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fOME PARTICULARS OF PR . FRIESTLEY ^ S RESIDENCE ^ T NORTHUMB £ RLAKD ; AMERICA . ' LETTER III . * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , I may with * gre $ t truth say , that it was a trait almost peculiap to Dr . Priestley , that he more frequently contemplated every
thing in his circumstances that was pleasing and agreeable , than what was gloomy and distressing . It was this disposition that enabled him to manifest so muph composure under his unmerited sufferings , and , when taking a retrospective view thereof , to compare then * as the light aust of the balance to
the many blessings he daily enjoyed . From the hope of an intimate intercourse wjth Mr , Russel , the Doctor had sanguinely expected to reap much satisfaction ^ as they had previously agreed , before the latter left England , that wherever he fixed there the other would also live ; but here he found the cup , which had been so copiously mingled with evil before ^ once as ; ain filled , and he upon whom he bad
Jfixed his heart destined to present the bitter chalice . You are well acquainted with Mr . Russel ' s capture by the French , on his voyage to America , and his subsequent detention in France . While he was in this captivity , Dr . Priestley , in conformity with their previous mutual wishes , fixed upon Northumberland
for his residence , and immediately set about finding a temporary situation for Mr . Kussel , which he happily did in the same town , and purchased a tract of land , with a house upon it , about two miles farther ofF , over w hich he placed a Dr . Watson ias agent for his friend . When Mr . Russel arrived among them , the Doctor and his . family apprehended nothing short of his settlement with them ; but he rather chose to take a tour
through some of the states , which led him in the end to fix upon a situation at Newtown , in Connecticut , whither he also invited the Doctor to follow him , who did not choose to accept the invitation , but was rather hurt at the proposal , as injurious to his interests , because he had fixed the several branches of
his family around him , and expended all the property he haq . trhis took : place in the latter end of the summer , 1795 . 1 ft the second and , I think , last visit which Mr . Russel paid the Doctor , white I was with him , an apparent coolness was observable in the former gentl ^ m ^ n , who , ' instead of proceeding di-• For t | ic two former Letters , see pp . 393 ^ c 50 J .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/4/
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