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Intelligence . —Case of MrPSShri Wright , at Liverpool 307
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support the conviction , and c $ Rj ? d r'Mf \ Campbell to prove that tire fot > ni Tilm been let to Mr * Wright , and Mr . liees Davies to' prove tbat a meeting for worship hara fifteen held in the room at the time * stated . r The TWn icterk vvhs
examined to prove that Mr . W f ^ m , wfoen trre conviction took place , protliat ^ d no certificate of registration . Mr . Ward , the deputy registrar of the JBishdp ' s Cburt at ( Chester , deposed thaifc he harl se&roh ^ d the . records of t'he
court iii orde ^ r to discover if any certificate of registration could be found , but that he had searched in vain . The Witness admitted , however , that prev ? 6 i # slv to ^ the time when he entered up ^ rV bis p resent office , which was in I 860 * the papers relating to this
department were kept in a very irregular stare , arid he did riot iaiagine that more than one-fifth , probably not more than < me-tenth of them , were now in exigence . * This was the case of the
prosecution . Mr . Venables artdf Mr . Lawrence were Counsel for Mr . Wright , in speaking of whbmV Site former prb-^ 6 uiiced a well-merited eulogiiim upon the excellent character he hrid ev ^ er maintained as a mau ,. as a friend , as a father and as ^ . rn , ember of society . He conc ^ ivfetfthat £ he evidence he had
uyproduce jn favpar of the supposition that t ^ e * fobm hau been registered about f \ ven ty " y ^ a rs agb , and the fact of the ixii ^ Utur&efcT possession of the room , b y ^ ari 6 fiy : c 6 ngregaU 6 os bit Dissenters frpm that time to the present , would be suflfyci ^ nf to annul t \ je CQnviction . There was no doubt waa . tever of the Te ^ tst ^ at i 6 rt havino ; l > een inade . and a
copy of it might now haye been produceifhad there been atW regularity [ n thfe Register Office ' *\ Chester . Biit the fact- was , that ti 6 bobks had been kfcpti and ( Key had now 6 een i p fbrn ^ ed by the Deputy ltdgtstrar , that probably not a tenth oart of ttve paoers filed
previous to I 80 & had been preservecU vVas IMr . Wright , t h ^ o , to be accountable for the * want of care at Chester ? Hfc thought not , and as the place had b ^ e ^ i u £ e # so long for public worship , it was- 9 tr&n £ e that Mr . Wright should
hft ^ % feten slhgled out as ihe object of tbfefefe prbc ^ edingi . But froiii the ciicvimM ^ mre of Kee ^ Davtes brf ciri g ihg to the Li \ Nerpool Courier Office , and from the publication of an article , which he would not here allude to , on
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: tfce ^ y $ tff 8 cit £ Ffr Mr . Wright ' s meetings ror ^^ brsni f if ^ hfe feh no doubt in what . ftiace and in what motives the information had , originated , { lees Davies had indeed denied i > cing art informer , and declared' \ hkt -he * ''attended the Wf t
Long Bl *> rh -rrt ^ rely ^ m >^> fjosity . Now he-had also * stated that lie generally attended , Mr . Raffles' Chapel , aiirf yet mere curiosity , h £ Vroifid have trs to ' beli ^ Ve , had Jeti him thrc ^ e r ? iftlUs together ' to Mr . Wright ' s meetings ! Mr . Robert Weston , on being called and swdrn , deposed , that between the
years 17 Q& and 179 % & certrflcate of the registry of this roorn , in the Bishop , ' 3 Court at Ch ^ st ^ r , wsTs obtained bjr ' a congregation of Mcth 6 drsts of Xhb New Connexion , of which 6 omrxiitnity he was , and still is , ~ a meftiber . This ceftificate was procured by Mr . Party , who then lived and is still living ill
Chester , and it Was placed in the hands of Mr . Lionel Special , who is sfnee dead . On the authority of thrs docdrment they used the place ds a * ehapd ] until the erection of Zion Ch&pel , and on quitting it handed the certificate to the succeeding odcupiers . H ^ b ^ eVed one Mr . Fleming had the papeV , " btft he was now in Ireland . Several c 6
rtgregatibris had occupied the foOrri- up tb the year iSjfJ , whert the Nttw Cbtvnexidn of Methodists again met rtV'it While their own chapel ^\ vas undetgoir % alterations . He was certain of fcbe registration , as it was at > f > tted'f 6 r d ^ ffftfe the tirn ^ that the HaDeas Corpus Act was suspended , arid they should riot have felt therns ' elves safe with'dutit . ,
Dr . Stewart , a clergyman of trie community of Sc 6 tch Burgher ^ , ^ a % al ' so called , and proved that he preached in the Long Robtn , Mal-hife-Screei , ftorn November , 1807 , * d February , 1808 , and that , several other preach ep both p receded and followed hirn . Ire Frad always been Under the frnpres ^ ttm
that tne robm was ^ registerecf , V Mr . Venanlcs add Mr ! tawr ^ t ? e then contended that as every prtfof / btft trie actual documetvt , had beeh /'^ rodvtced ; the cotivictiori rnusr fee dismissed , as the Act inffictetf tl ^ eWit WtV oti those t > nj ^ who / i n ow ifr&ifr h < $ tM
meetingsin unregistered >!^<« es ; . "TiteV cited ife ^ fal cases ^ o j ^ f 6 Ve the ofo&Xfiih of the wbrd , know ingty . Btit tlW BU $ - cotcler con ' sidered th ? ^ o ^ dHb apply to the fact of meeting itid toot fo the ^ w-ant 6 f registration ; a pla ^ 6 riii ^ ht be ; used
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/51/
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