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^ ither o £ sta ] te \ or rejjgioxi should charges tji ^ m with mad * m $ f ^ l b $ y \ p f them be inad % * he governor ? of q ^ ujfph and state wotild do w ^ ll to jnqmre "t&Jtat has made them s » P This nart of the | > rayjer has excited universal disgust and resentment . Mr . Brougham and Sir Francis Burdett have denounced it in the House
of Commons as arj ^ insult ^ au the peo pie , and a solemn mockery of devo
tion . ...... . ; . : In the second branch of the prayer there is a tacit acknowledgment that the governors and governed ought to do something i what the latter ought to do and what they dnght ntit to do we nave before stated , ——they ought rtoPio run into violence , biit they ouffht to
us t e the means Which the Constitution has put into their hands , of asserting and recovering their rights : — what theformer oicgkl to do and ought not to d"vis not difficult to conceive , though not very pleasant to them to state ; perhaps , we might best express ourselves in sacred language , and therefore we refer the reader to Daniel
iv * 27 . The cornpilefs of the prayer deprecate impatience of evils , having probably in their memory the language of the ruling statesman df the daty who has charged the p&op ] e the mad people , an ! of taxation
^\ tn tgnqrvnf impatience . , Iu spite of ithe eay lord and ftie nii-, rushers at the ^ altar , it is to be felted thajt ^ tbe multitudewhoare an hungered wAH 3 ti U CQfnplain ; . and , it might be a profitable speculation ii ) tj >« Cabinet Council , an 4 in tfefe © leeting ^ ^ f ecplesia ^ tics whether the diseased vfeckl y politic naight not b ^ cu red af iimpatience by being relieved from suffering . ^ HhtdQ the heatoy -burdens and let the
opptysfed go free ; and i f the people tUen 1 ctittfplaTn , they 'may be jusft ^^ iccKised " of rfxadhess , and may be abandoned to \ ihe lash of the N 6 ble 3 Lord s * eloquence , / ^ plcf to the prayers of the jsne ^ tii . i .. Anther evil whi < fh the g rayer > pomta out is-tjie seeHng of relief ivhere rehef atnnoi le jtomd . TThi ^ s ground of eiin ^
aupplicatkon , is , we h ^ pe nqt aQlid , and » i ^ jb - ^ re s ure w * resp ^ tfpl to Parliament or to the Throne , ; , for wh ^ re do ttoe people agfcktfsp&ef , but from the Prince Regent and the Xw Houses ? And lo say that relief ^ cannot be found here , is to throw a most unseemly suspicion upon the constituted authorities . If we mew oppose
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6 jqt " bjSftJoiti i&ti&t T of the Arcbbbhftto of glMrffitfi 6 hapTaib , fo w ^ otrt , tpr ^ Wy ^^ p ^ . JK ^ M ^ . JR ** * strange piece ^ ornieiy * ^ e will ventute to assert that the nation may iind relief In the crown and the le ^ tSRSfii re / ^ a ^ kl that if they continue their" cbnstkutional exertions the relief is at nti great distance .
_ Ort ^ aC iiiture occasion we trust thai the Bible will be searched for a pre * cedent of player in time of national distress ; there is a passage , ISlehewtiah ix . 32—37 , which we would recommend as a pattern .
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Christian Ti'OGt Siwtety . The eighth Anniversary of t ^ js Spc \ etv \ was holden on Monday the 17 th of Ife ^ t ^ - ary , at the Old London Tavern , fli » 1 iojis gate Street . In % he meeting : / or bu ^ jbess the chair was , occupied by t ipe £ f ^ asurjer , James EsdajleEsq . Tke Eeport ^ olf the
, - - ' . <• T .. ' T i r ¦ ' ¦ J » . . ¦ ¦ • y + <\*~ yf ^ ^ Gomroittee was read , by the Secretary . It commenced by repeatii ^ the qeclaraxion of the prexedipg CeBpmitlee ^ - that Ifrom the organized state into whicfc tfoe Society had now been brought , much of noyelty was not to be expected in the dtetairof its
proceedings and successes ; but " / addc < l that though the past year had ^ b ^ en marked by no event of a very striking chciracter , either favourable or unfavourable , and though the chaimels of distribution were nearly the same as » h preceding years , the number of { tracts wbi ^ h had been sctit into circulation bad exceeded "that of
fltfiy former period of _ tfye saip& length . The Report farther expressed the Regr et of the Committee that owing to the Want of mwiuscripU adapted to , the objects of the Society they had been able to publish durintr the last year only two new tracts , « ne frozu the pen pf tbeir ol ^ aji d yahiablc contributor , Mrs . Mary Hughes , the other by-a frcntleman vcfyo from it *
i&rst'instituticm h'id entered warmly into tUe ^« s » fe « of the Society , and in many ways eutltltd lumseU to its beat thanks . Of pach of these tracts , forming- rfos ^ 30 and 3 * of the serieii , it was # tated tha ^ t 20016 , copied had been printed , ai > 4 it wa& add ^ 4 that owing to the continued " and increasing demands fo ^ the Society ' s publication ^ , th «
Con ^ vuittce hafbe ^ pii opli ^ e ^ to repnut no le » £ than ten Qf . the earlier tracts , to the numhew , o £ I 7 rfQO copie *—making uitb the 40 (^ new > f ^ cU ? tlie whole number . printed in tij ^ e course of" the last yeas *} # 59 fl , bf ^ p ^ 11 , 500 mote than were printed \ u % hq ^ e ^ r jprecediri ^ ^ Tne tieportj Ji ^ ated in jre fe p ^ nc «? t ^ ttif pa * t labours of the Society , thftt since ilif Institution in 1809 it had printed in all 280 , 00 * tracts * that of this jmmber UteTC ha <*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/58/
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