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    feet friendship : and the volume which preserves it , is a pleasing memorial of their mutual affection as well as of their different casts of mind . So intimate was Dr . Price ' s connexion with Lord Shelburne about

    the year 1782 , that his noble friend gravely offered him the place of private secretary ; though , as was justly observed , the minister might as well have proposed to make him master of tlie horse 1

    Immediately on the termination of the war in 1783 , Dr . Price published a small pamphlet on the finances of the nation . And in the report of the commissioners for examining the public accounts , he had the satisfaction of seeing recommended in the strongest terms those measures which he had

    in vain proposed and urged . Within a year or two afterwards , he published a pamphlet On the Importance of the American Revolution , $ r .: it was addressed to the United States , and contained much valuable advice on political and financial subjects .

    Having now greater leisure for studies more congenial with his profession , he published , in 1786 , a volume of sermons , of which half the number were appropriated to doctrinal , the other half , to moral , topics . On this occasion , Dr . Price made his appearance before the world as the advocate

    of amodified Arianism . A few months previous to the publication of these discourses , he had lost his wife . In April , 1787 , he preached a sermon in recommendation , of the New College , Hackney , the students in which seminary he consented to instruct in the higher branches of the mathematics . To the duties of this

    office however he soon found himself ^ capable of at tending , and therefore resigned it in the second year after undertaking it . A short correspondence took place between Dr . Price and Mr . Pitt , on the subject of the national debt . But his acquaintance with the premier

    ^ as closed with the establishment of the Sinking Fund in 1786 : and it would seem that the country has not been permitted to reap any substantial benefit from his plans of finance . In the spring of 1787 he exchanged tos quiet abode on Newington Green ^ anothe r more public in Hackney . ^ t this time , and for the few remain-

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    ing years of his life , he was sensibly affected by the deaths of the associates of his earlier years : among these were Dr . Shipley , Bishop of St . Asaph , Dr . Adams , Master of Pembroke College , Oxford , the benevolent Mr . Howard and Dr . Franklin . Of all the events which he had witnessed none interested or agitated him so much as the French

    Revolution . And , at the solicitatipn of several of the friends of freedom , he preached the celebrated sermon , of Nov . 4 th , 1789 , in which he noticed it with uncommon ardour and force of eloquence . This discourse drew torrents of abuse on him from Mr . Edmund Burke , whose rancorous invectives neither disturbed the

    tranquillity of his mind nor had any other effect than convincing him that the violent passions of the author had deranged his understanding . Dr . Price was one of the stewards at the dinner in London , July 14 th , 1790 , in commemoration of the French Revolution . In the beginning of

    August he visited his relations in Glamorganshire . On his return to London , in OctcSber , he lamented hi £ growing infirmities and total unfitness for any work that required either time or attention . However , he added a few notes to the last edition of his

    discourse on the love of our country , in answer to some of the despotic principles of Burke , and made a slowprogress in preparing a new edition of his treatise on Reversionary Pay 7 tients . In the beginning of February , 1791 > he attended the funeral of aTriend to

    Bunhill Fields , and observed on his return that , " this method of conducting funerals was the sure way of sending the living after the dead . ' * Within a month he attended the remains of another friend to the same styot , and having * staid some time to speak over the grave , with no effectual covering to secure him from the inclemency of

    the weather , he was seized in the afternoon with shivering and other symptoms of fever , which on the following day increased so much as to render it necessary to apply for medical assistance . In the course , nevertheless , of

    about ten days , hopes were entertained of his speedy and complete recovery , A far more painful and fprmidable disorder now succeeded : and after the sufferer had borne very dreadful agonies , for nearly a month ,

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    Review . —Morgarfs Life of Price . 507

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/43/