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wa ^ peiaking the dead , of whom he-n $ v $ r wished to speak anything but good ; As the friend of Mr . A . and feeling it an honour to be SO } Jxe returned thanks to the company for the manner in which his name had been received .
The sentiment following came with peculiar propriety from Mr . Smith , namely , The memory of C J . Fox . the consistent , uniform Grid powerful advocate of religious liberty .
The chairman then gave , The health-of the Rev . C . TVellbehved , afid success to the York Academy ; and concluded with , The Stewards Mr . B . Hawes returned thanks
in their name , observing that if they had any merit it was in the election of the chairman , upon whose character , as a consistent supporter of civil and religious liberty , he passed a hig h * eulogium .
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JpTJie annual meeting of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , was held at the New London Tavern , Cheapside , on Saturday the 14 lh of May , when an interesting Report
* v as read of the proceedings of the Committee * It appeared that some clergymen in distant counties had refused to bury the children of Dissenters , but that their objections \ ve « re overcome by the remonstrances of the secretaries
or the admonitions of their superiors-, that various instances of the persecution of Dissenters had Occurred , and that these cases were taken up by the Society and
that most of them were happily settled * th&ijpli with regard to one it would be nec ^ sa . ry tc > appeal to the : Court of King ' s Bend }; that -attempts had been made to assess
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various places of worship to the Poor ' s Rate , that these had been resisted , and that Mr * Vansittart ( Chancellor of the Exchequer ) had given the Committee a pro * mise , which he has since fulfilled , of introducing a clause in the Poor Relief Bill , now in Parliament , for exempting all places of worship from parochial
taxation . In these and other measures ^ particularly the attainment of a provision m the India Bill for liberty to missionaries , the Society have incurred expences beyond their income , and they therefore appeal to the liberality and even justice of the religious public , to recruit their funds .
Various resolutions were passed , and amongst them the foUmvitrg , which we communicate to tiiir readers with peculiar satisfaction ; viz . ¦ : ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' - ; - ¦"' "¦ - Resolved , That this meetiftg cannot however but perc £ jv 0 witli
pleasure , in the repeal of ' the p $ i > secuting laws affecting Anti » Tiiqi * tarians , in the new constitution of the French nation , and iii tfre letter of the head of the Catholic
Church , indications of universal progress towards those just principles of religious liberty which this Society will always maintain , and which they hope will finally and universally prevail .
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of C ^^ v Jfi telligence *—Protestant Society .
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The annual meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society will be held at Southampton * on the 29 th of June . The Rev / James Gitchiist to preach in the morning ) the Rev * <—r- — Treleaven , in ( he evening .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/50/
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