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Our readers arc naturally anxious concerning the fate of this gentleman , who , has lately been , to the surprise of all the admirers of the British constitution , prosecuted in the Eccle-iasrical Court of the Bishop of / ondon for heresy and blasphemy . We wish we could inform
them that Mr . Stone ' s prosecutors had relented , or that any sufficient authority had interposed to shield him from their vengeance . But though we cannot ] ay before them any gratifying intelligence , we may possibly , by * tating a few facts , excite their generous feelings to an act of charity
-After the sentence of deprivation was pronounced on Mr . Stone , he appealed to the Court of Arches of Canterbury No decision has yer been obtained . In the mean time , there is a fear that the sentence will be put in execution , so as to deprive him of the income ( nearly
due ) of his living for the last year . Hopes have been held out to him of his receiving as a boon the emoluments of the past year , if he will resign ; but this be steadily refuses to do , though want itares him in the face , because it would be to acknowledge that Church Authority wh 4 ch he has boldly disavowed !
It is thought that the Birhop of I , orison will deem it prudent to lay IVlr . Stone ' s sentence before his patrons , the Jionourable Governors of the Charter Mouse , from which excellent seminary «> f public education , he was elected off tattain to College , above half a century
ago , in the year 175 $ . Some of the Governors may perhaps compassion te his case , and dispute the legality of the sentence . This is to be hoped , the rather because there is in the government of the Charter House a noble Duke , who is known to be desirous of a
reformation in the church . Should this step not be taken , or should it be of no advantage to Mr .
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Stone , it is suggested to us that he might appeal to the Convocation , before which * as it is not allowed to sit for business , the cause would lie undetermined , as long as Mr . Stone should live , he , all the while , retaining hrs preferment . But the practicability and still more the
success of this scheme is very doubtful . What then is Mr . Stone ' s prospect ? Certainly a distressing one , unless the friends of religious Hberty , in the church and out of the church , will step forward to save an aged Christian from sinking under the weight of ecclesias * deal prosecution . Mr . Stone has a
young family dependent on him for sup * port , and no means , worth mentioning , of providing for them , if he loses ( as it seems he must lose ) his benefic e . A few gentlemen , swayed by this affecting consideration , have formed themselves into a committee for receiving subscriptions on behalf of Mr . Stone . It is
vain to conceal that their success has not hitherto equalled their hopes . But the public have not till now been put la possession of facts sufficiently plain to interest their compassion . The present appeal to the readers of the Monthly Repository will not it is believed be ineffectual . It is proper to acknowledge at
the same time that several subscriptions have been brought in and that the committee have promises of more Sub- * sciiptions are received at the banking house of Brown , Co . b and Co . 66 , ^ Lombard Street ; and als o by D . Eaton , Bookseller , 187 , High Holborn , and the Editor of the Monthly Repository , at the Printer ' s .
N . B . Mr . Stone is now employed in drawing up Memoirs of his own JLife , respecting piincipally such events as led to his gradual adoption of Unitarian Christianity , wbich he is proceeding in , as far as pecuniary embarrassments will permit .
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qtjaker / s yearly epistle , 1808 .
"Dcatr Friends , "We are disposed again to pursue the current of Christian good will , which has so . often induced us to furnish you
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with a written memorial * of our concur * and love for our brethren , dispersed in their various allotments in this kingdom and elsewhere ; and thus to fix for you *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 518, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/62/
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