The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-09 00:00:00

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ptnres--.better that the Ilkble SAcieties should tease
to translate the sacred ri.eurals of with into the diCerent
laitgoages of the eattli—that an Act of Parliame dwelt`'
were
added to our statutes at large, (tilonzii already
snottgho).for depoaitiug the Bible withiu die archives of
the Tower, as the books of the Boman sybils were pre-
served in the Capitol—anikthat orders in .council were
issued, to miller! and chain nP all men who exec: se their
own respion, or teach other' to burn that candle ql the'
! Lord. with the wild heeds of the royal nteaagerie : for-
' bid the public reading of the word sof timl, as the crafty
lawgiver of the Lacialannoisians interdicted the
-representation of Sopkocles and Enripeiles, out ufa
• feigned feagert, to :hose illustrious dratisatia:a. All ve
echoes of tfte Treasury, petition your Monarch, as Cardi-
nal Wolsey did the Pope, (in harry the eighth's time,)
"That his [tidiness could not be igatoraist what divers
effects the ibrW invention of printing had produced.
And that which particulariy was most to he lauseuted.
was, that lay and ordinary men were extorted to read the
Scriptures, and to pray in their vulgar tongue. That,
if this were witfere:l, besides all other dangera, the com-
mon people at last might come to believe that there was
sot so much use of the clergy; for if wen were persnatleil
once they could make their own way to God, and that
prayers in their native awl ordinary language might
pierce Heaven as we!! as in Lain; how muds would the
authority of the mass fall ! how prejudicial might this
prove to our eceleaLtail;ii! iii.der • And if this, " fright-
ful plientouvaon- of the 1-increase 14 latitudinarian
principles. is the mons!roas birth of attempts to sow
the seeds of I:twirled.... and virtue, drown all the Hu-
mane society—row:if yuur laws against infanticide—
blow np vo•ir asyliiiiis for the blind and the destitute--
tire your hospitals an.l eolleart—and declare your peni-
tentiaries and societies for the suppression of vice Spen-
t:eau establishmen's for the begetting of seditious and
blasphemy ;—tear mown the statute of Howard trout its
cathedral pedestal—hurn Mrs. Fry and William Alien in
Smithfield, with the paper of M r.lirottgliatil's Liliteation
Bill--and consume Basil 3loutagu, and the Christian
subscribers to his society for the abolition of capital pu-
nishments, on a funeral pi!e of the ,atlieted copies of
Beccaria, and the report of the criminal laws Aban-
don the wisdom of Solon. Anil give us the penal emit. of
Draco, who punished all crimes with sleuth, thitikinvz
that the smallest transgression deserved it, and that v.,
punishment was more rigorous for the blackest atrocities.
Burn all printers' devils, and stop every paper-mill hit
that of the Dank of England. Petition that cone of his
Majesty's liege subjects shonlal he alioweil to ttse their
eyes (fur fear of blindness) but thrmigh spec:aeles of
state wand:it-titre—on the principle of that philanthro-
pist who is Said ill have voted foe the window tax, from
the Christian of placing the blind on a level with
their fellow creatures. And ye, minister; of religion,
lamight back to those golden
pray that the may be
halcyon days of polemical light, when bishops set their
Cot ) cross,: to the creeds and articles imposed omen pos-
terity, for lark ut a writing-master ; wlieu the office of
the minister was a sinecure; and when the laity ref,
formed their parts in pantomime before iiiiiores of their
saints,liiiyin;4 their sin-sponges fur all lusts of the flesh,
past. present, and to come. Defile not the altars of the
church with Aaron and Moses with the Apostles' Creed
and the Lord's prayer. As a rider on the late six Acts,
tack another total, v expunging that clause in the Bill of
Bights for the pohlie assenibldge of people on redress of
grievances ; and let the curfew-hell, as at the Conquest,
again toll the al !solemnise hour of retiring to roost.
Substitute for Magna Charta thee old writ Jr taxi-ea,.
combo:Toth"; anil horn Ilannali More on the old statute
of witchcraft; (see Ilawkins's Pleat' of the Crown. b. i.
on the Sill of raisingthe Devil.) Restore
atria
the cantelous system of lit't using—the old lack." erpor-
gamier of popery;—our necks 'nay tllltr tit the yoke
that so galled our ancestors of old. And in the plate of
Sir Roger I;i:strange, commission Dr. Sin,* to lie the
door-keeper of the pleas: and let his imprimatur be the
only passport to that "inspiration of the Lord which
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