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    instituted , by the Cotnfnlttee , to refcorer premises , contaiakfg aftoiit ten ti £¥ e& ctf laiid , tvhidi hai < F b&eti : doft * tfeyed ; by deed , hi 1 / 82 * by James Hughes , to trustees , for the support 4 > f tfae ifaM&ler of the Baptist Church at Dudley , an 4 which two of the trustees afterwards purchased of the

    others , at a price which has since appeared to have been very inadequate ; for , after the c&use had been heard before the Master of the Rolls , and h decree iftatle ia favour of the object ef the Committee , in 1815 , a vein of ebai was discovered on the property , Which , ift 1820 , the trustees sold to

    I *> rd Dudley for ^ 5 , 200 ; ^ 3 , 200 , part of the consideration-moiiey , has beeti paid by his Lordship to the € rt&tee& > and jg 20 G 0 , the residue thereof , remains oil mortgage until three persons , who are minors , b ^ coine of age .

    Out of the said sum of ^ 3 , 20 Q , JihQO has been paid to claimants ; the siltnof M 1 , 500 has been expended in the costs of recovering the estates ; aiad the sum of ^ 1 , 200 now remains , iii the hands of the trustees , for

    investment for the benefit of the Charity . in 1822 a conveyance was made to L&rd Dudley . But , Within the last two years , another sttbject , of greater importance botlf in ' principle and in general application , has called for attention .

    Ottr Unitarian brethren , to wliom itiany expressions in the Marriage Office of the Established Ritual are fteei * liady distressing , but from which tfeey could not escape , had applied to l ^ &rliamerit for relief . Nor did those

    objections on the pairt ortlie Church , which hav ^ hitherto delayed the eon- * cession of their request , appear ta arise so much froia the apprehension of any ittiprojttiet ? in the request itself , " as i ¥ om difficulties in so

    eonstructtftgf those ptfoviaiaiifc which were t 6 be setlistituied 1 in its stead ; a& might satisfy the consciences of Dissenters ^ ithoat ii ^ ittgiiijg' on tfofe integrity of the Ghtifch Mttirgy , or affording mclteslSed facility f ?( i the accomplisliii ^ nt

    df Cfl ^ fidfrstiiie iniirri ^ ges , ^—on neither of which pOihtfc eouid Dfesentcrrs be deairoto to ( tr ^ plassirtff . Thi ^ object Waa ? A 6 hg ttndfc * Hit ednsideriiticm of the House of Lords last spring : atoid , tKbttgh iiofc thei ^ cttled , we Idpci l is

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    not unlikely to be srraftged in the ensuing session of Parli ^ iftciit . In mean time im cannot refrain from submitting to the '; serious considera

    tion of every Dissenter , whether , en * tertaining objections , more < & jess Weighty ^ td many points both df ; ' Hk doctrine atid discipline of tfee Established Chixrcli ^ he te iio * bound fii

    duty , ptf at least iti consistency , to protest against bein ^ obliged to yield an external aad insincere appearance of conforiBity to a religious S ^ ry ice which lie disiaBproves . To us it seems , in no inconsiderable degree , to iavc > lve

    the great principle oft wlhcte our dissent is founded , arid by whi ^ h it fe justified , — -the right of pri ^ a ^ e judg nient in matters ; of religion . —The marriage ceremony beilig in both its form and substance , whether we

    regard the plaee where > the person by whom , or ^ the wordis in v ^ iich i ^ is celebrated , assimilated as nearly as possible to an aet of reHgidlis w ^ r-i ship , if it be not absolutely such ; slnd We w < mld also respectfully a ^ k © f our fillers , whether , if being so

    constituted , doubtless for the express ptirpose of strengthening the mutual obligation of a bond % & important to the welfare of society , ever ^ argument by which the expediency of thfe fei ^ ipus addition to the civil ordinance is enforced at all , does not demand that the form in which , it is

    administered should be that most bintfiri < j on the consciences of those on whom itis enjoiried ; one with which they can cheerfully and cordially comply , wMy out the disquieting sense of mental evasion t an enormous £ vil , tvhict

    introduces insincerity hifo Ihe very sahcluary df truth , and evidently tends to annihilate every vaJu ^ l ^ te quality of that sanction by which' this most ' sacked of tfes ife intended to be c 6 nfiriiied ?

    We have toly one other fjoj ^ c" to mention : the important subject which we re ^ o ^ iize as tke Very occasion o ^ ou ^ exit ^ tente . A de ^ p feeKn | f o € the injustice committed towards ^ jCMsseAn tera by the Test artdf Corporation ActSj and a fair persuasion of Hifefr

    impolicy as concerns the Stote , induced o&r ancestors , nearly A cfenftiiry agf ) , ^ arfitestly « 6 sblfei * « Se liegf ^ H mtk «> f tJteir repdftK S ^ efaft suecesaiie attenipts Wcfte then made M V ^ fito ^ wbitefr weire : repeated beKvecu

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    80 Report of the € oriiMtU&e of the deputies cfitePrM&mt& £ > 4 s&mtym .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/16/