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    the combined force of earth and lieu rise against them . To this cause 1 have sacrificed much of iny owm personal happiness , by giving up to the councils of America one of nay nearest connexions , and

    living fop- more than three yeara in a state of widowhood . I , hope before long you will be able to return to your native land with a heart truly American ; as such , no one will rejoice more to see you than your affectionate friend and former ^ Correspondent , * *\» *\ If you can write to me with safety , a letter would be very acceptable .

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    Liverpool , Sir * October 14 , 1822 . MY attempt to introduce to the consideration of your readers the nature and operation of the Deeds of Trust by which our several places of worship are held , ( pp . 410 , 411 , )

    seems to be thought a work of supererogation by your Bristol correspondent , G . P . H . ( pp . 527 , 528 ) . I hope , however , I shall not offend that gentleman , when I state that his remarks have tended strongly to confirm

    my previous conviction of the necessity of an ample inquiry into the subject ; for , notwithstanding the complacency and confidence with which lie hjas written , it is evident that his information is extremely circumscribed . /

    G , P . H . seems to imagine that all Chapel Trust Deeds are of the same tenor ; and that some one which he has happened to meet with is the , identical model of the rest . Hence it is that he " really cannot understand what I aim at , ori mean to express ;" and hence the * ' confusion" or which

    he complains . It shall be my present business , as far as . Iain able , to dispel this confusion , and to eater into a brief detail , with a view ^ to elucidate my former letter , * which I hoped was already sufficiently intelligible . G . I \ HL may be very' corwect in

    representing that , " by the usual mode of settling tnust property of this description , thfe premises are conveyed to Trustees , so as to veat the legal estate in them , upon trust for such person for the time being , as the uia ^ or part of the subscribing congregation shall elect to the office of mi-

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    nister $ " and it will no doubt surprise him to learn that ; this wry mode is objected to oa two grounds ; first , because it is contended that the chapel may be virtually wrested from the trustees by the . election of a minister not to their taste , either in

    consequence of dissension in the congregation , oy of stratagem among rival sects , who , it is imagined , may insidiously cause such a number of their own people to subscribe , in order to obtain the right of voting , as would outnumber the congregation : and , secondly , because it is . thought

    expedient to prevent the minister from having that permanent occupation of the pulpit which has seemed in some cases to place him out of the reach of responsibility or removal . To what extent the founders of other chapels , to whose Trust Deeds I have referred , have been influenced

    by these considerations , it is not in my power to say . I understand that in one case they have been brought into full operation , and that it has been the work of much study and correspondence so to frame a Triist Deed as to guard the property in the

    building against every possible contingency of this nature . , . Chapels have been erected in many places at the cost of one or , moire individuals , who , taking no thought for the morrow , have assigned fhepi to Trustees in the usual form which G . P . tt . described ; but in other

    places the parties subscribing have been either unable of unwilling to give their money ; and have therefore received in exchange a certain propprtion of the building . G . P , H . can surely understand why such persons do not choose to play the part pf ^ yWt he terms " legal mujes ? r w £ y it would not answer th € Jir purpose to in for

    cpnv ^ y the chapel trust tfye officiating minister ; and why tlie ^ pestraints havfe tyeen orfoi ^ e tf Qn the s ii ^ - crijring ^ ttg iregatipn , against wh ^ cji I thjinli ; it rjight to protest . ~ t * et jfce not be supposed tp exwho

    plain t }^ t > erspn $ . C 9 Mruntt (» Sie buuffw q ( » t * c 9 » of ^ mMm not give their mdney ; or % mt the ^ aire ^ are fiil to seduce ; t 6 tMtose ^ that share of the property Wlilqh they consent to receive as an equivalent . On the coutpry , I am anxious to acknowledge ( in order to preveac future

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/15/