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INTELLIGENCE.
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DOMESTIC . HBLituotJS . Right of the Jews to English Charities-Sir , I takb the liberty of handing- you , for the Monthly Repository , a Report of the late Case on the subject of Religious
Disabilities , as peculiarly relating to the Jews . The discussion must be interesting to all , but especially to Unitarians , as involving * in principle ( though now pushed somewhat farther into its naked deformity ) , the positions maintained in the W ' olverhauipton
Case , and attempting * in the same manner to set up , by means of the Court of Chancery , a barrier to the progress which liberality and an enlightened policy have made in discarding religious persecution , whether positive or negative .
Every one will be glad to see Sir S . Roiniiljr in his true station , the friend of < jivil and religious liberty , the enemy and eXposer of the arts of bigotry and
intolerance . !| &e report of the first day's argument is little more than a copy of the Newspaper rfe ^ orts ; the remainder I am answerable for . Whatever may be the result , the Jews
have acted wisely in bringing the question fairly * and openly into discussion , and if tfttey fail , they xvill have tbe opportunity of appealing , I have ho dotibt successfully , to the legislature . VIGIL .
Lincoln ' s Inn , July 31 , 1818 . In the Matter of the Bedford Charity . Sir Safhuel tlotnilly opened this case , ob&erViitg ) thtnt he felt its particular irnport&ncfe * not only to the individuals who rittw |> fetitidhed , or lo the trustees of the Ghfcrity How in question , but to all the charitable ta&titntiotts of Great Britain ; for
if the brdter df the trustees of tbfs parti-< 5 tlfttrt ! fmTitjr Tvttis to be confirmed , it would ititr <» dtic * e a novelty ittto the -administration of ptifetfc chriritte * hitherto unknown or ttirt [ h o * i £ h t of . Onfc itf the petitioners was Mr . Jcfsfeph Lyotay who complained of his dfciighter , Sffeba tyon , feeing : Excluded from tile bi ^ eft tt of thfe € fo « irityj merely bfccfcutie he was a . ttiemher of the Jewish
persimmon : thfe persons who joined in the ? petition were Joseph Cohen , Isaac Levy atoil'dtatierfi , rulers of certftiti fcynagivgufes in Ion don . King lulUfiiM thfc VI th , on the pfcfiticm of the th&yor wnd corporation of Bedford , did grant Vfeeih ft frfce GrafWnwu-School in that town , with one master and one usher , which , in his gracious attention , ' * he ordered to continue for ever . Iti tbe 8 th of Elizabeth an agreement was made between a Sir Wm . Harper and the
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mayor , &c ., by which the estates and a house of the former were conveyed to the latter for the support of this school . In the 4 th of Geo . III . an act for the better management of this Charity was passed , but that act was repealed by one in the 36 th year of hts Majesty , which declared
that the lord-lieutenani of the county , the representatives in parliament for the town and county , tbe mayor , corporation and eighteen inhabitants , should be constituted trustees of the Charity , with power t& 'fill up vacancies in case of deaths , and ih&i thfc Directors should , from and after th-e parsing- of this act , assume the name of the >
master , governor and trustees of the Bedford Charity . It further provided , that the sum of £ & 60 should he annually distributed as portions to forty poor maidens , and that the trustees of the Charity werfc to meet every three months to distribute the quarterly proportion of that stuiit , giving at the same time three Weeks' J > rfcvious notice of their intention so to do . While
the founder made this will , it ttfas to be * observed , he made no restriction to far as regarded religious opinions , and no efccltision was certainly made of any person ota that account . In addition to this , there were £ 700 to be annually expended for
boys as apprentice fees , and for girls to encourage them to be good servant mauls , the boys to have i € 20 each , as apprentice fees , and the girls were to have somewhat less . The maney given to the forty poor maidens was to be paid tl ) 6 / n oh cori'dftioit
of their marrying within two calehdaimontlis after receiving it ; and that to tne boys was , that in two calendar months after they were pai ^ it , tll ^ y should b * e bbuhel as apprentices . The daughter r > f the petitioner was within the limits of age * pbTnlecl out by the act of the kin ^ , aha ^ rltirtb Michaelmas lSl 6 , she applied to the
governor and trustees , t ) Ut she was refused admission as a canaiidate for the tee , in consequence of herfatner belohj ^ ihg ' to Ihe Jewisli persuasion . ISihce iha ^ also , ttiey had made a rule that ho children , tne & % - scendants of Jewish parents , siibulo ! be allowed to partake of the benefits bt * tThfe Charity Wow , the petitioner was most
astonished at such a resolution , for nis son , Lemuel Lyoa , was in tbe school , and had got the appr ^ ntitee ffce , Yind his daughter , Elizabeth Lybn , hatt bad Ihfe j ^ antfe havAntagfe . The f ^ cts of the petition vir ^ e fc 6 rroborated hy Michael Joseph , who had formerly two sons in the hospital . There were a number of other instances which he ( Sir S . ) might mention but lie thought it unnecessary . The elders of the Jewish
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/50/
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