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whin buildlnp wird b Ms munificence, and by him dedicated to the serene of. the In the city of Westminster that °MUMMY mipsaillal dams thousand pounds in bit I ling Craven Mapi, sod rehesed so receive one shilling of interest for the ma ea sapandail; end he was satisfied to receive back his massy by slims of lifln cars Samar& Vet this chapel was to be tarsi, wig ebb eattilmeme Ph. Wilma) was to be mesidered the he none i hdol umailif t elf • ihmpnl hem which he never received one farthing J awl ea whim& hid 'spaded a ram of 11.0001. lit dm pad& ma" sad Mess Ma mimpeakm ; little did we roam ft atom Maya espimass•Jamism and Peers and Mem bers of Paelimemal, pre they rem *Mu mid there was Counsel 100 ; but the empeed re mile puepasa, allhaash they argued for a king time. It appeared that as mew heilareamal ; I shall not say what the error was, as is is sot eallksly Hest It may occur again, —but for that year it was dockied OM lir. Wilson was not to pay the rate. It was eabsesseedy decided by the hairy that the chapel was Mt ea bit nisi I apirmall aitaiwt priies of my subject. Disclaim= hammers remetal-Aletwebesiess that are described by the Qatrrevist ItiglNl aritellbasim adirimm At El.tesil. near }Arnhem, in Semsy, maihr emeresmadeahm af Lord Middleton. a prosecution was marmenl wines mead pantos for disturbing a congregation • but awed tell you that there still exits a great spirit of in mien:nee eiessiA, among the clergy, &moo g the gentry, and among the hemenst mai aped I tell you how difficult it is for us to obtain tilt iodise whisk if we were the aggressors, would flow in abuodasse if Illstallibmanding the circumstances of the ease, and the emeeranumlatisa slishe Noble Lord to whom I have alluded, the Grand Juryy . dm bills of indictment, and the offenders escaped wept ed. At Brieham in Devonshire, at Banstead in Surrey, at lirentford in Middlesex. at Woodstock, • place once celebrated for the most outrageous conduct, and at Swindon, in Wlltshire, disturbances have still existed, but not to any such vehement degree as to render it necessary to do anything but prose cute the Abodes+ at the Quarter Sessions, and thus to bring them to reason. A cane however has occurred, of which I find some difficulty in speaking, and which it would be difficult to omit. It is • case of out-door preaching. The aggressor on this *cession was, I regret to say it, a minister of that religion whose every law is love. Mr CLAY& is a elseproan with whom the Society has heretofore found it necessary to inter fere. He is a man of wealth, a Rector, a posmisor of three livings, a Magistrate, sad a Lord of the Manor. Every one krows that such a man possesses great influence, if be choose to exert that in- Suence to beneficial purposes; but every one also knows that such . a perso .if he exerts his power iu opposition to that which is wise aadgood, its an antagonist wttb whom it is fearful to contend. He had formerly refused to perform the burial service over the child of a dissenter; we inter:teed, and compelled him to apologise for his conduct. But the case to which lam about to refer is one of a different nature—it occurred at Kenneridge, in Doesetshire. A methodist preacher preached to a number of people one Sunday afternoon. in the open air. Mr. Clavell approached this man ; a respectable man, according to the testimony of many persons in Dorsetsltire, and commanded him to desist. The preacher took no notice of the command, and proceeded to read his text. The clergyman then commanded his tithing man to stop him, but there was something of the English character in this tithing man, and he hesitated to attack a man who misdoing no harm, who wax sti mulating no one to disturbance, and whose words breathed nothing but" peace and Road will ;" his habits of obedience, however, got the better of his judgment, and he made a prisonerof this unhappy ran. The man then asked what harm he was doing, and the Clergyman and the 1110103 watt forgot the gentleman, and struck this poor mon with a suck ; he was then locked up all night, and remained in confinement until he found security to appear at the Quarter Sessions. But Mr.Clavell was better advised than to appear with such • cause in a Court of Justice. Be knew that the man had not violated the laws, and that he had no right to apprehend )10, or, having apprehended him, to use such blond force. Mr. Claveli never appeared in a Court of Justice before a Jury of EnK lishmen ; lie dared not show his brow, and the man returned to his home, with the sati.faction of having triumphed over his oppressor. I feel it neceraary, however, on the subject of out-door preaching, to remark, that nothing but necessity should warrant it, while places of worship are so easily and so many are already' registered. a man were indicted for stopping the highway by asaemling and lumber of persons for the purpose of presetting to them, I have no doubt he would be punished, and I think that in justice he might be so; but it was never yet intended to declare that out-door preaching, when not on the highway, was a breach of the peace. Indeed, the very phrase denies it, for how could a breach of the peace be committed by such persons, assembled for such a purr one ? Where then is the harm, if, like our ancestors, we worship Chid under the canopy of Heaven, ...lib no carpet but the green carpet of nature, when the birds sing joyously around us, and the harmony that pervades every thing is echoed by the joy of the thankful and rhe grateful heart ? This case was once tried when the fate of England hung as it were in a balance—when he, who win the advocate of freedom, struggled against the tide of oppression sad succesafelly stemmed it—a tide that was sufficiently strong to have,borne away an' man of common mind. Penn, the immortal Penn, was arrested and taken to the Old Bailey, and tried for such a breach of the peace. It is a memorable circumstance, as it showed how flagrantly Judges could then act, and it showed the courage of an English jury—and long may English juries continue to keep us safe in freedom, in piety, and in bliss. With him the experiment was tried, with him who was afterwards the father of religious freedom in America. Mid with him the cape. rigtent failed. Surely we will not hand down our privileges to our chili= awe impaled than they did to theirs in those perilous times. Oh that a period would conic when I could stand up belbee this Society, and say I have nothing to report. NYhen Bishops and when clergymen would have ceased to leave their high occupations to become oppressors of the week, I had honed that Christian pastors at least would not have warred with the dead ; I had hoped that the spirit of despiable aggression, even if it could' not be laid, would not have shown itself in so more than despicable a manner. But no ; it is the sail privilege of evil spirits, that they cannot be restrained, that they forget their impotence in their anxiety to do evil. Instances have again occurred in which clergy. men of the Established Church have refused to bury the dead. In one case the child of • poor man was refused interment, and the father was obliged to carry it six miles before it could be laid at rest in its mother earth. Oh ! what would be my feelings if I thought that when existence was at an end, the mandate of some clergyman should prevent me from sleeping where my fathers sleep—that my home could not be where their ashes rest, and that the turf that lies over them could never lie over MC ? IS it no grievance, [disk those Quarterly Reviewers, is it no evil tobeliabie to such treatment ? Are me Dissenter% men? have we not all the same flesh and blood? "If they prick us, do we not bleed ? if they tickle us, do we not laugh ? if they poison us, do we not die ?" When the child is take for interment six miles from where his mother lies and his father dwells, shall it be called a " little wrong ?" Oh, it is no " little wrong," that which makes the tears flow down the father's cheek and deeply wound and agonise a mothet's heart. At Cats held, I n Sussex, near Hastings, and in Hastings itself, such acts of inftrag have been committed. Never again can I enter that town with Me feelings I once entered it; never will its sea breeze