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of Commons in * the Examiner . And on the same day « - ¦ - Fundeia , the editor of the Western Luminary , a weekly Exeter paper , was sentenced to eight months *' imprisonment in Exeter gaol , and to find securities at tne et | d of that period for good behaviour , h / mself in £ 500 , and two other persons in £ 250 each , for a gross libel on the Queen .
Poor Laws Bill . —Mr . Scarlett , the barrister , has Drought a Bill into Parliament for altering the Poor-Laws . The grounds of it , as stated in the Preamble , are , that the Poor-Rates have greatly increased in amount , that if a check be
not put to the increase , the lands in many parts of England , will not be worth cultivating , and that it is the facility of obtaining relief by men able to work that has produced the evil . To meet these evils , and also to prevent the oppression
of the poor , and to remove the causes of litigation , trouble and expense to parishes , the Bill provides , 1 . That after the passing of the Act , no larger sum shall , in any parish , be levied in poor-rates , than was levied during the year ending on the 25 th of March last : 2 . That after the
passing of the Act , wo relief shall be given to any unmarried man , unless he be afflicted with infirmity of body or old ai * c ; nor to any raarried man for himself , wife or children , unless such man was married before the passing of the Act : 3 . That no person shall be removed from
one parish to another on the ground of such person being chargeable to the parish where residing at the time of becoming chargeable . The Bill is thus accommodated to Mr . Malthus ' d principles . If carried , it would work a great change , whether for the better or worse we ktiow not , in the state of England . It will , no doubt , meet with great opposition .
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Public attention is now drawn to a society , called the " Constitutional Association ; " the object of which is to carry on prosecutions for alleged seditious and blasphemous publications . The legality of such aa association is questionable ; the tendency of it is to exasperate political animosities , and to set the people one against the other .
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» ue library of Cardinal Fcsch has been purchased by some English book"eilers , and is now on sale at Mr . Sotheby's . Part the First only ia catalogued . Fhj s part is very valuable . It consists chiefl y of Theological Literature .
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" The Dinner held March 27 , at the Shakaneare Tavern , Birmingham , iw ho ^
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Present State of Vaccination . A report has just been made froni the National Vaccine Establishment to the Home Secretary of State , from which we learn the following interesting particulars that in the course of the last year not
less than 792 persons have died of the small-pox within the Bills of Mortality , that is , about one-third of the average number of those who died of the same distemper hefore the introduction of vaccination ; that the master , governors and members of the Court of Assistants of
the Royal College of Surgeons have bound themselves individually to each other , by a solemn engagement , not to yield to any solicitations to inoculate for the smallpox , which example has been followed by most of the respectable practitioners in the country , though some have lent themselves to the injurious practice , and
certain itinerant inoculators have spread the poison : that danger has hence arisen to all such as have not yet been vaccinated , or may have undergone an imperfect process , or whose peculiarity of constitution
makes them still susceptible of the variolous disease , a peculiarity similar to that which renders some persons capable of taking the small-pox twice , of which * within the period of three years only , evidence has been received of not less than fifty-two instances ; that too many
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InteUigenee : —~ 3 ' fi * e 6 iiune * U 9 . 319
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On Monday the 23 rd ult ., the Rev . T . Wilson , rector of Colne , in the county of Huntingdon , refused to read the burial service over the deceased body of John Astwood , because he had not been baptized according to the ceremonies of the Church of England , his parents being Dissenters . — Times , May 14 .
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nour of the Revolutions in Italy , was respectably attended . Among other toasts , was the fallowing , £ rank ixx silence , standing : " The Immortal Memory of Dr . Priestley . " This was a public meeting of persons totally unconnected with Unitarian principles . "——Monthly Mag .
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The number of Peers of Great Britain , independent of the bishops , is 500 : of these 56 have been ennobled as courtiers ; 19 as younger branches of nobility ; 39 as statesmen ; 16 by diplomatic , 17 by naval , 57 by military , 39 by legal services ; 39 by marriage ; and 227 by the influence of wealth , &c . There are 92 bachelors ; 64 widowers ; and 344 who are married . Of the 408 married and widowers , 99 are without children ; and the remaining 309 have now living 755 sons and 703 daughters .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/63/
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