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    meat , and 'the mode . of obtaining so desirable an end . For the latter purpose , it was recommended that petitions should be sent to the legislature , requesting * irs interference , on this occasion , and it is expected that this measure \\ iili soon be udoptcd by the . county of Middlesex and city of . London , and be followed by similar bodies . / it this rueetine \ Mr .

    Wardle , ILord Cocnrane-, and Mr . Madocks expressed decidedly their opinion © n this subject , and with Sir ^ Francis Burdr * tt , may be considered to belong to the third pnrty in the Houb £ of Commons , or that party which without reference to the question who is the minister , or aiming at a place , are desirous of . pursuing the real good of the nation . In the House of Commons several

    important questions were disc ussed . In two of them which personally affected themselves , ministers were triumphant . In one of them Lord Castlereagh was accused and confessed that he had been engaged in neg-ociating- a seat of parliament for a writership in India , and in thd other , JVlr . Perceval and Lord Castlereao-h were involved in an accusation

    of having- sold a seat in parliament . This gave rise to a very important de- < bate on the nth of May , important as it shews the state of parties in the house and the sentiments entertained by the leaders of the parties . under the present arrd the late ministers on the subject of

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    ,... iT * " i " ~ ^ ANNUH ASSEMBLY Of GENERAL BAPTISTS ,

    The General Baptists , according to their ancient custom , assembled at . the Meet ing-house , in Worship Street , Shoreditch , on the Tuesday in Witstin-vveek , May 23 d to promote the interests of the denomination . The Assembly is a voluntary association ; it & ives advice only and does not issue decrees ; it is left to

    individual churches to follow its advice or to depart from it ; to observe its regulations or disregard them . The principle of the Assembly is the right of private judgment , and the competence of ev ^ ry church to manage its own

    concerns;— the utility of it is it ^ being an act of-Christian fellowship , its serving as a centre of intelligence concerning the denomination , and its affbrch ' nr an opportunity of co-operation in a . common cause . Ecclesiastical history sh ^ ws that texts have flourished in proportion as

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    reform * It is with concern we observe that from the speeches reported of both of these parties , corruption , of members of parliament is allowed and pot reprobated . Mr . Madocks introduced the question and the Chancellor of the Exchequer and JLord Castlereagh retired

    as soon as they had delivered their sen - timents of reprobation on the mode pursued by the mov < . T . who after a little debate , moved that the house do on Wednesday next , resolve itself into 4 committee , to -examine into the nature

    of- the charges . The motion was seconded by Sir F . Burdeftt , and supported by Mr . Curwen , Biddulph , Whitbread , Lord Folkestone , Sir A . Hamilton and Mr Wilberforee , and opposed by Mr . Cartwrigru , Sir Charles Morgan , Mr . Giddy 9 Tierney , Bathurst and Wind ?

    nam . For the motion were — 85 Against it — — 3 & 0 Majority in favour of the ministers 235 In this opinion the nation , we are confident does not agree with the house , and if the votes of its constituents were

    taken , there would be . a majority of at least a hundred to o-ne in favour of an investigation , and in fact tbe ministers are by this decision of the house , placed in a very awkward situation . They are accused of a crime , and the charge remains unrepelled .

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    the individuals composing them have been in union ; and that whenever the members of a denomination have ]> een unknown and indifferent to each other , the denomination has declined and lost its existence .

    The public service in the morning was begun by the Rev . J . Evans ; ths Rev . Stephen Philpot , prjayed ; and ih $ Rev . J . JcfTerey , of Billingshurst , Sussex , preached from Ecclcrias * xi . 6 . The object of the preacher was to shew the difficulties , duties , encouragements and

    rewards of religious teachers . His discourse was liberal and manly , and well delivered . It gave general and great pleasure to the hearers , who after dinner joined in a request to Mr . Jeffercy to publish it , and subscribed for a consider * able number of copies . A 7 P ? ftCill wishing to promote the pubikatw fl

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    Z 98 Intelligence . — 'Annual Assembly-of General Baptists .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/52/