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fceen granted ; a ground which , khe thought , formed our best claim , though much was yet wanted to make that claim complete . It required a closer conformity with Christian principles hi our conduct both at home and abroad . * This do and thou shalt live" was applicable to nations , as to individuals ; and England , raising the oppressed , emancipating the slave , and asserting civil and religious liberty , would live ; she would
live in the permanency of her institutions , in the prosperity and happiness of her children , and in the glory which would encircle her name on the page of history . *' On " the health of the Rev . James
Yates , of Birmingham , being given , the Rev . T . Madge briefly returned thanks . " The Chairman then proposed " the healths of Senhor Joze Joaquim Ferreira , and Senhor Joze de Silva
Carvalho , " and IVIr . Bowring returned thanks in the name of those gentlemen . He stated that he had seen one of these gentlemen presiding , in the more fortunate days of Portugal , in that Cortes which was then the pride of / the nation . It was only two years since , on the very day this Society held its Anniversary , that he received the information of the Portuguese Cortes having passed a resolution that The Christian Tracts should
he accepted and consigned to the Committee of Public Instruction to have them translated . Tyranny , unfortunately , had again gained sway in Portugal , and the efforts of these patriotic individuals had been battled by the enemies of human
improvement , and they had themselves been obliged to fly from their native country ; but wrecked and ruined as their hopes had been for a time , he confidently believed in and anticipated the resurrection of freedom .
Senhor ub Moira himself then returned thanks in Euglish , in uearly the following words : — " Gentlemen , in my own name , and that of my friend , I beg leave to return thanks , and have to regret much that my imperfect knowledge of your language prevents me from thanking you sufficiently for the honourable manner in which you have mentioned us , but 1 will say that we feel in our hearts most thoroughly the first rule of your Institution , civil and religious liberty ,
and to establish that first of civil rightstoleration . ** The Chairman next proposed the health of Senhor Menezes , of the Brazilian Cortes , and success to the exertions of the South Americans . This gentleman returned thanks in his own language , which Mr . Bowring translated as follows : —That . he was
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afraid his language might sound uucouth in their ears , but he wished to state that the liberty of Brazil , was founded on the law of nature zud mi mcWfhordm ^ ib * # the Book of Fate seemed to have declared them independent , and that the people would be criminal ia allowing such an
opportunity t tp escape ; they hdd struggled against many , difficulties , and had opposed them with success , so that he trusted that the tree of freedom would there take root , and send forth her best fruits . . ' .:
On the Chairman proposing , * " Sue cess to the exertions which are . jiowr making for the spread of knowledge in our Oriental Possessions , " Mr . Buck * jngham rose , and in an interesting . address modestly but appropriately referred to his own efforts . towards effecting the desirable object to . which the company
had just wished success . In , these efforts , as is well known / Mr . B . was opposed , and obliged to return . to tfcm country . He paid a tribute of respect tp the moral worth and intellectual powers of Rammohun Roy , which could not fail of being grateful to many who heard him . To the address itself , however , the writer feels himself unable to do justice .
Some other toasts were given , including the officers of the Society , but of which the necessary limits of this report forbid a more detailed { notice . The last was ** The health of the Chairman ; our best thanks to him for his services , and our , warmest wishes for the success of
the various plans of generous benevp ^ lence with which his name is so honourably connected . " in the course of the evening the names of several new subscribers were announced , and among them that of the Chairman , with a Life Subscription of Ten Guineas .
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The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of Manchester College , York . In presenting their Thirty-seventh An * nual Report to the public ^ the Committee of Manchester College , regret that they are under the necessity of speaking unfa *
vourably of the state of the funds . Notwithstanding the assistance derived from congregational collections and private benefactions , the expenditure of the year ending June 1823 , considerably exceeded the income , and the Treasurer
consequently is in advance to the College a still larger sum than he was at the close of the year preceding . Under these circumstances the Trustees have thought it inexpedient to make the addition to the Permanent Fund , to cover the annual
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/53/
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