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    withia the pale of her communion -. and tvho see no reason , why they should be laid under the bar of a political p oscription . And it may behove Churchmen to recollect * that these arc in number more than half the population of the Dnited Empire .

    " The safety of the established communion depends , in a considerable degree , upon the division of the nonconformist interest . No sect , single-handed , is equal to cope with the national church , though all united might , if that were their ohject , accomplish her downfal .

    " But so discordant are they in principle , and so hostile to each other in doctrine and in spirit , that nothing can poss . bly unite them , nothing can induce them to act in concert , but some great ,

    common and oppressive grievance . Such is the universal denial of their proper share of political influence ; laying the whole body indiscriminately under one general sentence of degradation and

    disgrace . * ' Remove this single impediment , efface this general stigma , grant the nonconformists their birthright , as the natives of a free country , their eligibility to political office and power , and the bond of union is burst asunder . A

    mutual repulsion immediately takes place . And the mass * which , in a state of compression and confinement , threatened an explosion 5 which might endanger the constitution both of church and state , when thus set at liberty , evaporates into air , and becomes perfectly impotent and harmless . " pp . 29—31 .

    Our extracts from the Sermon will have given it its proper character in the eye of the reader . Better coramendation ^ than our ' s it has procured the author , as we learn from common report , in a formal vote of thanks from the

    Committee ( $ 0 eminent for rank and talents , ) of the English Catholics .

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    Art . III . Catholic Question . A Letter , addressed to the inhabitants uf Bristol , on the subject . of the Petition against the Catholic Claims ; comprising a Short

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    View of the Catholic Question . With an Appendix , containing some Strictures on Mr . Thorp ' s " Intended Speech . " By A Protestant Dissenter . Svo . pp . 84 . Bristol , Mills . London , Johnson and Co . 2 s . 6 d . 18 J 3 . The " Protestant Dissenter , ** as we learn from the Preface , is Dr . Stock , the biographer of Dr . Beddoes . We thank him for nut

    withholding his name : without diminishing his literary reputation , he has , by this means , done a service to the cause which he pleads , —as none can suspect him of being an incompetent , interested or insidious advocate of the

    Roman Catholics . Our pages have already recorded the No Popery proceedings at Bristol [ 137 —143 ] : to these we now refer only to remark , that we think great praise is due to Dr . Stock for entering coolly into a question which had been brought forward and determined under so

    much delusion and with so much clamour . The Letter contains a thorough examination of the Catholic claims , and few readers of it , we should think , can forbear coming to the Doctor ' s conclusion , that injustice and charity and policy ,

    those claims ought to be fully granted . The Dr . evinces his own confidence in the goodness of his cause , by his candour towards the opponents of the Catholics , at Bristol , whose conduct had not entitled them to very gentle treatment .

    One of those opponents was Mr . Thorp , a Dissenting minister ! who seems to have raved aeainst

    Catholic emancipation , out of a sheer love of religious liberty . The following i * part of the reverend gentleman ' s " Intended Speech , ' *

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    A Protestant Dissenter on the Catholic Claims . 411

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/55/