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By a statute of William the third, extorted
by a bigotted party from that enlightened prince,
the several punishments are denomered against
him who shall deny any of the persons of the
blessed trinity to be God, and against him who shall maintain
that and against there are more Gods than one.
Is this one of the English laws imported from England
which have authority in
such Bengal? I know not: but I we know
that a Gentro nobleman of the very first
rank in the country was hanged for offending
against another English law + + by an act committed nine years [which
it was not more less impossible for him to be acquainted
than with this] [crime] years
before there was any pretense for saying that
any such English law had any force over
the natives of that country.
At length indeed [all] such as do not
submit to the yoke of English laws by an act which is looked
upon as voluntary will and and have been] exempted
from expost-facto acts of slaughter butchery [are are no longer to be slaughter'd butcher'd by ex/post facto laws]
are no longer to be butcher'd on pretense of law
but of the endless heap of laws which it is impossible
to know has any line bet been drawn
between those which they are and those which
they
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