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sin , , , Jum 12 , 1808 . You will , I telivve , readily preserve in your p . c : positdry , die following extract From the " introdufcfdry chapter '' to Mr , Fox ' s Historical Fragment .
, After stighiStising in a manner worthy x > f liimfself the legal murders of Russel £ nd Sidney , he says that , ** when their memory shall cease to be an object of respect and veneration , it requires no spirit of prophecy to fbretel that English liberty will be fast
approaching to its final consummation /* He adds that , ** the Tory day on which -Russel was executed , the University of Oxford passed their famous decree ,
condemning formally , as impious and faeretical ' -propositions , * every principle upon which the constitution of this , * € ) v &ny other free country , can maintain itself . " In this connexion the author
introduces the following account of 44 Mr . Locku p s expulsion from Oxford . " Among the oppressions of ibis period , most of which ^ were attended with consequences ? a much more important to the several objects of persecution , tit may seem scarcely worth while to
notice the expulsion of John Locke , from Christ-church College , Oxford . But besides the interest which every incident iu the life of a person so deservedly eminent naturally excites , there appears to have been something in the transaction itself characteristic of the spirit of the tones * as well as of the general
nature of < ab * o }^ te ; power . JVIr . Locke vus known l ; p ^ ( iav <; been . . intimately con nee ted '* wkh Lord * Shdftcsbury , and had very prudently judged it advisable for him , to prolong for some . time , his residence upon tjhe , Continent , % Q > which he had resorted originally on account olvms health . A suspicion ,,, ^ s tt has been . jfaict * proved , unluunctelclJ ihat i * e
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was the author of a pamphlet which ^ ve offence to the government , induced the King tp insist upon his removal from bis studentship at Christchurch . Sunderland writes ^ by the Kind ' s command , to Dr . fell , Bishop of Oxford and Dein of Cfaist-chuicK . i The reverend prelate answers , that he has long had an eye upon Mr . Locke ' s beliaviour ; but though frequent attempts had been made , ( attempts of which the
Bishop expresses no disapprobation , ) to draw him , into , imprudent conversation , by attacking , in his company , the reputation , and insulting the memory of his late patron and friend , and thus to make his gratitude and all the best feelings of his heart , instrumental to his ruin , these attempts all proved unsuccessful . . Hence the-Bishop infers , not the innocence of Mr . Locke , but that
he was a great master of . concealment , both as to words and looks ; for looks * it is to be supposed , would have furnished a pretext for his expulsion , more decent than any which had yet been discovered . An expedient is then snggested to drive Mr Locke to a dilemma ,
by summoning him to attend the College on the first of January ensuing . If he do not appear , he shall be expelled for contumacy ; if he cojne , matter pf charge may ^ be found against him for what he ; shall have said a , t Loixdori , or
elsewhere , where he will have been less upon his guard than at Oxford . Some have ascribed Fell ' s hesitation , if it can be so . called , in executing the KingV order , to his unwillingness to inju » e Locke , who was his friend ; others with more reason , to the doubt
of the legality of the order . However this may have been , neither his scruple nor his reluctance was regarded by a court who knew its own power . A peremptory order was accordingly sent * and immediate obedience ; . endued . / I ^ hys , while , without the shadow pt a ^ crime , Mr . Locke lost a situation atttnieiiNyith
gome emolument , and great conVcnU encc , was the Urnivw » itjy ( , depr . iv ^ ii of or rather thus , from the base principles of servility , did she ca ^ t ^ way ths man , the hav . ng produced \ vhoni is row foer chiisftst ^ lory ; tfnoV tto u * i to rfle who are not dwfermtped tq be ? biijl 4 » v $ Ud the
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MR . FOX ' S ACCOUNT OJ ? ^ ll # LOCKE R S EXFUJ-StOK PROM OXFORD ' ¦ i ¦ ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/35/
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