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a review of all the other medleys of barbarism and bigotry which a wider range would naturally brinff ^ to light ? ^ ¦{* , > « In point of detail , Mr . Seldam * B n > ode of stating many statutes by-their general results , without placing their actual texts even in anmppendix , has been very unsatisfactory to us ; Looking at his volume aa the ^ only textbook on the subject , the deficiency is often most provoking , and defeats the primary object in referring to such a work . The general reader , and even the
lawyer , on subjects which are of so rare professional occurrence a ^ not to repay a laborious research , require in a book like this a compendium of reference on which they may rely ; and such laws , For instance , as the Corporation and Test Acts ought certainly to be given in verbis * For l £ gal purposes and conclusions this is absolutely necessary , and for the general reasoner on the scope and object of these laws , the whole text and form of both those statutes are of the greatest importance . For instance , in the Corporation Act , when we see , as we should do by having the whole before us , that what we now call " the Corporation Act" is nothing but a clause which ?
seems to have slipt into a bill of a different purpose and when we compare this with what even in a law-book we might perhaps be suffered to know something of , namely the history of the concoction of the Act , whicti will be found in Sergeant Hey wood ' s excellent pamphlet ; and when , again , the previous legal and historical object and application of a test are explained , together with the actual existence at that moment in communion with the Church of the very Dissenters against whom it is supposed to have been ajroed , and whom the Act of Uniformity did not create till afterwards ,- —who does not see that a totally erroneous impression of that Act is conveyed by
merely giving as the substance of it the purport of one clause , smuggled in by way of compromise at the end , and giving a permanent character to What was meant to be only temporary ? h , Again , as to the Test Act , it is one thing to state in substance the present operation of the Act , and another to give us the very words , which ' themselves furnish arguments as to the objects and views of the frames . -Nothing * it has always struck us , can shew more forcibly the temporary character , the avowedly fleeting operation , intended by the framers of what are now called the bulwarks of our Constitution , than that in one and the same ^ clause and
line * > Atye King" ( th , at being , existence , or corporation , which in the eye of the law lives for ever ) is joined with a subject , the Dukejof . Yorfe , whose removal «( and with him the removal of the fears of mischief ) might tefce , pfece the next day . The statute imposes , r-rfor ever , apparently , —* he obligation of qualifying pn all persons received into the household of his Majesty , or of the Duke of York ! Can any thing point more strongly to < the conviction that the King aimed at was one Charles Stuart , not the kingly authority iri ¦
ages to come £ ; . .... . • . . , , - ,, -u . ...... ; . Wityle Averting to these two Act * , it strikes us , as a very consi < krable defect ^ Mr , Beldams book , that he has not , even a * a matter of cunteky , W WXmmwiWfot or opinion as toihe Sclasses of persona affected by theec Afithat fio
^ , v ^ might know « who they are i » these realms that ; hold ( or ' ratiier wh ^^* hey > a ^ ei 4 : batido bp ! 4 )» *\ w * libeity and- j property by a yearly letter pU ) cenfe from the ministry of the day , who My , choose to bring in ^ or may ^ opjfft . ^ lo bring in , &e Annual Indemnity Acts . Sergeant Hey wood ' s I ^ wfl ^ t contains som e information on ^ ccMialaohi cm tbe , 8 ubjecv aud it nea % ^ pf gi e at , pra # c 4 « p « wianp ^ inaamuch as the Indemnity > Aife lt do not prevent the defieat - ^ 4 b % r « k « tfidte . 0 friniy . « andiidbto fin ^ dflhrniiHlMBi thib
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/40/
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