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    The Congregational Grants to Scotland have been the same as last year viz , ^ £ 15 to Glasgo w , and £ \ 5 to Dundee . Mr . Logan , the Minister of Dundee , has visited Arhroath and St . Andrews , as an Unitarian Missionary , and preached to a numerous auditory at both places . At St . Andrews , Dr . Haldane , the Principal of St . Mary ' s College , exerted his influence with the proprietor of the Hall , which Mr . Logan had engaged , to prevent his preaching In it . This interference was manfully repelled , although the proprietor was

    not an Unitarian , nor is it known that there is a single Unitarian in that city . A number of the Students attended a sermon , the subject of which had been previously advertised , on the doctrine of the Trinity . The congregation at Edinburgh , which was for several years assisted by this Institution , and which , it will be remembered , proposed the reduction of that aid , and

    afterwards wholly relinquished it , the moment that the increase of its own resources warranted , has entered on the possession of a new chapel with very encouraging indications of prosperity . To their worthy minister , Mr . Squier , late of the Newington-Green Academy , £ , \ Q have been forwarded towards enabling him to complete his studies at the University .

    Your Secretary continues to receive Quarterly Reports from William Roberts , our Native Missionary , at Madras . The last of these , dated 13 th October , 1823 , was printed in No . IV . of the Unitarian Fund Register . A more recent communication has been received by Dr . T . Rees , dated December 29 . He expresses in it his grateful satisfaction at the arrangement

    made with him by this Society , and his determination to give himself up entirely to the promotion of truth . His congregation had been increased by another Roman-Catholic family ; and his Tracts were obtaining' wider circulation among the Natives , His accounts have been completely verified by tln ) se of the Trinitarian Missionary Society , in which it has at length

    been found unavoidable to notice the spread of Unitarianism in India , and from which it appears that Natives have adopted and are zealously advocating Unitarian Christianity at Bangalore , and in considerable numbers at Miezapore . We hope that our correspondents will soon be in communication with these self-made , or rather Bible-made , converts and missionaries of our doctrines , and furnish us with a more complete account of them . * At

    * Since the above was written , Roberts ' s Quarterly Report , of Jan . 1 st , has arrived . He repeats hi it his apprehensions of an approaching famine . There had been no rain , and rice was becoming very scarce and dear . It mentions the reopening of the Pursewaukuni School with ten Unitarian children , to whom an addition was expected of several Catholic children . The two other Schools have

    not been interrupted . That at Hanicollam contains twenty-eight scholars , the religious profession of whose parents is Biot stated . That at Pallavvaram , about twenty , of whom five are the offspring of Unitarians , the rest Catholic and Heathen . An enclosure contains a list of the Members of William Roberts ' s

    Church , with their ages , occupations and other particulars . It comprises twentythree Families and nineteen Individuals , making a total of sixty-six Adults , ( thirtysix Males and thirty Females , ) and fifty-seven Children . Of the former twenty-six were originally Catholics , thirty-five Idolaters , two Trinitarian Christians and two Unitarian . Of the Male Adults , Members of the Church , all can read except five .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1715/page/20/