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The public meeting- was therefore held at the Freemason ' s Tavern , Sir John Throckmorton in the chair , and severa l resolutions proposed by different country gentlemen , were carried , the purport of the whole was the necessity
of a reform , in the representation of the people , and of their united voice being heard in petitions * After the business of the day was over , they dined together very harmoniously , and the committee at a subsequent meeting dissolved itself . We shall observe here , that if the
Dissenters had acted in the same manner upon Lord Sidmouth ' s Bill , it would have passed before this time : if at the meeting at the London Tavern , they had contented themselves with recommending Petitions , such a number would not have appeared in favour of
religious liberty . The committee for Parliamentary reform should have considered , that they had undertaken a great question , and they were to provi 4 e the means for its execution : they -were to superintend the petitions in the same manner as the committee for the
Dissenters did , who were not content with merely recommending , but they wrote letters and sent messengers to all parts of England , by which meetings were called together in every district , and the < ense of the people was easily taken . The civil reformists must act in the same
manner , or there will be a little stir made in one or two counties , and then the matter will drop : but if the committee had acted with energy , we have no doubt that petitions might have been framed to Parliament fora reform in the representation , signed by nine-tenths of the males who are of age , throughout the whole kingdom .
The Unitarians have had their annual meeting , of which an account is given in another place , and we merely state it as a feature in this month , that there should have been so large meetjngs of the first people in this country , in favour of civil and religious liberty , and that the name of Unitarian should , not only have ceased to bear the odium
attached once by ignorance to it , but « at a larger body of men should have . met together at table under this denomi nation , than that of any other denomination of Dissenters . T wo hundred and torty persons sat down to dinner , among whom were between forty and fifty miners . Mr . Gisburne h well known to us
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all , and his noble and animated speech , i&i support of the liberty of a soldier of Christ , produced so considerable a sensation , that in the public papers it was thought necessary to announce , that this Mr . Gisburne was not the Rev . Mr . Gisborne of Yoxley Lodge , in Derbyshire . Now whether this was done with the privity
of the latter gentleman , we do not know : we know him to be a very respectable man , a man of very considerable , fortune , and very amiable manners . He distinguished himself early in the University of Cambridge , where he was near to his quondam friend , Mr . Frend , in the list of honours , and the two names having appeared together in the public
papers , may have led their academical friends to conclude 3 that Mr . Gisborne , the clergyman , was also become an Unitarian . This he may still be , though he is not the dissenting minister of Soham , and we shall not be at all surprised at it . Surely we may conclude from the works that he has written , that his mind is not under the trammels
of the old system , * which is now ready to vanish away . In the civil world the re-appointment of the Duke of York to his former charge in the army , has produced a considerable sensation , and the votes in the House of Commons ., shew the versatility of worldly councils . We are to have a fresh assortment of bank tokens , silver
ones , for eighteen-pence and three shillings . Any thing that carries with it a substantial value is desirable : but nothing can restore the ancient credit of the Bank , but its return to the faithful performance of its promises . The judges
have heard much arguing on De Yonge ' s case , but delay their judgment . The case may be obscured by a multiplicity of words , but we cannot see , why a man may not give what he pleases for paper , which is , to a certain degree discredited . It is not uncommon for the
paper of country banks under difficulties ., to be bought for a sum much under that , which the bank promised to pay , and every one who holds the paper of the Bank of England is the best judge , for himself , what ready money he thinks equivalent for an uncertain payment-In the House of Commons Sir , F .
BuaDETT , called the attention of the House to a case of military flogging in the Local Militia . This was for a song , composed by a private , for which he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/61/
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