stances which rendered those subjects particularly seasonable and interesting. * Indeed, he was uniformly and deeply anxious that our periodical religious meetings should be fraternal and harmonious; with which view, he was accustomed to recommend, that the topics and the reasonings we address to each other, on these occasions, should not be polemical. In this recommendation there was the greater propriety, and it came with increased weight, inasmuch as it had the sanction of his own example. Still I should do injustice to his character did I refrain from saying, that he declined not, at fit times, to avow and defend the theological sentiments which he deemed scriptural and important: and we may well admire the honesty of his avowal and vindication of them, even though all of us may not acquiesce in his conclusions. No variety or opposition in our views, could render me insensible to his excellencies. Mournfully pleasing is the recollection of his virtues as a Christian and a Christian minister. The elements of his character were, fervent devotion, strict integrity and genuine catholicism and be nevolence. His soul was erect and independent, far superior to the artifices, to the mean compliances and expectations of little minds. In simplicity and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he had his conversation in the world. Those who best knew, and who, therefore, most esteemed and loved him, have cause of gratitude, that amidst frequent attacks of disease, during a large period of his public life, he was spared to them so long. The vacancy, nevertheless, which his death has left in our circle is especially affecting, when we consider that, for a series of years, he was, by his standing in the neighbourhood, the father, as it were, of the ministers assembled at this lecture, His removal from us to the silent grave, is like the removal of the single link which connected the generation of our prede. cessors here with ourselves and soon the remaining links of this part of the chain will be displaced, soon the existing chain itself will be broken: and, by degrees, we too shall be followed by another race. Let us exercise, my brethren, fresh and unremitted diligence, while it is called to-day. Let us remember that the end of the eonversation of our departed associates and friends was-Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and for ever, whose gospel is immortal, though its advocates decay. Let us prepare for meeting them in that temple whence they shall go out no more. And, may a double portion of the spirit "Difference of Sentiment no Objection to the Exercise of Mutual Love." Preached at Dudley Lecture, 1780. of the valuable man whose image has now presented itself particularly to our thoughts, rest on us all, eminently on his successor in the pastoral charge, and not least ẹnineatly on the relation who bears his name, t who, animated by his exhortations, and aided by his instructions, has entered on the same public office, and who experienced from him what may truly be styled, a parent's love! Amen." Eleven ministers were present. The Tiverton Unitarian Chapel. 60 15 3 Subscriptions since received 100 Two Friends to the canse at Lympstone Congregation, Devon 5 Per Rev. John Jervis. Miss Stogdon, ditto Per Rev. Edmund Butcher. J. F. Barham, Esq., Exeter, 17. Per Rev. Dr. Carpenter. 0 0 1 0 100 3 73 15. 0 The Friends to the cause at Tiverton have great pleasure in informing those who are interested in the promotion of the pure worship of the One God, even the Father, that the services of their chapel have been attended by a continued increasing number; and they flatter themselves that the opposition they have met with from their Calvinistic Brethren will eventually promote, much more than it has already injured, their cause, as one large family, who were disgusted at an illiberal attack made on the works of Priestley and Belsham, and the principles of Unitarians, have thereby been induced to search the Scriptures, and judge for themselves, of the truth or fallacy of what they had heard; the result has been, what would generally be the case, would all who oppose the simple and plain truths of the Gospel professed by Unitarians, examine with dispassionate and unprejudiced minds the scriptural evidences in favour of them. In short, they have openly avowed * Rev. Mr. Warren, just removed to Stourbridge from Ringwood. † Rev. Benjamin Carpenter, recently chosen as successor to the Rev. Joseph Bowden, Call Lane, Leeds. their conviction and joined this society. 17th June, 1817 M. L. Y. Unitarian Chapel, Glasgow. SIR, THE Unitarian Society in this city having (in a printed circular) taken the liberty of submitting a full statement of their case, relative to the debt which remains on their chapel, to the consideration of their brethren in England, and of soliciting their friendly aid; apprehending that there may be many friends of Unitarianism whom their circular will not reach, beg leave, through the medium of the Monthly Repository, to submit the following short account to the Unitarian public. The Unitarian Chapel, in Glasgow, was erected in the year 1812, after a congregation had been collected, and Mr. J. Yates had become its minister, The erection of a pretty large and commodious place of worship seemed essentially necessary, to give full effect to the valuable labours of the worthy Pastor, who has since so ably defended the Unitarian cause, and for the promotion of the pure doctrines of Christianity in this large and increasing city. The chapel is respectable, and contains seats for 650 persons. The public services are well attended, and there is a prospect of the congregation continuing to increase. Ground in Glasgow being extremely dear, it was thought prudent to make the most of the site purchased for erecting the chapel; consequently, cellars were made beneath it, for