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——mm ** - Christians * Petition against the Prosecution of Unbelievers . —This petition ( inserted pp . 362—364 ) was presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Hume on the 1 st instant , and followed by a motion on the subject . The motion was of course lost , but the petition is on the Journals , and the object of the petitioners
is gained in entering their protest against promoting or avenging Christianity by civil penalties . The debate was intended to be given in the present Number , but want of room compels us to defer it to the next : it will be read with deep
interest by such as consider Christianity equal to its own support and defence . Amongst the subscribers of the petition was the learned and venerable Dr . Samuel Parr , but unfortunately the sheets containing his name were not returned in time to be attached to the petitions .
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Secesionfrom tfie Church oj Scotland . —On Tuesday , June 17 , the Presbytery of Stirliug met for the purpose of receiving the resignation of the Rev . William Shirreff , minister of the parish of St . Ninians , who had signified that he could no longer conscientiously continue the minister of a national and political church .
His resignation was worded as follows : — " To the Moderator , and other members of the Reverend the Presbytery of Stirling . Gentlemen , In the religious co , m * - niunion , especially when established by civil laws , of Papists , Prelatists , Presbyterians and Paedobaptists , the word of God , in fact , is not and cannot be used
as the rule and only rule , to a greater or less extent , of the materials , constitution , government , discipline , doctrine , worship and obedience of the churches of Christ . Wherefore , and for other like causes , I do hereby resign my clerical charge of the parish of St . Ninians . Your acceptance of this my resignation , will oblige ,
gentlemen , yours sincerely , William £ nmREFF . Stirfing , 17 th June , 1823 . " such a secession on the part of a gentlewan that has been for thirty years a pastor m the Scottish Church , and highly esteemed by his brethren , and in nf ^ ^ mall reputation with the people as ajpreacfter , |** M not fail to excite dfeejp interest . «* 1 f ^ Ptance of the resignation was «* 8 ** ly debated bytife Werfbytcry , att of
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whom concurred in payFng respect to Mr . Shirreff ' s character and talents , and it was finally voted that iy should lie on the table till the next meeting .
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Literary Property . —In the Court of Chancery , July 22 , Murray v * Dugdale , Mr . Shad well ltioved for an injunction to restrain the Defendant from invading the copy-right of a poem entitled Beppo , the work of Lord Byron , The Lord
Chancellor asked if there was any thing obnoxious in the book : upon Mr . ShadwelPs saying there was not ; his Lordship said , that if he did grant an injunction , it must be upon the supposition that there
was nothing in the work of an objectionable nature . There had been a great many remarks made upon the line of conduct he had pursused with respect to questions of this nature . He was old enough to remember the refusal of the Courts to
protect Dr . Priestley from the destruction of some literary property , which consisted of works proved before the Court to be of an objectionable kind . The rule laid down at that time was , that , the law could give no protection to works written against the morals and religion of the
country . He had then the honour to enjoy the intimacy of many dignitaries and eminent professors of the law , all of whom concurred in opinion as to the pro- ^ priety of the judgment , that in the case of a work , for pirating , which the lower
courts would give no damages , this court would not allow it protection . He was aware of the objections taken on the other side , that the refusal of the injunction was the most effectual way of disseminating the work itself ; but it must be remembered that the court had no
criminal jurisdiction in cases of this nature , and that if the work were really criminal , the publication of it could not be stopped here , but it must be done in another way . In the next place , he did to
not conceive it to be his di ^ ty alter the law , where it had been settled without question for a considerable time past . That was an opinion which he could not consent to abandon till the Legislature should think fit to alter the law itself . —
Mr . Shadweli here stated again t | iat there was nothing in the book of a nature which could prevent the protection of the court from being extended to it ; and the Lord Chancellor said , on that supposition he would allow the injunction , and he ordered that it should be served imme < U- \ ately .
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Intelligence ~ Secession fromthe Church of Scotland . —Legal . AVJ
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Religion * TVap |^* eJty . 8 , 80 * \ $ 7 Church of EagmttdTract Society . - ' ¦ "' " % 636 8 8 Continental Society . 1 , 536 7 2 African Instit&lft ^ . 1 , 134 2 1 Society for Relief m . Poor pious Clergymfett . 2 , 282 8 2
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1823, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1786/page/59/
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