newgate travel unchained but from the country , particularly last time from York , they were terribly ironed . Some years bnck , I saw in the Comptcr of the city of London , a considerable number of convicts who were
^ 1 c 1 1 t on the road to the hulks . Amongthem were several children , all heavily fettered , ragged and sickly , and carrying 111 their countenance proofs of the miseries they had undergone . The women , too , are brought up in the same » manner , ironed together on the tops of coaches . u Mr . Brown mentioned a case of a
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Review *—Hon . IT : G . Sennet ' s Letter to Viscount Sidmouth . 261
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/49/
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