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    of the atonement by our Saviour ?—A . I believe there was such a person . Q . Do you believe then in his divine mission ?—A . I do not . Here it was observed , that it was a necessary inference from the answer , that the witness believed our Saviour

    was an impostor . Mr . O'Connor denied the justice of the inference ; he s . aid he believed Christ acted up to the doctrines he professed—that he did not believe he was an impostor , but that he was rather the dupe of his own imagination .

    Mr . Goold then suggested that the witness should be sworn on the Old Testament . Judge Daly—It does not necessarily follow , that , because the witness disbelieves the New Testament , he must believe in the Old . His Lordship asked the witness , whether he did believe in the Old Testament ?

    Mr . O'Connor —No—not in the whole of it . Judge Daly—Do you believe the account which it gives of the divine -dispensation to the Jewish nation ? Mr . O'Connor—I do not .

    Several other questions , of a similar tendency , were put to Mr . O'Connor by the Learned Counsel . Judge Daly delivered a most minute and luminous charge to the jury .

    His Lordship occupied upwards of an hour and a half in recapitulating the evidence on both sides ; and referring to that of Mr . O'Connor , felt constrained to observe , that from the tendency of the doctrines which he , O'Connor , held , his disbelief in Divine

    revelation , and in the mission of our Saviour , his evidence was , his Lordship would say , not altogether disentitled to credit with the jury , but he would say , it should be received by the jury with diminished credit /*

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    Sir , Maidstone , June 6 , 1818 . ALTHOUG H a statement of the case of Mr . Charles Herbert has already appeared in the Repository , [ XII . 124 , ] and lias given rise to the liberal contributions of the friends ,

    not only of Umtarianism , but of philanthrophy and humanity in general , yet it has been judged , that some additional particulars in his own language , and that of an intimate friend , ( tendered such by being made ac-

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    . quainted with his character and treat * . ment , ) will be found interesting . » They will exhibit a mind of no ordinary worth and energy , struggling

    with a spirit of persecution , which affords convincing evidence , that an age and country of boasted light and liberty is not without a specimen of intolerance in her genuine features ; and since the venom of her bite is

    still most severely felt by her guileless victim , notwithstanding every effort to overcome difficulties almost insuperable , in endeavouring to establish a school adequate to lhe support of his very numerous family , it is hoped , that his case will still excite a sympathizing interest ; and particularly that

    as his excellencies as a man and as a teacher of youth , have received the most satisfactory recommendations from those who are fully competent to judge of them , that it # ill be the means of engaging an attention to the Advertisement which will appear with this Number ,

    " When , " says Mr . Herbert , « I was elected to the school in 1806 , not one of the trustees mentioned that there was a will of the donor which required my belief of the Athanasian

    Creed and of the doctrine of Original Sin , which , if I had been made acquainted with , I have no hesitation in declaring , in the most solemn manner * that I should have wholly declined

    the office . " He had , indeed , given up the appointment after his election , and it was only in consequence of the express desire and recommendation of one of the trustees , that he at last accepted it . Mr . H . * s Original Sin consisted in a manly independence of

    mind ; in a disposition to think for himself , a disposition which , in whatever manner it appeared , was abhorrent from the spirit of the officiating curate . He declined teaching his own children the Church Catechism by

    rote ; he was guilty of some innovations in his method of tuition , and in the simplicity of his heart he observed , in conversation with a neighbour , that 44 all wickedness is acquired , * crimes for which no reasons that he

    could allege , no advantages , however satisfactorily proved , attending his new method , and no adherence to the requisitions of the donor , which he strictly observed in the education of the charity children , could in any Oe-

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    4 ft 4 Case of Mr . Charles Herbert .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/36/