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by "THE TEST and CORPORATION ACTS" on Protestant Dissenters, nor cease to desire their repeal:-But, being convinced that the concessions proposed to be made, by the depeuding Bill, will not give to the Roman Catholics in England or Ire. land any political advantage over Protes. tant Dissenters in those countries, THEY will not, as Protestant Dissenters, interfere in any manner that may prejudice or prejudge the Bill, but will leave the measure to the Wisdom and Justice of Parliament, on which-with confidenceThe COMMITTEE rely.

THOMAS PELLATT, }

Secretaries.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN
ASSOCIATION.

AT a General Meeting of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, held at the Loudon Tavern, May 26th, 1825, THOMAS GIBSON, Esq., in the Chair,

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY,

That the Members of this Society eagerly avail themselves of the earliest opportunity afforded to them of conveying, on the part of the Unitarian Dissenters of England, to their fellow-christians of the Roman Catholic persuasion, their thorough disavowal and disapprobation of the Petitions lately presented by persons calling themselves Protestant Dis. senters, against the repeal of those into lerant laws which disgrace their country's name-their sorrow at such a stigma having to any extent been attached to a body of which they have been proud to form a part-their sympathy and cordial good wishes in favour of every effort to break the chains imposed by interested or short-sighted policy upon the sacred Rights of Conscience-and their unshaken determination on all occasions to vindicate for others that freedom which they claim to be their own inalienable right, and to uphold and maintain the impolicy, injustice, and oppression of every sort of disability or exclusion on account of differences in matters of religion.

That this Resolution be communicated to the Secretary of the late Association of Ireland, and to the Secretaries of the Catholic Associations of England.

MISCELLANEOUS. Libel on Mr. and Mrs. Cooper. ON Sunday, May 1st, a gross and scandalous libel on Mr. and Mrs. COOPER was published in the John Bull and the Sunday Herald, two newspapers in the interest of the West Indiaus. The morning following, Mr. C., with the advice of his friends, commenced legal proceedings; and as soon as arrangements could be made for the purpose, Mr. Brougham

was instructed to move, in the Court of King's Bench, for a Criminal Information against both the papers. A Rule, Nisi, was obtained, which so much alarmed the defendants that they immediately made overtures of reparation and apology. This gave a new turn to the affair: the prosecutors, having nothing in view but the vindication of their characters, willingly adopted a merciful course, which induced the John Bull, of May 15th, to publish the following statement:

"A fortnight since, we published, as an extract from the Jamaica Gazette, an affidavit made by a person of the name of Arkinstall, reflecting in severe terms on the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, while on Georgia Estate, in the island of Jamaica. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have made affidavits within the last few days, contradicting Mr. Arkinstall's affidavit; and we have no hesitation in expressing our belief that the statements in it are false and calumnious, and our regret in having given them a place in the columns of this paper."

On the same day, the Sunday Herald apologized in the following terms:

"We are sorry to have been instrumental in propagating a statement highly injurious to Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, by copying into our paper, a fortnight ago, the affidavit of Mr. Arkinstall, taken from a Jamaica paper. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have since fully met by their own affi. davits the statements contained in Mr. A.'s affidavit, and we can have no hesitation in expressing our belief that such statements are false and calumnious, and in avowing our regret that our columns should have been any way instrumental in extending the circulation of the calumny."

Monday, the 16th, both offenders repeated their apology in the Court of King's Bench by Counsel, a report of which appeared in most of the daily papers: we insert that which was given in the Morning Chronicle:

The KING v. The SUNDAY HERALD.Mr. BROUGHAM had on a former day obtained a rule against this Newspaper, for publishing a libel against Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, reflecting upon the characters of the applicants. Mr. GURNEY now appeared on behalf of the Paper, and suggested that an ample apology had been made by the defendants before this application was made. The paragraph complained of had been copied from a Jamaica newspaper, uuder a supposition that the matter therein contained was true. Being now satisfied of its falsehood, the defendants expressed their deep regret that they had been made the instruments of circulating matter so slanderous of the characters of Mr. and Mrs.

Cooper. Upon payment of costs, the Learned Counsel trusted the Court would discharge the rule.

Mr. BROUGHAM for the prosecutors admitted, that after the ample and humble apology made, he was instructed not to press the application; but he hoped that the defendants would take warning not to repeat slander of this description, without taking the trouble of ascertaining its foundation beforehand.

The COURT under these circumstances, discharged the Rule, upon the defendants undertaking to pay the costs of the application.

The KING V. The JOHN BULL.-Mr. ADOLPHUS appeared on behalf of this paper, the publishers of which had inadvertently copied (without comment) the same libellous matter. The defendants had since made an ample apology, and had corrected in their paper the error into which they had fallen. Under these circumstances he trusted the Rule would be discharged on payment of the costs.

Mr. BROUGHAM, on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, expressed himself conteut with the apology made, and would therefore withdraw the motion on the terms proposed.-Rule discharged on payment of costs.

Glasgow College, 30th April, 1825. THIS day the Annual Distribution of Prizes was made in the Common Hall, by the Principal and Professors, in the presence of a numerous meeting of the University, and of many reverend and respectable gentlemen of this city and neighbourhood.

