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J DOMESTIC HtJ-IGiTOjUS . ' , ^ MR . JOHN WRIGHT . ' fFtom Liverpool Mercurys Apr . 28 . )' CJ » W Saturclayiast , Mr . John W // gbf , attended , Jby nis professional friends , INlr . Venables and-Mr . H % Dennispn , appeared at the Town Hall , on the
sut > jef : f of the registering of the Long Room , the further hearing of which had been postponed to ' that day . Mr . Wright had been 31 Chester , and on irjguiry at the Registrar ' s Office , he found , to his surprise , that the registry Had l ? eep kept in loose papers on a file , aj ^ d tbat no books had been kept nor any regular entries made so far back as
the time he wished to refer to . INtr . VenabJes wished to have obtained a re-bearing of the evidence by which the informations had been supported on a former day ; but this was ovetrnled by the ! 3 ench . After mentioning the extreme negligence of the late Registrar at Chester , for the truth of which he appealed to Mr . Stalham ,
tie proceeded to the proof of the place riavirig been registered about twenty yearr s . ago . Mr . liobert Westori being svvorn , . deposed , that between the years tf&ft in < l 1708 , a certificate of the registry of this room was obtained b y the . congregation of Methodists of the New Connexion , of which he was , and still
is , ' a me in be r ;—this , was done by a Mr . Lionel Special ( since dead ) ; that h p s , a \ v the paper .. cajjed a certificate ; and that after this was obtained , he and bis followers met for public worship in the said room ; that there were four preachers , whom he named , who officiated in rotation ; and that after their chapel , called Zion Chaoel ,
built , they removed from this to the chapel where they continue to wot-^ xip ^ that the room was aft erwards opeppted as a place for religious worslif j i , by a congregation to whom Mr . Jftem . ing _ officiated as minister ; that uje | Certii ^ caI te was given to Mr . F . ^ Mr ^ F * . is somewhere in Ireland ! : that
t |^ e room has sin&e been occupied by t [ ? e K , ev . I > r . Stewart , the Rev . Mx . I ^ ttph , a congregation of Welsh Bapti ^ s * a ^ xd was , for many weeks , during tb . e year 1816 , again occupied hy tne
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w ^^*^ mm > . it' , ¦ - » congregatiao of 2 $ ipn Chapel , wliile tbj ^ ir pwp ^^ pel was undergplng <eratipias . ,, Mr . Venables observed , th ^ . t . a r ^ gi ^ t to road would be established by , usage for a much less time , ^ s , the law ^ ro u ^ ^ presume the original right or original granl , althougl ) no higher proof could
be given—and in this caseheconteuqed that the evidence \ vas good , as he could not for a moment think the magistrates of Liverpool had been so remiss and so , negligent of their dutyy as to suffer such a place to exist far twenty -years , without instituting . an Joquiry into the legality of it . And therefore , he concluded , that the place must have b $ eu originally certified .
The Town-clerk , in reply , said , that admitting all that was proved , and fee saw no reason to doubt the teatiruouy of Mr . Westan , but admrttin ^ this , he was of opinion that it would opt serve the present p urpose , for the aot , as he understood rt , required the pi ape to be registered afresh for every new
congregation . The Bench then agreed to withdraw two of the informations , and considering that JVtr . Wright had erred unwittingly ,, convicted him in the lowest penalty ,, viz , 2 Os .. Against this conviction tne defendant appealed to the Quarter Sessions , whi > ch appeal will be heard to-morrow , Saturday , at 12 o ' clock precisely .
( ZjWerpool Mtrcury , May 2 . ) We stated in our last , that in consequence of the strong circumstantial evidence produced by Mr , Wright , o » the subject o £ the registration of tb * 3 Long Room , the magistrates had withdrawn two of the three informations laid against him , and had only convicted him upon the remaining one $ t the lowest penalty , namely , 90 s . Mr . Wright , however , cqiiceiving that his evidence was sufficiently stropg to obtain a decision in his favour- annealed to
against the convic ^ on the Quarte r Sessions ; On , Sal , urc | ay a ^^ rning last , at 10 o ' clock , the court ( Mr . AlcLercnart Gerard , Chairman , ) assembled to hear the appeal , and ia a short time the Town Hall was 61 led with a very respectable audience . Air . Lam be appeared as Counsel to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/50/
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