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Art . VI . — A Letter to Lord JoJm Riissel on the Necessity of Parliamentary Reform , as recommended by Mr . Fpx 9 and on , the Expediency of Repealing the Corporation and Test Acts . 8 vo . pp . 80 . Hunter , and Rodwell and Martin . 1819 .
fTpHIS is a temperate , heajing patn-JL phlet , on subjects which have caused great divisions , and led to much violence . The Author is a Whig of the Fox school ; he appears also to be an Unitarian Dissenter : yet he is
as little of a partizan as it is possible for any man of decided opinions to i > e ; he will not indiscriminately censure the present ministers , and he can see some good in a National Establishment of Religion . At the same time , he does not , like some writers
that we know , confine his liberality and candour to the stronger party ; his civility to the Church of England is not designed to sharpen his hostility to the Methodists , nol * his toleration of the Tories to unite a greater force
m persecution of the Radical Reformers . In defending the rights of the Protestant Dissenters , Civis ( for this is the writer ' subscription to the letter ) maintains those likewise of the
Uuitanans , especially as far as they were called in question by Mr . Shad well , in the Wolverhampton Case . The whole Letter displays ability , reading and Christian feeling . We wish it may have its proper influence
on the mind of the noble person to whom it is addressed , in disposing him to bring forward in Parliament the great questions here discussed . But why the two questions are associated we do not exactly ' perceive ;
^ arliameritary Reform has no more connexion with the Repeal of t { ie Corporation and Test Acts , than with the abolition of Revenue Lotteries ; though , perchance , bothmight follow from it In a note to a passage on uncliari-* abIe wedsf pp . 64 , 65 , the author
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relates the following story from LatrbbeV Anecdotes of Fred . II . King of Prussia : - " The nobles of VaTangiu deposed a clergyman of the reformed r € ligion for
having preached against eternal damnation . The Clevgyinau applied to the King for redress , who immediately issued an order , commanding them to , replace the Clergyman in his benefice , and to act in future in a more tolerant and . rational
manner . In consequence of this , the nohies presented , a long * remonstrance , in which they , in the most submissive language , insisted upon their right to depose the Clergyman , and positively refun&d to reinstate him , as the people were determined to hear nothing said against the doctrine of eternal damnation . The King , who did not choose on this occasion to
dispute their privileges , but yet had always a great objection to contradict any order he had issued , -sent back their remonstrance with these words added to the bottom , t f my loving subjects of Valangin choose to be eternally dafnned ^ I have / nothing to say against it . **
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Art . VII . —American Unitarian CWtroversy 9 containing the Author ' s Defence of the Unitarian Doctrines against ^ several Opponents ; including also their Letters or Essays * # * € •
By John Wright of George Town , D ( elaware ) C ( ounty ) , United States of America * 8 vo . pp . 114 . Liverpool printed 5 and sold by D . Eaton , London . 9 . $ *
MR . JOHN WRIGHT i ^ l known to our readers as the person against whom the abortive prosecution for blasphemy was begun at Liverpool [ Mod . Repos . XII . 244 * 306 , 431 ] . He has lately emigrated to America , and'settled at George Town , near Washington , where ( ia
Quaker phrase ) he is bearing his testimony to Unitarianism . ( See p . 458 of our present VoL ) The pamphlet before us is an interesting record of a controversy in the American newspapers , in which assumed orthodoxy appears on the other side of the water in the same character that it bears on
this ; presuming , censorious , intolerant and very much disposed to misrepresentation . But the cause of truth ia in good hands , and we : have no doubt that the result of Mr . Wright ' s judicious , temperate and persevering assertion of the Unitarian doctrine will be a large accession to the worshipers of the One God , the Father *
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Revitv >* - ~ A Letter to Lord John RusscL + —John Wright ' s Controversy . 703
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cautious and reverential regard of moraiitv and of Christianity , that no one can read his « Thoughts '* and feel Jess disposed than before to watch against " presumptuous sins" or to pray that he may be " innocent from the great transgression .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/51/
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