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At lengthy the Bill , of such Jong c ontrivance and labour , was Ushered in by a speech , the burden of which was that we were jn danger of having u aa established church and a sectarian people / ' This declaration opened all eyes to the measure , as intended to diminish the number of the Dissenters . In this view it was
wisely calculated , for if it had passed into a law , Dissenters would have had no alternanve in many instances , between an illegal ministry and none at all ; between liability to penalties and the cessation of their worship . On this
u wretched bnl dead as soon as torn * , " we do not think it necessary to make any further remarks than that , if it brought a few individuals within the pvde of toleration , it Excluded whole classes
from it , and that it was drawn up , not only without regard , but in utter defiance , to ail the feelings and habits of Oissenters . The pretext for the measure
vas the abuse of the privileges of ftssetittng teachers by ignorant Wd uiFprineipled menVho qualified to evade military service or parochial duties : but the abuse
to not proved to exist in any degree worth y of a statesman ' no . *<* . The Wesleyan Methodists , in i if voom it was most Jiktly to be wund , had for years made
sue-Brunswick on the throne of these realms ; m thtn will follow the clauses for whippy ^ Hsscn ^ cjrs ^ imprisoning preach-2 » wd subjecting them io rigid quqltfica | 5 \ -A r" * c- the infringement on the ^ ^ ^ ** mere pf ^ tence . The real ^* f * to diminish the / number of Dis-^^ . , / rP ^ tht CpMtch * of England ^ by TTlS ^ fhc liberties ana privileges they iert : r ^ S ^ hope ' s Speech , on the re * TOon of the fillL
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cessful provision against it ; and whatever might have been its amount , the existing laws we * e amply sufficient for its correction . The noble legislator bewailed that Ci pig-drovers and tinkers" should , by an usurpation of the sacred duties of the ministry * gam an exemption from burdensome civil and military offices ; but the
Toleration Act exempted none but pastors of congregations ; all the rtcent military Laws expre ^ s-ly
guarded against the abuae ; and the jury box aud parish oflfievs were not likely to be vacant from the evasions of the lowest and meanest part oi our population . When /' said a speaker at one of the earli - est meetings of the Dissenters , on the subject of Lord S : dmouth * s
Bili < 4 I compare the professed des > gn of his Lordship with the instrument that he has fabricated for effecting it , when I reflect that he avows his object to be the ex . clusian from our pulpits of a few ignorant and base men , who are thought to disgrace them , and that ,
in order to accomplish this object , he would unsettle the foundations of all our churches aud pat our fundamental liberties to jeopardy , when I see his mighty apparatus for producing so paltry an effect , mv indignation subsides into
contempt , at a project which ResetnW es ocean into tempest w rough t , To waft a feather or to drown a Ry * . " It is said that there are doubts about the construction of the Toleration Act and the 19 th of Geo . III . and that JL <> rd '
Sid-* These line ns have since bt-cn s rcastically applied to the unparalleled ciert ons of tUr Dissenters in whi h application they - » re the * uor £ pertinent , the reader vill determine ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/49/
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