The Report details some very interesting communications respecting schools in the West Indies, Bermuda, and in Ireland. Also an account of the Sunday School Unions in Hampshire and Nottingham. It is stated that about 40,000 children are educated in the Sunday Schools in London and its vicinity. The account of the proceedings of the meeting contain several speeches by Mr. Horne, the Rev. Leigh Richmond, Mr. James, Mr. G. Thom, Mr. B. Neale, Rev. Mr. Frey, Mr. W. B. Gurney, and the Rev. A. Fletcher, which include the most powerful inducements to further exertions in this good work. Persons in the country who are inclined to commence Sunday Schools, but who may not know how to proceed in their formation, may obtain full instructions by applying to the Secretary of the Union at Mr. W. Kent's, 116, High Holborn. Periodical Accounts relating to the sufferings, in an attempt to establish a mission at Grand Cairo in Egypt, with a view of proceeding, if practizable, to Abyssinia, were uncommonly great. In November, 1779, he had the misfortune to fall into the hands of a Bey, who, in hopes of extorting money from him, treated him in a most cruel manner. He endured the torture of the bastinado, which obliged him to keep his bed for six weeks, before he could walk on crutches, and subjected him for three years afterwards to swellings of the feet and ancles, which had been injured by the twisting of a chain about his legs. He was, however, wonderfully supported by the grace of his Divine Master, and after spending twelve years in Egypt, was restored to the society of his brethren, in Saxony. He finished his course, in peace, at Bristol, Dec. 17, 1811. This Number closes with a list of the Missionary Stations of the Moravian Brethren in 1811, viz. 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THE minds of religious persons, who feel earnestly desirous of spreading the knowledge of the Gospel in the uninstructed parts of our own country, have long been affected with painful apprehensions, lest the spirit of persecution, which had discovered itself in several parts of the kingdom, encouraged by a new and illiberal construction of the Toleration Act, which even the courts of law seemed inclined to confirm, should continue and increase, to their great annoyance and the prevention of further efforts to do good. We rejoice, however, that from these apprehensions they will now be happily relieved, by an act introduced by his Majesty's ministers, who, much to their honour, perceived and felt the necessity of uniting all loyal subjects in the bonds of peace and good-will. The vigorous resistance which was made by the great body of the Dissenters and Methodists to the bill proposed by Viscount Sidmouth, has doubtless convinced the leading members of government how impolitic it would be to abridge those religious privileges which they and their ancestors have enjoyed for more than a century. The very attempt, however, has been overruled, by the good providence of God, as the means of enlarging them. The right of all men to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences is far better understood, and more generally acknowledged than it was two years ago. The progress of public opinion in favour of the rights of conscience has been remarkably rapid; and we hope the time is at hand when no man of common sense will venture to expose himself by controverting those rights, And if any gentlemen, clerical or magisterial, shall unhappily remain unenlightened on this subject, the bill, now before us, will at least restrain their intolerance within narrow bounds, and prevent their ability to perse te their neighbours because they may happen to prefer a chapel to a church. The bill, we confess, does not embrace every object which might be wished; yet it certainly demands the grateful acknowledgements of Dissenters, not only to the God of all grace, who disposes the hearts of men to acts of justice and candour, but also to his Majesty's ministers, who have on this occasion shewn themselves the sincere friends to Toleration, and have evinced a desire to accommodate the Dissenters and Methodists as far as, perhaps, it was possible, without giving offence to the more rigid supporters of the Establishment. On Friday, July 10th, Lord Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Secretaries of State, moved for, and obtained leave to bring in a bill, the object of which was to put Dissenters into the same situation in which they were previously to some late decisions of quarter sessions, respecting the qualification of teachers. The bill was then brought up, nd read the first time; and, after several amendments in its progress through both houses, was finally passed, July 29. This Act is intitled, "An Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts, relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein;” from which we present to our readers the following ABSTRACT: THIS Act, sect. 1, repeals an act made in the 13th and 14th years of Charles II. intituled, 'An Act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers which may arise by certain persons refusing to take lawful oaths;' and another act made in the 17th of Charles II. intituled, 'An Act for restraining Non conformists from inhabiting in Corporations;' and another act, made in the 22d year of the same reign, intituled, An Act to prevent and suppress seditious Conventicles;' the two last being the acts generally called The Five tile Act, and The Conventicle As. · II. It enacts, That no congregation or assembly for religious worship of Protestants (at which there shall be present more than 20 persons, besides the immediate family and servants of the person in whose house or upon whose premisses such meeting, congregation, or assembly shall be had) shall be permitted or allowed, unless and until the