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    Brighton Chapel . iToihe fidttor . Sir , The letter in your last number respecting the New-Road Chapel at Brighton * has made it necessary that the case be fully stated . . Your

    correspondent has been rightly informed both as to the prospects iu Brighton and the exertions of the congregation . He will be glad to know , that by yet Increasing exertions , in whieh the poorer members have dbeerfully performed their part , they hope that they have secured to themselves the continuance of" the

    valuable services of their present minister * Mr . James Wallace , beyond the expiration of the first year . At the same time , they cannot conceal from themselves , that they shall not be able to sustain long the burthen which remains upon the chapel , and to provide for the regular supply of the place , without greater assistance than has been lately received . There are two ways in which this might

    be afforded to them ; one is , by more frequent and more liberal donations of such as attend the public services of the chapel while they are visitors at Brighton ; the other is , by enabling the society to discharge that part of the debt which alone has pressed hitherto upon their funds . The former aid must be , of course , variable and uncertain ; the latter would put them immediately in a condition to provide for the regular services of the

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    Sir J . E , Smith * James Edward . Smith was born in the city of Norwich , Dec . 2 « d , 17 & 9 . He was the eldest of seven children , whose father , a Protestant Dissenter , was a man of much intelligence and vigour of witid . His mother ,, who was the daughter of a clergyman , lived in Norwich to tlie advanced age of 88 , and will long be remembered fo * * he

    benevolence , cheerfulness , and activity of her charaoter . He received the rudiments of his education in his native city , » n& early testified that love for Natural History , and particularly for the science of Botany , which afterwards procured him both happiness and fame . Iu the year 1780 , at the age of 21 , he went to-win * burgi . While pursuing his medical atudieti there , botany was still in U »

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    chapel themselves .. During the first -seven years , since the chapel was opened , eutling last August j the annual demand on account of debt has been five per cent , interest on six hundred and sixty pounds , being the loan for the purchase of the

    land . * The amount of debt besides ,, is nine hundred pounds * for which no interest has been paid or required ( luring those years . If the former loan of £ 6 SQ were discharged , it is believed tkat the interest of most of the remaining debt will continue to be remitted till the society has grown into greater maturity .

    At the time when the New-Road Chapel was Wilt , very liberal subscriptions were made of not less than £ 200 by some individuals ; but the number of subscribers to its erection was much smaller than had beeu anticipated . Perhaps it was wrong to expect that the great importance of the station , or the value of the accommodation to many

    individuals and families of the Unitarian faith in the course of every year , should be very generally and justly estimated at that time . This , however , is no reason why , after eight years ' , experience of both , a second appeal should not be made to the Unitarian public , soliciting their farther aid in accomplishing a work confessedly of great public utility .

    JOHN MORELL . * Might not this interest be reduced ? ft seems a high charge . Editor .

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    thoughts j and he 90 far distinguished himself as to obtain the gold medal givea to the best proficient among the students in that science . Leaving Edinburgh , in order to perfect his professional studies in London , he became acquainted with Sir Joseph Banks the eminent patron of natural scieiice > and of all its ardent admirers » upon whose recommendation he

    purchased , in 1784 , the celebrated Linnaeaii collection , comprising the Library , the Herbarium , insects , shells , and all other natural curiosities , together with the MS& and epistolary correspondence of the great Linnaeus and his son . Tho sale was / precipitated before the return of the Kitig of Sweden , then on his travels , ]©*« lie should oblige the heirs u d&pflsft of the Whole at a cheaper rate to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/59/