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aamoay . "; N ^ i ^ ejr of biographers , wham I formerly mentioned , has recorded the family name o £ Chandler ' s wife . Three daughters by this marriage survived their father . O&e be ^ came the wife of Dr . Harwood , and another died a few years since ., having , with equal justice and gratitude , been supported in old age and under strait
circumstances by an annuity specially voted , on the recommendation of the venerable Dr . Rees , at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the relief of Dissenting Ministers' Widows , which had owed its origin , in 1748 , almost entirely to Dr . Chandler , whose daughter thus happily proved how
"" The father ' s virtues shall befriend his child . Dr . Towers relates ( B . Brit . III . 430 ) that Dr . Chandler " by the fatal South-Sea scheme , in 1720 , lost the whole fortune which he had received
with his wife . —His income as a minister being inadequate to his expenses , he engaged in the trade of a bookseller , still continuing to discharge the duties of the pastoral office . " I have now before me " The True
Grounds aad Reasons of the Christian Religion in opposition to the False Ones set forth in a late Book , entitled The Grounds and Reasons , &e . London , printed for S . Chandler , at the Cross Keys in the Poultry , 1725 /' The publication was anonymous , but
probably acknowledged by Chandler when he presented a copy to Archbishop Wake . That Prelate , m a letter from " Lambeth House , Feb . 14 , 1725 , " says , " I caanot but own myself to be surprised , to see so much tfood learning and just reasoning in a person of your profession ; and do
think it a pity you should not rather spend your time ia writing books than in selling them . " ( Ibid . 431 . ) The Archbishop was probabl y further surprised to find , at the ena of the pamphlet , among " books minted for , and sold by $ . Chandler— -Cussiodorii SenatorLs CompiejaQnes—Editio altera . Opera et cura Samuelis ChandlerL" It
was , however , while a bookseller , that Chandler preached thpae JU $ ctu $ es , firs t in conjcsrt witjk Lardner * ftad afterward ^ al (* ne , the ^ ubstauee of which foraged the principal $ arts q £ his pieces a # * unst the Jpeiptical Writers . About 1736 , mi J ^ ommg minister at
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the O 14 fe ^ 9-he ; ty 99 ^ , it +. kM * rpagnsd ^ us Jrade ; for , tfce " Vmdicntion of pqtaie&S' published with his name , in 1728 , is ^ printed for John Qray , at the Cross Keys i ? i the Poultry , " probably his immediate successor P ., . 697 , col . 2 . " Dear King GeOTge —that good and great man . He looked well and smiled upon his people $ " on whom he could scarcely have beect so ungrateful as to have frowned . On
the same day , July 7 , this " good and great man , " just before he ** smiled upon his people , " had " signed the dead warrant against twenty-five of the Preston prisoners in Newgate- " Yet sedition was not then so severely
punished as we have seen , more recently , in the annals of " the illustrious House j" for a person " convicted of drinking the Pretender ' s health , and calling King George a Turnip-hougher , " was only (< sentenced to pay a fine of forty marks , to he imprisoned for a year , and find sureties for his behaviour for three years . " ( Salmon ' s Chron . Hist . II . 66 . )
It is said , I thiak , by Yawig that he " knew a man who lived upon a smile , and well it fed him . " Tlxis " dear King George" appears to have now left his people to exist on the grateful recollection of a royal smile .
without the personal presence of a King , during the next six months , while he was astonishing his Germans with the splendours of a British monarch , in all the gloss of novelty ; for as we read ( ibid . 69 ) , it was not till
" January . 18 " following , that " rung George arrived at Margate fram Holland ; " the Parliament having been , in the mean time , prorogued five times , seemingly to accommodate the royal pleasure .
P . 698 . You have said all which an editor could say to cpuinteract an unavoidable impression to the prejudice of the letter-writer . The le t ter , indeed , singly considered , * b y » o means ^ nvolvea his int egrity , for it ough t to be conceded that a . truly ingenuous
inquirer after truth might iiud himself , during liis progvpspj Ux tkie p ^ ful situation which Chandler fyiis oesciribedL Nor caw it be fairly / clisputecj , that between Septemb ^ c 13 ^ the date < rf this lektei £ and December i ^ , t % # y of hU ordm ^ twa Mtft 9 cordbftg to ASqcJ ^ r , $ Pth 6 7 ^) G 4 # n <| ler ' s r ^ ligiouj m-
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Notes on the Memvirs y % & , of Mr . * & / W * H $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/27/
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