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    nut tee open a correspondence with Ireland ^ in order to ascertain the propriety of a mission into that country ; and that they be re . quested , to make their Report thereon at the next annual meetingV

    It was farther resolved to recommend to the country brethren to form themselves into local cornmittees , in aid of missionary preaching ; and that the Society ' s Committee should be instructed to

    co-operate with such committees , and to lend them all possible assistance , pecuniary or otherwise . * —The country receivers were again thanked for their acceptance of that appointment , and earnestly

    requested to promqte subscriptions in their respective neighbourhoods , —It was recommended to the Committee to procure a list and account of meeting-housea

    throughout the kingdom , in danger of being lost to the Unitarians , and that they report thereon at the next annual meeting . —The Committee were also instructed to

    deliberate upon the possibility of supplying Brighton with a succession of morning-preachers during the summer season .

    ^—Special acknowledgment was made of tlie co-operation of the Eastern Unitarian Society , and thanks were given to Mr . Edward Taylor , the able and active secretary

    • On this , indeed on all the'Resolutions , the Secretary of the Unitarian Fund will be happy to receive communications from any friends to the measures contemplated by them .

    • f The following gentlemen have been at Brighton in pursuance of this resolution , viz . Messrs . Asp land , Madge , Gilchrist , and Joyce : and Mr Vidler is no \ v there [ Oct . » 7 th ] ; The congregation * have been and continue crowded .

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    of that association , for his fre . quent valuable communications . —In agreement with the Report it was a recommendatioQ from the meeting to the Committee " to consider of the propriety of a sun . day Lecture at the West End of the town , in which the co-ope . ration of our opulent brethren in that neighbourhood , raay be ex .

    pected . ' '_ A mission to Cornwall was resolved upon subject to the discretion of the Committee .- — The thanks of the meeting were given to the various officers of the Society , and the following gentlemen were elected into office for the

    year ensuing , viz . Mr . John Christie , Treasurer ! Rev . R * Aspland , Secretary . Mr . Geo . Abbot J— David Eaton — Wm . Hall /

    — John Taylor > Committee . — Win . Tit ford I Rev . Thos . R ecs \ — Wm . Vidler J Mr . Wm . Sturch 7 . v , c D t > Auditors . — Sam . Barton 3

    It has been before stated that the subscribers and their friends dined together , as usual , and that the number on this occasion was about three hundred . Mr .

    Ebenezer Johnston , of Lewes ( late of London ) 3 was in the chair * The meeting was eminently successful in promoting the funds of the Society . Various addresses were made to the meeting by Mr . Kentish and others : Mr . K . alluded

    most feelingly to the circumstance of the friend , who , two years before occupied his [ Mr . K ' s . ] situation / being no more—alludicg to the lamented death of the Rev . W . Severn , of Hull ; whose memory , in connectiqii with that of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/60/