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    HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, &c.

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    THB MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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    History, Biography, &C.

    HISTORY , BIOGRAPHY , &c .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Birmingham ) Dec . 19 9 1809 . sir , It isj I presume ^ well -known , in the literary world , that the learned Dr . Middleton , though he had expressly and repeatedly declared himself a sincere Chris - tiaj * , yet , on account of the free-<^ oiti » f hiB inquiries , and the at ~ , tack he made on some higli points of orthodoxy and churchism , was changed with infidelity and deism . That very respectable writer * Dr . William Harris , the author of several historical works , whose regards and friendship I enjoyed / or some years in the early part of'my-public life , had in his pos - session a MS . of Extracts from Letters of Dr . Middleton to his friend and jpatron , Lord Harvey which were handed about to support the invidious charge . Dr . Harris once referred to them , and quoted a passage from them in his Life of Charles II . and he obliged me with , a permission , without any restrictions , to take

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    a copy of them . As the paper appears to me to be a curious literary morceau from * the pen of one of the greatest scholars of his day 5 it seems worthy of being preserved , and of having a place in a Miscellany devoted to free inquiry . Far , be it from me to K hand it to the public as a proof of the invidious calumny , to which the extracts it contains were originally meant to give credit . The weakness of the proof , the

    inconclusiveness of the construction put on them , is obvious . But they do show the perplexities and difficulties created to . an investigator of truth , when he is hampered and restrained in his pursuits by human creeds and a religious establishment . It raises our pity and excites our indignation to see great learning and fine talents cramped and restrained , in a 1 U beral tlirfectioti of them ; the mind pftqajiL to think , and still more fearful to avQw what it thinks . When , when will it once

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    EXTRACTS OF LETTERS OF Bit . MIDDLETO ^ S TO LOUD HAUVET J COMMUNICATED BY DR . TOULMlN * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/1/