fan with such sweetness my heated brow, because I never can forget the lanes that than took place—that there the Dissenters were wounded where they felt most nearly. In these two places. Cats. field and Hastings, Clergymen refused to Dissenters the rite* of bnriaL And under what circumstances did such refusals take lace.' Why, at the moment when the mourners had assembled Lend the intended grave—when the bell had tolled—when all the rand prep:au:one had been passed through, and the time was come —the tearible tone to the hearts of the father and of the mother— Es time when the earth was to fall heavily upon the being that a:lee:ton had endeared, and when those who stood by needed all the eeitsolatiens that religion could supply;--at this moment the (ler. te:. inat eaters, but appears only to give pain to the mourners, and agony to the mother, and to rouse indignation in the father's heart, by tellirg them that he could not inter the child of a dissenter. lie bide them go elsewhere, for here the child of a dissenter cannot r st. At Cataticld. after this manner. a poor man was obliged to go - l seek a home for his child at Hastings, eleven miles from the I .iie of its birth. But in this instance the Clergyman next day found he had acted wrong; he discovered that he hod no right to do as he had done, hut by that time the father had been to II wings, had prepared the gerund to inter his child, and had decided on the ointi,e he was to pursue. But all that he said or did was to write : . the Bishop of l•hicheater. stating the circumstance, and request re him to explain to all his Clergymen that the conduct adopted by this particular one was neither consistent with Christianity, the lefts Of the 'country, nor the true interests of the Established Church. Such was the conduct pursued by the Rev. James Caralet, towards the child of Thomas West, and such was the conduct pursued by Thomas iVest emeriti the Rev. James Owlet. At Slevagotsy, in the county of Cornwall, the Her. Ale. Ascot, the Rector, did what, I believe, the Clergymen are entitled to do. Ile refused to allow the corpse of a Dissenter to be brought within be church, and therefore read the burial arty ice in the open ale, but in consequence of which he read only a part of that set vice, and oniiteil the most beautiful portion of it. I fear that such a power as this does exit i , and I only deplore the spirit that has given it ex istence. It is not by persecution, it is not by such acts of wretched aggression that the Ministers of the Church of England can either strengthen their own rause, or put down that of those to whom they are adverse. No, in England there is a feeling that turns against the persecutor, that will not tamely permit the toot of a tyrant to tread upon the neck. Would not many, on hearing of such acts, r. won this--there is in them something not consistent with the spirit of Christianity—with the dictates of the Neve Testament.— and if such ho the conduct of the Church of England, I Call turn and seek for quiet and fur happiness in other homes. There are other Important circumstances that hear , required the interference of the Society. Among the rest is 1 that which relates to the qualifications of Inssenten to serve on Juries. Two cases of this nature have called fur our interference— one occurred in Cornwall, the other iu the county of Carnation. The Act declares, that no minister of any congregation shall be liable to serve on Juries, unless, indeed, he tills some other situ. anon ; an, then it is just that he should give the public a portion of that time which is not fully occupied by his religious duties. In one af those cases, the gentleman did not follow any other occu pation, and'therefore he WAS declared exempt; but in the other case. the person did, and he was consequently entitled so to wive. An other subject is. that of the liability of Dissenting Clergymen to be drawn for the militia. A gentleman of the name of Richard W•hit mire was employed by a Devonshire religious society, to officiate at Broadham, and he was chosen for the militia. Mr. Terrell, • highly yes, actable attorney, of Exeter, who 1.1111 frequently done much service to our cause, wrote to me on the suhject, and i, in reply, stated to hint how the law stood—that although this gentleman was not the minister of any distinct congregation, he was, notwithstaud -Ine. exempt. This opinion was submitted to the bowl Lieutenant of the County, who submitted it to the Secretary of War, who. in vain, submitted it to the Privy Courcil, and the result was, that Mr. %Vititmore was entitled to he exempted, and the exemption was consequently allowed. Another case has oxurrtal, to which 1 THE BRITISH PRESS. • feel it necessary to refer ; and this eau is rendered important by the 'etizrants in his life. Thus then were these unhappy men etesmd. interposition of a Bishop, rather than by sly intrinsic merit of in I at' to the gaol at Ayleebury, without evew being apprised thit they own. It occurred in the town of Welling mrough, in Northam's- ware entitled to appeal, or that they might be held to bail t there tonshire. and - relates to the tolling of a bell. I confess I approach th ty were confined for a whole month, in common with the basest this subject with somewhat of amusement, blended with intermit. I te one ; amongst convicted thievesof the most abandoned character will not now go into the history of bells, from theirearliest intro- i nay, more, they were sentenced to the tread-mill, and kept at duction into England ; nor is it necessary to explain to you, that ' had labour there, though during the time one of them was afflicted on the Continent bells have been of so much importance, that with spitting of blood. Their papers were seised upon I their md. . Kings have attended at their consecration to godfather them. They nett was taken from them, and by means of it the expenses of send. donut now possess the charms they possessed in the darker ages; ing them to prison were defrayed. So soon as my excellent friend. 1 for then, at their sound, the spirits of darkness fled away, and on the eldest son of the Karl of Carrington. hearth of this piece of es them depended whether the thunder-cloud should burst, or pass off clesiastical tyranny, he that moment rode twenty miles across is to a distant hamlet. Those times of bigotry and superstition are no Aylesbury, determined that, in his county at least, no oppresses, more, and no such power is attached to the sound of die passing . should be practised with impunity. He went immediately to the bell; but the kindly part of the ceremony still exists, and in most Attorney who had been employed; he used every exertion that places, when Dissenters pass away from this scene of turmoil was possible, though without being able then to ••assa skit Alma and of bustle, the bell toils, and lulls some of the agonised feelings tion, but he was determined that, if possible, it mew deishilbe a the hearts that remain. To the parish of Welliegborough, said that in his county tyranny should go unpunished. lamsdleedy however, came a clergyman of the name of Wilson, who thought on my being made acquainted with the case, 1 sent a person down proper to interfere with the usage of sixty years, and to issue his to Aylesbury to investigate the circumstances, and my intention, 'orders that no bell should toll when a Dissenter expired. The under advice, was to apply to the Court of King's Bench for a writ Canon provided diet there should be four ringing/ of the bell—one of Habeas Corpus. 