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      conformity and patriotism . Let their descendants maintain them indissoluble y and as according to the acknowledgment of Mr . Hume , 4 ; he Puritans kindled and preserved the

      precious spark of liberty in the days of \ absolute prerogative , so that to them the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution ^ let the Protestant Dissenters of these times emulate the

      public virtue of their fathers ^ and be ready ? if occasion serve ^ by sacrifices or by exertions , to encounter slavish doctrines and to resist constitutionally measures that are unconstitutional , and thus to lay an obligation upon their children to speak of them * in the times to come , as tliose that stood in the breach to defend their own and

      their children ' s liberties , and to save their country and the world from being again subjugated to the tyranny of Divine Right * under the mask of legitimacy , Ao

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      GLEANINGS j OR ; SELECTIONS AN © REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING . . No . CCCXXL Savageness of War * The American papers , at the close of the late war , related the following anecdote with apparent triumph in the military glory of their countryman , whom they dignify with the title of a sharp-shooter . Of such stuff is this same glory composed ! 6 i

      Previous to the examination of those of the dead who fell in the affair of the 8 th , near New Orleans ; , it is said , two or three of the riflemen claimed the honour of shooting Lieutenant-colonel Rennie , the brave but unfortunate Briton . Mr . Weathers

      said , If he is not shot in the left eye , I shall not claim , the merit—if he is I shalL On examination , it was found the ball had perforated the head a little below the left eye /*

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      corded in a newspaper-of that period ^ called The Moderate Intelligencer ? without comment * and on the same type with the common news of the day * *

      * On the 30 th of January , was Charles , King of England , Scotland ^ France and Ireland , put to death , by beheaduig , over against the banq ^ etting-house of Whitehall "

      The newspaper from which the above extract is copied verbatim ? i& printed in a small quarto . half . sheet , and in some of the numbers , the pro ceedings of Parliament are shortly mentioned under the head of * ' A perfect diurnal of some , passages in Parliament . "

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      No . CCCXXIJ . Execution , of Charles the First . This memorable . event , which lias been described with so much eloquence by our historians * is thus re-

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      No . CCCXXIH . Dre Waring s Testimony to pure Christianity * The celebrated Dr , Waring , Lucasian Professor of Mathematics . in the

      University of Cambridge , has given * in his Essay on the Principles-of . Human Knowledge , the following just account of the treatment which Christianity has met with from the men of this world :

      64 The most pure , the most enlightened religion has , by artful and designing villains , been rendered an engine for their ambitious , self-interested and cruel projects , but this does not invalidate the truth of the religion * which gives no precepts of any such tendency . '

      With this statement before our eyes all bqoks of ecclesiastical history should be read ^ which is , in fact , . npthing else but an history of these . artful and designing villains , with . the exception of a few traits in the . characters of honest men who protested against their viJlanies . JF .

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      No . CCCXXlV . A n Item in a Parish Account * In the Appendix to the History of Lambeth , there is the following" item

      m the Church ~ warden ' s accounts : *• 1708 , November 10 , paid Mr-Skianer a bill for prosecuting Clvrk , the Dissenting parson ™ Can the reader explain this precious relic of parochial history ?

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/45/