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    distressing * a man whom they could not ^ Spirit , which has been placing at court for near twenty-six years . ** But be the dramatis person ce whom they may , the curtain which will close the scene is fast falling both on them and

    me ; and I hope so to attemper my feelrng-s of the wrong they have not wilfully , perhaps , but unadvisedly done me , as to be able at the opening * of the next act to embrace them with Christian charity and unfeigned good will ; for the detestable maxim , Qui nescit dissimulare nescit

    regnare ^ wi \ i not be heard of in heaven . The knowledge , that the neglect I had suffered ' was rather owing to the will of the monarch than to the ill-will of the minister , gare me pleasure . Tt removed in a degree from my mind a suspicion which I had long reluctantly entertained ,

    that Mr . Pitt had always been my enemy . I did not expect , indeed , that any minister would be very zealous in promoting a man who professed and practised parliamentary and personal independence j but Mr . Pitt had been under obligations to rne , and he knew that I had always been the warm friend of his warm friend

    the Duke of Rutland : and I was unwilling to suppose him capable of forgetting either obligations or connexions in the pursuit of his ambition . " As to the King ' s ( Mslike of me , unless his education had made hiin more of a

    Whig , it was natural enough . My declared opposition to the increased and increasing influence of the crown had made a great impression on His Majesty ' s mind ; for on the day I did homage he asked the Duke of Rutland if his friend

    the Bishop of LandaiF was not a great enemy to the influence of the crown ; saying , at the same time , that he wished he had not a place of two hundred a-year to give away . I presume not to question the truth of this declaration of His Majesty ,

    but I speak with some certainty of the truth of the Duke of Rutland ' s reply , — 1 That the Bishop of LandafF was an enemy to the increase of the influence of the crown , from an apprehension that it would undermine the constitution . ' This

    apprehension was not then unfounded , nor has it since then been lessened , but greatly augmented , especially \> y the enormous augmentation of tho national debt . " "—Pp . 478—480 . The letters to the Duke of Grafton ,

    towards the conclusion of the volume , are particularly interesting . They are chiefly upon religious topics , and shew the decided bent of the noble Duke ' s mind towards inquiries and discussions of a solemn and practical kind . One of them , dated June 28 ,

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    1808 , is inscribed " To the Duke , & < : on his having sent me a very valuable book . "" This was The Improved Version of the New Testament , of which the Bishop says ,

    " T g-ive due praise to the committed for their Introduction to this work ; it is written with the sincerity becoming * & Christian , and with the erudition becoming' a translator and a commentator on so important a book . I am happy to find that the name of the Duke of Grafton

    is mentioned as it ought to be in the Introduction : his Grace ' s distinguished patronage of Griesbach is properly estimated by llie present age , and it will still more be highly estimated by posterity . "—Pp , 493 , 494 . In 1809 , the Bishop made a visitation of his diocese , and held a

    visitation for the first time at Merthyr TydviJ , where he was entertained by Mr . Crawshay , ** one of the most intelligent and opulent ironmasters in Europe . " From him and others in the diocese the Bishop learned further particulars of the mind of the Court

    with regard to him . In fact , he always created the atmosphere around him , and was never for a moment insensible to his own negjeeted merits . On parting , Mr , Crawshay made him an offer of five or ten thousand pounds , if he should have occasion for such a

    sum . He had , we suppose , pleaded poverty : but he declined the generous offer- He adds , that he was more delighted with this substantial proof of the disinterested approbation of an ironmaster , than he should have been

    with the possession of an archbishopric acquired by a selfish subserviency to the despotic principles of a court . P . 505 . We are delighted with a letter

    ( pp . 527—529 ) to the Duke of Grafton , who thought himseJf dying . " The subject is the goodness of God , as opposed to the desponding doctrines of Calvin :

    Why ( says the Bishop ) should we be disturbed with gloomy apprehensions of death , since He who made us can and will , evea in death , preserve us ? Unless we cease to love him ( which neither you nor I can , I trust , ever do , ) he will not cease to love us : the human race , in falling from their first estate , did not fall from the love of God . " The change occasioned in the government by the king ' s malady , made

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    Review . — Life ofthe Bishop of Landaff * 7 & 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 759, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/31/