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Chairman is aware of the alarm this proposal will excite . If a prayer should be offered up , if the mpnitory or consoling language of a ^ Christian minister to surrounding mourners should be heard , Ob ! then the cry would be
loud-sounding that the Church was now in danger , auri that ks antique towers were about to be battered down by violence or undermined by fraud . Lord Liverpool has not , however , discouraged hope as to
redress , and we trust that next Session the Baptists will be relieved from the oppression of which they well complain . Amongst many Miscellaneous topics vie can follow Mr . Wilks in only two or three .
At York , the Secretary to the Archbishop has given much trouble to Mr , Pritchet , an intelligent and highly respectable Dissenter , respecting the
registry of Chapels in that diocese , but the intimation of an application to the Archbishop , or to the superior Courts , has soon supplied a remedy for that complaint .
In many places Dissenters have justly complained that the Poor ' s Rates have been made a mean of persecution . At Wittering , in Leicestershire , a poor man , who had allowed preaching in his cottage , was threatened to be deprived of all assistance . In other places , the same
method has been adopted by persons of high rank to obtain the same result . But the plan adopted by Lord Itolle , in Devonshire , is most decisive , and for the information of all bigots , may be well
revealed . He actually inserts a special provision in his leases , that the lease shall immediately be forfeited if any preaching be allowed ( The lease was produced and the sentence read . ) Oh ! liberal Lord Rolle \ a British Nobleman !
and an old man , too—trembling on the borders of the grave ! Is not he forging fetters to bind posterity ? Is not he planning that the spirit of intolerance shall descend with his estates as an hereditary heir-loom ? Far be such a blot from any other escutcheon ; and even by his successors may the blot be eternally removed !
The Isle of Man presents a theatre for new aggressions . Mr . Dalrymple had there established a private academy and Sunday-school in his own bouse , which the Bishop has attempted ^ to suppress . Every thing relating to that island is involved in mystery . The Bishop claimed
this power under soine old Act of Tynwold , passed in 1705—and said that the Toleration Laws had no operation in the lele of Man ! if that be so , then the Leg islature ought soon to interpose , nor simer that little islet to form a dark s ] # } t uniUumiofrtpd by the light which
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should beam brightly over all regious subject to the British Crown . In Cauada the Catholic religion was the religion of the State . After it became a British Colony , episcopacy was introduced . Presbyterians also became
settlers , and an Act was passed to allow Protestants as well as Catholics to celebrate Marriages , Burials , and Baptisms . Subsequently , several Independent Baptists and Methodists became resident in the Colony , and for . several years their ministers exercised these rights . As
their numbers increased , the Chief Justice refused to grant books to their ministers , and denied their right under the statute . An appeal was made to the Courts of Law , by whom it was decided that Dissenters were not Protestants . The Methodists and Disseuter 3 were
precluded from the rights they had enjoyed ! An act , supported by the Catholics , intended to remedy the evil , has , how * ever , after a second attempt , passed the Legislature of Canada ; but the Attorney General and Chief Justice protested , and
prevented its final adoption , until it should be approved and confirmed by his Majesty ' s Government in England . Under these circumstances , the Canadians have requested this Society to interpose on their behalf : and we trust that our
Government , who know the increasing trade of Canada , who desire its improvement , and who encourage emigration to increase its population and its strength , will not sanction there the introduction of intolerance , which will be more
desolating than fires or inundations , than dreary winter , or American and Indian foes to those improving States . The subject of Registration of Baptisms and Births is a point on which Dissenters and Methodists naturally feel a deep concern . It was Jong supposed
that the registration of Births at Dr . Williams ' s Library , and of a Baptism by a Dissenting minister , was equal evidence of a Birth or Baptism with a Registration of a Baptism in a Parish Register by a minister of the Established
Church . An act , now repealed , that passed and imposed a stamp duty on those registers of births and baptisms by Dissenters , con tinned the hope . But a contrary decision has been pronounced by the Court of Chancery as well as by the Ecclesiastical Courts . Great dismay
has been consequently spread among Dissenting congregations throu g hout the country . That dismay is excessive , since such registers , although not equally availing with parochial registers , may materially assist as evidence in any cases . <" litigated claims . Yet it is highly important that other security should be obtained . Parochial registers , as far as
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3 / 4 rntelligen 4 e . ^ Pmte * tQnt Society : Mr * TFilks ' s Speech .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/58/
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