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BIOGRAPHY.
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SOME PARTICULARS OF DR , PRTESTLE ^' s RESIDENCE AT NORTHUMBJERLANC , AMERICA . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir ,
IN compliance with your request , which is seconded by the wishes of my owa mind , 1 now venture before thejpublic to bear testimony to what I saw and heard of the life and conduct of the late Dr . Joseph Priestley , during my acquaintance with him in his exile in America : but though my narrative may
give a very different view of his character to what many others may exhibit , or even wish to see exhibited ^ yet no party objects have guided my pen , but I have been solely actuated by the desire to state those facts with which 1 was fully acquainted , in truth and simplicity .
In the course of Divine Providence it so fell out , that in the year 1794 , I and my wife , with several other friends , were disposed to visit America , having learned that the necessaries and comforts of life were more easily obtained there than in England , the truth of which I much desired to know . Accordingly we made preparation , and sailed from Liverpoo l on the
5 th of September 1794 , in the ship Manchester , Capt . Cox master , and arrived at Philadelphia , on the 1 st of November . We stopped in and near the city during the winter . Whilst I was there I went several times to the Baptist chapel in Secondstreet , under the care of Dr . Rogers , a man possessing considerable ability in declamation . This man , in the second discourse I heard him preach , burst out and bade the people beware
for " a Priestley had entered the land , 'V and then , crouching down in a worshiping attitude , exclaimed- — " Oh , Lamb of God ! how would they pluck thee from thy throne ! " My feelings were excited at this public attack upon Dr . Priestley , and , though differing in ray reli g ious sentiments from those he pro ^ - fessed , I could not refrain from ejaculating to myself—— " Oh , Priestley ! even were thy doctrine true , miracles could scarcely save thee from bonds and imprisonment in every city ! " for
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No . VIH / J " AUGUST . [ Vol .. I ,-
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/1/
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