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    © f terror , there was an inevitable incorrectness in some of thfe minor details : and because from the mass of documents which has been since obtained , it is evident that that work would have been too limited and

    exceedingly incomplete . While they have , therefore , thought it their duty to withhold an imperfect narration , thev hope and expect that a full and authentic statement will be presented to the public by a member of their

    body . v " With peculiar satisfaction they renew the assurances of their respect and gratitude to those who nobly advanced to vindicate a just cause , and to relieve Protestants suffering for conscience' sake . The names -and

    contributions which are subjoined , will demonstrate , that amidst all the efforts and artifices which embarrassed public opinion , the Committee were honoured with general and liberal sup . " port 5 and they are placed in one list that they may be preserved as st practical and honourable memorial to this

    and future generations , of the sentiments and virtues of the Protestant Dissenters of England , and the friends of truth anci liberty in Scotland , of the present day . The amount , deducting the necessary expenses , has been remitted to those for whom it

    was justly and generously designed . Providence has opened for its distribution channels peculiarly suitable and satisfactory . With special adaptation to the circumstances of the sufferers , and a studied and scrupulous economy , the refreshing streams of Christian benevolence have been

    conducted to the scenes of protracted and inconceivable desolation . u alarming disturbances which occurred at Nismes as late as last March , will satisfy you that it would be most impolitic and dangerous to give a particularity to their

    information , which , in ordinary c ircumstances , the Committee would have thought it their duty to have communicated ; but they can state generally , that widows have been relieved

    from immediate necessity and permanently assisted ; orphans have been clothed , educated , apprenticed and taughTt to provide for their own future independence ; prisoners have been tyrnished with means to procure legal

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    assistance , and to pay the expenses of the tribunals tradesmen have been enabled to recommence their business ; artisans have been , supplied with implements and tools ; weavers

    with looms : a £ rru ! iiltnrali « t < a % x ? itl with looms ; agriculturalists with ploughs , carts , horses , cows , 8 cc . $ houses have been rebuilt or repaired ; furniture stolen or destroyed has been replaced ; pensions have been given to

    the old and decrepid y bread , meat , clothes and bedding have been distributed as exigencies required , and the money thus applied has been spent as much as possible with persons connected with the sufferers , and almost

    invariably , with meritorious Protestants . Many who must have sunk into the grave under the pressure of want , disease and despair , or have dragged on a miserable existence , or have grown up in penury , ignorance

    and vice , have been snatched , by the kindness and wise arrangements of the almoners of your bounty , from their miseries , and spared to their families and to their respective Protestant communities .

    " A member of the Committee passed part of the last autumn in the South of France . He saw the widows , the orphans , and the sufferers , who have received and are receiving your supplies , and witnessed the mode of

    administering relief . Houses still in ruins are partially restored ; the tears and sorrows of the injured and bereaved , and the numerous and horrid recitals which he heard from persons ^ who reflect honour on their country and on Protestantism , attested the

    melancholy certainty of all that has transpired . . " The elements of mischief are still latent and powerful ; the oppressors , though restrained , are neither dispersed nor disunited ; the criminals , though unpunished , are implacable ; and a favourable moment would be

    infallibly embraced . It is only the continuance of a liberal administration and the protecting care of Providence that can even now preserve the Protestants of the Gard from the most fearful calamities . ""

    " The Committee sincerely hope that the tranquillity and security of their brethren in France , will be confirmed and established : but should persecution unhappily revive , conso-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/31/