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Intelligence . —Protestant Society : Lord Holland ' s Speech , 487
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and most cordial thanks . "—Carried unanimously . « That this Meeting are deeply affected by recent events in the British Colonies , especially such as are connected with the loss of the Missionary , Mr . Smith , all circumstances relating to whom they are anxious to see earnestly and thoroughly investigated ; that they are assured of the
vast individual , local and national advantages that have resulted from the disinterested and holy labours of Missionaries in those distant regions 5 and that , by experience , they are apprehensive that ecclesiastical establishments may discourage those labours , may retard improvement , and may impede the progress of civilization and Christian truth ; and that
they , therefore , approve the purpose of the Committee to petition Parliament against all needless restrictions on reliligious worship in the West-India Isles ; and direct their Committee to watch , with the greatest caution , every measure
by which the interests of Protestant Dissenters , and thp cause of religious freedom , may be assailed in any part of the British Empire , now wide ^ spreadiug over so many realms and % so many millions of the human race . "
" That this Meeting desire that some measures be speedily adopted , whereby the baptismal registers of Protestant Dissenters and Methodists shall be rendered as availing- as the parochial registers of
the Established Church , and whereby the numerous Baptist brethren should have some valid register of births , and be no longer subject to those peculiar oppressions to which they have been so long and cruelly exposed . "
" That although this Society have not hitherto opposed grants of public money for the erection of new churches connected with the Established Church ; yet , as they are convinced that the vast wealth of that Church supplies resources sufficient for all such purposes , as such buildings are frequently erected without
necessity , and converted into means of individual gain ; as themselves , at their own charges , erect and uphold all their thousands of religious edifices , and support their Ministers , and yet contribute equally with their countrymen to tithes , c hurch-rates , and all the charges of the ltablished jai 4 uii $
^< Church : and as Emscooanea Church ; and as Episcopalians , would freely erect such edifices if the privilege of presenting their own miinters was not withheld : —This Society now specially instruct their Committee
to oppose any further grants for those purposes , and pledge themselves strenuously to co-operate for the prevention of jne : increase of burdens which ought not to be imposed . " That the judicious energetic , and
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well-directed exertions of the Committee for this Society , during the past year , merit continued confidence and unabating praise , and that they be requested to form the Committee for the ensuing year . " " That to Robert Steven , Esq ., their
Treasurer , the Meeting present their sincere as well as accustomed thanks , and that he be requested to continue his efforts for religious freedom , by those useful labours for the Improvement of Ireland , which tend to the greatest usefulness and have been rewarded with
great success . " " That this Meeting cannot adequately express their high estimation of the Indefatigable , intelligent and disinterested labours of Thomas Pellatt , Esq ., and John Wilks , Esq ., the Honorary Secretaries to this Society , and that they t > e respectfully invited to continue their labours through another year /*
That this Meeting cannot separate without renewing their warmest assurances of sincere attachment to the Right Honourable Lord Holland , their Noble Chairman , and that they rejoice in
another opportunity to declare , that his uniform attachment to civil atid religious liberty , and his wise , liberal and consistent conduct have obtained , as they have well deserved , their grateful confidence and profound respect , "
This resolution was received with loud and long-coutinued acclamations by the whole meeting . Every person present rose from his seat in testimony of respect to the Noble Lord . As soon as the enthusiastic applause , with which it was received ,
subsided—Lord Holland rose and spoke nearly to the following effect : —Gentlemen ) , the Reverend Gentleman who moved the last resolution , of which you have been pleased thus to signify your approval , assured you that he did not propose it merely pro formd . 1 do not take , let me hope , too much vanity to myself , in believing' that ,
from the manner in which you received it , you wished to convey not a mere ordinary acknowledgment , but the expression of your sincere satisfaction . Permit me to assure you , in return , that the satisfaction and gratification with which I preside here to-day are not mere words of course . It is not in words of course I
express delight at the sentiments I have this day heard , and in the association of the men who now surround me . I am not so insensible of taste , of the display of genius , atid of the beauties of
composition , as not to have heard with pleasure and delight tlie speech delivered by the Secretary , and to have felt the force and justice of the principles which he inculcated on the minds of the meeting ; but , Gentlemen , whilst I express my delight at what I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/39/
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