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    drawing out of a new scale of prices was referred to the Committee . ( For this , pee the wrappers of the Repository aud Reformer for the present ruonth . ) Two new Tracts have been printed during the last year , viz . Mrs . M . Hughe . s ' s second part of The Family Dialogues ; and The Conduct of the Elder Brother , on

    Account of the Father ' s Treatment of the Lost Sony by the Rer . & . JVrighi * The latter Tract concludes Mr . Wright ' s series on the interesting parable of the Prodigal Son . Of each of these Tracts ? 2000 copie s were printed—and of the nineteen re prints 39 , 500 , making a total ef 43 > 500

    copies printed since the last anniversary . The Society was stated to have printed altogether 360 , 500 ; to have circulated 298 , 856 , and to have on hand 61 , 644 . From this large stock the Subscribers had to be supplied with their allotments for the current year .

    During the past year the Committee have found channels for sending sets of the Tracts to several public bodies at Paris , and to a Lady who w&nte 4 them because most of the cheap publications there circulated among the poor were of a mystical nature ; to the libraries of the Spanish and Portuguese Cortes ; to Tripoli , I his Excellency A \ Cherif Hassuna

    D'Ghies , the Ambassador from that kingdom , kindly engaging to translate some of them for the improvement of his countrymen ; and to M . Bowyer , the President of Hayti , who is also very desirous of improving the mental and moral habitH of the interesting people over whom he presides . Port-au-Prince having been nearly destoyed by fire just at the time the vessel which carried out the Tracts

    arrived , the Committee did not know whether the President had received them ; but the Society was gratified with the intelligence which arrived on the day Of its meeting , contained in the Government Diary , that the Portuguese Cortes had

    had the Tracts formally presented by a member of its own body , and a resolution was passed by that magnanimous assembly , that the present was gratefully accepted , and that the Tracts should be entrusted to the care of the Committee

    of Public Instruction , that such of them might be translated as were judged likely to benefit the public . A set had also been forwarded to William Roberts at Madras , and to the Rev . JVilliam Adam , of Calcutta , with an expression of the Committee ' s hope , that the enlightened

    Rammohun Hoy might deem some of them worthy of being translated into the language of Hinduostan , and as calculated to second his btfaevolent effects to spread among his , coiuitrymeu a knowledge of the pure ' . morals , aud universal philanthropy medicated by the Christian reli-

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    302 Intelligence . —Ghrktian Tract Society .

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    DOMESTIC ; Christian Tract Soqiettj-The Anniversary Meeting was holden , ( as mentioned in p . 249 , ) on April 24 th , at the Old London Tavern . The Treasurer presented his report , which stated that he was in advance £ 22 . 12 * . 9 d .

    The Secretary then read the Committee ' s Report , which described the last year as having been one of unusual expenditure , as , to keep up the series , they had been obliged to reprint no less than

    nineteen of the Tracts . They had consequently felt considerable pecuniary embarrassment , and had at one time resolved on making another appeal for aid to the friends of the institution . But

    the fear that a second appeal so soon after that made in 1821 , and so promptly and gerierotisly met by the Subscribers and Friends at the anniversary meeting , might prove injurious , deterred them from having recourse to such a means of relief . They submitted to the meeting

    the reasonableness as well as the necessity of a new scale of prices being agreed on , because purchasers of quantities of any one Tract obtained them at a cheaper rate than the Subscribers who took for their allotments one or two copies of the entire series , as they then paid the full retail price for each Tract : aud

    Subscribers who took for their annual allotment , or purchased , 25 copies of any of the Tracts , had them at a price which in

    very few cases covered the expense actually incurred for paper , printing , stitching , &c . &c . The allowance to Subscribers purchasing not less than 25 copies was stated to have hitherto been 46 per cent ., and to Non-subscribers from 33 to

    38 per cent ., the scale of prices having necessarily been so drawn up as to admit of this variation . When the series was short , the Society could afford to print larger impressions of each of the Tracts than it now could , and consequently at considerably less expense ; but now that the series had become very loug , the

    Committee could not venture to print more than 2000 each of those Numbers which required reprinting—and of these there must be several every year , and in some yeans from ten to twelve of them . The stock on hand , it was stated , must always be from 45 , 000 to 50 , 000 . The Committee proposed that purchasers of quantities should still be allowed a liberal

    per centage ; but urged the certainty of the Society b ~ ing involved in increasing pecuniary difficulty if it continued to make so large au allowance as it had hitherto done . The necessity of having recourse to the measure suggested was readily acknowledged by the meeting , and the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/46/