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then foi ^ a e ^ ort an <* * et us exti nguish tbis debt of 3501 . ! This debt which is so oppressive at New-church , becomes nothing" when divided and shared by the Unitarian public . This debt is fell as a great incumbrance by their worthy minister * not from the most remote
consideration of bis own interest , but from an anxious wish , that by the reduction of the debt in his life-time , he may know that of the money advanced upon the Chapel everv one has received his own with interest . And particularly as a considerable part of this debt was borrowed from and is wanted bv persons not belonging to the religious
Society . I add the names of a few individuals by whom donations , however small , will be thankfully received ; and with your leave , Mr . Editor , the subscriptions may from time to time be published in the Monthly Repository ; a mode of acknowledgement which will save some trouble and expense both to the subscribers and the receivers .
I cannot close this appeal to the justice and liberality of the Unitarian public , without stating- that there are attached to the New-church Chapel a Sunday School and a Vestry Library . And I take this opportunity of soliciting * from the subscribers
and committees belonging to the several Unitarian Tract Societies , and from the authors in the Unitarian cause , the gift of any Tracts or larger works , for the Library aud for distribution amongst the Unitarians in Rossendale .
I am , dear Sir , Yours with great respect , JOHN THOMSON " . Donations in aid of liquidating the debt of £ 350 upon the Unitarian Chapel at New-church , in Rossendale , Lancashire .
wiil be received by 'the Rev . Robert Aspland ^ Hackney Road , the Rev . Richard Astley , Haltfax y TheRev . William Johns , Manchester , Mr , William Walker ^ Rochdale ^ and fi r . Thomson , Halifax .
The following Subscriptions have been receive d and paid to the Trustees of the Chapel : I . s . d . Samuel Shore , Esq . Meersbrook 3 0 0 «* . William Johns , Manches-* - - - - 10 0 w . Richard Astley , Halifax 110 *« Car tied ge , Brow Bridge 110 J «* Wood , Ueadingley - - 1 1 O "' Thomson , Halifax - - 1 1 0 £ 8 4 0
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Meeting of the Bourbon and Napoleon Annies at Melun . rj ,, [ From the . Examiner . ] of th ow * & highly interesting- account to K tUn * * u P on wh > ch every thing seems na kiing itt tljis Iwsiuos ^ is taken
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from a brother journalist who is not apt to be very eloquent , but who appears to have caught a sort of second-hand inspiration * in spite of himself , from the mere force of what has been told him . It is impossible
to read it without hearing , in a manner , the silence of the awful moment described , and then , after a pause , the small : but quick gathering of the sounds , that announced the strange Being who came to break it : —
" Many of the Nobles , " ( says theilforfling Post ) " who from their warm attachment to their unfortunate monarch have been also obliged to fly from France and follow his fortune , arrived in town yesterday . We have conversed with several of them , who have communicated to us the following highly interesting particulars oi the late events : —
" They estimate the number of national guards , volunteers , and other troops , col > lected at Melun , to stop the march and crush the hopes of the tyrant , at not less than 100 , 000 men . The best spirit seemed to prevail amongst them . They appeared devoted to the cause of the king .
and eager to meet and repel his antagonist . A powerful artillery strengthened taeir positions . Relying on their numbers , they had left the town , the rocks , and the forest of Fontainbleau unguarded , preferring the flat plains of Melun , where the whole of their army might act at once against the comparatively small band of the invader .
" On the 20 th Buonaparte reached » n # occupied Fontainbleau without the least opposition . He had at that time with him only 15 , 000 veteran troops , but other divisions were either follow ing / him , or advancing to support his right and left flanks on parallel lines of march . Ney , whose
corps is stated to have amounted to 30 ^ 000 men , had previously communicated to the Court a declaration signed by the whole army under his command , both officers and privates , in which they stated , " that the > respected him too much to deceive hini j that they woukl not fight for Louis the XVlIIth , and that they would shed all
their blood for Napoleon the Great" Thi . s declaration , which sufficiently explains the apparent hesitation , inactivity , or want of skill of Ney , did not ^ however ^ entirely extinguish the hopes of the , Bourbons . They still relied on the good disposition and numbers of the troops at Melun , and blinded by the addresses sent . ujj
from many garrisons and provmces a . ti the very moment of their defection ,, still thought that their cause would be . espoused by the nation as her own . As a * measure of precaution , however , part of the Kinff * s household was dispatched to secure , the road to Calais ,, in case a retreat should prove necessary , and op the l £ Mh qcftupied Amiens . " Early , on dip- inoxuing of the ^ JLst ,
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Intelligence ^ —Meeting of the Bourbon and Napoleon Armies . 317
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/53/
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