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LL . D . was conferred ' on the Rev . John 2 £ vans , of Islington , nea C r London , described in the report as ( the Author af the Sketch of various Christian Denominations , and other instructive Works . " 7 'his University- is in a flourishing * condition , the number of students exceeding-120 . We ohserve with pleasure the following description of the officers : The Right Rev . Alexander V \ Okiswold , D . D . Bishop of the Episcopal Church in that State and Massachusetts , is the Chancellor .
The Rev . Asa Messer , D . D . and LL . D . a Baptist Clergyman , is the President . The Rev . Calvin Park , D . D . a Congregational Divine , is the Professor of Languages , Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics .
The Rev . Jasper Adams , A . M . of the Episcopal Church , Professor of Mathematics , Natural Philosophy and Astronomy .
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they desired to see King * , Lords and Com mons . T ^ ey ^ were as unwilling th at thfe Commons should he excluded , as that the King- should be excluded . —The tendency and spirit , of the Christian religion were to spread general liberty throughout the civilized world ; there was no ground for
supposing- that the people were insensible ; to its influence ; no ground for those unqualified accusations which almost seemed to describe that house as the only part of the country that was uncontaminated But even if that were the case , it might require consideration to decide upon the most effectual remedy . Was it possible to refute opinions , or convince men of their errors , by physical punishments ? Actions , and not opinions , were the proper objects of legislation /'—
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714 Intelligence . —The Parliament . —Sentence on Carlile .
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The Parliament * The two Houses have been called together . The Speech from the Throne is of the most gloomy and threatening kind . It
dwells upon the prevalence of irreligion mud blasphemy , and this complaint has been echoed in the speeches of many of the Lords and Common ers ^ On this topic , Sir FKAwnis Bubdktt made some remarks
in the second day s debate in the House of Commons , which we think deserving of public attention , and therefore copy : — " It was remarkable that it had become a prevailing fashion amongst many , to mix up reform and irreligion as two things necessarily connected . Some persons
appeared to consider them , like Church and State , inseparable ; but , for his own part , he could not imagine how ( he destruction of Christianity should be favourable to the cause of reform . The result would , as he apprehended , be entirely the reverse . In point of fact , the same opinion was
entertained in the time of Charles II ., when it was the policy of the Court to favour every species of irreligion , with a view of extinguishing all zeal for a free government . Christianity was felt to be a religion of liberty ; it taught a doctrine abhorred by many , the natural equality of
mankind . But it likewise inculcated justice , it recomraeackfl charity , and forbad the imputation of evil motives to others , without sufficient ground . It was scarcely consistent with its spirit to throw out charges of disaffection and disloyalty
against all wh 6 were not loyal par excellence , which he understood to mean supporters of his Majesty" * s ministers . His own convictkm was , that the people throughout tfe « country were tfrictly , foytti , and firstly attache * to the cootstitoftktfe . But *!*«» they wfenteri that constriction :
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Sentence on Carlile . A motion was made by R . Carxile , on the 11 th inst . for a new trial , on the ground that there was no law applicable to the charge of blasphemy , that the Court was twice adjourned and the jury separated .
that one of the jury on the list had died a year before his nomination , and that another was not summoned , that he was pie ^ vented from making- the defence whieb he conceived to be necessary , that the Chief-Justice addressed observations to the jury which were extra-judicial , and that the 53 rd of the King ( the Trinity Bill )
protected him . These grounds were overruled , and the motion refused . The defendant intimated that he should appeal to a higher court , meaning the House t > f Lords . The judges made several remarks Upon the Trinity Bill . Mr . Justice Best stated the object of the Legislature , in passing it , thus : u There are sects ofm « n who believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of
G # d , but who do not believe parts qf the Scriptures ; and therefore this statute was passed to bring- them within the scope of tbe Toleration Act . ' This , if correctly
reported , is surely an inaccurate statement . The Act is designed to protect certain Christians , not in rejecting * " parts of tbe Scriptures / ' but in putting an interpretation upon them contrary to the doctrine of the Trinity .
Previously to this , Mr . Gokite * had moved for a criminal information against Carlile and his wife , for publishing- a report of his trial ( called in the pw » t > - cation his " Mock-Trial" ) m two-peeny numbers , containing' th « whole u * lie Age of Reason" which hetittd read through . in bis fiefenee . The Court ref »«* d th « ap |>* icaticKn with leg-atd to € i * Hile hum&Ufte h « iftgf a prisoner , a Ad therefor * , it «* f £ ** be frresacaed , ignorant oi ^ wfo&t wa * P ^ j " ing « t bis own hotise , hut g ** nt * & it wii » * eg * fd to the wtfe . On tfce 144 b , H *»^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/62/
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