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    In the First Volume of the New Series of the Mon . Repos ., p . 133 , appeared some observations on the constitution , prospects , and objects , of the Society called " the Deputies , " to which f I must refer your readers in the outset , in order to save myself the trouble of entering into detail as to several of the points then , nearly for the first time , brought before the public , but on which you said much of what I should now wish to say .

    I have , then , a few words to say on the subject of this Society ; but you will permit me first to congratulate you and your readers on the feelings which must animate every friend to religious liberty in contrasting the position of affairs as contemplated by you at the period I have referred to , with the happy result which has attended the adoption of your counsels as to union , energy , and exertion . No one can doubt that this fortunate result was mainly to be attributed to the successful union of delegates from other bodies , who brought with them fresh talents , and infused new and younger feelings into a society which had certainly begun to exhibit marks of

    superannuation . My principal object is now to suggest the propriety of the United Committee not separating without the Deputies taking the opportunity of consulting and considering with it whether some permanent renovation should not be adopted . There are many particulars in which the Society of Deputies ( if society it may be called , which has no constitution , or definite sera or plan of formation ) requires considerable remoulding , if it is ever to form a well-regulated and orderly representation of the leading bodies of Protestant Dissenters .

    As to name , style , and purpose , I can find none properly defined . It seems that the Society ( so far as a purpose and plan of formation sufficiently continued to constitute identity can be traced ) has , at various times , had various titles and component parts . Lately a question arose as to the legitimate object of application for the funds which it possessed , and none of the lawyers even could define it . At one time the repeal of the Test Acts seemed to have been considered the sole object of the Society j at another , and for a long course of years , the care " of the civil affairs o | the Dissenters" seemed to embrace almost every thing ; while in practice it extended to looking after little petty concerns of congregational annoyance or ecclesiastical vexation , by no means to be neglected , but still not comparable to the gteat objects at which a society should aim , which j&urpOTts ^ to represent the feelings of such a body of persons as the Protestant Dissenters of England ought to be . ' '" | As to constitution ,. " the Deputies ^ fonto the only society ever perhaps

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/19/