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    . Toleration vf tlie Jewish Religion . Sm May 12 > ISIS . . I ft&to you a short note ( as accurate a ©» € as I could procure , not having been myself present ) of a ease that may have

    some interest with your readers . They will recollect we were told a few fftcmthsago , in the Court of Chancery , that Jews were no doubt too bad to be tolerable ; and it was contended that we , Unitarians , were not a bit better .

    1 am giad to observe , that our courts of htm are not quite so bad yet , and I trust ibmt other judges will , ( ike Mr . Justice Abbott , pause before they declare that to lie unlawful which ito law prohibits . It will be a curious thing * if Unitarians sJmuId let it be quietly decided in the Court of Chancery , that , though expressly

    W £ rated , licensed , and ( as Lard Mansfield , in a similar case , observed ) established by law , their places so licensed are stili illegel , their worship indictable , and their foundations void , because they reject some parl of the church of England Christianity , while the courts «> f law fire protecting " , in ail these respects . Jews who reject it altogather .

    VIGIL . ( burl of King ' s Bench , Guildhall , Wednesdjay . May 6 , before Mr . Justice \ Abhott . Ligftrus and others , Lessees of a Jews Synagogue , ? . Simmonds .

    • This was an action brought to recover from the defendant a sum of money for rent of seats , and for dues for the support of car la in religious ceremonies used in the Jewi&h worship . * Among other grounds of defence , it was

    objected , that although Jews were tolerated by the laws of England , they would not be recognized by the courts so as to protect and assmt foundations for preaching doctrines in opposition to Christianity , which is pareeJ of the laws of England . "

    Mr . 'Marryatt , therefore , counsel for defendant , cross-examined the witness , as to whether the Jewish persuasion was not in opposition to Christianity : Mr , Justice Abbott interfered , saying , of that there can be « o doubt ; the Jews , as every man w 3 io had read his Bible could tell , did n « t believe in the div-ine niissioft of our

    Saviour . $ lr . Marryatt then submitted the action could not be maintained ; he had looked at the law on the subject and did not # nd thftt < it vecognixed or tolerated Jewish &ynh ^ gjiies , they being -establishments for ffere * - ^ rb pagation of doctrine hostile to Christianity , arid consequently that this tactiofi could utot be tmtertamad . True k

    was , that the principal syrrtJkgegjue , » n this country , had hsm built under a royal grant , in the reign of Charles II ., and-that

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    Jews had l ^ eii eitcouragcfd un 4 « r the P iro ^ teclovate f yet it was not open , ke conteixied , to persons of that persuasioW , without license or controul to build ^ nagogneB ) and bring actions , &c . in respect of matters arising from such fbuedati < m « . - ^ Evfn Protestant Dissenters were not idle *

    rated without a certificate of registry commonly culled a license ; the toleration act did not even extend to them without auck a license , much less to a Jewish synagogue . Mr . Justice Abbott asked , if there was any law prohibiting the erectioa of JewigL synagogues ? Mr . Marry a tt replied , there was not . Mr . Gurney said , ther * wa « an act legalizing the marriages of Je ^* .

    Mr . Justice Abbott . — -If ther * be no act prohibiting Jewish worship and synagogues , I shall not , sitting here , say tiay are unlawful , Mr . Marryatt , submitted that it e ^ uld Jiot he lawful to erect places for preachiu ^ doetriaefi hostile to Christianity .

    Mr . Scarlett , < umnBel for the pkmtiifs , could not but admire the extraojdiiiary Christian zeal displayed by his learned frieod . Mr . Justice Abbofct said , the Jewish worship being * tolerated , all legal rights , connected with that sanction , followed as a consequence . The action , he should decide , was maintainable .

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    536 I ^ Uipenc ^^ Uhitdriak Baptist Churchf York .

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    Unitarian Baptist Church , York . Sir , Whatever unfavourable impression has taken place in the minds of sonic of -our Unitarian friends against this Church , we

    hope and have reason to believe that they are in a great measure done away 3 but this we hope our Unitarian brethren-will give us credit for when we say , that we were , and are , and we hope vie ever shall be , men of integrity , at ting from conscientious and the best of motives .

    By your permission we wish once more to introduce our case to the notice of your readers , and the friends of rational Christianity , and to lay before them a statement o > f the situation in which the Unitarian Baptist Chinch in York is placed , by the purchasing of a chape ! 111 the year 1810 , which lately belonged

    to the Independents , for the sain of three hundred pounds—slxty + threepouncls eighteen shillings and sixpence of which were defrayed l > y tjie society , which chiefl y consists of labouring , industrious people ; twenty pounds werfe given by the Unitarian

    Fu !} 4 $ ajGMi twelve pounds seven shilling * , by aunclry voluntary donations ; so thftf ( Here y » iU jem ^ ni ^ with the expanse of th c . % it < pt hmuhed and twentythree pounds ^ veo ^ e « ^ hUHn ^» % nd sip r p ^ n ^ 9 wbicji wet ^ b j orrrtwed on /^ nfefest at £ 6 per cent , per annum .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/48/