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    Ms mind may since have undergone ® were Calvinistic : and he lias merely recurred to the still uneffaeed or revived impressions of his childhood .

    " The-spirit of superstition lias walked into the desert seeking rest and meeting none has returned to his first abode and found it swept and garnished : and he has taken to him

    seven spirits more powerful than himself , and they enter in and dwell there *" The Bristol theological public has been edified by polemic pamphlets of all sizes ,, from Trinitarians ? Antinomians , " white * black and grey&

    with all their trumpery . " Dr . Carpenter , you will be happy to hear , is not yet ** buried under the mass of papers . " The Trinitarian or TWunitariam cause , ( I know not which of these barbarous terms be the more

    orthodox , ) had never , I believe , such a van-guard of miserable skirmishers In their estimation of Dr . Carpenter ' s scriptural knowledge and ability j , we are reminded of the Lilliputian savans ? who , with considerable geometrical labour , contrived to measure the altitude of Gulliver ' s shoe . JOHN BUNCL-E .

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    subject of the Poor-laws , ^ I have been compelled to allude to the principles advocated by Mr » Malthus , but a conviction of their being without foundation in truth or nature , and the

    perception of their mischievous tendency and application induce me to express a . hope that To N . To will make still more public his concise but full and triumphant refutation of these heart-chilling

    principles-Wit h the siucerest respect for your important exertions for the diffusion of religious and moral truth , and in the hope that their usefulness will be additionally and greatly extended by the rapid increase of the circulation of your invaluable Miscellany , I remain ^ JOHN Ho MOGGRIDGB .

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    The Nonconformist . [ A society of gentlemen , who have associated to promote inquiry into the literature and history of the

    Nonconformists , ha ^ e promised us a succession of papers under the above title , of which we this month insert the first . Edo ] Noa I .

    A Vindication of the Two Thousand Ejected Ministers * WRITER who is entitled to A some degree of respect , and whose prejudices are on the side of liberty , relating the history of the two thousandf ejected ministers , saysp

    after allowing them high praise for their integrity and conscience , that a < J when we examine into the reasons of their secession from the church , " ( he should rather have said their

    nonconformity ., ) " we cannot but stand amazed at their extreme frivolousoess , and our admiration is almost annihilated by contempt . ** It is deserving of serious inquiry , and it is the object

    # u Remarks on the Report of the Select Committee of the He > use of Commons on the Poor-Laws ; in which the proposed alteration of the laws of settlement y ' and pauperism , its causes , consequences and

    remedies are distinctly considered . By a Monmouthshire Magistrate . Sold ira London , by Baldwin and Co ,, and R . Hunter , ( successor to Mr . Johnson , ) St . Paul's Church Yard . "

    f The number of the ejected ministers is not capable of being * exactly ascertained I use the round number of two thousand a ® teing agreaeble to usage .

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    4 $ A Vindication of the Two Thoi&BmnS Ejected Ministers *

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    Lanrurnnet / p Sir * January 18 * 1818 * THE speculations of Mr . Malthus , have been the subject of the most able and satisfactory

    animadversions of your Correspondent T . N . T ., who , by the publication of his letters on this subject in your Repository , has rendered a lasting and highly important service to the cause of truth s political and religious .

    The system of Mr . Malthus , as furnisliing an easy means of accounting for the ill effects of mis-rule without implicating its authors and supporters * is become very fashionable with a certain class of politicians in this

    country ; and the speciousness of his mode of treating his subject has made many converts . The misapplication of the principles of this system to account for the tremendous increase of pauperism and burdens of the

    poorrates in this country , appears to be a subject deserving the farther attention of your most able and enlightened Correspondent . In a pamphlet which I have-in the press , and which will fee published . in a few d&ys * cm the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/42/