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religious liberty ; a strenuous assertor of the rights of mankind ; ardent in the cause of a parliamentary reform . A character which , in an age of
prevailing venality , is of singular merit and importance . When near and friendly connexions pressed it , he declined giving his countenance , on a general election , to unconstitutional influence
" In the more private circles of life he was kind and affectionate ; the instructive companion , and the syrnpa thizing and active friend . " He was not popular as a preacher ; but his discourses recommended
themselves to the understanding by clearness and strength of argument , and generally closed in a manner calculated to leave serious impressions on i he heart . It was sometimes a practice with him to avail himself of the few
moments which passed with his friends in the vestry , after the public services , to advert to the discourse he had preached , and , in a free conversation , to recall their attention to its leading sentiments .
" He had , independent of his connexions as a minister , a very large acquaintance , by whom he was held in cordial esteem . He was editor of ** The Library , " and prefixed to the
last edition of tracts , entitled " The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy shaken , " 4 vols . 12 rno ., an advertisement to the memory of the Rev . Richard Baron , to whose children lie was the faithful and friendly trustee . "
Dr . Jeffries died suddenly , January 7 , 1784 ,, in the evening , as he was going home , accompanied by his friend Mr . Bulkeley . It was a very affecting circumstance , that on the next Sunday Mr . Bulkeley delivered to the congregation of Mr . Noble , who had
died December the 24 th preceding , the sermon , which Dr . Jeffries had prepared on the occasion of the death of his friend , whose funeral he had attended on the morning of the day on which he died . This is related by Dr . Toulmin , in his . biography of Mr . Noble , Prot . Diss . Man . V . 441 . R .
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tradiqted by himself , in a letter dated Nov . 6 , and published in The Weekly Freeman ' s Journal , Nov . 14 , The following is an extract : " I did say that I thanked my friend , Mr . O'Connell , ( not for explaining ,
but ) for giving me an opportunity of explaining the motives which induced me to vote for the Union . I did not say that Lord Corn wall is had shewn me the paper ; nor did I mention the name of Lord Cornwallis , or of Mr . Pitt , or of any pther person whatever , as connected with that measure .
Neither did Mr . O'Connell say that he knew I longed anxiously to repeal the Union . None of these things were said $ and therefore , though I may not respect more than you do the reasoning-powers of the writer , and must allow that he
may have been misled , as to his facts , it is necessary to destroy the foundation of his calumnious insinuations . " Mr . O'Couuell stated , and so did T , that I regretted my vote on the Union . I regret it , because all the predicted evils , and none of the promised benefits , have resulted from it , I stated at the same time , that I had
never given a vote with more honest intentions ; that gross delusion had been practised to carry the measure , as the event proved . Those delusions were more formally and authoritatively embodied in the speech of Mr , Pitt on that occasion . All this I have
repeatedly stated in parliament , and in much stronger language than I ever used at a public meeting . " If Lord Cornwallis had shewn me a paper , signed by Mr . Pitt , it
must have been of a private nature , and it would have been a breach ( not of a Privy Counsellor ' s oath , as insinuated , for I was not then a Privy Counsellor , but ) of the honour of a
gentleman to have betrayed it . " Lord Cornwallis did give to 111 c , not in confidence or secrecy , but expressly for circulation , a document which has been since frequently
published and quoted , as containing- the declaration of the then retiring cabinet . This also I have stated in parliament , but did not mention at my election .
< c I shall never shrink from avowing the motives which , under the circumstances in which Ireland was , induced me to vote for the Union . I voted
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Addendd et Coi * riff&ida . ? SS
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P . 492 The speech attributed to the Right Hon . Maurice Fitzgerald , Knight of'Kerry , and member of parliament for that county , is in part con-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 753, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/25/
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