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had U 3 » apologize for tJjteir uUrusiopivswd in 4 i $ tinctest language to ^ : iqu ** e regret > Through a statement of pnany clmcrt aggressions on liberal conduct and di * M » h ing rights he would ns $ t p ? OQ $ Q $ . In Oxfordshire , he . f < w » 4 * clergyman , brother to a noble Earl , j ^^ jTG ^^ &erv ^ ing a notice from a . landlady to a cottage .
to quit her home ; because she woi * l& uo $ close the doors , against the I ) isseiUiug minister , whose visits he forbade * < 8 gfc ~ Sills , to bury also had beeji renewed * la two case ? the Committee hacj interfered successfully ; in one case they could not interfere ; au 4 int . the remaining two , jtfce results of their interference were yet uar
known . At &qrtland , in North Devon , the Bey * IVJr . Cuanteh hail refused to bury the . UN&wtt o / a Jabpurer , He had acknowledged , to the Wesleian preacher and the father , his error and coropunc ? tion . The happiest effects had recorar pensed the interference ; ~ haughtiness had become good-will , gall was converted
into the bland milk of kindness , and the poor and pariah * delighted by his new ci » vility to the Dissenting minister , offered their praises and their prayers for the , d& * tant and unknown instruments of this benign but mysterious change . . At < dber *> gavillif , in Wates . also ,. the Rev . Mr . Mort
oan had made js * similar refusal . There , his lady had been unwisely prominent , She could not endure that " Mr . Morgan should he a servant to bury children baptized by every body / ' " Pride goeth be * fore destruction ^—the h aughty spiri t e £
fects a fall . " This lady learnt that the law was the master of her master , find had tp read and digest with what appetite she might , an acknowledgment that the service ought not to have been neg * lected , and a promise that it should here * after be performed .
In Hampshire , and at JVestbowrne * that success against the . refusal of tjie Rev » . G . Tatt&rshall could , not be obtained . The parents of the departed infant were conscientious Baptists ; therefore the cler ^ gyman might lawfully withhold the rites of sepulture .
The remaining cases were aj Cucfyield , Sussex \ and at Colerne , in the county of IVtfts . The first evinced the Infectious influence of power ; as , there a youthful clergyman of liberal education and gen « - tlemanly manners had allowed himself , at the instigation of a rector ' s widow M aod interested parish-clerk , to out ^ herod , e « -
rod in the assertion of a right to refuse admittance of a corpse to the church ,-and to curtail the service which the rubric had enjoined . The latter was marked by circumstances of such great aggression ^ ( and which were well detailed *) that pro * aecutiou must result , if . concession jdid
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not Hitermie * J » neither ] C ? m HffrPl ^ decision of the clergyman reqfive ^^ i » 4 thh Ce >«» f »^ lw remained desirous X& 4 W * te ^ jd the oUvebcanch of peac ^ , TmfeMfc afraid , at the command of jratice * thofigb slow and . unw ^ Uing , to unsheatb t ^ sword of defensive vmt ; 4 n both ca « ea great mis had qdueed yet greater goo 4 of
Ti ^ ftrmiraa Mr , Bee at iCmsfc&d 4 » who carried his child to Ryegate for ilkterment , rather than sanction a | mbiic wrong , deserved public hanour . lo Wiltshire , the 000 of Mr . Mrt and an excellent friend at Bath , had dfeplaye 4 calmness , decision and ( Ksdain of trouble
worthy of ^ befe father and instructor * and of the noblest cause ; whilst every good Churchman and the observant villagers bkished or joyed at these measures a « d defeats , and mauy withdrew , fearful , frqm a church , which * those measures were adapted to uphold .
But a refusal of -marriage as well as of interment had occurred . JLlandygwning in Caernarvonshire , witnessed the half comic and : bajf tragic deed * The Re ? a . John , Hughes was , the clergyman * ami Thomas Evans ani Catharinjb Jon ** the bridegroom and the bride . The
bridegroom wap a Baptist , and was deem * ed by the minister so thoroughly vmchris ^ tian , that marriage with hioi no feinale could properly contract . He therefore insisted that , before the Sacrament of Marriage was bestowed , the Sacrament of Baptism should be applied . The blushing maiden looked the entreaties she
might not utter . The disappointed brider groom was more loudly urgent * The friends , the parents and fair daraseb * all full of hope and innocent festivity , were astounded aod appaltad * It was as a blighting wiud deadening the blossojn& of bliss . > Vhp would have bee i * that blighter , that had a manly or a Christian heart ? The curate was inflexible . Rhar
damanthus had not more iron nerves . Smiles , blushes , tears , remonstrances , all were va , in- He musi , have lived a batr chelor : an old bachelor he deserved to die I As to the poor bridegroom , why at last he yielded . But did ever a martyr have such temptations ?
[\ Ve regret that we must defer to the ne ^ t Number the co nclusion of Mr . Wilks > speech , together with some o £ the Resjolutious of the Society , and Lord JoJm . BusselTs admirable address J
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^^^^^^ WH ^^ jP ^^^^^^^^^^ ' A Legal . Trial of Mr * . W + ight . . On Monday , July 8 , 1822 , came on in the Court of Kings Bench , at Guildhall , before the Lorxl Cbkf Justice < Abbot ) and a special Jtii * yv 4 && ' trial of SusanhaIi Whight ^ for publishing in Richahd Car-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 645, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/61/
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