11 hen Alt. Lowndes discovered that we were before death, one on death, one at the burial, and one after the determined to resist, and likely to resist with success, he let pm burial. In the partictilar case to which I allude, the Dissenter was dunce take the place of passion — he let the men out of gaol—he, the interred in the Dissenters' burial ground, and therefore there might committing alagistrate, having power to do so. It was long before have been some colouring for the refusal to toll the bell. But this their papers were returned to them, and as to their money they clergyman stepped forward, and in a letter, a copy of which I have never received a shilling of it front that time to the present— hold in my hand, declared that when he came to the curacy be had yet all this, Gentlemen, has been perpetrated in England—in resolved never to permit the bell to be rung on the death of a Dis- Bucks—not in the remote district* of Wales or of Cumberland, center, whether that Dissenter was buried in his own or the church but within a short &Mace of London ; and yet for any interference ground ; nor would he permit this bell to be rung cm the marriage in such a flagrant caner this, lam called a meddling attorney ! Con. of a Dissenter : yet they compel a Dissenter to go there to be mar. mast what has been eye redact under existing circumstances with vied • and at the moment when all is festivity and joy, when man what would probably have lam theirs had they been placed in our vi. should he cheated of his " troublous thought," when all the dowers tuition. Contrastererfflebserenea with their uncompromising severity. should be collected and bound with the times and the myrtle in one Observe how they overbore and preaeribe the timid and the weak, wreath—at such a time this deputy of Ithadamanthus would but Low silent and subdued ete they when confronted with those turbid the merry bell to ring, because a Dissenter was about to be who undermend their own rights., and are determined to vindicate married. In this instance en appeal was made to the Bishop of them. When lino the committal of Mr. Lowndes came to be ques. Peterborough, who wrote a long letter on the subject, and de- Honed, the Establishment took a high tone—their conduct was net tended the conduct of this aVellingborough curate. I have taken to be animadverted on—all that they did was to be regarded en the opinion of some eminent men on this question, and I find that sacred,—the lustre of their high name was not to be sullied by the the right of a Dissenter to the two first ringing. is utiautationable, disgrace of a prosecution. Therpubscribed—largely subscribed is but that it is not so clear as to the two latter. Yet we contribute to escape the threatened danger. They. *moth I would not Mow rear those edifices, we pay tithes, and to their churches we must Mr. Marshall to be prosecuted. Bet • short time sufficed to mods. attend to be baptised, and there too we must attend to be mirried, rate their haughty tone: they we - ' unless we ore satisfied to live in a state which 1 would by no means terms we were willing to let 11, recommend—a state of cheerless celibacy . and in their church. us to forego the triumph which yards too, unless we happen to have one of our own, we must de. never was an occasion that would posit the ashes of those we hold most dear; and yet they would overweening or vindictive spirit. withhold from us that public token of esteem which they would we desired a triumph, we could not withhold from the most worthless( or most base. I have and decisive manlier. But such s.. stated the (minion I have procured to be that the Dissenters are set our enemies a living example certainly entitled to the two first ringirgs mentioned in the Canon, was unknown to them. Y -- but that it is not equally certain as to the two teat. Now in on the side of lenity, and a Court of Justice it is difficult to say how the question would indulgence to those who had go, bemuse there is nothing connected with us in which Ministees sure of harshness and severity of the Established Church would not interfere. But if the will of to imitate their evil example, a Clergyman is to be the law, and on his dichim is to deseend terms which you perhaps will t whether or not the death of a parishioner is to be declared by from them no more than a publ,. the tolling of the church bell—l say, that if the proadest and the amount of the expenses incurred, the best Peer in the country seek to be buried in the chapel of his viands to be paid to the parties in:- ancestors, it will be in the power of any Clergyman to refuse to will be satisfied—that you will ' hint the tolling of this bell. It becomes the duty of the Legis. mated by a hymni-like spirit t lature to watch narrowly such pro:ceilings as those to which and undistinguishing appetite. I allude, and not to suffer the addition of one fragment of the lion, who, conscious of vu to the power those people are so desirous to extend. I ostentatious display of it. Wise have now to notice another circumstance; it is one in which a forgot not the Christian princii father applied for parochial relief for his child ;he was a Dissenter, The public apology made by the and he was therefore told that unless his sick child went to the Wilke then read frosts the Bucks workhouse, no relief would be afforded him. The child was sick, Wm. Marshall, which, after - and the mother could not bear to part with her pale and sickly MI- and imprisonment of Horner. spring from her side, while in the bosom of the hither there was a writer acted under the influence 'park of honest English independence and good feeling, which regretted the consequences of shrunk from the idea of permitting his boy to become the inmate of ing in Bucks, I detailed to the a parish workhouse. He retained the child, and he struggled on and excellent condutt of the •• through his misfortunes without the aid which his parish ought to most truly told them. that it • have afforded him. Ile was it is trues poor man, and a very hum. crowd to the hustings in his sub ble nee, but I can tell those who rejected his petition, that it is have votes for that county, 11'e the heart and not the habiliments that make the man, and I would and to enjoin you to act under rather have had the feelings of that obscure individual than those wards this young Nobleman, of Kings and Princes who have stalked to thrones through seas of does, fill the breasts of all who , blood. There are some other subjects to which I must now allude. 'f here is one other circumstance 01 e gentleman has applied for advice to this Society from a place is of considerable imttortance, eta distant a. Malta, and thus the Society has become there known. cannot allude to it without as. But from the West Indies, and from Canada, where, amid blished Church should have sO . eternal frosts and lengthened wastes, the demon of Superstition them had affected to doubt whether rears its head, to us persons have come appealing for justice. were entitled to be married in 0- The case lam alluding to is that of Lieutenant Dawson, a gentle- able case occurred at Langan, man of high character and conn who had been in the army parish, David David, was to from his earliest days, and who had fonght the battles of his belonged to the Society of Rapti country in many $ land. In the year 1821 he was stationed at celebration of the marriage the Malta. I have stated that he was • man of family anti of character, Another for the time filled 1 but above all ke MSS a man of principle, and he held the dictates banns had been previously of his conscience superior to every other mandate. He was directed thought proper to intimate I on a particular day, a day of festivity, dedicated to the patron none to which the individual saint of the island (for though Malta is under British dominion it no objection. The father of is a Catholic country, and there Catholics enjoy, and they ought to some difficulty existed on a enjoy, the free exercise of their religious rites and ceremonies,) to brought up ma Baptitt,waited pay a salute to the procession of this saint as it passed by. I, who ascertaining his unentions. seek for toleration, or rather I, who lea h toleration and seek for home, he happened only to liberty, complain that a Gentleman, a Protestant, who, with the upon the occasion, gave it a conscience of a member of the Church of England, read in its deny marriage is en nobantised homilies, and finding there that many of the ceremonies of the custom still prevails, one which Roman Catholic Church is idolatry, should have been cost. among the Germans of his de mended to cause the bells to ring, and a salute to be fired, wedding of all the inhabitants because a procession moved upon the day dedicated to the is called a bidding, and loin patron Saint. With this order Mr. Dawson declined to comply, and secret way in which and his Captain also refused ; the Mnjor who commanded amongst the upper ranks in t did not insist on their compliance, but gave the order in their tab. which I have