place of such meeting, if the same shall not have been duly certified and registered under any former act) shall have been or shall be certified to the Bishop of the Diocese, or to the Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry, or to the Justices of the Peace at the general or quarter sessions for the county, city, town, or place, in which such meeting shall be held; and all places of meeting which shall be so certified to the Bishop's or Archdeacon's court, shall be returned by such court once in each year to the quarter sessions of the county, &c.; and all places of meeting which shall be so certified to the quarter seзsions of the peace, shall be also returned once in each year to the Bishop or Archdeacon; and all such places shall be registered in the said Bishop's or Archdeacon's Court respectively, and recorded at the said general or quarter sessions; the registrar or clerk of the peace whereof respectively is hereby required to register the same; and the Bishop, or Registrar, or Clerk of the Peace to whom any such place of meeting shall be certified, shall give a certificate thereof to such person as shall request the same, for which there shall be no greater fee taken than 2s. 6d ; and every person who shall knowingly permit any such congregation to meet in any place occupied by him until the same shall have been so certified, shall forfeit, for every time any such congregation shall meet, a sum not exceeding £20. nor less than 20s. at the discretion of the justices who shall convict for such offence. III. That every person who shall teach or preach to any congregation in any place without the consent of the occupiers thereof, so as to subject such occupier to any penalty under this act, shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding 30, nor less than 40 s. at the discretion of the justices who shall convict for such offence. IV. That every person who shall teach or preach at, or officiate in, or shall resort to any congregation for religious worship of Protestants, whose place of meeting shall be duly certified according to the provisions of this act, or any former act of parliament, shall be exempt from all such penalties under any act of parliament relating to religions worship, as any person who shall have taken the oaths and made the declaration prescribed in an act, made in the first year of the reign. of King William and Queen Mary. V. That every person not having taken the oaths, and subscribed the declaration hereinafter specified, who shall preach or teach at any place of religious worship certified and registered in pursuance of the directions of this act, shall, when thereto required by any one justice of the peace, by any writing under his hand or signed by him, take, and make, and subscribe, in the presence of such justice, the oaths and declaration * specified in an act, passed in the 19th year of the reign * We shall subjoin a Copy of the Oaths and Declaration here referred to, and the Form of a Certificate of a place intended to be licenced. Form of the Oaths and Declaration mentioned in the last Act. I A. B. of [specify the Christian and surname, and the parish and county where the party resides] do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his Majesty King GeorgeSo help me God. I, A. B. [insert as before directed] do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects or any other whatsoever; and I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, bath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God. of his present Majesty, intituled, · An Act for the further Relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and Schoolmasters; and no such person who, upon being so required to take such oaths, &c. as aforesaid, shall refuse to attend the justice requiring the same, or to take, and make, and subscribe such oaths and declaration shall be thereafter per mitted to teach or preach in any such congregation so certified and registered, until he shall have taken such oaths, and made such declaration, on pain of forfeiting, for every time he shall so preach, any sum not exceeding 10. nor less than 10s. at the discretion of the justice. VI. That no person shall be required by any justice of the peace to go to any greater distance than five miles from his own home, or from the place where he shall be residing at the time of such requisition, for the purpose of taking such oaths as aforesaid. VII. That it shall be lawful for any of his Majesty's Protestant subjects to appear before any one justice of the peace, and to produce to such justice of the peace a printed or written copy of the said oaths and declaration, and to require such justice to administer such oaths, &c. and thereupon it shall be lawful for such justice, and he is hereby authorized and required to adminis ter such oaths, &c. to the person requiring to take them; and such person shall take such oaths in the presence of such justice according ly; and such justice shall attest the same to be sworn before him, and shall transmit the same to the clerk of the peace for the county, &c. for which he shall act, before or at the next general or quarter sessions of the peace, &c. VIII. That every justice of the peace before whom any person shall make and take such oaths as aforesaid, shall forthwith give to the person having taken them, a certificate thereof; and for the making and signing of which certificate, such justice shall be entitled to demand a fee of 2s. 6d. and no more; and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence that the party named therein has made and taken the oaths, &c. in manner quired by this act. IX. That every person who shall I, A. B. of [insert as before directed] do solemnly declare in the presence of almighty God, that I am a Christian and a Protestant, and as such, that