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fro m FQlWtz ,. lbat MM . 4 ^ la ; $ cjr g ^ rie 5 . jhe minister > of the i ? rei \ cb Church * who assisted Sophia Cliarlotte in her last moments , was so
surprised tit her courage and cairn * pes « , that he was more attentive to liear her than to exhort her . * I tia ^ e , ' said she , ' for twenty years , seriously sudieri my religion , and have read the books that treated
oF U wjth too much application to b ^ in any doubt as to my principle ^ . Yo u cannot mention any thing to me but what J have read , and what you can say to me will ^ er ^ ainly add nothing to my opipipp / " Dr , T . adds , that *« this
princess had formed ideas of government so equitable , and so extremely different from those which prevailed in Prussia , that she was often : styled by the Germans the republican Queen / 9
3 uch was Sophia Charlotte . Her correspondent , Father Vota , appears , by Frederic k s Memoirs , £ o have visited the court of Prussia , jriji political character , from his
faster the King of Roland . After f ^ loii g pre fatory address by Toland , ff > e correspondence comtiicnces ( p . 526 ) by " Father Vota ' s Letter to the Qu £ e , n of Prussia . " This let-{ $ r , < whiph is short , is dated March
3 ^ 703 , from Stargard in Pon > erania . The Father , who appears to have been now an old maji , thus refers to his disputes in the Queers presence with htr chaplains : — 44 There still remains with me a
very seu ^ i-hle displeasure against myself ; because the obligation under which I lay to defend the honour ufiih ^ iLr&t fathers of the Church , has ^ draw nv qpon thosne gentlemen , whom otherwise I es-* 8 < W ? # ff 4 h ^ uf , ans ^ wfijft . . that ^ m ^ Rr ^ Wt ^ l )^^ , \ Q } Ibe , gi ^ t
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$ t % y * &S £ - ^ W ^ P tS ^ rr i ^ yseit , bp \^ ver ^ ^ hatj tjh ^ ytofik y persons wilT stif ^ cpniinue ^ y good friends , as I dp for the « h preserve
a very sincere esteem ^ Keing incapable of retaining 38 jr resentment from which in reality lam exempt in the greatest warml [ i of ^ drsputarion .
< 4 The Queen of Prussia ' s Answer to Father Vota" is hot dated , but was probably written on the receipt " of the Jesuit ' s letter . After a * return of compliments , Sophia Charlotte adds , "What 1 has made the greatest impression / upon me in your letter is the nice
concern you shew about the little skirmishes in which you were en . gaged with my chaplains . Herein I discover the character of . ^ we llbred man mid ^ a ;/ Cbps Viiany''W hicji adds no small itistife ffij $ i $ W . ? qualities of yourmin ^^| t can gay as much to you on the betiaj ^ of
these gentlemen , anc | promise Ujat in this respect , there , ) v ^ ll ^ e nj > controvery bet weep yop ^ | }| e Queen proceeds , lir the J f ^ V ' Pl passage , tp de $ c ? j be goyernnieht
in Prussia mpr ^ ^ vou r ^ bjy | bai according to the opifi'l d ^ - ^ , 1 ^ quoted from pr , ^ Tbw ^ V ^] j e ako cpi ^ pHwen ^ P j $ * A ? i $ > W with ag atuich ^ i en ^ lp ti&JM ^ p * a character yet VM ^ V ^ Wf j S ^ served . , ., _ . . / t s . ^ . ^ y *
" Um notm theje ^ st ^ r | rj | eg that , in a very small s ^ ace ; pJUf ? 9 t you ^ have beard a ^ fA ^ JMJ ? s f ^ e ^? in a country tf-W&h vbi h in a cdr ] untry ojf aurtiqntY you should ^ ot bave hearrf ^ forty mr k i for tfiev ar ^ i $ M ^ several countieswhere ^ erjj ^ Uf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/22/
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