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ARMY CONTRACTS. Orsounistarial Department, Thirissiry Chambers, Ist December, 1850. VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all Per:ons desi -111 roue of contracting to supply the following Articles for the use of the Army, viz. BREAD. ro hit Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters and Barracks. in the undermentioned Counties, &c. Derby, Norfolk, Dorset, Northumberland (Including Her- Durham, wick on Tweed,) I,le of Wight, Surrey, Kent, (inctuding Tilbury Fort, in Susses, the County of Essex.) York, Lancaster, I And in the Islands of Alderney, Niddieses, Guernsey, and Jersey. Also to the Household Troops In London and its Vicinity. BEEF and 'DUTTON. re his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and Bar- racks. is) the undermentioned Counties, &c. Derby, Devon. Dorset, Essex, Hants, Isle of Wight), Kent (including Tilbury Fort), ;Middlesex, Norfolk, Northampton, Nottingham, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Wilts, North and South Wales. TS, To his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Cantonments, and Quarters, in the undermentioned Counties • Nottingham, Sussex, York, Leicester, Liar°ln, Northampton. _ FORAGE, •ia. OATS, HAY, and STRAW, to his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Barracks, in the undermentioned Counties : Northumberland, I Sussex, And in the several Counties in North Britain. That the Deliveries are to commence on and for the Twenty-fifth Day of January neat; that Proposals in Writing, sealed up and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this Office on or before Thursday, the Thinieth day of December ; but ■one will be received after Eleven o'Clock on that Day. Proposals must be made separately for each County and bland, ex cept (or the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of which must be included in one Tender; likewise the Islands of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey, as also the several Counties in North Britain ; and each Proposal must have the Letter which is enflamed to the Tender properly filled up, ►y Twu Persons of known Property en gaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, fur the due performance of the Con vect ; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Ten der, and the Prices expreseed in words at length; and should it so happen, that during the continuance of the Contract no Troops should be applied by virtue of the same, the Amount of the Stamps on the Contract and Bond, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, will be refunded to him. Particulars of the Contracts may be bad upon application at this Mice. between the Hours of Ten and Four ; and samples of the lies stay be seen at this Mice. PATRONIZED BY HER MAJESTY. THE Proprietors of the CITY of LONDON ROYAL EMPORIU st (opposite the MANSION HOUSE.) have the honour most respectfully of announcing to the Royal Fa mily, as well as the Nobility. and Public, that in addition to their unique and splendid Gallery of Indian and Continental Curiosities, Cabinets and Manufactures, and their magnificent Show Rooms of English and Foreign superb Dresses, Millinery. 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Pull sized Silk Cloaks Superior Ditto, from The Most Superb Cloaks of Every Description equally modems. A beautiful assortment of large and exquisitely soft Thibet Shawls, from Excellent Silk Ditto, from The French imitation of India. Cashmere, Long and Squaw Shawls, a very great bargain. kil.wide soft British Merinos, very good, of as most fashion able colours —. The Double width Ditto, both French and English, of every shade, very cheap. 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Persians, at .• ... 0 5 'file best Ditto, front . Left Gauze, various colours, at Good Black Bombazine, at.... Real Valenciennes Edgings, as low as 0 6 Lace Veils in gret variety exceedingly cheap. Heal Cambric Poiket Handkerchiefs, per dozen, from .. 8 0 Prints, fast colour, at Handsome new patterns ditto, on Cambric Cloths worth is for unly Saperior fast coloured Printed furnitures at the IMO prin. Marseilles Quilts, Counterpanes, and Blankets, of the best quality, most reasonable. Meal Welch Flannels of every quality, particularly cheap. A large lot of Breakfast Table Cloths at Rich Damask pattern, full sized Dinner ditto, (all Linen) at only Stapetior double Damask ditto, of all sines, uucommonly cheap. Irish Linens with Scotch and Foreign lloilands, of warranted fabrics, a real bargain, and some very durable, from . 10i1 so I Wide Mock Russia Sheeting .. lizeellent Irish ditto The 10 and I2qr. wide Russia Shootings, of every quality, oar sremely cheap. 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PAUL, Loan Drapers, Silk Mercers and Haberdashers,to Moe woe mulles* MAJESTY, QUEEN A DELA IDE, and Proprietors a the CITY OF LONDON ROYAL EMPORIUM, Noe, it and 10, opposite the Mudge Howe, Peuhry.—Nov. i 4, 11180, -4--,* 411 t c.vi ...,,,,,:_, Ni,...... 0 ------:-. \-------- 7 ---t-- --i- l'' - dlo) 0 i Ilona" 7.0 vgalcATz i • „ , - --- r - --- \ _ . p T. N°. 