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The Unitarian Chapel at JFillington , Detainere Forest ? Cheshire . In * a journey to the North , I lately visited this place , having several times preached iti the neighbourhood , while I acted as a Missionary .
At Willmgton , there is a small congregation of Uuitarian Christians , consisting almost entirely of poor people , nor is there one among them who is rich in the things of this world . This congregation has been raised by the gratuitous labours of a worthy and sensible man , who is the minister , of the name
of Edward Astbury , who has brought up a large family , and got the little property he possesses , ( and it is very little , ) by the labour of hi * bauds ; and he has now several grandchildren to provide for , who are' orphans . Tins good man gave the ground on which the chapel is erected , and also the burving-ground , out of the hard-earned fruits of his labour . The
poor members of the congregation gave their labour in digging and cutting the stone out of the forest , for the erection of the chapel ; they also levelled the ground , removed the rubbish , &c . The team-work- in bringing the materials to the spot , &c , was given by a farmer ,
the only one belonging to the congregation , the rest being labourers . By these means a decent and comfortable chapel has been erected at the small expense of 160 / ., but the walling in of the buryingground , and several other things which
must be done , will occasion a further expense of lo / ., making the whole expense 175 / . Towards the defraying of this , the poor congregation raised 15 ^ ., which was not a small matter for people in their circumstances to do . In
Lancashire and Cheshire , 100 / . has been collected towards defraying the debt incurred , and 2 / . was sent for the purpose from the Framlingrham Fellowship Fund , making in all 117 / . and leaving , when what remains to do is finished , a debt of 60 / ., which these poor people have no means of defraying . »
Having known Mr . Astbury and his people some years , and often visited them , 1 beg leave to present their case to the attention of the Fellowship Funds and the Unitarian public . I know it to be g ^ imine , and have stated it in as concise and naked a manner as possible .
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I am persuaded %% needs no dressing up nor recommendation . It can only be necessary it should be known , in order to its . obtaining the patronage of liberal Unitarians , and to the aid being givers which will free this poor congregation
from tbeir pecuniary burden . The chapel is ia a neighbourhood where the population is increasing in consequence of the inclosure and cultivation of Delamere Forest , and it is two miles from a parish church . The congregation is in a promising state , and is likely to increase ^ especially if the debt can be removed .
R . WRIGHT . Trowbridge , March 13 , J 824 . P . S . Any contributions for the above case may be remitted to Mr . James Johnson , Tanner , Foregate Street , Chester ; or to Mr . SmaNfield , Hackney .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The newspapers state that on tlie 7 th instant . , died at Aberdeen , James Mom , aged 101 , He was brother-in-law to the veteran M'Dougal , who supported
General Wolfe , after he received his mortal wounfl on the plains of Quebec . The wife of James Moir was buried on the 7 th , aged 81 ; and her husband died within an hour after she had been laid \ u the grave .
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Irish Catholics . The Aggregate Meeting of the [ rish Catholics was held April 29 th , at Dublin , Sir Thomas Esmonde , Bart ., in the Chair ; when Resolutions were unanimously agreed to , condemnatory of the injustice of the penal code , as it affected the Catholic body in all its branches .
The Petition on the General State of Ireland was read to the Meeting ; it enumerated ft ^ variety of abuses in Church and State , coiiljiT ^ rning of the Magistracy , and of the modv of administering justice in the inferior Courts . Tlie Petition , after enumerating a gre # t variety of grievances , prayed a radical remedy—it entreated Parliament to call on the
Established Church to lessen their incomes one fifth—to disable Orange-men of Ireland from holding places under Government—and , finally , to grant emancipation to the Roman Catholics . This Petition was referred to the Catholic Association , for revision and correction .
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West Indies . —Negro Slavery . On Wednesday , March 17 , Lord BatiIukST , in the House of Lords , and Mr . CannJ 3 V& , iti the House of Commons , prodttti&d papers and gave information , with relation to the measures taken by
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6 Intelligence . —Irish Catholics . —West Indies . —Negro Slavery *
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will be a large step in the road of religious liberty . We cannot believe that the Unitarians will be again disappointed ; but should this be the case , we shall console ourselves with the persuasion , that relief is not absolutely denied , but only deferred .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/58/
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