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% H the local circumstances of their way of life , their conduct , and take care of them , as an impartial governor , who studies the good of those who are confided to his care . The fate of these settlers must he permanently secured ; they must feel that they
are under the protection of the laws , and tben , but not before , we may expect from them attachment and love to the magistrates , and require the observance of the laws which are so beneficial to them . If you find , not upon a bare accusation , but really and in fact , that these people are runaways and deserters , when it is proved ,
beyond a doubt , that they seek to draw away others from the Established Church , and to inspire them with their own religious notions , then the energy of the law roust be executed against such violators of it , and such illegal conduct must be checked . But , even then , it is not allowable that on account of one or more
criminals , -who are convicted of a violation of the law , the whole colony , which has no share in it , should be made responsible . Such complaints and accusations requite a careful examination from whom the complaint comes , and what may be the motives of it . Thus the two Duchoborzi , named in your representation , who , after their return to the true Cburch , accused
this Society of various transgressions , and deposed to their blamable way of life , may have done this out of malice or revenge ; perhaps they were excluded from the Society for crimes , or deserted it from a conscientious * and inimical spirit . Such mere complaints , which deserve altogether no attention , must never induce the adoption
of severe measures , which may be followed by the arrest , imprisonment , and torture of those who are not yet convicted of any bad iu tent ion or any crime . The inquiries even against him who has given reason to suspect him of a crime , must be instituted only in such a manner that an innocent person can in no case suffer by them .
Confiding in your prudence , your sincere good will , and your zeal in my service , I am convinced that , in executing this commission , you will proceed according to the ideas I have here expressed , and
• xpect from it the best result . Meantime you are to give me a full account of the measures you will take in consequence , * ttd of the result of your examination of "Ha colony , after you have taken it under four own immediate care . ( Signed ) ALEXANDER .
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temporary publication , but unaccompanied with any account of the occasion of its having been written . Wishing-, therefore , to see it preserved in connexion with the circumstance that produced it , I now request the favour of its insertion in the first vacant
corner of your Repository . The celebrated publication to which it relates , ( the author ' s Moral and Political Philosop hy , ) was , it may be recollected , at a very early period
after its original appearance , introduced on the list of regular works used in the course of tuition adopted at Cambridge , and has in fact ever since formed a standard book there , both in the tutors' lectures at the
different colleges , and at the general academical examination for degrees at the Senate House * Jn the course of the college lectures ( particularly after the French Revolution ) , it became a frequent practice with manv of the tutors to examine
the pupils as to their construction of some of the more latitudinarian positions of this popular work ; and amongst these , more especially as to the sense of the doctrine argued in the First Chapter of the Third Book , " On Property . " The obvious difficulty at that time attending any consistent elucidation of the author ' s
argument on this point , led to the direct but respectful request ta him , which produced the subjoined reply , and which was , in all probability , one of the more immediate causes that induced Dr . P . to make the alteration afterwards adopted .
V . M . H . [ COPY . ] Sir , Carlisle , Nov . 8 , 1794 . You inquire what is the purport of Ch . I . B . 3 . of my Moral Philosophy . It is expressed in the first sentence of the chapter which follows
it , viz . " There must be some very important advantages to account for an institution in one view of it so paradoxical and unnatural . " What is said in the preceding chapter is for
the purpose of introducing this observation . If you read the two chapters together ^ or , if you please , consider them as one , 1 think you will perceive how the first bears upon the second * and both upon the subject of the book .
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Letter from Archdeacon Valey on his Moral Philosophy . 659
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<—— - ^—Sir , Oct . 28 , 1817 . COPY of the following letter A of the late eminent Archdeacon " atey has already appeared in a con-* Quere , contentious ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/19/
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