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    INTELLIGENCE.

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    England , and was at an early period of his life engaged in trade ia that town . By some unforeseen occurrences , he met with severe loisses in business , which reduced him to insolvency . He called his creditors together , exhibited the state of his pecuniary affairs , and surrendered to them all his property .

    "The world was all before him , where to choose his place of labour , and he fixed upon the United States as the scene of his future exertions , if his creditors gave him a license to depart . So well satisfied were they that his misfortuues arose from no misconduct on his part , and of the previous probity and honour which characterized him , that instead of granting him that license which he

    petitioned for , they unanimously signed a general release of all their demands , though the remnant of his property made but a very small dividend . He came hither , Providence crowned his well-meant epdeavours . He was extremely frugal in his habits , and after a series of years he found he had accumulated property sufficient to satisfy all his former creditors . There was not a

    moment ' s hesitation in his mind . No combating between a consciousness of legal irresponsibility and acquittal on the one

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    Test and Corporation Acts . The general associated Committee for prosecutiug the claims of Dissenters for relief from their disabilities , have continued since the session of Parliament to keep the object of their institution in view , and have regularly met for the purpose of attending to such measures of preparation as demanded their

    attention . It has been resolved to take every means for the renewal of active proceedings in the next session , and the sub-committee met on the 21 at of November to consider the forms of petitions to be recommended for universal

    adoption throughout the country , and to be set on foot so early as to ensure the most general and energetic expression of the feelings of the Dissenting body throughout the kingdom . We shall con tinue tt ^ pay the strictes t attention to the proceedings of all parties on this most interesting subject \ and it wfll n 6 t foe our fault ( we trust it neVer

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    side , and moral obligation on the other . Thtfiife ^ i ^ cfp * s of Strict honour and ^ robity ' # hich had gtiided him through life , came into full operation here . TJiq full amount of his debts was remitted to England , and all of them paid off . His

    creditors , though knowing for the most part his high sense of honour and strict moral principle , were little prepared for this agreeable exemplification of it , held a meeting , and voted him a large and valuable silver bowl , on which was briefly inscribed a testimonial of their sense of

    Mr . Turner ' s character and conduct . This honourable memorial , which a more ostentatious man would have displayed on his sideboard , he kept constantly concealed ; and it is believed that , in this country , not a single individual knew of its existence , until a communication from England informed some of his friends of

    the fact , and the circumstances which gave rise to it } and when * at an after period , another friend requested to see it , the request was reluctantly complied with ; and when something like a com * pliment was attempted to be paid him , he shrunk from it with apparent surprise , merely saying that he was not conscious of having done mote than what was right . "

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    has been ) if our brethreu suffer themselves to be beguiled into acquiescence or patience under a system of degradation . Whatever might be the policy or propriety of abstaining on former occasions , and particularly in the last session , it is obvious , that , if we are in earnest , the time must some time come for aritne time must some time come ror

    agitating the question with energy , ( Q ( ir hopes of success in throwing off our chains must be small indeed , if the possession of power by those whom we esteem our friends is to be a reason jfpr submission . If such is to be the measure meted by our friends , what are we to expect from- our enemies ? Under their sway we should at least ftajre tljie opportunity of complaining ami

    prptestmg . The General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers have hel 4 # meeting to deliberate on the steps which it might be deemed expedient to pursue , and Mve unauimously resolved to petitipn Parliament for the Repeal of the / Sacrairtefttal Test . ~* » ¦¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 929, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/73/