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    testified their author to be , in the highest sense of the word , a religious character ; but his whole life has been a series of the exercise of Christian virtue and elevated piety . Who would hare believed that a University , within the walls of which the immortal Erasmus

    Roterodaidus once taught , and which had produced such a man as Milton , should ever , and even in the twentieth year of the 19 th century , sink to such a depth of barbarity ! ( Bestialitdt I ) But ' omnia jam / lent , &c . ; and we must not wonder that in this island , as well as on the continent , there should be instances of the existence of dull heads and infected hearts in Universities , when the direction of these institutions is entrusted to the learned corps of freres ignorantins . " — P . 54 . J . Y .

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    Art . II . —Substance of a Speech delivered in St . Andreitfs Hall , Norwick , October 22 , 1829 , at the Jdjourned Meeting of the Reformation Society , With an Appendix , containing Extracts from the Works of Unitarian Writers . By Rev . J . W . Bakewell . Norwich : Bacon and

    Kinnebrook . 1829 . Pp . 32 . A very beautiful chapel , erected by the Jesuits , was opened in Norwich , a few weeks ago , after considerable preparation of the public mind , and with much imposing ceremony , which , however , did not avail to fill the place , the services being very scantily attended . No parlicular curiosity would have been

    excited by the event , had not the ringers of St . Giles ' , ( in which parish the chapel is situated , ) in the hope of being liberally rewarded , distinguished the day by a joyous peal from their bells . The clergy were much scandalized by the exhibition of such a popish spirit , which they supposed to have been encouraged by the magistracy ; and at a public meeting , which was soon after held by the Society for the Conversion of the Jews , the Rev .

    F . Hevan ( an evangelical clergyman ) made a fierce attack upon the Catholics and all who tolerated them , and pledged himself to form a Reformation Society in the city within a few days . He redeemed his pledge ; a meeting being called for the Friday of the same week . There was ( we believe ) but one speaker besides himself , and the audience consisted almost entirely of ladies . There was much prayer , but little of any thing else , except invective against Catholics , Jews , and especially Unitarians ,

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    who were declared to be worse than either . It was agreed that a meeting should be held on Wednesday , October 21 , when a delegate should be brought down from the Parent Reformation Society , aud when a larger audience might be collected from the company assembled for the sessions' week . In the meanwhile , Mr . Sergeant Firth exerted himself to counteract the efforts of the

    Protestant agitators . He declared through the newspapers the illegality of prayer in St . Andrew ' s Hall !—obtained from the Bishop a testimony of disapprobation of the proceedings , and engaged many of the most influential clergy ( who are also the most moderate ) to inculcate a spirit of liberality and peace . The

    meeting was expected to be so stormy that many peaceable inhabitants , whose curiosity was much excited , were deterred by fear from entering the hall : and , in truth , such a scene of tumult has seldom disgraced a religious meeting . The presence of ladies alone restrained the polemical combatants from proceedin-g to blows : and the confusion was an to blows ; and the confusion was so

    great , that the reporters were obliged to give up ail hope of carrying away a correct account of the speeches . The business of the meeting ( assembled for the express purpose of organizing a system of persecution ) was introduced by prayer ; the first attempt at which , however , was interrupted by objections on the part of Mr . Firth ; and the chairman and the

    audience were called up from their knees to listen to an argument concerning the legality of prayer in an unconsecrated place . A Lieutenant Rhind , the delegate from the Parent Reformation Society , was the principal speaker on the first day , and the sentiments which he expressed in the first part of his address , his declarations of the gentle and peaceable spirit of Christianity , were worthy of a better cause , and sounded strangely in the ears of some who conceived that

    his errand had a far different object than the promotion of peace . These sentiments were followed by some of an opposite character—by expressions of horror against the idolatrous Catholics and the " blasphemous Unitarians . " No one took notice of these expressions , and the stigma would have remained , had it not

    been found necessary , late in the afternoon , to adjourn the meeting to the next day . Mr . Bakewell then presented himself to apeak , stating that his object was to remou-strate against the application of the word blasphemous to Unitarians . The tumult ; which his appearance excited was deafening ; but he stood his

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    Crit i cal Notices . 86 I

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 861, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/45/