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    JLitchfield and Coventry , resigning his livings of Longdon iiiia Tewkesbury . The Bishop in his reply says , " After the printed copy of your letter , which you sent me in November last , I am not surprised at your resignation of your livings , but think you have acted consistently and conscientiously ; but I lament that the ministry is deprived of a man of a liberal spirit and much erudition . ' Besides the copy to Bishop Hurd , Mr . E . sent copies to the Primate , and all the other Bishops ; but although it is now twenty-eight , years ago , and in the interval a second edition has been published , the whole of which has been sold , neither his Lordship nor any one of the clergy has thought fit to reply to it ; but consulting the safety of the church , they have , as Mr . E . remarked , observed a prudent silence . " It could scarcely be supposed that after this instance of Christian fortitude and integrity , Mr . E . would have been suspected of an intention to undermine Christianity ; nor could such a suspicion have been harboured , except in the minds of a few orthodox bigots , who would almost rather have seen Christianity itself overturned , than the errors of their own creeds

    detected and exposed , r ew men , except the good and venerable Mr . Lindsey , ever made greater sacrifices than Mr . E . to faith and a good conscience : when he quitted the church he gave up his all ; he had no private fortune ; ee The world was all before him , where to choose € t His place of rest , and Providence his guide . ' * It was not only what he really possessed that he gave up ; his prospects of preferment in the church were great , and moreover , he relinquished a profession to which he was by principle and habit strongly attached . A few months after this his uncle dying , bequeathed him the chief of his fortune , whiph put him into easy circumstances : quitting Longdon and the church he went to Mitcham , which he considered almost as his home , and took a house , to which was annexed about 150 acres of land which he farmed . He also commenced a plan of education for a limited number of pupils , and having good connexions in this neighbourhood , his number was soon completed from some of the most respectable families . Amongst his pupils was

    a grandson oi the Earl of Bute , whose father Colonel Stuart being then abroad on service , Mrs . Stuart at the strong recommendation of Mr . Wedderburn and the present Chief Justice Macdonald , placed her son , then about six years of age , with Mr . E ., with whom he continued till he was sixteen . This

    promising young man was , at theearl y ^ age of twenty-four , seized with a complaint which proved fatal : attached to his tutor by the strongest ties of affection and gratitude for his tender care , and thq attention he had bestowed on the cultivation of bis

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    < J Rev . Edward JSvanson . A * M .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/6/