13,657. THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 16, 1830. Pimp. 71). January to. 1131. will be published, to be continued Monthly. price One Shilling. THE FAMILY MONITOR, and SERVANTS' GUARDIAN ; conducted by Clergymen of the Established Church. A work calculated, from the informatikts which it will contain on domestic subjects. and it. varied useful nutter, to interest every mem ber of a family ; and peculiarly designed for the religious instruction and general improvement of Servants. Published by J, liatchard and Sen, 187, Piccadilly. N.E. Advertisements for the cover should be sent to the Publisihr's previous to the 20th of the mouth. MR. OWEN'S MEETING. At an adjourned meeting, to take into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of Religion, as it has been hitherto taught in form ing the character of man, and in governing the world, Mr. OwErr spoke thus :—At the former meeting I explained the outlines of the advantages, and disadvantages, of Religion, as it has been hitherto taught. in forming the character of man. I have now to develope the advantages and disadvantages of Religion, as it has been hitherto taught in governing the world : it will be recollected that I then endea voured to show, in what manner the religions of the world have in. fluenced the four general classes of original minds, in fanning their matured character; and that I explained, at some Length, the varied injuries experienced by each class. I then also stated, that all the re ligions of the world were founded on the self-same f u nd a m en t a l suppo sitions, taught to the multitude, as divine truths ; but which supponi tions, real knowledge has now demonstrated to be gross errors, produc tive of the most mischievous results to the whole of the human race. These suppositions ate Int. That there is un absolute necessity for all to believe what the priests say, true believers ought to believe. 2dly. That there is the deepest of all demerits, or the blackest of all crimes, in not believing their dogmas, which, however opposed, the dogmas taught in one country, may be to those taught in another, the priests, all over the world, agree to call divine truths. 3rdly. That there is the same necessity fur loving what the priests say ought to be loved, and for hating what they say ought to be hated ; and the ssnte demerit in not thus loving and hating. 4thly. That for believing or disbelieving, for loving or hating. contrary to the opinions of the priests, all men shall be eternally rewarded or punished. I further stated, that, whatever Jews, Hindoos, Blahomrnedans, or Christians, may say to the contrary, this is the real religion of all the sects in the world, when stripped of its mystery ; and that this is the only religion which has ever yet been taught to mankind. It is the sole religion, this day, of , the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of all the nations upon earth. You thus perceive, my friends, that when religion is stripped of the mysteries with which the priests of all times and countries have in vested it, and when such is explained in terms sufficiently simple that the common mind can fully comprehend it, without fear or alarm from a misguided imagination, all ha divinity vanishes ; its errors become palpable ; audit stands before the astonished world in all its naked de formity of vice, hypocrisy, and imbecility. If, indeed, religion, as it has been hitherto taught, has emanated from a divinity, it must have been from one possessing the most dire hatred to mankind ; one, who well knew how the most effectually to destroy, in the bud, the finest qualities of human nature, and the highest enjoyments of every indi. viduaL For aU these fundamental suppositions on which the religion of the world alone rests, are destructive of the well-being and happiness of the human race, each of them being in direct opposition to every fact of which man has hitherto acquired any accurate knowledge. in consequence of this discovery, all testimony handed down to us from our remote and ignorant ancestors by tradition, writing, or print ing, when opposed to facts, or the unchanging laws of Nature, will not hereafter be received into any superior or intelligent mind. Such will be aware, that, of necessity, the universe must be one great truth, coin posed of all the facts which it contains, and that, from the same neces. sity, each fact must be in perfect harmony with every other fact, through. out the whole of this aggregate of facts; and that, any tradition or tes timony attempting to contravene these eternal truths, must be errors of the imagination, or wilful falsehoods. The past religions of the:world being thus opposed to the eternal laws of Nature, will, heneaforth, cease to disorganise the rational facul ties of the human race; and to torment man from his birth to his grave. Even the governments of the world will now soon be made, by the progress of truth. to discover that religion will henceforth not serve their purpose, to keep the people in ignorance, or much longer to give a divine sanction to imbecility and hypocriey. No: the period for thus deoeiving the human faculties is rapidly passing away ; and the reli. glen which has hitherto made the earth a. yandemoutum, will now die a natural death. Religion having until now controlled, to a very'great extent, all the governments of