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158 Parliamentary Grant . —Cor portion and Test Acts .
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eulogize her Pascals and Fenelons , " of whom the world was not worthy , " though , by precept and example , they instructed the multitude devoutly to ~ " eat their God , " or , in more plausible language , to " receive their Maker . " J . T . RUTT . ¦————^—
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tages under which they still lab our and of which they may justly complain , as members of the civil com , inunity , constitute a numerous and respectable class of his Majesty ' s loyal subjects , in various parts of the British empire . In making this assertion ,. ! fear no contradiction from any who are acquainted with the population of the country . I am read y to allow , that they , as well as persons of every other description , have had , and may still have , their prejudices
and errors ; but I am happy to find , as far as my observation has extended , that liberality of sentiment and just notions of religious liberty are cherished and promoted among them , however they may differ from one another , and from others of their feU low-subjects , with respect to theology or politics , in a greater degree than those who knew them some years ago had reason to expect . I wish there were no limitations to this
general remark . The exceptcd cases , however , are few in number , and , from mistake or malignity , exaggerated in aggravation . To the former cause , with total exclusion of the latter , I ascribe a paragraph , which I was surprised to rind in a letter of the late Mr . Uowe , of Bridport , published in your last number ( pp . 28 , 29 ) . Dr .
J oulmm is reported to have received a letter from . London , informing him that , in order to obstruct and defeat a proposed application of the Catholics for a repeal of the Test laws , the JDissenters , of several classes , wished to waive their petition for redress of this grievance , lest the Catholics should
succeed m their endeavours to obtain emancipation . Less enlightened as the Dissenters then were on the subject of religions liberty than they are now , I will venture to aflinu , that this report was founded on mistake or misrepresentation . J > r . T ., whom 1 well knew , was too honest and liberal to fabricate such a tale ; but he was an
industrious collector of anecdotes , and too ready to receive and record as facts , unauthenticated reports , wliich his correspondent , depending , perhaps , on a newspaper of the day , transmitted to him , as the intelligence of the passing- moment . It is possible , indeed , that some few unenlig htened Dissenters might be hostile to tlic
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Sir , February , 1822 . PTHI 1 E Monthly Repository is now JL become a respectable and valuable publication ; and it owes its reputation , in a great degree , to the attention , assiduity and impartiality that have been exercised on your part , as its principal conductor . It is of little or no consequence what my
opinion may be of the peculiar doctrines which it inclines to favour . These are fit subjects of fair and candid examination ; and as long as every writer or reader is left at liberty to form his own judgment of their truth and importance , the inquiry and discussion , which tire not only allowed
but invited and encouraged , cannot fail , upon the whole , and in the final issue , to be highly advantageous . Although , after mature reflection and long experience , I have not thought that controversial preaching on subjects of mere speculation , indirectly and remotely connected with practice , is calculated to do much good , and 1 have had occasion to observe , in the
course of many years , that it has irritated the passions more than it has enlightened the understanding ; yet subjects of this kind , discussed with judgment and candour , form an useful part of our periodical publications . With this view 1 am anxious to promote the more general diffusion of
the IMoiithly Repository , as it is at present conducted ; which , with regard to the importance and utility of ks disquisitions , and the , liberal plan that is adopted and pursued by those who have the principal direction of it , seems to me to be daily improving , and to merit public patronage and encourairement .
After these preliminary remarks , the view in which I now wish to regard the Monthly Repository is that of a correct and impartial detail of historical facts , relating to Protestant Dissenters . Persons of this description , notwithstanding the disadvan-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1822, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2510/page/30/
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