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    by the operations of the labouring classes , it was their bounden duty in return to make them as comfortable as a state of contending interests and passions will admit . In short , his impressive and eloquent address , suited nevertheless to the varying capacities of a public auditory , contained an epitome of the personal and social duties of every station of life , shewing that Providence had wisely ordained that individual and public happiness should be governed by the same unerring laws , founded on the immutable principles of justice , truth , and mutual co-operation .

    After this address , the candidates for the rewards , amounting to twelve in each division , and who had been already classed on each side of the stage , were announced separately for the reception of their prizes , and brought forward to the public view . The orchestra struck up , on each nomination , a spirited popular air ; and when each case was thus disposed of , and they

    were all again arranged , an appropriate address was made to them , praising the good conduct that had thus drawn upon them the animating approbation of the public , and exhorting them to a cheerful and persevering continuance in the same meritorious path ; and concluding with an encouraging appeal to others whom similar circumstances in life might , by their efforts , place hereafter in the same honourable and conspicuous station .

    The report of the committee was then read , stating the plan they had pursued to obtain the best information , their assurance to the public that the most rigid impartiality had guided their decisions , and the high gratification they had experienced in the examination of the merits of the candidates : that having so far accomplished the objects for which they had been elected , and which they hoped had the complete acquiescence of their constituents , they would now retire in order that others as well disposed might have the opportunity afforded them of emulating their predecessors in this case of

    practical philanthropy : that they could not , however , retire without saying , that the complete success attending their endeavours had stimulated them to enlarge their views on the subject of the happiness and morals of the lower classes , so as to take in a wider range of the means to be employed for this patriotic purpose : that their speculations being so far the result of experience , they would be happy to communicate them to their successors and lend a willing hand to promote them , and that they were well convinced that the countenance , protection , and friendly regard of the higher classes , towards their inferiors , would do more towards improving their morals , their habits , and

    their comforts , than all the laws already in existence , or all the reproaches and coercion that a mistaken authority could possibly devise . The thundering applause with which this sentiment was received shook " the baseless fabric of my vision . "—* ' I awoke , and behold it was a dream . " Alas ! that it should be but a dream , when so much anticipated good might be accomplished at an expense not exceeding the amount of one of the superb and luxurious feasts which vanity and custom have riveted upon the two principal officers annually chosen for the government of the town . JAMES LUCKCOCK .

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    30 yklon of an almost Septuagenarian Recluse .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/30/