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      ever was or is benefited by them , and beyond these crimes it is not possible that any success can attend the perpetrators ; they are totally unable to face the constabulary force in . opett contest ; half a dozen of policemen are quite sufficient to put down the strongest

      Whiteboy force in any thing like a regular at * tack ; and If they are not , the police are reinforced by the yeomanry corps , and these again by the regular army . The Government has at its command upwards of one hundred thousand infantry , cavalry , and artillery ; aud , if it wanted

      foreign aid against domestic disturbances , it could easily procure one hundred thousand more—so that all notion of being successful by means of Whiteboyism or secret societies , is as ridiculous and absurd as it is wicked and criminal .

      Let it be recollected , too , that in all those disturbances and secret societies , no person of education , character , or property , takes a part ; they are cotidetuned by every honest and every intelligent person , and , above all , they are reprobated by your truly amiable ,

      intelligent , laborious , pious , and beloved clergy . How is it possible that you can forg-et the admonition and advice of that clergy ? Do you not know that they have no other interest but yours ; and no other object but your temporal , as well as eternal welfare ? [ To be concluded in the next No . l

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      PARLIAMENTARY .

      Unitarian Marriage Bill . This bill was lost in the House of Lords on the second reading , Friday , the 3 d inst ., by a majority of four . There were Content ... 32 Proxies . .... 20 52 Non-Content . . . 31

      Proxies 25 56 It was thus stifled by the proxies . The Marquis of Lansdownje displayed his usual ability on behalf of the Bill ; the Archbishop of Canterbury his wonted

      catholic spirit ; aud Lord Liverpool his formerly and strongly declared seuse of the propriety aud necessity of the measure . The Bill was opposed by the young bishop . Dr . Blomfield , in a speech which we apprehend he would not

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      wish to have apart of his history ; and , of course , by the Lord Chancellor , who seems pledged to resist every measure designed to extend tbe boundaries of liberty , civil or religious . This celebrated lawyer again threw out his doubts ( or rather more than his doubts—for he

      seldom has any doubts in the House of Lords when the question is to remove or lighten restraints upon conscience ) with regard to the toleration of Unitarians at common law . In consequence of this strange speech , ( so even the Prime Minister avowed that he regarded it , ) a few individuals sent to the Legislature

      the petition which will be found below . Mr . W . Smith ' s speech upon presenting it to the House of Commons , and any debate that may take place on its being presented to the House of Lords , as well as the above debate on the motion for

      the second reading , shall be given hereafter . To shew how the question is red ded by dispassionate men of all parties , we extract the following paragraph from the Courier ( the government paper ) of June 4 , on the rejection of the Bill :

      " The second reading of the Unitarian Marriage Bill was moved by the Marquis of Lansdowne , who prefaced his motion with a speech that ought to have secured the attainment of his object . We regret that it did not . Upon a division , there was a majority of Jive ( four ) against the Bill . The relief sought for by the parties

      interested m the measure , being one which purely affected the conscience , the scruples involved in it are entitled to respect . It has nothing to do with civil or political exemptions . They ask only permission to solemnize a most important contract with those forms , and after that manner , which they honestly and sincerely consider essential parts of it /'

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      ^ 380 Intelligence .- ^ PafUiametotary : Unitarutn Marriage Bill .

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      Mr . Bowring , we are happy to announce , has just ready for publication a volume of Hymns designed as a Sequel to the Matins and Vespers , which have acquired such just and extensive celebrity .

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      Unitarian Petition , To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled , The humble Petition of the undersigned Protastant Dissenters of the Unitarian

      Persua-, SllEWETH , That your petitioners have hitherto confided that the law affecting Protestant

      Dissenters in general was as stated m the memorable words of Lord Mansfield , in moving ( on 4 th February , 1767 ) the judgment of your Honourable House , in the case of the Chamberlain of London against Evans , namely , " That the Toleration Act rendered

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      LITERARY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/54/