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p « w « r ^ * estoya % ronx ^ r Inquisition andthe ^ spoHatkm of lire liberties of Etiroj > e b y the Vienna Congress , amd therefore they are ** ' miscreants whti live by calutnny and sedition , " ' * libellers and liars by trade , " " panders of malice and pioneers of rebellion . " He says that " the biographical
dictionaries" will hereafter say of him ** that in an age of personality , he abstained from satire ; " probably they may , though Mr . Southey may as probably err in foretelling that ' * it will not be supposed that the ability for satire was wanting : " but will they say that he abstained under a sense of
inj&fy from that outrageous abuse which makes even him that is in the right seem in the wrong , and takes away at once the character of gentleman , scholar and Christian ? In the conclusion of the Letter , the author of Wat Tyler draws out his political creed , some of the articles of which certainly prove , that , as he
expresses himself , " his intellect has not oeen stationary , " he has " outgrown his opinions . " He believes that the laws lately enacted for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act and preventing the meetings of the people were" necessary . He believes that ' * the cry fee retrenchment * ' ia * senseless , " that
fcb $ re "has been tGo much retrenchment <* tt the ^> art > of government-, ami that tte- * nation ^ expenditure is , in proportion to its magnitude , the sign and measure of national prosperity . He believes that education is a good thing , bttt that the people " must be instructed according to the Established Religion , " ** must be fed with the milk of sound
doctrine , " that " parochial education " must be " so connected with the Church as to farm part of the £ sta-Irishment . " Moreover , the author of Wat Tyler believes that * ' tJte govern ^ me tit must cirri- the seditious press and keep . it . curbed- For this purpose" ( adds the said author of Wat Tvler , ) " if ' £ . M . . W . __ __ A M — _ ~ # _ ~ MJ " M _» .. F * T . _ 1 -. the not at th
Jaws are present ejfectattl ety should be made so ^ nor will they then avail unless they are vigorously executed . ' 1 But we leave Mr . Sou they and his political creed , Which" eveh " the Beloved Ferdinand" \ voiild ackifQ ^ leclge jIO be orthodox and yvillingl y reysiarfl wi ^ h the laurel , putting , only tWjp pr tJhree quLes ^ ycis on the 4 ans ^^ r , % o Which the merit of this L ^ ttep i ^ ust mu .. - ^ 1 > Did r > ot Mr . Sftuth < ey > teoifi ^^ nfo re
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than orne bcFokseller to publish Wat Tyler soon after it was written ? ¦ ' 2 . * Failinc iri this , did he Hot give the manuscript of Wat Tyler to a , political friend , with express permission to do with it what he pleased ? 3 . In the last aumber but one of
the Quarterly Review , © f whichvMr . Sou they is well known to be one of the writers , was theEC not an article which rumour assigned to his pen and which bears internal evidence of being his , in which the most criminal designs were attributed , not to the Luddites , or
to the hpenceans merely , but to the great body of the active pleaders ami petitioners for Parliamentary Reform ?
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Art . IV . —Six Letters addressed tq a Congregation of Independent Dissenters , upon separating Jrom their Communion . 13 y a lute JVleaaber , a London Merchant . 8 vo . pp . X 12 . Hunter , St . Paul's Church-yard , and Harwood , Great liussel Street , Bloomsbury . J 8 I 7 .
rpHE " London Merchant" is wla ^ at X , this title imports ^ . Me is a » e ^ spectable layman , wboac attention has been direete < l to thcolony , and -wfeose inquiries led htm from the B » tabfeHe < i Church to the ** Indep € Tid « nt J > issen * ters ** and , in the end , from tlierir to tire 1
Unitarians . These ** Letters *' irfe designed to explain and vindicate his p resent faith , and are addressed : to his late religious connections , ** the members of the church 6 tatedl y worshipping at Tonbfidge Chapel , in the New-Road , Somer * s Town .
The writer is well-read in the Trinitarian and Calvinistic controversy and familiar with the Scriptures . Me states his arguments witn clearness , and nia ^ ntains them' with ability . In exposing the weakness and absurdity of tbe system which he has renounced , he displays much a-cuteness of tm ^ ctstanding / ' '
A very few quotations will shew th ^ t the * Londoh Merchant ^ is no mettri reasoner or ' eontmon Writer . yr ^ ipg the consequences x > f allowing Three equal Divine Persons in the Deity , he says , ad
c < % \ w ^ mit tbjit the TW &fr f **! } 0 ?^ of t ^^ trin ity arc independent ^ eact oi * thf otli ' , w 6 are yet to * b « informed fcy wbai mekns it hap ^ ett ^ tbat ih ^ iio iiot % rdr ; \ 6 r intend , diverse */ fjrtitft ' Aefa ^ Uttf ^ Iflkvltf ^ of € QtU » e th ^ i power to da so . * Hm&jl coin *
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th 302 Review . —London Merchant ' s ^ Letters to a Dissenting Congregation .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/46/
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