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their procession to St . Paul ' s ^ and I am always delighted \ vith a living , practical example of their want of power . In the same manner I am elated with boyish satisfaction at
the return of the fifth-of November , and 1 can nev ^ r persuade myself to turn away the young patriots who surround my door on that occasion without contributing a mite to their service . " Gun-powder plot , ( and the same 1 say of the Convocation ^) should never be forgot . ' Well , Sir ^ cm Tuesday , the i 6 tfr \ of December last , the
Convocation , met with their usual forms , and prepared an address to the King , which was presented a fortnight afterwards . In the address , besides uttering the customary comphiflents , they pledge themselves " To oppose every dangerous error , and to teach every needful truth ; to maintaiii among the people that preference to the pure and simple worship of the Reformed Church , which hath hitherto sp eminentl y distinguished them ; to recommend in all matters of conscience , mutual forbearance and forgiveness : to watch
with prudent vigilance ^ and so Jar as tacij arc ahle fq put downy or to mitigate with tempered zeal , these religious excesses and wild extravagances , to which the mild * ness of our laws , and the lenity of iheir execution ^ may occasionally give rise /'
Here is a pretty significant expression of the wish of Convocation to be employed in some crusade against heretics . As I read the la § t sentence for the first tune , 1 thought of trie Hector of Cold Norton ^ and blessed nivself that Mr , Stone and I have no more to fear from the Convocation than from the Inquisition . The King ' s answer to the address is liberal and dignified worthy of the first Magistrate of a Protestant and fiee
country ; worthy , Sir , and 1 cannot say mor ^ , of an administration modelled and inspired by ihe ever-to-be-lamented Mr . Fox . It is the echo to such parts of the address and such only as breathe a reverence for the Protestant" Religion , ancj a wisii for peace and charity ; passing over , as if in silent contempt , the passages which , rigorously interpreted , seem to express a desire oi the revival of intolerance and
persecution !—So may the King be always advised ! so wise may he be " as always to fol . Imv sach advice ! So hopes and prays the warm and affectionate admirer of Princes , when Princes are the ministers of god for good , and Your obedient servant , London . Gogmagug ,
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Gogmagog , on Lord Nelson ' s Pittyy SCc- 205
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/37/
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