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pleasing , inserted by Mr . Montagu , which I am tempted to extract also : the publication of it will have uses which need not be specified : it is the list of persons in both Houses of
Parliament who spoke as well as voted against Sir S . Romilly ' s bill for the abolition " of the punishment , of death for Healing to the amount of jive shillings privately from a shop !
" Mr . Burton Mr . Croker Lord Eldon Lord Ellenborougli Colonel Frankland SirV . Gibbs Mr . D . Giddy Mr . Herbert Lord Liverpool Mr . Lock bar t Mr . Perceval Sir Tbomas Plummer Lord Redesdale Mr . Secretary Ryder Lord Sid mouth
Mr . Windlram . " Of this list some are gone to their account , but others remain who may yet save themselves with posterity , by their votes and speeches in favour of humanity . Earnestly hoping the subject will excite the attention of your readers , I am , ANTI-DRACO .
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Bond Court , JValbroak , Friend , 6 th of 9 th Mo . 1818 . IN the case of the serious recommendation of thy Correspondent B ., of Birmingham , [ pp . 498 , 499 , ] that I reconsider the passage on which he animadverts , i nni induced to depart
from my almost constant rule of not taking any notice of anonymous criticisms on what I write or do but , by the insertion of my reply , the " liberal pages of the Repository , " must again be occupied by such sentiments as
may probably produce *« regret" in many readers . They may be readily refuted , however , as he well observes , if erroneous . £ appears to me to be a wellmeaning Bible Quaker , acting very consistently with the regulations of his Sanhedrim : " Advised that ministers , as weft elders as others , in all their preaching , writing and conversing about tJbe things of God , do keep
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to the form of sound words or Scripture terms , " &c . Yearly Epistle , 17 ^ 8 . But how inconsistent is such counsel with true Quakerism , which rests not on books as a foundation or
for a defence ; acknowledges only the inward light shining , the eternal word written , in the heart of every man , as its support ! I feel it necessary here to suppress certain further observations in reply to B ., of Birmingham , without
however retracting what I heretofore advanced , according to his own understanding of it ; because I khow that the Repository , with all its liberality , and I rejoice that a British public can
have such a work carried on . among them , without its waiting for the imprimatur of c * the powers that be , " the Repository , even , would hardly find it expedient to give them utterance , because of the prejudices of the
many . I turn with less hesitation to later history , to the excellent Englishman , whose consciousness of rectitude , I recollected at Grand Cairo , had so nobly supported him . I lament that
his followers have so artfully endeavoured to save his credit , by suppressing such part of his history as they thought might cause this devoted champion of the truth to appear ridiculous . In a field near the place of my nativity , George Fox , addressing a poor woman , said unto her , ** thou
art a witch , ' * and , as a confirmation of the clearness of the vision , of the truth of the inward revelation to this discerner of spirits , he relates , in his journal , that he found that she was
accounted such by the people . Thus this real evangelist , if there ever was one , did , during a darkened interval of intellect , like the excellent judge , Matthew Hale , join the hell-hounds of that day , in the destruction of the peace and the life of those helpless ,
but most respectable members of society , aged females , who , by the superior delicacy of their feelings as well as of their trembling frames , bowing , oh , God ! ought I to suppress ( as I shudder on ) the spontaneous ,
involuntary ejaculation ? who , bowing , I say , under the weight of years * are entitled to every thing that this world can afford them in mitigation of their unavoidable fluttering * Of this piece of fanaticism the Inter sdttiaas of
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622 Dr . Walker ' s Reply to B . on the Character of George Fox .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 622, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/22/
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