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    indeed knew no other fear . " At an interview with Mr . PerceVal , they therefore remonstrated against such proceedings , and obtained his promise to prevent the recurrence of a persecution which he could not but disapprove *

    To India also the Society had endeavoured to extend the benefits of religious liberty . They had hesitated whether such an effort was compatible with the objects of their establishment . —But they could not long hesitate . —They

    remembered the myriads of inhabitants which peopled its plains , their horrid superstitions , the evils inflicted on them by European avarice , the benefits which Chris , tianity had conferred on otheir na . tions , the arbitrary power possessed

    by the East India Company to exclude Christian missionaries under the existing law , the disposition which had been manifested to exercise that power , and they soon perceived that it was their duty to endeavour to obtain the insertion

    of ' provisions in the charter of that company when renewed , which should Secure to suitable iriistructors , the poster to Evangelize the nations of the east . The

    postponement of that rehetfal hid prevented any decisive result ; but he could sttiteT t&it ff Wfr . Perceval ha 3 ilirvived , he would have afforded to ail missionaries the same iftghts of refeldende , arid the Same prdL ie ^ fon , wliicfi it : Was hfetntentibti

    to coftfeV an all those , WK ^ ft * cofchmercialjiurposes , sho ^ FVi ^ lt those distant regions of thj ^ titftt . ' He then commimffcated the "jp ^ bceedings wh ich ha ^ bGen adapted hy M Commtteeft&fftfotfe thife amendmont of ccrtaiii provisions , injm ^ Wlhe % ^^^^ 3 ^ of DiMffig niin ^ Ccrt 7 ia £ roduced

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    into bills depending in Parliament , for the regulation of the Local Milijtia , and for the Preservation of Parish and other Registers , and the success which , had attended their interposition . To the efforts which had been

    made to procure the consent of Government , to a bill for the exemption of all places exclusively appropriated to religious wors hip from PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENT he next alluded ; and expressed bis hope , that although reluctance had been manifested to

    that claim , which the recent decision in the case of " the King against Agar and others , ' had rendered necessary , it would be

    eventually conceded . For when he considered that such places had not been charged—that if meetinghouses and chapels were rated , episcopal erections , tythes , pews rented in churches , & ® . must also

    be assessed- —that the total proceeds of such assessments would not amount to 10 , 0001 . per annum ^ out of the siims Collected for the poor , amounting annually " to snf millions sterling—and i \ iSt disfcbritent , litigation and numerous iriconv ^ eniences tvblild resu 11 troniiH ^ 4

    withholdment of so smalla boon ;; he could not but anticipate &ai the liberality and prudence * of govemm ^ r % , vvduld induce a coifipfiahce \ vhich would pefpetqafei 4 orhestrt peace " arldf prSauce e& tenstve ^ tisfa ^ on " : Biit " thV ^ phi / cipal m ^ asiire ^ * mK $ ^\ $ tMM'&e ikehfioh him ^ toitimie / , wire fcb % heCtea ^ mih i ^ M ^ pokM ^ ktt ^ id

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    Annual Meeting of the Proteitaii Society . 3 § 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/51/