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general drift of it , I am unprepared to say what there is m it which might be supposed to afford peculiar consolation to Dr * P . in his dying moments ; and not having the whole of his Son's letter at hand , I am unable to ascertain how far the above
writer has done justice to it . But from a sincere regard to the Dr ' s . memory , and to the cause of truth , I earnestly wish that some one of your correspondents , who is competent to the subject , would give the public ^ in your Repository , a true statement of this affair , by which the shameful attack of this
censorious writer upon so worthy a character as Dr . Priestley ^ may be repelled , and his inveterate enemies , who wiJJ lake # pleasure in propagating the report of his miserable end , may be ashamed and silenced . I am ^ Sir , very respectfully your ' s , a loyerof Justice *
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£ m . p riestley's last moments . T * o the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , < I have often been sensibly affected by reading the account of Dr . Priestley ' s death s which has done a good deal towards
recommending Unitarianisra , to several of my semi-calvinistic friends . I wonder that the Unitarians do not print in a popular form , Mr , Joseph Priestley ' s Letter to Mr . Lindsey , which is annexed to Mr . Bel sham ' s Funeral Sermon for the Doctor ; it would plead more for them than a thousand metaphysical arguments , or critical emendations of Scripture . Their ncHect in
not seizing upon opportunities of impressing the public mind !> as often grieved me , and indeed occasioned me to say , cc See a good cause in bad hands / * It is not too late now to print the narrative of Dr . Priestley's death ; I wish most earnestly the Unitarian Book Society , would think of this ; I am sure , from
my experience of religious people , that it would be a most acceptable and useful tract . You , Sir , I dare say , arc better employed than in reading the Evangelical Magazine . Men of sense , I have no doubt , regard that work with contempt . Its charitable design has , however , interested me in it , and the extent of its circulation , it
being read by very many thousands , gives it in my eyes a great degree of importance . In the number of this publication for last month , is a paper on Dr . Priestley ' s death ; which is as you may suppose , abusive and malignant , but which from its plausibility , requires some refutation and exposure * The conductors of it will not , I presume , take counsel of you , Sir , for they act upon Solomon ' s principle , that " he that increaseth knowledge increascth sor-
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lh \ Priestley * s Last Moments . 133
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/21/
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