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and it gave the visitors at Soham much pleasure to " observe the prospect cf the spread of truth in that place and neighbourhood , opened by the labours of Mr . Gisbume . A plan was arranged by the ministers present for supplying Soham and the adjacent villages with preaching during Mr . Gisburne * s absence on h s missionary tour in Cornwall , on which he will ha- e entered before this meets the public eye . It was agreed to hold the next association at Wisbeach .
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Catholics of Ireland . At a meeting of the Catholics of Ireland , held in Dublin , on Tuesday , the 9 th of July , the Earl of Fingal in the chair , it was resolved to collect and prepare petitions to Parliament in the
next sessions , * for a total and unqualified repeal of the penal laws which agjrreve and degrade" them ; and the following is the first of a series of Rejoiutions passed on the occasion , and since published :
" Resolved , That being impressed with an unalterable conviction of its being the undoubted right of every man to worship his Creator according to the genuine dictates of his own conscience , we deem it our duty publicly and
solemnly to declare our decided opinion and principle , that no government can with justice infLct any pains , penalty , w privation upon any m n for professing that form of Ch istian faith which fee in his conscience believes . ' *
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Captain Cuffee , son of a negro wave , [ of whom we gave memoirs in pur second volume , pp . 221 285 . 335 •] is just arrived in England from Sierra Leone , in the brig Traveller , owned and
comm anded by himself . - His . coming is said to be at the instance of the Erectors of the African Institution . He hag brought wi h him a native w Sierra Leone , to be instructed in navigation .
The mind of Captain Cuffee has been itrongly bent by Mr . ClarksorTs History towards the relief of his African brethren , to which object he appears willing to devote himself .
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Hr hasspoken In the Society of Friends of whom he is onej at Liverpool , since his arrival .
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¦ Methodist Conferenc * . On Tuesday last the Conference of the people called Methodists closed their sittings at Shefteld . There is an increase of 7445 members , and the Preachers and Chapels have increased in proportion . Their mis-iont in Ireland were spoken of in a very
favourable manner ; Mr . Charles Atmorc was chosen President * and the Rev . Dr . Coke Secretary . The -number of prca ^ hert who attended was not less than 250 * Twenty six preachers , having- finished tbeir probation of four ^ years , were publicly received into full connection ; and
the demand for preachers from different parts of the United Kingdom * induced the Conference to admit sixty young men for trial as candidates for the minis * try ; a cltar proof of the * growing strength of this community . Morn . Chron . Au £ . fll , it it .
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Intelligence . —Catholits of Ireland . —Captain Czi / Fee , SrC . 509
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TheBiPHop of Ottich ^ pter ., in his 1 ire visitation held at St . Michaers Church Lt-we ^ u delivered a charge to the clergy , in which he re g retted that do beneficial change ; either in the political or reli ^ iou * world had been felt ^ incc he h ^ rt last the honour of ad . iro » sin- his brethren .
Some attention had been paid by thelegislaturetothecause of religion and the establishment , Wy su . tvs o money voted to the poorer clergy ; but the clamorous spirit of the Irish Catholic ? , ani the rapid increase of Di-senters and sectaries within the last few years , made him fear that , before lon <* , the religion of the Church
of England would no more be the religion of the majority of the nation . He concluded by exhorting the ciergy \ by their precepts an i their practice to vindi ate their character from all misreprevntation , and preserve as much as tbeir erlorti could effect it , an establi Jiment , whose overthrow would , probably , be accompanied by the overthrow of the state . Englishman , Sunday July a 8 , i $ n .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/61/
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