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( edition in 1767- In 1769 there was published , in Ireland , art answer to it , entitled , " A Confutation of an Attempt to explain , &c . " By the Rev , Smyth Loftus , M A * Vicar of Coo ^ lock , in two volumes . Dr . Robertson once entertained a design of repl y ing to Mr . LoftusV book ; but his engagements and infirmities account for his not executing it . Dr . Disney says , that he had good reason to ascribe a poem * published in 1768 , entitled c < t Electheria /* and inscribed to Mrs . Macaulay , to Dr . Robertson , who , he also thinks ^ during his residence in London ^ and previously to his removal to Wolverhampton , wrote some few articles in the Monthly Review .
In the year 1728 Dr . Robertson married Elizabeth , daughter of Major William Baxter , who , in his younger years , had been an officer in Ireland , in the armies of King Charles II . and James II . * By this lady , who was extremely beautiful in her person , but much more so in her mind , Mr . Rdbertson had twenty-one children . Eight yeafs after their marriage , he inscribed to her a Poem on her Needle , which was inserted in a
periodical publication . Dr . Robertson was the mournful survivor of his amiable consort , and of all his children . In March 1779 he concluded a letter to his friend Dr . Disney with an affecting recital of some of his more severe trials , not forgeting , however , his wonted submission on all occasions to the will of God . < c I have lived , ' * said he , almost 74 years , and have enjoyed many , many comforts ia this life , so that I may now thankfully rise from table , as a guest fully satisfied with my entertainment . Indeed in the last three years I have suffered what the generality of the world call great afflictions—in my health , and in Hiy family . In the year 1 T 77 , I lost my beloved daughter . In the year 1778 my eldest son , who was a Lieutenant ,
fell at Rhode Island ; and already , in 1779 5 I have received an account of the death of my other daughter in Dublin . But I have been go accustomed to the death of my children , that at last I see nothing strange in it . I only wonder that I have staid so long behind them . I think my case h extraordinary ,
Major Baxter was cashiered by the Earl of Tyrconncl , James ' s Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , as a person not to be depended upon in carrying on his or his master ' s designs . Upon this he repaired to London , and complained of it to the Xhike of Ormond , to whose estates his father was steward . His Grace , who was , with other English Noblemen , in a correspondence with the Prince of Orange *
recommended him to that Prince , by whom he wa& immediately appointed to a company in his own forces In this station he returned to England with tho Prince at the Revolution , and was active and vigorous in his endeavours to effect that great event . While he was in Holland he wrote a remarkable letter to t > r * Burnett , afterwards Bishop of Salisbury f . + See Appendix , No . I .
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282 Rev . JV . Robertson , D . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/2/
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