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"IWI Birmingham ,, Sir , May \ 7 th 9 1824 . npHE Morning Chronicle of this JL day contained a tolerably extensive report of the proceedings of "The
Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty , " at their annual meeting ; and as you are accustomed to the commendable practice of giving it more fully in the Repository , I anticipate its appearance next month with
much satisfaction . One thing , however , I observed with disappointment and chagrin , viz . the total silence of every one who took a share in the business , as to the well-known and pending c ^ use of Peter Watson and the Easter
Offerings . Insignificant and contemptible as the cause may appear as to the amount of the demand on the public purse—for this very reason the severe and unaccommodating exaction of it is such a violation of every principle of
sound policy , of common justice , and of common sense , that one might suppose there is not a householder in the kingdom but , would wish the total annihilation of the litigious claim . lam at a loss for a reason why it should
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have passed unnoticed by this Society : perhaps itj i » ay he $ » o ^ ssion ^ of ^ tfee reporters j if $ Oj tteirie % anc end ; at once to this application y littt iF ^ ntit * I wish to know from any quarter \ vJiere th $ information inay bfe depended on as correct , how sueli neglect catt be explained or vindicated ? An 8 you will therefore oblige me by inserting this , with the apptdbaition , I should expect ; of thousands of y < mr r ^ clers . TTi fe case cannot unwarily have escaped the Society's attention ; and if it should be
explained as not coming under its cog nizance according to its designs and regulations , it must be a matter of regret , that a line should be drawn to the exclusion of a subject of such universal interest . As members of the
cotiimunity , all are concerned m its deserved reprobation , and as a subscriber to the Society , I hope to be exonerated from the charge of petulant and intrusive inquiry . JAMES LUCKCOGK .
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Peter Matron and Easter Offerings . ' .. , 281
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History of the West gate ( Presbyterian ) Meeting-House , Lewes . [ We extract the following historic sketch from a very interesting and ably - executed antiquarian volume , < c The History and Antiquities of Lewes and its Vicinity , By the Rev * T . W . Horsfield " 4 to . 21 . 2 s . 1824 :
Pp . 302—304 . ] , THE Unitarian , or Westgate Meeting . —This ancient building , which has been used as a Protestant Dissenting Meeting-House for the space of about one nundred and fifty years , stands only a few yards to the south-east of the scite of the
ancient West gate of the borough . It was originally built as a town residence of George Goring , Esq ., but was afterwards converted into an inn . At what period it underwent this change is uncertain ; but so early as the 20 th of Elizabeth ( 1578 ) it is
described , in a deed bearing that date , as an inn having the sign of the Bull . For considerably more than one hundred years it was occupied as an inn ; but in 1687 . when James II .
condescended to publish his gracious declaration to his loving subjects , allowing them liberty of conscience , the Btev . Edward Newton , who had formerly be ^ en minister , of .. St . Anne ^ s , hut was ejected for Nonconformity , agafiv veu ^
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Hioriy against fli ^ aboininable s which ate tcftd off Iiim by ? thqfse whose lousiness it is t <> i | peak gbdd of his lioly TidLtne . But , as I have Often said , those who pretend to teacfiuand to Itdld tlie doctrine , do not believe it in their hearts , I thank ( rba for it . The glo * rious liglit of heaven and tlie innumerable pleasing objects which are
constantly obtruded upon us by oiir Father who sits above , do and will continue to correct the evils of absurd systems , , 1 do in my conscience think that the doctrine in question has proved to be one of the greatest hindrances to the spread of true religion , and the chief encouragement to infidelity ^ iminorality and
profaneuess . All this , however , is but a preface to the answers which I shall , if spared , return to the questions which you have proposed , and to which you
have demanded my answers . Since you have called for them , you shall have them , whether you will hear or whether you will forbear . Yours affectionately , [ To be continued . ]
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vol . xix , 2 a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/25/
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