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      Communications have been received from Mrs . Cappe ; Messrs . T . F . Barham ; L . I . Jardine ; J . Fullagar 5 B . Treienven ; R . W . Wallace ; T . C . Holland RF 5 J . Hancock ; and Dr . Philipps : also , from B . ; Taielpisj B . Y . ; W . ^ . . 1 and

      N . D . E . By an oversight , the promised extracts from Joseph Lancaster ^ letter are omitted in the present Number . Dr . 7 \ S . Smith ' s account of the Meeting" at Bridgewater , arrived too late for insertion . We received Mr . H . Davies ' s communication relating- to the Taunton Fellowship Fund , hut have mislaid it , and must therefore beg of him to furnish a copy . Some Obituary Articles are reserved for the ensuing- Number .

      Not having- heen able to introduce any Parliamentary Intelligence , in its . proper place , we take this opportunity of informing * our readers , that the Fire-Act Clergy Bill has been withdrawn , and that ihc Parish Clerks Bill has been thro \ vn out by the Committee to whom it was referred , on an informality detected ! by Mr . Wilts . The Catholic Claims have been debated in both Houses , and in both have been refused , but in rthe Commons by a majority of piily hvo .

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      Persia . The Prince Royal of Persia , rilth a design to protect the Christians rb that country , has lately assembled a Divan , at the populous city of Tauris , and proposed to them the following questions : —l . Was Jesus Christ a true prophet sent from God ? —2 * Are the laws contained in the gospel

      just ?—3 . Is it lawful to blaspheme these laws ? The first two question * were answered in the affirmative ; the last in the negatire These decisions have received a legal form ; in consequence of whieh the Prince punished one of his domestics for insulting * a Christian . We may , therefore , hope that Christianity will be fully tolerated in Persia .

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      China . His Imperial Majesty has lately displaced and degraded Sung Ta-jin > his prime minister , because he presumed to advise him not to visit certain tombs of his ancestors ; and had intimated that a great drought then prevailing-, was occasioned 1

      by the Emperor " s inattention . This was deemed such glaring disobedience to the commands of His Holy Majesty , that it was impossible not to punish it . It was , therefore , ordered that he should be deprived of his office , and be reduced to wear a button of the sixth rank * and be

      sent to the eight standards of wandering shepherds at Oha , ha , urh . His name is to he retained on tike hooks 5 and , if for eight years he commit no error , he may again be eligible to his former situation . — We smile at the symbol of Chinese honour , a button , forgetting our own stars , garters and grand crosses .

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      Tbe Gazette of Genoa announces that the persecution against the Catholics of China , has not extended to the missions of the Dominican Fathers of Fokien and of Chan-Chew ; their mission of Tonkin

      enjoys tranquillity under the protection of the King Gia-L ' aous , who is well-disposed towards the Christian religion . Christianity has made progress , not only in this country , but also in a part of the Philippine Isles entrusted to the care of this missioa .

      The only complaint is of a want of missionaries , of whom they hare prayed their brethren in Spain to send out some to them . The number of Christians in ? the missions carried on by the Dominicans , amounts in China and Tonquin to 351 , 007 , of whom 157 , 753 for Tonquin , are dispersed in 795 villages .

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      Egypt . A French traveller , now in Egypt , has discovered , at a distance of about nine hours ' journey from the Red Sea , an ancient city built in the mountains , between the 24 and 25 degrees of latitude . There are still eight hundred houses in existence . Among * the ruins are fouud temples dedicated to various divinities . There are

      eleven statues , and various ruins of others . He has also discovered the ancient stations that were appointed on the route through the Desert , going from the Red Sea to the Valley of the Nile : these stations are at regular distances of nine hours between

      each . This route is undoubtedly one of those traversed by the commerce of India , a commerce which was so flourishing at the time of the Lagides , and under the first emperors . The situation is now ascertained of the emerald mine , of which uo certain knowledge was had for several ages .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/64/