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Au Status , when he HvM , mockM God ? so be Ev ' n at his death , believ'd no God to be ; a version as inaccurate , as to a modern ear its sound is prosaic . OTIOSUS .
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[ H& Public Libraries . — -Petitioning Clergy . —On , Natural Religion .
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Sir , Newbury , Sept . 20 , 1815 . BEG leave to avail m , se ! f , if the I subject be not inconsistent with your plan , of a p ;* ge of your useful Repository , to suggest some remarks $ iid make one or two inquiries , on
tjhe existing state of endowed libraries in England which have been at any time founded for the express use of the public , m contradistinction to such as are restricted to the use of particular establishments ; such as those of collegiate , cathedral or other
ecclesiastical corporations . Few of your refers , I should apprehend , can be ignoruit that there is one very valuable one olf the description to which Z allude , at Manchester , founded during the Usurpation by the munificence of a Mr . Cheetham , for the public
benefit of the inhabitants at large of that populous tov \ n . Its excellent founder left an ample estate to provide for the support of a regular librarian , for the nnnual augmentation as well as constant care of the Library itself , and for the comfortable
accommodation , besides all , of the inhabitants of his native town in their use of his beneficent bequest to them . There is likew ise a library in some degree similar in its object to this institution attached to St .. Nicholas *
Church , at Newcastle , founded by Sir Walter Blackitt [ a gentleman whose 111 em or y is gratefully preserved in many valuable benefits done to that place by his liberal munificence ) . But Whether it be from , an inadequacy of its existing revenue to admit of the
sufficient attendance of a librarian , and a due attention to its preservation and improvement , or whether it may be owing to the superior extejit and more unrestricted access to | he valuable and yearly improving library Of the Literary and Philosophical
Society in the same town , it is much to be regretted that his institution is ( as at present conducted ) but little calculated to cusure the original intention pf its founder , notwithstanding it comprises a very large collection of scarce » ud many very valuable work ? in va ~
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revi nu * s for their maintenance as these two . Should it fall within the reach of any of your intelligent correspon . dents to afford the intelligence , 1 shall feel particular obligation for the supply of a list of such institutions , the origin of their endowment , and if possible , the extent of the resources for their maintenance and improvement *
rious departments of general literature history and science . Besides the above there ared ispers- " ed over the kingdom some other li braiies foimdeo for public use , thou < rh none perhaps ( those of the universities and other national establishments excepted ) so completely endowed with
SCRUTATOR . P . S , Of the state of those endowed libraries that are attached to the various national and collegiate establishments , it is almost unnecessary I should conceive to remark , that Mr .
D ^ er been long assiduously occupied in the preparation from actual survey , of a laborious and extensive history .
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Sir , SOM E years have now elapsed since several Clergy men of the Established Church petitioned parliament to be relieved from signing Articles of Religion . I have for some time been desirous to meet with the
petition and the names of the petitioners , but have not been successful I should be obliged therefore if any of your correspondents could , through the medium of your publication , give it to the world ; for I think that the names of the petitioners ought to be remembered . If some biographical
notices could be prefixed to thenamei the communication would be more interesting , and as I have been informed that they were for the most part men of considerable learning , it might recaljl their remembrance , and stimulate others to attempt something of a similar nature at present . i - ^^^^•••¦•"'¦ 'W ^ T ^^^
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On Natural Religion . Sir , August 29 , I 81 * IT must have afforded great p leasure and satisfaction to many your readers of the Old SchooUo nnu that you have lately admitted son * ; valuable Essays on Natural Theology < 4 > w m particular , on the » aturai »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/18/
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