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Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where, in England, any person or persons in any parish shall have religious scruples, in regard to being trained and exercised on Sundays, and shall make oath thereof before any Deputy Lieutenant, or Justice of the Peace (which oath such Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace respectively, are hereby em. powered to administer) all and every such persons and person shall be excused from being trained and exercised on Sundays; and from all fines by this act imposed for nonattendance at such training and exercising, provided such persons shall duly attend to be trained and exercised on such other day in the week as shall be appointed by the Deputy Lieutenants of she subdivision wherein such pasish shall be situate, in lieu of Sunday for that purpose, under and subject to all such fines and penalties for nonattendance and misbehaviour at such training and exercise, as are by this act imposed in like cases, on any other days of training and exercise: Provided also, That no such persons, being so trained and exercised on any other day in the week in lieu of Sunday, on account of such religious scruples as aforesaid, shall be excused from being trained and exercised on such and so many other days in the week, not being any of them a Sunday, as may be appointed for training and exercising in such parish: Provided also, That no such person or persons, who shall be so excused from being trained and exercised on Sunday as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive any sum of money under "this act, for being trained and ex ercised on such other day in the week as shall be appointed in lieų thereof. "LIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all persons, engaging themselves to serve as Volunteers under this act, shall be liable to be embodied, commanded, and to serve for the period, and in the manner, and on the conditions herein before mentioned, in relation to other persons liable to military service under this act." Oct. 25. The Dissenting Mi nisters of West Kent, united for disseminating the gospel, held their Half-yearly Meeting at Maidstone. Mr.Arnold, of Seven Oaks, preached from 1 Pet. ii. 7; and several of the brethren were engaged in prayer. The next Meeting is to be held at the same place, on Tues day, April 24 next, to begin in the forenoon. Mr. Ralph to preach, Oct. 26. The East Kent Association held their Half-yearly Meeting at Mr. Atwood's, Folkstone; when three Sermons were preached by Mr. G.Townsend, Dr. Rippon, and Mr. Young, of Canterbury. The texts were Rom. vi. 26, and John x. 27. Deut. xxiii. 9, Mr. Cramp preached on the preceding evening, from 1 John v. 12. The next Meeting is to be held at Mr. Cramp's, St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, on the 18th of April, The preachers appointed are Mr. Collins, of Folkstone; and Mr. White, of Ashford; also Mr. Par nell, of Canterbury, on the preced, ing evening. Sunday School Society. At a General Half-yearly Meeting of the "Society for the Support and Encouragement of SundaySchools in the different Counties of England and Wales," held at the Guildhall Coffee-House, on Wednesday, the 11th of January, 1804, Thomas Boddington, Esq. V. P. in the Chair, the Committee reported, That they had added fifty-one schools, within the last half-year, to their former Report; and that, since the commencement of this Institution in 1785, the Society had afforded aid to 2232 schools, containing 200,787 scholars; for whose use they had distributed 184,248 Spelling Books, 42,680 Testaments, and 6,583 Bibles; and likewise the sum of 4112 65. 5d to such schools as needed pecuniary assist ance. The Committee, in further reporting the progress of their la bours, acknowledged they had been much embarrassed on account of the increasing demands for books, and particularly for Bibles; and that, after all their efforts to keep within the range of a discreet expenditure, they have been under the necessity of selling out a portion of the Society's funded property; notwithstanding which, a balance still remained against the Treasurer. This circumstance, how. ever, while it must awaken regret in the friends of this institution, is not to be interpreted as indicating the actual declension of the Society's resourses; on the contrary, it is to be regarded as a growing proof of the necessity and usefulness of a Society, which, embracing so much, and such liberal support, and extending relief to so many objects, yet wants the means of satisfying many claims upon their beneficence, allowedly both just and urgent. not precisely within our province; yet, as it relates to the cause of humanity, which is closely connected with Religion, we comply with the request of the respectable writer, by giving it a place in this The Committee, therefore, cannot dissemble the hope they in- Of this Number one only was said dulge, that the statement they have to have died of the cow-pox, which been called upon to make, will not, occasioned the following Letter in the present awful crisis, be lost from Mr. Addington, Surgeon; upon the friends of Christianity which, although not strictly on a throughout the British Empire.religious subject, and, therefore, In times singularly portentous to the civil and religious state of the country, the progress of real devo tion must become at once an object of increased importance and ditti. culty. In no way is it reasonable to expect that this difficulty can be so successfully vanquished, as in that which embraces the diffusion of the Holy Scriptures, and the implanting of sound principles in the rising generation. To those, herefore, who duly appreciate the temporal and eternal advantages re. Work: Sir, To the Editor. IN the Annual Bill of Mortality, published in London at the close of the last year, there stands recorded one instance of death by the Cow. Pox.. Now, were it true that, in the has thus fallen a sacrifice to the disease in question; it is distinctly ascertained, that the person whose death is referred to in the bill of last year, lost her life from a violent inflammatory disease of the lungs. The particulars of this case, together with those of every other case of supposed death by Cow-Pox, will, ere long, be laid before the public. In the meanwhile, Sir, to undeceive the public thus far, will be a meritorious service; and oblige your obedient Servant, whole mortality of the year, whether the district which these bills include, amounting to 19582 deaths, one, or even more than one person had actually died of this complaint, it would but little affect the argu ment by which mankind are induced to adopt the practice of Vaccine Inoculation, since this practice af fords an opportunity of quickly extirpating that dreadful disease, by which so many hundreds of thousands of the human race are annually destroyed. But, Sir, it is not a fact, that even one individual Spital-square. E. ADDINGTON. DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS. Jan. 30, 1804. The Editors of this Magazine, in London, met for the purpose of distributing the Pronts; when the following Cases, being properly recommended, were accordingly relieved: Recommended by J. Townsend E. Parsons' £. s. d. C. Buck Ditto W. Kingsbury 5 M. Wilks Relieved. Denomination. Ditto S. Ditto M. Wilks Ditto Ditto A. A. Ditto Ditto A. M. Ditto A. Fuller J. C. Ditto S. Ditto A. Ditto E. Parsons A. Fuller Ditto G. Collison Ditto J. Smart Ditto A. Duncanson 5 Ditto Ditto 5555555555 40000 。 o oo oo o 。 o oo 0.0 0 0 0 SOLILOQUY AFTER READING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. A PARODY. These are thy glorious works, Eternal Truth, But these shall last when night has quench'd the pole, And when, as justice has long since decreed, Then these thy glorious works, and they who share Birmingham. ELEGY ON THE LATE R. H. MEECH, Esq. FROM these lone shad'wy scenes where sorrows reign, Bereft of love, of friendship's pleasures dear; Here drops a friend, another there, we mourn! Wrench'd from the heart by Death's cold iron hand. Beyond this earth, beyond the rolling skies, Bright faith directs me to those objects fair; See by yon fount of joys the saints arise, To pay with new delight their honours there. Where the lov'd Saviour meets him, all his own! There the blest mansions, bought with Jesus' blood, Why should the solemn train of mourning friends Thus pours, in Heav'n-strung accents down the skies, Be dry each tear, and cease ye vainful sighs: To take ye all to my paternal breast; There with my ransom'd millions bear a part, Printed by G. AULD, Greville Street, London. SERENAS |