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a 4 > art of this report , which , though urob&b ly not at all accurate , is of some importance :
« An account of the province of Canterbury * In the taking of these accounts we fe » d these things observable : « U That many left the church upon the late indulgence who before did frequent it . «* 2 . The sending for these inquiries hath caused many to frequent the church . « 3 . That they are Walloons chiefly that make up the number of Dissenters in Canterbury , Sandwich and Dover . <« 4 . That the Presbyterians are divided , some of them come sometime to church , therefore such are not wholly Dissenters upon the third inquiry .
" 5 . A considerable pmt of Dissenters are not of any sect whatsoever . " 6 . Of those tb # t come to church very many do not receive the Sacrament . " 7 . At Ashford and at other places we find a new sort of heretics , after the name of Muggleton , a London taylor , in number thirty .
" 8 . The rest of the Dissenters are Presbyterians , Anabaptists , Independents , Quakers , about equal numbers , only two or three called Self-willers professedly . 9 . The heads and preachers of the several factions , are such as had a great share in the late Rebellion . "—IV . 254 , 255 .
Two sections of chapter lxxvm- are devoted to the Socinians and the Unitarians , between whom Mr . Butler makes the just distinction . These are meagre , but edifying , from the candid spirit which they breathe . The historical sketch prefixed by Dr . T . Rees to his translation of the Racovian
Catechism is quoted as an authority . The Section on Deists is very brief . Atheists are brought in at the conclusion . Amongst these is placed Toland , of whom the writer says , ( IV . 366 , ) he " would have disgraced any creed . " This censure is much too
strong , and appears to us to savour of bigotry . Toland , we know , though he wrote against Spinoza , used a mystical Pantheistical jargon , but he solemnl y disavowed the imputation of atheism , and was , we are inclined to be-** . » rather a sceptic than a positive Uejst . Lord Mo lea worth ' s constant and generous friendship for hku is of w > re weight in favpur of his character than all the traditioj # * ry scandal that can be put into the other scale . With
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all his indiscretkms , it must be , ^ onceded to the memory of Tolancl , that he was a zealous , active and consistent friend to the constitutional liberties iff England . The author has evident pleasure id relating the liberality of the British nation towards the French emigrants , whom the Revolution drove into
England . Amidst other benefactors to these exiles , he names in the following anecdote the late Lord Chancellor , Earl Rosslyn : " It was mentioned at his Lordship's table , that the Chancellor of France was distressed , by not being able to procure the discount of a bill which he had
brought from France . ' The Chancellor of England , ' said Lord Rosslyn , * is the only person to whom the Chancellor of France should apply to discount his bills . * The money was immediately sent ; and , while the seals remained in his hands , he annually sent a sum of equal amount to the Chancellor of France . "—IV . 374 ,
Mr . Butler has taken little notice of Dr . Milner * s late outrageous attack upon him . [ Mon . Repos . XVI . 119 * 3 He has , however , sufficiently vindicated himself by quoting from the varying pages of the different works of his calumniator , and by translating an
** Apologetical Epistle of Dr . Poynter , vicar apostolic for the southern district , to his eminence Cardinal Littfc , " which occasioned a reprimand to be giv § n to Dr . Milner from Rome ; f 61-lowed ^ so lately as April , 1820 , by a brief from His Holiness , in which * ' he complains of the turbulence and
violence of Dr . Milner ' s conduct , sind orders the sacred congregation to make this known to him ; to exhort him to reform , and to threaten him with removal from his vicariat , if he do not . " IV . 469 , Appendix . This public reproof must put the Catholicity of the hauehty Vicar Apostolic of the midland district to a se % rq test .
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Art . II . —Dissertation , exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Metaphysical , Ethical , and Politic ** Philosophy , since the R $ pwqj $ ® $ Letters in Europe . ' By Mi Stewart , Esq ., F . R . S . S ., L < ipl and Edin ., &c . &c . fPrefixea' ia
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t Critical Notices . *— Stewart on the Progress of Philosophy in Europe . & { &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/51/
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