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    pected to be a smuggler . —— —~ N . B * The deacon , and otherwise the most weighty man , of . the church , was a grocer / , , . : i-The ' church-book of the congregation of General Baptists at \ V ¦—— contains the folio w ' ~ in £ minute , boarinc date about

    uu years ago : " Mr . E . our pastor , cut off' fct Yun-• ning a * way . *'' ., ' . ' ¦ The fact was that the contro

    versy concerning free-will being then warmly agitated in the chjurch , the good man was teazed and puzzled perpetually with

    sharp and knotty questions on the five points ^ which he was not metaphysician enough to answer , or philosopher enough to smile , at . He therefore took the resolution

    to make his escape , and accord - ingly $ tolc away by night . At one of the associations of Dissenting ministers of the Free-Grace General Baptist denomination , held within a year or two at Nottingham , a brother minibter was excommunicated for being a conjVkoh ! — -By this iict the members of the association

    have assuredly proved , that they aic no conjurors * ~

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    No . XIX . Bcavtijul Simile .

    True genius is displayed in adorning barren . subjects with the flouers of rhetoric . A tine image occurring in political disquisitions , for instance , raises the same

    pleasure in the beholder , as the unexpected appearance of a richly blossomed myrtle amongst the rocks of Calabria . In a late publication , which discusses the financial schemes of the Fox ministry ( in ¦ 1806 ) it is remarked that cc it seemed to add to the sufferings of the people ,

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    when the property-tax was raised to 10 per cenfc ^ and most of the farther exemptions were done awayj that a measure so-grinding and oppressive ^ should ¦ proceed from persons who had opposed the triple flssessment , the income

    tax and the property tax itself Av . hen first introduced . Like the bird in the fable . , which complained Less of the sharpness of the point that wounded its bosom , than of the feather that winged and directed the arrowy having been

    drawn from its own pinion * the people felt their sufferings aggra * vated and exasperated b y tlie reflexion , that they were imposed by those whom they had- hitherto cherished and supported * as their friends , and whose elevation to

    power they considered ( no matter how errdneously ) as in some degree their own work or at least as a consequence of theirsuppos * ed partiality , tQiy a ^ rdstHpm- ^

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    No . XX , A Great Lie *

    Mr . Romaine , rector of St . Anne ' s , Blackfriars , of Hutchin-§ onian , Tritheistic and Evansreli

    cat ^ inempry , was once we are told , so disgusted with one of the lessons of the day , taken from

    the Apocrypha ^ read by his curate Mr . Foster , now rector of St . James ' s Clerketuvell , fhut'i ji his sermon he could nQt help shewing that disgust , t » y '

    exclaiming , after having asserted sorrie important truth — - —— This is not like that great lie ivhich you just 7 ww heard from the desfcj * This advocate for the church forgot in his zeal that he and h } s curate had both given their ** unfeigned assent a ad consent ' ' \ # the great £ ie .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/30/