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    the opposers of the bill to imagine that tbeir triumph is complete . They must keep their eye on the proceedings in parliament . It is by means of some petty evil , that strikes every one , that great injury may be done to the fabric of

    religious liberty ^ which cannot be secure , till all who name the name of Christ are perfectly convinced that every attempt to exercise dominion over those of a different

    persuasion is directly repugnant to the whole government of our Lord and Master . The , Committee , who had so ahly conducted the resistance to thjs bill , presented a report of their proceedings at a general meeting

    on the 24 th , and it was a source of great satisfaction to see such a number assembled , of very different religious peijguasions , concurring in their thanks to the instruments under providence , by whom this attempt against our liberty had been baffled . One circumstance

    occurred , which will , we trust , put dissenters under their guard in a future attempt of this kind . Lord Sidmouth avered that he

    had received encouragement from some of them , and it camd out that he had really had communications with with several dissenters .

    Such communications are very dangerous . On no account should we go into the camp of the enemy , and we trust that his Lord * ship is mistaken in supposing that any modification would have satisfied the gentlemen with whom he conversed . But if any one has been so unguarded as to give such a hope to Loki > Sidmouth , we must assure him that the para - mount sentiment of the great body of dissenters was and is , that ihe

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    Bill , in its preamble , clauses , and every part , is offensive to them , and that they cannot enter into any compromise upon such an occasion , Several important debates took place in the House of Commons and facts came out in ihemthatare

    little attended to . Leave was given to bring in a bill for an exchange of the English and Irish militia

    in which the advantages were duly appreciated of a better acquaint . ance between the two countries * but a proper question was asked , whether the Roman Catholic sol .

    diers would be allowed the free exercise of their religion when in England ; and it was suggested that this was the time to put an end to all religious distinctions , by which the whole force of the

    empire might be more disposeable to its best defence . Sir J « Cox Hippesley enforced this de . mand , stating that though general orders had been issued not to

    restrict the Catholic soldiers in their worship , they were but partially adhered to ; for though they were permitted to attend their chapels , yet they were often marched afterwards to an established church .

    A fact of a very extraordinary na . ture was advanced by him : name ly that out of three thousand recruits sent to the depot at the isle of Wight , only one hundred and sixty belonged to the established church . The Chancellor of

    the Exchequer maintained that the Irish Militia , when in this country , would still be the Irish militia , and therefore would be by law entitled to the exemptions and privileges which they haa in Ireland , With this off-hand opinion , Mr . Wjbitbriud * not satisfied : he wished that oi

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    312 State of . Public Affairs .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/56/