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    trade . Turgot , as his biographer informs us , rejected the offered compliment with the indignation of a virtuous mind , which cannot be reconciled to a crime by the frequency with which it is committed . His opinion , on this subject , he thus publicly declared , in defiance of thos £ whose interests

    were connected with the preservation of that infamous traffic * On another question unconnected with the preceding , but intimately connected with the best interests of mankind , this French minister had -also the merit of

    expressing very enlightened and liberal sentiments . In a memorial to the king , ( Louis xvf . ) at the close of his short administration , he inculcated upon the monarch , the necessity of granting the most extensive religious

    toleration , on the grounds both of justice and sound policy . He argued , that if a prince believed his own reli gion to be true , he would deem it unjust for any one to deter him from the profession

    of it . He ought , therefore , to consider it as the same injustice to persecute those who were , with

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    minister in vain attempted to accomplish by argument , an extended religious toleration , has been atchieved by the policy of the French emperor , for it would be hazardous to attribute to a conqueror any purer motive .

    Turgot was a ^ correspondent and friend of Price ; and it was no small praise to be worthy of such a friendship .

    VINDEX . P . S , Any addition to your interesting account of Mrs . Shep - par ^ ( p . 303 , ) will , I dare say , be acceptable . I have a Spectator with notes . i ^ roo . 1788 .- —

    At the end of No . 163 , vol . 2 d , is the following note . " The letter in this paper signed JLe- * onora was written by a Miss Shepheard ,, who wrote likewise the letter in Spect .

    No . 140 , signed Parthenia ; but the letter in No . 9 a , signed Leonora , was written by another Miss Shepheard , sister to the former , and afterwards by mar * riage * Mrs . Perry . These two ladies were collateral descendants of Sir

    Fleetwood Shepheard , of facetious memory . D . " Mrs , Perry was probably the filter mentioned by Mrs . Shepheard ,, at the beginning oi her letter from Stockholm .

    * * Un Negotiant , par une de ces adulations usees dont les Ministres commen * cent a ne plus etre flattes , lui proposa de donner son nom a un Vaisseau desfin £ a la traite de Negres . M . Turgot rejeta cette ofFre avec l'indignation d ' une ame verteuse , qui n ' a pu etre familiarisee avec l'idee d ' un crime par Thabitude de le voir commettre ; et il ne craignit point par ce refus d ' annoncer publiquement son opinion , au risque de eoulever contre lui tous ceux qui croient rinte " r £ t de leur fortune lie avec la conservation de cet infame trafic . ' * —\ d p . 124 .

    f M . Turgot se c / ut oblige de faire un Me ' moire ou il expliquoit au JS . oi ses principes sur la tolerance , et ou il prouvoit ; qu ' Uh Souverain , convainru que la Religion qu'il professe est la seule veritable , doit laisser la liberte absolue dc la croyonce et du culte ^ l ceux de ses sujets qui en professent une autre ; qu'il cst obh g ^ & , cette Tolerance par devoir dc Conscience , par une . obligation rigoureuse ^ Justice fondle sur le Droit nature ! , par Fhumanite , enfin par Folitique ^—11 prouve que plus un Prince croit h sa Religion , plus il doit sentir combien il 'croit injuste et tyrannique de la lui 6 ter , et plus aussi il doit juger qu * h com * niettroit la m ^ me injustice s'il troubloit la conscience de ceux qwi , avec « rc cgaJe bonne foi , eont egalement persuades d * une Religion co » traire «"~»~ I ) clf p . x %$ .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/17/