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    disabused byMothers * tlis independent an& unprejudiced iesli * iiiony may , perhaps , have more weight oil this matter than our own disclaimer coald be expected to possess . If it Be supposed that any property , patronage , or influence , exists in any quarter * to render this publication the mouthpiece df any class tor party , H is time that the mistake should be corrected . There was a period

    during which the ( then ) proprietors were aided by subscriptions and donations , and the work was avowedly not so much the organ of the person or persons conducting it as of those of the same persuasion who made it the vehicle of their communications . Various circumstances have changed this state of things . The

    short , gratuitous communications whi ^ h used to make up the copy of a magazine are no longer in vogue : the old c Gentleman s is perhaps the only one now which is so supported ; and the specimen , not unamusing in its way , yet makes few readers long for the restoration of the ancien regime . Communications of this kind had failed from the pages of the Monthly Repository' long before the present editor and proprietor had any connexion with it ; nor is he indebted for pecuniary aid to any per- *

    son or class of persons whatever . This distinct declaration is called for by the circumstance , that some who had formerly subscribed to the work , are known to imagine that he derives some kind of benefit , and that they are entitled to some kind of influence , on account of such contributions . He derives none whatever ; and the fact that they were ever made is to him a disadvantage . The work was purchased of its late proprietors , without either favour or incumbrance , at its fair and full worth in

    the literary market , as impartially estimated by umpires chosen for that purpose . It is now the sole property of the individual by whom it is conducted ; and the writers in it are chiefly his personal friends , or those whom similar views of politics , literature , and morals , have induced , on public grounds , to afford him their co-operation . .

    While an avowed editorship , backed by such support as has been just indicated , induces some inconveniences , it has also advantages—and those greatly preponderant advantages—we mean as to the character and independence of the work ; certainly not as to the pecuniary profit or the private ends which _ might be promoted by a different course . We have no proprietary to control taice

    us , and to put to the ^ vote what side our work snau on any question . There are no political or bookselling schemes which , we hesitate to promote at our peril . Our contributors are justly described by our correspondent as thinkers , and not merely writers / they become the latter because they are the former , and they have at heart the instruction of the public on the topics which they have qualified themselves to discuss . We feel the worth of their co-operation , and one of the pleasantest results

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 795, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/3/