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conduct . How those should be dealt with , who denied the sacred writings altogether , is a question beside the purposes qf the present meeting , and one into the consideration of which 1 shall not therefore ? enter . But all those who believe and acknowledge the sacred writings ,
should be embraced and regarded within the palp of Christianity . It is not religion nor charity , but blasphemy against the very nature of religion , for man to persecute his fellow-man for worshiping his God according to the suggestions of his heart and the dictates of his
understanding . It is not piety , but presumptuous arrogance , that prompts those who interfere between man and the dispensation of his Creator ' s mercy towards him . I see many here to-day who differ with nrie , and who differ from each other on very important points of religious belief : and if such difference should be the cause
of mortal enmity between us , what security can there be for human happiness ? If a want of accordance in opinion constitute a ground of persecution of-nature , the best and dearest bond of society must be dissolved and rent asunder . What right has any State to controul the
opinions of its subjects ? The State unquestionably possesses a right to judge of rpen by their conduct , and of opinions by their fruits ; but it has no rational right to infer criminality or impose penalties , for the mere entertainment of
opinions which are locked up in the breast of a man , and cannot be forced from thence , because those opinions may or may not happen to be in exact accordance with the majority who compose the State Itself . This is a state of freedom which
we should have long since reached , but to which we have not yet arrived . Until we sha . ll have arrived at this perfection of freedom , every means should be resorted to and every constitutional
combination be encouraged that can contribute to the accomplishment of an object so just , politic and needful . —The Noble Lord then bowed to the meeting and retired .
^ Thcj meeting again rose and saluted him on hia departure with the most enthusiastic acclamations .
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PARLIAMENTARY . [ We have not been able to keep pace with the debates in Parliament during the Session , and must therefore introduce , as we find room , some gleanings
from such of the debates as affect the great question of religious liberty . On the various topics comprehended in this head , dates are of less consequence than facts and principles . ] Oaths of Supremacy . Revenue Officers . HOUSE OF LORDS , May 25 . The Marquis of Lansdowne said , he rose to move for returns of the Oaths now taken by Excise Officers ; and for any instructions which had been issued on this subject since 1822 . Till a late
period it was constantly held by the Act of Charles II ., that no person should be allowed to take or to hold any office in the Excise r without taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy . But though this was the law , in point of fact , he understood that the Oaths were
practically dispensed with , and that Officers were admitted into the Excise without taking these Oaths . He did not know that any instruction had been given on this subject , but if there had , he should
like to see it . He would therefore move for a return of Excise Officers who had taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy , under the Acts of the 12 th and 15 th of Charles II ., and for any instructions which had been issued on this
subject since 1822 . The Earl of Liverpool did not mean to oppose the motion of the Noble Marquis ; but he rose to explain how the matter stood . By the Acts of the 12 th
and 15 th of Charles II ., all persons , holding office in the Excise , were obliged , before a certain period , to take the oaths of allegiance . In the course of last winter , when the Act passed for consolidating the Customs and Excise of the two
countries , there was a painful apprehension on the part of some of those Officers who had situations under the Excise ) n Ireland , that they would be obliged to take the oaths of supremacy . No regular instructions had been issued on this point , but there was an understanding with his Eight Hon . Friend , the Chau-
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490 Intelligence . —Parliamentary : Oaths of Supremacy .
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List of the Committee for 1824 . Reids . J . Brooksbank ; W- B . Collyer , £ > . D . ; G . CoUison ; F . A . Cox , A . M . ; Thomas Russell , A . M . ; Alexr . Fletcher , A . M . ; R * Hill , A . M . ; F . Jackson : F .
Lewis ; W . Newman , D . D . ; W . F . Platt ; John Townsend , ajrid Matthew Wilka ; D . Allen , Esq . ; J . B . Brown , Esq ., L ] U » D . ; W . Bate man , Esq . ; James Elhiersou , Esq . ; James Esdaile , Esq . ; Thomas Hayter , Esjq . ; J , Pritt , Esq . ;
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W . Townsend , Esq . ; Thomas Wilson , Esq . ; Matthew Wood , Esq ., M . P . Thomas Woutner , Esq . ; Thomas Walker , Esq . ; James Young , Esq . ; Robert Stephen , Esq ., Treasurer ; Thomas Pellatt , Esq ., John Wilks , Esq ., Honorary Secretaries .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/42/
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