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> f&pe * ty . ¦* -Tfte i o % ta * > \ aoW ** ed ; pth&t iG agreed i n the s&titim&ete > itti p « fedi to Mr . \ Vright . with the exception ofthe &M ^ Which he did not believe Mr . W . & * M &r es&oaaetk r . Vv right was then liberated , and hrs departure from the Hall was only impeded by a number of otheT friends , eagerly pressing in to offer themselves as his bail .
Refnarks . On the above extraordinary ' case , which is already familiar to the public , We have little to say , at present ; it wall we understand be brought before the higher tribunals .
Tfre case divides itself into two parts ; the first relating to unlicensed worship , thfc second to blasphemy . In the account given above , it is stated that the first complaint was adjourned a week ' , in order to allow Mr .
-Wright time to procure a copy of the certificate of register of the place of faceting . 'The cause came before the magistrates on the 19 th instant . The point was now established by a living Witness , that the place was duly registered in the Bishop ' s Court at Chester
about twenty years aco . But tw books tire kept in the Court ; documents are simply pat upon a file , and take their Stance of pneservatfou : in the present instance nothing remained and
therefore no copy could he had . On the testimony of the witness referred to , however , the magistrates seemed disposed to allow the Jesalhv of the meeting and to dismiss the complaint , when < fhe town-clerk ( who has earned for
himself a lasting name ) put m an exception and demanded that the defendant should be convicted on one of the three informations , on the fol-Jcfwing extraordinary ground , viz . that the Act of the King , commonly called The New Toleration Act ^ requires a
Protestant Dissenting Place of Worship to be registered anew ewry time it'is occupied by a new congregation ! If the town-clerk be right , the majority jy fi ' our congregations nre unprotected by ^ he law . But we are persuaded that the . construction , of the Liverpool lawyer swill be set ! aside the moment it is suited
flto'k higher court . It behoves the Uepcjtieb and the Protestant So--CMTT to iook after this matter j for ^ j ^ t ^ otv ^ rong the magistrates at Liverpool * v ere rtded by their legal advinery * nfel < cte » vrcTEir M « . Wright in thir ! penalt 5 r ^ f twenty shillings and
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five ' sWHfagtf eostsr T ^ . ^ WHeln ^ - mei&ia&if £ &ve ^ iot fce ^ i ^« # a ^ aifest th \* coMicti&ri ® t * fc \<* ^ u ^ He ^ iSe ^ Md ^ ^ which will hav ^ beei * Hei tT be ^ fo ^ th ?^ meetsMthe reader * ^ e ^» . The t&iutVtHlt be hereafter trrfrt ^ rH eed ; * v
The pVosecutifcn for btctipkemj } is ^^ till more serious , and intmiately cbhcetrWs the Unitarians as a J ^ dy . This stands over to the Lancaster Assizes . Here too the town-clerk of Liverpool ( vVhb discovers in every thing the same originality ) takes new ground . He rests the charge of blasphemy on the common lau \ It remains to be seen what his
legal Opinion is Worth : but if he i 3 fc right , the Trinity Bill , in which Unitarians have so much rejoiced , is no protection to them : it only exetnpts them from the operation of certain statutesy but leaves them exposed to the common law , if that be , as the town-clerk advises , against them . What authorities this luminary of the law relies on we know not . Lord
EHenborough has indeed said , after Blackstong , that"" Christianity is the law of the land , " and if we were to ask his Lordship what Christianity is , he would undoubtedly refer us to the Common Prayer Book , containing the Thirty Nine Articles and the Athanasian
Creed : but we much question whether his Lordship would abide in any particular instance by his own dictum . Still there is enoiigh in the case to ar 6 ** se the attention of the Unitarians , arid we have the pleasured informing the public that the Committee of the
UsnrAriajt ir * i * i r > a re not inattentive to it . - ¦ The charge agamst Mr . Wright of denying a future state is p lainly a mistake , arising probably frorri the ignorance of the informer , tvho has confounded a separate , inferrtiei&afr , with a future Mate . T # sh ^ w tWils ,
Mr . Wright has published tli «* tSetttioli , with atrestat ? orj ^ - to its beinjg a tru e copy ; it is in fact a Sermoh 0 fMs brother ' s , Mr . Richard ' Wrighi , » > the Utiitarwn Fund MhsiotkiPtf * iirtd Was published in 1811 , as lNo . 14 of Mr . R . Wright '? ** SvangeFieal Disoobi ^ es /' In deHvervn £ it , Mr ; John Wright
made some additions , which a remarked in the copy now printed by crottch&ls . There is an ekpknaloty- •*/ Pre ^ ce " and soaie excellent " PreYmfittiaky RematksV to the pubiidatio ^ iwhfch rnay be had , Pric 4 Ooe'Sftimrtg ^ rjf D . Eaton , Higt ^ Ilolr ^ M ^^^ dt ^ Whieh we recoiuinerid to all who ^ € ^ l ^ awi in *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/54/
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