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tection of your bread and butter are necessary or just ; would seventy such as they , or seventy thousand , wheedle it from your grasping hands ? Look round the House , Sir John Copley , and observe how impregnably the heads of your creatures are fortified against the assaults of reason . The artillery of truth would in
vain thunder at those impenetrable barriers . What then is to be apprehended from the efforts of rhetoric ? Indeed , Sir Johu , you underrate the wooden heads of Old Englaud . Bring all the talent of Ireland to bear , backed by a most righteous cause , and we will produce a mate * rial that shall meet their shots with the
dull but impenetrable resistance of a woolpack—a cushion on which the Chancellor sits in State , as typical of the main reliance and muniment of Government , and representative of the stuff of legislatorial brains . "
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from whom Lord J . Kussell takes his instructions , or who authorizes him to say that the Dissenters wish their claims not to be brought forward , or to be postponed to those of the Catholics . From all our experience on the subject , Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters ; among
whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders ' apathy have long existed . We are happy to find that the Dissenters are moving in this business , and we hope to have to report in our next , proceedings actually taken to bring the question distinctly before Parliament .
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Intelligence . —Prosecution of Unbelievers . 303
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Test and Corporation Acts . House of Commons , March 23 , 1827 . A short debate took place on the moving of that annual blind and delusion , the Indemnity Bill , by which the Dissenters have been cajoled for so many years out of prosecuting their claims . — Mr . Harvey asked when the case of the
Protestant Dissenters was to be cousidered ? He saw no reason why the Catholic question , because it was thus made a party and political one , should be fought year after year , and no attention shewn to the case of the Protesant Dissenters , who were opeu to none of the objections raised against the Catholics . Why were they kept in the back ground , lest they should injure a question about which , too , they were not agreed ? His
constituents happened , many of them , to be Dissenters who were opposed to the Catholics ; and why were they to wait till persons succeeded to whom they wished no success?—Lord J . Russell repelled with warmth the charge of his party ' s postponing the claims of the Dissenters because eclat could not he got by bringing them forward . He had been requested to bring on the case , and would have done so at any time , if they had been desirous it should be done .
It seems to us that Mr . Harvey ' s observation has much truth in it . We cannot see why his constituents , for instance , with their views , are to wait till certain persons succepd iu getting political power , who , as many think , would use it to keep those very constituents out of all chance of liberty . We do not know
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Prosecution of Unbelievers . We had hoped that the folly of giving consequence to the impugners of our religion by prosecutions was now fully admitted , and that policy , if not principle , would have put an end to the practice . The Lord Mayor has , however , deemed it right to signalize his petty reign by directing a prosecution against the person who calls himself the Reverend Robert
Taylor , for publicly maintaining Deistical opinions . His Lordship took care to have the warrant for the offender ' s apprehension executed on Saturday , so as necessarily to detain him forty-eight hours in custody , and make him pass his Sunday in a prison . The worthy citizens who are called to enjoy , for a season , the honours
of a gilt coach and the sovereignty of the city , geuerally appear anxious to find some novel enterprise or field of energy , which many stamp a degree of permanence on their otherwise ephemeral reigns . Each has his own peculiar line on which to open his career of glory . His present Lordship acts in character . He is a Calvinist Dissenter and an
attorney . As a zealot he seeks to gratify his spleen and intolerance by persecuting the impugner of his creed , although himself a tolerated Dissenter : at the same time that the habits of his profession have supplied him with the contrivance of the dirty trick , which peculiarl y ennobles the transaction . The siuuer is punished , and the saint ' s sabbath devotions derive au
additional zest from the reflection , that the scoffer has been safely lodged to meditate on Christian charity within four walls . Seriously we must say the petty insolence of upstart authority and pharisaic intolerance , were never more aptly exemplified than in the paltry cunning which devised this scheme of Saturday night ' s indulgence ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/71/
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