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    base and iniquitous system which now exists . Too many , and particularly too many of the Unitarian body , have submitted to the yoke in silence . I am happy to hear of one more individual honest enough to act upon the

    dictates of conscience , and I must conclude with wishing you ^ 11 that happiness which , entered into with upright and conscientious feelings , the marriage state is so capable of conferring j remaining , &c ,

    "JOHN DILLON . " P . S . I shall be happy to be informed of your further views and in * tentions , and how you succeed when the time arrives . Of course you will endeavour to give all the publicity to the protest , &c , in your power , as

    that is the principal good to be gained ; above all , communicate with The Monthly Repository , particularly as you will see the Unitarians are about to petition Parliament on the subject * As many other individuals may wish

    to possess the information you apply for , I have been advised to send a copy to the Monthly Repository , where , as connected with a subject so interesting and important to Unitarians , it will probably be inserted next month . Your name , of course , I shall not mention , leaving the publicity of that to your own decision /'

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    ^—GLEANINGS ; OH , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OI' GENERAL READING . No . CCCXLII . Proposal to Kidnap George II . when ' Prince of Wales . Lord Orford , in his Reminiscences .

    lately republished in a small volume , relates many anecdotes not calculated to flatter royalty or to gratify the Whig prejudice in favour of the two first Georges . He says , pp . 42 , 43 ,

    " On the death of George I ., Queen Caroline found in his cabinet a proposal of the Earl of Berkeley , then , I think , first Lord of the Admiralty , to seifce the Prince of Wales , and convey him to America , whence he should

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    never be heard of more . This detestable project , copied probably from the Earl of Fal mouth ' s offer to Charles II . with regard to his Queen , was in the hand-writing of Charles Stanhope , elder brother of the Earl of

    Harrington : and so deep was the impression deservedly made on the mind" of George 11 . by that abominable paper , that all the favour of Lord Harrington , when Secretary of State , could never obtain the smallest boon to his

    brother , though but the subordinate transcriber . George I . was too humane to listen to such an atrocious deed . It was not very kind to the conspirators to leave such an instrument behind him : and if virtue aftid conscience will not check bold bad men from paying court by detestable offers , the King ' s carelessness or indifference in such an instance , ought to warn them of the little gratitude that such machinations can inspire or expect . '

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    Gleanings . ^ 181

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    —^¦¦¦¦¦^*—No . CCCXLIXL Character of Doddridge in Verse . In the Congregational Magazine for October lBlft , is a series of " Nonconformist Portraits , " under the head of € C Poetry . " We do not suppose that a trick has been played upon the Editor ; but what enemy to the Nonconformists could have clothed the

    respectable and amiable character of Dr . Doddridge , in more ludicrous fustian than it is invested with in the following passage of this " Congregational" manufacturer of verse 1 " Ours is a Doddridge , gentle and devout ,

    u Scooping his knowledge from a thousand springs , u Until , replenished like a water-spout ^ "He rose and shook it from his sounding wings ; , u Not as that cistern , —by tempestuous

    flings , li But cool and calmly , as distilling dews , cc Or music floating" from ^ Eolian string's : — " The genial drops , not scanty , nor profuse , < c Watered Northampton . ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/45/