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no alteration in the Bishop ' s condition : but he was not quite forgotten ; for the Prince Regent gave it in command to one of his secretaries to inform his lordship , that in a conversation after dinner at Carlton House , " upon
the general immorality and profligacy of the present day , " Mr . Tyrwhitt related the story of a Sussex Baronet , who was brought to a sense of religion by reading the « ' Apology for the Bible "! The •« retired bishop " ( such he styles himself ) acknowledged this instance of the Prince ' s
remembrance , and copies an inscription which he had drawn up " for some work of charity , ' which he once thought of establishing with the profits derived from the sale of the Apology ,
more than a thousand ppunds , and which he would have eajried into execution " had his family b ^ ii less , or his means of providing for it greater . " ( I \ 548 . )
Successive paralytic attacks had already enfeebled the Bishop , and his correspondence now became brief and irregular . The last letter in the collection is addressed to the venerable
patriot Mr . Wyvill , dated Oct . 21 st , 1818 ; to this is added Mr . WyvilTs answer , upon which the biographer says , signing his name and closing his work ,
" Mr . Wyvill I hope will pardon my vanity in publishing- this letter . I am really proud of his honourable testimony to that political consistency of principle , wbicli unites my name to that of Mr . Fox . It . Landaff / 7 —P . 550 . The Editor adds ,
cc From this period the health of the Bishop of Landaff rapidly declined : bodily exertion became extremely irksome to him ; and though his mental faculties Continued unimpaired , yet he cautiously refrained from every species of literary
composition . The example of the Archbishop of Toledo was often before him , and the determination as" frequently expressed , that his own prudence should exempt him from the admonition of a Gil Bias .
" He expired on the 4 th of July , 1816 in the 79 th year of his age ; illustrating in death the truth of his favourite rule of conduct through life : ' keep innocency , and take hoed unto the thing that is right , for that shall bring- a man peace at the last . " - — ( Pp . 550 , 551 . ) Our opinion of Bishop Watson ' s character basr been again ami again
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expressed in this notice of his memoirs . Its greatest fault was ( as he himself would have called it ) seeularity . He no doubt loved truth , but there have been men who have loved it more for its own sake . Had he
devoted himself more assiduously to the peculiar duties of his profession , he might not have improved his interest at Court , but he would have established a more Undoubted claim upon the gratitude of the country and of posterity . —His talents were of the highest order . He was an able
preacher and a commanding parliamentary speaker . His style is clear and strong ; his figures ( when he condescends to adopt them ) bold and consistent ; his reasoning logical and conclusive . But his highest praise is his steady attachment to the cause of civil and religious liberty ,, and , from the first to the last moment of his
public life , his unabated opposition to bigotry and persecution . He had been early taught and never forgot or concealed or failed to act upon the principles of Locke and Hoadly . With
these eminent men he had to encounter the charge of hefesy in religion and republicanism hi politics ; but posterity will render the same justice to him that has been already rendered to them , and vVhife the " Anecdotes "
shall continue to be read , vtfill overlook his failings in consideration of his services to truth and freedom . A handsome engraved Portrait of the Bishop , which bears internal eviis
dence of faithfulness ^ prefixed to the volumfc . There is gfeat want of an Tndex :, which \ vd see j £ supplied in the Svo « edition , tftat has lately appeared in tvvo voluiiVes .
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Art . II . —A Letter addressed t 6 ' the Right Reverend the Lord Bisftop of St . David ^ s , Joint Patron of the London Society for Promoting
Christianity amongst the Jews * By the Rev . Lewis Way , M , A . of Stansted Park , Sussex ; late Fellow of Merton College , Oxford . With an Appendix . 8 vo . Pp . 92 .
OUR readers' are already informed of tlte character and pifrgnfts of Mr . Way by Otir i ^ p £ cted correspondent Mtf . fftoVg' ( pjS . 94 to—5 & 6 ) . This ? geiitlc'trUm , r t&ighifcg ffi £ etipjnktohts WbMiprop ^ l ^ ptitfc vvithiii hfe
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76 a Review . —Way ' s Letter to the Bishop of St . David ' s .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 760, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/32/
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