1780 Protestant Riots referenced in public discourse
The fragment cites accusations about the murder of Archbishop Sharpe and condemns the alleged no Popery zeal of Newdegate Whalley and Charley amid the lawless acts and drunken orgies of Lord George Gordon’s Protestant rioters in 1780. It preserves names and the charged mood of the era without graphic detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archbishop Sharpe
Messrs. Newdegate
Whalley
Charley
Lord George Gordon
The Married Priest and the Clash of Church and State
The piece argues that marriage and divorce rules are treated as ecclesiastical matters, not universal morals, critiquing priestly authority and hypocrisy. It centers on Father Hyacinthe a Catholic priest who marries, provoking scandal and a test of doctrinal loyalties, especially among Protestants and latitudinarians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christendom
Hyacinthe
Father Hyacinthe
M. Layson
Montaigne
Rousseau
Times
Goethe
Luther
Papal
French Priests May Renounce Celibacy in Public Marriages
Paris dispatch notes Father Hyacinthe's example prompting priests to marry publicly in France. It cites the diocese average of twenty to thirty marriages yearly, quotes Abbé Michaud as advised to wed quietly, and recalls a 19th century ruling that marriage with the Church precludes civil matrimony. The piece condemns the social and legal hindrances facing clerical marriage and warns English readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
The
Daily News
Hyacinthe
Patrie
France
Paris Journal
Notre Dame
Michaud
Claude Vignon
Indépendance Belge
M. Rouvier
Marseilles
West Indian Church Disestablishment Debate
Writing to the Standard examines the movement against church establishment in the West Indies. The author argues for separation from state church ties and considers implications for religion, governance, and colonial policy in the Caribbean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
Standard
Disestablishment Debates Stir Nevis and Caribbean Islands
A long, polemical column argues that disestablishment of church and state in Nevis is inevitable, with opposition from West Indian Churchmen and a sense of looming reform. It cites Dominica’s experience, Montserrat’s spoils dispute, and English opinion’s non interference, urging readiness for change while noting other regional religious tensions and related political moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man
Island of
Nevis
B. Pine
Dominica
Montserrat
Standard
Colonial Office
Friends of
Establishment
Ireland
America
Scotsman
Inverary
Cambodden
Germany
Rome
Berlin
William
Krementz
Ermeland
Dublin Evening Post
Mer. Mially
New York Independent
Miall
John Bull
James Martineau
Winchester
Garnier
All Souls’ College
Oxford
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