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THANKSGIVING.

It has been recommended by a Correspondent, that on the 13th instant, the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the innumerable blessings bestowed on this happy Country, Congregational Collections should be made after Divine Service, in every place of public worship throughout the United Kingdom, for the relief of our gallant Countrymen who have been disabled, and the Widows and Orphans of those who have been killed in achieving the late glorious victories in Spain.
   Similar contributions were made after the never to be forgotten triumph of LORD NELSON, at Trafalgar, which assuaged the wounds, and alleviated the grief of thousands of the brave sufferers, and the surviving relatives of those who fell in that memorable contest.

As an additional motive to this act of national beneficence, let it be respective services by their illustrious example and heroic courage during the present war, have been the instruments, under Divine Providence, of animating the Nations of Europe to successful exertions against the oppressor of mankind, and of opening that bright prospect, which now dawns upon the world, of a secure, honourable, and permanent peace.

Congregational collections, therefore, for such an object as our correspondent recommends, would furnish the living proof, that while we praise the Great Giver of all Victory with our lips, our hearts are animated with the corresponding emotions of gratitude and love.

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