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THE London Society of Deputies of the Three Denominations of Dissenters Presbyterian, Independent, and Baptist,-with deputations from the general body of Ministers, and other bodies or Societies, representing the varicas leading denominations of Protestant Dissenters, and from the Scotch United Associate Presbytery in London, having formed a UNITED COMMITTEE for the purpose of seeking relief from their legal disabilities, think it expedient to state briefly their present legal position, and some of the reasons on which they urge their claim to be restored to equal rights in the community.

At a time when the principles of civil and religious liberty are subjects of popular and almost universal discussion; when national tranquillity has for many years been undisturbed;-when political anímosities and party violence have been greatly mitigated, if not subdued, by the influence of a more intelligent and benevolent spirit; -and when the legislature has, on several occasions, lent an attentive ear to the claims of those who have ever been the most prominent objects of exclusion;-it cannot be wondered at that the Protestant Dissenters should come forward to claim the benefit, and aid in the extension, of those important political rights from which they are either wholly shut out, or in which they are allowed only imperfectly to share.

clusion.

The almost accidental origin of the proscription of Protestant Origin of exDissenters from the free enjoyment of the common rights of citizen, ship, is singular when contrasted with the moral and political importance of the measure, and the pertinacity with which it has been subsequently maintained. It seems to have arisen from no maturely weighed consideration even of political differences-from no admitted or openly asserted demerit on the part of the proscribed. It was in itself an acknowledged evil, growing out of a supposed transitory necessity; yet allowed to continue and even to extend itself, when that necessity had no longer an existence. It arose from a singular concurrence of circumstances and position of parties, in which it was not thought safe to trust the Sovereign with the discretion of choosing his own servants, and by which the sufferers

Corporation

Act.

History of the Test Clause.

themselves were, by intrigue or delusion, made instrumental to their own and their children's degradation, and parties to the imposition of a test, highly objectionable in a religious point of view, and not even necessary to the end proposed that of excluding the Roman Catholics from office. The measure, however, once carried, has been perseveringly maintained; and enactments, arising out of the animosities, fears, and jealousies of a turbulent and disgraceful reign, have been preserved and extolled as the bulwarks raised by deliberate¦ wisdom for the permanent protection of the constitution.

The civil proscription of Protestant Dissenters arises from the Sacramental Test imposed by two statutes; the second of them directly and positively aimed against the Roman Catholics; and the other apparently connected as little, in its original object, with the exclusion of Protestant Dissenters, the greater part of whom can hardly be said to have existed till created by the Act of Uniformity two years afterwards. These statutes are commonly called the Corporation and Test Acts.

The first of these Acts, which was passed in 1661 (13 Car. II. stat. 2. c. 1,) had its origin in the temporary design of expelling from corporate offices the adherents of the late government, with a view to the safety of the newly restored dynasty. In all its clauses but one, its purpose is temporary, that of settling by authority who were the unobjectionable holders of these offices, to which there were of course, at such a period, rival pretensions. Commissioners were by the Act appointed for the arrangement of all questions of this sort, and they were directed to administer to those whom they should establish as the proper possessors of offices, the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, together with an oath disclaiming the lawfulness of taking arms against the King, and a declaration disavowing the "Solemn league and covenant;" which two last requisitions have been since repealed by an act passed 5 Geo. I. c. 6. Nearly at the end of the statute, there is a clause which provides that, after the commission should expire, (1663,) no person should be placed in any office of magistracy, or place or employment in the government of a corporation, who had not, within the previous year, taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England, and who would not, when elected, take the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and the further oath and declaration above mentioned. The election of any one not so qualified is declared void.

It is well worthy of observation, that the Sacramental Test was not imposed on those against whom the act was doubtless intended by the original framers to be directed, namely, the then holders of offices who were not friendly to the court; and that the clause which required it, was no provision made or contemplated