the earth, the rulers of:nations are, at this day, more or less compelled to form their laws and Institutions under its direct or in direct influence. Rapid and extensive as the advance of science bas latterly been, an advance, which makes the opposition to this religion of Nature the more glaring, the individuals composing the most en lightened of modem governments, have not yet deemed it safe to attempt to unshackle themselves from the restraints which an artificial religion has hitherto put upon all their proceedings. Even the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain carries on all its de liberations under the perpetual fear of this overwhelming influence. I shall now ende.avourto explain the advantages and disadvantages which all governments experience by submitting longer to be forced to govern under this influence. In order to govern through the influence of the religion which has bees described,becomes absolutely neces•ary, first to make the people mental laves, and to devise institutions, by which their ra tional faculties shall be perverted or destroyed from infancy.— This effect could only be produced by the influence of measures, acting perpetually upon their senses, which shall counteract the continual efforts of the mind to perceive facts ; to compare them with each other ; and to deduce from them na tural and just conclusions. The measures so employed, have been church services, conducted under an expensive and complicated church govenunent. Nothing short of some such enormous power, applied without ceasing to the subversion of the reasoning faculties of the hu man race, could so long have kept mankind in the state of ignorance, poverty, imbecility, crime, and misery, in which they are at this day. To support this enormous stultifying power, it has been necessary fur the governments of all countries to render each of their institutions subservient to that power ; and, In consequence, the great departments of the secular administration of all nations, have been established upon principles, in conformity to the religion which has thus been employed eir lave the minds of the people. _ It is, therefore, the church that governs in all countries In which a national church exists; or in which the minds of the population have been previously enslaved by the dogmas of some national chinch, or of some met, or sects, emanating from it. Now, no church having such control over the people, through their ignorant religious prejudices, will suffer the national government to adopt any legislative measures, calculated to give real knowledge to the people, or to instruct them in those principles on which their permanent prosperity and happiness depend. No l their codes of laws, their no. done of morality and immorality, and the education of the rising gene ration, must be, and are, all devised to promote belief is their mys terious and atupifying creeds; and to destroy, in the bud, the rational fanatic-, of the human ram In consequence, nun km been wretdmdly W.goterttad throughout all prat ages. fie has ban forced into the most unnamed and artificial state that human ingenuity, under the direction of this false and arti. geld religion, could devise t his viruses have been perverted Into vice. ; his superior reasoning faculties have been debated to ti. pursuit of every species of folly and absurdity ; while all his powers of high enjoyintat have been converted into the means of his most exquisite torments. To cultivate the best (scuttle', in man, physical, intellectual sad moral, to the greatest degree that his nature Iv capable of attaining. requires only as honest, straight-forward conduct, on the part of those who govern society. It is simply this t—to teach man truth from hie infancy; to enable him to acqaire an acconste knowltdge of fasts; to permit him to draw the necessary deductions from them facts; and to sarrouad him from birth to death with eirmonstanore which me is strict aemodseee with his orgeoisstion s at the woo time. allowing him to set mak* in rooferoder Sri his some. This minima mode of proceeding is all that is requisite, to enure superior state of human existence. But religion, a, it ham been erroneously aught to mesa, sompeb bho receive lies from his birth; is shut his gyes to facto ur to refits. all ac curate reasesing respreting them ; and dots, to ruiresit is the lowest possible degradation, his intellectual and moral faculties. He is, then. with all his qualities perverted from their natural state, trained to ac knowledge that he is depraved by nature, although, by a strange incoh. sistencv, he is taught at the same time to say that he is the work of an infinite wise and benevolent being. He is surrounded from his birth by the most vicious and injurious circumstances, eminently calculated to render hid' bad and to become the most irrational and miserable animal u;ton earth ; while, by the simple and natural mode of proceeding wlrch I have d. scribed, he might easily be rendered the most rational and the happiest of created beings. As, therefore, the errors and evils of society arise from man's nature being entirely misunderstood, on account of which he has been made to criee the grossest falsehoods, for truths, from his birth, and to have all his