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tlifettieplogxeal combatants will retire from the field ; apd especially censiires Le Grice for thus haling into notice a controversy which can have no other than an unfavourable effect
tipon their religion and their church . He would not have such things mooted , " as startle and distress the pious Christian /* and thinks " they only tend to raisV doubts in some minds and to confirm scepticism in others . " He would have cr the advocate of
religious truth" shield from the knowledge of his flock tlie bare existence of worlis of blasphemy and impiety , rather than comment on their contents . He is offended at the
vindictive spirit which is displayed in the letters of Le Grice , and intreats him , when he next prays to be delivered from all uncharitabieness ^ to resolve upon closing this ^ uncharitable
controversy . Another nameless writer calls pathetically upon the Editors € < to close their pages against this unseemly controversy ; " i 3 particularly offended that € < the king ' s name should have been brought into the discussion ; " and asks in God ' s name , ** what has the
King to do with the squabbles and passions of the little gentry of Penzanceand its neighbourhood V "Had these men amused themselves with discussing the taste of the King in music or his skill in horsemanship , it
might have been well enough ; but to tain : of his Majesty as an apostate from that religion which he is bound by his oath to maintain , and to declare , of one ' s own knowledge , that such is the fact , this is , of all things ,
the most imprudertt and unjustifiable . These letters would furnish many reflections , which I shall leave to your readers * What we have most to regret , Sir , in this business is , that
Sir Rose Price appears to think , a man may conscientiously declare himself a member of a religious community , the leading and avowed doctrines of which he does not believe .
Had this line of conduct , which , indeed , was the rule of the Greek and Roman philosophers , been followed in ail ages of the world , where would have beeu the Christian faith ? Where the Protestant profession ? Where any of the great truths for which good men have suffered imprisonment and death ? Had this principle been ad-
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hered to , Price would never have beeni gratified by the intellectual labours of Evatuson , and Le Grfce would have been now as deeply interested to
support Druidical superstition , as he actually is to support the errors called Christian , which have , at length , driveh them from even the retreats and fastnesses of Cornwall .
I . W . Mem . The son of Sir Rose Price appears to have been the author of a recent popular pamphlet , and has lately received proofs of the gratitude of the Irish , as being , /• the warmhearted advocate of the rights of Old
Ireland , and the benevolent friend of her impoverished , insulted and degraded population . " This occurred on his marriage with the Countess of Desart . Having spent only a few months in Ireland , he saw and lie publicly deplored its miseries .
P . S . March 1 . Since writing tire above > I have seen a pamphlet just published at Penzance , called , " The Unitarian Doctrine Briefly Stated , " t € by a Friend to Inquiry " This
very calm but clear call to the public attention is attributed to a professional gentleman residing in that town , who was educated at Oxford and designed for the Church , but upon calm consideration did not choose to enter into
it as a licensed preacher . His titlepage tells us , " There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak /' and he offers as a reason for appearing in this way before the public , that ,
"It has happened in the course of a controversy to which public attention in our neighbourhood has lately been called , that the Unitarian doctrine has often been mentioned , and
not unfrequently been made a subject of misrepresentation and obloquy . It has been alluded to in ferrns such as are commonly used to point out some detectable crime or most pernicious evil ; as if it breathed nothing but blasphemy towards God , malice towards oar neighbours , and
disorganization to society , &c . It is , therefore , due to justice and truth , that this ignorance should , as far as possible , be removed , and the writer having had opportunities of becomingwell acquainted with the principles of this class of Christians , thinks it no more than his duty to give a fair
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Summary toftke Cfrrnyk Controversy . WB
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/27/
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