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    it has been made subservient to political purposes , it cannot be too much condemned . Yet every one must wish that the errors of gross idolatry were removed , and we should hope that means might be found of rendering the simplicity of the Christian religion intelligible , and gradually opening the

    mind for its reception . Disputes have arisen also in that quarter between the military and civil powers , and strange language has been advanced by the mi litary commander , which could not but receive the proper animadversion of the civil magistrate . At home also , the East India Company has been in some agitation from the discoveries made of

    the corrupt means used in the appointment of writers and cadets . The directors have resolved , in consequence , to recai several , whose parents or friends have been guilty of taking improper steps ; but several of the proprietors were for more lenient measures . After considerable debating it was thought best to leave the question to the

    directors . If a great part of the continent has been agitated by actual war , the preparations for an expedition from home have excited much bustle . The place of its destination has been surmised to be the island of Walchersn , at the mouth of the Scheldt , and this may form a

    part of it . Others imagine , that a sort of predatory war will be adopted , and even Brest may be attacked by a coup de main . Whatever its destination may be , the force is certainly adapted for ve ^ y great objects ; but it is too late to

    have any effect on the Austrian war , or to excite much attention on the part of the French Empercir . It is a very considerable one for this country , consisting of fifty thousand troops , and nearly twenty ships of the line , amply provided with all means of destruction .

    Our next will ascertain the results of such a tremendous force . The l ? uke of York was lately the object of much animadversion . The un * - fortunate woman , who was the means of bringing so much to light , has dis ? - played her extraordinary talents before a court of justice , in a suit in which Mr . Wardle was attached for the amount of furniture ordered by him for her use . Many circumstances are connected with this suit , and the

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    inquiry that preceded it , that must glv 4 pain to all parties . The proceedings of Mr . Wardle , in his parliamentary character , cannot however be vitiated by this process . The questions relative to reform iri the expenditure , which he has originated , must not suffer on account of private transactions , and they are too important not to require ample discussion .

    But an event of another nature has taken place since our last , which places the established church in a very peculiar predicament . The living of Cold Norton has been given away by the Governors of the Charter-house ; and thus it is ascertained , that the Rev . Francis Stone has been deprived , by the decision of a Court in Doctors' Commons ,

    and the act of the late Bishop of London , assisted by the Bishop of . Lincoln , and some other members of the church of St . Paul ' s . It will be recollected , that this gentJeman preached a sermon , in

    which he asserted doctrines contrary to that of the Church of England maintained in its articles ; but he vindicated his preaching on the same articles , which assert , that nothing contrary to scripture is to be maintained , or believed , or

    imposed by the church . Mr . Stone asserts , that his doctrine is not contrary toy but agreeable to the scriptures . He produced his arguments in favour of it . His arguments were not examined , much less contravened , and the whole question was decided on a simple position . Your preaching is not agreeable to the

    articles , therefore you shall be condemned to be deprived of your living . The whole clergy , by this decision , therefore , know trie tenour on which they hold their preferment ; and if an angel from heaven were to preach , hi *

    condemnation is equally certain . Whatever may be the rules of a political body , - on the duties of its servants , to politicians the question must be left ; but we regret to add , that the triump h of the accuse * s of Mr . Stone cannot be

    very great , when they reflect , that it is over an old man upwards of seventy years of age , and that they have been the means of reducing him and a vale and family of seven children to the greatest distress . However differing Christians may be in their opinions , vre hope that the voice of humanity will be heard in his behalf .

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    404 State of Public Affairs .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/50/