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answer of the present Earl to this address corrveys very wholesome and necessary advice to the Irish Gatholics , for the future management © f their cause . It comes , too , from a nobleman who mixes little in the politics of the hour , and whose advice must be considered as
disinterested as it is sagacious . The Earl of Donoughmore , in that part of his answer to which we allude , says , " Your call for the repeal of the restrictions which still affect you , may be ldud , unanimous and unceasing ; but allow me to express a hope that it will be made with
that moderation which becomes the justice of your cause , which will deprive misrepresentation of its most formidable weapons , and reconcile many just and upright men to you , who , from the effects of early habit and education , now look upon all your proceedings with
jealousy and suspicion . Convince such men that they have nothing to apprehend , and that their fears are imaginary—the contest is over—the battle is won—your triumph is certain . You have been destined to live in most enlightened times , when it is impossible for any alliance ,
holy or unholy , to prevent the spread of knowledge , and the amelioration of the condition of man , or to prevent the progress of human affairs towards rational liberty , civil , political and religious . It is your good fortune to be united , I trust with indissoluble ties , with a great , a just , and a reasoning people , amongst
whom liberal principles of every kind continue hourly and daily to gain strength . Convince their reason , cultivate their good opinion and affections , and you will not have long to complain that you are not placed on the footing of other subjects . In my opinion your cause is in your own keeping— -nobody can ultimately defeat it but yourselves . "
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Long arm of a Scotch Presbytery . — Another instance of Scottish Ecclesiastical interference in England lias come before the public . Mr . Thom was licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of Glasgow to a Scotch" Church in Rodney Street , Liverpool . Complaints have been lately
lodged against him for preaching false doctrine , that is , as far as we understand the complaints , high Calvinism . The Presbytery having examined the matter , have declared the charges found , and
have accordingly deprived Mr . Thom of hia ministry in the above church : they tell him , however , for his comfort , that their finding does not affect his character us / a man , nor hinder him from being a minister of the Church of Scotland . In other words , he has only to repent of preaching what he believes to be ihe true
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doctrine of the Church of Scotland , tc ? which he and the Presbytery are equally bound , and to preach what he consider * to be error , and then he maybe reinstated * This priestly meddling with opinions is ridiculous ; but Mr . Thom has no reason , to complain , for as a member of the Church of Scotland he is supposed
to hold such meddling to be right . Our opinions are probably nearer to those of the Presbytery than to those preached by the deprived minister ; we cannot , how * ever , help pitying his case , and hoping that in the next religious conuexion he may form , he will not give his assent to a system of rule under which a preacher may be punished for his Christian
integrity . The moral of the story is , that Church Establishments are radically evil : it is still a hopeful sign of the times that Church Power cannot now be exercised to the hurt of an individual without exciting public indignation and leading many to scrutinize the grounds of ecclesiastical claims and to dee spiritual tyranny and to embrace the principle of Universal and equal religious liberty . —We had Written thus far wheti we read in the
newspapers that the friends of Mr . Thorn have had a meeting and resolved to erect a chapel for him . In this way , the intolerance of Established Churches multiplies Dissenters ; a good effect , we should say , from an evil cause .
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Lord Byron ' s Monument . An elegant Grecian Tablet of white marble has lately been placed in the Chancel of Hucknal Church , Nottinghamshire . We subjoin a copy of the inscription : —
In the vault beneath , Where many of the Ancestors of his Mother are buried , Lie the remains of George Gordon Noel 6 yron , Lord Byron , Of Rochdale , in the county of Lancaster ,
The author of " Childe Harold ' s Pilgrimage , " He was born in London , on the 22 d January , 1788 ; He died at Missolonghi , in Western Greece On the 19 th April , 1824 , JEngaged in the glorious attempt to
restore that country to her ancient freedom and renown . His Sister , The Honourable Augusta Maria Leigh , Placed this tablet to his memory .
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' 54 Intelligence .- * Lord Byron ' s Monument .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/50/
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