seen, the neighbm sense, and the bells were rung and the salute was fired. lie gave are at the same time request( in to the scruples of those men who had bared their bosoms and offerings of butter and cheese. had fought when England waged a war with her enemies. The wedding of David Davide Lieutenant and the Captain were however summoned before a neighbours wets assembled Court-martial, the President of which was a Roman Catholic; they happy occasion. They were were found guilty, and the sentence was costumed by the Judge alt was gladruss anl delight— t. Advocate at home. The Lieutenant and the Captain were both c one winding down the mountain cashiered, and the Major was severely censured for his lenity. It fond remllections to the days of • seems then, that in performing his duty an English officer must the anticipated delights of forget the claim, of conscience; and that if he be so commanded he Thomson says, " the maids must hail a sacrifice to Budhoo, and sanction the horrid murders mother of the young bride, v committed under the pretence of religion. I have no passion for self on the happy occasion . arms ;I do slot think any war except a defensive war can be mon. mother had worn years before, cited with the principles of Christian charity. Before Igo to war, bride; the old father displayed ( I will wait till the enemies of my country tread upon its shores; I and his silver buckles of still s will then advance to meet them, and advance unarmed, except by end glee; every countenance k my single muscle; I will wrest the arms from the first enemy I heart beat high with happiness meet, and I will join my countrymen in the war. There are a few out ; hope would have been other circumstances to which 1 shall allude as briefly is pos. were it not for the malign sible. I have been called a meddling attorney. I have been Clergyman of the Established assailed with obloquy, and I must defend myself. The parti. 'this person had been Nevi culars to which I shall now shortly advert occurred on the 29th of bouts, " Come to church t July last. On that day, two persons, of decent appearance, respec. In conformity with his intent, tally (Insecd in black, with nothing unclerical in their exterior, , term it, he. instead of being nothing improper its their demeanour, waited on the Rev. Wm. seated in the large pew ben( Marshall, a Clergyman of the Established Church, in the town of ding party came to the Newport.Pagnell. There these poor people introduced themselves that the young couple came ti into the presence of the Vicar of the parish, and in the course of tended bride, said, " Mary their conversation, presented to him a book, containing the names and receiving an answer in the s of subscribers towards the erection of a dispel for the use of the not marry you." " Not mare: teeneral Baptist Revivalist's Society. They stated to him that girl, with a deep :sigh. Iler they had been deputed by the good people of that Society, to collect against her conscientious scut auls:riptions for the purpose stated, and they then mime to solicit hesitated in such a case. Tht his aid. In doing this they certainly were not aware that they not marry her unless she were bo were in the presence of the Clergyman of the Parish ; but even said he, you had better be t though they had been apprised of such a circumstance, they, Die- still her principle of religious senters as they were, did not imagine themselves guilty of much stoutly for ascendancy. She sat presumption in approAehing the presence of a man, some of the tised if she could be immersed. highest members of whose establishment had not disdained for that," said the clergyman. to hold intercourse with such men as Watts and Doddridge. could endure this mockery no Mr. Marshall, however, thought proper to reject the example of his nantly interfered. I think 1 • more liberal brethren, and to treat with contempt and severity boiling in his veins. " Ni,. those who deserved neither at his hands. Ile turned on them as this—your purpose is to dissolve enemies of the Establishment, and told them they ought to be put mit to it." The clergyman tb down. On meeting such a rebuff, they naturally wished to with marry the parties. They It draw—they desired to retire in peace, but even that poor privile followed them to bring them was denied to them. The constable and the churchwardens were am sure you will not condemt sent for, and although lilt. Marshall admitted that they were not duty. lam sure that the fur, impostors, yet he would have theist sent to prison ; for, as he said dulgence upon her indecision. to them, " some of your people are supposed to have committed a amongst them who would ma' murder somewhere or other, and you are therefore danger - me per. might demand. This hesitate sons, and must not be allowed to go at large." Accordingly, they nation that she would sacrifice , were then taken up to the house of the Attorney , and there being enly hope on the shrine of prim no Magistrate there, and none anywhere in the neighbourhood, ordinances of that faith in - with the exception of certain clergymen of the Established Church s wretched state of society m then engaged at a cricket match, those Reverend Divines were in of an individual ? The parts consequence sent for to the cricket.ground, and one of them, a occasion,heavily returned tothm Reverend Mr. Lowndes, being called upon, he forsooth signed the They reflected upon the penalt. mittimus under which these unfortunate men were deprived of their Established Church, and piebald) liberty and lodged in a common gaol. That, at such a place, such they would not be Diseente tyranny should have been perpetrated, is what you, in London, can upon religious feeling was hardly conceive. You can scarcely itirm an idea of the atom and (timely a polite letter to the t obloquy which in more remote places are heaped upon the heads of skated, and then I wrote Dissenters In proof that these men were not impostors, and were me from the episcopal palace entirely undeserving of the oppression which they endured, it seas tennined refusal. For a long shown that they had signed the declaration and taken the oaths, were delayed, nor were they s and that to the book which they carried with them was signed the resident clergyman of the , name of Robert II all, of Leicester. (Applause.) There then, at that done to the feelings of tlin unom._ place, and upon those men, did that horrid mixture of the monkey a proceeding in the Eceledaeticam and the tiger indulge its natural malice anti ferocity. will now against a clergyman sn a Court • read to you extracts from the minutes of the examination of these the Bishop's Court of the Dior victims to High Church intolerance." [Here 111 r. W Les read some sanctioned the outrage wool' p uts of the minutes of what occurred at the examination, from which called on to pronounce nide it appeared that Horner, one of them, bad been a gentleman'asersaut, aware of the stronghold in • and that Wood, the other, had been formerly amat.maker.l "II ere," clesiastical law, he was not cried Marshall. " here are two pretty fellows for you—here are pref. thouva the beet way to intim. ty preachers ! 