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DOMESTIC . Rbilichous , Anniversary of Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of the Unitarian Society for the Distribution of Books
was held at the City-of London Tavern , on Thursday the 20 th instant . WiiXiam Smith , Esq ., M . P ., hi the Chair . The company was small , but few of the anniversaries have been more interesting .
There were laid upon the table two new " Letters from William Roberts , Teacher of the Native Unitarian Congregation roear Madras , " printed and done up with the Rules of the Society . These will probably appear in the Christian
Reformer . The Chairman gave the usual liberal sentiments , with interesting prefatory remarks . The Rev . J . Rowe , the Treasurer ( Mr . Gibson ) , the Secretary ( Dr . T . Rees ) , and other gentlemen addressed the meeting , on topics with which their names had been connected . The
health of Mr . Smith was drunk with great applause : the meeting shewing a lively pleasure in doing honour to a senator , who for the last 36 years has been in Parliament , who during all that period has been connected with all the distinguished dhampions of freedom and humanity in the Souse of Commons , who
himself has taken an active part in every public question affecting the liberty of England and the general cause of humanity , whose name has appeared on every great division amongst those of the friends of liberty and reform , and the appearance of whose name indeed has always been
a pledge that the party in which it was found' were the supporters of good principles and liberal measures . Mr . Smith was sensibly affected" by this heartfelt tribute of gratitude and respect . —The interest of the meeting was not a little kept up by the circumstance of there
being a large company in the next room on the same floor , parted from the room in which the Unitarian Society met by only folding-doors , consisting of Roman Catholics , tvho were * met to celebrate the opening on that day of the new chapel in Moornelds . Of this coincidence the
Chairman made a happy use ; congratulating the meeting on the wonderful improvement in the public mind since the year 1780 : then , he had borne a musquet to protect the Catholics from brutal violence , and had seen the smoking ruins of their chapel near to the spot where
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'the new and handsome edifice has arisen now , they were not enky unmolested , bat wfcre allowed to assemble in public festivity to r&Jognize a&d promote their religious objects . They and the Unitarians had been both formerly proscribed but both were at length in the enjoyment
of liberty . He hoped and expected that what remained of intolerance would be done away , and that speedily ; and that he should live to see the Roman Catholics and the Protestant Dissenters acting together for tfe £ attainment of their coftimon liberty , and rejoicing together in their united success . —On the subject of the amelioration of the criminal code
being brought forward * attached to the name of Sir Samuel Romtlly , Mr . Richard Taylor , as one of the Committee of the Society for improving Prison Discipline , recommended that Society to the patronage of the friends of humanity ; We were sorry to learn from him that its finances are very low . —It was understood that an effort would be made at
the succeeding anniversary Of the Unitarian Society to increase the number of attendants .
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Unitarian Association . The Committee have determined on renewing the application to Parliament for relief on the subject of the Marriage Law , early this session , and to adopt the Bill framed and introduced on the former
occasion . Any congregations in the country desirous of giving their assistance and co-operation , can forward their petitions ( if they should think fresh petitions advisable , about which they will , of course , exercise their own discretion ) , either to
the Secretary or through any Parliamentary connexion ; but they may be peculiarly useful in the promotion of the cause , in endeavouring to enlist m its support any members of either ^ House , with whom they may be more imittediately connected .
The form , of petition used on the former occasion , may , perhaps , uSeiully be agam adopted . Both this and the BiU as brought in , will be ffctttld in our former Numbers .
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Gainsboro ' , Hull , fyc . Unitarian Association . QQ The Fifth Half-Yearly Meetin g was held at Lincoln oh Good Friday . O » tn * evening previous , Mr . G . KenncK ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/56/
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