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immediately connected with his profession , determined'him against forming the engagement . His writings do not appear to have increased in any great degree his popularity as a preacher . But they added to the number of his admirers
and friends . Among these was the late * * Marquis of Lansdowne , then Karl of Shelburne . This nobleman on the loss of his amiable and excellent wife , had been recommended by Mrs . Montague , an intimate acquaintance of Mr . Price , to read the Dissertations en Providence and the junction of virtuous men in a future state : and
he was so highly gratified by the perusal of them that he immediately expressed a wish to Mrs . Montague to be introduced to the author . A day was accordingly appointed for this
purpose at Mr . Price ' s house at Newington Green , where his Lordship punctually attended . About the same time , he was honoured with a visit from George Lord Lyttelton .
On the death of Mr . Laugher ,+ morning preacher at the Gravel-Pit Meeting-house in Hackney , Mr . Price accepted an invitation to succeed him in this office . He consented however
to remain as afternoon preacher at Newington Green , _ and , in consequence , resigned that service at Poor Jewry Lane . At Hackney his audience was much more numerous than
in cither of the places at which he had hitherto officiated . In 1769 and in 1770 he began to be better known to the public by a paper ( printed in the Royal Society ' s Transactions ) on the Expectations of
Lives and by his Treatise on Reversionary Payments * fyc .: and towards t he end of the former year he received from the University of Glasgow thehonourary degree of Doctor of Divinity . ITe published in 1772 his Appeal to the Public on the National Debt ; of some parts of which pamphlet Lord . North spoke in the House of Commons wfth great respect . And in the
* Not strictly the late Marquis ; the elder brother of the present noble possessor of flie title having borne it , though but for a short time . Rev . | - Not LaWj as tlie Biographer spells the name . The " Rev . Timothy Laugher is the gentleman spoken of . See the funeral sermon for him , by his friend Di \ Kippis . Rev .
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beginning of 1776 , he gave to the world his Observations on Civil Liberty , and the Justice and Policy of the War with America ; a work Which obtained a rapid sale and a very extensive circulation , and procured for him
the freedom of the city of London presented in a gold box by the Aldermen and Common Council . Though all communication between this country and the North American colonies
was now of necessity destroyed , yet Dr . Price was constantly in the habit of having letters transmitted to him from the Western Continent , by his friend Dr . Franklin , who at that time resided in Paris , and who had been a
member together w ith him of a social and literary club at the London Coffee House . Such communications , however , Dr , Price , from prudential motives , soon afterwards discouraged . In the spring of 1777 he published a second pamphlet , containing additional observations on the nature and
value of Civil Liberty- —on the War with America—and on the Debts and Resources of Great Britain . Of the fast day Sermons which he preached during the war , he laid before the world those delivered respectively in
the years 1779 and 1781 : and to the former he added a postscript , in consequence of a violent attack from Dr . Lowth , Bishop of London , whom he answered by quoting a few passages from what the learned Prelate had
written in his earlier years . Being invited by the Congress of the United States , in 1778 , to reside among them , he civilly declined the invitation : for he was too much attached to this country * and connected by too many ties of friendship and affection , to think of exchanging his present abode at the advanced age of
nearly three-score years . t He published in 1779 an Essay on the Population of England . It seems to be now admitted that the returns of the surveyors of the house and window duties , from which he formed his deductions , were incorrect . acter
His next labours , in the char of an author , were occasioned by V r - Priestley ' s Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit . In this metaphysical controversy he was the advocate of Iiwmateiv altsmand of Philosophical Liberty . 1 » e discussion of these subjects between the celebrated man whom he oppose ** and himself , was conducted with p ^ -
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506 Review . —Morgan ' s Life of Price .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/42/
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