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the "Government , and therefore thie precipitate chauge of policy cannot but prove highly beneficial in its results to the general inteieets of humanity . The Assembly have offered , it is true , a high bribe to the black and coloured cla ** se # , by removing all their disabilities ; but we think they have formed a most mistaken estimate of those classes if they expect their support in any measures of resistauce to the Government and Parliament
of this country . Their passions , we are persuaded , have here deluded them . We nevertheless rejoice exceedingly in the event . The Assembly appear greatly alarmed also by the freedom with which the periodical press of the island , and particularly the Watchman and the Christian Record , canvas the conduct of the planters , and tbe nature and effects of slavery , and a bill has been brought in
to restrain it , which has excited very general opposition , particularly on the part of -the free black and coloured people . The bill proposes to give summary power to magistrates to enter printinghouses and seize types , papers , &c . ; aud it inflicts on any one convicted of publishing seditious libels , the punishment of transportation for life . Should such a law pass in the island , it could only live until it reached England , where it must of necessitv be disallowed .
The House of Assembly was suddeuly and unexpectedly prorogued by the Governor , probably to give them time to reflect calmly ou their peremptory rejection of all improvement in their slave code . Messrs . Lecesne and Escoffery , whose names and whose sufferings are familiar
to our readers , had returned to Jamaica , after an exile of seven long years , and after having received the redress they had sought from the justice of this country , for the cruel injuries they had sustained from the government of Jamaica . Their return was hailed with the utmost joy by the free black and coloured inhabitants .
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Intelligence *—Umtwittnism in Guernsey . fl ! 3
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it in your Repository may ., eventually , prove serviceable to their interests , as well as an encouragement to others under similar circumstances , it is at your service .
C . H . One of our members had been for
several years a class leader and local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist connexion in England ; he had , for some considerable time , held opinion ** that were oot in strict accordance -with those of his Methodist friends , particularly on the subject of future punishment , the eternal duration of which he could not admit , not being able to re *
concile the doctrine of eternal punishment with the acknowledged perfections of God , and the general tea or of divine revelation . His views on this subject were generally known among the preachers and people ; among the latter there were many who thought with him ; they spake often one to another on this and other interesting subjects , and he continued united with them in Christian
love and friendship during his stay among them . On his removal to the island of Guernsey , having received an appointment in the service of the customs , it so happened that , in attending the Methodist chapel , he found one of the travelling preachers on the station to whom he was well known ; this man was a
strenuous advocate for the doctrine of Eternal Punishment ; and although he was apparently very friendly , he secretly insinuated among the people that such an one was not sound in the faith , that he held dangerous opinions , and that it would be advisable that the people should have as little intercourse with him as
possible . This had its intended effect with regard to the greater part of the members , but it excited the attention of others in a more excellent way ; these manifested a friendly disposition towards the stranger , and sought opportunities to converse with him on the subject of religion , &c .
It was on one of the . se occasions , wheu three of his Christians friends spent the evening with him at hit * house , that they expressed themselves as flighty gratified with the evening ' s cotiaeroatiofi ; and one of them proposed a stated weekly
meeting for i he purpose of religious conversation , &c . The proposal was gladly embraced , and from that tune I date tbe origin of the Unitarian Church im Guernsey ; not that either of us had oa ^ idea of Unitarianhin at that time ; we frad scarcely heard of tbe uanm , and w * x * e al ~
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Unitarianism in Guernsey . Sir , A letter in your Repository for February last , ( under the head of * ' Unitarianiem in Guernsey , " ) signed " E . Whitfield , " and dated " Jlminster , " interested me so much , that I entered into a correspondence with the subject of it , which , ultimately , led to tlrcir sending me the inclosed . If . it appears to you , as it does to me , that the pubiiciitiou of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/69/
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