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inadequate to tlie preservation of the revenue , as it is destructive of the national morals , by weakening" that veneration for the Supreme Being-, on which alone the obligation of an oath , as well as all moral virtue , must depend : Your Memorialists are emboldened most earnestly , but most respectfully , to intreat that your Lordships will be pleased to take this important subject into your most
serious consideration , in the confident hope that some effectual means may be devised for relieving the public from a practice so universally lamented , and productive of consequences of so serious and alarming * a nature to the welfare and character of the nation .
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- ^ MWBai ^ w Legacies by the late William Clarke ^ Esq . of Dniwich * To the Benevolent Society , Surrey Chapel - ... £ 500 Southwark Sunday Schools 500 Protestant Union Society - 500 Poor Pious Clergyman ' s ditto 500 Hoxton Academy - - 500 St . Saviour ' s Girls * and Boys ' Schools - - - 200 Protestant Dissenters' School 100 Toung , Spratt and Jackson ^ s Charity , belonging to St . Saviour ' s Southwark , for - the relief of Poor Alms-Hotise Women , Stock , 3-per
cent Consols - - - 2 , 000 Surrey Chapel Aims-Houses 2 , 000 British and Foreign Bible So * ciety - - - 500 London Missionary Society - 500 Itinerant Society - - 500 The last three legacies were intended to upply the lack of those subscriptions he had generoifsly given in his life-time , until
a further bequest of £ 10 , 000 , 3-per cent . Consols , to be divided in equal proportions , shall devolve to the said Societies at the death of Mrs . Susannah Clarke , his sister-in-law .
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¦¦^¦ mM ^^ Literary . Wr understand that Mr . Channing > s Sermon ( see p . 635 of this No . ) is already reprinted at Liverpool .
Dr . Carpenter intends to publish separately , for reasons that will be explained in the Preface , the First Part of his Reply to Bishop Magee , containing" an Examination of his statements respecting Unitarians
and Unitarian ism . This Part will be ready for publication early in December . The Second Part , on the Scripture JDpctrine of Redemption , which was originally the Author ' s sole object , will be proceeded in without delay . »
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FOREIGN . France . The enlightened and liberal Abbe Gregoijie ( ex-bishop ) has been returned to the Chamber of Deputies by the electors of
the department of the Isere . This has excited much interest at Court , and it is said that an attempt will be made to prevent his taking his seat , on the ground of his being one of the regicides , though he did not vote for the King ' s death , and
though the Charter proclaims an amnesty for supposed political offences prior to the Restoration . To prevent the agitation which this measure must occasion , solicitations have been made to the Abbe to resisf n his seat . El is known character is a pledge of his non-compliance .
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64 $ - Intelligence *—Literary . —Foreign * FrUnce .
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Preparing" for publication , the second and concluding-volume of Di ' . Pye Smith ' s « Scripture Testimony to the Messiah j " a work intended to elicit , by a cautions induction , the whole evidence on the most important question in the Unitarian controversy .
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In a few days will be published , A Letter'Oil Superstition , by the Right Ho ' n . Wm . Pitt , ( afterwards Earl of Chatham , ) first printed in 1733 , addressed to the Multifarious Sects in Great Britain .
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Mr . Thomas Reap , architect of the Unitarian ' Baptist Chapel , now building at Dover , has in preparation for the Monthly Repository some remarks on Sound , as applicable to edifices for public worshi p , but waits the opening of the said chape ) , next spring , to communicate the practical results of a novel theory .
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Prize Questions . —The Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres at Paris , have proposed the following prize subject for the year 1821 : —" To coinpave the monuments winch remain of the ancient empires of Persia and Clialdea , either edifices , basso-relievos , statues or inscriptions , amulets , coins , engraved
stones , cylinders , &e ., with the religious doctrines and allegories contained in the % > end Avesta , and with the indications and data which have been preserved to us by Hebrew , Greek , Latin and Orienial writers , on the opinions and customs of the Persians and Chaldeans , and to illustrate and explain them as much us possible by each other . "
The prize is' a g"f > ld medal of 1 , 500 francs * value . The essays are to be written in Latin or French , and sent in before the first of April , 1821 . The prize will be adjudged in July following * . The Society of Sciences , Arts and Belles Lett res at Dijon , has proposed the following question a » the subject for the |» ri «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/60/
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