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    sition that he would be in the procession ; and enraged that hehajd not giyefi them thi $ opportunity , they dipped their pens in gall to calumniate him for not having given them the opportunity they desired of abusing him . Mr , Cobbett , the political writer , whose industry surpasses that of any

    man that has appeared in this wa'k of life in England , and who is distinguished by the clearness of his style , as much as by the freedom of his observations , has received his final doom , for the remarks he made on an alleged mutiny of some militiamen , and the use of the German

    troops to bring them into order . The judge allowed that the right stilt remained to . an Englishman , of calling in question the propriety of employing- foreign troops in this country , provided it was exercised with due decorum ; and we must confess for ourselves , that we retain on this subject , and on that of

    standing armies in general , the opinion of our ancestors ; for we have not as yet seen their arguments confuted . In Mr . Cobbett ' s case , the judge who passed sentence is reported in the papers to have stated the libel to have verged to the borders © f high treason ; but without

    such an authority , we could not have dreamed of such a thing ; nor did we see in it more scarcely than strong iron y in a very bad style ; and the handling of a subject beyond the bounds which seem to be laid down for the liberty of the press . Two years confinement in Newgate , a fine of a thousand pounds , and

    security for future good behaviour , will , it must be allowed , be ample retribution : and it was expected to have tamed the spirit of the author ; but he continues his publication , and has vindicated himself from the insinuations of the attorney general , that he wrote for base lucre , in a mariner that does him great credit . We could wish to sec I the word libel

    well defined , with fixed punishments to its modes ; and it is a subject which deserves more attention than has been given to it in this country : -we do not mean hy lawyers , but by writers who weigh well the morality of human

    actions . Another case has occurred in the law courts ^ which- merits the attention of the religious world . A society is formed in town for the conversion of the Jews

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    to Christianity . The end is laudable . Every true Christian must wish to see the true futh established among that people , but in the present distracted state of Christianity , it is not easy to conceive them to be brought : enrer by the arguments that are most likely to lje use ;) . We loo ' v forward with confidence , how *

    erer , to the day , when they will lay aside their rabbinical superstitions , and to the worship of the one and only true Godt add the faith in the mission of our Saviour J esus Christ- Indeed , from them as the Christian faith began , so by them wilr it receive its great triumphs in the world . The Jews and the

    Christians-have at present much to unlearn ; they must both throw aside their prejudices , and v build their faith solely upon their Scriptures To these they must approach with the reverence they deserve , and they must cast aside all the fictions of men , which they now regard

    more than they do the . oracles of God , The society , however , for converting the Jews has established a chapel for thist purpose , and a school for the instruction of the poorer class . . TJj £ y . have several scholars of both sexes , f but we believe entirely formed from those whose parents were unable to support them . Among them was a lad whose father

    had been in prison , and he now moved that his child might be restored to him ; but it was urged , that the society did not refuse access to the child , and that the child ' s stay in the society was voluntary . He was , it seems , ^ however , two hundred miles oiF , and the parent was too poof to go aftif / t' him . The

    court refused unanimously the rule . . Let us put the case in a different way . Suppose some rich Jews to unite to convert Christian children to Judaism , and confine themselves to boys and girls running about the streets , whose parents are in prison ; to fix them in a school in Yorkshire , where they were fed and clothed and circumcised . What would the

    society for the conversion of the Jews say upon this occasion ? If that society will keep the children , without inducing them to offend again it the precepts of the Jewish law , till they are of age to choose their religion , no Jew could object to it ; but we do not apprehend that many converts will be made to Christianity by the present system .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/55/