which a rental of 70 per annum was obtained, until the change of times, which has reduced the Connected also rental to 45 per annum. with the chapel is a small building, which ing the was erected with a view of makin most of the ground, a sufficient quantity of which it was necessary to purchase hackward, to prevent any high building being erected so near as to obstruct the light. This building, besides furnishing a dwelling for the person who has the care of the chapel, brings a yearly rent of 137. The total amount of the expense of erecting the Chapel and other buildings £2300 0 Towards the defraying of which, there has been raised by donations Borrowed on bond, for which the buildings are a security, and the interest of which is defrayed by the rental obtained for the cellars and other buildings Loans granted to the Society by different friends * 439 12 0 1000 0 0 £1965 2 0 [* Several of these friends have kindly intimated their readiness to relinquish their claims.] Still owing to the Contractors for the erection of the Chapel, &c. The persons to whom this is due require payment in a short time. £334 18 0 This statement is submitted to the consideration of such friends of the Unitarian cause, as the circular letter of the Glasgow congregation may not reach, and their liberal aid is earnestly solicited to enable the Society to pay the outstanding debt of 3341. 18s., and such of the small loans as are owing to friends, whose circumstances will not allow of their relinquishing their claims. Desirous of doing every thing in their power to promote the Unitarian cause in the district around, which in no small degree depends on its prosperity in this city, the Glasgow Unitarians look with confidence to the known liberality of their brethren in England to assist them in their present difficulties; and for any aid they may be pleased to give them, they shall have their most grateful acknowledgments, which they hope to evince by their steady and persevering zeal in the common cause. Signed on behalf of the congregation, N. B. The Rev. B. Mardon is now the Pastor of the Glasgow Unitarian congregation. 376. Intelligence.—Tithes in Canada.—Libels on the Inquisition.—Notices. Mr. PARKINSON, from Glasgow, formerly of Dukinfield, has undertaken the charge of the united congregations of Loughborough and Mount Sorrel. Mr. WARREN, late minister at Ringwood, Hants, has removed to Stourbridge, to undertake the joint pastoral charge of the congregation there, with Mr. SCOTT. Mr. BENJAMIN CARPENTER has accepted an invitation from the congregation in Call Lane, Leeds, to succeed Mr. Bowden. FOREIGN. RELIGIOUS. South America. THE Monthly Repository has been again and again censured for its decided opinion on certain political questions, such as the Restoration of the Bourbons. If it were merely a question of what man, of what name a d of what family, sat upon a gaudy bench, called a throne, the censure would be most just. But the characters of the men who reign, determine the condition of the multitude over whom they reign, and thus humanity is deeply concerned in political changes. The writer of this article always foresaw that the Restoration of Ferdinand, whom he never could bring himself to pronounce Beloved, would carry with it the revival of the Inquisition and the destruction of liberty, civil and religious for this reason he formerly deprecated, and now deplores that event. Those that hailed it in the name of freedom, may surely appland any quality of their minds sooner than their sagacity. Look at South America. There the genuine fruits of Bourbouism grow luxuriantly, and will grow, unless the Patriots shall destroy the tree of despotism, root and branch. Whatever be the event, the wishes and prayers of all good men follow the insurgents, or in the court language, the Rebels. The following is part of the latest intelligence, dated in the middle of January, from Buenos Ayres:-"The Inquisition had been re-established in a most solemn manner at Lima, and its first labours had been to destroy all traces of the late Spanish constitution, as well as of all the free periodical papers, &c., published in every part of the monarchy during the administration of the Cortes." Tithes in Canada. On Thursday, May 22, in the House of Lords, Earl BATHURST laid on the table a Bill of the Canadian Parliament, pursuant to an act of the 31st of the King, by which it was directed that when any change was made in the state of the Established Church in Canada (which is Roman Catholic)! the circumstance should be communicated to the British Parliament. It had been directed that when grants of Land were made, a seventh should be reserved for the Clergyman of the Parish; and a doubt had arisen whether this was in lieu of or in addition to Tithes. By this Bill it was declared that the received seventh was in lieu of Tithes. The Bishop of the Diocese had been consulted and was satisfied. Libels on the Inquisition. "AT a time when laurelled critics are writing up the religious one heartedness of readers will be startled to hear, that the the Spaniards in ministerial Reviews, our Spanish Minister at Brussels is prosecuting a Journalist for a Libel on the Holy Inquisition! What a harvest for the Attorney General should a similar measure be found expedient in London ! The charge which moved the indignation of the Holy Fathers, was their former predilection for burning Heretics and Jews; which of course has not a word of truth in it! Happily for the English Journalists, the prosecutions here must commence with one half of the members of the Cabinet, who, with some inconsistency, employ the iniquities of the Inquisition, which they have so happily assisted to restore, against the claims of the Catholics." Guardian. May 24. NOTICES. THE General Annual Meeting of the Western Unitarian Tract Society, will take place at Exeter, on Wednesday