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M ISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS ,
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foy two examples aittorig us . Two youths , both deaf , have attained the use of speech * one tinder -tine care of Dr . Walfis , the celebrated mathematical professor at Oxford 5 the other by means of the Instruction of Dr . Holder . * One of these youths 1 knew ,
and h ^ ard him p ^ cmouiice WofcU sufilcietitly distiiict aad articulate , only the tone of his voice was a little harsh af * d inharmonious , fl know not what became of the other * but the one I knew is still living , atid 6 kilted in raiding and writing ; ltid £ &d , since I first heard him speak , which is more thai * twenty years ago , he married , aiki has children . He is of a noble family * I saw hiim riot alorig ago * Give my best regards to your wife and children , tlie Veens and Guennelons * and all © uv friends . Farewell , most excellent friend , and coutinue to regard me as Your most affectionate * J . LOCKE . thence to learn to speak with their tongues . ' * Granger , Biog . Hist . 8 vo . III . 90 .
* Dr , Holder , as well as Dr . Wallis , was a clergyman . The latter published a work in Latin , oh the subject . JDr . fit . published in 1669 , under the patronage of the Royal Society , u Elements of Speech : an Essay of Inquiry into the natural production of Letters , with an Appendix concerning Persons Deaf and Dumb . " There was an
earlier writer in the same century , f dr * Bulwer . author of ' Instructions to the Deaf and Dumb , ' intended , as he expresses it , * to bring those who are so born , to hear the sound of words with their eyes , and
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Leeds , Sir , Hefa * uarp % Q , 1818 . THE readers of the Christian Reformer ( IV * I—10 aad 44 ) , must have been greatly interested in the perusal of ** A Letter to the Unitarian Society of London , from William Roberts , a native Unitarian
Christian of Madras / ' K ? elatjve to * he process of his own mind in becoming an Unitarian Christian , and the establishment of the congregation of native Christians at Pursewaukum . This Unitarian church , W . Roberts states , is well known to the Rev . Marmaduke
Thompson , one of the active and intelligent agents of the British and Foreign Bible Society . Inthe valuable Reports of the Rev . M . T * which have from time to time been published by the Parent Society in this country , I have in vain sought for any notice of this
church . Should any of your readers have been more fortunate , they will , probably , communicate such notice to the Monthly Repository . " Scarcely less interesting is the account of tlammolmn Roi / P taken from Mr . Belsham ' s preface to William Roberta ' s letter , and the additional
particulars of the religious society , of which he is a leader , given at pag ^ s 44 , 45 , of the Christian Reformer . A further and more particular account of this religious society M'iH be looked for with anxiety , m wdl «» pf tfce
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result pf the uiqiury instituted by Rammohun Roy , and twenty other learned Brahmins , to ascertain whether tbe doctrine of the Trinity is the doctrine of the New Testament , by studying the gospels with tbe greatest possible attention and impartiality , in order to discover their real meaning .
It is probable that Rammohun Roy is a t * ew Acquaintance to most of your readers . It niay not to such be uninteresting to receive some further particulars of him . These 1 met with at the time of their publication , in the Church ** ^ lissionaty Register , * ' for
September , IB 16 , p . S 70 s and a further account of Rammohun Roy is given in the same monthly publication for Sep ^ tember , 1817 , p . 366 ., Probably the reader will be ready to exclaim , as I was , This man is not far from the kiny ~ dorn of God !
It will be recollected that the following extracts are from accounts published by our Trinitarian Christian brethren ^ 4 < We have been favoured with a sight of a tract , printed at Calcutta in the present year , ( 181 $ , ) with the
following title : / * Translation of an Abridgment of the Vedant , or ^ e so ^ lution of . all the Veds ; the mpstoele ^ brated and revered Worl $ pf Brahmiuical Theologj ?^ , establishing tbe Unity of the Supreme Being ; and that he aio ^ e is theOlyect *> f pr opitia ^ c ^ w 4
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tlnitarianhm tit the East Indies . ( $ g $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/11/
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