1 never in my life raw any two men Who looked more coming himself the assailant. Ike vagrants." If he had turned to the sacred pages he would those whom he had deeply i there have seen that for Onesimus the slave the Apostle did not a suit against the old man, the disdain to interfere. Ile would there have seen that the Apostle in the church. Now this brae Paul laboured with his hands, that he might not be chargeable. He ties, and the party co:ie . :tett would have seen that that man of nmighty mind—that that man of this way it seems the deternii powerful thoughts and renowned deeds, was a manufacturer of this poor old man with tents. In the magnificence of a stately mtablishment—amidst time where none but clergymen splendor of episcopal palaces, time minium of time Establish. the complainant. We, bower , ment forget the humble origin of their religion, and seem not friend, Dr.'Lushington, have to remember that lowliness is a Christian virtue. These men, the metropolis, where it is t then, Horner and Wood, were committed to gaol like common ing will be obtained, and • felons, for no better reason than that, in the opinion of hits spared to procure ample _ Mr. Marshall, they lookill ve , q like vagrants. When alr. (Applause.) To many others. Marshall asked Horner at what school he was educated, and that during the past year ; amongst he replied, the school which teaches to speak truth, the only retort application to Parliament •- of the Rev. Gentleman was, that be never saw men look so like beteg mar: ed I t their own _ rztriik has thought proper to say I am the author, and has called it an Infringement upon the prerogatives of the Established Church. Thin I altogether deny. By this measure there would be licensed, frifelthe purpose of matrimony, three chapels in the metropolis, two in /war six of the largest towns, and one in those of smaller size. Thetabsee shall he twelve months registered before marriages can , _be ajdnead In them ; that an inscription shall he on the outside 1111110.111110 they have been so registered, and the Minister shall ob trig:cettitiute of the same. The marriages may be per_ by license or after banns published. If by the hornier 1114 the titmice is to be obtained from the o ff icers of the Ettabliah- Church. If by the latter mode, the banns are to he published in eth, and all fee, are likewise to go to the Establishment. They Ilkeefore have reserved to themselves every portion of the profits and the power, with the exception of what relates to the mere net ft celebrating the marriage itself. This Bill I hope will pasi as .Me same time that I wish as you do. that marriage should rather as a civil contract than as a sacred ceremony. rilela tec i i t, is perfectly laudable and natural that aFier the civil multiage has been performed, people should wish to collect about them the pint"' men - Axon of their congregation, that their pastor may breathe over them a prayer to Heaven, that religion may sanction and that may ratify thccompact into which they have just entered. I regret to air r let in France efforts are making to restore the pre. mgatives of the Eitablished Church in that country with regard to marriages, by seeking to make it necessary that the marriage by the priest should nreeede the civil marriage ; the obvious dtsign of which is to increase their own power and authority. Roman Catholics in this country labour under considerable disabilities as re. girds their marriages;. land the British Critic has thought proper to denounce a meddlingtattorney of the name of Wilks, for interfering in this matter with'a view to place them in a better situation. This I consider no discredit r litre at least my sectrsian feelings could not have influenc d me. 3'he poor Irish who come here think that marriage is one of the iticritments of their church, and that, in the eye of heaven, their State of life cannot be Blameless unless it have the benediction of their priest. And why should not such a mar riage have the validity of law ? One of the consequences of refitt ing it that validity is, that the workhouses are-Alled with multitudes of children, who being in the eye of rite low illegitimate, find a set tlement in the parish where they are bent; and cannot be watt to Ireland. I have interfered in this matter, and I will euntinte to interfere still farther; in the ceuhdent expectation that in this la +tenthly I find, Lowever vs nay differ on minor *ma- the an pervading -- lament . opinion of several lawyers that a good substitute for that would be to let each father stare in his *Mahe ages of his children, and in the absence of better evidence this would be weaved. Itecnnclailed by adverting in teems of warm panegyric to the high meriescardiair distinguished Chairman, enlarging upoa the advantages which the Society derived from the presence and sanction of a genthataa tat his station and character. This Reputation -*al seconded by the Rev. Mr. DwtotrY, and carried be acclamation. The Cifat aMA w assured the Meeting that he felt more than he could etpress ; it was not true that they should feel thenssalaes in any respect indebted to him for attending their assemblage that day, for it was to bins the greatest delight to witness what had then passed. From his a/sliest youth he had been a friend to religious liberty, and though belonging to the Establishment, he was not a high churchman, nor ilea titin.any in that room who objected more constantly to the principles which charaetevise the body called she High Church Party. He had heard "with pain the sad cltalogsie of ignorance and bigotry which had been laid before them, and who could hear, without displeasure, that ail thing so irrational had luen practiced as affixing penalticinsemarr4ges and baptisms, as well as on the more melancholy occailen of burial, He rend however urn the force of public crpiniln th abate this evil at no distant period. The Test Act he thought a mere paltry Insult upon a large and respectable body of men, and he could assure them that his little influence would be used to the'utmost to advance the great object of their repeal, and to wipe off the rational disgrace wit/eh they had inflicted. He could not leave the Meeting without noticing one other point. Ile had heard front respectable quarters that per. secution was on the increase, but to this he (unlit not.subscribe; he thought on the contrary that good principles woo on the *l. trance, anti this he attributed to improved altseatieri. He relZd ppnn education as the great remedy for all these evils : and as die real principles of Christianity pretailed, the influence of genuine liberality would advance in the game proportion. Ile trusted that they would be unceasing in their efforts to procure the repeal of Nisi Test Act, for it was only by repeated efforts that they could hope to succeed. If they continued to come forward to Parliament la a bold but respectful manner, they could not but ultimately succeed. Ile begged them to accept the strongest assurance of his thankful. news ; he had always considered the Dissenting interest as entitled to his gratitude, and he would ever use his beat influence for its advantage, and his having been called to preside over them that day_he iisidered the highest honour, The - . . i r, ‘f.ll r 1 , i 1 i prosecurraz per a suers nine ITTMC.4:II TO moue- serum, i find, Lowever we may dater on minor pouts. the an- day he considered the highest honour. . —.. me ; they very soon applied to know on . what pervading sentiment of religious feeling beating hievery • heart. I The Meeting tben dissolved. ,- . • rig to let Mr. Marshall off—what would Induce lament to say that in (an too there is great practical persecution. At these noUtidgs no collections are made. By the raged Of tali imph which then awaited our cause. There la Spain matters arc still worse ; there the Inquisition has thised Committee. in:mote, that donations arc -needed, and may be Mans- on that would have proved more tempting to an its head • and in France all looks dark and ominous. --The cloud muted by piost to the Treasurer, Robert Steven. Esq., Upper ictive spirit. There never was a time when, if which h angsO over that country would make even tl e stoutest Thames-sirert ;or to either of the Secretaries, Thomas Pellatt, h, we could have obtained it in a more signal tremble. The law of sacrilege is a painful encroachment upon ag.a. Ironmonger Hall, or John Wilke, Esq., Finsbury-squarer s 1 •. But such was not our aim ; for we wished to public liberty. Everything there indicates the possible return of to the latter of whom applications should be addressed. Front living example of that tolerant spirit which slavery and ',operation, and the danger that l•rante may again be each mr,gregistion in England the anuual contribution expected is hem. You may perhaps think that we erred distracted with feelings that should never be revived. lam glad to two pounds, sod from each in Wales one pound. The oubserlp- ity, and betrayed too much kindness and find that in Hanover the most perfect liberty ism-tended to all tion became due at Lady-clay last. Country Mini:item or their f i r • who had dealt out towards us a full roes- persuasions. I rejoice to find that there the most kindly offices are friends will always be reetived with pleasure by the Committee at ) and severity : but we were determined not exercised towards each other by the members of every rt4tgiotis de- I their meetings, at Ration's Coffee-house, Comhill, at half-past ilx. i • 0 example, and therefore let them off on nomination. The Catholics of Alulhausen have lately . returned in the evening preebely, on the last Monday in every month. ierhaps will consider too mild. are required thanks to the Protestants of that place for the assistance which the e than a public apology in the newspapers, latter rendered them in the erection of a church. Even in Rome WEST INDIA SUGAR. 