In the list we observe the names of the following Unitarian Students:

Prizes were adjudged on Mr. Coulter's Donation, for the best Translation of the Phaedon of Plato, to Henry Green, A. M., Kent. In the Natural Philosophy Class, for propriety of conduct, exemplary diligence, and eminent ability, to William M. James, A. M., Glamorganshire. In the Ethic Class, for superior merit in the

Composition of Essays, and for distinguished eminence in the various duties and business of the Class, in the Senior Division, to Weatherly Phipson, Birmingham; in the Junior Division, First Prize, to William Ainsworth, Preston, Lancashire. For the best Translation of the Table of Cebes, to Henry Green, A. M., Kent. In the Logic Class, for general eminence and superiority in the customary exercises and examinations of the class during the whole session, to Henry M. Bowles, Yarmouth. For the best Analysis of the Faculty of Imagination, to William Ainsworth, Lancashire. In the Private Greek Class, for the best Essay on the object of the Dionysian Criticism, and how far it may be useful to Modern Writers, to Henry Green, A. M., Kent.

The Senate of the University have, during the Session, after the usual public and private Examinations, admitted to the Degree of Master in Arts, William Gaskell, Warrington; William M. James, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire; and Henry Green, Maidstone.

PARLIAMENTARY.

THE Unitarian Marriage Bill has passed through the House of Commons, and is now before the House of Lords. The Marquis of Lansdowne has given notice of its second reading on Thursday, the 2nd of June.

The Catholic Bill was lost on the second reading in the House of Lords by a majority of 48. The speeches of Lord Liverpool and the new Bishop of Chester, (Dr. Blomfield,) were decidedly and remarkably hostile to the measure.

On this subject the country has been much excited by a speech of the Duke of York's, declaring unalterable hostility to the Catholic Claims. We shall hereafter insert it in this work, together with a number of passages from specches in both Houses during the Session, relating to the Roman Catholics and the Protestant Dissenters.

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Communications have been received from Crediton; an Observer of the Times; on the Mosaic Mission; and S.

Various articles of Review are lying by us.

No. II. of the Puritans is unavoidably postponed to the next number.

A Continuation of the Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository has been received from America.

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Critical Synopsis of Monthly Repository for June, 1824.
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INITARIAN FUND REPORT. I wish that more splendid series of Unitarian successes could have employed the able pen of this Reporter. But never let the want of such a circumstance discourage us. We are not to look for the main triumph of our cause in the detail of local conversions; although the zeal ous prosecution of them at proper times and places ought not to be abandoned; especially, since past events furnish the most decisive encouragement and justification to persevere. But it is the peculiar glory of Unitarianism to be involved in the general march, the increasing illumination of the age. The two names which, for more than a century, have stood at the head of natural and intellectual philosophy, to say nothing of Priestfey and others of later date, are ours, and thus furnish a fair characteristic symptom of our natural destination. An exact and philosophical annual survey of the progress of our cause would be a very different thing from the document before us, which, however, is undoubt edly faithful and full, with respect to its explicit purposes. Wherever the reign of prejudice, in any of its forms, declines; wherever once angry and opposing sects unite, even though it be for the express purpose of crushing Unitarianism; wherever candid Trinitarians are found, (and they are every day to be found,) who acknowledge that particular texts, such, for instance, as I and my Father are one, must be abandoned by the honest and consistent of their own party, as any proof of the Trinity; wherever Eclectic or Quarterly Reviewers are seen battering the authority of interpolated portions of Scripture, and orthodox Lords in Parliament are heard vieing with each other to overwhelm us with the most liberal praise; wherever the success of the cause, in one country, suggests the well-founded expectation that a corresponding sympathy and re-action may sooner or later take place in others;-in all these and si

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milar cases, every addition made to the general stock of liberality and acknowledged truth, is but the increase of so much gravitation at the distant end of a lever, which, however slowly, is irresistibly effecting the elevation of Unitarianism.

Should such an amalgamation of the several leading societies in the connexion take place, as is proposed at the end of this instrument, would it not, in general, be well for the Annual Report of the new consolidated body to glance at something like a sketch of the foregoing topics, and thus mark the indirect, as well as direct, triumphs or defeats of the cause? Such surveys would impart a peculiar excitement, dignity, scope and energy to every local effort. On the one hand, they would teach us to look at something above mere paltry proselytism as an object of exertion; and, on the other, they would inspire us with new confidence and calmness in avowing our religious belief, and would justify us in any degree of steady, consistent zeal in its propagation.

Dr. J. Pye Smith on the Geneva Controversy. Violently as this writer has espoused the side of the Geneva Calvinists, I do not fear that he will establish any other conclusions than I have already admitted in my former remarks on M. Chenevière's Defence. Mr. Smith is determined to make no allowance for the long-existing constitution of things at Geneva, the very worst parts of which, be it remembered, and those against which the modern Calvinists most bitterly complain, were planted and bequeathed by the jealous intolerance of their ancient predecessors. They have principally to thank Calvin himself for the wrongs they profess to endure. It is amusing to see Mr. Smith compare M. Chenevière to St. Dominic or Gregory VII. To say nothing of the revolting absurdity and exaggeration of the comparison, might not the very city itself where the Professor resides have afforded, in one of its former

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