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his attention to the doctrines of the Church , and especially to that of the Trinity ; in which he soon became an unbeliever . In his immediate neighbourhood lives the Rev . G . V . Le
Grice , with whom Sir Rose kept up a friendly intercourse , and with whom he talked familiarly on points upon which he differed from the Established Church . In the year 1820 , * a conversation took place between these gentlemen , on the difference that fe
observable in the accounts given of the resurrection of Jesus by Matthew and by Luke , which did not terminate until April in theyear ~ 18 § 3 ;? A correspondence was , during" this time , carried on between them , which bore
the character ,, not of a controversy ^ but rather a friendly inquiry between two neighbours . The Dissonance of Evanson , and his Reflections on the State of Religion , engaged their attention during this inquiry . These books , we are told , had been in the
possession of Sir Rose , and by him been given to a clergyman of the name of Thomson , who appears to havehfefci these writings in respects i But Sir Rose declares that / he > received the Dissonance from Thomson , and not Thomson from him ; while Le Grice
says of Sir Rose , that he regarded Evanson ' s Dissonance as tlie greatest blessing ever conferred on him . Sir Rose , a man . of a fearless mind , made no scruple of publishing his opinions upon matters of controversy ;
whenever a proper opportunity offered for doing so ; which gave great displeasure to the beneficed clergyman , who thought , no doubt , that it was his duty to convince him of his error , and bring him back to the faith of Mother Church . He considered that
one of the most effectual methods of doing this , or , at least , of having it believed that he had dbne it ^ was ' to persuade Sir Rose to become President of the Society of Cornwall for Promoting Christian Knowledge , a fixed rule of which Society it was , r That no one shall be President , or
hold any office in it , who is not a firm believer in Christianity as by law established . " Le Grice , therefore ^ tookjgreat pains to persuade Sir Rose to fill this honourable and very confidential post- To this he decidedly objected , assigning subsequently for his reason , •* because I think it ill-
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" t - v Plymouth , Sir , February 14 , 1822 . WE , who live at the farthest limits both of land and liberty" " at the extremity of Britain , "
liorttg famed for the tranquillity of its situation , to which our venerable forefathers repaired when Danes and Saxons and Normans tore aur property and our lands to pieces in their turns , where we still boast of the remains of
Druidical architecture , real and imaginary , and still indulge many of those sweet delusions which marked the childhood of intelligence , we havte been of late roused from our lethargy by an event , liiitil now , unknown in this Thule of Albioh .
A gentleman of lugh rank and independent fortune has dared to impugn the doctrines of the Church established by law ; and through the indiscreet zeal of a flaming son of the Church , who has not learned to brook any opposition , h&& been dragged into public notice \ and many of the columns of
our newspapers hate been filled with letters pro and con , which can have no other effect than to call the sluggish friends of an establishment to an examination of its doctrines , and those who are wavering in their faith , to tre&d in thei path of truth : Since I know that our . Unitarian friends in all
parts of England are alive to the progress of our cause , and am satisfied that inquiry is the only thing we want , and that the more the minds of our countrymen are called to the examination ^ the more they will ste as we see , and , in : their religious exercises will be constrained to act as we are
acting ; I am gratified by such things as these , and will endeavour , in as few words as possible , that I may not occupy too large a proportion of your pages , to state the particulars of this Western controversy .
Sir Rose Price , who was High Sheriff for the cotihty of Cornwall in the year 1814 , resides at his seat of Trengwainton ,, near Penzance , and is a gentleman hekljtn great esteem in that neighbourhood . He appears to have become acquainted with some of the writings of that eccentric but excellent man , Edward Evanson . It is not
lixiprob&hle that he may have known that martyr to the truth ; since Mr . E » spent some tinqe at Penzance about the year 1799 . These writings called
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Summary of the Cornish Controversy . ' ' J 51
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/23/
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