1 .. • xpenses incurred, and a compensation of fifty two Protestant places of worship have been erected, and a burial- the parties injured. 1 trust that with this you groun d h as been provided for the use of Protestants. I have great . " Our trade to the %Vest Indies -- i t ssaddled aw--- m with almost all the 1 at you will be pleased to see we were not ani- pleasure in laying these statements before you, for we should tha all r reTI•C of their civil and military establishments, and with a bounty like spirit that pursues its prey with rapacious in our power to mitigate the hostility which religious differences but of I,2oo,oool."—Edinburgh Review, No. SI g appetite, but rather with the generous feeling too frequently excite. Switzerland. it is to be regretted, forms a " And when chit quantity, upon which drawback is allowed on iscious of superior energy, makes no cruel or contrast to everything that is liberal and generous in matters of extra .le-eoported is taken into consideration, and added to the f ; of it. When the error was acknowledged we religion. At Lausanne, and in the Pays de Vaud, much persecution 1.600,0170/. arising from the 10t. duty, the annual tax on the public .: ristian principle of forgiveness. (Applause.) has been carried on. It is grievous to think that the hardy will be found to exceed 2,ooo,oool."—Speech of Mr. W. W.Whita made by the clergyman is as follows :—]Mr. mountaineer should have set himself against religious freedom, more, 2,2 d May, 1823. ) is' 1 O 1 the Backs C,roaicle an advertisement signed b ut Id o h o p e th at Protestants will not continue to defile their fair " The best way to attack the system of slavery w a s und on br io lz ' Leh, after a sting the particulars of the arrest fame by pronouncing sentences or carrying on prosecutions through the Sugar duties ; for if they would hut call to their '' T . 1, • f Homer and Wood, went on to say that the against any body of religious persons who may assemble for the !whin the amount of those duties, 1.200,0001., or as the Noble ' i he influence of a mistaken opinion, and deeply purposes of public worship. Although much has been accom- theirman(the Doke of Gloucester) had obtervedto hint. 1,506,0001. omen of his error.] When I was at the Fleet- pli s h e d towar d s the establishment of religious freedom, yet a great they must be sensible that if these duties were taken off the whole ailed to the peroart there assembled the noble deal still remains to be performed. As to the registry of baptisms machinery must dui) to pieces."—Speech of Mr. Sykes, at the an. ii • ' 1 i' rt of the start tsf. Lord Carrington. I told, and much doubt still unhappily existed ; and it is the opinion of Fla niversary of the Anti-Slavery Society. . a. that it was their duty at the next election to J ust i ce B ay l ey , a J u d ge not l ess em i nent f or hi s i ntegr i ty : t h an f or " There was a bounty allowed on the exportation of sugars, b u t is in his sot -port ; and to such amongst you as his legal skill, that the registry of a baptism is no registry of birth. ii could be easily shown that that bounty, without effecting any :minty, I feel bound to give the same advice, On this point it is necessary that the Dissenters should be in pos. benefit to this munter r generally, by increasing the supply and di. ' 1 act under the impulse of that gratitude to- session of exact information. There is another point on which it [Molehills -the price, served only to put a million into the pockets cobletnan, which ought, and which lam sure is absolutely requisite that we should be incetsant in our solicits- of the 13 est Indians."--Speech of Mr. F. Buxton, 24th February, rof all who are attached to the cause of Dissent. tinny, i mein the repeal of the 'fest and Corporation Acts ; resolu- 1825. ireunistan, ce to which I must now advert, for it l i ons , on this subject, perfectly in unison with my semi- •• 1% „ e have hitherto paid a tax to the West Indians of at least a mortance. at must be mentioned, and ret I ments, will be laid before you, and it is therefore the less necessary million and a half in the price of their sugars. °icing to bouncier . l without a strong feeling of regret, that the Esta- that I should now enlarge any further upon this subject. We are and protecting duties."—Observ a tion s on W est I n di a C o m pany 1 $ old have se disgraced itself. Some amongst told that. many of the laws of which we complain are obao- Bill. Ilatchanl, 1823. I doubt whether those who had not been baptised lete, and are rendered inoperative by the effect of the Annual In- The above quotations afford some aped/nen of the argument* narried in their parish church. Of thisaremark- demnity Act, but I maintain that notwithstanding that Act these reiterated with unwearied assiduity by the anti-colonial party. By si, ( . r Langan, in the diocese of St. David's. In that laws d o oppress us most severely. As an instance, Mr. Munn, of asserting that the %Vest Indies enjoy a monopoly greatly detri. . rids was to be married to Mary Jenkins ; she Tenterton, had been much esteemed by the Corporation of that mental to the public, they excite a strong prejudice against thew, iety of Baptists. At the time appointed for the town, and, on the death of hit partner, was offered the situation possessions; and perhaps there are few even among the intelligent rt carriage the resident Clergyman was front home. held by him, yet here the laws to which I have alluded who are not more or less influenced by this feeling, whenever the me filled his place, and that person, though the stood in his way, and deprived hint of an honourable and Colonial question is agitated. It Is true, ooropponente, in their reviously published by the resident Clergyman, lucrative office, otherwise within his reach. The design of the statements, carefully abstain from . any attempt at analysis or edema rt intimate that he would refuse to perform a cere- C or p orat i on i n hi s favour vas completely frustrated. The Annual lotion. B old assumptions and sweeping conclusions compensate, individual for whom he acted would have made Indentrity Act furnished no remedy. If previous to any election in their opinion, for the absence of reasoning. The continual try father of the young woman understanding that to a corporate office, it could be shown that the candidate was a is simply that a million and a half or two millions are annually hoed on account of his daughter having been Protestant Dissenter, and had not within the year received the paid by the people,of this country to the West Indians; but in re. oisawaited on the Clergyman for the purpose of sacrament according to the ritsal of the Established Church, every Bard to the manner in which this amount is distributed, they sup. nentions. Having waived at that Gentleman's vote given in his favour was nullified. and the honest expectations ply us with vary scanty information. The more cautious of the * 1. 