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    Sir , THE respect I have entertained for your Correspondent Mr . Luckcock led me to expect from him rather an apology for his hasty accusation

    of Mr . Russell , the Resident at Hydrabad , than a vindication of it '; rather a frank acknowledgment of having precipitately , I will not say " twisted , ' * but , mistaken , the import of the quoted extract from his dispatch , than a perseverance in imputing

    to that gentleman sentiments and feelings disgraceful to humanity , and neither expressed nor implied in the voucher produced for them . I will notice very briefly what Mr . L . has further advanced , ( p . 686 , ) and , to save time , in the order of its arrangement . Mr . L , observes , * 6 I merely €

    said , It does not appear that Mr . Russell had any hand in this work of blood ; Jbut it gives him unmingled pleasure , without a particle of regret or commiseration / " Merely this ! But , even this is begging the very question ; for it is not deducible from the extractthat the murder of the

    Arabs was a source of either pleasure or pain to Mr . Russell , whose duty it was to state the circumstance , and which he has done " simply and drily . " Mr . L . adds , " That the word c pleasure [ not applied to the

    miserable fate of the garrison ] should be so conspicuous , without an iota of palliative , is a sufficient presumption that he sat down with feelings of exultation , untempered by the humanity which the case so strongly called for / ' This is , indeed , a sufficient

    presumption 1 somewhat similar , in common parlance , to making bad worse . But , is Mr . L . to lie informed tljat the introduction of an ** iota of palliative , " or of the minutest observation upon the massacre into Mr . Russell ' s official dispatch , would have

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    been liable to animadversion as \\\ obtrusive impertinence , and , perhaps to censure as a departure from \\ % province ? Was it for him , in i ^ station , to insinuate any disapprobation , or any private opinion , of the military operations which it devolved upon him to transmit an account of ?

    Mr . L . has incautiously drawn a bitter inference from premises that fail him , and , instead of handsomel y retracting it , would support it by a paraphrase ! He then appals us by bringing the probable circumstances of the tragedy before our eyes , as though I had inclined to palliate it *

    and spends his eloquence in arraignmeat of the system ( which he does not charge me with advocating ) that engenders such proceedings ; all w hich has as much to do with the point at issue between him and me , as the battle of the frogs and mice . My unshaken position is , that Mr . Russell ' s communication intimated , no

    sentiment or feeling of any description upon the event so justly deplored ; and , therefore , Mr . JL . has suffered himself to publish an unwarranted imputation upon a gentleman some thousand miles absent ; which it was the purpose of my " pitiful cavil , " or appeal to the plain sense of a document , ( your readers will judge

    whether ) to repej . But , is it true ( I do not ask it offensively ) that Mr . L , had merely said what he lias quoted from himself ? Is it nothing , speculating on Mr . Russell ' s undeclared sentiments , to have

    dragged him , in the face of his country , to the bar of final retribution as a culprit , abstaining only in words from anticipating the sentence of the divine assessor on his imputed delinquency ?

    Mr . L . has merely gone this length ; and , to redeem Mr . Russell from such a woeful predicament , have I volunteered myself in your pages , I hope not intemperately . I have done with that

    the subject , Sir , only remarking Mr . L . has called to my recollection the old ballad of Katherine Hays , who had as little mercy on her husband , as he on Mr . Russell , " And , finding no hole in bis coat , Shejpic&ed otoe in his skull . " BREViS .

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    7 S 4 Vindication of Mr . Russell , of Hydrabad .

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    ble evil , that I can see , can possibly result from any support which is likely to be given to the Society for which Mr . Howe is pleading , and for which 1 sincerely hope that he may not plead in vain . E . COGAN .

    be checked by scrupulous and , perhaps , mistaken calculations of the good or evil by which its exercise might be followed . But no imagina-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/18/