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In transacting- the business of the society , the subscriber * were animated by ne heart and soul ; and every thing © aid and done was , we believe , in the highest degree fetitlsfactory to all present . At four o ' clock the members and their
friends assembled at the London Tavern , and nearly Two Hukdred persons sat down to dinner . Through the active exertions of ten gentlemen , * who volunteered their services as stewards , the order and comfort of the company was better secured than is common in such
large assemblies . Mr . James Young , of Hacknev , was placed in the chair , which he filled with great advantage to the meeting . The following were some of the leading sentiments from the chair :
n >; ' j " i .- Tfie king and the principles that seated his family on the throne . —a ,. Religious liberty , and may rolerarion not abridge , nor penal statutes destroy it . Here Mr . Freqd addressed the meeting , congratulating -them upon the increase
of liberal sentiment in the country . He had lately , he said , been asked by some
of . the leading Catholics to solve the following problem ; how long > calculating froni the divisions in the Houses of Parliament for several years past , it would Be befpre the Catholic question would be carried ? He found , he added , that the increment of toleration was i \ per cent , per ann . and that in 12 years tl ? e friend- of toleration in Parliament would
be a majority . This mode of stating the subject occasioned much amusement * - —3 . The cause for which Servetus lost his life , Biddle his liberty and Lindscy his emoluments . Upon this being given , Mr . Rutt related the interesting and affecting story of the burning of Bartholomew Legate , for heresy , in 16 * 2 , by
that solemn and cruel fool , James I . Legate held the same views as were afterwards entertained by Dr . JLardner . Ue was a man of strong sense , as well as of ardent piety and zeal . And though he lived in a fanatical period , not a single extravagancy was charged upon him ; beyond that at least of his Unitarian heresy . James had tried to recover the he-
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retic to" the holy mother church /* but failing in this , he consigned him to the flames , thus proving himself" a zealot of justice and a defender of the Catholic faith . " * It was , Mr . Rutt observed , a striking proof of the improvement of the times , that in 200 years from the time of Legate , aco persons should have
assembled by public advertisement for the avowed purpose of promoting the doctrine for which he perished , not far from ^ the spot where he expired , the last of the English martyrs . —4 . The memory of Dr Priestley , and * xriay hi * exile ha ^ e been the means of cor : vey ing the seeds of truth to the new world . —
5 The College at York , and may it be the nursery of future Lardners , l ^ ii so ns , Taylors and Farmers . Here , Mr . Vvood , the treasurer of the York Institution , addressed the meeting in a brief but pleating speech . —6 , Success to the projected monument to Mr . Locke , and may the advocates of rational
Christianity never want a grateful memorial . Besides these , which we have not
taken in their order , some other sentiments were s > rven , which called tip the missionaries and Mr . S . Kinksford , Mr . J . Evans , Mr . Ebenczer Johnston , Mr . Grundy , Mr , Rees , the treasurer , Mr-Edward Taylor , of Norwich , and others * The whole afternoon was a scene of intellectual animation , such as we never before witnessed . Satisfaction and
delight were visible iti every countenance . The best proof , perhaps , which we can give of the happiness of the day , is , that about £ 50 were obtained in new subscriptions . We have been fearful in our successive annual reports of this lively meeting , of being carried > by , our feelings beyond
the bounds of decorum ; but we may be permitted to state , in our own justification , that many who have been attracted by our descriptions to this religious festival , have declared 10 us , that if former meetings equalled the particular one they may have joined , the half was not told thom . "
* Quoted from the form of the King ' s Writ for burning Legate
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31 $ Intelligence . — Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/38/
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