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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *

    sir , June 4 . 1 am very glad to observe that Jhe repeat * d and solicitous inquiries of some ainoiig > oi | r correspondents , to be informed who were the authors of the ' 5 Old

    Whig / ' have induced other * of them to communicate so in any valuable hinfs towards ascertainiug tliis interesting subject , fur though " I most heartily concur " with Marcus ( M . JFl for April last , na ^ e 2 oO ) an d with a former ¦>¦

    M . K . S - ¦ Correspondent ^ that c < t the . high value of this periodical work is of ynore importance than the names p f the authors , " yet I cannot hvoid as heartily regretting that the names of this respectable groupc of writers should . . loft , or the papers which they contributed remain so difficult to be

    clearly ascertained . On this account , I lqok upon , the communications o f * Marcus as truly important , and consider his su . irges-* ' <> u fur discovering I he authors "V their style and the different subjects on which they wrote as ? fju < illy rational find ingenious . ' With respect to the first of these guides , I think thestyl ^ qf the lute

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    Dr . Chandler may be very often discovered , and by . this clue feel but little hesitation in ascribing several of the first numbers to his spirited pen . And as to the letter , I am nearly able to state a case in point , by having pretty good authority for ascribing the papers signed Hugo de Burgo , to Taylor , or rather John White , Esq . one of the Wc-lch Jud ges * Suph among your readers as arc deposed \ o give the papers thus

    signed a careful per « isal 9 will probably agree th ' M I hey were written by an able Lawyer / ' un . cl , $ . $ Marcus justly observes , appetir

    to involve most of legal statement /* As to my authority for ascribe ing this signature to Judge \ V hite , it is as follows : —Tins gentleman had a sister , highly respectable for her accomplishments and . amiable character , who survived him many years , and died at a very advanced age . Her library , contained several books * whu : it hajl been formerly presented to . her by the Judge : among the rest was a copy of the a OW Wfiig t'f in which he had written / tirenames of ninny of the authors ^ tai

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    Further Information cdrtceming the L * Old Whi g * ** 489

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    the gosp < I , by their literature and piety , their attachment to civil ami religious libeYty , and their unbounded candour and charity . Let us hope , that if the stars of tiu > constellation have filled their course and are destined to set , one which shall contain those still innn * bright , will bespangle the firmament and diffuse the truth , as it is in Jesus , to remote nations

    and distaiH ages , I shall T > c glad to see what your Liverpool correspondent may write on the riienns of reviving Presbyterian Cdngregations . Gloomy as my prospects are respecting them , I will allow that while there is life there ought to be hope . I am , Sir , yours , &c . SABKINUS *

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    FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THE " OLD WHIG'M .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/15/