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UNITABIAN ACADEMY AT YORK . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , As your correspondent , € C An Accidental Discoverer , " desires information concerning the Academical Institution at York , for the education of Dissenting Ministers upon a Scrip- ? tural Plan , free from the shackles of any human creed , or sect , I take the liberty to trouble you with a brief sketch of its orig in , and present state .
The dissolution of the Warrington Academy in 1784 , and , nearly about the same time , the discontinuance of that at Hoxton which had been patronized by Coward ' s Trustees , and also of a similar institution at Exeter , awakening the serious alarm of many of ^ the more opulent Dissenters , two new Colleges ( as they were , perhaps injudiciously , called ) were established in their room . Hackney College experienced an unprecedented degree of patronage , and for some time continued under the direction of some of our ablest men ; but , from causes which it would now answer no good purpose to investigate , was necessarily discontinued , in consequence of a total dissipation , not only of its own funds , but also of a reserved " Permanent Fund , " which ought to have been kept inviolate . The New College at
Manchester subsisted for a longer time , at first under the direction of the Rev . Dr . Barnes , and a succession of respectable Classical and Mathematical Tutors . On Dr . Barnes ' s resignation in 1798 , the Rev , George Walker of Nottingham , wi » h an ardour truly characteristic of his energetic mind , always more awake to the interests of truth , religion , and science , than to any private emolument or comfort , voluntarily relinquished one of the most respectable and satisfactory connections , to be found ; unone : the Dissenters , for the purpose of keeping alive this apparently last resource of the friends of free enquiry .
The unexpected resignation of the classical and mathematical tutors almost immediately following , threw the whole burden of the institution upon this eminent scholar ^ who , though fully competent in point of talents and information , could perform no more than health dnd strength , in the decline of life , ( though in the fullest vigour of spirits , ) would permit ; and , after four years , found himself urider the necessity of relinquishing a situation , the burdens of which were too much for one or even two persons . of
The Trustees now finding that r ^ one the resident Ministers in Manchester were disposed to engage in the undertaking , and that the funds were insufficient to induce any persons fit for the office to remove from other settlements , and to depend
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/5/
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