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    as the reatter will see presently , in th £ Corporation and Test Acts ) " there is to do for the Protestant Dissenters . " Still he allows that " there is no occasion that Dissenters should suffer grievances of any degTee or of any The

    description . " case of Sundaytolls on going to a place of worship is , we admit , no hardship , if the Dissenter be put on a level with the Churchman , The assessment of meeting-houses to the poor-rates is of more consequence : the Reviewer takes the distinction

    between houses built merely for the purposes of religion , and houses of prayer built to make money by them , which indeed seems fair enough : but when he says that the question , whether money is made or not , must be

    left to the magistrates , he forgets that the magistrates are at present Churchmen , and in great part clergymen , and therefore too likely to look upon the question with some partiality . When the smallness of the sum which would

    be raised by the subjection of Dissenting places of worship to parochial taxes is contrasted with the litigation and animosity to which such taxation would inevitably give rise , their being brought under assessment cannot appear to any one , to be in any view , expedient : and the good which

    religious worship of every description does to the community , by teaching its richer attendants charity , and its poorer , sobriety , industry and frugality , may be very well accepted as an equivalent for the privilege of exemption from the parish rate . At least , the principle of toleration demands that there should

    be no pecuniary tax upon dissent , and that with regard to the freedom of places of worship there should be no difference between Churchmen and Dissenters- —It is the law of England , as well , as the doctrine of the Reviewer , that if Dissenters prefer " the

    orthodox church-yard , " they have a right to be buried there ; but there is irresistible force in his question , " Why do not such men provide themselves with a burial-ground ? " He lays down the dictum of universal experience in

    the admission that " Clergymen , like other persons , will abuse power , if they are permitted to do so with impunity . " —His concluding paragraph deserves to be Quoted entire : it allows 6 f no MjfcfctiOfc * hd requires ft' 6 remark :

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    < As to tbe Corporation and Test Acts , they are really the most absurd enactments ( as they at present stand ) which ever disgraced the statute-book of any country . They are so severe , that it is

    absolutely impossible to execute them . They have been regularly suspended for nearly 80 years . Their suspension is as much a matter of course as an attack upon pockets bv a good and faithful

    Commons ; and yet , though , during this long period , the execution of these laws has not even been proposed—their suspension never objected to—their abolition is supposed to be replete with ruin and destruction . Is this the meaning of Thulium Tempus occur r it EcclesitB ? *

    P P . 72 . . 72 . The Other article in this Number of the Edinburgh Review to which we proposed to draw the attention of the reader is on the * ' Education Bill , ' * but we perceive that we must make way for other claims upon our pages ,

    and defer our strictures to the next month ; which we may do with the less reluctance as it is generally understood , and the Reviewer countenances the persuasion , that Mr . Brougham will not press his measure during the present session of Parliament .

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    Art . II . —An Examination , &yc . ( Continued from p . 241 . ) WHEN Bishop Magee began his controversial career , Dr . Piuestley was the object at which the arrows from the orthodox quiver were chiefly aimed . The force with which they were cast depended upon the strength

    of the arm that held the bow , but they were all dipped deep in the odium theologlcum , the poison of bigotry . Nothing was too slanderous to be said , or too monstrous to be believed , of the

    supposed heresrarch . Polemical writers copied from , one another rcvilings and calumnies ; the currency of them , g . them a sort of authority \ all who wished them to be well-founded , believed at length that they were eo ; the name of Priestley was proverbially associated with profane infidels , and , as

    Bishop Burgess would say , other " miscreants ; " it was quoted by young academics to enliven their themes , by versifiers to gjve point to their dull lines , and by ecclesiastical aspirants to shew they were sound in faith and held heresy in sufficient abhorrence $ it was ,

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    Revkwi . —Dr . Carpenter ' s Examination of Bishop Magve . 2 © 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/43/