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    commending to them' a spitft of conciliation a « id r harmony in their choice of a minister , and * in their management of the affairs of the Society .

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    71 2 Intelligence . — General Assembl y of i £ e CMrck of Scotland .

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    Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty . ( Concluded from p . € 45 . ) Of Miscellaneous Matters , which were many and important , ( continued Mr . Wilks , ) the following were most

    prominent . Complaints a § to restrictions on soldiers respecting religious . worship ,, which he believed the Royal Cp in mamierin-Chief would readily redress . Prohibitions of visits tjo ^ prisons by Dissenting Ministers , ^ e IJllJ , " depending in Parliament , known as * jt he Marriage jService Apt / 9 an 4 intended ^ o rehevp Uni

    tarians from embarrassments , which all should deprecate and avert , and which was recommended to ^ approval and support . Proceedings at Great Chart , in Kent , w ^ iere an agen t of the cjergyjnat * and magistrate , required Wm . Biy&NCHley and his wife * worthy Wesleyajj Methodists , to sign a pledge not tt > vi ^ it the

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    General Assembly of the Church of Scotland * May 16 , at noon , the Earl of Morton , his Majesty ' s High Commissioner to the General Assembly , after holding his Levee , walked in procession , accompanied by a number of noblemen and

    gentlemen . The Rer . Dr . Mearns , Professor of Divinity at Aberdeen , Moderator to last Assembly , delivered ^ / an appropriate discourse , in the High Church , from St .

    John x . 17 and 18 ; after which , his Grace and suite proceeded to the Assembly-house by the new entrance appropriated to their use , when the General Assembly was constituted with prayer by the late Moderator .

    The names of members whose commissions had been produced having been read , The Rev . Dr . Mearns observed , that it was now the time when the Assembly , as usual , should proceed to elect a Moderator for the present session . He therefore begged leave to propose the

    Rev . Dr . Lamont as a candidate for the Chair ; a gentleman whose respectability of character , knowledge of the laws , and business of the Church , and general taletits , had been so long and so well known to all the members of this Court , as to make it unnecessary for him at present to enlarge upon his merits and qualifications for that office .

    Principal Nicol seconded the motion . Sir Henry Moncrieff then rose to propose another candidate , Dr . George Cook , of Laurencekirk . This gentleman ' s talents and experience in the proceedings

    of the Church were known to every one present ; and , he might add , his character and abilities were held in so high an estimation by the public at large , that he felt he might sit down , without saying another word in commendation of him .

    iThe motion was seconded by Professor JareJine , of Glasgow . Dr .. Cook then entered into a long statement and refutation of the charges which had been brought against him , of beinir a renegado , turning his back on

    his former friends , and being a person disaffected both to Church and State . He was the same man that he had ever been * He had spent much time in studying the history of the church , and had contemplated with admiration the character of Us founders , and with gratitudo

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    the result of their beneficent labours : and after having experienced these feel ^ ings , if he was capable of tqrning against the Ark of our Zion , then must his understanding have been completelyjierverted , and every honourable principle destroyed .

    Principal Nicoi , was proceeding to address the House , and to answer those charges preferred by Dr . Cocfk against many of those with whom be acted , when The Lord President objected to any discussion taking place , observing that it would be endless ^ as it would lead to disagreeable altercation .

    After some delay , the votes were called and marked , when the n umbers were found to

    be—For Dr . Lamont 216 For Dr . Cook . 84 Majority —132 Dr . Lamont was then called in , and informed by Mr . Mearns , that he was elected . The Rev . Doctor accordingly . took the Chair , when his Grace * s commission and his Majesty ' s most gracious letter were read .

    His Grace the Commissioner then addressed the Assembly , and communicated the Royal warrant for 2000 / ., to be employed in the propagation of Christian knowledge in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland .

    The Moderator replied ; and after arranging the meetings of Committees , and other routine business , the Assembly adjourned . — Edinburgh Paper .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/56/