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Memoirs of Himself , by Mr . John Fox , of Plymouth : with Biographical Sketches of some of his Contemporaries ; and some unpublished Letters from Archbishop Seeker and Dr . Samuel Chandler *
[ We here commence the publication of these interesting MSS ., described in our last number ( p . 128 ) . Little needs to be said by way of introduction . We can vouch for their genuineness , of which indeed the internal evidence
is decisive . Part of them were seen by Dr . Toulmin , through the liberality of Mr , George Cleather , of Stonehouse , near Plymouth ; and some use is made of them in his " Historical View of the Dissenters from the Revolution , " published in 1814 , in one
volume , 8 vo . ( See Appendix , pp . 567—569 . ) The Doctor says , in a N . B ., " Mr . Fox , a native of Plymouth , was a fellow-student with Dr . Chandler and Archbishop Seeker , at Mr . Eames ' s . He was educated for
the ministry and preached once ; but soon after lap ( laid ) aside the character , and afterwards conformed , as a layman . " The MSS . lay open the origin of the Arian controversy which so deeply
agitated the West of England , in the beginning of the last century , and represent the principal actors in it in their undress . They also describe , with great smartness , the characters and manners of the leading Dissenting ministers of that period . The writer ' s circumstances will account for the
jealousy with which he watched the conduct of his brethren , and form an apology with the reader for the occasional severity of his remarks . In our humble capacity of editing the MSS . we incur no other responsibility than that of giving them to the reader correctly . Every one will judge for himself of the justness of the writer ' s
representations . The descendant of Mr . Fox ' s , from whom we have received the papers , says of them , " The sphere in which the author moved brought him into close and intimate connexion with two very distinguished characters in the last century , Archbishop Seeker and vol
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Dr . Samuel Chandler , with both of whom he carried on a correspendence for some years ; and his memoirs of course derive some additional interest from this circumstance . At the same
time , it is but justice to him to remark , that great good sense , acuteness of intellect and a purity of style , nearly if not perfectly , equal to that of Addison and Steele , who were his contemporaries , exhibit themselves in
every part of them , which with a lively and entertaining manner that seems natural to him , will , it is presumed , render them a pleasing as well as instructive addition to the literary records of the age and country to which they relate . "
When we have published the letters from Seeker and Chandler , the originals will be deposited in Dr . Williams ' s Library . At first , it appeared to us desirable to insert explanatory and other notes upon the memoirs and correspondence , but we found that this would swell the
matter too much for the limited capacity of a magazine , and therefore dropped the design . But it has been suggested to us by a respected friend that it would be doing a service to the public to collect the ivhole of the
papers , when they shall have been inserted in our successive numbers , into a separate volume . Should we feel authorized to take the advice , notes will then be necessary , and with a view to the preparation of them , we invite communications from our correspondents on the names which occur and the facts which are related in the series of papers . Ed . ]
MEMOIRS . DO not write these memoirs from I any principle of vanity , or because I think them to be of conseguence to mankind . I write them partly for amusement , and for the pleasure of recollecting some passages in ray life
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/1/
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