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LITERARY NOTICES.
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only a desire to shield their characters from those imputations , to which it has been asserted that some missionaries have rendered themselves liable , and which are calculated materially to injure their professional usefulness . Another question , which , from peculiar circumstances , has excited considerable attention in this country , and which is not altogether foreign to my present purpose , regards the right of ultimate
controul over missionary property . It has been contended on the one hand , that this right resides in the missionaries , being in fact only the natural right which every man has over the product of his own labour ; and it has been maintained on the other , that it resides in the public , who have gratuitously supplied those funds , by the aid of which missionary property has been realized . The determination of
this question obviously depends upon the terms of the original agreement which may have been made in each particular case , and that principle in the constitution of the Committee which I have just explained , shews how it has been determined with reference to any property which may be realized in connexion with the Unitarian mission in this country ,
by means of the funds subscribed for the promotion of its objects . The Calcutta Unitarian Committee is a permanent body , and will therefore act as the sole trustees of whatever property may be realized by the funds intrusted to their management , subject only to that public , whose virtual delegates or representatives they are , and to whose voice
they will always respectfully listen . Any change which circumstances may suggest in the designation of the Committee , will not affect the controul and responsibility of its members ; and in order to increase the confidence of the public , and to give them a real as well as nominal
influence over their own trustees , the Committee may hereafter be made an elective body , which it has not yet been made , only because it has been found impracticable . It is thus intended to be expressed , that all the funds subscribed , whether in England , America , or India , for the Unitarian mission in this
country , and all the real property which it may be necessary to create for the adequate prosecution of its objects , shall be placed under the direct and positive , yet responsible controul of the Calcutta Unitarian Committee . This , it is believed , is the only permanent basis on which our mutual relations can be placed , and will tend to prevent disputes , of which
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there is happily at present no prospect , and which it is hoped will never stain the annals of our mission . The broader and deeper the foundations that are now laid , the more stable and secure will be the superstructure hereafter to be raised . Such , then , is the Calcutta Unitarian Committee as it exists at the present time ; aud although the number of its members has always been small , and its
proceedings have seldom bee ^ n brought to the notice of the public , yet it has been useful as a means of giving union and concentration to the limited exertions which have been made to promulgate the principles of Unitarian Chris , tianity in India . These advantages will be derived from it in a still greater degree hereafter , when it is hoped the increased means possessed by the Coin * mittee will enable them to extend their
labours , and when under such circumstances , a body of gentlemen , possessed of local information and experience , will be peculiarly required to give confidence to the public in the faithful appropriation of the funds which may be intrusted to their management , to revise and authenticate the periodical or occasional reports on the state of the mission , to excite or to moderate the zeal of its immediate
agents , to prevent all collision between the different departments of missionary labour , as well as all useless or wasteful expenditure of the time and the talents of missionary labourers , and to give full efficiency to each within his proper sphere , by providing him with the necessary means both of subsistence and usefulness . Such are the important services of the Calcutta Unitarian
Committee , although to a limited extent , in the present incipient stage of our exertions , and it is hoped that the same duties will continue to be performed with equal zeal and assiduity under a more enlarged scale of operations . I remain , dear Sirs , Yours very faithfully , W . ADAM , Sec . C . U . C , Calcutta , Feb . 20 , 1826 .
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The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte , Emperor of the French , by the Author of Waverley , is announced as nearly rea ^ dy for publication : the work will form aeven volumes , Post 8 vo . Mr . S . W . Singer , F . S . A ., will shortly publish the Correspondence of Hemy Earl of Clarendon and Laurence Earl of Rochester , with the Diary of Lord Cla * rendon , from 1687 to 1690 , comprising
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Intelligence . —Literary Notices , 157
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/77/
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