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      losing statement has been published by this meeting-: " There are in Syria and the neighbouring * countries , about one million of persons whe use the Car shun language ; that is , they speak Arabic j but , in writing it , tiiey employ ( he Syriac character . These people have very few books among * them , there being" printing' presses for the at

      Car shun no where but ^ tt R « me and St . Anthonio , near Tripoli in Syria , and but a small number of books printed at these presses . / Ttoe main body of the people are , in consequence , in a lamentable state of ignorance ; and their poverty is so great , that they have not the Hreans of relieving themselves . "

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      $ D& Intelligtnce . — Miscellaneous ;—Parliatnentary * -

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      the reasons for the Disseatera not movihg at present , are probably ( for we speak ik& on authority ) that the leading members ; of their body are more actuated ; by timidity than by zeal for their rights , —that tlxe Opposition are not disposed to clog tLeir march to power with the prejudice that

      would be thrown upon them by taking up the cause of the JDissenters , ~ that a parliamentary application by the Dissenters might injure the cause of the Roman Catholics ,- —and that the Dissenters are not yet ripe for an unanimous , simultaneous movement , which alone could succeed .

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      Tire-Act Clergy . [ See pp . 166—171 . ] The Committee of the House of Commons , to whom the petition of the London Clergy , under the Fire-Act , was referred , came to a resolution on Friday , March 12 , that the petitioners had failed to prove the allegations in their petitions .

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      The lately vacant see of Peterborough is filled by the translation af Dr . Marsh from the see of Landaff . The new bishop of XandafF is Dr . Vanmildert ^ the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford , and treacher at Lincoin ' s-Inn . 4

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      WV ^^ MVW Tbe Rev . Christ . Wordsworth ^ D . D ., Rector of Lambeth , is appointed Chaplain to the House ofOommoyis .

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      r The Church Union Society ^ established in Wales , under the patronage of the Bishop of St . David's , have this year adjudged their premium of £ 50 . for the best Essay on the Evidences from Scripture that the soul immediately after death is not in a state of insensibility ^ but of happiness or misery , to a writer under the signature of Eusebius Oxoniensis ; and dElO . each to the Rev . Johnson Grant , and the Rev . Edward Griffin , for the two next best Esssys on the same subject .

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      The Earl of Morton is to be High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland .

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      The University of Oxford , true to its character and reputation , has unanimously agreed to petition against any repeal of the laws now existing against Roman Catholics .

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      MMMMflM * (( The question of an Application to Parliament ( or the Mepeal of the Corporation and Test Acts , ( to which we alluded under the head Correspondence ^ in the last Number , p . 136 . ) is . we fceliere , at rest :

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      In the House of Lords ^ Ma rch 4 , a discussion took place , on tbe motion of Lord Holland , respecting the state of the Slaves in the West India Islands . His Lordship expressed himself satisfied with the measures adopted by the colonial

      legislatures for preventing * the importation of slaves 5 and he allowed their good intentions with regard to the improvement of the condition of the negroes , though the result of the steps take a with a view to this end was less satisfactory . Tu Jamaica , w

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      Parliamentary . House of Commons . Monday , Mirch 1 . Lord Castlereagh moved for a Committee to inquire into the State of Prisons . His lordship endeavoured to shew that the present state of crimes was unavoidable , and that the Criminal Law did not deserve

      to be stigmatized as unreasonably severe . The motion was carried without a division , and a Committee appointed , consisting of gentlemen from both sides of the House . Tuesday , March 2 . Sir James Mackintosh brought forward his motion for the appointment of a select Committee , to take into their consideration so much of the

      Criminal Law as related to capital punishment in the case of felony . He delivered on the occasion a very able speech , in which he replied with singular felicity to the objections of the timid : The motion was opposed by Lord Castlereagh , who wished all inquiries relating to Criminal

      Law , to be confined to his own Committee , previously appointed ; and enforced by Mr . Buxton , who , in a very eloquent speech , shewed the necessity of the measure , and exposed the futility of the noble Lord ' s objections , and the inadequacy o'f one Committee to such a variety of

      important objects . After an animated debate , the minister was beaten on a division , there being for the original motion , 147 , against it , 128 ; majority 19 . The Committee thus appointed consists of effective members ; and we congratulate the country on this new triumph of humanity .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/64/