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hekds The cause we do not know , but presume , that the Mahometans will find just as good arguments for their manifestos , as if they were Christians ; and will prosecute their purposes with as much ferocity , as th ^ y who profess to live under the government of him , \ vh > has commanded them to love-their enemies .
At Home , we have an object of great consolation . A very numerous meeting has taken place in Ireland , of Protestants and Catholics ,, at which ' resolutions
were unanimously agreed to , and an Adtlrebs directed to be present . ecl to the Prince Regent , and a Petition , to Parliament in favour of the Catholic claims and the annihilation of the bar or separation between oiiivfellow-ciiizens . General Marhe-w , a member of parliament , was the chit i sueaker on the side of the Protestants , and
the measure does him great credit . After the business «> f the day was OWX ) . the Protestants withdrew , and the -Catholics , with hearts full of gratitude , entered into an anutiat * d resolution of thanks to
their Protestant brethren , for the z « al manifested in their cause . Majj this holy flame spread itself through the whole empi'e ; and , by whatever denomination of Christians a man is known , maj others remember , that our corn
pion Saviour has given no one the right to lord it over another man ' s conscience ; and that his religion is free from the imputation ot doing any man the least injury , or ofdrp . ivrng him oi thr hast light ,
in consequence ot his religious 'opinions . ! Wherever Christians lave j erpetrated acts or made laws tt this kind , it is not as CLjrisij&lis- that they have done
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it : for they cannot do it as Chris , tians : their acts have been acts of worldly policy , but Christ ' s kin « y * dom is not of this world ^ -nor can it be maintained by penal statutes or ; disqualifying rites . Tfie pun . isment of the Israelite , who proianely endeavoured to support the ark of God , is a great lesson to all nations atrd individuals , who entertain the shadow of a doubt upon this subject .
'I"he King ' s illness will naturall y press itself upon our though to , and it is with satisfaction we remark that the bulletin is confined to one day in the -week * and thai all accounts tend to confirm the opinion of a great improvement in the u ; i .
happy condition oi our soverei gn * The report of the Council stated this ,, but could not assign the time when the reins of government might be safely given back into his hands . T he great age oi the King ) the number of attacks under which he has laboured , ihe danger and
difficulties of a relapse ^ must make it a very arduous task to determine the great question ; for persons may for some time , 'be apparently w » ll , an I yet break out-the very instant they areleft to themselves . It is said , that by way of gradually bringing back his ideas to tie business of his office , the , boxes of
the ministers are opened beiore him , and he forms his own judg * inent on many subjects in the dispatches , Ihe great point will be , when all his attendants leave hun
and he acts entirely for himseJf : and we presume , that till this ha » been done , for some time , tti « Council will not venture to declare him restored to his Iormer powers . In PAULiAMENT ^ arious ^' tions have been agitated- *¦ " inform * tiora ex offlciv gave opp ° *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/52/
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