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| Jip «> chers and placer ; ^ fi ( itliey arc empovvfreitq resume at pleasure licences alread y grafted . The fee for a preacher ' s ' certificate-is il . 6 s . Sd / The penalties for a breach of the ' law arc , for
freefnen . ex- essive fines , and for slavesjflog-/ r'V / c' / Ko assembly ot Kegroes for re-KgioUs worship is permitted before unri ^ or a fter sun-set , that is , the only times when they are not engaged in lahour The object of the Jamaicans is professedly the same with that of the celebrated Viscount , so often advened to in
this work , namely , to exclude from the exercise of the sacred functions all ignorant and ill-designing persons ; and this circumstance may shew us that the probable epnscquence of success on the part of the noble Viscount v . ould have hecn a sharp persecution of Dissenters , under form of law , throughout all the British dominions . The slave holders ,
we doubt not , anticipated the triumph of the intolerant at home , and reckoned on their authority and influence in support of the insular persecution . On the former Attempt of ihe Jam-aicari legislature the Deputies were active
inv defeating it ; and we dare to say that they are not less a-ctive on the present occasion . The newly-instituted Protestant Society , also , have addressed a mem ' oHal 6 ti the " subject to the Prince Regeirt . : ' .
'It seern 9 as if communities of men , gtiilty of prjojic ! 'Vfongs , were smitten with judicial blindness . Danger is apprehended to our islands from the revolutjoiiary spirit ; and yet the magistrates
of those islands are studiousify adding to trie wretchedness' of tne negroes , arid exerting the hand of power to keep from them that religious knowledge which can alone humanize them , and
jnake the . ; T \ Impenetrable to the persuasions oF ill ' - 'designing 'demagog lies , and incapable of treachery aiid oarbarity . A proclamation has likewise been issued by the Governor ( His Excellency H . W . Bentinck , ) and the Honourable the
Court of Policy , i ) F EssK ^ jji : fjo and . Djemerara , of the date of lWay 2 , x 8 lj , forbidding , under pain of several penalties , any assemblies of negroes after Bunset . Ij ^ conscqncticc of thi s edict , a mKi ^ A'tfJ iiMi tngUr&ji has been constmxh ^ cl to fefurW hbme . Application ha ^' lJficA inja&c 60 the eoveinnicnt to
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prevent the execution of the mandate By its being permitted to the smsipnait to return home , xt U evident that tfo Governor of these colonies Wd nothir * to hiy tupigs charge ; andiideed ^ asbol here ancCR Jamaica , no treasons qr scdi .
tion 6 for tun illts have been actuajlygj leged against the negroes or their fa £ L ers , | here is nothing to expjai n tie outrageous conduct of the colonial go . crnments but the fear Jest knovhdge should convert the slaves to the state of hun : an beings , and the Biblb shouty impiegnate their minds with aentitnems
not ustful or desirable in their con ^ i . tion ! We wish that under the odloushcid of Intolerance we had been able tossty nothing of the proceedings' of m ? ris . trates at home ; but , to omir scmeothtf facts that have conae to our knowledge , the newspapers have furnished us wiA
two cases , which it behoves the Dissea * ters seriously to consider . In the Morning Chronicle of the 19 A fnst . it is stated that at the N or wi ch City Sessions , a licence was refused to James Pearson , who appBead to quali % wiflfcr the 19 th Geo . Ill * © n the groundrf ^ hk : not being appointed a preacher dtpKtorr of a specific coEferefiattbn . ** Ifrii fetit ^
nate that this refusal was mAd £ tn * ii $ ' which the Okmrman < $ th 6 pq * # iB * presents in ParUainetife ?^ W ^ 6 h ^ iSd'Ii e ^ : ^ that if tne affair bea «^ atedjn theiWw ^ --ing Chroniclej the Bepjatics wiji ^ ke op ! the case ; and applyto the ^ cofiUtof ^^ Bench for a ^«^« i-to -the ^ lfcwi » - magistrates , The court mig ht ! « fih *>' it ; but then the X ) issent ^ r ^^ ool < iiha ^ j a eood ground ' for application to Bafl »;
ment for a real and plain aaleijdi »« Dt' * the Acts © f Toleration * Accordin g to tht constructionputupon rfioae Afttftoff * Norwich J ustices , the race of Di 9 sentiaf Ministers is at an end 5 for no co ^^ i tion will cKoose a minister ^ M * hearing him . and yet no yexspg-mv ^
can preach before he 13 chosenDy *•« - g : regatipn , without being ka ^ to *»* oragaoL Norwich aboundswjtnJJ ^" ters , * $ 4 p erhaps the ^ ovc ^ WJP . * j ! made in , friendshi p to theni , for the swe
of havjng the question tried ; this w » jecturc is etrengthened by the circuro * stance before stated of the ^ w ^ f 1 the ftqwtfcs rcsprcsc ^ OnS -j * W" ^ , . I ^ rJi ^ KKjnt , r « ^ j ^ ii Tbc < Hh < r case w ^ f ^» wrc & *— , - . .. . •• . . ¦ I ¦ x ?
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634 tnldligtnce . — Intolerance *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/58/
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