Act exempted from its benefit the deniers of the doctrine of the Trinity. The 9 and 10 William and Mary against blasphemy and profaneness, provided certain punishment against what it called "crimes," and one of these was stated to be the denial of any of the persons of the Trinity to be God. He could not conceive that because that Act was repealed, it was not still to be evidence of what was in the acknowledg ment and understanding of the Legisla. ture, a crime antecedently punishable, though not to that extent, at common law. Mr. Justice Blackstone so treated it, and spoke of it as an offence which the Legislature found it necessary to repress by severer punishments. The question had been treated in the Courts as one of importance. It had come before himself incidentally in charity cases, and lately it had come before the Court of King's Bench, where one judge was of opinion that it was still an offence, and the other three would not say it was not.. Therefore he contended they ought now to be explicit, and to require something more determinate than the phrase used by this Bill, as to "persons entertaining scruples as to the doctrine of the Trinity." What did such a phrase mean? Every body might be said to have scruples on such a subject some time or other. But if the phrase meant any thing specific, it was what the Bill seemed cautiously to avoid acknowledging, (as if the parties were aware of their situation,) namely, that they came denying the essential doctrines of the Church. He was only contending that they ought not to leave it so. As to the quotation of Locke, he could only hope that when they came to discuss the Catholic question, he should be allowed the same privilege. It had been said, that he objected first to general measures, and then to particular ones. It was enough to say he objected to this, because he was quite sure that they could never pass this Bill, and refuse any other sect who chose to apply. He considered the Bill as the greatest blow that had ever been aimed against the Church. If this Bill did not lead to many others of the same sort from every species of objectors, he would claim little credit for his power of prophecy; and then, if all sorts of Dissenters were to be let in, he defied them to retain their fees.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, he must contend that the Statute which re

pealed the exception of Unitarians from the benefit of the Toleration Act, placed them in as good situation as if that exception had never been made. What then was the state of Dissenters generally

were they not established in fact, and protected by the State? If he found on the highest authority, that the Toleration Act took the Dissenters under the protection of the State, would it not be clear that these persons were in the same predicament? That this was the case, he found expressly decided by Mr. Justice Foster, who, as if foreseeing the very objection, used the strongest expressions, holding that this toleration was not to be treated as a connivance or exception from penalty, but that the removal of the penalty took off the idea of offence, and took the worship under the protection of the law. Could it have been the intention of the Legislature to leave the Unitarians exposed to the penalties of common law? If they were, why did not the Learned Lord state so at the time? If these persons were to remain subject to prosecution, why did he not in common candour let them know their situation, and not suffer them to be deluded by a fancied protection, when the Learned Lord knew all the time that it was a delusion? It had been said, why make the Church ancillary to these mar riages? For this plain reason, that they legislated for the common advantage of the public. He had yet to learn that this was more than a civil institution, in which every member of the community had as much interest as any party before them. All that the Church was called upon to do, was, to render the duty which it performed on all other occasions, to attend to civil regulations devised for the prevention of clandestine marriages and for due registration. It was no indignity which they were offering to the Church, but a benefit they were providing for the whole community, and for the Church itself, in saving it from being made the instrument for violating conscience, with no chance of good to itself or any one, with no prospect of bringing dissidents within its pale, with no probable end but that of defeating all the kind feelings which it ought to conciliate, and substituting recollections of resentment and violated conscience, as well as dislike towards that Church which most strangely tolerated the dissident in separation from its worship at one time, and at another dragged him into a compulsive conformity on an occasion when the interests of the community call loudest for sincerity.

The House divided, when there ap peared to be,

For the second reading, 21,-proxies 14 Against it, 20,-proxies 13

Majority for the Bill, 2.

LITERARY.

Royal Society of Literature. We looked, we confess, with some suspicion upon this Institution at its commencement; but whatever were the original views of its projectors, it is now devoted, we are willing to believe, to the encouragement and reward of literary merit. The following newspaper report justifies our good opinion:

The Council of this Institution have elected from the class of Honorary Associates, the ten following individuals, to receive the allowance of £100 per ann. for life, granted by his Majesty. They

take the title of Royal Associates:

1. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esq. -The Friend, Essays-Lay SermonsTranslation of Wallenstein-Remorse, a Tragedy, &c.

2. The Rev. EDWARD DAVIES.-Celtic Researches Mythology of the Ancients.

3. The Rev. JOHN JAMIESON, D. D. F. R. S. E. F.L.A. E.-An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Hermes Scythicus, &c.

4. The Rev. T. R. MALTHUS, M. A. F. R. S.-Essay on Population.

5. THOMAS JAMES MATHIAS, Esq., F.R.S. F. S. A.-Runic Odes-On the Evidence relating to the Poems attributed to Rowley-The Shade of Alexander Pope, &c.

6. JAMES MILLINGEN, Esq., F. S. A. -Peintures Antiques inédités de Vases Grecs-Peintures de Vases Grecs de la

Collection de Sir Jno. Coghill, Bart. Recueil de quelques Médailles Grecques inédités-Medallic History of Napoleon. 7. Sir W. OUSEley, Knt., LL.D. Persian Miscellanies-Oriental Collec. tions Travels in Persia, &c.

8. WM. ROSCOE, Esq.-Life of Lorenzo de Medici-Life of Leo X., &c.

9. The Rev. HENRY JOHN TODD, M. A. F. S. A.-The Works of Spenser, &c.— Milton's Poetical Works, &c.-Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton-Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer-Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Bishop Walton-Johnson's Dictionary corrected,

The Milton Manuscript.

TIMES are wonderfully changed since MILTON Complained of evil days and evil tongues. In the race that the Govern nent and Parliament are running with the People in liberality, and in which they sometimes take the lead of the peo ple, nothing that can gratify a generous cultivated mind, or do honour to the national character, seems to be overlooked. The Milton Manuscript (of which we gave some account, p. 124) has been recognized in Parliament, and it appears, from a conversation which we are about his opinion of its value, and his wish for to give, that His Majesty has expressed its publication! It will be our endeavour

to furnish our readers with some account of it as soon as it appears.-The following is the Morning-Chronicle report of what passed in the House of Commons, Monday, March 29" Mr. W. WIL LIAMS wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Secretary (for the Home Department). He understood that a work of the immortal Milton, in the hand-writing of one of his nephews, Philips, had been lately discovered in the State Papers. He was anxious to learn whether such a gratifying communication was true, and if true, whether it was, as he hoped, intended to give it to the public! (hear, hear!)-Mr. Secretary PEEL: It is true that a work of Milton's, in the handWriting of Philips, has been discovered by Mr. Leman (Lemon) amongst the State Papers. It is a work entitled De Dei Cultu, in support of the truths of the Christian Religion. It was on its discovery submitted to His Majesty; and the first observation of His Majesty was, 'A

WORK OF MILTON'S MUST BE MADE pub

It

LIC' (loud and continued cheers). has since, in furtherance of the Royal decision, been submitted to a competent supervision, and the work will speedily appear" (cheers).

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