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speeches , which might haVewe& # ed a heedless youth , in the unguafrded moments of conviviality among his gay companions . This instance of Protestant persecution unto death , eight years after the Revolution , does not appear to have been considered as any thing remarkable . It is not even
mentioned in Matt land s History of Edinburgh ^ among the events of that period * - R .
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Remaining Funds of the Hackney College . Laurumney , near Newport , Monmouthshire , Dec . 87 j 1812 . Sxu ,
I doubt not , that all persons who , like myself , consider it of great importance that young men of respectable fortune and family should not be compelled to resort , for the completion of a liberal
education , to institutions where either authority or prejudice has ordain , ed that the young and the ingenuous mind shall , on its entrance , be subjected to trammels which neither reason nor religion sanction .
will participate in my satisfaction oil the perusal of the following passage from Mr . Belsham ' s most Interesting Memoirs of the l ^ te ex . cellent Theophilus Lindsey . Speaking of that ill-fated , but
nobly . intended institution , Hackney College , ( whose ill fortune it was to exist about that memorable period , when the pestilential effects of long and galling tyrapny , both civil and ruligiQii ?* exploded in the premature and retaliatory shape of the French Revolution , ) —Mr . B . say s , the * principal of the debt incurred on its account c < has been long since discharged ,
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unahenable , and the dividends to be applied to the education of students for the ministry , either , as is most desirable , in some institution in the vicinity of the metropolis , or at some other academical
fully from every just demand upon its assets . A considerable permanent fund still remains , agreeably to the resolution of the General Meeting , Inly 1 st , 1789 , which , it is hoped , will soon be placed in . the hands of proper trustees , and vested in public securities , the capital to continue inviolable and
an * by thfc accumulating fnterest of the residuary futodsf during the suspension of ike institutkmy under the management of the worthy and respectable treasurer , John Towgood , Esq . a sum has been raised sufficient to discharge the interest of the debts , and to deliver the College honourably and
faithinstitution in England or Wales . ** From this account it evidently appears , that there are still funds remaining , from the application of the income of which and from the proable liberal contributions of"the
friends to free and well . principled education , a hope of essential benefit to the rising generation and to society may yet be fostered * The particular object of tny present letter is to draw the attention of your
readers and the public to this incalculably great object , and at the same time to request farther information from those who are capable of affording it , through the medium of your pages . About the time of
the closing of the College ( if my recollection serves me ) a very con . siderable legacy ^ as bequeathed , on certain condmons , for similar
purposes to those unhappily frustrated by the failure of that undertaking : the public will feel inter-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/32/
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