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" A Bill for better providing the Means of Education for his Majesty ' s Subjects , " in our decided opinion , is calculated materially to injure those invaluable institutions , by destroying the funds which are necessary to their support , by discouraging
that zeal and assiduity , and subverting those arrangements , without which the education of the lower classes cannot be effectually promoted , and by such means to retard instead of accelerating the professed design of the Bill .
4 . That to many of the fundamental enactments of that Bill we have other invincible objections : because they confer undue and most dangerous power on the clergy and dignitaries of the Established Church , without providing any adequate checks against the abuse of that power , and by so doing expose the lower classes
of Dissenters to insult , to oppression , and to persecution ; because they impose a burdensome tax for the support of the schools to be established , while by the constitution of those schools a large proportion of the mo 3 t indigent part of the population , who can attend only on Sunday-schools , will derive no benefit from
them ; because they are wholly confined to the instruction of boys , and no provision whatever is made for the very important object of female education ; and because , by including all individuals
who are not members of the Established Church under an unjust and invidious proscription , is virtually pronouncing them unworthy of being entrusted with the education of the children of their fellow-citizens , or with any share in the management or controul of schools of
which the niajority of scholars may not be children of Churchmen , and even their own children may be entered , the Bill increases the civil disabilities , and encroaches on the religious liberty of Dissenters . 5 . That for the reasons
above-mentioned , without entering into more particular exceptions , a petition be presented to both Houses of Parliament , praying that the Bill may not be passed into a law .
( Signed ) JOHN RIPPON , D . D . Chairman .
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mend that no extraneous matter whatever be introduced into such Petition . THOs . MORGAN , Secretary . March 16 , 1821 . N . B . Congregations which may need to be so accommodated , may send their Petitions to the care of the Secretary .
[ Petitions should be written on parchment . No person must sign for another . Ed . ] To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland \ in Parliament assembled ,
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE CONGREGATION , &C . Shewetii , That your Petitioners are not surpassed
by any description of their fellow-subjects in solicitude , that ** all classes of the people may reap the great benefit of improvement in knowledge , morals and religion , which are the main support of every nation . "
That , influenced by this principle , your Petitioners have contributed their zealous exertions in instituting and supporting schools for , the instruction of the children of the poor , without distinction of sects or parties , and more especially of Sundayschools ; the latter containing , in England alone , more than five hundred thousand scholars ; which schools have had a most beneficial influence on the
moral and religious state of our country , and are rapidly increasing in number and utility . That your Petitioners have observed , with great concern , the introduction of a Bill into your honourable House , entitled , " a Bill for better providing the Means of Education for his Majesty ' s
Subjects , " which , they are decidedly convinced , is calculated materially to injure those invaluable institutions , by destroying the funds which are necessary for their support ; by discouraging that zeal and assiduity , and subverting those arrangements , without which the education of the lower classes cannot be effectually promoted .
That your Petitioners particularly deplore the unhappy effects which such a Bill must have on a large proportion of the most indigent part of the population , who can attend only on Sunday-schools : as also on the female children of the poor , for whose education it makes no provision whatever .
That your Petitioners view with apprehension the undue and most dangerous power which thia Bill confers on the clergy and dignitaries of the Established Church , without providing any adequate checks against the abuse of that power ;
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Intelligence . —Mr . Brougham ' s Education BUI . 187
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Form of Petition to Parliament , recommended by the Dissenting Ministers . The Committee of the Protestant dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations , meeting at the Library ,
Redyoss Street , London ; are of opinion , that the subjoined would not be an improper form of a Petition to the Legislrn ' ° n the subJect of Mr - Brougham ' s am for general education : and recora-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/59/
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