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to be mooted this Session , present success was the least probable part of the prospect ; and the recent changes , if they have not improved it , have probably not made it worse . But there are , doubtless now , many considerations of policy which may reuder it expedient to watch a little longer the aspect of affairs , aud to see whether the accession to the
new administration of men whom the Dissenters have been accustomed to look up to as the friends of just and liberal principles , can wholly fail of counteracting that spirit of bigotry and hostility which it is plain exists in quarters where it ought to be least expected . We confess that the beginning of the new era does not inspire us with much confidence in its influence iu favour of our prospects : and so far as the new leader is
individually concerned his conduct towards the Dissenters appears to us to entitle him personally to no sort oi consideration as to the degree in which our movements ( if conducive to our own interests ) would produce any sort of embarrassment to him . The conduct of the Catholics seems to be no proper rule for us 3 they have an avowed friend at the head
of the Government and an expulsion of their enemies . They would , doubtless , be singularly unwise if they acted otherwise than in accordance with his wishes . JVe have an avowed oppouent , aud one who seems to find himself so strong in that opposition as not to feel that his meditated junction with our advocates will render it necessary to qualify his inclinations or impose any restraint on the indulgence of them .
Our own opinion is , that it becomes the Dissenters to act temperately and coolly , but with firmness and activity ; that numerous petitions should be presented ; that much will depend on the events arising out of the present crisis ;
and that if they do not take care to keep their case steadily before the public view , and to force it upon the consideration of those with whom all these topics must , if properly pressed , become the subjects of discussion and arrangement , they will be very likely to find themselves in the end overlooked and forgotten ..
May 23 , 1827 . A conference took place between the United Committee and many Members of Parliament , among whom we observed Lord Holland , Lord King , Mr . Brougham , Lord Althorpe , Mr . Byng , Mr . Calcraft , Mr , Calvert , Lord Milton , Sir R . Wilson , Mr . Fitzgerald , Lord J . Russell , Mr . FhiUipjpg , Lord Ebrington , Lord Qeorge
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Cavendish , Lord Clifton , Mr . J . Wood , Mr . Easthope , Lord Nugent , Mr . Maberley , Mr . F . Pajmer , Mr . Monk , Mr . Sykes , Mr . John Smith , Hon . R . Smith , Mr . A . Dawson and several others . Letters or communications were also received from Dr . Lushington , Alderman Wood > Alderman Waithman , Lord Folkstone , Mr . Kennedy , Mr . Hobhouse , Mr . PendarHs , Sir R . Fergusson , Sir F . Burdett , and Mr . Birch .
We have not thought it decorous to report the proceedings of a meeting which was properly of a confidential character , further than to observe , that strong opinions were delivered both for and against proceeding in the present Session ; though certainly more numerously against tlian for such proceeding .
The United Committee adjourned to Monday the 29 th May , for further consideration of the subject , first , however , directing their Secretary to communicate to congregations the resolution then passed , — -that it was highly expedient and desirable in the opinion of all that as many petitions as possible should be immediately sent up and presented .
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450 Intelligence , —Corpoiwtfon and Test Acts .
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Petition of the General Body of Mlnisters of London and the Picmity . The humble Petition of the undersigned , being the General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations residing in and about the Cities of London and Westminster , Sheweth .
That your petitioners are sincerely and devotedly attached to the civil constitution of these realms , and that they are always eager to acknowledge , with gratitude to Divine Providence , the degree 6 f religious liberty which they and their fathers have enjoyed under the wise and liberal Government of the kingdom established at the glorious Revolution of 1688 , and confirmed by the accession of the august House of Brunswick .
That in their private and public conduct , and especially in their character as ministers of the gospel , your petitioners have ever maintained and incul cated the principles of order and loyalty , and endeavoured to promote submission to the Laws , confidence in the Legislature , and respect for the Throne .
But that your petitioners have never ceased to feel aggrieved at the disqualification * under which the members of their community labour by the operation of the Corporation anxi Test Acts , which ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/58/
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