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    what measure of the " GhristJiri spirit" it discovers , I Ife & v ^ Mr . Ghartes Matider and his father and uncle to detettaine .

    Tim writer of the A ][> pendix'V brings a heavy charge against IVfh Bradshaw , and calls Ms treatment of Mr . Steward " amaster ^ piece of oppression and cruelty . " I fear a paltry artifice ha & here been used , to impose upon the public . For what

    honourable purpose are all dates omitted in this part of Mr . CwMander ' s < c clear detail of circtimstances > " and even in the copy of the letter sent to Mr . Steward by the attorney ? It itiust be obvious to every one , that the merits of the case depend in ho trifling

    degree on dates . u The Trustees and Congregation of Johnstreet chapel" are represented as owing to Mr . Steward about 34 / . " but they deny that they owed him a single farthing . His salary had been faithfully paid by them up to the time when his

    engagement expired ; and they no longer recognised him as their tninister . Mr . Steward had put himself under the guidance and protection of the Manders , and had bidden defiance to the Trustees and the Congregation . Mr . Bradshaw had been a most

    kind and generous friend to Mr . Steward ; he had , however , seen what were Mr . Steward ' s principles of " honour" and what his jpr & ctical ideas of " the Christian spirit . 55 Is it surprising then , that he began to be desirous of having along standing account settled ?

    As to the proof so triumphantly insisted on by Mr . Charles Marider , that Mr . Steward was still thought worthy of confidence , because Mr . Bradshaw a gave him a receipt upon

    unstamped paper , "—while I wonder at the imprudence of Mr . Bradshaw , I congratulate Mr . Steward on the victory Which he achieved over his resentment , and leave the argument to operate in all its influence on those whom it lti & y concern .

    I have been dragged , much against my inclination , into this * controversy , and have transgressed the limits which I prescr ibed to myself : yet I cannot lay down my pen , without expressing in

    rny own behalf , and in that of the Congregation , the tense we entertain of the sympathy which has been so kindly manifested towards us , both iri otir own neighbotirhood ntid at a distance .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 22, 1819, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_22021819/page/10/