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Ghurch , as to the veto in the appointment of schoolmasters , —as to the qualification of those persons , — as to the visitorial powers of the clergy and superior officers of the Church , — as to the compulsory contributions of Dissenters
towards such Establishments , as must increase the powers of the Church , at the expense of Dissenters of every denomination , in a manner which not only the friends to Religious Freedom , but even the advocates of an imperfect Toleration must condemn .
7 . That to this Committee the details of the measure appear equally objectionable with the principle of the union of such Parochial Schools with the Established Church : —and they cannot doubt that the Bill , if passed into a law , will produce parochial litigations , local feuds , expensive Contests , and sectarian and party disputes , that would agitate every district of the country and occasion
additional animosities and disunion—when the public interests and private prosperity especially require candour , conciliation , and unanimity among wise and good
men . 8 . That this Committee , from their observations and inquiries , believe that the information on which the necessity for the measure has been founded , is imperfect ; that education is more
generally ditfused than the proposer of this novel plan is aware ; that the measure is as unnecessary as objectionable , —and that it is especially ill-timed , at an aira when unprecedented private exertions are made to diminish the existence and ills
of ignorance—and when public burdens and parochial taxation are already greatly oppressive . 9 . That this Committee therefore experience not astonishment but pleasure at the disapprobation which the project has already excited , and perceive with satisfaction , that not only in the metropolis but in every part of the country ,
such disapprobation exists ;—and that not only the Dissenters and Methodists connected with this Society , hut the Wcsleian Methodists , Quakers , Jews , Catholics , and religionists of every sect , as well as many pious and liberal members of the Established Church , who disapprove of many parts of the plan , concur in their disinclination to this
well-intended but injurious design . 10 . That acting , however , on the principles by which they have invariably regulated their conduct , this Committee will seek rather to allay than to inflame that general discontent ; and , as the Bill is postponed until another Session , and may never be revived , or , if revived , may he much modified and less exceptionable , they will , from rerpeci to the benevolent
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motives and laborious exertions of the proposer of the measure , and from a desire to prevent agitation and alarm , abstain from all public opposition to the Bill , until it sfeali be again submitted to the consideration of Parliament . 11 . That to tranquillize the anxious solicitude of their numerous and inquiring
members , the Secretaries transmit a short letter to each of the periodical publications circulating among Protestant Dissenters , * informing their friends of their attention to the subject—apprizing tjieni
ot the delay that must now occur in its progress , and that will supersede the necessity for general and immediate exertions ;—and assuring them , Chat , if the measure should be again attempted , they will give them timely notice of the attempt , and invite or accept their universal
co-operation to prevent its success . 12 . That aware that such re-introduction and such success must principally depend on the sentiments that may be formed of this measure by his Majesty ' s Government—and rendered confident of
their liberal principles , by past attentions and frequent experience—and especially encouraged by the particular and recent pledge of the King , that the Toleration should be preserved inviolate , this Committee think it respectful to apprize his Majesty ' s Government without delay of their Resolutions ; and that the Secretaries be therefore directed to transmit
them to the Right Hon . the Earl of Liverpool , and to request an interview with him , previous to the next Session of Parliament , whenever he shall have considered the subject , and his convenience will permit , 13 . That the Secretaries also transmit
copies ot these Resolutions to His II . H . the Duke of Sussex—the Right Hon . Lord Holland—Sir James Mackintosh and Mr . Aid . Wood , the late Chairmen at their Annual Meetings , and also to the Secretaries to the Deputies for defending the Civil Rights of Dissenters , and of the
British and Foreign School Society—to the Committee for Protecting the Privileges of the Wesleian Methodists—and to the gentlemen who watch over the interests of the Society of Quakers , that they may understand the sentiments of this Commit fee , and the conduct they have determined to adopt .
14 . That this Meeting , specially convened by their honorary Secretaries , to consider a measure vitally important to their constituents , express their thanks to them for their attention to the subject , and for their meritorious exertions . DAVID ALLAN , Chairman . * Mon Renos . XV . 413 , 4 H .
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58 Register of Ecclesiastical Documents .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/58/
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