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« To the RigH Honourable Lord Viscount Goderich , Sfc . 8 fc . 8 fc . i , the Committee of Deputies from the Congregations of Protestant Dissenters in and about London , appointed to protect their civil rights , who , on several occasions , have been calied ~ on ~ to 4 ay"before ~ his ' ~ Majesty"s
Government complaints of infringements attempted by the Assembly of Jamaica on the religious liberty secured by law to persons dissenting from the established Church , desire gratefully to acknowledge the kind
and prompt attention which has always been paid to our applications , and the appropriate redress granted by withholding his Majesty's assent to such Acts of that Assembly , by which they became of no effect .
* On the general question of Colonial Slavery , however acutely we may feel , we shall not at this moment obtrude our sentiments upon your Lordship ; but the very object of our original appointment suggests to us that the most important and acceptable service which we can render to
those whose interests are intrusted to our care , is the exertion of our most strenuous endeavours to preserve inviolate and unimpaired those rights and privileges which great multitudes of our brethren cherish as their dearest possession . It is ,
therefore , though not without deep regret , that we . feel putselyes constrained to request your Lordship's most serious attention to the late outrageous proceedings in Jamaica . In that Island lawless mobs have not only been guilty of ordinary tumults , but have rioted to the destruction of
very considerable property , have assaulted the persons * and threatened the lives of many peaceful inhabitants , unoffending against any law , and accused only by ignorant and furious clamours , devoid of any just foundation . Nor is this all ; these "violences have been countenanced * if not instigated , by some whose bounden , duty it was to hay © crushed them
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with all possible speed : and thus , as it would seem , the guilty parties , emboldened by such coadjutors , and by the hope of impunity , have ventured on further excesses , no less absurd than criminal , have taken on themselves to supersede the law atid the constitution , and to dictate ,
by their own assumed authority , who shall or shall not be permitted to reside in the Dependencies , and under the Government of Great Britain ; and conspiracies have been organized to effect a purpose , which we humbly conceive to be but little , if at all , short of rebellion , particularly
as connected with and interpreted by language inciting to every species of private and public outrage , professing their determination to carry their object at the risk of their lives . ' Again , begging to disclaim any intention of exceeding pur commission , by entering into the political
questions now afloat with the Colony , we , nevertheless , in the name and on the behalf of many , many-thousands of our loyal and peaceable brethren , do humbly but most earnestly entreat the much-needed protection of his Majesty ' s Government
against the savage violence of men acting either singly or in concert , by whom that Government itself has been caluhiniated , insulted , defied , and , to the extent of impotent threats , abjured . < Iiqndo *! , . 13 t . li KTp . v , 1832 , '
In the conference with Lord Goderich his Lordship expressed the full determination of Government to pursue the same line of policy whieh they had hitherto adopted , and to protect the Missionaries in every way compatible with the existing laws . Your Committee have anxiously
watched for a favourable opportunity of bringing forward the subject of the Marriage Law , with a view to obtain relief from the obligation of celebrating Marriage according to the form prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer , which Dissenters jn general have long considered as a
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... UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . . 59
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/27/
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