thoughts and his feelings misdirected, the first step to be adopted by the people of all countries, who desire permanently to improve their condition, is to aid their Governments to emancipate themselves from the thraldom of that religion, which has brought man into this wretched state of physical and mental degradation. Without this being effected, as a preliminary measure, no Government can possess the power to be nefit the population, whose interests are committed to its tare. And, until it shall be rendered practicable for men to be honest, and to give utterance to their genuine thoughts and feelings, at the same time that they lie under no fear of being deemed irreligious, when they do so ex press those thoughts and feelings, it will be vain to expect that the members of any government, can benefit either themselves or the people over whom they rule. The reason is obvious: not one really useful institution can be es tablished, or one rational law passed, until governments and people shall stand in a natural relation towards each other. To effect this, the people, as I have said, must delegate to their governments power to emancipate them from the greatest of all evils, with which they could be afflicted, vis.—the influence of artificial religion- Wi th the people the measure originate, which will alone enable their rulers to lay the foundation of a good or rational government. Let public opinion pronounce the verdict, and who will gainsay or resist its ova whelrning authority ? The religion of the world is founded on the supposition that man has the power, by nature, to think and to feel as he pleases. Now, u I have before sufficiently demonstrated, no superstructure of religion raised upon such a basis, can produce aught except folly and misery. It follow,' that all codes of law., founded on the self-same error. must partake, in a like degree, of absurdity and gross injustice. And, as all governments devise their institutions in conformity with the religion and the laws which that religion directly, oe indirectly, compels the go vernment to adopt, the acts and proceedings of all governments must, of necessity, be a compound of the folly and injustice which the nature of its fundamental principles thus imposes upon It; there is no escape from the misery, which so much error in its consequences, cannot fail to inflict. It will, also, be readily perceived, that the education, or the forming of the character of eves individual, must be in accordance with this religion, the code of laws emanating from it, and oldie govern ment, the result of both ; and, that any education proceeding from such a source, can only train the population of any country to be inconsistent animals, without reason or judgment, on those subjects on which their permanent well-being anti happiness depend. It is also evident, t 6 t any education, given either in schools or universities, under these cir cumstances, would be more injurious than beneficial; as it would train the mind to error, and imbue it with the most horrid and absurd pre judices. These, the human being is taught to hold sacred, and to con sider worthy of being defended with his life. Hence religious contests, , wars, and massacres ; and the universal disunion and want of affection and charity among mankind. No one who is competent, accurately to true cause and effect, can now mistake the source of all the professions now practised in the civilised world ; they are necessary to the support of religion. and to extract the labour from the industrious without any solid equivalent. Thus has religion made the world one great theatre of folly and hypo crisy, or, perhaps, more correctly speaking, one great lunatic asylum, in which each individual, to his own deep injury, is endeavouring to de ceive his neighbour ; and thus all ate grossly deceived. The spell is about to be broken; the reign of Satan, or of ignorance and hypocrisy, is rapidly approaching its termination: truth will now speedly govern the world; and all governments will be constrained to remodel their institutions on that base alone, or they will be forcibly remodelled, by those, whom they will no longer attempt in vain, to govern. through a system of deception and falsehood. If any of the governing powers expect to escape this change they will be deceived. as Charles the Xth has been; to the abstraction of himself and his family from the government and throne of France. The most powerful governments are, to-day, paralyzed in all their measures by, ea they imagine, three days fighting in Paris. They may, indeed, be paralysed ; for every step they take upon the old notions of the world, will involve them in more inextricable difficulties. The three days of contest in Paris, with the old system, was but the spark which has set the public mind over the world in a fame that cannot be again quenched, nntil the religions of the world and its utter abominations shall be utterly consumed, to give place to the religion of nature, and to make way for the commencement, in practice, of a superior state of society continually Increasing in real knowledge and in general hap pine's. What has become of the armies of the world ? They are vanished ; and will no more exist, but as conservators of