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    \ siiij Hachne ^ y Mar . l 6 . In reading Mr . B . Flp wjer ' s Life of jytr . Robinson , I have remarked a few things tvhien , require

    animadversion . As many of your readers will probably see that work , I request the favour of you to point out to tkeni what I think an unjust and injurious censure of Mr . Orton , for the advice whidh

    lie gave a young minister respecting a matrimonial connexion . From Mr , flower ' s representation , one would suppose that Mr . Orton had recommended it to his

    young friend to make money a principal object in the choice of a wife ; a plan which Mr . Flower reprobates with a just severity " I am sorry , says he ( Note p . 34 , ) to find such a man as the late

    exeellent Mr . Job Orton , encouraging this kind of speculation . " And having quoted a letter , in which he dissuades this jyouilg minister , who had nothing of his

    own , from marrying a wile in the same circumstances , and reminds him that " considering his education , profession and station , he might expect to marry a wom ' dn with a handsome fortune , " Mr ,

    Flower gives his opinion , that af ~ lection to the person te the principal motive \? y which a man should be actuated , without whibh , he says , " many have found to £ heir cost , that t \\ Q grand ingred 1 -

    ffity recornmended by Mr . Orton , lias not produced conjugal felicity / ' He afterwards observes , that marrying for money , without affection to the person /** is no better rfean a rtegoX ^< fc # tution . " Wlio

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    thoV ^ that need s told tliis ? And what was there in Mh Orton ' s advice to occasion tnese remarlcs t He wsfs ' too wisb it rnaa to' think thUt riches alone would produce happiness , arid too good a man to advise any minister to

    mor ^ y merely for the sake of moriev * or without' all the affectiotx th ^ re ought to be to the person whom he takes as his wife . But he also knew that many voting ministers , for want of pradencc , have suffered their affections to fee placed on a female merely because of her personal charms ; and have rushed headlong into the matrimonial

    connexion , without any visible mean ^ of support , and conseqtiently have involved themselves in poverty , and they and their families have lived ^ in misery all tfaeh- days * He therefore wisely advised liis young friend to exercise great caution iri this matter , nhd not to marry without the prospect of sonie comfoi'table means of * subsistence ,

    which he very justly observed , a person in his station had a right to expect , and might probably secure . If Mr . Slower had attended to the note , ' subjoined to the passage on whi ( ih he has animadverted , or to the following Letter ^ he would have seen that ; hfe ' censure of Mr . Orton was

    groundless , and his own ad vie * superfluous . Give ine leave ,. Sir , to add , that it appears to ina not ,: iii 6 fely & a ' jbatter of prudence , but q $ duty , in 9 . dissenting rhiiiister , wh <^ has act property of his bwn ^ t *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/20/