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      Bad Spifi 4 of Lancashire Quakers ^ A periodical publication conducted at Liverpool ^ entitled " The Christian Reflector / ' has cb&rged the Friends of that town and neighbourhood with soine pro

      ceedings very unfviemtty to the Unitarians , and which , if they fee correctly reported , are little short of persecution * They ard said to have given public warning to their members , in the course of this year , that none of them must attend the Unitarian

      worship at Renshaw Street , Liverpool , or read Unitarian books , on pain of disownment . This is sufficiently scandalous , but another measure surpasses this in active bigotry . Under the patronage of the Lancashire and Cheshire recently-formed Unitarian Association , the Rev . George Harris and some friends engaged a room

      adjoining and belonging to an inn at the town of St . Helens , for public worship . The room was taken for three months * and was registered in the Bishop ' s Court * and public notice given of its opening on a particular day . Before the day arrived , however , the landlady informed her new

      tenants that she was compelled to violate her contract with them . Her inn , and the lands and premises about it , belonged to the Quakers , ( whether as a body , or as individuals , we are not informed , ) and they had given her peremptory notice not to suffer the Unitarians to enter her door .

      It is further stated , that the matter was discussed at a Monthly Meeting of the Friends of the district , and that though some individuals pleaded on behalf of charity , or rather of justice , the majority came to the above memorable decision . — We know the publication from which we have gathered these particulars to be in

      the hands of honourable men , or we could scarcely give credit to the statement . We republish it , that if incorrect it may be contradicted , —that if correct , or substantially so , the Quakers amongst Our read < - ers may see how their body is fallen , and to what a degree the disciples of William Penn have imbibed the worst spirit of the world .

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      LEGAL . We are sorry to see that a respectable man , Mr . Isaac Cox , of Honiton , attorney at law , has been brought before the King ' s Bench for a libel . He wrote a paragraph in a western paper reflecting upon a young man for supposed

      inhumanity in killing a horse . It turned out on the trial , that the circumstances of the case ( which was still a shocking one ) had been exaggerated to Mr . Cox by his informants * He was therefore found guilty at Exeter * On the 23 rd inst ., he was brought up for judgment in the Court of

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      ® 4 Intelligence . *~ - Bad Spirit tfLaneoxMr * QuuAers ^ Legal /

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      Nov . 23 , Geo . Bere was brought up for judgment in the Court of King ' s Bench for having sold , as the servant of Richard Carlile , a libel upon the King . Mf . Cooper pleaded in mitigation , and Mr . Justice

      Bayley pronounced the judgment of the Court , that the defendant be confined ( 5 months in Winchester gaol , and find security for his good behaviour during 7 years , himself in 500 / , and two Sureties in 50 / , each .

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      BlacOw , the Liverpool clergyman , who was convicted at the last Lancashire Assizes of preaching a scandalous ' and malicious libel upon the late lamented Queen Caroline , has received sentence , in the King ' s Bench , to 6 months' imprisonment and a fine of 100 / . The wretched defendant had stood in the same situation of

      a convicted libeller once before . No one , theu , can pronounce his sentence vindictive , or accuse the Court of beiug actuated in determining it by strong political resentments .

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      On the 14 th inst ., Mr . Scarlett moved for a Criminal Information against the proprietor of the Durham Chronicle , for an alleged libel , in that paper of the 18 th of AuflCt&t- Upon the clergy . The paraconduct

      graph in question relates to the of the Durham clergy irt not suffering tfte bells of the , diur $ fces of that city to De tolled on the cteeeW of thb late Queeri . It arraigna that body at hypocrisy , vy orialy-miitdedMas and jwUtical » ub » emeucy ,

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      Nov . 15 , Mary Ann Carhle , sister of Richard Carlile , who was convicted a few months ago ( July 24 th ) of a libel upon religion , by selling one of Paine ' s Works , was brought up for judgment , ( after an ineffectual attempt of Mr . Cooper , on the 13 th , to Obtain a new trial ,

      on the ground of her being interrupted in her defence , ) and the sentence was imprisonment for a year in Dorchester gaol , a fine of 500 / , to the King , and sureties for her good behaviour for five years , herself in 1 , 000 / , and two Other persons in 100 / , each , and further imprisonment until the fine be paid and the sureties provided .

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      King ' s Bench * Mr * € o& put In an & * culpatory aifidaf& , atpd Btated m Qourtj that the costs had alread y exceeded £ 6 Oo ! The respectability of his character was admitted even by the adverse Counsel and Mr . Justice Bayley said that tire evil

      dence proved that his motive had beea pure humanity ; he had , however , beea hasty a ** d unguarded * and , taking all the circumstances into consideration , the sentence of the Court was , that he pay a fine of 50 / , and be discharged .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/62/