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the bill which reflects the highest honour on their Christian liberality . Resolved , That the thanks of this meeting- be offered to the Marquis of Lansdowne ; to Earl Stanhope , Larl Moira , Earl Grey ; to Lorci Holland and to Lord Erskine , for their manly opposition to the principle and provisions of the bill ; and for the eloqucmt and unanswerable speeches which were-delivered by them in support of the important principles of religious liberty . Resolved , That the thanks
of this meeting be presented to William Smith , Esq . M . P . for his correspondence with one of their number , concerning the objects of the bill , and for all his exertions to obtain its rejection . Resolved , That these Resolutions be signed by the Chairman of this meeting , and published in two morning , and in two evening London Newspapers ; in the Bury Post , the Ipswich Journal , and the Suffolk and Chelmsford Chronicles . NathanielByles , Chairman .
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Proceedings of the Wesleyan Methodists on Lord Sidmouth ' s Bill .
[ From the Methodist Magazine , for May , 1811 . ] After giving an abstract of the Bill and the Resolutions of the Ci Committee of Privileges , " [ M . Repos . for May , 303—306 ] the Methodist Magazine states , —
The Committee felt reluctant to proclaim its hostility to the Bill , by publishing these Resolutions without first stating us sentiments ( xfiicially to his Lordship , and pmying him to withdraw it . So courteous and condescending was his Lordship to Drs . C
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the bill ; and , at the same time , do express their warmest thanks to all those persons who , by their energetic and judicious exertions , have been the means of awakening a laudable spirit among the friends to religious freedom , and
© ore active exertion ior the divine honour , and to a still stronger atsac hment to that happy form of civil government which is established in this favoured realm ; the principles of which have at all times been dear to the hearts o fProtestant Dissenters . Resolved , That this meeting do offer to their brethren throughout the kingdom , their sincere congratulations on the rejection of
of preventing an infringement of the lights secured by the act of Toleration . In a particular manner this meeting feel themselves highly indebted , and do express their best acknowledgements to the Genetal Meeting of the
Deputies appointed for the protection of the Civil Rights of the Three Denominations of Protestant Dissenters , held at the King ' s Head Tavern , in the Poultry , London ; to the Committee appointed by the Protestant Dissenters of
various Denominations , and other feds to religious freedom , held at the London Tavern , in Bishops . gate Street ; and to the Committee for guarding the Privileges of the Methodists in the Connection of * e late Rev . John Wesley .
Resolved , That this meeting P ^ sent their sincere thanks to his Grace the Archbishop of Canter . bur and to those clergymen , *| } d other members of the established church , whose just sentime nts respecting the right of private judgment in religious mater 8 > produced an opposition to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/43/
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