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of heresy , to a Dissenting Aca . demy , which has always very prudently professed liberality , but which has sometimes manifested a strange hankering to practise intolerance . In the Number for
September following , appeared under the signature of A Successful Candidate / ' a paper , in * tended , I have been credibly informed , as an answer to me . That paper I immediately noticed ; but
the worthy Editor , —with what justice to me , or consistency with the boasted independence of his Miscellany , let the public decide , -- —has declined giving insertion to
my remarks . However , it would be wrong to quarrel with the renowned gentleman . No doubt , his conduct has been perfectly natural , for fair dealing seems to be instinctive with him . to
V ^ ith respect my polite and sagacious opponent , " A Successful Candidate , " I must beg leave to assure him , that the narrative of my rejection , detailed in
the ^ Monthly Magazine is strict . I » y * true ; and that he must be \ vell aware , if he kno . r any thing of the state of the case , that there is not an individual in existence , % who can come forward , in his own
name , to contradict a single fact in the whole statement . By the help of autkentic records , fortunately still accessible , our dispute can be most easily and most sa .
tisfactorily decided . u A Successful Candidate'' cannot be ignorant of my address . Let him be so obliging as to favour me with some clue to enable me to
ascertain his . It will then not be difficult to bring our controversy before the public * in a way , that will spon s $ t it at rest for ever . JBet should he think it prudent
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apt to comply with my request ^ and refuse to discuss the question , except anonymously , he may , in disguise , leave , as often as he pleases , his retreat in a remote part of the kingdom * to
panegyrize the liberality of " The Re . spectable Tutor /'—to asperse the characters of his former fellow * students , —to misrepresent facts , —to call hard names , —to impute bad motives , —to advance contra .
dictions , —to fabricate solecisms , —and to write bad English , with * out any fear of the slightest casti . gation from me . In that case , he may labour with perfect impunity in his vocation . Pcrsequatur sec . lus Hit suum . I promise never to take the least notice of him . In
the mean time , wishing him health and long life to study good man * ners , good sense , and good Eng * lish , and wishing you , Sir , the same to edite the Monthly Repository , I subscribe myself , Your humble servant , A Rejected Canbidate
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Bigotry . A reader of the Mo nth ly Ref p osi tory would fain ask Bp . Burgess or Dr . Magee , or , if a question in this work would not reach
them , would fain ask any of their admirers , ( readers he does not say , for they that read these authors can scarcely admire , ) how they would turn the word Bigotry
into any one of the antient languages . The Bishop , to bis honour is it reported , is averse to translation ; but the doctor it may
be presumed is not so , but like a good Christian , looks forward f his being himself translated , ft * the consummation of his wishee . GOQHAQQQ RBBtV *?!^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/18/
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