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usual attendance of persons from the country ; some being present , as it was calculated , from above half the counties of England . In the company were abowt forty ministers , consisting of nearly an equal number of Presbyterians and of General Baptists . John Christie , Esq . the Treasurer , was called to the . chair . It appeared that there were two Reporters in the room from , the Morning Chronicle and Statesman newspapers , attracted , we suppose , by tlxe curiosity- which the late stir about Lord Sidniouth ' s Bill has
excited in the public mind , with regard to the proceedings of Dissenters 2 their accounts of the meeting were so defective and unintelligible , apd contained so many errors that the writer of tliis
article will endeavour , as well as he can at the distance of some days , to recal to his mind what passed , and to record it for the i nformation of the absent subscribers and
friends to the Society . The toasts and sentiments given from the chair shall be inserted , together with some of the observations which led to them or to which they gave rise . The King .
^ The Prince Regent ; end may be follow the example of his royal mncestors , and discourage all Per . secutionfor conscience sake * The Chairman prefaced the sentiment next given , with p-bserving that , it was a sentiment winch had
been cherished by Christians in all ages , it had been particularly esteemed by Protestant Dissenters , and above all , endeared to Uni - tarians . Religious liberty was at all times a seasonable subject of remembrance and contemplation ; it was especially so sit the present
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moment , when we had just ivi * d n ' essed the defeat of a design against it . He hoped that no future attempts' would be made against freedom of consience ; but if it were so , he trusted that , as in a recent instance , the assaults of its enemies would be the signal for union amongst its friemis . He therefore gave Religious Liberty to all Relu gioub Persuasions . The next toast led the Chair . man to say a few words upon the object of the meeting , which was
the support of the Unitarian Fund . The objects of the fund he stated to be of infinite importance ; no less than rhe extirpation of those worst exiemies to the human race , error , superstition and vice . He
alluded to the cheering Report that had that day been read , and congratulated those that were not present at the reading ^ upon the prospect of their seeing the
substance of it , at least , in this ma . gazine . There had been ., he added , very large drafts upon the Fund , the past year , but he had pleasure in communicating the names of some literal subscribers to the
Society that day , ( amongst whom was T \ J . Clarke , Esq . a donor of 20 £ ) and he had no doubt , from past * experience , -that the liberality of the public would keep pace with the exertions of the Society *
He concluded with proposing The Unitarian fun d * The next toast was introduced with an appropriate comp liment from the chair , — The Rev . J . Grundy , our able and eloquent advocate . Mk . Giiundy , in returning thanks , expressed his conviction of the necessity of exerting ourselves for the information of th «
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360 Intelligence—Unitarian Fund *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/40/
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