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    to describe the qualities of his head and heart , whose own personal history is in some points similar to that of the revered confi ssor , and whose talents can ensure lasting attention and respect to the portraiture of excellence , which his

    feelings have prompted him to place before the public . In thus expressing ourselves , we mean to bestow no complimentary language on the dead or the living .

    Mr . Lindsey is beyond the reach of flattery , and unmerited encomiums on his successor would only redound to the discredit of our pages , which , we trust , the experience of several years has convinced our readers that we

    would not knowingly devote to any purposes besides those of truth and justice . In taking up this copious volume for review , we are not a little puzzled in determining how we can best present the reader with a specimen of its rich contents : we

    believe , upon the whole , that we shall discharge pur duty most faithfully and completely , by following the biographer chapter by chapter , and making such extracts as comport with our limits ; introducing here and there an observation , but

    reserving our more general remarks for the conclusion of the article . Having given , in our former volumes , biographical sketches of Mr . Lindsey and of his excellent

    partner , in his active and useful life , [ See vols . iii . 6 l 7 , 637 . —iv . 1 , $ 4 . — vii . 109 . ] we do not think it necessary to follow our author in the entire and regular succession of his facts and dates .

    Mr . Lindsey ' s mother , whose maiden name was Spencer , was distantly related to the Marl borough family , and previously to

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    her marriage had lived upwards c * f twenty years in the family of Fran » ces , Countess of Huntingdon , he himself was named after his

    godfather , Theophilus , Earl of Huntingdon , the son of tLe abovementioned lady ? and thehusbanrfof Selina , Countess of Huntingdon , so well known as the zealous and

    liberal patroness of Mr . Whitfield and the Calvinistic Methodists .

    " With this very respectable lady Mr . Lindsey lived many years in habits e > f friendship . And though , after his secession from the established church and the public avowal of his theological principles , all personal intercourse was for many years suspended , yet when Mr . and Mrs . Lindsey , in the summer of 1786 , called upon Lady

    Huntingdon at Talgarth , in Wales , they were received , as he expresses it in a letter to a friend , " most graciously , as usual . ' * Not only did she direct that every possible attention should be shewn them in their visit

    to her academical institution in the neighbourhood , but she earnestly pressed them to prolong their stay . With her old and much respected friend she had much serious conversation ; and seemed particularly impressed with a hint which Mr .

    Lindsey threw out , in reference to a dear and only surviving son , of the safety of whose final statelier ladyship entertained the most painful apprehensions , that possibly the state of future punishment might be only a process of severer discipline , and

    that the greatest sinners might ultimately find mercy . And when they parted she took an affectionate leave of them , and gave them her kind , maternal benediction ,

    expressing , at the same time , her hope of meeting them in a better world * " Some good I hope , is dope , " sa y * Mr . L . to his correspondent above referred to , where much is intended by thi * praiseworthy lady , who iwu , for

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    48 % Reviews—Belsham ' s Memoirs of Lindsey .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/48/