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INTELLIGENCE.
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Off the commission aboal to be issued under tit * authority of an Act of Parliament , otucH advantage may be expected ^ and though it would not become your Committee to anticipate the measures which the wwdom of the legislature may adopt in consequence of those inquiries , with a view to provide a speedy and cheaper remedy
for the evil than tbe ordinary tribunals of tile country aftbrd \ yet your Committee cannot avoid hoping-, that tbe mere report and publication of the existing * abuses will have a material effect in leading the parties concerned , to correct them , and that even the apprehension of the inquiry about to be instituted may in the mean time produce & similar effect .
As the universities , public schools and charities with special visitors , are exempted from the jurisdiction of tbe commissioners , your Committee have been occupied in examining- several of those institutions ; the result of their inquiries will be found ia the Appendix . It unquestionably shews , that considerable unauthorized deviations
riave been made , in both Etoa and Winchester , from the original plan * of the founders ; that those deviations have been dictated more by a regard to the interests of the fellows than of the scholars , who
were the main object of the foundations and of the founders' bounty ; and that although in some respects they have proved beneficial upon the whole to the institutions , jet that they have been , by gradual encroachments in former times carried too
lar . While , therefore , your Committee neadily acquit the present fellows of all blame in this respect , they entertain a confident expectation that they will seize tire opportunity afforded by the inquiry , of doing themselves honour by correcting the stbuse& that have crept in , as far as tbe real interests of the establishments may appear
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FOREIGN . Religions Liberty in Germany , Tim increase of political light in Germany has been long well-known : the fruita . of it are now appearing , There is just published , The Constitution qf the
Grand Ducky of Baden ^ in which the rights and privileges of the people are consulted and secured . The government t » representative . Personal liberty is provided for by a law resembling * our Habeas . Corpus Act . u Three Christian Confess
Moos , " i . e . the Roman Catholic , the Lutheran and the Reformed ( or Calviaistiq or Independent ) are acknowledged ) « ujd the nuftnthers of them , " have equal claims to all civil and military appointments , and all « ocle « taittcal otfset . '' The eighteenth
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to require iU If , too , there sEatilkf exist similar errors ia the universities , which have not been examined , your Committee willingly flatter themselves that step * will be taken to correct them , by the wisdom and integrity of the highly respectable persons , to whose hands Hie concerns of those great bodies are committed .
Your Committee are fully persuaded , that many great neglects and abuses exist ia charities which have special visitors $ indeed , it so happens , that the worst instance which they have met with belongs to this
class ; and that no visitatorial power was exercised until a few mouths ago , although tbe malversations had existed for many years * To this subject they therefore beg leave to request the speedy attention of parliament .
It further appears to your Committee , that as the commission- about to be issued , will be confined to the investigation of abuses , and as the information , in the parochial returns * is not sufficiently
detailed respecting the state of education generally , a commission should also be issued , either under an Act of Parliament or by means of an address , to the crown , for the purpose of supplying this defect .
In the course of their inquiries your Committee have incidentally observed that charitable funds , connected with education , are not alone liable to great abuses * Equal negligence and maiversatuM * appears to have prevailed in all © ther charities ; and
although your Committee nave no autho rity , by their instruction , to investigate tbe matter , and to , report upon * it , y ^ t l ^ hey should deem tfeeju / selves waiting in theij ? duty were they not to give this notice of so important a subject accidentally forced upon their attention *
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enactment of the Constitution , ia worthy of being inscribed on every , place of worship in letters of gold * - *—* ' * Every , inhabitant enjoys undisturbed freedom of conscience , and equal pxotectioa with respect to bis , religious worship . "
Bavaria also has obtained a new and liberal Constitution . The preamble asserts liberty of Conscience , distinguishing justly between Church and State , ( or rather State and Church , for the CJuurch does not tab © the lead : ); and tbe articles
provide for the equality of all naji v * sultyect * , of whatever faith , ja eligibility tip all offices and employ men ta in ev ^ ry ^ epax tment of the- public service Bavaria w smd to contain tw *> millioaa of inhabitants .: Tlka Rff * 4 n » n Catholic v « Iig ) on ha * bw » WthMlo predowiiaa » t .
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§ 84 Intelli gence . —^ Reli (/ ious Liberty in German *? .
Intelligence.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/54/
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