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    called from his duties in that district by the active friends of the Abolition of Negro Slavery , who had occasion for his services in a Cause to which his principles had disposed , and his circumstances enabled him to render efficient aid . He is about to return to his station , and resume his usual labours . During his absence , his salary has been applied to the procuringof acceptable supplies for the congregations under his care . At Hartley , a substantial and respectable Chapel has been erected , capable of seating near four hundred persons . During the Winter , Lectures on Doctrinal Subjects were delivered in it , by Dr . Carpenter , Messrs . Grundy , Cheetham , Hincks , Bransby , Small , Hutton , Ash ton and others . About one hundred sittings are taken . A small congregation has , since the last Report , been collected at Burslem ; and in different parts of the Potteries persons are coming forward to avow their convictioa of the truth of Unitarian doctrines , and assist in their promulgation . An application was made , immediately after the last Anniversary , from Mr . Bartlett , the aged Minister of New Malton in Yorkshire , for the Unitarian Fund to take the Chapel at that place under their patronage , and provide for him such assistance in the Pulpit as might have the effect of recovering the congregation from its declining" condition . The Trust Deeds have been forwarded to the Secretary of the Unitarian Association , for the purpose of vesting the Chapel in persons nominated jointly by your Committee and the congregation . The following letter , from one of the Divftiity Students in the York College , will inform you of the manner in which the Pulpit has been occupied ; and it will , on other accounts , be heard with lively interest :

    " Manchester College , York , May 26 , 1824 . €€ , u I have been requested by those Students who form our College Missionary Society , to draw up a concise view of the nature and extent of our Missionary labours , as something of the kind seems due for the support we have received , and as you may wish to know every thing connected with the interests of Unitarianism , preparatory to your Annual Meeting and

    Report of the Unitarian Fund . The vote of d£ 20 was granted us , I believe , on condition that Malton should be supplied every Sunday . From the time it was first stipulated this has been done , will continue during the Session , and , we are happy to say , during the greater part of the vacation , as one of the Students remains at York for s ome time after our Examination . We

    have been delivering a Course of Lectures during the Winter , which , on the whole , were numerously attended ; and though it would be premature to speak of any great success in the spread of Unitarianisnn there at present , it may be gratifying to know that , with some slight addition to the

    congregation , the religious union ot those already members has been much promoted , and an attention to the subject been awakened in the place , which will ultimately favour the cause of truth . " Under difficult , though not unpromising circumstances , the important ° hject of establishing a Sunday-School has been attained ; and with this

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/17/