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DOMESTIC . Religious . w Protestant Society . The Annual Meeting * of this Society was held at the Albion Tavern , Aldersgatestreet , on Saturday the 15 th 6 f May , Sir James Mackintosh , M . P ., in the Chair . We caa insert only the eloquent speeches of Mr . Wilks and the Chairman .
JMr . Wilks rose amidst the loudest testimonies of respect . He thanked the meet-Ing for this and other demonstrations of that kindness which they had often manifested towards him . He assured them , that the duty which he had to perform he performed with great reluctance . It
would have afforded him far greater pleasure if he could congratulate them and himself , that the Society was to meet no more 3 if they hud met to chaunt its dirge , or to sing its requiem , rather than to sound its praise . ( Applause , ) He especially thim felt when he remembered the more
interesting , the more important , the more sublime occupations to which many of them had been devoted "during the past week . Called as they then were , however , from those ^ engagements , he trusted file call would not be in vain , and that the great work which they were then assemlrled * to promote , would finally prevail . ( Cheers . ) They must not lay dt > wn their drmoirr till the battle was won . Move
cheerful as might be other exertions , still they must trudge on in that weary road until they had arrived at the security , where alone they might repose . ( Applause . ) With these feelings he would proceed to suggest some observations on the transactions of the Committee during the last year .
Among those subjects w-as the demand of Tolls at the Turnpike Gates from-Protestant Dissewters going to their several places of worship . They considered themselves exempt from the payment of these Tolls , as well as the members of the Estabibbed Church . A case on this point at the last meeting-, was depending * in the
Court of King ' s Bench . Liability depended upon the peculiar and local Acts df Parliament , under which' each Turnpifce Trust rs conducted . There is no gfeiveral regulation on this subject . InfoTwration is only obtainable by the perils sttl of the exeirtptffon efarasfts ^ which are it * variably inserted in all Turnpike Acts , far * hte ease to which be aUu « ted > in tike
cdtHrty tff Wih » , the l « x > al net provided , that no person was liable to » the paymeut 6 f rates 4 C going- to or returning from liis proper parochial church , chapel , orotlier
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place of religious worship on Sundays . ** In a case in the county of Suffolk , in which the same words were inserted in the Turnpike Act , Mr- Justice Grose decided , that it was absurd to contend , that under the words going to his parochial church , chapel , or place of religious worship , " Dissenters must be restricted to a
particular parish , inasmuch , as the parish in which they resided , might not contain any place of worship to which they could resortj and that the word parochial must refer only to the parish church . Mr * Justice Holroyd on the trial , had concurred in the judgment of Mr . Justice Grose , and ordered a verdict to be entered
for them , although at the same time , he reserved liberty to the other side to apply to the Court of King ' s Bench . That application had been made , and notwithstanding the opinion of two judges , as well as that of other men of the greatest eminence in the legal profession-, the Court of KingV Bench arrived at a different
conclusion ; that , under those particular words in that act , Dissenters who passed along those roads could not claim the benefit of exemption , in proceeding to the places of worship which they frequented , if they were not within the parish it * which they resided . ( Exclamations of surprise . ) He differed from the reasons assi g ned for
the decision , yet more than from the decision . They reminded him of the advicegiven by Dr . John son , to a person wlfco was about to occupy a magisterial situation in one' of our Colonies : u Sir , " said he , " give your judgment ,- but abstain from giving * your reasons ; for the judgment may be right , a rod th * e reasons wrong " . " ( Laughter . ) The reason given * l > y th « Lord Chief Justice for his-
judgment was , u \\ jfti in construing 1 these aets , the Court should see , that the oeewpiers of Tolls were exposed to the smallest possible loss ; and that such exemrpfwrnsp iwigbtoccasion much dispute aiwt wrangli'ng on a day that ought to be specially demoted to charity and peace . ( Laughter . ) As if the establishment pf a right , woHild produce move discord than the withdrawif
ment ^ as the agitation of liberty and life was not to he preferred ta the oppressive silence af the prison , or tfte tom # . Since thart ! deeisio % demands * of tolla * # tt « l been madie in various parts * of the country , arising from a iiiiffconcefvtiow of tfwfc decision .
From Frome ^ . fro m JVi&ttdm r from Mr . John a Unitarian . Bis ^ ehtev at Swa ***< { rom Mr . JWs , T the Jfal * jfrigh SrEePiff of Merionethshire , communications on tfia * subject had been received . Several excel-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/50/
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