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    gressivt Wars mid Conquests have always in their consequences proved not less Miserable and Destructive to the , Conquerors than to the Conquered , &c . containing about sixty pages , well deserves to be printed separately ; and

    I hope will be so printed by some of the societies for promoting peaceJ and which , by the way , should tak $ some raore effectual methods of publishing their proceedings , and of enlarging them circle ,, which is yet very confined .

    The other work , published within these two years , is entitled , John Bulls ' Bible , or Memoirs of the Stewardship and Stewards of John BulVs Jfianar of Great Albion , from the Earliest Timesr to the Present , in two

    volumes , 8 vo . This work , written much io the style of Dean Swift , is an am us * ing history of England , in which the author considers the various alterations which have taken place from time to time in the British constitution , and exposes the corruption&of

    government , in church and state , more especially those which have taken place within the past half century , with uncommon freedom and energy . I have not yet seen the work noticed by any of our periodical critics . . The veneraWe author is now in his at

    75 th year , residing ^ a rural and y ^ ry pleasant village , within three miles of Oundie , where he does duty twice every Sunday ; I was surprised , whan on my visit to him , at the animation which accompanied the delivery of two excellent sermons , and

    the reading of those to me , and I believe to most who attend them , tedious services of the Established Church . H $ , however , was a ? little fatigued , after g <* iiig through the duties of morning ^ ad afternoon * that he wa « afterwards a * lively ib-thQ social circle a ^ he had Me ^ ci in tjip pulpit . B FLOWED

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    Moored Almanack , and was engaged as a computer of the Nautical Alma ? nock during a period of forty , years . I shall feel obliged by-your inserting the note in the forthcoming Mo&tbly Repository . WM . HENRY ANDREWS . " Royston , March , 1 ^ 1 % 4 €

    Easter-day being fixed on Sunday , March $ , % . 183 8 , is perfectly right , notwithstanding the ignorance of some people to the contrary > it being the ecclesiastical full moon , and not

    the true full moon , that govern * Easter-Sunday . Almanack-makers canr not fix that day as they please , they are obliged to comply with legal authority , and the usage of all Europe *"

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    Evidence of Unbelievers * in Courts , of Justice . 44 $

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    Ssji * RoyaUm , March 18 , 1 BL& * I ^ Q R a jepjy t <» your remarks [ in 4 . the Mpatbly Rspssitoiry , p . 1 4 ftl Wpe ^ tiug , the * appointed time < $ Easter in the pr ^ swt y ^ aff * V ^ % y ^ ilK t ^ the uotc below , wliiGh ^ pj ^^ rcd i < i the ( iom ^ ty ^ Gbr ^ uic ^ qf tfci& we « k $ it w ^ f vvritt ^ i b , v ;^ very < icar ir §^ y « oft « HMfv ^ - Uemy A »^ w > 9 i Ro Mlfttib H «^ ) ft ^ r j | o ^ i ^ piatiuii , > I ^^ t ivtii k&i i&timmrtim tttilmttf

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    Sir , June 4 , 1818 * BEG leave to request room in I your Repository for an extract from the Newspapers , of part of th ^ s proceedings in-the Commission Court ,

    Dublin , October the 31 st , 1817 ; in the cause , O'Connor against W ariag * The merits of the cause are unconnected with my object in sending , yoi * the extiact , which is to bring into discussion the question of the

    adimssibleness of the evidence of unbelievers i n our cou rts of j ustice . I sometin ^ guess that I trace the pens of geoti ^ men of the legal profession in your pages , and to their attention ( if I b $ correct in my surmise ) 1 recommend

    the subject . It is of some importance to Unitarians , for it is discretionary ; with judges to pronounce what is > a » q what is not unbelief * The examining counsel in the present cause seems tq have reckoned a belief in the atone *

    tnent synonymous with a belief i& Christianity . CANTABRIGIJ&NSISv ** The next witness was Roger O'Connor * Esq . H # underweqt , % cross-examination of nearly three hours' duration .

    Mr . Gpold- —Whafj religion are y ^ pu of ?—j \ . It would puzzle me to au-8 wer that question , <^ U 1 ^ tha ^ the aipsw ^ r y ^ u wpuhj wish to have recordecl ?—A ,. It vvq uld \> uzz . te nn ^ to afl ^ er that quej >) ti , ou ip th ^ mmmer yqu have pjut it , ff y ^ jn mean what sect \ am of , I answer jpi ^ t : mu vf no ^ ctr but Ibdicy ^ iq t ^ « ? « 9 J ^ Hr ^^^ W ^ W * fcW «

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/35/