peace. and creators of valuable weatlh, rot the general benefit; instead of being horrid murderen of their fellow beings, and the de vastators and destroyers of their bard-earned property. No ! the time for man to murder man, in order to gratify the whim or caprice of some furious bigot, or half-idiot, is passing, and will soon be passed. Truth, with all its high attributes, union, industry, wealth, charity, and affection, not for this sect, or for that country, but for all mankind, will henceforward aloes reign upon earth, directing men to all that is good, and teaching them to avoid all that is evil. pro W ce l e ts is the government of France now at fault ? Why does it not In unison with the feelings and knowledge of the people ? Be cause those who administer it Insilco° much of the old leaven; because, with all power at their control, they know not how to lay the founda tion for the now order of things, being stupified by old laws and prrce dents, and prejudices, generated by religion, for its support; not per caving that these are, now. mere lumber of no value whatever, and that, root and branch, they must be consumed by the revolution. It is not a change of men that is now deserving a moment's coeside ration : it is an entire breaking up of the false fundamental notions, on which alone the world has been hitherto governed. It is a total anal hilation of all old errors, and their consequent practice, for true prin ciples and a new practice, which only can now satisfy the popu'alon of France, and of the civilized world. Let not the governments of Europe and America, blame any one for the present feelings and conduct of those whom they govern ; for in the year 1818 they were distinctly apprised of the great causes which were then in active and extensive progress, to predate the existing re sults ; they were then told, that these results were inevitable, and the reasons were explained, at length, why they were inevitable, unless remedies to avoid the evils were immediately adopted. These remedies Were neglected at the proper period ; and measures of fraud and force were preferred. The present state of Europe proves the error of the choice these made by the advisers of crowned heads. Slay what has passed prove valuable experience to all statesmen foe the future! But, .ny friends, what is the government of this country to do, in the altered and changing state of men's minds ? Is it to be left at sea, to be tossed about in the whirlwind of men's prejudices and petitions ; and, perhaps, stranded, or wrecked, by being forced into a civil war ? No ! it is the duty end interest of all men to lend their best aid, to enable the government to extricate itself from the dill cultist, by which, on all sides, it is sow surrounded. Fee who will gain by a civil war, or by the success of any faction. attaining its end through violence? Not one single individual. All that is really gold, can be best attained by knowledge, union, and moral courage. These are the only legitimate weapons of new I suite of society, about to become universaL And when a sulkiest number of men shall know what is true, and shall perseveringly plate that truth in plain language before the public, all met must give way before them, and no government can resist their infuses. It is sow tinkly owing to the ignorance of the man, that poverty and misery ex ists; and it is solely owing to religion, es U hoe hoes hitherto taught over the world, that a single hums* being is, at this oroomor, la ig norance. I Le. us, then, enable those who govern these kingdoms. so adopt de cisive and ethanol MOMIIICO N educate the rising en ration, in an the truths which prove themselves AO be such, by ask undevistiag sisttncy with all known facts; while ester, the mom of evil and as otryt will be for ever withdrawn from among the whole population. Let us, also, aid our rulers In forming masseres N mate general habits of healthy and beneficial industry in 'hi% nsiventelly, good dispritiens, or a right direction a the slings of the prides and in devising a taw arrangement of archoutsaces. all in MOOS with the laws of oar nature, to supersede the tteletiag %latrines, vitiate, and unnatural circumstances, which ales* soneund the population of thin. and 'thee esentries. Let 1111 do tile be meow and in geed faith,' and not luseently ammo thew irrational plotless and which the religious instesedon of this mean hie 4m r,z4nre jingle to vasive ; an& whim they ma be mode N nndesNaad the or- comity for, and the benefits if this change, they will a lops it ; and 41 rudes will be beneflued. Nor, let any one fear that this result will not soon be obtained ; for the advocates of truth, pure, unmingled truth, possess a moral power which sets all physical fume at naught; a power which, until thi• d qt. has been unknown to the world, except by anticipation. The deeply reflecting, through post ages, have had it impressed upon their noir that the time would, at some future period, arrive, when truth should obtain the victory over error ; or, when the religion of a distorted in a gination, should be made to give place to the religion of nature ; when rature'a laws should prevail over the unnatural laws, which a false religion has compelled man to adopt. This period, my friends, if it has not already arrived, is immediately at hand ' • and no human power can now arrest its Forests. We are prepared openly to oppose all error, and to contend againat parlous prejudice ; and all prejudices are injurious. Further : we are prepared to render all the benefits in our power. to all our beings, who have been made the victims of those prejudices and of those error.. Having now shown the disadvantages of religion, in go. 