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gether with some few anecdotes , and marginal notes , &c . This copy Mrs . White lent to an ingeni . ous gentleman , who often visited her > and when he returned the work , after thanking her for the rational entertainment and
inforination he had derived from the perusal of it , she frankl y told him that her brother was the writer of the papers signed as above-mentioned .
Perhaps it may be new information to several of your readers , that the work alluded to was first published m the form of a newspaper . I am now in possession
of one o ( these , containing a letter to the editor , as usiml , and then various articles of foreign or domestic news , advertisements , &c . It is of the quarto sise , and tnarked No . 110 ; which shews $ hat all the papers of this admirable work have not been preserved ; for as Marcus truly o b ^ serves , the whole number now ex-% nnX in the two vols . is 103 . I heartily concur with him also in ^* thinking that a new edition is flow called for / ' on account of
** the admirable tendency such a work has , " in support of the ** cause of liberty , civil and reli ^ gious / ' Such a work is now peculiarly wanted . It would clearl y explain the doctrines of real whiggism , and render them , as they ever ought to be , acceptable and Universally popular . In the mean time , our present would-be-re - formers in church and state , ought to study it with the utmost care , and see what they ought to betu > t the mere loaders of a party ,
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or the followers of the versatil e Burke , but the avowed friends and uiidaunted champions of con * stitutional Hberty . * Tis to the unblushing tergiversation , the open apostacy now so very not © . rious and infamous , that the
present astonishing indifference as well as downright apathy of our countrymen , with respect to public measures , may be justly ascribe ed . The leaders of political parties have almost uniformly deceived them , or led them totally astray b y noise and declamation from those
notorious violations of our excel , lent Constitution which ought to have been long ago redressed , and which if not redressed will inevi - tably throw us into general con * fusion . The people no . w act as they certainly would do if they
a * . mm - ¦» m were perfectly convinced that all the disputes of our sham , mongrel patriots on all sides , were no other than a mere scramble for places and pensions , and whilst this idea is any way sanctioned by their leaders , it will be in vain to
expect they wijl take any active , persevering part in what they are thoroughly convinced is at the bottom , no better than a contemptible , sordid , base squabble . Yours , &c . AN C > LD WHIG .
P . S , If your correspondent F . p . 190 , will peruse No . 74 > of the Old Whig , he will find how curiously bishops were formerly employed . At the same time he will do well to ' recollect , that they hnd then assumed tbc title of Fathers in God .
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§ QQ Further Information concerning the u Old WhigJ *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/16/
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