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      Art. I.—Transactions Of The Parisian San...

      lie augurs ill for England of the present contest with France , and in concluding , warns his countrymen , _hs intelligibly as was prudent , oi the calamities which are coming

      upon us . His speculations , howeve r _disagrt-eable , are worthy of _atteiu tion . It is not the part of a faithfu l seer to prophecy always smooth things .

      651 Review—Prosecutionagainst Mr. Stone.

      651 Review—Prosecutionagainst Mr . Stone .

      Art. Ill, —A'Letter To Theliev. Dr. Beil...

      Art . Ill , —A'Letter to theliev . Dr . BeilbyForteus , Lord Bishop ofLondon _^ on the Subject ofkis citation of the Writer before the Spiritual Court _, on an unfounded Charge respecting certain _JOoctrines contained in his Visitation _^ Discourse , preached before Dr . _Greiton _? Archdeacon of Essex , at Danbury _, July 8 , 1806 . By Francis Stone , M . A . F « S . A , Rector of Cpld-Norton _, Essex , Svo _, pp , 42 , _Jw tQn _^ 187 * _High-Holborn _, 1807 .

      Art. Ill, —A'Letter To Theliev. Dr. Beil...

      This is a very important publication , and highly deserving of the attention of every serious Christian , to whatever denomination he may belong . The circumstances which gave rise to it are the following : Mr . Stone is an -aged Clergyman , between seventy

      _SEnd eighty years of age , with a family of eight children . It is necessary that this . circumstance should be mentioned , because it . is not improbable that it had some weight in the prosecution instituted against him * He is rector of a parish in Essex , and in consequence of holding a Irving he was called upon by the Archdeacon to preach a visitation sermon . Obedient to tbis call , h < 3 preached a sermon _fcefore Archdeacon _Gretton , at Danbury , July 8 , 1806 " .

      Jt is usual at these visitations for the clergy to dine t 6 _gether , < md at this dinner the preacher sat down with his reverend brethren , and parted from them apparently in _Christian charity . About a month after , he printed and published this sermon : and the doctrines contained in it , being open to public animadversion , received its might be expected , _applause or censure _according to the _tenets of the

      Art. Ill, —A'Letter To Theliev. Dr. Beil...

      reader . It did not appear , however , that the Archdeacon or any of the clergy who heard the sermon had expressed any indignation against the author , or the sentiments contained in his discourse : and after going through one edition _^ a second was published , the dispersion of which was stopped by a criminal prosecution being instituted _against the author .

      The mode in which this was instituted 13 perhaps the most extraordinary that has hitherto occurred in the annals of the Church of England ; and it is peculiarly incumbent on the clergy of that _church to attend to it , or from

      being one of the most independent they may become one of the most servile bodies that has hitherto disgraced ecclesiastical history . On April 10 , 1 J 8 Q 7 , an apparitor , that is , a messenger or bailiff , from the bishgp of Lon « - doT ) knocked at Mr . _Store ' s _doof and put into his hand a citation to . appear in the Spiritual Court , in Doctor ' s Coirirnop $ _, before Sir _William Scott , a Doctor of Laws , who is al _$ ' o the gcntlciftan who presides in flie Admiralty Court of \ pri _& e cases , and has full employ- ? meat vipqu his _fyauds \ i \ _jryinu _?

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/34/