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^ t ^^^^^^ ^^^ C ^ ^^ J *^ f Jf ^^^ PS ^ fii %% i' « SSW » ou ^ ht t <> te cous ^ a ^ $ subordinate :, — 3 f % tw 4 w ) # * # & ** w * s * f > - $ 9 » aaraljfcl cages m religious and political nigtmy that the eaa La view < : ao b ^ m ; ost effectually and hiaBOwrabhj accomplished by active and unreniiued efforts to
enlighten , the public **)\ n & and concentrate and direct the temperate exertions of those who ought to co-operate in the cause , and , by earnest applications to the JUegisJatyve ^ renewed on every favourable ppportunitjT j ^ and urged , on the broadest principles of truth and justice : —* Tbat jtvgry means should be adopted to , give
effect to such ; a . course of proceeding , by Annual Reports , by correspondence with the country , and by occasional appeals as well to the public as to the Dissenting body , which shall point out the actual state of religious toleration in this country , expliiiH the relief to be sought , and establish sympathy and confidence between
this Deputation and its constituents : — Thai these Resolutions be printed at the -foot ' of fiie circular convening the first Meeting of the Deputation for the ensuing year .
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Earmqw&k&in % w . The follow ing account o / this awful calamity" is distributed by the Committee for the relief of the suffered frouj t ^ report of John Barker , fesq r » t ? he British Consul at Aleppo . We lusert it , in
hope of forwarding the work of hoinanity . " II has fallen to iny lot to relate thq particulars o £ iui event tiat has thrown most of the fajpotOies of this pftrt of Syria into sdirbw jjnd ^ mourning , and all into the greatest dUneulties and distress .
" On Che I 3 xh of Auguse , at Irddf- ^ ajst nine in th ^ eveni n g ^ Aleppo , Antioch ^ Idlib , Riha , Gisser , ^ liogr , Daccoushj Arraenas , every village , and evcay detached cottage , ' fir « Msr Pachalic , and some tc | wn » ki tte adjoining one& , * e ere in ten or tmelfm satomk m * t \ mhf ruined by
H » e 5 a * h < m « iJke , q < i 4 are , beoame / heaps o £ sto [ u ^ s ; an 4 itublMph , in wliith , at the loweajt cxHnpu * a * j © j ^ twenty thousand huxnan beings ,. abau £ * t ^ xk of t ? be popular twmg ; were 4 eflti « yqd ^ % u 4 an equtatinwrn * her ipain ^ d of > womn d ^ d : , Tbe extrenao points where > tfeift rt ^ rrible plaeitomenotr t&
wa * violent <^ # Mgh de $ ttx » y the edi ^ nces ^ seera ^ tp be Pi ^ teif ! ai > d M tsi kab , ( twelve leagues » onth W Lataciiia , ) Aleppo and ScOTfiferooii ^ Kill ^ and Khan ^ hehooiiv AM ^ tliifi those- points hftve « uffeKed BOuiwiaii ^ feqitw ^ , thatt hr i » Imi . PeMtafe W ft » -a * « u ? cebnml p © int : -- ftfefc ahock was sensibly ^ WU at Pfl ^^^^
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Adfinr ^ aiwl KJyim ^ 'Eotbe east of Bia bekii ^ land north of J&iUI » ^ I -mmUwb w < tli informed Jmw far the efeet , extended la those radii pf tfee circle * Theisliocfc was felt at sea so violently w % bi& two leagties of Cyprus , that it wa * thought the fehip had grounded . Flashes < ff votetwie 6 te
were perceived at various times through out th ^ night ., resembling the light of the full moon ; l » ut aft no place , to myjcfiowledge , has it left ^ chasm . o £ ail ^ extent ; although in the low groumds slight cf € 5-vices are every where to be seen , and out of many of them water issued , but sooa after subsided .
< There waa nothing remarkable in the weather or state of the atmosphere . Edifices on the summits of the highest mountains were not safer than buildings situated on the banks of the rivers , or on the beach of the sea .
c Although Bright shocks of earth * quakes had been from time to time felt } n this country , it is certain that for several centuries notie had do * ie any ma ~ tejfl ^ l damage , except o »«* twt ^ ity- ^ seven years ago , when a single town , Latachia ,
WftS partially thrown down , In 1 fs §^ an earthquake was felt at Aleppo and An * tioeb , which so alarmed the inhabitants , that they all abandoned : their lKMise « for forty days , bitt . veny little injury was sustained . anxl no lives lost .
. " The appearance of some very aocient edifices readers it probable that this country has not suflfered from earth * Quakes since the memorable one recorded by Gibbon , about twelve centuriea ago , in which one-third of the inhabitants of
Antioch perished , when that celebrated city was supposed to > contain a pppulatioit ol seven htindi ^ ed thousand to eight hundred thousand souls . M Ijt is impossible to convey an . adequate idea , of the scenes of hornor which were simultaneotfely passing in the-dreads of the of Hei
^ ul night 13 th August . e , ^ undi ^ ds of decrepid parents , half ^ buried hi the puins , were imploring the succour of their . sons , not aiway * willing to riek their own Ifev ^ by giving their ansiBtance , « There , distracted motherB were franficly lifting heavy stones from heaps that covered jfche bodies of their lifeless infauts .
The awful darkness of the tiight ; the continuance of Uie inpst violent shocks , at short intervals , the crash of falling wallsy tte shrieks ^ tbe groans , the absents ef atgeny . and despair of tteft hag ^ Highi ,
e&nmt ttedGsvrtbed . r > " Wbe » at length the «> ori > lug downed , anjdi , tte ^ jv ^ una > * mf " J £ gfr $ > ozihtofctfetk the Kple to quit the spot on Wbicb they hml n , pro ^ id © nt ^ ai ^ av ^ y a inoitr-affecting tieetMeluBuoth Yon mithtOmvi ? mm many , ufaeeustemed to pray \ some prdstrattv
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1823, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1780/page/59/
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