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    Upon its marble fount , how faintly pluck'd 1 Till pluck'd no more * it tells her of a sleep , OGod ! not transient now—ne ' er , ne ' er to wake again * A maiden there—whose deep blue , love-sick eye * Kindling in secret at the nuptial torch In fancy ' s golden vision , and the blush Nor yet of bashfulness when none look'd on * Bespoke the hour of rapture passing nigh- — Now nightly weeping o ' er a lover ' s grave *

    Yon widow'd wretch ! the statue of a man , But yesterday—it seems no more—a groupe Of merry prattlers throng'd around his knees , Hung on his lips , and with responsive smile Look'd artlessly into his smiling face . And they are there to day . He heeds it not—He knows it not—not he !—The vacant chair

    And chilling silence of the table ' s top , Bereave him of his sense ; an alien now From home , ( witness that speechless stare !) absorpt Within the circuit of tfre mother ' s tomb . 0 * * 4 V ' * * ' # . * Sw > ¦ ys . I . I . C .

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    To the Editor .

    Sir , I cannot but offer my sincere thanks for the services you are rendering to the cause of freedom , by endeavouring to rouse the spirit of the Dissenting body to a feeling of the necessity of exertion . I am glad also to observe that you are giving publicity to the proceedings of the Deputies . They will now see that the public eye is upon them , and I hope will be as vigorous in deeds as they now and then have been in words . Your first Number

    commenced , it was hoped , a series of instructive essays on the legal and political situation of Nonconformists ; surely you will not abandon so fruitful a subject . I for one have long suspected that the influence of the body of Deputies , except in their vocation of attending to secondary grievances , has been and will ( unless greatly improved ) continue to be injurious , instead of advantageous , to the progress of the cause in which the civil rights of Dissenters are engaged . Judging from the experience of thirty years , it does not seem that

    the sort of energy necessary to pus , h on a popular object is to be expected from such a body of so long standing , and so little used to put themselves out of the way . There is a great want of unity of feeling , as jrou observed in your last Number . Those who would refuse Catholic Emancipation may be right or may be wrong , but it is clear that the principle of religious liberty cannot be actively pushed or maintained with cordiality where the movers are not agreed ; where one party is always checking the other lest it should go too rar ; and , above all / where their parliamentary leaders will

    be all unanimous in not doing for them what they would not give to others . My own opinion is , that if those who wish for liberty for themselves , but ( conscientiously perhans ) will not seek it or allow it for others , will not at any rate see the propriety of abstaining from putting themselves forward > to

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    i 92 The Te $ t and Cotp&rvtioft , Acts ,

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    THE TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/32/