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    tit&y iisetkily ret ^ Jp flne . mame ' wKicfctney hwe ' acquired 5 and of w | iicb ffoey heed not be ashufhed , that of E ^ ang ^ elioals : Che other party may Ibe denominated the Lati * tudiiiarians . A tenth part of ' the time which will foe consumed on their respective differences , would , foe more than sufficient to point out how far both are from the plain declarations of Scripture .

    Another subject occasions some little embarrassment to the sec }; established by lawj foiit "fiappily for .. the times we live in . $ it is ' more - likely to excite a smile thati to occasion any of those serious quarrels in which the Sectarians of the third and the beginniag of the fourth centuries were involved . The disputes between the

    eastern and the western factions in those iiines on the subject of Easier , are well known . They were in great measure assuaged by the politicians , who met tog-ether fcom all quarters at the council of Wiee , * f hey devised , a very ingenious plan $ hy which they attempted to do two things , first " to perpetuate the celebration of taster

    on a Sunday , and secondly to make that Su-ssJay follow the iirst full xnoon after the vernal equinox . Their scheme was a very ingenious dtfe brut unfortunately as it depended on numbers , and the numbers on which they . foliated their ^ ateula'tio ' ns were not correct , after a certain length of time the arrears of their calculation necessarily became manifest . This is the case in the

    ptfesept-y $ ftr , in which the first full moon after the vernal equinox falls onra Sanday in the af ^ ern ' ooB ea thte twenty-second of March . By their own rule , th < erefor < e , they ought to keep the Easter-day &n the twenty-ninth : bat ibe aalcu te tor's ftot heeding- this circumstance , and g'oing upoa n false rule , tifave determined the Easter-day to be ' on the twenty second .

    Consequently the services of the sect established by law will be wrrtngty performed on Easter-day * an < i on all ttee following * Sundays througfiout * he . year . The twentysecond of March * n& , w stands in -all the Aiman&cks for the J 3 a # ter-day . This error inevitably arose tYojii the iriafecuracy of the tables bp 'wMcb . they caloalated , and if it i $ persisted In , imore fe * urious ^ rVors wii ! arise in a course of iwwe . To us this is a

    matter of ino consi& ^ nence . We ' have no services for trfcese da ^ S , nor do We requia ^ calculations : but to tlVe ftienobers of the estaJblifcined &ec- | it will Inot be plea&ing to thftiikp that tlifey nr& < coi » mteir » orati « g" the rfc ^ uryec tion of © ur Saviour M & tiiiie .

    when the positions of the sun and mooti are so d ^ ffe fe tft Troin "WKa % tliey Were at tlie restaarection : for of all thing ' s weH % scerfainted in histovj ^ this is pertai % that ®> iik Saviour * s resurrectioxi did , tt ® t take -place till after the full mooia . SIrery © die must rejoice thmt there h $ \ %

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    ibeen a gene ral rel ^ s ^ of ^ eribi ^ dbniried in [ various prisons ** un ^ r ^ the SuSjJeii ^ sion of the Habeias ^ o ifus a ^ t . 1 # th& event bas not Ifaten place WittiSiit % in 1 remarkable ci rcumstances . Two ; ^ F&blib confined i n this manner , refused to si 66 * ej > t their proffered liberty as others nao ** olc > rie >

    on a recog ^ nizaace , to appear , when galled upon in llbe courts of law . ^ fhey fii-inly inainlained their ienoceiice of the charges imputed td them , demanded the nanies ' of their aceiisfers , a-n 3 threatened a prosecution againsi them for the injuries fliti ^ ha 3 sustained , They were in consequence demanded to tbeir pi ison . but in a shorfc tifiie

    disobarg-etl without any recognizance * Many of the persons discharged By iecbgfnizance made their appearance in the courts of ! law , com plained much of the hardsliips "they had sustained , arid requested tbat hiavin-g in e ^ de tbeir appearance , they inlgbt no farther be callecl upon This request was not acceSedi to , but it

    was ^ eneDally understood -that" tbey would not again be called upon . Their oasewili probably give rise to a discussion in ttie &ppTo&ehhsg sessions ^ f parl * a » e » t . The parliament of France goes on slowly with its deliberalioas , -which occasion but

    little inteirest . Tbey Ihave been chiefly ocburpie ^ l wi tli tbe liberty 6 f the press the Concordat , and the establishment of their atifny . Tile first has not suffered so much as was expected , though they ba ^ e « on » tinued-tbe censorship on public papers during" this year $ in other words they have ; g * i ? ea to tlie administration the power

    of telling * what lies they please , and of preventing all others persons froin tellrng * the truth . The Concordat produces a great deal of trouble ; and they are embarrassed on every side on account of the ariny « One ; goed motion was made , that the supplies for it should be voted every year } bait it inet with no encouragement .

    A new naode has been struck out of gratifying the vanity of Frenchmen . Tbey read tfreir speeches at select coteries , in which fashionable ladies sit in judgment ^ and then they are printed and circulated . At any rate ^ &ne good effect is produced ; tbat this frivolous nation has more solid

    topics for their meditation , than they were accustomed to in former tiVn ^ s ; and , if the woiwen b ^ cetfie politici an s , tltcir men will in lime 'he taught to think . Stpaha has entered , it issaid into a treaty wfrth daeat -Bd'tain , in wliich one thing is certain ^ eatnel y ^ the payment of four hundred thousand pounds by us for the * < o ^ conlttnuahce of the slave iracie ^ ^ ffee ^ efeb ' tfd is uncertain , whether the trade will , im 'consequence be suppressed . The money will be useful to Spain to enable it to enslave its colonies , but the slavery of the whites is III compensated by the de-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/79/