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fotigable friend of the Society , Mrs . MAfcv Hughes . The third is a reprint of hn American tract entitled James Tulbot ; to which has been added , Or , the Importance of recollecting ;
" God sees me at all Times " the last part being extracted from an interesting passage of the work . Of the three am-tracts , it was stated , that there had been 9 , 000 copies printed , and of the eleven reprints 21 , 000 , making a total of 30 , 000 printed since the Auni *
vefsary in April 1823 . During the same period , there have been circulated and sent out from the Society's store , 32 , 969 ; There have been printed up to this time 390 , 500 ; and the totai circulated , and sent out on sale or return , 331 , 825- —leav * ing a * stock on hand of 58 , 675 .
The property of the Society was reported to be as follows : Due from Booksellers , Country Societies , and the Rev , James Yates , of Birmingham , its gratuitous Agent • . £ 104 10 3 Estimated Value of the , Stock on hand .... 334 15 0
439 5 3 Owing for Paper £ 32 14 0 for boarding Volumes . 2 8 9 to Treasurer 5 8 3 40 11 6 Balance of the Society ' s Property ..... £ 398 14 3
Though the Committee had to con - gratulate the Meeting on the improved pecuniary condition of the Society , they begged it might be recollected that the Treasurer was in advance ; but they confidently relied on such an increase of the
Society ' s finances being that day made as would enable their successors to reprint such Numbers as might be necessary to keep up the series , to publish new tracts , and to make useful grants , without anticipating the next year ' s income . i
Besides the usual resolutions of thanks to the officers of the Society , the following were passed unanimously : —M That the warmest thanks of this Society be given to Mrs . Mary Huohjes , for her renewed literary contributions * " € C That the an- * nual Medal be presented to the Author of ' The Returning Prodigal / -&c .. - with-the
cordial thanks of this Society for hetf past literary contributions . " * That this Meeting is deeply sensible of its obligations to the Rev . Jambs Yatks , of Birmingham , for his having gratuitously undertaken the of * fice of Agent to The Christian Tract $ o ± ciety 9 in the midland counties , and begs htm to accept its warmest thanks , for the zeal with which he has discharged hip duties .
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" That the Committee be requested to forward to Wilu am Roberts * of Madras , as many sets of the Society ' * Tracts as ihey may think proper * " " That this Meeting , conformably , with the recomnjen-( 1 at ion in the report , requests the .
Committee to present a set of the Societ y § Tracts to every British institution ; fanned for the purpose of supplying apprentices and other young persons with the means of useful reading . " : , . . * , The following gentlemen were chosen into office for the year ensuing :
Treasurer . James Esdaile , Esq . Secretary . Mr . George Smallfieud , Committee . Messrs . J * Bowring , J , Evans , C . Fellows , Joseph Fernie , T , Gibson , « ftw ., S . Hart , S . Hart , Jun . ^ R . Holt , T . Hornby , S . Parkes , and W , Wood .
Auditors . S . Bayley , J * Todhunter , and Rf Fennel ! , Esqrs . Collector . Mr . J , M . Edney , 2 , St . John ' s Street , Clerkenwell . ; The Subscribers and their friends , to the number of eighty two , afterwards
dined together , John Smith , Esq . JVL P ., in the Chair , supported on the right by Senhor Joze de Silva Carvalho , late Portuguese Minister of Grace and Justice * on the left by Senhor Joze Joaquim Ferrkira de Moira , late President of the Cortes , At a short distance from the
Chairman also sat Senhor Vasconcellos Menjezes de Drummond , Member of (/ ie Brazilian Cortes and on the opposite side of the table the indefatigable and patriotic Mr . Buckingham , late of Calcutta . There were also present many friends from various parts of England , whom the Meeting held the preceding day had called to London .
After the removal of the cloth > the Chairman proposed , " The King—May he imitate the example of his father , in encouraging the Education of the PeopJe *" Mi . Smith then said , he had to propose a toast , which , he was . sure * would
inect with the cordial support of all present . It was a sentiment for which he had entertained the highest respect ever since he had thought for himself , and without which this country would sink into insignificance—he meant civil
and religious liberty : and more especially with respect to religious liberty , he ^ would observe , that it was in vaia for any particular party to combat another , when they undertook to express those sentiments of the truth of which 'their niinds
entertained a firm conviction- ~ -it watf in vain to -bring prosecution upon prosecution to put down a free expression of religious opinion . On the subject df religion , he Jaad long since made up * hi *
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370 fntelligence . ~ -Chrutian Tract Society .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/50/
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