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This great and glorious measure is proceeding triumphantly , although a most deafening clamour attends every step of its progress . Our next number will , We expect , record its having become the law of the land , and then we may indeed congratulate our country upon taking her proper position among the nations of Europe , Religious equality will then "be the principle of British legislation , and sectarian privilege the exception . Anomalies , numerous and odious , may still remain ; but a fatal blow will have been struck at the root of the tree of intolerance , on which they grow , and they must ultimately wither and perish . Nor can we refrain from fondly cherishing the hope that the spirit of our legislation will tend rapidly-to become that of social intercourse also ; and that the divisions and animosities of sects will
give place to justice , charity , and mutual tolerance . The Relief Bill is really what it professes to be , and scarcely , in any particular , falls short of our wishes , while it far surpasses our hopes . There is a pettiness in so constructing one of its clauses as to prevent O'ConnelPs taking his seat as member for Clare , which might as well have been avoided ; and the prohibiting of a Catholic priest wearing his robes any where but in chapel , is an abridgment of the privileges at present enjoyed by that order , which seems altogether needless and useless . But these are trifling deductions , and the latter , perhaps , merely accidental . The Bill itself , of which an epitome will be found in our journal of parliamentary proceedings , is a noble act of justice , and will be the glory of our Statute-book . It throws wide open the doors of the constitution , and declares that henceforth there is
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that " the best way , " to use the words of Jeremy Taylor , " is to leave tricks and devices , and to fall upon that way which the best ages of the Church did use : with the strength of argument , and allegations of Scripture , and modesty of deportment , and meekness , and charity to the persons of men , they converted misbelievers , stopped the mouths of adversaries , asserted truth , and discountenanced error . And I would fain know why is not any vitious habit as bad or worse than a false opinion ? " Nor do we doubt that the venerable Prelate would have deemed speaking ill of one ' s neighbours a " vitious habit . "
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THE CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL . *
* Catholic State Waggon . London : Cowie and Strange . Pp . 16 . An Appeal to the Plain Sense and Calm Judgment of the People , on the Question commonly called Roman Catholic Emancipation . By One of the People . London : Longman & Co . Pp . 49 . Freedom to Catholics consistent with Safety to the State . By a Protestant . Birmingham : James Drake . Pp . 24 . A few Words in favour of our Roman Cafholic Brethren .- an Address to his Parishioners : by the Rev . Edward Stanley , M . A ., Rector of Alderley . London : J . Ridgway , ami J . Swinnerton , Macclesfield . Pp . 16 . Letter to the Rev . William Thorpe , Republished from the Bristol Mercury , February 17 , 1829 . Bristol : Manchee . Pp . 8 . Report ( takeu from the Caledonian Mercury ) of the Speeches of Sir James W . Moncreiff , Bart ., Dean of Faculty ; Dr . Chalmers , and other distinguished Individuals , at the Meeting held in the Assembly Rooms , on Saturday the 14 th of March , 1829 , in order to Petition Parliament for the Removal of the Disabilities affecting the Roman Catholics . Pp . 24 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/52/
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