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London, England, 1815-12-29 00:00:00

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MELTING at the. MANSION-HOUSE, HULL,
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tin the STAi of Teesday lastswe had Were our Readers the
Rewbrions "Aortal at the .Hull Meetings we noir Of! the
Speeches delivered:on that occasion, persuaded that we cannot
roid.r a more acceptable service to the, cause of humanity') t
13y half-past eleven o'clock the place of assembly
WAS so crowded that further admission was impos-
&ble. The MAYOR having taken his ;teat, Mr. Conn,
the Town. Clerk, read the.Requisititm.—The MAYOR
then briefly addressed the company, and, being de.
sired to take the Chair, said that he would endea.
your to discharge the duty of it to his best ability.
The Rev. J. H..BR'IMBY, in risieg to propose cer-
tain Resolutions to the Meeting, expressed his amis•
faction that it had Lille.% to his lotto take the lead in
the business of the day. if ever there was a question
in which the interests of humanity, justice, and reli-
gion were intimately united that, was one ; and there
was no man, he thought. who had any claim to the
character of humane, or just, or. religious, but must
feel a deep interest in it. It appeared that certain
individuals in London,. ( who they.were was a matter
that had little concern with the merits of the question,
we had a right to presume that they were actuated
by the best motives), had received accounts from
France, well authenticated, of
..dreadful enormities
praCtising there ; to which accounts they had drawn
the attention of the public; feeling, doubtless, that
at men, and Christians and Protestants themselves,
they were bound to pay regard to the sufferings of
their fellow-men, their fellow Christians, and fellow
Protestants. He thought if one half, or if a thou.
sandth pin of the heart-rending account were true,
there had been no subject more highly calculated to
call forth their benevolent sympathies and exertions,
even in these eventful and extraordinary times. For
proofs of the facts he should refer to the documents
in' the hands of a gentleman then present, who would
probably communicate them to the Meeting. But
tite truth of them was sufficiently substantiated by
the adniissiins both of the French Government and
our own. friargoing, therefore, on the propriety of
interfering in behalf of the sufferers. he should take
the facts for granted. Their sufferings, indeed, were
as severe as man could well experience. They were
deprived of the means of subsistence—their houses
and property pillaged and destroyed ; they were
driven from their filmes, and compelled to leave
their families destitute and defenceless; their places
of worship were destroyed or shut up ; and they were
forced to Are for refuge into the woods and mown.
tains, " to the dens and caves of the earth," like the
early Christians, or like their own forefathers of the
13th century, when pet secuted by the demons of the
Inquisition. That these men were innocent sufferers
we were justified in concloding from the absence of
all charge against them. h was not for any evil that
thiy had done, but because they were the objects of
the evil-passions—the rage and jealousy, the cruelty
and rapacity of their enemies. And the principal
cause t 4 is hostility, it was lamentable to observe,
eras their profession of the reformed'religion. It was
sufficient, as it appeared, for a man to be a Protes-
tant• to be marked for persecution. and made the
subject of all these horrors. Really, he thought,
when one compared what was then going forward ire
France, with proceedings of a similar character and
tendency in other parts of the South of Europe,
there was ground for the apprehension that the days
of Louis XIV. of Charles IX. and of Dominic
with his Inquisitors, were about to be revived ice out
times. Unworthy he •eltould think himself of the
name of man, and of a Protestant and Christian Mi-
•nister,. it he did not loudly protest against such enor-
mities. He was confident there was not an indivi-
dual present in whose breast the cause had not an.
advocate—and he hoped it would find an advocate
in the 'breast of every man is the country. Before be
read the Retiltetions he would touch upon one ortvio
objections, which had fallen 'seder his notice, against
taking up this question in the way in which it had
been done. Doubts, in the first place. wets suggested
against the truths of the facts stated ; but he was con •
Eden when the document; to which he referred were
laid before the Meeting, especially when the admissions
of the two Governmeuts were also considered, there
would not remain a shadow of doubt on this bead.....
But, secondly, it was said that this was a political
questions ; and consequently ought to be left entirely
in the hands of Government. This, he contended,
was. an argument which could be considered as valid
by those persons only, who thought the people should
mei& interfere in politics. ys'ith these he could not
agree, Vor though he was an enemy to factious op-
position, yet he maintaiaed that it was the right and
duty of the people of England to make their voice
heard by their governors, whenever they pursued,
measurts adverse to the national interests; or when,
in the eager anxiety to promote certain objects of
temporary politiCal expediency, they forgot or ovens
lobked the acred claim, of justice Of humanity.—
hut the pieseireqeestion was not a political. One; It
was One of. ins4tanity; iiivolviug in it a consideretioti
of the righcs 01. conscience, and ow interference in
it did not appear on any ground reprehensible, seeing
the relation at present subsisting between . the two
countries. ms it is considered b his Majesty*
Miniitcrs ; Lord Liverpool' having. declared to the'
deputation of Gentlemen who waked on him to state
the information they hadleceived, and to learn the
sentiment: Of. Government,. that he and the re;t of
his Majesty's Ministers deeply deplored the atrocities
committed, and were disposed to use their best en.
deavours to restore the freedom slf -religious faith and
worship. What better method to give weight and
efficacy to the arguments and efforts of Government
in this cause. then for the people to let their voice be
heard in its behalf ? It would be recollected how
effectual that voice had been in recent instances. He
would specify the two cases of African.c4vilization,
and the Indian missions. And as the voice of the
nation had prevailed in firmer of du oppressed Afri-
cans and the benighted Indians,sehe trusted it would
.beraisN with equal effect fit favour of the perse.
gifted Protestants of France.. •As to its being a dis-
senting question, it was true thit it related to dissen-
sion hone the Mirth If France, and *a; taken up
by dissenters• lode the Puirch of Endta4. And
that was all that mild be saidi Tits
tftlf here
bad, greatly to their honour, taken the lead in this
--dibour of love ;mid mid Chereffmes he bed no dottlit
- iesisekt, equa sq 'their !!unourilollow in ;WI caul.
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would specify the two cases of African *Civilization, tdgether wt the greatest cordiality. and as they cannot religion, have
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and the Indian missions. And.as the voice of the think alike on all points, they agree to differ.— solemn edicts,
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• ~; nation had prevailed in favour of the °pinned Afri- , During my long residence in this place, I have ever posited in their
•.n can; and the benighted lndians,eshe trusted it would erideavonreil, as much as in me lies, to prnerve this any country ha
• N be• raised with equal effect fit favour of the parse-
unanimity. Ido not conceive that the way to induce France. Froa
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S lusted Frotestants of France.. 'As to its being a dis- Dissenters to think well of the Church of England, is years of Henry
4' *voting question, it was true that it related to dissen- to persecute and revile them, and sepirate them from repose. After
,f *is from the ChurCh of France, and *as taken up our company. What can be expected from such a fore the Edict o
by dissenters ran the Clinich of Englaqo. And conduct, but apposition to the Establishment, and' yoked, they we
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bad, greatly to their honour, taken the lead in this
of me that I have ever spoken disrespectfully ot •iny endued when
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