: DIS 
order of ‘fociety, be he allow of the exemption of none 
from the authorit 
character, or of religion and conf{cience, is to be admitted 
in bar to his oronedoe in sat of a criminal, or merely 
ivil nat A ne it is hi ity to 
any ek 
enter on earth is no 
have the leaft tendency an 
fion. On the contrary, they all affert, oF is fo far 
from vefting in its profefiors a title to t it is 
no exemption from civil fubjedtion. It is in aes of con- 
feience only, they apprehend, they are alone a to 
God: and that not fo as to excufe there 
ceed, from any or none, and whatever plea 
offered in their favour. The diffenters pica maintain, in 
conformity with reafon and fcripture, that ‘* Chrift’s king- 
dom is not of this world, »? and doth not at all interfere with 
rh & both to char enti 
anover 
membered with gratitude by the true friends of that auguft 
family and of the liberties of their country. It has been 
affirmed by thofe who beft knew their ee that 
there are no better fubjefts, and no better friends to 
the conftitution of ee ee as a limited -m monarchy, 
ae 
their Gicion aa in 
tion, appears in the abitraée of hee ie ich we have 
already given. eir zealous attachment to 
the family on the throne, th e given unequivocal 
proofs en the kingdo ke middle of the laft 
ned th majefty’s houfe: at 
hat time, fe dieters “resale of the dreadful penal- 
= of - we _ 
extended tot 
I 
» 2 
on 
ivil community may mention Dr. Secker, archbi- 
fhop f Canterbury, who, in his el oites to Mr. Walpole 
concerning bifhops in America,”’ fays, “ the diffenters are 
fincere well wifhers to the cl part % our prefent happy 
DIS 
eftablifhment ; and they are to be. efteemed and loved for. 
it? The teftimon aA of this prelate is the more important, 
as he was not only born of diffenting parents, but received 
his education, together with the late excellent bifhop Butler, 
in one of their academies, under a tutor, whofe great learning 
and abilities would have been no little honour to either of 
our uriverfities. Lord North, in the courfe of the dee 
bate on a motion for the repeal of the tet laws, whilft he was 
He deprecated 
ought to treat the diffenters 
as men, who deferved ‘iflike or punifhment. He knew 
their virtue, their morality, their learning. he right ho- 
nourable Mr, Charles Fox, referring in the fame debate to 
diffenters. Why? becavfe he felt the propriety and the 
juftice of fuch a teftimon e knew that they had been 
fteady in their attachment to aoremeene: that their re- 
ac 
ligious opinions were favourable to civil liberty ; and that 
the true principles of the conftitution had been remembered, 
and afferted by them, at times, whe 
erly. Pierce’ 
Tove 
H, NoON-CONFORMISTS, PuRi« 
DISSENTIS. 
DISSEPIMENTUM, a partition, in Botany, ferves to 
divide the internal ake of a fruit into two or more Geilee 
Margins o valves as in his Rho- 
Hence he has lately feparated from the former 
order the Erica Dabeoci Sm - 420. Engl, Bot. 
t. 35, and referred it to Menziefia, a an founded by Dr. 
Smith upon that very circumitance. It ars however 
that fome fuppofed Eri 
nts have partitions {pringing from, 
the central pillar or colunvella. Pods, Siique, have moitly a 
longitudinal membranous partition, dividing them into two 
cells, with a thick edge to which the valves are originally 
attached, asin the Sattin-flower, Lunaria, the various kinds. 
of Soe Cheiranthus, 
DISSIDENTS, ina general fenfe, denote thofe who differ 
from the oe aol : the tage! inwhich they live: 
but, in its more appropriate meaning enomination is 
applied in Poland to thofe of the lean, Calvinittic, and 
Greek profeffion. The hiflory of this party, as it is fketch- 
ed by the Polifh hiftorians, is ed by oxe in his 
hiftory of Poland. (Travels, vol. i.) The reformation was 
introduced in the reign of Sigi{mond I. who afcended the _ 
throne in the year 1506, and who perfecuted its followers : 
but their number, however, increafing, his fon Sigifmond 
Auguftus, who fucceeded his father in 1548, not only in« 
dulged them in the liberal exercife of their worfhip, but ad- 
mitted them, together with the Greeks, and all other feéts 
then fubfifting in Poland, t 
ber 
upon the deceafe of Silas rete being of different 
perfuafions, 
