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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , Bjuth i Jan . 5 , 1809 . Having observed in your last Number , two fresh communications relative to that interesting work , the "Old Whig , " I was induced to examine my copy of it purchased many years ago at an old book-shop , to see if any traces could be found in it Respecting the supposed authors . —In addition to those men * tioned by your correspondent -A . B . I have discovered two others , as may appear from a transcript of what I find written
on the first leaf , apparently by the first purchaser of my copy , in a strong and schokir-like style of writing . •* These Papers were written by seve * ral Persons : the two principal Were
Samuel Chandler , and James Foster , £ oth Doctors in Divinity and Dissenting ministers in London . Another writer was Taylor White , " Esq . a barrister at law , and one of the judges of the principality of Wales- T . Baker . "
My copy of the work appears to be the first edition , printed for Wilkins and others in J 73 p ; whether there was ever any other edition of those papers , I know pot . I differ a little in opinion , with your correspondent T . 11 . who says , " It is well known they
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were chiefly the productions of young Dissenting ministers : " - — for the date of the first paper is
in 1735 , at which time Dr . Chandler " was 42 years old , and Dr . Foster 38 , so that it appears these two able men were not
young s but in the vigour of their faculties ; and as Dr . Ctiandlcr h said to have written about dO papers , out of the whole 103 , and Dr . James Foster was a
man of much active energy , it is fairly presumable that he also wrote largely in the work : to that presumption may be added , that whoever is acquainted wjth . the Doctor ' s style and manner ,
will not fail to find much internal evidence of his genius and spirit . Of the proportion attributable to Taylor White , Esq . I have ho means of judging ; but as he was deemed an able lawyer , those
papers which appear to involve most of legql statement , are perhaps most likely to have been of his writing . —The writers npw so far ascertained , are in number
Jivc 9 viz . Dr . Chandler , Dr . James Foster , Taylor White , Esq . Dr . Caleb Fleming , ^ nd Mr . Jackson-Those writers are sufficiently nur merous and respectable to gUarQ
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and Jboly and benign administration of Almighty Justice , is con ^ verted , into a self-devouring vortex , of unquenchable vengeance , and tUat revelation ^ which was to illumine the darkness of our nature , is employed in extinguishing the little lis ^ ht we enjoved before ! But the time we may trust
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is hastening , when the dark system oi Calvin will be accounted unworthy to die by the hand of that reason which it renounces , and in consequence of its unparailed self-inconsistency will at length fall Felo de se ! ANTI . CAkVINIST . fa / ft - ' ' * . c- -
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900 : u The Old Whig . "
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^ THE OJLD WHIG . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/24/
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