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or tiwrt engine , O&ce fairly at work , wilt drive it forth with a force that millions of bigots cannot long withstand- Thus , m a few years' discussion , the Prea « has done much to destroy idolatry , polytheism , priestcraft and oppression—the growth of thirty centuries ; while the seymetar of the Mahomedan , and the torments and
fires of the Inquisition , could only serve to confirm the Hindoos in their fooleries and cruel superstition . God grant that the Cortes of Portugal * wbich in its great piety and wisdom has abolished the Inquisition , ipay also abolish the Censorship at
Goa . De Lolme has happily said , " Que si dans un empire d' orient , il se trouvoit un sanctuaire qui , rendu respectable par Pancienne religion des peuples , procurfit la surety -k ceux qui y porteroient leurs observations quelconques ; que de 1 & sortissent des
linprimes que P apposition d ' un certain sceaut fit pareillement respecter , et qua , dans leurs apparitions journalitres , examinassent et qualifiassent Ubrement la conduite des Cadis , des Bachas , des Viairs , du Divan et du Sultan lui-m ^ me ; cel a y introduiroit tout de suite de la Ubert £ . "
May a Free Press , through your instrumentality , find in the old Inquisition-house at Goa this sanctuary ! And , as the sun by its vital heat animates the world , so may this fountain qf intellectual light spread far its lucid rays , and give life to oppressed Asia !
I have the honour , Sir , to subscribe myself , Your moat devoted aervunt , LEICESTER STANHOPE , To — _ , Jfyeputy of the Corte * , Lisbon , SfC . SfC . Sfc .
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418 Mr . Gtibume * * <*«* .
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Mr . Gisburne * s Case . fTHHE attention of the readers of JL the Monthly Repository \ % respectfully , but most earnestly , solicited to the distressin g case of the Rev . J . Giaburne apd \ n \ $ family , who ,
lw a sudden stroke of overwhelming affliction , are plunged in absolute poverty and misery , without having- the means of extricating or relieving themselves . Mr . Gisburnewgs formerly the Unitarian Minister at Soham , in Cam-
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bridgeshire : and naaivy of our r ^ jMkrs will remember , tbat , whiUt he resided in that place , a prosecution vra& com . menced against him , by a few Calvin is ts , for heresy , under the Blasphemy Act ; which prosecution wag qpasheu ,
and the bigotry and intolerance of its abettors defeated , by the Grand Jury at Cambridge throwing out the Ibill of indictment . FSee a pamphlet entitled * ' Bigotry ana Intolerance Defeated /' by the Rev . R . Aapland /] ta the year 1812 , Mr- Gisburne removed to
Trowbridge , from which time he has continued the minister of the Unitarian General Baptist congregation in that town . On the 10 th day of last March , he was totally disabled for the
ministry , and every other employment , though only in his 46 th year , by a paralytic stroke , which has deprived him of the power of articulation , and injured his mental faculties , as well
as otherwise affected him . Through the kind exertions of a liberal gentleman belonging to the congregation , Mr . Gisburne has had the best medical aid which could be obtained , and every thing practicable has been done
for his relief ; but all has proved fruitless ; ho hope of his recovery can be entertained y yet his life may be continued for a number of years . It was thought prudent to wait till these points were fully ascertained before
the case should be submitted to the attention of the Unitarian public . What renders this so great a calamity is , that Mr . Gisburne has eight children dependent on him for their support , none of them yet capable of providing for themselves , one of them born since
he had the fatal stroke , and he is without any property . Such a case of dreadful calamity , overwhelming a Dissenting Minister and his family , one who has laboured in the ministry for many years , speaks so loudly and impressively for itself , that , it is
presumed , no argument can be necessary to enforce it upon the attention of the truly benevolent y it must excite their compassion ^ and they are so licited to afford such $ id to $ suffering brother and hia greatly distressed family , as
may bs in their powar i remem benug that we are all In the body , that we kuaw not what affliction * u > f * y befal us before we end our mortal race , and that what we do for the comfort and support o { the » ow bre * hw »< * rf *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/26/
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