1 r ) d only to see his with, who, holding a lofty tone wer e frustrated of every man who loved his conscience, and his party generally.connect the protecting duty and bounty together, , gave it as her opinion that her husband would God., better than pelt: Here, then, is one flagrant instance at the with the wary design that if tl.ey are driven from the one position, 4 In Islntarisao WNW. In Wale • velar ancient least, where t h e wishes of the corporation, and the hopes of an they have still another resource to cover their retreat. The impel. •/ . • , ~, s, one which is spoken of by Tacitus, as extsring honest man, were entirely set at nought. Let us then this day, and dial inquirer cannot fall to be surprised In pereeivnir the great dus. is of his day ; it is the assemblage at every in this place, vow that we will never be satisfied until not a rem- crepancy which exists In theirstatements, whenever th y atterupt so e inhabitants of die surrounding country. This nant of them shall be in existence. It is only by sound ac- particularise what portion of benefit belongs to each of these ee- 1, and foams a remarkable contrast to the reused quaintsnce with the generally diffused and unceasing exertions for ambitions respectively. Some make the protecting ditty amount to .1 a which marriages are generally solemnised their repeal. that we ran ever hope to conquer these oppressive upwards of a million, and merely add, that besides there is a largo tanks in this country. From an ancient paper statutes. While they remain they w s .ll be made instruments for bounty given on the exportation of West India sugar. Others • , ' the neighbours are bidden to the wedding, and our injury ; and men in authority " will play those fantastic state, that the latter alone is more than this sum, and that of the ime requested to bring with them their current tricks before high Heaven," though they be tricks " ,shich make extent of the protecting duty the public may judge, when it is cor. and cheese. On the occasion of the intended the angels weep." Never let it be said that man shall be allowed sidered that the duty on West India sugar is 275., while that on 0 Davids and Mary Jenkins, about 200 of their to interfere between man and his Creator. Never let the notion be E as t I n di a sugar i s 3'.. M r . W. Whi tmore, w h om we m i ght be mumbled to sympathise in the emotions of the tolerated, that there exists the right to impose upon any people the disposed to deem the most intelligent of the party, is also the most They were collected to enjoy the festive scene; religion of the State. If it be a crime to dissent from a State explanatory on the sohject. Ile expressly states, that the bonus • ni delight—the population of that rural district religion, then was the Roman Emperor justified in his persecu. conferred is 2,000.000/. of which 1' 1,600,0001. arises from the pro- irr, 1 a the mountain's aide—the old looked back with tinny of the Christians when they endeavouredto overthrow the esta- teeing duty, and that the remainder has to be classed under the o the days of their youth, and the young enjoyed blished religion of ancient Rome. There is no idolatry which may denomination of bounty. lights of their own nuptials yet to be—and, as not become a state religion ; and if men are liable to have a state It is my intention to investigate these points a little in detail ; the maids exchanged pleasant glances." The religion forced upon them, may not all the best wishes of those correct information must be particularly uncial to many Members ng bride, with matronly exultation, arrayed her- who love liberty be trampled upon, and swept away for ever ! But of the (louse of Commons, as debates on the subject are continually occasion in the formal brocade that her own of this I trust there will ultimately be no danger. 'l'lle prin- occurring; and to the mercantile community at large any illustra. years before, when she herself walla blooming ciplo of resistanceis too strong ; presumption and ignorance shall tion relative to so extensive an article in commerce as sugar, cannot i ter displayed his garments of antiquated fashion, not audaciously interfere between man . and his God. They may fail to be interesting. For the sake of greater clearness I shall con- I S / les of still more ancient date. All was festivity pile the Andes on the Alps , but the spirit of man will not be im- sides the matter under two heads—the protecting dutj and the II intenance looked bright with pleasure, and every prisoned. The United States of America verified this. i What was bounty. li happiness; and all would have continued joy- th eor y, i s there fulfilled in practice There, there s no state PROTECTING DUTY. have been confirmed, and anticipation realised, religion, and there is not a happie r nation upon earth. Each deno. To any person at all acquainted with political econom: it will lie malign influence that hung over them. A urination is permitted to celebrate its own rites in perfect lode_ doubtlemappear superfluous to waste time in showing, that sos ng stablialied Church marred this beauteous scene. pendence, and all live in perfect harmony and love. lam glad of as a surplus is obliged to be exported, the West India planter eats been previously heard to say to one of his neigh- an opport u nity of a d vert i ng to t hi s , for it does honour to human • delve no advantage from the nominal protection given to him by church to-day, and we shall have some fun." nature. I will not permit myself to fear that freedom will continue 1 the legislature. The quantity of sugar annually imported Int o t his intention to create fun, as he was pleased to to lie under a cloud in this country. I trust that when human folly ' Great Britain from her colonies, it is well known, very greatly ex. id of being in the usual plate, was to be seen ceases to obscure it. that its light will break forth. inspiriting i ceels her consumption ; a large export has consequently to take Fes, ;e pew beneath the pulpit. When the wed- youth—i n fl am i ng even c hill age . Y, Gentlemen, in this good place to the Continent, no matter what price s likely to be obtained. i e to the church, it was intimated to him cause we will proceed, and where our old friends have departed our ' In other commodities, shipments in general are made to a foreign • d ecame to be married, and he, addressing the in- younger ones will rally round the standard, and the determination port in consideration of the prices there being higher than at home ; d 11; , " Mary Jenions, have you been baptisetl i." to sustain religious freedom shall grow into a prirciple ; and 1 i f suc h b e no t t h e case the article is held over, if it cannot, in the r rawer in the negative, he replied, 't` then I shall would say to you all, in the words of that brave General who lay mean time, be sold favourably, in expectation of a shorter supply " Not marry me !" rejoined the disappointed immortal and not dishonoured, but dying in the dust, " Fear not I coming forward, and the market taking 3 more favourable turn ; sigh. Iler natural feelings struggled strongly the mass of opposition ; but onwards, onwards, onwards !" and but as to sugar, where heavy capitals are invested in its cultivation, ientious scruples. The most strict would have expired. I which cannot be withdrawn, and where front time immemorial the a ease. The clergyman repeated that he would :fir. Wilke sat down amidst universal applause. supply has greatly exceeded the home consumption, it would be as she were baptised. " You are no Christian," The Rev. Dr.BOGUE then moved the first resolution, which quite useless to hold over in expectation of a more favourable state ad better be baptised." She was a woman, but merely went to assert the right of perfect freedom in all that relates of things. Shipments must unavoidably take place to the only vent • of religious faith was strong, and contended to religion, and to denounce the tyranny of interfering with it, for the article, the Continent, whore it necessarily sells at the same • t . ncy. She said that she would consent to be bap- either by rewards or punishments. rate as sugar from other quarters, be that rate high or low. The lit • ere immersed. " Oh, there is not su ffi cient water It was seconded by the Rev. Mr. East ; and being put by the quantity exported consists, it may be said, entirely of refined sugar, clergyman, " that cannot be." The old father Ch a i rman , was carr i e d, 1 and in this case the price of all of similar quality in London mu t t •. mockery no longer; he came forward, and indig. The Rev. Mr. BEN NETT proposed the second Resolution, pro- be adjusted to the same scale as what is existing abroad. Were it t I think I see the old \rash patriarch, the blood nouncing a censure upon certain clergymen of the Established leitherI either highsr or lower the thing would soon rectify itself, by the int. "No, Sir, I will not," cried he, " endure Church for the intolerant and vexatious spirit which some of them merchants either forbearing to ship. or increasing the competition 1 eis to dissolve my religion, and I will not sub- were said to have manifested