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M $ u fAtMER ^ S REPLY TO W . r / s CHARGE OF * ARTIALXT ¥ IN THE NON-CONFORMIST * $ MEMORTAt . ' To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , I agree with your correspondent W . R . ( page 406 ) in lamenting that Ci impartiality in a historian is so rarely to be
found / ' and acknowledge that bigotry against persons of ajiy religious denomination is a blemish in a biographical work . " Something of this kind , I confess , is too apparent in Dr . Caiamy , not merely against Baptists , but equally against Independents , for he was a high Presbyterian . Part of the blame , perhaps ^ is to be laid on Mr . Owen , and others , from whom he received his accounts . But he himself cannot be wholly exculpated . Very sorry I am that I should have come in for a
share of the like censure , fro in which I had thought myself secure * I may perhaps have been misled by some of my authorities , on which I was obliged in most cases to rely ; but I am > iot conscious of having inserted a single reflection upon any person on account of his denomination : on the contra ry ^ I have in several instances endeavoured to do justice to those
whom Dr . C . had placed in an unfavourable light , or of whom , through prejudice , he had given a very brief account . See 3-mong other articles relating to Independents , those of Dr , Owen , Dr . Goodwin , Mr . T . Coles , and especially Mr . Davi $ of RowelL My intention was to shew the same impartiality to those ministers who were Baptists . For this purpose , I corw
suited Crosby ' s History , and availed myself of the correspondence of Mr . Isaac James , all of whose accounts of Baptist mi * xiisters in Wales I readily inserted . I wish Mr . W . R . to re view iny account of Williairji Dell , and compare it with that of Dr , C . This alone might be sufficient to satisfy any reasonable person that I have no prejudice against Baptists as such * Mr
Qrton ' s note under that article deserves the reader ' s consideration , Mi > W . R , should recollect that there were Baptists at that time , as well as other preachers , whose characters entitled them to no very high encomium ; and perhaps fcOme of their biographers rp i ght write $$ muph wader the in-
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attention of his audience , apply also here * To these may b $ added , that the sight of his hearers exciting in him stronger desires ta persuade them , he will be induced to press his sub * jject more strongly upon them ^ and to urge more impressive . motive with greater animation . fTo be concluded In our next , ]
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Mr . Palmers Reply to W . 5 . V Charge . $$$
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/21/
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