'mine the world, it is requisite, according to the terms by which this meting was called, to consider what are the advantages to bz derived. be governing the world under the influence of the only religion which has yet been taught to mankind. The real object of this religion has been to keep man ignorant of him. self, and of his nature, that men may be governed in the mass, by toe few, with the least trouble and hazard to those few. And, as lope as it has been possible to keep a knowledge of facts from men, or to pre. vent them from comparing one fact with another, and erecting upon the consequences which necessarily follow from those comparisons. re ligion. as it has been hitherto taught, did aid and assist the gneerniti;: few, to keep the many in as much order as the ignorance of the mull would admit. Their imaginary hopes and fears, from the promised re wards and threatened punishments, through all eternity, bowed the neck of the multitude to the yok e of the directing few ; however galli•tg that yoke was made, by the priests of the respective sects or parties into which those professing a belief in religion, are divided. This is the sole good, If good it may be termed , that religion , as it Las been taught, has effected f or mankind ; in exchange for all the crimes which it has eugesdered, and for the endless miseries with whicit, since its invention, it has *flitted the human tau. And this lured has continued during all the ages of which we hare received any ac count, however imperfect, of the proceedings of our ignorant and abused ancestors. Its evils have been, and are, beyond the power of number. to estimate; its benefits will be more than expressed by the lowest terms that an be applied to them. Let us, then, act like men who have detected, not sonic common er. roes, in common society; but who have discovered the fundamental errors of human laws and institutions, the very cause of all the evils of human life. Let us act upon the knowledge of these new and superior circumstances, as men attaining suc c h oes ht a privileges, are called upon to act. Let every minor feeling andconsideration give way to those nettle and enlarged sentiments, while our conduct is that, which belongs alone, to the advocates of truth and of real knowledge. Let us, then, place truth and knowledge in the most conspicuous war. ner before the world. Let us address his Majesty, and petition hot ti Houses of Parliament to take these high and important subjects into their immediate consideration ; that a new order of society may he, without delay, established throughout the whole of the British dominions. lot us, then, now address his Majesty, and petition the new Parlia ment to take into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of re. ligion, as it has been hitherto taught, in forming the character of man, and in governing the world. And that, if, upon such investigation. it shall appear palpable to all who can reflect, that the disadvantages tx. ceed, beyond all estimate, the advantages, that the religion of truth and nature be immediately substituted for this false and unnatural religion, which has heretofore destroyed the rational faculties 01111411. and thehappiness of the human race. I, therefore, move, that this meeting address his Majesty, and peti. don both Houses of Parliament, to take into consideration the advan tages and disadvantages of religion, as it has been taught, in forming the character of man, and in governing the world ; and that, if the disad. vantages shall be found to exceed the advantages, that the religien of truth and nature shall be immediately introduced throughout the tiri. Rah dominion. in order to supersede the present unnatural relipton nY the world. And, also, that the teachers of the present unnatural telt. (ion shall receive double the encouragement, to instruct the people in the natural and true religion, that they have, heretofore, enjoyed. tor opposing its V T / ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY. Sutzo—We are deeply impressed with the conviction, that your Ma. jesty has a sincere desire to aid your subjects, throughout the whole of the British dominions, in improving their condition. We believe, that it is not possible, by any d..vice of man, to improea the condition of this population, more effectually, than by changieg the unnatural in which they have unfortunately been educated, from Infancy , or religion, religion of truth and of nature, which may now, for the first time in the history of mankind, be taught to them, without danger, or more evil, than a very temporary ineonven'ence. We, theiefore, entreat your Majesty. to afford all the aid and assist. *nee of your high station, to induce your Ilinist r-, to take into their immediate consideration, the advantages and disadvantages of