during the last year. In the course to send their good% forward. This operation is well known by clergyman then repeated his determination not to of the observations which the Rev. Gentleman made on the subject every intelligent merchant. Whenever a fall, say of Is. per ewe. They left the church ; some of their friends of religious freedom, he said that the term Roman Catholic was one takes place in any of the leading coatinental markets, this enables • 1 i bring them back ; the young girl hesitated. I of the Pope's bulls, being what logicians would call a particular the rt lined auger to be sold in the interior of Germany so much , lot condemn the struggle between inclination and universal. Religious freedom was not a bull but a pleonasm, cheaper. British sugar abroad must consequently also fall ; prices , that the females who hear me will look with In- for where true religion was there must freedom quickly be. Ile lin England again follow this reduction; and the refiner being able ' t er indecision, though doubtless there are many spoke in high hernia of the liberal part of the Established Church, to give so much less to the merchant , the price of raw must be o would make any sacrifice that their religion and expressed most kindly feelings towards several of its ministers. I equally reduced. 0 his hesitatioo,howevenended in the fixed detertni- Ile was decidedly of opinion, however, that the freedom which There are, however, many persons who, while •they admit the ad sacrifice the most cherished object of her maid- they enjoyed was more to be attributed to the liberal sentiments of general correctness of this principle, at the sante time maintain Mine of principle. She would not depart from the the Princee and the Legislature, than to any tolerant feelings of the I that so large a quantity as is exported from England must certainly faith in which she had been educated. Is it not establishment. It was chiefly to the third William and the four . have some effect on the continebtal markets. Should it be with,, f society which vests so much power in the hands Georges that religious freedom owed what it possessed. drawn it must obviously cause some deficiency, the natural effect i • The party assembled to do honour to the festive The Rev, Mr. TOWNSEND, in seconding this Resolution, en. of which would be to raite prices ; end if we allow this to be the turned tatheirhomesin glonmand disappointment. larged somewhat upon the nature and objects of the Institution, case, we roust grant that it unites with other markets in determining ion the penalties attached to departing from the observing that it was formed for the defence of those who were un- the rate at which sugar can be sold. This opinion, which seems to eh, and probably determined in their minds that able to defend themselves, adverting to the facts previously stated have been maintained by Mr. Huskisaon in the debate in May, be Dissenters. When the detail of this outrage by Mr. %Finis respecting the marriage in Wales, and the imptison- 1823, can certainly be demonstrated erroneous. I t cling was communicated to me, I wrote imme- resent at Aylabory. The Resolution after this speaker had con- It appears by the continuation of the slave trade in full activity l it ter to the clergyman in question. At first he he- chided was carried unanimously. by foreign powers, that the supply of sugar is so abundant as to I wrote more peremptorily ;he then replied to The Rev. 31r. Cluny/Ex moved the third Resolution, which beat competition from other quarters entirely out of the field, and to pal palace of St. David's, in the language of de- deduced the continued necessity for the maintenance of the Society, I render any effect produced by the exports from England compara. For • long month the nuptials of this couple in consequence of the repetition of the several injuries of which tively insignificant. Without going into a tedious analysis on the were they celebrated at all until the return of the Dissenters have hitherto complained. point. the fact can be luny established by merely contrasting the al of the parish. Now the remedy fur the wrong The Rev. Dr. CoDIiAN in a few brief observations seconded the exports a few years back with what they me at present. „, aof this unoffending pair and their friends, is by Resolution—carried. In the year ending the sth January 1818 the auantity mete. the Ecclesiastical Courts--proceeding, forsooth The fourth IL-solution, expressive of displeasure at the conduct exported was ----- - - 1.44?..30(1 nail in a Court where the Judges are clergymen; of the two clergymen, the one who hail withheld marriage, and the In 1819 -t of the Diocese of St. David's, where those who other who had procured the imprisonment of Ilorner and Woad, 18-2 a 1i,19.4n8 rage would be called on to decide on its enormity, was morel by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, who, in the observations ins 940.947 ante ti,elr own condemnation. Though perfectly which he made on the occasion, lamented that there should exist a There is here a diminution in the exports of at least 40-00 0 • Ili '' ghold in which he was tints entrenched by the ec- necessity for such a Society. There was nlso moved by him a Re- hogsheads, and if there were any truth in the position, that a large I e was not Content with being on his defence ; he solution, by which the meeting pledged itself to endeavour to pro- or a small quantity going from England exercised any influence on 1 ray to insure perfect impunity would consist in be- cure the repeal of the Acta which aggrieve Dissenters, the annual prices abroad, the natural inference would b r e, ice‘ tha o t n so o n e some Continentadrsnce . .i . he assailant , and not wait for any reprisal from Indemnity Act being in their oeinion not su ffi cient. should have taken place in consequence cf the deficiency. But al so deeply injured. Accordingly he h as ; a gitated These were seconded by air. Young and adopted by the Fl-ering. ilirectly the reverse has been the case. r i, .1d man, the father of Mary Jenkins, for brawling The Rey. Fir J a mcs moved, and th e Rev. Mr. RAE seconded, have materially fallen since IBIS. The increased supply from ow this brawling carries with it very heavy pros - a Resolution which rt comMendcd the Committee to continue its foreign colonic., r conv:zted of it Is liable to excommunication. In exertions for the relief of the Dissenters in Canada, of the victims has still kept adjust...l to the demand required, totally iudependent the detennination of this clergyman to overwhelm of persecution in Switzerland, as also for putting - , _ . i 1 some information as to thetas. an with costs, by bringing him before a Court Dissenters on a better (outing, as wall as the registry of births and The following Wife wad aftort 9 . °Wing to the continuation of the shave *We, erg nett are to judge a case where a clergyman is baptisms. porn' We, however, by the alike of our excellent Another Resolution was put in conjunction with this, which periods I have . .. - . of sugar into the tiro prine w itialcontinental ports at the different • ' . ington, have been enabled to remove the ease to went to fix the Officers and Committee of the ensuing year. Both AWATEpu I3I . 'UM ) tt ROIL here it is to be hoped that a more impartial hear- were carried. ffavannah and Brazils— Brasil—cheva . . 20150 ed, and we ate determined that no effort shall be A vote of thanks was then passed to Mr. Stevens, the Tres- chests - .. NOIIB . I Illavanr,ah—chests - 19.424 1 e ample justice, and to vindicate the oppressed. surer, upon which that Gentleman made the customary ocknow - fi s u . ri t a i sz. ja_ ike e .--c aa, a s : e k r a i :1 1 0 4 : 8116 673 Great Britain—chests . 8.0(14) many other subjects our attention has been drawn I edgmcrits. °casks -21 360 bales and mat- E as t l o di c th, - . year ; amongst others we were occupied with an Dr. BitowN (barrister) addressed the Meetiug at .some len g ling - - se - 20.849 it was Dissent th r e •Th cults ate almost entir e ly re fi ne d sugar. 'ornament to concede to Dissenters The right of and when h e came to not i ce t h e inecroveniencewh iaid ich their own chapels. Of this application the British suffer from the want of a registry of births, be . . 1 /0 _ . a. •. _