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S.H.1825

REMARKS

ON THE

LEGALITY AND EXPEDIENCY

OF

PROSECUTIONS

FOR

RELIGIOUS OPINION.

TO WHICH IS ANNExed,

AN APOLOGY FOR THE VICES OF THE LOWER
ORDERS.

BY JONATHAN DUNCAN, Esq.

OTHE

BODI

NUSITICI

Liberty, absolute liberty, full and perfect liberty-is the thing that we desire.-LOCKE.

LONDON:

J. AND H. L. HUNT, 38, TAVISTOCK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1825.

ELA

J. Davy, Printer, Queen Street, Seven Dials.

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REMARKS

ON

PROSECUTIONS

FOR

RELIGIOUS OPINION.

MEN of all parties are pretty generally agreed in opinion, that the injudicious prosecutions instituted by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, instead of arresting the circulation of blasphemous and seditious publications, contributed more effectually than the united exertions of Carlisle and his confederates, to disseminate among the lower orders of Society, a spirit of scepticism and irreligion, That Mr. Wilberforce and his friends were actuated by the purest and most disinterested motives, courtesy obliges us to admit; but their zeal unfortunately overstepped their prudence, and their pious exertions in defence of Christianity, though attended with partial success, were, upon the whole, detrimental to the cause they desired to befriend. An obscure individual set their power at defiance; an emporium of blasphemy was established in the heart of the capital; the writings of Paine

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