Substance of the speeches of John Gale Jones, delivered at the British Forum, March 11, 18, & 22, 1819, [microform] : on the following question, "Ought the prosecutions instituted against Mr. Carlile and others, for the publication of Paine's Age of Reason, to be approved as necessary to prevent the further increase of infidelity, and vindicate the doctrines of Christianity; or censured as an officious and ill-timed interference on a subject not cognizable before any human tribunal, and as an infringement upon that freedom of opinion, that ought ever to be exercised upon all topics essential to the welfare and happiness of mankind?"

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