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was still found necessary to exclude some matters of intelligence and to touch very briefly upon others . Even of Mr . Wright ' s Journals comparatively little use was made , —The first topic of the Report was Mr . Smith ' s Bill , now before parliament , for the relief of the Unitarians , which grew out of an interview of a deputation of the Committee with the Rev . T .
Belsham , and a subsequent communication from these two parties to Mr . Smith . —Scotland was the next topic : here there are two considerable congregations , with acceptable and popular ministers ,
Glasgow and Edinburgh ; the Unitarian cause is also in a prosperous state at Dundee , where rilr . It . JMillaf has so long officiated , aYid for this place k triihist £ r is wanted . From th £ se and
Other places , the Committee have been importuned to engage the services of otic of the inissionaries in the North . The oiify itiission actually resolved upon , h 6 wever , was one now in a course of
completion , by the Rev . Mr , Cattipbpll , of Newcastle . This was planned by Mr . Ttmief , of Newcastle , who contributed to the
Report a full account of the plans of Mr . Huldane , the patron of Dissent in Scotland , under whom }\ lr . Campbell was brought forward in the ministry .
In the short abstract of Mr , Wright ' s labours , w&s a pleasing account of a recent hiissibhary journey into Suffolk and Norfolk , in which counties , Norwich is ,
of course , the most prominent place ; here Mr . Wright was Welcomed into three pulpits : ]* y the countenance and assistance of the Norwich ministers h £ gained ad * mittance likewise into some of tfae neighbouring villages . —The con-
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gregation at Reading answer ^ to the character given in the last report : they have engaged a com - modious place of worship , and are anxiously looking out for a minister .- —The latest measure taken by the Committee and brought into the report was the visit of Mr . Vidler to Chatham , where he still
continues exciting much attention , —The Society were much gratified in learning that already they are aided by the Unitarian Academy , the students in which have begun to officiate at Stratford , and to
supply for Mr . Vidler in his absence .- —It was announced that the Committee had been so happy as to engage tbe services of the Rev . John Kentish , of Birmingham , as the preacher of next year ; *^ -application is made to the Rev . T . Madge , of Norwich , to preach the year following .
The Committee concluded with expressing their great satisfaction in having been able to obtain the consent of about otie hundred gentlemen , chiefly ministers , ih the
country , to receive subscriptions for the Society ; and their strong hope that under this patronage and with this assistance the mfcans
of ihe Society would be fully adeqtiate to any object they might havte ift view . The hope will , we are persuaded , be Tfc-echbed by our re ^ tets .
The Report , of which the above is & liftsty abstract , was received by the Society , arid direc ^ d to be published in substance . Th&nks Were voted to the Rev . E . Btitt&er ,
for his sferhion ; to the Rev . Jl Kentish the preacher-elect , for his agreeing to Jtke wjftbes qf the Committee ; t& tbeJ&ey . yf . Tetter , for his ¦ corawmnfcations u&ad advice ; to 4 hh i ^ ftifeCe ra tern ! others who have assisted the mis-
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41 © ihtelligthce . —^ Unila tian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/60/
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