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vanousejtpedienta were adapted ; amongst others a test or subscription of asserittond consent ID the doctrine and worship of the Church of England . On hearing this , one of the candidates , at whom , perhaps , on account of his interest , this precaution was pointed , instantly withand
drew ^ addressed a letter " T 6 the Master , Warden and Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company , " a copy of which is now before us in print , and which speaks such a noble feeling of honour and Christian integrity , that we cannot refrain from making an extract :
" I have been made acquainted with a Resolution , which , although not officially promulgated , is yet universally understood to have been recently adopted by your Court , excluding from the existing competition for the office of your clerk and solicitor , all persons who in their religious professions are not members of the Church of England .
** It would not become me , under present circumstances , to inquire what connexion there can possibly exist between particular modes of Christian faith , and the professional duties of the office referred to ; much less does it belong to me to question the propriety of such a rule of election . It is sufficient for me
to know that such an exclusive qualification is insisted on , and that my consciejitious persuasion disqualifies me from continuing a candidate . I am very averse Yrojn any thing which might be deemed an ostentatious or unnecessary profession of niy t religious tenets ; but I consider it
due to truth and consistency of character , to avow , on the present occasion , that those which t profess , denved from my ancestors and confirmed by personal cobvietkm , place me beyond the pale of Jquallegation . And I feel assured that I Should not be considered bv others , anv Should not be considered by othersany
, jribre than by myself , a deserving object of jjour choice , if I could hesitate one moment , in talking the determination I have now come to . r < * Tlie reception I experienced on my canvas , induces me to flatter myself , that , but for this peculiar exclusion , 1 should have been justified in entertaining the " most confident expectation of
success ; and / 1 trtrst I tnay be permitted to . say , without the imputation © f offence , it is no small consolation to me to ftod that I am excluded from being a Candi-^ at % , not rejected at the Jfcleqtion ; and
that nw exclusion is produced , not by personal objection but by the mere difference of j- eligious persuasion , aeknoyvieged to be equally conscientious in oach j > artar . *^ , . , ,. . . \ Aithpugh jfea ^ ohtfed m w Mm * <* f
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professional ambition to which he had & fair claim , the writer appears to hb to derive more honour from this manly 304 Christian avowal than he could have derived from any office whatever . It has been questioned whether the Company had a legal right to adopt their
resolution ; but allowing this , we may be permitted to say , that it was not li beral to the Dissenters who are on the Court and in the Company , it was not considerate towards the candidates , and it is surely unworthy of a public body ia the metropolis in this era of light and liberty .
If the object be more than an election * manoeuvre , if it be intended to shut oat Dissenters altogether , the Court must go yet farther , and decree that any of their officers becoming Dissenters shall be ipm facto excluded . Are they prepared for this act of persecution ?—While the door
to public employment is thus closed against Dissenters , the Dissenters them * selves have for the last half century been opening trusts and emoluments , of whkh they had the disposal * to Churchmen ; and the consequence has been in certain hospitals and charities that we could name ,
that the members of the Establishment have by degrees obtained the ascendancy , and wholly excluded the Dissenters . Tkus have this latter dags of persons heen doubly injured . Let them , then , take the matter into consideration , and henceforth act , not indeed with iHiberality , { for eren by way of retaliation that is always bad , ) but with a due care of the interests of
their own denomination and of the claims of their posterity upon institutions founded or endowed , with a view to their benefit or influence , by benefactors wh& either were of their own persuasion , or considered that their charities would be best administered by such as were .
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126 Intelligence . —Bigotry in a Public Company .
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Cambridge , Jan . 4 . —R . Woodkou / se , Esq . M . A ., F . R . S ., Feijow of Cains College , and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics , was yesterday unanimously elected Plumiau Professor of Experimental Philosophy , in the room of the late Arch deacon Vince . The Rev . J . Lon $ -
dale , M . A ., Tutor of King ' s College , » elected Christian Advocate , in the room of the Rev . T . Rennell . The Rev . G . Benson , M . A ,, Fellow of Magdalene College , is continued H Hulsean Lecturer for lege , is continued . ulsean Lecturer tor
the present year . Tjie Hulsean Prize for the jeai- 1 B 21 was / iuj . Monday last ; , ad ^ judged to W . * pK $ L . i , om , & . A ., of P « # fcroke Ilall T : ^ ubjeqf ^ " The ^ pedie ^ to ^^ icht ^ e ^ a ^" eM ^^ PW ^ ^ f ^" ed , in opposing ike mogreas y f . the flP " pel , ;^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/62/
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