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XIV . That this meeting are aiost happy to r ne \ v their grateful acknowledgments to Samuel Mills , Estf- -the ch ^ irRian ^ . for the liberality of principle and the propriety of conductwhich he has manifested on the present and on the former
occasion . XV . That the able , unwearied , and disinterested exertions of Thomas Pellatt , Esq . and John Wilks , Esq .- 'the secretaries to the committee , have procured for them the respect of this meeting , and merit universal approbation . XVI . That these resolutions be
communicated to the noblemen and gentlemen ; to whom they relate , and that they be printed , advertised in tbe newspapers , $ n , 4 circulated at the discretion of the comQtittee , and that they be also requested to collect and publish all the proceedings which have occurred , that a record . may remain to gratify contemporaneous ehquify , a , nd Lo exieite and direct the "efforts of future generations . Samuel Mixls , chairman ,
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Circular Letter from the Committee of the Friends of < Religious * Liberty , to the Dissent * ing Ministers in England and Wales . 2 $ eto London Tavern 9 Cheapside ^ May % 2 d , 1811 . Oeak Sir , As you have participated in the aftxiefy of ' -our Committee , on the
introduction of the Bill , respec ting Protestant Dissenters , by Lord Sidmouth , > We are anxious that you should immediately partake of the ; joy which we feel at the rejection of tfcat Bill last night by the H ' outo of Lords . / TheTiappkst effects' havfe : resulted from the com- ) ¦* unications which we made to
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Toleration Act . 347
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different-parts of the country—a npanry but Christian spirit , was excited —generous co-operation prevailed among all classes of
JDiss . enters , —and many \ members of the Established Church , being friendly to religious Hberty ^ assisted by their efforts , their contributions , and their prayers .
By these general exertions , three hundred and thirty-four petitions were yesterday received by our Committee ^ and all of them were .. presented to the House of Lords . Two hundred and fifty - six petitions were also obtained by the Methodists in connexion with
the late Reverend John Wesley : and an aggregate amount of nearly six hundred petitions ^ signed by about one hundre d thousand males \ x \\ h \ nfQr-ty-eig-kt ) xo \ ir& } displayed the apprehensions , the activity , the number $ ? the resources , and tjtie importance of the Dissenters and the ^ frieuds . to Toleration ,
From the-intearpps ^ Uou Earl Liverpool , and the argumentative , . constitutional , ; apd eloquent speeches of iiarlis Grey a ^ i ^ JStanhope 9 and of Lorcls Holland and Erskine , proving the Bill , to be hostile to Toleration , and
uniustificd either by necessity or ^ expedience ;—the l ^ puste ( of Lords by a very great majority , deferpiined that it . should not evqu be read a second tityie , nor be . referred to aL Committee . , . ... .-..,.,
I The consequences of this cjeci-$ ion posterity a-lo ^ je can ascertain ; but all must "perceive that other persons . will be thereby-taught not rasjily to assail th ^ 3 Rights of
Conscience ai > d the Act of Toleration ; a ^ d .. tha ^ th , e fp ^ ncl ^ tipns of the strijqtUjpe , of . our religious liberty will , be , for eyeritj ^ epened ai ) d enlarge < i . ,,.. ; 1 , , , ; 4 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/27/
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