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laws , as to piint books and otherwise contrive to disseminate his doctrines , is &uiUy of a very odious offence . The alternative proposed by the court of dism issing him to his native country , or of remanding him from the prison to his station at Pekin , is very inadequate to his crime . We therefore direct that
the Supreme Military Court do appoint an officer to take charge of the said Tetien-tse , and cenduct him to Ge-ho , in Tartary , where it is our pleasure he should remain a prisoner in the
guardhouse of the Eleuths : and be subject to the superintendance and visitation of the no ^ le magistrate Kingki , \ vho must carefully prevent him from having any correspondence or communication with the Tanas in that neighbourhood .
*« ' 1 he noble officer Chang-fae , who has "hitherto superintended , the European establishments , having been ignorant of what was going forward in his department , and haying made no
investigation or inquiries during the time that Te-tien-tse was writing letters , printing books , and spreading his religion > has proved himself insufficient and unworthy of his station ; wherefore , we direct the Interior Council of State to take
cognizance of his misconduct . u like manner , it is our desire that the Council of State take cognizance of the neglect and inattention ascrihable to the military commanders who suffered the soldiers under their orders to be corrupted with these foreign doctrines ; and then report to us the report ; of their deliberations , in order that we may refer the adjudication of punishment ta the
proper couit . " The Council of State shall moreover , in concurrence with the Supreme Criminal Court- appoint certain officers to examine all the books of the Christian doctrine which have been discovered ; after which they shall , without exception , be committed to the flames , together -with the printing-blocks from which the impj < 5 S ! - ions were taken ,
" The governor and other magistrates of Pekin , and the commanders of troops stationed at the capital , vhall strictly attend to the subject of these instructions , and severally address edicts to the soldiers ; ind people in their re pective jurisdiction ., declaring that all persons hencelortlu frequenting th . ? luiropeans * in or-
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der to learn their doctrines , will be punished with the utmost rigor of the law , without exception or abatement , for having acted in defiance of the present prohibition . As for the rest , we con * firm the sentence of the court Khin . tse . "
On Tuesday , the 17 th of June , there was held at Coseley in the county of StafFord ^ a general meeting of the UNITARIAN TRACT SOCIETY , iosfiu * . ed in Birmingham , June 6 , 1806 , for Warwickshire and the neighbouring Counties . There was religious
service on the occasion ; the Rev . John Kentish of Birmingham conducted the devotional part , by an appropriate prayer , and the seimon was preached by Dr- Toulmin from Dan . xi . 33 . 14 And they that understand among the peop e , shail instruct many , ' * This
institution for promoting Christian knowledge and the practice of virtue was patronized by an accession of new subscribers . This is the fourth society o £ the kind formed since the year 179 E , and it promises to be numerous and extensive . Great satisfaction was expressed in this meeting , and the object of it was adopted with much approbation and earnestness . 'Thejijth annual meeting o £ the THEOUNITARIAN * SOCIETY IN SOUTH
* Theo-Unitariam is the true literal translation of Divyfundodiaidy the appellation which the first institutors of the Welsh Society for promoting the knowing and worship of One onlj Living and True Gbd ^ gave them selves , and by which
they and their friends are now distinguished . The word being of the same standing as the Society is not to be found in Owen ' s Dictionary ; but he has inseited it in-his Grammar ^ p . 44 , which was pubiished , and partly composed , subsequent to the publication of our rules and address . Indeed he saw them with
me in manuscript , before they were published and was kind enough , to assist me in correcting the pre ^ s . The reasons urged by the original proposer of the name fur the adoption of it may prove no unacceptable article for the Monthly Repository . I may , at some future time * communicate them ,
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444 Intelligence . —Birmingham Unitarian Tract Society
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/48/
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