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    Petre extended his kindness to the DoctQr * p memory . Immediately after his death , his lordship desired the writer of Jtyese pages to ex ^ p ^ nci , jus papers . At his request , the la ^ e ^ Doctor Disney , a particular friend of the deceased , was associated with him in the task . This

    was the more proper , as a report had been widely circulated that the Catholics had caused his papers to be destroyed . Doctor Disney , and the present writer , made as complete a search among them as their avocations permitted . To their great surprise , although they found several literary manuscripts , they did not ,

    with the exception of a rough version of the last Psalm , find a single scrap of paper tfca ^ t related to his biblical pursuits . This was ^ signified to Lord Petre , with a recommendation , that further searches and further inquiries should be made by some person possessed of greater leisure . These were made ; but they were equally unsuccessful . All this was the more

    surprising , as , from the Doctor ' s declarations to his friends , and from other circumstances , there was great reason to suppose that he had made considerable progress in the continuation of his work ; or , at least , had collected ample materials for it . Probably , in the view of his approaching dissolution , he had committed

    ihem to the flames . On the receipt of this report , it was thought proper , that the public should be made acquainted with the result of the investigation , by a preface to the Doctor ' s translation of the Psalms . Such a preface was accordingly written . It was signed by Doctor Disney , and by the present writer ; and prefixed to that work . . v

    " A learned and interesting life of the Doctor has been written by Mr . Mason Good . It has been mentioned , that the Doctor was , by h , } s own desire , buried at Paddington . ~ It . was by his own desire also , that the following inscription was written on the stone raised at the head of Jiis grave t , >* f Reverend Alexander Geddes , LL « D .

    Translator of the Historical Books of the Old Testament , Died , February J 26 th , 1802 , Aged 65 . Christian is ray name , and Catholic my surname . \ I grant , that ypu are a Christian , as well as I ;

    And embrace you as my fellow-disciple in Jesus : Antl * if you are not a disciple in Jesus , St $ ! I woujd embrace you , as my fellow-H * an .

    , jlequiescat in Pace . ' .. ., , EuXt ^ tcted from his wo rks , tfhis sjone was erected by his friend , Lord , Petre , in 1804 . "—H . pp . 298—303 .

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    Anecdote of Dr . S . Clarke and Dr . Hawarden . " In his work , The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity , he propounded his system with great clearness , and supported it with considerable strength and subtilty of argument . He met a powerful

    opponent in Doctor Hawarden . By the desire of Queen Caroline , the consort of George the Second , a conference was held by them in the presence of her majesty ; of Mrs . Middleton , a Catholic lady , much in the confidence of the queen ; and of the celebrated Doctor Courayer .

    " When they met , Doctor Clarke , at some length , in very guarded terms , and with great apparent perspicuity , exposed his system . After he had finished , a pause of some length ensued . Doctor Hawarden then said , that ' he had listened with the greatest attention to what had been said by Doctor Clarke ; ' that

    * he believed , he apprehended rightly the whole of his system ;—that the only reply which he should make to it was , asking a single question j that , if the question were thought to contain any ambiguity , he wished it to be cleared of this before any answer to it was returned ; but desired , that when the answer should be given it should be

    expressed either by the affirmative or negative monosyllable . ' To this proposition Dr . Clarke assented . ' Then / said Doctor Hawarden , ' . I ask ;—Can God the Father annihilate the Son , and the Holy Ghost ?—answer me yes , or no / Doctor Clarke continued for some time in deep thought , and then said , —* It was a question which he had never considered /—

    Here the conference ended . " A searching question it certainly was ; and the reader will readily perceive its bearings . If Doctor Clarke answered , * yes , ' he admitted the Son and the Holy Ghost to be mere creatures . If ne answered , ' no , ' he admitted them to be absolute Gods . The writer of these

    pages has frequently heard the conference thus related , particularly by the late Mr . Alban Bu s tler , and by Mr . Winstanley , the professor of philosophy at the English College at Douay . "— II . pp . 309 , 310 . Instance of Dr . Thomas Hussey , the Catholic Bishop of JVaterfordTs Eloquence .

    " His eloqence in the pulpit was really great ; but it rjather subdued than satisfied reason . The writer of these pages was present at a sermon which he . preached , on the small number of the elect . Copying Massillon , he asked , € Whether if the arch of heaven were

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    SO Notices of New Publications . —Butlers English Catholics .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1820, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2484/page/50/