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    practical adoption ot fihe great principles of religious liberty . America te the oottiitry of experimental legislation . The Puritan colonies of New England disgraced themselves by fanaticism ; and even the constitution

    filmed by OLoeke for Carolina , has restrictions on the liberty of public ^ worship , as it required the union of seven families to legalize a sect 5 while IPerin freed thre public profession of religion from all limitations whatever . From this brief review of those

    particulars in which the conduct of the primitive Quakers differed from that of other Noncoiiformists , it appears that they are eminently entitled to the honourable notice of the litetorism of Dissent . It has been common

    to itpeak harshly of their entfomtesm * 3 ? heir pretensions to *» spimtftta were absurd enough ; but they werfe ireiflier insincere nor pewliar . The takers of the present day , though

    highly rsespeefcatole , ctftttiot , I appre-Itesid , % e placed in so advantageous a contrast with otiifer setifcs , as their predecessors . Jn one particular , fcfrfcy hive varied / rom themselves

    remarkably . Now they aVe the least , as then they werethe most eager proselytistsu This is to be lamented . They did much good by thei ^ zeal , and it is carious to observe how many of their converts were in * the more elevated

    « nd dissipated classes of society . Many also tif their most celebrated members and 'ptfeachers had been military men . * Tbecelebrated El wood carried something of a chivalrous

    spirit into controversial warfare , and like a gallant duellist offered his adversary the choice of weapons , con * tgtfditig , udHbttum , in prorie or verse . Had the Quakers retained their

    original -zad , it would have *>*? en highly tfteAil to the community , ntft merely by the increase of a valuable body of raHgianfats , but by influencing public opinion tm mtmy important moral subjects . Thfcy might thave preserved

    out- country m > Yn a 'part at feftfct of ttie guilt « it has incurred by ^ he ^ tieiedlm& and profjtne miiltiplic ^ tion of oftthft , atld by ^ t * isat teve of war Which l \ m deluged the tvod 3 with blood , and bvouglit upon ou ^ elv ^ K # 0 many calamities . F . ^ A % LH lAii ^ e , © . Bawjhiy , t ^ ibb ^ y ^ om , An * e « Btintarrtwton ^ Gito » 6 » Vcwshtity .

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    176 Church Endowments in &i $ setotmg Trusts .

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    Ftl . \ % 1 ^ 18 . Sir , HAVING lately had occasion to look pretfcy minutely over tbe eaiTy official retards of the ecclesiastical bewefi ^ ees originally reported to of

    the governor ^ Quee n A » ne s bounty , as competent for augmentation , I was struck by observing the following instances in the list of the Chester diocese , stated as having their incomes dependent on Disse 7 iters , The cases referred

    to are , " 1 . Ringey ; ^ a donative in the deanery of Frodsham ; valuation , nothing certain , send in Dissenters' hands . u Horwich ; a chapelry in the deanery of Manchester : valuation , interest of IQO 1 . trustees for which being . v © i « sehters , refuse to give an account , and pay the curate nothing .

    " 8 . Ohobentj in tlie deanery of Warmigtonj in the hands of Dissenters , nothing certain . ' * It seetns , I own , an extraordinary case , and is a still more unaccountable circunofistance , considering # ie very

    existence of parochial endowments as prior to the origin of any dissenting societies , how any portion of the ecclesiastical revenues ( however inconsiderable its amount ) should have become connected with , or subject to , dissenting trusts . No account of

    the places in question , that 1 have been able to discover , throws the smallest light upon this singular peculiarity . It is probable that some of your northern readers may have it in their fpdwer to supply some notices of these heterogeneous endowments , and if so , the communication of them

    through the chnmrel of the Repository would be esteemed a favour V . . M . H .

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    Feb . Qy 1818 . Sir , AMONG the Sydney papers are preserved several letters Kfrom ** Algernon Sydney to his Fecther , Rotert 9 Eafl of Leicester . " In one of them , dat ^ d < c IFrankfort upon Maine , Sep . 8 , 1660 , ^ speiitoing of the ignorance of the priests , he says ,

    " The most eminent men atnongst 4 : h « m , learn to understand English Their libraries < mn full of Sa ^ ter ^ Burr < ittffhts \ and ^ tliter Engli . ^ h puritan serm ( Tn-t ) Wikw , ancl out eff them they preaeh . I wm acquuintcd with one

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/24/