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tefm , it wilt unavoidably follow we have it in our pawer to make ourselves PERPBTUAii/—? ut this , worthy member pleaded in vaiif ^ as did many others beside him . The fate of the bill was
predetermined , and when passed , it was submitted to , —Of such weight and utility , " adds my author , * is a standing army !" P . 634 , col . 1 . " Mr . Tong . " See p . 222 , epl . 2 . Mr . Tong was a zealous advocate for the Trinitarian subscription at Salters' Hall , in 1719 . Ibid . col . 2 . t € Careless Husband /*
This has been regarded as Cibber ' s * ' most celebrated drapaatic performance . " It was " applauded even by Mr . Pope . " ( Biog . Brit . III . 584 . ) I represented ( p . 274 , col . 1 ) " the Commonwealth and Protectorate , " as
the only governments in England tvhich , in cases of treason , had forborne to aggravate the severity of capital punishment , by barbarous mutilations of the dead . I have since found , if Lord Clarendon may be credited , in an accusation of CromwelL that to the
Commonwealth alone belongs the honour of such forbearance ; the Protector , a few weeks before his death , having assumed , for the first time , that favourite prerogative of royalty . The noble historian relates ( III .
626 ) how " Colonel Ashton , Stacey and Bettely , condemned , " in 1658 , for a plot in favour of Charles Stuart , * ' were hanged , drawn and quartered , with the utmost rigour . " Royalists were now the sufferers , and a courtly historian is suitably horror-struck . As if forgetting the scenes which followed the " King ' s blessed Restoration , " he proceeds to declare , that " all men appeared so nauseated with blood , and so tired with those abominable spectacles , that Cromwell thought it best to pardon the rest who Were condemned , or rather to reprieve them' *
J . T . RUTT . P . S : * Your Correspondent ( p . § 59 ) may be regarded as very fortunate , should he have satisfied any number of your readers that •* common sense and common candour" to which he
appeals , will decide , in favour of his , probablv , hastily penned P . S . ( p . 279 ) . They yvijl thus relieve hini from a serious imputation , though , without the
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slightest communication wkliipy friend Mr . Flower , it had appeared : to t $ & , as well a $ to several whose opinions were expressed to me , that Dr . J . Jones , in that P . S ., bad fiilly substantiated tjbie charge . And , even now , unless LwQtUd become justly liable to the imputation of " confusion of ideas , " I must
continue to distinguish between the exposure , by evidence and argument , of what I may happen to deem an opponent's misrepresentation , and the less laborious method of denying that he is €€ a man whose " assertion has any pretensions to credit ? thus assuming that €€ it would be a waste of time to
reply to any part of his effusion /* which our common readers are expected to pronounce " puerile and scurrilous" on the mere ; ipse dixit of an irritated-controversialist . I can , however , assure your Correspondent , that I never designed to
impute to him any wrong so deliberate as €€ attempting to compensate or disguise a calumny , under a display of learned research . " I only intended to say , hypothetically , that in the judgment of well-regulated minds , no exertion of talents , however eminent or successful , could
compensate for a great moral impropriety . Your Correspondent ' s accomplishments for " learned research , " I nave neither reason , nor inclination to dispute . On the success of his inqtriries I am incompetent to hazard an
opinion , having been able to form , amidst the pressure of other occupations , only a very slight acquaintance with any of his writings . But I have no hesitation in believing , that the more Dr . J . Jones shall apply to his own use the conclusion of his last
P . S ., ( p . 660 , ) and determine "to respect himself , " by forbidding his pen to digress into " rudeness or violence , " the more will his learning appear to advantage , and bis arguments receive the consideration they may deserve .
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Sir , Dec . 10 , 1821 . IN the last number of the Repository ( p . 604 ) your Correspondent Senior charges me with having misrepresented Irish Presbyteriaivispa , in a ? apdr (" . 'on a late attempt to revives resbyterianism in an Unitarian congregation . " This is certainly a very
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/31/
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