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and a highly rational occupation of leisure In his most valuable library . I have also good reason to believe that Mr . Lewin was equally reserved , as to numerous instances of his benevolent
consideration for want and misfortune . But it is his ready attention to the call of friendship , on an occasion which could not fail to interest me , and which cannot easily pass from my
recollection , which I would now record in your pages . This I knew my friend's disposition too well , to have attempted , till he was beyond the reach of human approbation .
My intimacy with Mr . Lewin was much advanced b y our mutual attachment to Gilbert Wakefield , especially when he became the subject of a Court prosecution . Our friend ' s trial came on at Westminster , Feb . 21 , 1799 .
The Attorney-General of that day ha 3 long ago reached the splendid goal which urges a court-lawyer ' s progress either through primrose-paths or miry ways , just as the service of his masters may require . He now connected his name with that of one of the first
scholars of his age , prevailing with a willing jury , to consign to the tender mercies of the King ' s Bench , ( as , according to legal calumny , €€ a false , scandalous and malicious libeller , " ) aa unguarded , because a fearless censor of t € wickedness in high places , " whose life had been devoted to the
investigation of truth and the promotion of virtue . The Court-Prosecutor , however , was in no haste to worry the prey of which he was sufficiently secure . He readily consented to suffer Mr . Wakefield to be at large till called up for judgment .
In this emergency , for which no provision had been made , I was anxious immediately to find a colleague who would publicly appear with me in the Court , as Mr . Wakefield ' s bail . There was probably in that Court no
individual more disposed than Mr . Lewin to shrink from such publicity , and the usual consequent exhibition in the newspapers . He , however , came forward most promptly , and , by such a seasonable assistance , not a little relieved our friend and his family .
To Mr . Lewin I ought , also , to acknowledge my peculiar obligations for the highly gratifying success of the project which I was led -to form ,
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on the result of our friend ' s triaR This projected subscription ( of which there is an account in the Memoirs , IE . 155 ) was first mentioned by me in a conversation with Mr . Lewin . His immediate approbation encouraged me to proceed , while hisotra Vety Ijiberal
contribution to the design * ; aflSrd « Hl an early example , ' without which Thave always doubted whether that tribute of regard to a victim of inki&terial vengeance would have' freedme , at length , so worthy of the occasion .
Ibeg leave to add , that I have acted with Mr . Lewin in various societies , and lie was one erf those whose silence I'peculiarlyregretted . Yet this indisposition ^ to publicity * I h&ve observed Kim to avercotne'on a few
very-particttlar occasions , when , by a > declaration ; of his opinion , beyond a srient vote , he would either recommend seme liberal proposal ; or else bear his testimony against some servile compliance or courtlv adulation .
I cannot help regretting * that you are yet unfurnished with a few dates , such " as are expected from an Obituary , and some notices of Mr . Lewin ' s family , such as only his immediate connexions can easily supply . J . T / RUTT .
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Wolverhampton , Sir , April 19 , 1823 . fj ^ KOM a perusal of the interesting Jt ? letters of William Roberts , together with the advertisement of Dr . Thomas Rees , both prefixed to the Monthly Repository of December last ,
I was led to expect that an active and liberal subscription would have immediately commenced in aid of-the caisc of Unitarian Christianity , in India . It is , however ; to be presumed th&t contributions have been received for this
purpose by the different gentlemen named in Dr . Rees ' s advertisement . But , excepting the solitary instance of your correspondent C . B ., [ p . 11 , ] the Unitarian public has yet to learn whether any subscriptions have been received or not . Since this time a
most important communication has been m&de by the Rev . W . Adam , from Calcutta , to the Secretary of the Unitarian Fund , and I ftilly agree with hiin , that " all these conside rations combined seem imperiously to call on English Unitarians to exert them-
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236 Unitarianism in India .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/44/
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