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A singular circumstance Hans occurred in consequence of the feelings of the House of Commons respecting" the Habeas Corpus Act . Some justices in Berkshire were denied access to the state prisoners confined in their prison , and this gave rise to a correspondence between them and the ministers , and a subsequent discussion in
the Honse of Commons , which thought it right to leave our fellow-subjects entirely at the mercy of the ministers . This did not satisfy Lord Folkstone , whose conduct upon this occasion is above aU praise . As a magistrate for the county , he called the attention of his brother magistrates to this point , who exercised the authority vested
in them with the greatest propriety . They considered that the jailor was their officer , but they excused his conduct on account of his ignorance in such a delicate subject ^ but they maintained their right of inspecting the whole of the prison whenever they thought proper . Thus Englishmen are not left entirely to the men who confine
them in prison , and it must be satisfactory to every one that this is the law of England , for the history of other nations must couvince us , that there is no degree of cruelty which has not been exercised by men in power , over those who are
unfortunately or deservedly within their clutches . That Englishmen or Irishmen will be better than other men in the same situation , may be asserted in Parliament ; but it is dangerous both for people in power and for the subject that the experiment should be tried
A trial in Scotland has also produced considerable sensation . Such tampering with a witness has seldom been displaced before the British public , and it will pro-
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bably lay a foiradatfon for an inquiry Before the legislature . The prosecutors were again foiled in their charge against a person for administering unlawful oaths . The importance of matters at home renders us less attentive to circumstances abr 6 ad . By all accounts , the revolutionary party in the Brazils has been foiled , and a
conspiracy to a great extent has been detected at Lisbon . An attempt to vindicate the liberty of the press is going forward at Pur is , where a child was for a short time added to the Bourbon family . Its death took place soon after its birth , but not till
a priest had admitted it into the number of the faithful , and given it , according to his speech to the clergy of St . Dennys , where its remains were deposited , a right to a place in the angelical choir . But we must not be too severe in our strictures on this
abuse of baptism , when even in our own body is found a writer to set up the strange notion of the propriety of infant sprinkling , as a Christian rite derived from the apostles . The true Christian will not , however , be led away by such strange fancies ; he will
consider what baptism really was , and that it could not be introduced till the parties were prepared to be disciples . Make disciples was the precept , the initiatory rite was a consequence ; and how a disciple is to be made of a babe who cannot assent to
any proposition , it is in vain for any learned Rabbinism to attempt to expkiin . We must not set the plain terras of a law aside to bring it within the pale of tradition . Fot had the tradition been well-grounded , and we believe that there is no foundation for it , this could no more justify the practice than it would justify Peter ' s error , who was by Paul so justly condemned .
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THE account of the Proceedings in Chancery y for which we could make no preparation , excludes some reports of the meetings of thfe Unitarian Societies ; they will be given in the next number . We shall be glad to receive the continuation of Dr . Alexander ' s paper .
An anonymous Correspondent from Tenterden , desires that some one will , answer Dr . NareVs Book against the Improved Version : he was entitled to state his wish , but he sliould not have made us pay for it . The list of names from Thorite , came too late for use tfers month .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/72/
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