the 9th of July, on which occasion a Sermon will be preached by the Rev. John Kenrick, of York. THE Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society, will be held at Poole, Mr. Bennett, of Ditchling, is expected to on Wednesday, July the Sixteenth, 1817. preach. Some Account of Mr. William Manning, an Ejected Minister and an Unitarian. {Communicated by the Rev. S, S, Toms.] Framlingham, Jan. 10, 1817. SIR, PE ERUSING the Review of Wilson's Dissenting Churches, in your Number for December, (XI. 725,) last night, my attention was arrested by a paragraph respecting Mr. William Manning; and fearing it might be passed over in silence by others, I thought it incumbent on me to communicate to you what I could respecting him, having been long situated in the neighbourhood where he 'resided. Had Mr. Wilson turned to the name of Manning in Palmer's Nonconform 'ists' Memorial he would have seen that Peasenhall, (there spelt Pesnall) was in Suffolk, from whence Mr. John Manuing was ejected, a worthy man, well known in most of the jails in the county for his undeviating adherence to the dictates of his cousciencethat Mr. Samuel Manning was ejected from Walpole, and early joined himself to an Independent Church formed there in 1647, which is about three miles from Peasenhall on the road to Halesworth, and that William Manning was ejected from Middleton, which is about the same distance from Peasenhall, adjoining to Yoxford, on the road to Leiston. Report has said that these three gentlemen were brothers, and that Mr. W. M. gathered a Nonconformist church at Middleton, and it is most probable it was there, from among those who sat under and approved his ministry while in the church established by law. Descendants of the family have resided in the neighbourhood, particularly at Peasenhall, till within a few years. I have never VOL. XII. 3 с [Vol. XII. heard of there having been a Nonconformist church there. Palmer's Nonconformists' Memorial, (Vol. II. p. 434,) says, "Mr William Manning was a man of great abilities and learning, but he fell into the Socinian principles, to which he adhered to his death, which was in February 1711." His works are said to have been, “Catholic Religion, and some Discourses upon Acts x. 35, 36," but from the title of his book, now before me, in 12mo., it appears to be one and the same work, viz. "Catholic Religion, or the Just Test or Character of every Person that in any Nation is accepted with God: discovered in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some Discourses upon Acts x. 35, 36, wherein several important doc"trinal truths, more immediately influential upon practice, are plainly `opened and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning." Happy is the man that feareth alway," Prov. xxviii. 14. London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King's Arms, in the Poultry, 1686." That the piece merits the title of Catholic appears from the following quotation, from p. 29:-" Whether or no there be any now in the world, out of the church, that have not heard of Christ, that are strangers to the covenant in its peculiar advantages now under the last edition of the gospel, that be true fearers of God, (the candle of the Lord being so far extinct among them, Gal. ii. 22, 1 Thes. ii. 16,) may be a doubt; but whether if any such there be, they shall be accepted with God cannot be doubted: for Cornelius was such a one; the faith that he had, purified his heart and influenced his life, and he was accepted of him; though his faith was short of what was necessary to his salvation afterward, when he had more revealed unto him. Ch. xi. 14." The work is creditable to the author-entirely of a practical nature-nothing is advanced concerning the nature or person of Jesus the Christ at all inconsistent with Unitarianism, but he expresses himself on the atonement in terms not common with Unitarians-his explanation of it, however, would be well approved of by them, e. g. "Perfecting holiness in the fear of God: This is the whole design of the gospel, hereby God is honoured, and without it, the design of our blessed Saviour were frustrated in his redemption of mankind, which was to retrieve and bring back the fear of God," &c. An analysis of the work by an able hand would doubtless be acceptable to many of your readers. In 1767 Mr. Walker removed from Framlingham to be minister at Walpole, and took me and the rest of his scholars with him. He there succeeded Thomas How, who settled at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, and had been successor to the venerable John Crompton, who had been pastor at Walpole from the beginning of the last century. After residing there with Mr. Walker about a twelvemonth, I was sent to Daventry, August, 1768, and returning to Framhugham, August, 1773, my old master became my particular friend and intimate, aud on visits to him he repeatedly spoke of Mr. William Man ning and what he had heard of him from the aged in the society, who in their younger days were contemporary with him, as matter of their own knowledge, or what they had received from their seniors, all tending to establish his reputation as a scholar, a Christian and Christian minister, but of a heretical cast; and it seems clear in my recollection that Mr. W. said he had been informed that Mr. W. M. published a catechism or summary of religious principles, doctrines and duties, but he had never been able to procure a copy of it. In the year 1773 I met with a MS. letter from Mr. Crompton, who was for several years contemporary with W. M. which I then copied in Rich's short hand, and am happy to have now found it, as it probably Mr. Crompton's letter does honour The The Rev. Mr. Crompton's Letter to Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Staunton [commonly spelt Stanton]. "REV. AND DEAR SIR, "IF I am over officious in this |