religion, as it has been hitherto taught, in forming thk character of man, and in governing the world. And, by thus attending to our wishes, you will acquire higher, and more lasting glory, than all the Monarchs who have preceded you, in the past history of the world. THE PETITION TO BOTH HOUSES (IF PARLIAMENT HUMBLY SRZWETH : That your petitioners desire that the'ainelioration in the condition f the people of this country,now rendered so necessary, as to be no longer, with safety to the S: ate , withh e ld f rom them, should be effected through the wisdom of the new parliament, now assembhd; aided by the cordial assis•ance of his Majesty. That your petitioners are convinced, (rein all i a t ex:trience. tiaot to effectual permanent initnovenient can be mad • in he contittitta of toe people of this country, so long as they shall be fereed 'o c...ve, from childhood, the unnatural doctrines of the religion of the world, which. heretofore, all children have been compelled to receive ; to tile almost entire destruction of their rational faculties tied moral feelinge. That your petitioners being most deeply impressed with the para mount importance of this subject, over every other that can come bef me the Imperial Parliament, pray ye ur Honourable, (or Right Honour. able,) House, to take into your immediate consideration, the subject of religion, as it has been hith erto taug h t i n t h ese rea l nis , an d to man kind ; and that you will devise 'newtons: to relieve the population of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions sbroad, r,'ut the incalculable evils which that religion has accumu'ated upon the u, through so many past ages of misery. And your petitioners shall ever pray, I have now to propose measures of deep interest to the pumice.—lt does not appear to me to be practicable fur the legislature o thou try, to dfect such a reform, under the present state of public quoits:, .31 will admit of any other representation in the House of l'ommons than of wealth and of long established errors, on subjects the most vitatig important to the well-doing, and well-being, of the people and of toe permanent prosperity of the state. It is perhaps not desirable that a univenial representation of the people take place, until they shall be better educated and more correctly informed; but it is most desirable, that measurs should be instnediaaly adopted to better educate—and more correctly inform the great niass of the people—urn those subjects on whish permanent prosperity happiness del sod. l'o effect these objects in a manner constitutional and beneficial tit all classes, I propose that public meetings shall be recasionally held le di 1 metrop ales; meetings that shall cover their expenses, and yet be °pm to the public; meetings at which the interests of the producing classes shall be calmly and temperately investigated; meetings that atoll ad I the authorities of the country to effect. without producing evil to any class. such changes as the Fogless of knowledge render necessary meetings in which the most valuable truths hidden, during past ages, from the public mind shall be brought to light, not factiously, but to inform all, for the permanent benefit of all ; meetings, in short, bt re move the cease of the irritations sad anger which now divide mankind, and prevent the creation of that charity for the unavoidable convictions and feelings of their fellows, which can alone establish among the pope. 'scion of the world, the peace and good will which Christians have been taught to expect w ll some day rereads all nations To accomplish these most important objects, it bas occurred to me that the beet mode will be to bolds public meeting every Wednesday at nom, in this room. That it shall be divided into sections. Is Bs x, and 4 ; that shoes admitted to stage No. 1, pay k 6d. to division No. 2, Is. to Nee 3,6 d. that the fourth be free; sad that every shilling so received shall be applied, by a committee appointed for that purpose, to pay the rent, pring, and advertisements; sad that no Individual connected with these preetediogs, receive from this fund any strailarnert whatever. It appurs to me, that malls meetings of thin character oat the beet mode of enlightesing the public, peaceably sad eadefacterily to all par ties, spat those subjects is which ail now require to be well lammed. I say well informed, becalm., heretofore, there has lees no real know. ledge given to the public apes these subjects, as the right wadetrand. lag of which, the mamas weraoleg of the people, awl the yeeeperity of nations depend. Hitherto the moat valuable truths relative to the Li. tionsi government of society bare bees most casefsUy hidden frost the people of all countries; while this knowledge will peeve to be the only real protection and safeguard, of those who sow govern the nAlifliS vt Rampss—Allt yes I say all: producers and sestrodows, rich gad poor, governors and governed, will one their relief to eziging dill. eulties and their im improvement and safety to the rapid *pit ad of this invalu t:owittige. WeU de 1 know—mosluil d Owes—that all men of the *ld system of the weld wool 4 he, for • short season amid, because of my poblle proatiliogo. 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