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ta all -oral institetioas, which no human authority should
ever presume to violate or restrict."—(Teis cord all the sale
seemed Resolutions were carried astanialoarry.)
Mr. FLORENCE YouNG seconded it, and con-
tended fur the unalienable right of every man to wor-
ship ('od according to his own conscience. It was*
right and a duty which a freeman ought never to
Just as this motion wasitassinx_by acclamation—
Ills Royal Ilighiseis the Duke of Sussex entered
the room, rind was loudly cheered. His Royal
Highness took the Chair, and said, that he was sorry
for the occident which interposed to prevent his
ettentlaloce at an 'earlier I . Tlte fret wft..
his broke down in the fog. lie hoped
the Misr nevi/fent would not happen to him in their
/;hair.—(Mach laughter aid applause. j—lle assisr-
ed them he felt peculiarly gratsfied at being called
to preside at such a Meeting—a Meeting quite
separate from any political object or allusion w hat-
tever.—(Applause.)—So impressed was he with the
total disconnection of this subject with politics,
that if the Nleeting.inetred it as he did, lie would
feel it 144 tint)• to interpose irony gentlesnun should
stray from the prooperiopie. and be ler the neces-
sity of 'teeing him to eosillue his observations to a
titter sphere. He would watch closely to this point.
(elpphonse.)-0.• an occasiou of this sort, it was
highly important that the *cope and object amnia
Aleselilli! should not be retimeomceived or misiuter-
tinted. It was with this feeling that he thought
proper to make these few obb•ervicititoe flaying
smote them. he would call on the Gentlemen op-
reinted to proceed with the business of the day.—
(I:rerit opo/omee.)
- 'nue Reverent! Dr. Cores-Ea rose and read the
• see 1111 l 1 lies•tlution, which was to the following
effect :
" That Religion is ant intenited to seerantlise a peculiar
rings, nor to &Tome an engine of State—but in inform the
itolgment, to onrify the brut, to mitigate, by heavenly cuss-
issihssi .... , the ealansitits of lire—and to iuspare hops-sof im-
mortality. blissful and tublatne."
The Reverend Doctor described religion to have
been formed to act with concord on the heart of a
Christieo, and make him suit his acts to Ins fellow-
C liristimm of every persuasion, as if they were all
members of one commit' fismily.—(Applamse.)—
•Fo dictate hatred and violence among Chritlimrs
oats to corrupt that stream which rose front a pure
f train. True religion had its seat in the heart,
und its sway in an upright conscience. On that
great prinuiple the Beformation wail begun and
fitoislied.—(Appiasise.) d as Christiais
Sects had been, they all yet drew their light from
the Revriat ion, rims should respect each others views.
It was impossible to imagine that the great Bent,
fuclor of the Universe, who made no one blade of
grass exactly to reversible another. in whose works
there was infinite variety, who in all his physical,
moral. mid intellectual products, had skews, dis-
tinction every where, but division MO where--
it was impossible, he said, that such ass Onitsipo-
tent Being should have ordained that his highest
wink would alone be tubiform its its principle of
action. Nor it never could have beets so ordained ;
and, these-fore, Christiens should learn to tolerate
mod it...peel each others dilferences.—(App/ouse.)—
Freedom of opinion was their great and unulienable
tight, and the Bible wits 'the rule tool inessute of
their faith, in the fern' of which no rude hand should
inset fere—that should rest between man mud his God
—between the crest sure and his Creator.--(Appfuese)
—By placing sit fiat in their Chair a Cambridge
Clergyman of the Estublislied Church, they gave
miliaria pledge that they had no seelluinn views—
the cause was of a higher and a nobler nature—it
writ more to theahroue of the Deity than to any
human appeal, and from such • cohsiderution liu-
-1314/1 114N1.1011 should he banielied.--(Apptuese.)—
lirligiott ots the tined operated as the suss upon the
vault. It imparted light and purity, while it ex-
haled noxious vapours from all of jests ; it irratliat-
col and cherished even the smallest and most un.
importosist, diffusing heat to all, but receiving coo-
tomitiattiois from sour.--e Great applause.]—The
Rev. 1)r. concluded by saying, that while lie as-
sumed tsar liirwelf the right of private judgment on
apt culative topics. be was ready to give the same
privilege to all. To the Roman Catholic, from
%%hien lie ilitt real, he presented tio opinion, while
lie viiithe.sted his own, and appleuded the force of
moral truth +snick broke the chain that kept the
isimol is, ignorance, and let loose the voice attic!'
bade matt be fret.—(Great applause.)
Mr. HENRI ‘VEYMOUTH seconded this Resolu-
tiun, of olach lie highly approved. All attempts
to prevent the dill's-inn of the Gospel all over the
globe. were. lie maintained, against the dictates of
God and the true interest of nom. It was this en-
large.l span which brought out the liefiormation in
the tulle of Henry VIII. and continued it in the
reign of his successor, the pious Edward. It was
the waist of it winch darkened the reign of Ahoy ;
and the revival of the pure light which stied a
glosy on ElSZolictil, iii whose Rigs) thitty editions
of tile Liable were printed.—(Greet applause.)---
AV last would not be the ratisfaction of the men who
payed the way fur the Reformation, if from their
honoured tombs they could view the ineetitnahlt
besot-tile which, is, utter ages, rowed from their
great acts, in the very capital where twine of them-
selves had been bursted for their virtuous stem!
*gaunt tyranny and oppression.—l.ripplatise.)
The great diffusion of the Scriptures was NOW pe-
tit/mud, nut only hy universal inmate howdy, Inn
by i.. 11 Potentates in Catholic commies. When
Sties told their Catholic fellow-subjects that they
41111.-Ivil a lilt Shrill its doeuinal points, they ahoulti
acconsimery the activation. by elating, that they
did so as friciorts. nod in the epitit of Christians,
and memo ready 40 *dusk to their uppoitents the
sense civil tight of exercising freedom of (opinion,
al•ich they wide firmness demanded fur themselves.
--(:f pp/arise.)
The. Rev. Mr. DoNottue proposed the third
Re-elution.
e That such t pure and snub (Ord' religion by the fluty
Sniplunaa :Alone Is sought ; 41Id that they, Ibtrt tholi
tae accessible its .tray language, to every iurlividnal. of terry
s. 55 ws the glubt , and that all attempts to limas suo is
tisnits cop, orvost• list isetsolartist rsoriso,rs of God, said She
l•esl and truly gasket halal wut man."
Ile said, tied as a Alember of the Claud' of Eng,
lie should tear lie found ass ads ocute fur the
tine- • utims of the Holy Scriptures. both on
p .I.taeal grounds, for iti them would
Ito I mutt tlse swop' etiiskaile flautist's fur the Blippi.rt
tor lilt isradultil bald W:flies of inankilid.--(.4p-
plause.)
Mi. Jolts Mseetis'efE seceudcd this motion,