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Journey to serve one fellow creature , a contrivance is made to benefit another . When Mr . Lancaster Je / t Shrewsbury he was not ibrgo'ten by his opponents . Those UK » i -itoiious individuate who would
ke ** p the human mind in thedarkress of ignorance unless its intelligence € oai < blended with the poison of bigotry , renewed their clamour ( with a zeal that has letterly become no novelty ) about " the
danger of the Establishment ; but the superior persuasion and influence oi the Mayor , and his enlightened coadjutors , put down the illiberal efforts of their adversaries , and M *\ Lancaster was lett the
consolation of reflecting that his visit to Shrewsbury was not unavailing * iAbout the 6 th of November , Mr . Lancaster landed in Ireland , and shortly after commenced his lectures in this city . His notice of Ins first lecture at the Rotunda
immediately caught the public eye ,, aviii insured him a full and i > t > pectttble attendance . His se-£ orkl nighf attracted a larger t ! hri > nr ; than the first , but his third
collected together a greater multitude ,, consisting of persons of the firbt distinction ( many of whom came a considerable distance from
the country ) and of people of all religious persuasions , than we ever jsaw assembled before . It is needless to say we never witnessed attention so marked , or interest so 6 x ? d upon any occasion as ( his , except when they were interrupted by bursts of acclamation from the entire auditory .
It is well known that the La Touche family , Mr . Leland Maquay , and some others ( among whom are some benevolent Members , of the Society of Friends ) have established a school in School
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Street , in the Liberty of this City , Twenty . eight thousand poor children have been already instructed here ; and though it is an irrelevant fact , it is not at the same time unworthy of notice , for quieting the imaginations of Mr .
Lancaster ' s opponents , that at this school no proselyte has ever been made to any religious opinions . — yet it is notorious , it has sent thousands of pupils into ** the great world , " from the first steps of knowledge , who have never been reproached for any la&Uy in their attachment to their king or the constitution . Nay , it has sent away
many who are at this day respectable citizens of this city , and who if they have been distinguished for any thing , it is for exemplary loyalty and unaffected social virtue .
With the School-street committee Mr . Lancaster naturally beqame acquainted . There was a congeniality of sentiment and feeling that attracted the parties towards each other ; but there was a stronger impulse to bring them together . Mr * Lancaster , ever
ardent in advancing his objects , waited upon the committee to arrange a , plan he understood they meditated , of not only adopting his system in toto ( having already partially availed themselves of it ) but bf exteriffihg its benefits to
other parts pf the kingdom- The committee had already a good idea of Mr . Lancaster ' s plan—indeed , they were the only persons in Dub - lin who were in any degree practically conversant with it ; the communication 4 vitfh Mr . L #
expanded their views , and it was ultimately resolved to convene a meeting at the Exchange by public advertisement , in order t <* form a society " for theextention pf " ( fo
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$ 6 < S Intelligence *—Lancasterian Systeih in Ireland
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/58/
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