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of Oundle , who were committed under the Vagrant Act to hard labour , on ( he charge of collecting money under false pretences , they being at the same time accredited Ministers of the Gospel , laudably endeavouring to raise subscriptions
for the erection of a Dissenting Chapel . We are rejoiced to find that the subject has been taken up by the Protestant Society for the protection of Religious Liberty ; and that the result of . their efforts was the liberation of the parties ,
the payment of all legal expenses , a liberal contribution to the objects sought by these divines , and a public apology from the wrong-doer * At least there is some advantage in a Protestant Association !—Sunda y Times ,
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and a prayer , and the Rev . Noah Jon ^ es delivered an admirable moral sermpn from 1 John ii . 15 , exhorting to the same earnest and persevering exertion in the service of religion which was usually bestowed on the world and its transient possessions . The friends then separated ,
gratified , we trust improved , by the services of the day , convinced at any rate that the influence and spread of IJniffarian Christianity amongst the poor was not to be viewed with despair , perhaps indulging brighter hopes of a time when men will warship the Father iu spirit and in truth .
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Ecclesiastical Preferment . " The King has been pleased to present the Rev . Dr . John Gilchrist to be first minister of the parish and church of Cannongate , in the Presbytery and Comity of Edinburgh , vacant by . the
transportation of the Rev . Dr . John Lee , late First Minister thereof , to Lady Yester ' s Church , in the City of Edinburgh "London Gazette , March 3 , 1825 . Rev . Daniel Wilson , Prebend of Rochester .
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Cas e of the D is sen t ing' Tea che rs committed to . / ail as Vagrants . In the month of August last , we called the attention of our readers to the oppressive and illegal conduct of certain Buckinghamshire Parsons , agaiu . st James Homer , of ltonudcs , and William Wood ,
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The Quarterly Review is do longer under the superintendence of Mr . Gifford . The new editor is Mr . John Coleridge , the Barrister . The next number will give us " a taste of his quality" as Editor of the Quarterly : an
office of which those only who know how many persons and parties the gentleman who occupies it has to please and conciliate , can appreciate the difficulties — The Same . [ The mi in be r anticipated in the above extract has been published , and will not we think raise the character
of the work . The tone of the Quarterly on religious and political subjects is evidently moderated . What indeed might we not expect in this point of view from a work like this , when Black wood ' s Magazine is beginning to shew symptoms of liberality towards Dissenters and Americans and American Unitarians ?]
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Intelligence . —Manchester College , York . —Ecclesiastical Preferments . 187
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LITERARY . The venerable author of The Man of Feeling , Henrv Mackenzie , is at present engaged on an autobiographical work , which cannot fail to be eminently interesting- to the literary world . Except Bent ham , Mr . Mackenzie is , we believe , the oldest living author in Great Britain .
Johnson , Goldsmith , Gibbon , Reynolds , are all within his recollection ; and in his own country the great names of the Grcgories , Beattie , Cullen , Reid ,, the Monroes , David Hume , Robertson , Adam Smith , Blair , Kames , Tytler , Monboddo , Black , Logan , and many others , must all be familiar to him as household words .
Mr . Mackenzie , notwithstanding his great age , is as fully in possession of all his faculties , as he was at five and twenty : and as bis latter years have been passed among the highest literary characters of our own dav , such a work as his cannot fail to be one of the most interesting ever published , —New Monthly Magazine .
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Manchester College , York . TjHE adjourned Annual Meeting of the Trustees of this Institution , will be held in the Cross * Street Chapel Rooms , Manchester , on Thursday the 7 th of April , at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon : and in
the afternoon of the same day the Trustees and friends of the College will dine together at the Bridgewater Arms , in Manchester . S . D . Darbishire , I Secrelaries J . J . Tayler , ^ secretaries . Manchester , March 17 , 1825 .
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The Meeting of the Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Society , at Honiton , originally appointed to be held on Good Friday , is postponed to Thursday , April \ kth .
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On Sunday , March 6 , the new chapel at Pendlebury , near Manchester , was opened for public worship . The Rev . Edward Hawkes , A . M ., conducted the service , and has accepted an invitation to become the stated minister .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/59/
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