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    bice to Lord North ^ and the body tfProtestant Dissenting Ministers . " I shall thank any one of your correspondents to say whether a piece , with the above titley was actually published , and if in his

    possession to give some account of it . I apprehend that the Royal Bounty designs the Reginm Donum , or royal gift . Of this I see a short account , under that title , in the "Protestant Dissenter ' s Almanac /*

    for this year , p . 47 . It is there sakt that Ci the sum amounts at present to 2000 / . per annum , and is now at the disposal of the Rev ; Dr . Rees , who is assisted in this labour" by seven ministers from ike different denominations .

    Mr . Fell , dates his u Genuine Protestantism . " from 4 C Thaxted , in Essex , " ' He was , I believe ,

    the same who opposed Mr . Farmer on the Demoniacs , and during the latter years of his life * became tutor to the Caivinistic Academy at Horaerton . This author

    carried his notions of religious liberty very far . He argued against the interference of the magistrate , even though requiring only a declaration that a dissenting minister was " a . Christian and a protestant ; " and that he received < the revelation

    of the will of God , contained in the scriptures . " On this ground f refusing any declaration , as it sanctioned the Magistrate ' s interference , he somewhat sharply

    opposed the late Drs . Stennettand Kippis atid that respectable di-* ine , to whom your readers are touch ihHetited , the Rev . Mr . * ow Dr . TmihMn , QUERO .

    : i > l "March 23 , 1811 . P . S ; - * kI liave j ust observed , in yesterday ' s proceedings of the House of Commons ^ a grant to * he crown of 9280 / . in which sum

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    I apprehend the Regiurn Donvm is included . It occurs in the Comrnitte of Supply , under the head of Miscellaneous Estimates . The design of the vote is variously

    expressed by the reporters , as if they were engaged to preserve this royal , or rather parliamentary , benevolence , an impenetrable mystery . I copied the following from the papers mentioned . Ci For the dissenting clergymen in England ^ Scotland and Ireland , for the

    year * 1811 . "—Chronicle . " For the support of dissenting minis-, ters . "—Times . For dissenting ministers and French refugee minis * ters . "—Post * " For the relief of dissenting clergymen in Ireland and Scotland . ''—Herald . " For

    protestant dissenting ministers m England and Ireland . "—Press * u For the French refugees . ' — - Ledger . There must be among the correspondents of the M . Repos . some who could state more accurately the objects of this annual bounty .

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    Mrs . / f . More , Dr . Priestley and Mr . Gibbon . April 5 , 1811 . Mrs , H . More , in her recent publication , entitled Cft Practical Piety / ' &c * observes that u the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ^ with an inconsistency not uncommon to unbelief , treats the stout orthodoxy of the vehement Athanayius with

    more respect than he shews to 4 the scanty creed 9 of a contemporary philosopher and theoiogian , whose cold and comfortless doctrines were much less removed from his own . " Now , the fact for which this

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    Mrs . Hannah More , Dr . Priestley and Mr . Gibbon . 2 S 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/33/