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    of the friend * fttod supporters of the Unitarian interest in that place , that you will sire insertion to the following communication , in au early Number of your useful

    Miscellany . . The members of the Unitarian congregation wt Oldhatn consist chiefly of persons in the humbler ranks of life , whose pecuniary resources are extremely limited , and whoie greatest exertions are scarcely equal to the small annual expenditure for which they have to provide . This expenditure amounts to the sum of'about £ 14 , j

    and includes a charge of £ 6 . for ground rent , © f £ 5 . for interest upon a loan of £ 100 , and of £ 3 . for cleaning- and lighting the chapel . This Joan they hare been called upon to refund j which , with a balance due for work done in the chapel , subjects them to a debt of £ 13 * 2 . 12 s .

    The following is a statement of the general accounts of the Society . Amount of bills - - £ 670 13 2 J Trust Dee'd - - - 20 15 10 Bills for painting , &c , - 21 15 5 Wills unpaid - - - 10 6 6 723 10 11 J A mount subscribed - - 567 6 3 ^ Cash for Trust Deed - 8 0 0 Bo . for finishing Chapel - 15 12 8 Balance owing - ' - 132 12 0 723 10 ll £

    With a view to the liquidation of their debt , the society pledge themselves to every exertion on their own part ; and as an evidence of their sincerity in giving this pledge , they have , by an extraordinary effort , succeeded id raising among * themselves the sum of £ 20 . The society take this opportunity of statingy that they have

    the privilege of purchasing * the freehold of the chapel premises j which , including * every expense , might be effected for £ 120 . 1 his is an object that they would be truly happy to accomplish ; but the circumstances of difficulty Xu which they are placed , preclude , for the present , all expectation of effecting a scheme so desirable . In recalling the attention of the Unitarian public to the state of their

    finances , the brethren at Oldbam feel no inconsiderable portion of reluctance . They are sincerely thankful for the liberal aid winch they have experienced j and , without waking a direct and formal appeal to the generosity of their friends , they merely * ish it to be known that their financial embarrassments have not been yet J removed . WILLIAM HARRISON . Late Treasurer .

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    Miscellaneous . Sheffield Controversy . Sheffield has lately been the seat of a controversy , originating in a speech delivered by the ltev . 1 \ Cotterili of that place to the clergy of the archdeaconry of

    York , assembled at tVakefteid on the 21 st April 1819 , to petition against the Catholic Claims . It is no new thing * to find intolerance and misrepresentation , " in ail their glory , ' issuing from suck assemblies £ and that this should u unanimously" agree that the prayers of millions of their fellowsubjects should not be listened to , would

    appear a matter tif course . Our reverend divine , who take * every tiling for granted which blockheads and bigots , the enemies of religious liberty , have asserted against the Catholics , though a thousand times refuted , and will believe nothing * Umt tketf or their friends pro less or prove , runs through the catalogue of their errors and

    crimes , the enormities of their creed and the worthlessness of their conduct , and concludes by asserting that the voice *> £ God himself speaks in the aiui-catUoli ^ petition , and by exhorting bis hearers tip the iove they leer to the lit vine Being , to condemn , anathematize and persecute their fellow-men . r

    Mr . T . A . Ward , in a letter to the Sheffield Mercury , aualizes , one by one ^ the statements or his clerical neighbour , ajud holds them up to the world in all their flimsy raggeducas . One or two anonymous auxiliaries skirmish at his flanks ,

    ( it may be noticed that the controversialists are mightily fond of military language , ) while Mr . Mac Donnell , a Catholic priest , pours in a destructive volley upoji tire liasly assertions , unauthorized quotations , and dogmatical invectives of the Sheffield

    divine , t Mr . Cotterili returns to the charge , but he abandons his former post altogether . Driven from his shattered redoubts , he advances a new set of accusations as

    groundless and unavailing as before ; and as if a mass of errors could make a truth , or the authority of bigots justify bigotry , he quotes at length from the Courier and such pure sources , the oft-repeated and oftener answered calumnies : fills pujres

    with the shallow arguments of others , as if no longer satisfied with lira own ; and finds it safer ( O prudent parson !) to shelter himself beneath the dicta of Mr- Leslie Foster and my Lord Colchester , than to attack the pithy atid puzzling reasoning

    which his dj > pt > uents would hi in press upon his attention . But he manages the weapons of others no better than his own , and obtains , in . consequence , the thanks of an anonymous Catholic for the happy example he gives of the absurdity and folly of the species of argument * usually adopted by the anti-catholic party . ¦ -. ¦ k

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/61/