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qiiiries might have issued in reasonable satisfaction . But how one who , as it appears , ( XVI . 570 compared with 572 , ) had for some time accepted the office of a Christian minister , could continue the regular exercise of that
office while , respecting * both the Jewish and Christian Revelations , and even what is called Natural Religion , he had become a sceptic , on the utmost verge towards unbelief , or , as he expresses himself , "in a perfect
wandering and maze , " scarcely knowing << what to believe or disbelieve , " is , I confess , to me , inexplicable . I wish any of your correspondents could do more than I am able to effect , towards rescuing the memory of such a man
as Chandler , from the imputation as Chandler , rrom the imputation which this letter , connected with Secker s letters to Mr Fox , to which I have referred , and Chandler ' s recorded occupations at Peckham , appears to fix on him . I am , indeed , ready to wonder that his friend and
correspondent , on a final arrangement of these papers , had not committed this letter to the protection of that purifying element which Sir Henry Wotton not unaptly entitles optimus
secretanorum . I hasten to a more agreeable subject , by sending you a letter , which I know you will readily preserve . I found it only a few days since , on exaraining some papers connected with the publication of Mr . Wake field's Memoirs , in 1804 , or it would have been offered to the last volume , to
follow your notices of the excellent writer . The " two Sermons" which accompanied the Letter , Mr . Howe entitled " The Millenium . " ( See XV . 722 . ) Mv friend , whom he describes as " of Billericay , " and with whose arduous trial of Christian
consistency , in that situation , I became , from local circumstances , intimately acquainted , will , I trust , excuse me that I have gratified myself by not withholding his name . To the information contained in a " Letter from London '' and which
Dr . Toulmin communicated , no doubt most correctly , to Mr . Howe , it is not very easy to give credence . January 11 , 1801 , Mr . Pitt resigned his appointments , chiefly because the inveterate prejudices of the crown interfered with his project of Catholic -Eftuuncipatiou , by the assurance of
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which , he was understood to have effected the Union . Mr . AddiAgton , since too well-known as Lord SWmouth , now feebly occupied the vacant seat of the premier , and could scarcely have entertained a hope of
succeeding , where his more able patron had utterly failed . Nor , indeed , in the political history of 1801 , does there appear to be the least hint of any movement towards Catholic Emancipation . J . T . RUTT .
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Mountjield-House , Dear Sir , March 12 , 1801 . Your letter is so condescending , kind and friendly , that I cannot refrain from expressing to you my sincere thanks . If I lived in Dorchester I
should request the favour of you to permit me to visit you at least two or three times a week , and this I should esteem a greater honour , though within the walls of a prison , than an invitation to court . I congratulate you on the near approach of your release from confinement : I wish it could
with propriety be said , restoration to perfect liberty . But if the same system be pursued , on which our rulers have acted for some years past , English liberty , prosperity and happiness are vox ct prtcterea nihil . In the present melancholy state of the nation ,
however , and under the apprehension of greater calamities than we have yet experienced , it is consoling to look with the eye of Christian faith , to that gracious Providence , which is continually bringing light out of darkness , order oilt of apparent confusion , and
good out of evil . Inspired prophecy teaches us to hope for a better state of things for mankind even in this world , and though it be the lot of the present generation to share in the evils which are introductory to it ,
benevolence rejoices in the prospect of the happiness which awaits future generations . I sometimes direct the views of my people to the age of truth , peace , liberty and rig hteousness , as a motive for animation to
duty , and support under any afflictive scenes to which Christian integr ity may expose us . This I did on the 5 th of November and the beginning of this year . The candour of my kind and affectionate friends dictated the
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28 Letter from the late Mr . Howe to Mr . Wakefield .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/28/
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