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lence ; and that must be a precious party of which Mr . Perceval is the leader . His effusions are unrivalled by those of any other man who is allowed to be at large . His theology is only equalled by his oratory . He presided at the formation of the . Trinitarian Bible Society on the 7 th of December last , and described it as a * meeting in the face of the great tide of the day . ' Moreover he
affirmed with confidence , ' having known what it is to be on the right , and to be on the left hand side of that question , c that that spirit of liberalism is a subtle snare of Satan . ' He announced , on the same occasion , how * it had pleased God , in his infinite mercy to him , to make him willing to propose to the Commons
House of Parliament' that they should address the King to proclaim this same fast . He derived his encouragement to this attempt from the fact that the < cities of the plain destroyed with Sodom were ten , ' of which Lot prayed that ' one might be spared to his infirmity , ' and the ' kingdoms of Christendom , as shown in the Apocalypse , are ten , ' of which he hopes to be the Lot , and
have one , we suppose , ' spared to his infirmity . ' Another motive which , as he mentioned in the House of Commons , moved him to move for a fast , was that the nation , ( in his vocabulary , ) and the oligarchy , in our vocabulary , had , in its infinite prodigality of the people ' s money , made him a pensioner . He is one of the lilies of corruption ' s field , which toil not , neither do they spin , though we cannot say much about his eclipsing Solomon in all his glory . This pension was bestowed upon him for his father ' s services : he being the son of the most pragmatical minister that ever
misgoverned this country ; and who fell by the hand of an assassin , in mistake , —having been saved by his conscience , we hope , not less than by his littleness of mind , from any such great and glaring crime as could bring down the arm of vengeance upon him on his own account . Amongst other payments on the same score , the half-starving people pay this his son 1500 / . a-year , that he may dine comfortably every day , and his
religion impels him to repay them by consecrating a day on which they shall please heaven by not dining at all . How long in arrear of its intelligence must the institutions of the country be , when such a man as this can be sent to parliament , to expel the reporters from the gallery , and read Deuteronomy to the benches ! The report of the meeting to which we have referred , and other documents in our possession , would enable us to give some curious proofs of the ignorance , intolerance , fanaticism , turbulence , and virulence of the faction which he represents . We spare our readers the useless disgust ; if they want to know more , let them read the « Record' newspaper . To be hectored by any thing that could come out of such mouths , into proclaiming that for one day the people should not put any thing into their mouths , is surely a misplaced attempt at conciliation . The present ministry is too much addicted to this ; they too oftea ask , what will Mrs . Grundy
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The Fast Day and the Cholera * 149
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/5/
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