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      and children , I have but one natural son to provide for . 1 V < " G . A , GUSTAVSON . « * Frankfort on the Maine , Jan . 12 , 1821 /"

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      AxMEJUCA . —UNITED STATES-; Dedication at New York . On Saturday the 19 th of January , thfe First Congregational Church , in the city of New York i was dedicated to the Service of Almighty God . The hour appointed for the commencement of the

      ceremonies , was eleven o ' clock . A Numerous and respectable audience assembled at that hour , and the ceremonies of the day were performed according to a previous arrangement . Of the sermon it is sufficient to say , it was worthy the reputation of its author . If any came to witness the zeal of a partisan , or the

      bigotry of a sectarian , such must have been disappointed of their object , ff any were attracted by a desire to be excited by the splendours of oratory , or the rare and delicious imagery , whose stores , every one knew , that the speaker could have dispensed in the richest profusion ;

      these also failed of their object . But those who came to reap the fruits' of wisdom , early , but mature ; these who came not to gratify and stimulate their party zeal , but to resign their souls to the calm and holy influences of , the Christian ' s hope ; to exalt their affections by an enlightened piety to God , or to

      soften and warm their hearts by a comprehensive charity to nian ,- ~ these were not disappointed . It was cheering and delightful to behold the image of our religion , not stained and corroded by the bitterness of party animosity ; not cramped and distorted by the manacles

      of system ; not dragged to earth by violent and sordid hum and passion , but fair and free , lovely in beauty , and radiant with benevolence , as it came pure from the bauds of its great Author . To have heard this discburse must , for the time , at least , have softened the sternest bigot ; still there was no false and hollow

      neutrality ; no timid concessions ; no lack of courage or power in the defence of truth , or the vindication of that freedom wherewith Christ hath made us free . The discourse was , throughout , and in the highest sense , appropriate , such as any Christian might have rejoiced to hear ; and as its anthor at any period of future existence , cannot regret to have

      delivered . * The impressiou made upon the public opinion , by this and the subsequent discourses of Professor Everett , \ & decidedly favourable . When Unitarianisni becomes ( he subject of public observation and attention , the strange misappre hensions which have existed , and the vague , undefined terrors ( arising from causes , into which we will not now inquire ) which have filled the min < Js of This discourse has been published at the request of the Society ,

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      TURKEY . War rages in the heart of the Turkish dominions . The accounts are contradictory , but the Greeks seem to be gaining ground : they have a decided superiority at sea . It is certain that there has been

      great carnage on both sides . The Turks have murdered one if not more of the Greek patriarchs , many priests , and a multitude of men , women and children . On some occasions they have employed the Jews as the instruments of their

      vengeance . Whenever they have had opportunity the Greeks have retaliated upon their " cruel oppressors . In the mean time , the European powers look quietly on . The Emperor of Austria contents himself with denouncing the insurrection of the Greeks as " a criminal conspiracy : " the Emperor of Russia is coolly waiting the course of events : aud the British and

      French in their respective fleets are tame spectators of the outrages of both parties . Another month will enable us to see further into this confused scene .

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      RUSSIA * Late intelligence from this country has given a check to the hopes of philanthropists . Popular education , which was making rapid advances under the sanction of the Government , has been suddenly stopped by the hand of authority . To what this is owing , is not yet fully explained . Has his Imperial Majesty received new light upon the dangers of education from his aueust brother of Austria ?

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      Intelligence *—Foreign . Russfa . Turkey . j 4 rn ? ric < e . 4 < 3 j 9

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      Hassel , a German statistical writer , makes Turkey , in Europe , on the best and most recent authorities , to contain a population of 9 , 482 , 000 . Of this population , the Turks do not amoutit to one

      third part , and the Greeks aione amount to about five millions . But then this population professing the Greek religion aropuius to a much greater number than five million * . For instance , the Bulgarians , about 1 , 800 , 000 , a Sclavonic people , are partly of the Greek and partly of the Mahomedan religion . The Servians , about 960 , 000 , also Sclavonic , are all of the

      Greek religion . The Bosnians , about 850 , 000 , are also pf the Greek religion . m ^ kanians speak Sclavonic and the old IUyrian language , and are partly of we Greek and partly of the Mahomedan ^" gion . The Wahwhians and Moldavim > 1 * 230 , 000 acGQniipg to Hassel , but about a miUion and a half in number , ^ co r ding to Mr . Wilkinson ' s account , are only Grtfekfc too by religion .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/59/