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Sir , Birmingham , Oct . 21 , 1817 . L REVEREND Gentleman having _ XjL asserted , in a large company , that Dr . Priestley was in the practice of preaching sermons composed by other people , 1 am desirous of ascertaining , if possible , whether such be
really the fact . Every one , at all acquainted with the Doctor , knows that he was a very ready and a very rapid composer ; and , from his acknowledged talents and extensive information , the presumption is against the truth of the assertion . Some of
your correspondents , who knew Dr . P . intimately , and therefore well informed as to his habits , will perhaps have the goodness to state what they know on the subject , as calumny , whether of the dead or the living , ought not to pass unnoticed . AMICUS VERITATIS .
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Jews in China , T 1 HE following unsatisfactory me-JL morandum on this subject is made in the " Journal of the late Embassy to China . By Henry Ellis , Third Commissioner of the Embassy . " 4 to . 1817 . This , like most other passages in the book , only raises the " M reader's curiosity to disappoint it . Mr . Morrison * endeavoured to
* Mr . Morrison is a Missionary in China from the London Missionary Society , and has made great progress in translating the Scriptures into the Chinese . ( For some account of him , see Mon . Repos . VI . 124 . ) The following- passage , in the " Journal , *' bears witness to his proficiency in the difficult language of China .
u The intimate knowledge of the Chinese possessed by Mr . Morrison , naturally pointed hiiif out as the principal medium of future communication with the Chinese ,
and he was immediately employed in the translation of the Prince Regent ' s letter and other documents , which he executed with a facility much beyond any idea I had formed of European acquirement in this most difficult language . * ' P . 58 .
The following- account of this gentleman is from the Newspapers . — " Mr . Morrison , who was attached to the Chinese Embassy on its arrival at Canton , as principal interpreter , is a native of Aberdeenshire , from
whence lie was sent some years ago to Macao , in the capacity of a Missionary * Mr . Morrison was labouring * in his vocation with great zeal , when he was called to assist in the grand ceremonial of the Embassy , as interpreter , which ho per-
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collect some information respecting the Jews in Honan , from a Mahomed tan , the only person whom he had met with acquainted with ( heir existence . The man ' s knowledge was so
confined , that he threw little light upon their actual condition . Their numbers are much diminished . Pere Jozane , in 1704 , describes them as paying the usual Chinese honours to the temple of Confucius , the tombs of
their ancestors and to the tablet of the Emperor . Their books did not reach lower than the Pentateuch ; they were , however , acquainted with the names of David , Solomon , Ezekiel and Jesus , the Son of Sirach . Their
entrance into China took place about two hundred years before the Christian era . " P . 282 .
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On Congregational Unitarian Funds . Letter I . Sir , Nov . 16 , 1817 . AM so powerfully struck with the I extensive benefits likely to arise to the cause of evangelical truth , from the associations which have been advocated of late in your pages , that I am desirous of contributing , if 1 can , towards their general adoption . That class of Dissenters from which the
Unitarians have chiefly been formed , though liberal when applications have been made to them , have not been so much exercised in the practice of collections at the door arid subscriptions for religious purposes as their orthodox neighbours by much . Orthodoxy has certainly been a far more expensive concern \ o its friends than heresy has
formed with such intrepid fidelity , that the Courtly Mandarins were afraid to record some of his explanations . His habiliments as a Missionary , however , being suitable to the splendor of the dress of the other persons composing- the suite of the Embassador , Mr . Morrison was under the necessity , sorely against his will , of
submitting to the operation of being- clothed in a richly embroidered scarlet coat , the uniform of the Commissioners , with a chapeau-braSy which he placed most mathematically on his head , as an equilateral triangle ! By extraordinary diligence and
perseverance , he has acquired so perfect a knowledge of the Chinese language , that he has for a considerable time been employed in compiling' a Dictionary of that tongue , which is now printing at the Company ' s press at Canton . "
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670 Jews in China . *— On Congregational Unitarian Funds
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/30/
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