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upright a champion for civil and religious liberty as Ktaister Laud wak the Contrary : but to coine hearer home to ourselves , who would not be grieved that the best of causes should be hurt
by beitig in bad hands , or such hands as have triost indiscreetly given a haftdle to raise the rational odium against them ? IF it might but fare well with him in the next world , we would wish him out of this , rather than that he should live to do harm in it . But yet I think him a better man than some
others with Fairer pretences . Extract of a letter to-day : ' A letter was sent to Wiikes to attend the duty of the Hous e * His answer , that if they wanted his life , he would attend . To-day , it
is said , life had had a relapse , and is in a dangerous way . If he recovers he is to be ousted . For if he is expelled , then his creditors come upon him , and it is no where believed his friends
will pay 2 or £ 3000 a-piece for him . u Something is advertised to-day at least under the name of the Essay on Woman . This , Kidgell well deserves , who is well roasted for bis
dirty officiousness . It appears that very great sums of money were offered to the printer for a copy of the aforesaid . It is believed , that when Wilkes ' s affair is over , there will be
nothing more to be done in parliament , nor any opposition there , so sure are the present powers of a ma-•• , 4 * 1 jonty-I atia sure you are pleased with
your fellow-labourer , Mrs . Macau lay , I trust she will prove a noble counterblast to your Humes and Sroollets , the latter of whom , 1 was told here , was educated amongst the Jesuits and is a concealed Papist .
I have an account to-day of a new translation of the Bible coming forth , hy a Quaker , which is said to foe better done , in many respects , than our owu . I have n . ow done for the
present ; when you write I desire to know how Mr . Munckley does , and desire you will present my compliments to him , if he be one of your correspondents . I dare say you have
geen tW New England Controversy betwi xt , the worthy Dr * Mayhcew a # d A > p thorpe « 3 Mr . JEMackburne repents ttqiw " df the pains he took , Wl tfaie ! mjto £ ew ' }* $ h ^ iA the Election lor * # &e college * in America * My wife
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joins in every kind and friendly regard afad wish for you and Mrs . Harris , and all yours , With your ¦ ¦ - ' . " . . ¦ . , ¦ ' T . U — - at the Rt ev . Mr * Artkdeacoit
Blaekbiirnes , at Richmond , inYorhf shire .
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No . 4 , From Mrs . Macaulay to Dr . Harris . Math , December 17 , - ^— - Dear Sm , I have now spent ten days at Bath , and the neither seeing you nor hearing of you , alarms me for your health and welfare ; since a week before I set out
from London , a letter was written by my direction , ( being at that time in bed with a fever , ) to inform you that rny journey to Bath was hastened by my illness , and claitmi » g your pro * mise to give me a meeting . In this letter was inclosed another , which you would have received before , but for a mistake in the direction . lam
extremely mortified that I have missed the pleasure of your conversation whilst at Bath , but hope to hear that my disappointment is not occasioned fey your ill health , or the ill health of your family , to whom I desire my com pli meats . 1 am , dear Sir , your most sincere friend and humble servant , CATH . MACAULAY .
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No . 5 . From Dr . Harris to Lord Harrington [ Lord Barrington was a felJow-student with Dr . Harris , at Mr . Grove ' s academy at Taunton . The following letter , ( which well deserves attention
at a time when a general election must soon take place , ) which is in Dr . Harris ' s hand writing , appears * to be an answer to an application ^ after his Lordship was in administration , to influence the people of Honiton to vote for a ministerial candidate * Thi *
was probably a rough draught , as there is no signature to the letter . } My Loii » , Your kind reception and recomniendution of my book ajpe higfciy acceptable to me , and I return you iriy humble thanka for thecn . WiJl yqur Lordship par <} on me if X pre « u »» to ask why you are surprised at my
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From Dr . Harris to Lord Barrington . 1 $ 0
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/7/
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