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II. That the business of this society be managed by a committee of fourteen persons, including the treasurer and secretary; five of whom shall be competent to transact business-that the committee be open to any member of the society who may think proper to attend. In case of any vacancy in the committee by death or resignation, the remaining members of the committee be empowered to 1ll up such vacancy.

III. That the committee meet monthly at each other's houses, to receive reports, consider of cases, appoint visiters, and audit their accounts.

IV. That there be an annual general meeting, of which due notice will be given, when the state of the society shall be reported, and the treasurer, secretary, and committee appointed, to manage the concerns thereof.

V. That the sick and the AGED be esteemed the only objects of the compassion of this society; and when the fund is reduced to the sum of five pounds, the cases of the sick alone shall be attended to.

VI. That no member be allowed to recommend a case until three months after his or her subscription hath commenced, nor if four months in arrears, until such arrears be discharged, provided they have received notice of the same.

VII. That no case be received but from a subscriber, who is expected to be well acquainted with the case recommended, and to report the particulars to one of the visiters.

VIII. That the visiters be appointed to administer relief, and not the person who recommends the case.

IX. That no subscribers, while they continue such, shall receive any relief from this society, nor shall any of those who conduct the business thereof receive any gratuity for their services.

The committee consists of an equal number of ladies and gentlemen; and persons of both sexes are appointed as visiters in rotation.

Subscriptions and donations are received by the treasurer, secretary, or any member of the committee.

At a general meeting of the society, held agreeably to public notice, at Mr. Alderman IND's, on Monday, May 3, 1802:-It was resolved, That when the annual subscriptions of the society amount to sixty pounds, and the fund to thirty pounds, the committee be empowered to extend relief to other distressed objects besides the sick and the AGED.

THE SENTIMENTS PROPER TO THE PRESENT CRISIS:

A SERMON,

PREACHED AT

BRIDGE-STREET, BRISTOL,

OCTOBER 19, 1803;

BEING THE DAY APPOINTED FOR A GENERAL FAST.

Uter esset, non uter imperaret.-Cicero.

ADVERTISEMENT.

SOME apology is due to the public for this discourse appearing so long after it was preached. The fact is, the writer was engaged on an exchange of services for a month with his highly esteemed friend the Rev. Mr. Lowell, of Bristol, author of an excellent volume of sermons on practical subjects, at the time it was delivered, and had no opportunity of writing it till he returned. As it touches entirely on permanent topics, except what relates to the threatened invasion still impending over us, he knows not but it may be as suitable now as if it had appeared earlier. As it is, he commits it to the candour of the public. He has only to add, that the allusion to the effects of the tragic muse should have been marked as a quotation, though the author knows not with certainty to whom to ascribe it. He believes it fell from the elegant pen of an illustrious female, Mrs. More.