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ctasseSrAf yrepqh subjects , whether Protertant * or Catholic , the full enjoyment of the . advantages which the Constitutional Charter has provided for them . " The Presbytery , in fine , express their ardent hopes that , in the language of the * aid General Meeting , " the Ordonnance lately issued by the French King ,
occasioned by an assault on a Catholic officer at Nismes , will be obeyed , and prove the commencement of vigorous measures on the part of the French government , for the punishment of those who have so long massacre ^ the Protestants with impunity . Andrew Lothian , Moderator . Patrick Combie , Clerk .
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At a Special Meeting of the Committee of The Protestant Society , for the Protection of Religious Liberty , held at the New London Tavern , Cheapside , London , on January 23 d , 1816 , Samuel Mills , Esq . in the Chair ; The Committee , having considered the necessity and expedience of further immediate interference with the a flairs of the
French Protestants , Resolved , 1 . That this Society , including members of the Established Church , as well as numerous congregations of Protestant IJissenters , throughout England and Wales , has not been formed for the special purpose of affording relief to the Protestants in France ,
— -is unconnected with any political party , - ^ -nas invariably been disposed to afford to government all just support 3- —and , although especially designed to protect the enjoyment of Religious Freedom according to the existing laws in the British Empire , could not , without selfishness and degradation , disregard the numerous , statements long circulated in the daily journals and other publications , of the existence of
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persecutions towards the Protestant ju the South of France . % , .. 2 . That the Committee ^ therefore , assembled on Nov . 21 , 1815 , and adopted Resolutions respectful to the French and British governments . ; but declaratory of
the great principles of "Religious Liberty , of their hatred to intolerance ,: —of their determination to investigate the accuracy of the existing complaints , and of their inclination to afford to the persecuted ajl needful protection and relief . 1
3 . That , adheringto the constitution of their Society , this Committee hastened first to communicate 'their Resolutions to their own government , and to request from them accurate intelligence , and that
interposition which acquaintance with their principles and conduct induced them to expect : —and that they received from the Earl of Liverpool , and from other members of the Administration , admissions of the evils and assurances of their due
exertions to prevent their continuance , — which they did not delay most publicly to
announce . 4 . That , gratified by this declaration , by an Ordonnance published on Nov , 23 d , by the Court of France , and by the i nformation of . the Duke of Wellington of the disposition of that Court to , repress the outrages , which he did not attempt to
deny , the Committee , by public Resolutions adopted on Dec 5 th , and by other statements , communicated , the substance of the information they received , and expressed their intention not to . augment public anx iety by active labours , but rather vigilantly to observe the measures which might occur in France .
5 . That to these Resolutions they have firmly adhered—that they have sought for information by honourable means—that they have avoidejl all proceedings which might increase solicitude and
discontentthat they have not invite ^ public contributions which might not be required , which the sufferers might decline to accept , and which they might be unable to dispense—that they have addressed to the French Protestants a letter which calumny
has not ventured to denounce—and that they have sought rather to conciliate than to offend , and to hush the elements of existing discord ' into permanent tranquillity . 6 . That , able to discriminate between exaggerated complaints , arid equally exaggerated exculpations : between detail *
which gave universality to local oppressions , and assertions which denied that local cruelties had been displayed : —and that , regardless equally of inflated panegyncj and of unmerited obliquy , the Committee have pursued the path they originally designed , and have now arrived at the g "
they intended to attain . 7 . That , from the intelligence fhey have received , they learn that there are 89 consistories , 230 chufches , and 2 ^ 1 minister ! ,
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Wood , Mayor . A Common Council , holden in the Cham ber of the Guildhall of the City of Lon jdon , on Thursday , the 14 th day of De
cember , 1815-I . * W Resolved unanimously , That a dutiful and loyal Address be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Itegent , representing the feelings of this Court at the information we have received
of the cruel and inhuman persecution and suffering of our Protestant Brethren in France , whereby their places of worship have been closed , their property pillaged and destroyed , and the lives of
innocent and unoffending individuals have been sacrificed to the merciless rage of infuriated bigotry and superstition ; humbly praying his Royal Highness to adopt such prompt and efficacious measures as may best tend to suppress these enormous evils . WOODTHORPE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/52/
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