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CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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words uttered in a room called Hopkins ' -Street Chapel , near Windmill Street . This room 1 vq& s we haye heard , taken and registered as a Dissenting : meeting-house for the express purpose of promoting Atheism . The Jury found Wedderbuiti g<y of the blasphemy , but ¦ ¦ Strongly recommended him to mercy , in consequence
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Memoirs of the Protector , -Oliver Cromwell , and of his Sons , Richard and Henry , illustrated by Original Letters and other Family Papers . By Oliver Cromwell , a Descendant of the Family . ( With Portraits . ) 4 to . pp . 750 . Longman and Co . 1820 .
The time is almost come when Oliver Cromwell may be spoken of with historic impartiality . Hitherto , we conceive , his memory has been hardly dealt with . Under this impression , we rejoiced at the appearance of
these Memoirs , which , however , We must confess , have disappointed our expectations . The " Original Letters and other Family Papers' * nave scarcely brought to light a single fact of any moment which was not before well
known ; whilst many interesting facts related in Noble ' s Memoir of the Protectoral House are here overlooked . The volume is an ill-digested medley of history and biography , and the history is an exceedingly dull compilation . The biographer cites in order to refute the various charges brought agairfst Cromwell , and this vindication of the Protector ' s character is the best
portion of his work . Cromwell was a brave soldier ; a sagacious statesman ; and a princely niter . His ambition and the state of parties around him , made simulation a necessary part of his character . He
destroyed the Republic of England ; but it is difficult to say whether it would have been possible for the enlightened men that succeeded in dethroning Charles to have preserved the Commonwealth , even with Cromwell ' s
assistance , since so large a proportion of the people were inclined to monarchy . But this must be said in praise of thte Protector , that he raised the renown of England to a higher pitch than it had before attained ; that
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of his not having ( had ) the benefit of parental ca * e . ' > tTwf J . ipodr \* fthap Py creature is evidently a tool in the fcands of others , who afe wicked enough to wish to overthrow religion , but who have not sufficient courage to come forward and avow the neferious design . i . M ^ flMgBk *^ ''
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he never sullied his greatness by sanguinary measures ; and that , in an age of fanaticism and bigotry , he was the practical assertor and guardian of religious liberty . We nfay judge of ft *
temper in the last respect b y the character of his chaplain , Jeiremiah White , the friend of peace and charity , and the celebrated advocate of the doctrine of "Universal Restitution , " and by the treatment which the pious Biddle received under the Protectorate , of
which the present biographer gives ( pp . 613 , 614 ) the following account , gleaned , as would appear , from Dr . Harris ' s Life of Oromweli : " His behaviour was also equally humane to such as professed opinions
uncountenanced by the many m Britain ; in the instance of John Biddle , who was a Unitarian , and the father of the English Unitarians , in his banishment into Stilly , ( on account of his religious
opinions , ) he allowed him a pension of a hundred crowns a-year . Neal says , he Was cofomitted to the Gatehouse by the parliament ; but that Cromwell , upon its dissolution , gave him his liberty , ' and that afterwards he was committed for a
like offence by the council to Newgate , but that Cromwell thought it beat to send him out of the way , and afccordiugly transported him to Stilly , ana ejtowed him this one hundred crowns , A . iptter upon this subject to Secretary Th » r | oe , is in his State Papers : it is dBmiMr July , 1658 . He ( Bidflle ) says , HiCWness was pleased , when I wd « w »« er restraint in the isle of StiUy , by bis letters of privy seal , to allow me ten shillings per week towards my maiutenan U ^ ? but since I h ^ ye \ &m restored > m 1 liberty , as \ io jdt ^ iwny th # * P ac knowledge up 3 $ nfcw'a bounty * W * fp me , so I should be very loath tPf */ 7 intention ther&M ^ JiwJd be perverted , and therefore 1 besefeti Vt > ur HpWy » certify Htf . riighness , that my ¥ ji » that I shall be now otherwise suflictenuy provided for . "
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178 Critical Notices . —Memoirs of Oliver Cremteelh
Critical Notices Of New Publications.
CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1820, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2486/page/50/
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