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INTELLIGENCE.
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The Wareham Chapel . At a meeting of the members of the Southern Unitarian Society , held at Newport , Isle of Wight , November 2 , 1829 , to take into consideration a communication from the Rev . Mr . Durant , of Poole , on the part of the Association of Independent Ministers of the county of Dorset , stating that the Rev . Messrs . Durant , of Poole \ Gunn , of Christchurch , and Keynes , of Bland ford , had been appoiuted
a'Committee oti the part of the Association , to ascertain whether the persous in possession of the Presbyterian Chapel at Wareham are entitled , in equity , to retain the same , and requesting this SociHy to appoint three persons , either ministers or laymen , to co-operate with the gentlemen appointed by the Association * for the purpose above stated , It was resolved ,
T % at though a charge of duplicity in the means he employed to deprive the Unitarian 8 of the Chapel at Wareham , has been publicly made against Mr . John Brown , accompanied with an offer to m « et him for the purpose of proving the same , which offer he has thought fit to
decline ; yet we are not aware that any charge has- been made against the congregation assembling in the chapel , and coflBequeinly we can only took on the proposed inquiry as an attempt to shift the imputation from an individual who seems unwilling to meet it ,, and' to fix the- burden of defence on those whose
contract there has been no intention to inculpate ^ Tfciftt we receive , in the spirit of conciliation-, the proposal made by the Independent Ministers of the county of Dorset , bufr we consider that by holding their Association in the Chapel at Wareham , ancHby assisting at the Ordination of the
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Rev . James Brown as its minister , they have prejudged the question they now propose to investigate ; and we are the more confirmed in this opinion , by finding that of the persons drained on the Committee we have reason to believe two at the least have been instrumental in forwarding those measures which have led to the present occupation of the chapel . We consider , therefore , that under such circumstances it would be in
vain to expect that an impartial investigation can be had . That even could such an investigation be obtained , and should the result terminate in the decision that the Chapel should be lestored to those who have been compelled to secede from it , there would be no security that &uch a decision
could be carried iuto effect , as the parties in possession have given no undertaking that they will de / er to the ppinion of the Committee ; and public opinion , on which we have been desivecj tb rely , has been already sufficiently ex ? pressed to prove its incompefceucy ta enforce the demands of equity .
That we should : hail with delifcht any measure which would promote ttye cause of Christian charity , and tend to heal the unhappy disputes which have so lqng prevailed at Wareha . m , but for the reasons before stated , we cap not concur iu the appointment of the proposed Comr
naittee , aB we conceive aft inquiry so couducted would only produce increased irritation , and , with respect to our friends most deeply interested ^ , revive feelings every way painful , many of them connected with relatives whp are now happily removed from the trying scenes which their survivors have been called to encounter . Wm . MORTIMER , Chairman .
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Communications have been received from Rev . H . Clarke ; P . Valentine ; Mquus ; N \ C . ; An Old York Student . —The Obituary of Mis * Powell , and of Mrs . Maty Meet , in our next .
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We are sorry ( for his sake ) to hear that Lieutenant Rhind , the Agent of the Reformation Society , has retracted the apology mentioned in p . 862 , as made by him at the Norwich Meeting .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 888, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/72/
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