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    8 ar , till the shame of ignorance forced us into it ; and though-we profess to be Protestants , we shallbethe last probably to acknowledge that a difference in religious opinions is no reason for a difference in civil rights ; and tbat there is no connexion between eating bread , and drinlcing wine in a church with certain ceremonies *

    disgusting perhaps to the receiver , and the occupancy of a post in the army or navy , or the law . The Hottentots have an odd ceremony in marriage , which creates the disgust of the civilized European : this rite of eatiwg

    "bread and drinking wine , when forced upon a person , is infinitely more so in the eye of reason ; and of its repugnancy to Christianity , there cannot he a doubt in the mind of any one "who considers the origin of the institution ' *

    INDEPENDENT ( JNiOM . —^ A Select meeting was held on the 2 2 d . at the King ' s Head , Poultry * to carry this object into effect . We understand the Rev , Mr . PaLmer , of Hackney , is expected to preach the first Sermon , on the occasion of the establishment of rhe projected society .

    HIBERNIAN . SOCIETY . —A special general meeting of this society , was held on the id Inst . at the New London Tavern , to receive the Report of the Treasurer , and of the Rev . IMesr > s Bogue , Charles and Hughes ; ivho had been deputed * , on behalf of the society to visit Ireland , for the

    purpose of ascertaining the present state of Religion thcr « e , and the best means to promote the object of the Institution , which is " to endeavour to extend divine knowledge in Ireland , by the ministry of the Gospel , l ) y the dispersion of the Hoy Scriptures 3 and religious tracts , by the

    formation and support of schools , and by every other lawful and prudent inea-ure , calculated to promote pure religion , morality , and loyalty , " The meeting was respectably attended ; and we understand the report of the deputation was encouraging to the views of the ociety .

    RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY . —® n J : he 13 th . two sermons were preached by the Rev . Mr Jay , at the Rev . Rowland Hill ' s Ghapel , tor the benefit of this society . The

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    whole of the * amount collected is to bd expended in tracts , to be circulated among our soldiers , and sailors , and the prisoners of war * in this coufc * try * 11 T 2 RAHY , Shortly will be published the First Volume of a work , which is to be

    comprised m two thick Octavo Volumes * containing the History of the Rise , Pro * gress , and Accomplishment of that great event , the Abolition of the Slave-trade : with proper Engravings . Price il . is . By Thomas Clarkson , Prospectus : —The , - Author , after

    having explained the nature of the Slave-Trade , shows that , from the very establishment of it , individuals b $ r gan to be raised up "who may be coh * sidered as so many preparatory instruments for bringing about its abolition . These he divides into four classes , as they took up this cause on grounds independently o £ ^ each other .

    The first class consisted of persons * chiefly of England , of various religious denominations * w- These followed one another , from Richard Baxter in 1660 to the poet Cowper in 1 787 * They were forty-three in number * Their ryimes , 'with , interesting ex * tracts from their publications , both in poetry and prose , are given .

    The second consisted of the Qua * kers in England , 1 . Of George Fox . 3 . Of Friends as a body , both as they attempted to purify their own mem * bers from the guilt of this commerce and as they attempted to awaken the legislature and to enlighten the pub *

    lie mind upon it . 3 . Of six individuals , who came out of the body at large in 1783 , and were found acting as a little committee by themselves in 1787 * The different measures and resolutions both of the Society and of these individuals on this great sub * Kct are recorded also .

    The third consisted of the Quakers in America from 1696 to 1774 . 1 . Of Friends as a body in their six different Yearly Meetings , a . Of Friends as individual labourers by themselves

    within the same period . 3 . Of individuals who came out of the body at large in 1774 , and were joined in that year by persons of various other religious denominations . An account of tliis important junction is detailed >

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/52/