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452 Toleration Act .
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and C - when he honoured them with an interview , and so great the willingness expressed by tiim to receive any communications which might tend to improve the BUI , that the Committee was authorised in hoping such application would not be altogether in ^ vam . For this purpose a deputation , with Thofnas Thompson , Esq . M . P . at its head , wailed upon his Lordship with the Resolutions on \ Vcdnesday morning , according to appointment , and
was very politely received . The Deputation entered fully into the projected measure , and discussed the effect it would haye upon the Law of Toleration and upon our system . What passed at this interview cannot be detailed . But the deputation had the mortification to find that their observatioils had not the effect of inducing his Lordship to withdraw his Bill , which they pressed upon him , and they left his Lordship tinder the ifnpfession , that he should leave the Bill to the disposal of the House of Lords . We
must , however , in justice to his - Lordship , state , that he gave every credit to the Methodists for their usefulness , zeal , and loyalty . At a meeting of the Committee on Wednesday night to receive the report of the Deputation , it was matter of sincere regret ,, that his Lordship could not be prevailed upon to withdraw his Bill ; nevertheless it was not deemed expedient to advertise the
Resolutions 111 the public papers . Deeply im pressed as ' they were with the destructive consequences which the Bill would have upon the economy of the Methodists , especially that part of it which
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includes the social meetings ; they considered not only how they should make their opinions re . spectirfg the Bill known , but how they should give it the most practical opposition . They therefore determined that a Copy of the Resolutions should be sent to each noble member of the House of Lords , and , accordingly , a copy was transmitted to each of the Royal Dukes , the Archbishops and Bishops , and such Noble Lords whose addresses could be procured , inclosed in the following Letter " : My Lord ,
cc I am directed by the Commit , tee of the late Rev . Mr . Wesley ' s Societies ,-to transmit the inclosed Resolutions for your Lordship ' s Consideration ^ and most humbly to entreat the Honour of your Lordship ' s powerful Aid in opposing tt Bill which they consider so unfriendly to the high natural Rights of Conscience , and to the Rights and Privileges of the Societies for whom I am employed te
act . * I have the Honour to be , my Lord , Your Lordship ' s most obedient and very humble Servant , THOMAS ALLAN ,
Solicitor . " On Thursday , the Committee was closely engageS all daj in carrying the aforesaid measure into t-flrct , and sending a Copy 01 the Resolutions into every circuit throughout the kingdom , that our friends might know the opinion ot the committee on the subject , and be prepared to co-operate with 1 in every future measure wine * might be deemed necessary to t preservation of our relig ious rig 1 - As Lord Sidmouth had fi ^ d oi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/44/
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