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    contending that the denial of any particular supposed doctrine of Christianity , as established by law , was ever punishable at common law as an offence against society , they have lately heard it asserted or insinuated , that the preamble of the Act of 9 and 10 William III . ( which most unjustly and uncharitably classed the denial of the doctrine of the

    Trinity among certain undoubted offences "which it denorain ated < < detestable crimes ^ is to be taken even after its repeal as evidence of an assertion on the part of the Legislature , that the offence was and is as described by it , a crime against society , and as such cognizable at common law , without entering into the question

    whether the proposition of law supposed to be so made or implied was true or not . Your petitioners humbly submit that the recurrence to the preamble of a persecuting act ( so disgraceful , cruel and unjust , that your petitioners have heard from high authority that " a man could have neither the feelings of an Englishman nor a Christian who could hesitate

    one moment to repeal it" ) is unworthy of the spirit which dictated its repealis unconstitutional , dangerous and unjust . That in the same way various other supposed heresies might be argued to be still ( as they were at the time of passing acts that disgraced our statute book thought to be ) " detestable crimes ;"

    errors in judgment would be once more held to infer moral turpitude and sin ; and various offences might be revived , against which , in days of ignorance , bigotry or superstition , laws have passed , declaring all sorts of acts and opinions

    criminal ; and all this might occur , although it might be plain ( as in the case of your petitioners ) that the assertion of illegality made by those laws was a priori untrue and untenable as a position of law . Your petitioners are sure that it is the dictate of common sense , as well as of justice , that a worship , which the law

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    tolerates , sanctions , and provides for the exercise of , by licensing its places and ministers , " is not only exempted from punishment , but rendered innocent and lawful , " and iC that the law protects nothing in that very respect in which it is in the eye of the law unlawful /*

    To hold your petitioners panishatye for the free exercise of siiea worship would , as they submit , be cruel and unjust , and would convert the enactments of the Legislature into a . snare for the unwary , who might confide in its apparent promises and in the undoubted

    uuderstanding of all persons , that a full and effectual relief was intended to be given . The doubts thus thrown out ( however unfounded , as your petitioners submit them to be ) tend to the serious annoyance of your petitioners , and shake to their foundation all charitable trusts

    connected with their institutions , at the same time that they leave an important constitutional question in a state which no government of a free state ought ( as they submit ) in justice to its subjects to allow . If no doubt exists , none should be raised ; if it does exist , it should be removed ; for your petitioners cannot

    conceive that in this age and in this country it can be held proper that opinions should be punished as cc detestable crimes / ' which , whether true or false , are held by so many wise and good men , and which even the despotic Government of the Austrian Empire recognizes as forming one of the established religions of a great portion of its dominion .

    Your petitioners therefore humbly pray , that a full and efficient inquiry may take place into the state of the law as affecting your petitioners , and that if necessary a remedy may be provided for any defects in the measure by which it was intended , as they believe , that they should be effectually relieved . And your petitioners shall ever pray , &c .

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    382 Intelligence *—* A List of Joint-Stock Companies *

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    A List of Joint-Stock Companies y the Propbsals for which are now , or have been latel y * before the Public , Amount of ascertained Capital , from p . 248 , , £ 220 , / 54 , 000 402 Surrey , &c . Fire and Life Insurance . 1 , 000 , 000 221 , 754 , 000

    Solicitors , Bankers , fyc . appointed to receive applicaCions \ for Shares : 459 Sussex County and General Fire and Life Insurance Company . . . - Harmington . 500 , 000 460 United National Life Insurance Company . Carter - 200 , 000 461 Essex Economic Fire ditto ditto . 462 British Iron ditto . . Shrivenor 463 West of England Cobalt and Copper ditto . Freshfield . 125 , 000 464 Northern and Welch Mining ditto Kearsey . 500 , 000 Carried forward £ 223 , 079 , 000

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    MISCELLANEOUS .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/56/