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    » KBPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DEPUTIES OF THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS , TO THE GENERAL MEETING , ON THE 21 st of DECEMBER , ' 1832 . It will , no doubt , be in the recollection of the Deputies , that at the comgjgn 2 emenr " of ~ £ tTS ~ FFesimr Address was received from William

    Smith , Esq . on his retirement from the office of Chairman to this Deputation , after having filled that situation during the long period of twentyseven years , with much honour to himself , and advantage to his

    constituents . Upon that occasion , resolutions were passed at a general meeting , expressive of the great regret which the Deputies felt at the separation ; but as both the Address and Resolutions were circulated

    amongst you , as well as published in the Magazines , your Committee think "it unnecessary to notice the subject further in this Report . The subject of registration , which has for several years occupied a considerable portion of the attention of successive Committees , has . in the

    course of the past year , received a fresh impulse , in consequence of Lord Nugent having , in April last , brought in a Bill ( in reference to the registration of births . Your Committee did not wholly approve of bringing forward this portion of the Registration question separately ;

    thinking it better that it should be included in the general measure relative to the register of births , marriages , arid deaths , which has been for a long while under the consideration of the Real Property Commissioners ; but as Lord Nugent seemed intent upon proceeding with his Bill ,

    your Committee thought it their duty to take its provisions into consideration , and accordingly suggested many important alterations arid additions , which were all adopted by his Lordship on the second reading . The Bill , however , owing probably to Lord Nugent haying been ap-

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    pointed to fill a foreign station , was not carried further . On the very interesting subject of education in Ireland , your Committee , feeling deeply impressed with the importance of the plan introduced by his Majesty ' s Government , thought it their duty to call a general meetfcrg ~^ iM ) € put ^

    which , it will be remembered , petitions to both Houses o ^ Parliament were agreed to , praying that c full and Efficient support might be given to Government in the execution of the proposed plan . ' Those petitions were accordingly presented by Lord Holland to the fjouse of Lords * and by Lord John Russell to the House of Commons .

    Your Committee , during the past 3 , have paid much attention to the important topic of West India Slavery , and , in connexion therewith , to the dreadful outrages which have recently been committed in the .. Island , of Jamaica , —They accordingly broug ht the subject before a general meeting on the 26 th of

    July last , when , in order to diffuse very widely the information which had been received , the sum of 200 / was voted to the Baptist Missionary Society , to enable them to print a large number of the pamphlet , entitled , ' Facts and Documents connected with the late Insurrection in

    Jamaica ; ' of which publication one was sent to every " member , of the British Legislature , and in various other ways it was extensively circulated . Your Committee , continuing to receive information of repeated instances of gross infringement upon the

    civil and religious rights of the Missionaries and others in Jamaica 7 antl knowing how entirely the general body of Deputies concurred with them in their views of this subject , on the 3 d of November last appointed a deputation to wait on Lord Goderich with the following Address ;—•

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    58 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/26/