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ence ; and should it please the wise Disposer of all events-to restore his afflicted father to the personal exercise of his roval functions , his Royal Highness will feel it amongst the many blessings of his benevolent and liberal
administration that he has agreeably to the ardent wishes of a great portion of his Majesty ' s loyal subjects , preserved those sacred rights enth ' e , and returned to his beloved Father the Toleration inviolate . We have too mueii confidence in the wisdom and justice of parliament , to imagine that a measure will be adopted , so obnoxious to
such a large proportion of the nation ^ as our societies and congregations constitute ; but if unhappily we should be disappointed , and in the dernier resort , we should be driven to submit our
case to his Royal Highness , we have already the gratification of his royal assurance , that he will iC be leady to listen to the com « plaints of those who may think themselves aggrieved , and regulate his conduct upon the established principles of that ancient and
excellent constitution , under which the people of this country have hitherto enjoyed a state of unrivalled prosperity and happiness /' XVI . That a sub . committee be appointed % carry these
resolutions into effect . XVII . That these resolutions be printed , and with circular letters on the subject , be immediately transmitted to our societies throughout the United Kingdom , if the sub-committee judge it to be necessary .
XVIII . That before any active measures be taken , a deputation do wait on the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Sidmouth with a copy of these Resolutions , and
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earnestly entreat his Lordship to withdraw his bill . Signed by order of the Committee JOSEPH BUTTEUWORThJ Secretary .
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At a General Meeting of tht Deputies appointedfor supporting the Civil Rights of the Protes * tant Dissenters , held at the King ' s Head Tavern in the Poultry ^ Loji ' don , the \ bth of May , 1811 : — William Smithy Esq . M . P . in tk
Chair : — Resolved , That liberty of conscience , comprehending the free . dom of public assemblies for religious worship and instruction , in such forms , and under such
teachers , as men shall for themselves approve , is the inalienable right of all ; in the peaceable exercise of which they are not justly controulable by the civil magistrate .
Resolved , That this liberty has been generally recognized in the practice of the British Govern . meni * since the aera of the Revolution , under the construction of the statute commonly called the Toleration Act . Thus , whatever
may have been the letter of the law , the spirit of toleration has been extended , and a large por . tion of religious liberty actually
enioved' Resolved , That we have beheld with great concern a Bill lately brought into Parliament , designed , as appears to us , to abridge such religious liberty , and having a tendency to deprive the lower classes of the community of those opportunities which they have so long enjoyed , to attend public worship and religious instruction under teachers of their own choice-Resolved , That as deputed bjj large and respectable bodies o
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306 Toleration Act .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/50/
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