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and of hrs age by Edward III . were recominended on this occasion by the kipg ' s advisers . The Jub flee was wholly intended to divert the public from the consideration of the state of administration and of the country , and it partly answered its purpose r yet there were those who saw , or thought they saw , in the mode of the observance * of this
day of rejoicing , symptoms of good sense and resolution i . 7 the public , which Would presently break through ail the barriers opposed to political inquiry , and demand indemnity for the past and security for the future , * In one partir cular , the Jubilee vv ^ s a good day , as it bfought a full meal to the mouths of
those whom the Jubilee-proposers had lorig doomed , by their measures , to subsist on half a meal ; though this loyal charky disclosed the melancholy fact , that nearly a moiety of the population of the country are reduced to a Sndition , in which the present or a single comfortable dinner is a gladdening fa-Tour . ^ f
The soldiery were called out to fire Jeus dejoye ; and some of the commanders of volunteer corps refused leave of absence ^ to the sick of their respective regiments . The merchants and bankers of London , including the whole body of contractors , loan-jobbers , commissioners o £ excise and of the income tax , and
their dependents , held a turtle-feast at Merchant Taylors' Hall ; and the Common Council of the city of London were regaled at the Mansion-house , on a plan agreed upon after several hours' discus-
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sion in th e worshipful assembly , witlr roast-beef \ The churches were all opened , as were nearly all the Methodist chapels , and the greater part of the meeting houses .
In some of the churches and chapels the pious hymn of God stive the king was sung , the congregations joining in full chorus . It is said , that these congregational choirs marked with a peculiar emphasis the elegant , feeling lines , j
rpnamg , ; u Confound their politics , < Frustrate their knavish tricks , " And make them fall . *' The peaceable and childlike
Moravians distinguished the day at the village where they have an establishment , by gay processions , the hoisting of flags , the singing of the above-named Christian stanzas , prayers , sermons , and other demonstrations of loyal joy .
There were no doubt many Dissenting congregations whose members would have preferred any mode of keeping the day to religious services ; but there were few which had sufficient courage to resolve not to follow a multitude to do
homage to the court . It is reported , that one very large congregation resolved to have Jubilee-worship , though their elders had determined against it , and their ministers had expressed a disinclination to a service , which had so much
of a political and worldly appearance : trjis we know will seem improbable ^ and we hardly expect to grain credit for the remainder of the report , concerning which we must , in justice to . tW
* It was the intention of the projectors of the Jubilee to have a general illumi * nation ; but this measure appeared , on its being proposed , so ill-suited to the popular feeling , that it was agreed in met places to substitute for it a subscription to the poor . In the metropolis , where the public buildings were splendidly lighted up , the fears of some of the inhabitants led them to resort to the tallow-chandler > that they mi ^ it not be put to the necessity of calling in the glazier ; but there never was an illumination so partial and spiritless . f At York , which has a population of i 8 3 ooo souls , 8000 applied irif-rmdpaU " peth for the" J ubilee-charity ; at Mai ^ stone , where there is a population of 10 , 000 , there were above 500 P who accepted the ^ me relief . { It was at first pioposed to have a dinner for the corporation at the expense of
the city ; it would have co t only one thousand pounds ! This the Ja cobins over * ruled , when it appeared likely that the state procession to St . Paul ' s would be thinly attended % one of the members declaring that he would not go to a cursefl co ! d ' church in the morning , and have an empty stomach all the rest of the day . The chief magistrate dissipated the growing despondency of the cqurt , by $ > ^ en ^ rai invitation to dinner . The Lord Mayor has since received the thanj ^ pf the Co ^ l " m 6 ii Council for his hospitJvy ' . He promised the . Corporation only c ° t " fa $ fi tyfr lie liberally set before them hot brcj- together wit , h sonic excellent soup # W 5 . ?! f vyirie . The thanks of the city have been fpUpwed t > y ' a baronetcy " frqgi % , J ?? ^^
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6 <) u Intelligence . *—The Jubilee *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 696, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/46/
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