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as tend to purify the heart tit amend th 6 life . That we agree with the excellent sen * timcnts of the late Lord Mansfield , which were delivered in the House of Lords upon the case of the City against Allen Evans , where he said , " What bloodshed and confusion have been occasioned , from the reign of Henry IV ., when the first penal statutes were enacted , down to the Revolution in this kingdom , by laws made to force conscience 1 " There is certainly nothing more unreasonable—more inconsistent with the
rights of human uature—more contrary to the spirit and precepts of the Christian religion—more iniquitous and uujustmore impolitic , than persecution—it is against natural religion , revealed religion ; and sound policy . WOODTHORPEc
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Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty . On Saturday , May 12 , the Anniversary Meeting of the friends and subscribers of this Society was held at the City of London Tavern . Lord Milton in the Chair .
Mr . Wilks read the report , which was exceedingly voluminous , and which was meant to embody the facts that had been usually developed in the eloquent address of that gentleman at the annual meetings of the Society * The report principally consisted of details of minor oppressions and persecutions to which , in some places , the Dissenters had been exposed , and
in which instances relief , and as far as the law allowed reparation , were obtained through the means of this Society . At Winchester a magistrate had ordered a person who was preaching in the street into custody , and subsequently sent him to prison , for which conduct the committee brought an action of false imprisonment ) which the magistrate was happy to compound by the payment of ^ 10 j besides , £ 60 for costs . It then enume ^
rated several places where the rites of Christian burial had been refused to Dissenters , and two instances where the clergyman had absolutely refused to marry a couple who presented themselves for that purpose , unless the brides would permit him in the first place to baptize them according to the ritual of the Church of England . After various other details it proceeded to touch upon the repeal o / the Test and Corporation
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Acts * It Stated , > vheh $ he . y had tirst determined to bring their grievances before the attention of Parliament , and to petition for relief , they did so under the most pleasing auspices , ' arid with the most sanguine hopes of success but from the lamented illness of Lord
Liverpool , in whom they had always found & kind and a consistent friend , and the subsequent changes in the administration of the country , that hope , they were sorry to say , had very considerably abated . They were , however , determined temperately , but firmly , to pro < ceed until the object of their just wishes and expectations was attained .
Petitions were in the course of preparation from every city , town and village , in England and Wales ; and the committee ^ with great satisfaction , informed the meeting , that not only members of the Established Church , but , in a number of instances , clergymen and magistrates ,
not only signed their petitions themselves , but used all their influence in procuring the signatures of others . Under these circumstances , although they did not expect immediate success , they must ultimately prevail . The report then alluded to the expressed determination of the First Lord Of the
Treasury to oppose their claims : it lamented that fact , and the more so * that it should have been given so gratuitously , and without suffering them even to state their claims : it was an obstacle they did not expect to have to encounter , but it did not cause them to despair . It then stated , that it had been a matter of considerable doubt to the
committee , whether or not it would be proper for them to press their claims upon the government this session , in delicacy to the administration * but the consideration that those claims had been brought forward before thrft change
Occurred , and the opposition they now found they were to expect , had determined them to proceed by the adoption of every lawful means in their power for the immediate recovery of their in ^ disputable rights ; though it yet remained a matter of some doubt whe ^
ther they recommended proceeding by petition or by protest . The report then passed a high eulogium on Lord John Riissell , to whose able management their cause in Parliament was intrusted * and concluded by stating what their honour and their duty equally required , that they should " proceed temperately and firmly , but with an energy and spirit increasing with their difficulties . " The meeting was then addressed by
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/64/
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