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printed since the establishment of the Society is 403 , 500—of which 345 , 079 have been sent out from its store and Chiefly circulated . Some are still in the hands of the booksellers . The stock on hand is 5 B , 42 i . —By the publication of the last new Tract & fifth volume has been completed . This vvill probably be gratifying intelligence to many of the
Subscribers , as a considerable proportion of them were stated to prefer having their allotments in volumes rather than in single tracts , because an entire set in boards is ^ ejierally esteemed a more acceptable present by servants and other young
persons . This decided predilection in Subscribers for volumes had led the Committee tp entertain fixe idea of reprinting the ytfyote series , ynifownly , in five volumes . At present $ h £ volumes are made up of single tracts printed at very distant periods ,
on paper xko % of the same colour , with ^ he pages of differe nt lengths , and with the Jis $ i .-of publications appended to sererai numbers in the same volume . Besides the desirableness of rendering the appearance qf the volumes more confexinahte wit ;^ the ir admirable mora l tendency $ 1 MJ literary merit , it was calculated that
there would ultimately be a considerable Saving effected by the adoption of this plan . Riit in the mean time the requisite outlay for . paper and printing would be so great , that the Committee did not feel justified in doing more than to mention the plan fpr future consideration . —The Society ' s property was stated to be as follows :
pue froin ij # gratuitous Agent , the ftev . James Yfltes , of Bjinaingjiam , Booksellers , and GpuUitry Societies . £ 102 14 5 Efitinx ^ ed value of the Stock ' pqiiqnfi . , 326 3 8 Ba lance in the Treasurer ' s feuds 22 16 1 \ 451 14 8 | Owing for paper , 9 5 © balance of the Society ' s Property £ 442 9 8 £ uofltM anMMn
i ^ Tracts . n testimony Society ' s gratitude to this taost amiable lady * ^ nd admiration of her virtues and taients , the reader is referred to a resolution tielpw . T-Qn a , motion being m&de that the Committee ' s Report be received , &c , Mr .
< Fqi of the 1 ™^^^ F ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ fc ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ " ^^^ BB ^^*^ The Committee , as might have been awtficip ^ t ^ ^ alludedto the irreparable loss the . Society had receutiy sustained by the $ eath of Mrs . Maby Hughes , to whose y $ n , it has been indebted for nineteen of
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Fox rose to in < jtur , e why the Committee h&d not poticed tfee inyitatlon they hnd received , to unite with the ' phitarta : nFund &c , in th « e appointment of a CommHtee for the purpose of ascertaining the expediency and psracti ^ bHitJ ot forming a General tfnitari ^ n Association .
In answer to Mr . Fox ' 3 inqqjry it was replied , that the Committee ftd 4 , incompliance with the invitation to which lie referred , appointed a deputation to meet the deputies from the other Societies ; but so deeply were the Committee
impressed with the idea of the racompatibility of the proposed Union , that their deputies had stated , on meeting the Special Committee , that they had heen appointed merely from courtesy ; that the Christian Tract -. Society ha < J been professedly established on a catholic basis , to inculcate that moral cmdnct in the
importance and necessity of which Christians of all parties concurred ; that their constituents feared it would be thought a breach of coniidence by those Subscribers who were known not to be Unitarians , and who had giren ' their subscriptions because the pr ^ ectors aad
managers had declared that it # aa mot designed to disseminate the theological opiuionsof any deaoniination . Attd , thafc having made their report to the Committee , the following resbiatioa wa « unanimously passed : " That this Committee approves of tbe report made by its
Deputies , and embraces this opportunity of recordhig its opinion , that as the objects of this Society are not confined to sect or party , but extend to the greater imrterests of Christian virtue , they should regret
the introduction of any doctrinal distinctions which might lirqit the present or future usefulness of the Society . * ' On ^ a second invitation haviag been received , the Committee had directed the Secretary to forward the above resolution to
account for their declining to reappoint Deputies for con-sidermg the proposed Union . For these reasons the Coin mi t tee had thought it unnecessary to introduce the subject into their Report *—MLv . ) Pox said , he did not intend to C € n « iiro the Committee , but he expected that a circumstance of sucli a nature would have
been specially noticed , and have been brought forward for the consideration of the meeting . The following resolutions were then proposed and carried unanimously : 4 That this Society recognizes , with the
liveliest gratitude , the valuable contributions which durigg many years it received from the pen of the late Mrs . Mary Hughes , who , by her private i&rtues , not less than by ker iit ^ rArytafeWts , so essentially contributed to advanfc £ the great objects of this lnstit ^ itfidn ^« n d
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242 Intelligence . — tihrtetten ' ^ ract Society " .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/50/
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