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NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE.
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HOUSE OF LORDS.
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proposed , he first declared that free discussion had beea , attended with more benefit than iujury , . and then said that it was inexpedient to subject individuals to punishment on account of the
expression of their opinions on religious matters . If the first part of the resolution was true , the second was quite unnecessary . If there had been , as the Honourable Member assumed in his resolution , free discussion , what more did he desire ? To be consistent with himself , the
Honourable Member should have framed the resolution in a prospective sense , and said , that more benefit would arise , &c . With respect to the petition , he must say that he had never read any thing niore absurd or sophisticated . It commenced by stating , that the petitioners had a strong sense of the benefits which resulted from a belief in the Christian .
religion , and afterwards expressed a wish that the laws might be repealed which prevented individuals from attacking and endeavouring to destroy that relifiafKtf ^ ( Mr . Peel ) was satisfied wifc »^ ssi £ law as it stood , and would not conse *^ $ to change it . He could conceive that cases might occur in which it would be impolitic to put the law in force . That was a matter of discretion . But if
it could be shewn that in a dozen cases the discretion had been abused , it would not determine him to put aside the law altogether . He would not consent to allow men , who , from sordid motives ,
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July 4 . The Marquis of Lansdown presented a petition , signed by upwards of 2 , 000 persons , amongst whom were 200 ministers of various religious persuasions , against prosecuting persons for writings supposed to be hostile to the Christian
religion . His Lordship , on presenting the petition , said , that although he could not go the length to which the petitioners went , that there ought to be no statute against such publications , and no punishment under that statute , yet he was free
to declare that there was no subject on which legislation could be exercised , in which it was more likely for harm to be done by misdirected zeal , whose efforts frequently tended to produce the very effects which it was the object of the law to check . The petition was then read , and ordered to lie on the table .
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endeavoured to undermine the religion of the country , to go unpunished . Mr . Home said he would not press the House to a division on the resolutions , because if they should be affirmed there would not be time
to pass a Bill founded upon them during the present session . The Speaker then put the question oh the resolutions , which were negatived without a division .
New Publications In Theology And General Literature.
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE .
House Of Lords.
HOUSE OF LORDS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 494, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/62/
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