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they despaired , at least the negative objections of the noble Lords ; so that if it was then lost , they might be prepared to remove or meet those objections otf a future occasion . The plan of this Bill , or something like it , had received the unqualified approval of Lord Liverpool ; but the Committee did not disguise the
fact of much repugnance being entertained against it in * certain quarters . They trusted ; however , though their progress was exceedingly slow , they should finally succeed in the removal of what all parties acknowledged to bo a grievance . The Report next proceeded to detail the strenuous efforts that had recently been made by the various denominations of Protestant Dissenters for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , in all which endeavours the Committee had
cordially joined . These details have been so recently before the public , that it is unnecessary for us to repeat them , ^ It dilated at much length on the impolicy and disgracefulness of the apathy manifested by the Dissenters in suffering their
just claims so long to remain dormant ; and expressed their unqualified disapproval , a disapproval in which they were joined by the most influential among the Dissenters themselves , as well as Lord John Russell and Mr . John Smith , M . P ., the intended mover and seconder of the
measure , of the postponement of that important question . It then alluded to the expressions of opposition from Mr . Cauning , which , however , they trusted , were only for reasons of temporary expedience ; and they confidently anticipated the speedy removal of these unjust
and mischievous statutes . It then glanced at the opposition of certain Dissenters to Catholic Emancipation ; but , while it regretted that any should be found who would resist that measure of justice and sound policy , they believed that it was confined to a very small number , and these of the most illiterate of the body .
The Rev . Dr . Rees read the Report of the Book and Tract Department . It stated the junction of the Unitarian Book Society with the Association , and that books and tracts had been distributed in Calcutta , Paris , Glasgow , and in various
other towns m England and Scotland . It also announced , that the Monthly Repository had been purchased by the Association , with the aid of donations ami loans from private individuals , and would in future be conducted under the direction of the Committee .
Mr . Bowiung read , in the unavoidable absence of Mr . Fox , the Report of the Foreign Department . It stated , that a
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mission had been established at Calcutta , under the superintendence of Mr . Adam , from which place , by the next Anniversary , they * hoped to receive gratifying accounts of the spread of Unitarian principles . At Madras , a Unitarian Church had been for some years in existence , but it appeared to be making but little progress . The Committee said , that they hud called on their Indian friends to
fulfil their generous promises as to the Calcutta Chapel and mission ; and , indeed , on all who looked with hope and with interest on the spread of Christian truth ( associated as it was , with one of the most illustrious names which ever graced the Anglo-Indian pages ) over a territory wider in extent , and vaster in population , than ever before submitted
to the dominion of strangers ; In a country , it was added , where idolatry and superstition in their most barbarous and disgusting forms had had their triumphant , their immemorial reign 5 where the few gleanis of truth which might be discovered by learned industry , in the obscure records of the past , had been
wholly overshadowed and darkened by the grossest and foulest polytheism ; none could watch the uprising of the daystar of a holier and a purer faith , without anxiety and joy , without the desire and the attempt to diffuse its happy influences . The Report further stated , that in the United States of America , measures had been taken to unite the
different and scattered Unitarian interests into one grand and efficient body , from which the happiest results werfc . anticipated . From Transybra * ia , which might be deemed the mother-country of Unitarianism , the Committee had received tihe most gratifying accounts . The flaimber who professed that faith in that carter , was estimated at 50 , 000 . The
superintending authority was vested in the preses of the general Synod , A college had long been established at Klausenburg , which contained about 300 students } besides , there were two gymnasia , or preparatory schools , at Thomburg and Kercsztur . In France , and other countries on the contineut , the Committee flattered themselves they saw an opening for the introduction or their tenets . The
Report concluded with lamenting the severe indisposition of their revered Secretary , Mr . Fo # , which prevented him from continuing his splendid and useful services to the Association . Mr . Young rose to ask some questions . He wished to know motfe-explicitly than he could gather from th £ Report , what progress had been made by their foreign
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534 Intelligence . —British and Foreign Unitarian Association
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/62/
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