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    NO POPERY ,

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository :

    Hertford ^ sir , April 28 , 1808 . You did me the honour to in * . sort in your number for December last , ( i \ I . Rep . vol . ii . p . 635 , ) a few thoughts on the late outcry of t 4 No Popery , " which have railed forth a correspondent , ( p .

    143 , ) whose signature is t 6 A Pro - testant ; " a term which is generally used to designate those who protest against -church authority , rather than those who advocate "its cause , and therefore not the most appropriate on the present occasion .

    The design of writing -his remarks , is , if possible , says " A Protestant / ' to quiet the alarms of R . F . by removing the false mirror , through which things arc

    presented to his view . How unfortunate that so benevolent a design has not proved more suc - cessful , for instead of allaying my fears , he has increased them , and as I conceive ^ confirmed my observations .

    He declares that he knows of no fresh declaration of the legislature , expressive of distrust towards Protestant dissenters * , to justify the alarm sounded bv me .

    Has he then never heard of the statement of Lord Grenville , in the hou-e of Lords , in his explanation on the 26 rh of -March 1807 , " that the difficulty respecting the dissenters was insurmountable ? " From the like declaration , in the house' of ^ ommons , on the same subject , it up pears evident , that tine i i ^ iu « st authority in the constitution

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    might have been induced to have admitted his Catholic subjects to an equal participation of privileges , but that the same could not have been granted to ,

    Protestant dissenters ! The majority of the legislature having approved of the proceedings that then took place , and the addresses presented on that memorable occasion , are sufficient to convince any and

    every one that there is a ' preference given by churchmen to popery , and that those dissenters who are consistent in their opposition to church authority , men * made ministers and tythc-gathering priests , are more detested at court than Catholics ,

    What effrontery then must tha € man have or what ignorance of public affairs , to venture the assertion " that no fresh declaraJ "tion expressive of distrust towards Protestant dissenters has been made use of . " Whether those circumstances are sufficient to justify my alarms , I must leave to the judgment of an impartial public .

    A Protestant acknowledges ha has not read the works of Overtoil or Daubcny , and cannot judge of their merits , and asks fci arc all the numbers of a church to be condemned for one or two blind -zealots ? " Who ever condemned

    every member oFthe church ? Nor do I , Jike A Protestant , call these gtrwlemen two blind zealots ^ but luivi- selected them as the two ablest modern-champions and vind i cai o rs of tIxj c h u rch , the one oi the Arminian , the other of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 479, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/23/