I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as commonly received among the Protestant churches, do contain the revealed will of God, and that I do receive the same as the rule of my doctrine. (Examined) A. B. Form of a Certificate of a Place intended to be used by a Congregation To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of [as the case may be] or to the Reve. rend (A. B.) Archdeacon of [as the case may be] and to his Registrar, or to the Justices of the Peace [of the county, riding, division, city, town, or place, as the case may be] and to the Clerk of the Peace thereof. I, A. B. of [describing the Christian and surname and place of abode, and trade or profession of the party certifying] do hereby certify that a certain building [messuage or tenement, barn, school, meeting-house, or part of a messuage, tenement, or other building, as the case may be] situated in the parish of and county of [as the case may be, and specifying also the number of the messuage, &c. if numbered, and the street, lane, &c. wherein it is situate, and the name of the present or last occupier and owner] is intended forthwith to be used as a place of Religious Worship by an assembly or congregation of Protestants; and I do hereby require you to register the same according to the provisions of an act passed in the fifty-second year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act to repeal certain Acts, and ameud other Acts, relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein." Witness my hand, this day of One Thousand Eight Hundred and A. B. And which may be signed by one or more persons, who should keep an examined duplicate of the copy which is left with the Registrar or Clerk, and be provided with a respectable witness of such delivery. teach or preach in any such congregation, who shall employ himself solely in the duties of a teacher or preacher, and not follow or engage in any trade or business, or other profession occupation, or employment, for his livelihood, except that of a schoolmaster, and who shall produce a certificate of some justice of the peace, of his having taken the oaths, &c. aforesaid, shall be exempt from the civil services and offices specified in the said recited act of William and Mary, and from being ballotted to serve and from serving in the militia or local militia of any county, town, parish, or place, in any part of the United Kingdom. X. That every person who shall produce any false certificate, as and for a true certificate of his having taken the oaths, &c. by this act rerequired, for the purpose of claiming any exemption from civil or military duties, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of £50; which penalty may be recovered by and to the use of any person who will sue for the same, in any of his Majesty's courts. XI. That no meeting, assembly, or congregation of persons for religious worship, shall be had in any place with the door locked, bolted, or barred, or otherwise fastened, so as to prevent any persons entering therein during the time of any such meeting; and the person teaching or preaching at any such meeting, shall forfeit, for every time any such meeting shall be held with the door locked, &c. any sum not exceeding £20, nor less than 40s. at the discretion of the justices. XII. That if any person or persons, at any time after the passing of this act, shall wilfully and maliciously or contemptuously disquiet or disturb any meeting, assembly, or congregation of persons assembled for religious worship permit ted by this or any former act of parliament, or shail in any way disturb, molest, or misuse any preacher, teacher, or person officiating at such meeting, or any person or persons there assembled, such person or persous so offending, upon proof thereof before any justice of the peace by two or more credible wit nesses, shall find two sureties to be bound by recognizances in the penal sum of 50 pounds; and in default of such sureties shall be committed to prison, there to remain till the next general or quarter sessions; and upon the conviction of the said offence, shall suffer the pain and penalty of £ 40. XII. That nothing in this act contained shall affect, or be construed to affect, the jurisdiction of the Archbishops or Bishops, or other per sons exercising lawful authority in the church of the United Kingdom over the said church; (XIV) or shall extend or be construed to extend to the people usually called Quakers, · or in any manner to alter or repeal any act respecting them, except. that of the 14th of Charles II aforesaid, sect. 1. XV. That any person or persons guilty of any offence, for which any pecuniary penalty shall be incurred by this act, in respect of which no special provision is made, may be convicted thereof by information upon the oath of any two or more credible witness or witnesses before any two or more justices of the peace: and that every pecuniary penalty which shall be incurred for any offence, shall and may be levied by distress under the hand and seal or hands and seals of two justices of the peace for the county, &c.. in which any such offence was committed, or where the forfeiture was incurred, and shall when levied be paid one moiety to the informer,' and the other to the poor of the parish in which the offence was com initted; and in case of no sufficient distress whereby to levy the penalties imposed by this act, it shall be lawful for any such justices before whom the offender shall be convicted, to commit such offender to the common gaol or house of correction to hard labour, for such time not exceeting three months, as the said justices shall think fit. XVI. That in case any person, who shall hereafter be convicted of any of the offences punishable by this act, shall conceive himself ag grieved by such conviction, then it shall be lawful for such person |