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UN IT A HI Ay BOOK SOCIETY .
The ' anniversary of this Society was held on Thursday , the 30 th instant , at the City of L . ondon Tavern , Bishopsgate Street . The company was numerous ;
jhout 70 persons sat down to cunner . The chair was ably filled by Ebenezer Jo hnston , esq , the treasurer . Besides the usual sentiments , there were d riven from the chair the following , which drew forth some conversation and friendly discussion ; viz . the intended cheap * Tract Society , and J \ dr . WyuilFs propped petition to Parliament for the abolition of all penal statutes , relative to religions opinions The
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VISIT OF THE PRINCES TO THE SYNAGOGUE *
Beneath , the reader will find , extracted from the public papers , an account of a royal visit to -the synagogue , on Friday the 14 th- instant , on occasion , we believe , of some grand ceremonies performed at the commencement of one
of the Jewish feasts . The account is not always intelligible ; in some particulars it may be incorrect . It is worth peserving , -however , as a proof at once of the extended toleration of the times , and of the readiness of the people jof the J ews to employ the most nauseous flattery , when it suits their purpose . Let not the
English Jews any more revile their French brethren for their extravagant fulogiums on Napoleon * , and their application of the scriptures to him . His brilliant actions and his splendid munificence may dazzle the eyes of his subjects , especially of those who are but lately recovered from the house of
bondage , and prevent their perceiving- the dark parts of his character ; butwh . it excuse . can be offered for parodying scripture and shouting HALLELUJAII 3 in ho nour of " the Dukes ot Cambridge . Sussex , and Cumberland ! ! " It is Worthy of notice , that , the newspapers announced that the Duke of York was
invited to this religious comedy . He had sufficient good scpse to stay away , and not to raise public indignation against the Jews , by suffering them to appear publicly , at such a time , as his friends . » ut there can be r * o doubt that the parody of scripture and the Hallelujahs were composed under ao expectation of
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Rev . Jere . Joyce , the secretary , informed the company , that the society was ia a more flourishing condition than in any period since its institution , and that seventeen members had been added in the last year ; though it created not an
unpleasant surprise in the meeting to hear from him , that the number of members in this society is less than that in the IVestern . The portrait of Mr . Belshamy painted and ea ^ raved by order of the society at the last anniversary , was , we observed , exhibited in the room .
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the Duke of York ' s being present , to hear them and to be cheered by them . The parody we allude to k on the conclusion of the 24 th Psalm . Pity that th « Psalm itself had not been sung on the
entrance of the princes . We should have liked to have heard them , with the Duke of York at their head , greeted as they made their appearance , with the 3 d and 4 th Terses : Who sh . ill ascend intm 'the bill of the Lord ? anA ivbo shalstand in his holy placs ? He that hats CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART ; WHO HATH NOT LIFT UP HIS SOCJI . UNTO VANITY , NOR SWORN DECEITJUtLY . -
We make not these remarkr . from disrespe . 't of the Jews . We venerate that people a ^ the oldest body of Unitarians in the nation and in the world ; and we are grieved when they do not reverence themselves . The more serious part of them must be offended at the prostitution of th ir worship to tempbial objects . To them , and to their brethren in general , we would recommend the
resolution of Elihu , in the book of Job , ch . x . Kxii . vs 11 , Z 2 . let me tut , Jpray you , accept any ma . ' sp : r ± vri > neither l * t i ?? e cr }< ve ' fl .-tier ' i ^ vr titlt . s u ? ito man * JFor / knotv ? iot to a **> e jl < -i tr , i , g title ?) for in so ao ' ing my Maker iv ^ uld tt . fce ? ne a i < ay . " 6 a Friday , at ha'f past si * , o ' clock , the Dukes of Cunibruige , f > u iex , and Cumberland , attended the Great Syriagog'ue , in Duke ' s Plice , to witness the Hebrew form of worship . The preparation made to receive the princes ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/65/
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