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    to say that they ran no risk on the old law of maintenance . Mr . Rutt regretted the introduction of this question at all to-day ; but as it had been started by Mr . Montgomery and opposed by Dr . Brown on fallacious grounds , he could not help saying , that if they were in danger , they ran into it every day . Did not they write every day

    to litigious people , who would annoy them if they could , expressly threatening legal proceedings at public expense ? Their acts left it nowise doubtful ; and what , then , could a statement of their funds add to the danger ? He for one should at the proper time move for the accounts next meeting , when they would have been audited . At present , he moved the previous question .

    Mr . Montgomery did not wish to press the point now , but always should at the proper time . There was but one opinion wherever he went as to the absurdity of concealment . Mr . Ta y lor then withdrew the motion , as it seemed the wish of the Meeting he should do so . He had only made it to bring on some understanding on the subject and prevent being embarrassed by

    any difficulty on this point . He should move at once , therefore , That the Committee ' s unanimous recommendation should be adopted . The Chairman had stated most fully the grounds of the recommendation , and he would only add his personal conviction that no one step they could take would be more conducive to their interests ' , or better conciliate the good feeling of those to whom they must look for parliamentary support .

    Dr . Brown seconded the motion . He hoped there would be but one opinion as to the propriety of supporting so excellent an Institution , which furnished some counterpoise to those relics of the barbarous ages which imposed on the candidates for academical education the obligation of withdrawing from the road to learning and honour , or of subscribing what their consciences disclaimed . He

    was willing to give the Committee credit that the sum was one which the Society could spare ; and , after all , it was only a change of security , productive at the same time of great intermediate good . Mr . Waymouth felt deeply interested in the success of the motion . At the

    time of the planning of the University two parties were at work on the same object . A body of Dissenters were assembled in that very house , and were invited to meet the other party . They had gone on cordially together , and he could not but contemplate the most beneficial copse-

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    quxnees to all parties , and especially those situated as the Dissenters were , from its final success . Mr . Richard Smith , entirely approving the proposal , suggested some difficulties as to its execution in point of form , particularly as to the names iti which it was proposed that the shares should stand .

    Mr . Mills wished the names of the Trustees of the Society ' s stock to be read . The Secretary said , they were the Chairman , Mr . Waymouth , Mr . Collins , and Mr . Busk . Mr . Montgomery said , he did not mean to oppose the present motion , but he thought it strange to vote money when even gentlemen on the Committee said they did not know what they had .

    Mr . Jackson observed , that it was not voting away money , it was changing to an investment which was , in fact , to pay interest , and would give a patronage to the Society . Mr . Rutt admitted that they did not

    know whether there were any funds or not , but all they said to the gentlemen who were reported to be Trustees was this , "If you have any of our money , pray buy some University shares with it . " He had been a Committee man

    twenty years , and knew nothing of funds . How should he ? unless he broke into the mystery irregularly , which he had always determined he never would do . He saw two or three friends who had got the Masonic secret , and he begged them not to tell it .

    Mr . Wood and two other Deputies ( whose names we did not learn ) opposed the resolution , on the ground that it required time for consideration . It involved an opinion as to the London University and also the security of their funds . It was strange to vote funds till they knew what they were , and , as the subject of disclosure was deferred , this had better be deferred also . The same

    mystery which prevailed as to the fund might be applied if they asked questions hereafter as to the patronage . Another Deputy supported the motion . The London University had been long enough in existence to be known . It would enable the Dissenters , whose

    particular institutions provided for the theological education of their youth , to go there , for other attainments . There could not be an object more in unison with their feelings and interests as Dissenters . They were at present deprived of all the benefits which the new Institution promised , and the sole question was ,

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    130 Intelligence . — Proceedings of the Deputies

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/56/