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Corporation and TestAots . The active measures adopted to revive public interest in favour of the repeal of t hese absurd and degrading laws have already' produced very important effects ; and the question has assumed
that degree of political consequence which it deserves , especially at a period when it is desirable that all subjects connected with the cause of liberty should be taken into account , and have their weight in the arrangements for the future administration of the country .
In continuing the narrative of the proceedings of the united Committee , we have to state that they have met regularly every Monday , and their sub-committee appointed for the purpose of preparing suitable publications have also met generally once in every week . Communications have been opened with all parts of the country , and every where is manifested the same anxiety to redeem the character of Dissenters from the
reproach of apathy and indifference which had so long weighed heavily upon them . The Committee was early joined by a deputation from the Scotch United Associate Synod in London . Our readers will have seen the statement prepared
and affixed to all the principal periodical publications of the past mouth ; and the Committee have since been engaged on a more extended tract on the same subject , and they also contemplate reprinting some valuable tracts which appeared on former occasions .
In the midst of the Committee ' s preparations , and after Lord John Russell's notice of motion on the subject , occurred those changes in hisMajesty ' sGovernment which have excited so much attention . The singular , position of public affairs
will , of course , render it necessary to weigh well the extent to which any Parliamentary proceedings shall be carried this Session ; and on this point the Committee have requested a meeting with their Parliamentary friends , whose advice will of course have due weight .
The Dissenters , however , cannot but feel some uneasiness at seeing what may , perhaps , be thought the unnecessary and uncalled-for announcement by Mr . Canning of his intention to oppose their claims , at least on temporary grounds . JIm ? jpissenters Ijad , perhaps , good reason
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for concluding that his new allies would have been able at least to soften this resolution on a question in which they must be supposed to feel strongly ; and it has rather an ominous appearance that one of the first acts of the new Minister , who has himself on principle refused to
serve under any leader adverse to religious liberty as applied to the Catholics , should hope for cordial support from Whig associates , when not eveu neutrality , nothing short of decided opposition , is avowed as his principle of action against others who claim the benefit of similar
principles , without most of the practical difficulties attendant on any plan of Catholic relief . If this conduct proceed in him , or is acquiesced in by any other parties , from a reliance on the passiveness and want of energy of Dissenters , it becomes necessary that they should ( whatever may be done as to pressing a motion this
Session , which is not very likely to bfc thought advisable ) shew their feelings somewhat strongly on the subject , and impress upon all parties to the contemplated arrangements the absolute necessity of an understanding on this head , and the determination of the Dissenters not to suffer themselves to be passed by quietly .
What has . lately occurred impresses strongly on our minds the necessity of having the two questions ( or rather the one question , for it is but one ) regarding Catholics and Protestant Dissenters discussed contemporaneously . We fear
much that there are many who use the arguments drawn from liberal views of civil and religious liberty only as weapons for the support of concessions to the Catholics , a matter which has no other interest with them than as a political embarrassment in which their fears
and interests alone induce them to do justice , and that , unless while these arguments are in their mouths we associate them with our claims and identify them in their application , we shall find it very difficult to arouse the attention of these politicians to our less obtrusive interests , when the subject which now engages their attention and makes them think of these matters is settled .
Situated as the Government was when the question of the llepeai of the Corporation and Test Acts was first resolved
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/57/
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