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m onth . I am much of opinion that many persons , after having read tbti whole account of this affair , will join me in thinking , that no one > excepting a flaming son of the Church , would have dragged Sir Rose Price and his opinions into public notice as Mr- Le Grice has done , and thus " called the
sluggish friends of an Establishment to an examination of its doctriqes , and those who are wavering in their faith to tread in the path of truth . " I am not singular in the opinion , that they only who are actuated by a flaming zeal , or , trembling for the shrines of Diana , are hurried into
hasty measures , could bring an affair of this kind before the public , and " disturb the quiet of their neighbourhood / ' the loss of which they afterwards can . only deplore . The publication of these facts was not called for ; the orthodox friends of Mr . Le Grice
think so : and that exposure of a private conversation in which they originated , will not be approved of by the world at large * whatever may be the resolutions of his brother clergymen as to what the reverend gentleman has been doing .
And why should he be so highly offended , as I judge he is , at the epithet by which he is designated in the Statement of the particulars of this Western Controversy ? Had he honoured me with a reading of the
Lectures on Nonconformity ^ and thought proper to regard me in consequence of them as a flaming * son of Dissent , I should have willingly left him in possession of his tarns , nor been offended beeause he
acknowledged me in the strongest language the decided an < J consistent character which , I trust , I ever shall remain , " I honour the man , whatever principles he holds , whose conduct is consistent with his principles , " yet not all men under such circumstances
exactly alike . I know not what he means by " the grammatical propriety of the epithet ; " he says , we all know the meaning of it : yet it is no unusual thing for us to affix different meanings to the same term : he is weir
come to affiX his own ; and I shall only add , that when this controversy first appeared , talking- of it with a very respectable gentleman who is well acquainted with the neighbourhood in
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which Mr . Le Grice lives , and with the greater pa&t of his previous life ^ he said to me , "fife is a flaming son of the Church , I assure you . " I replied , " His Conduct has shewn it . " As to the Summary &e . excuse m ^ Mr . Editor , if I inform your readers ; that it is a word of your own choosing , not of mine . My manuscript was headed by the words—Cornish Controversy , simply .
With respect to the arrangement , in which we are told there is great incorrectness , I assure you , it cost me some trouble to select the points which were worthy , as I thought ^ of the public notice , and reduce into
a reasonable space the tremendous letters which lay before me . I knew the value of your pages , and was not willing to sacrifice them to useless matter . And assuredly , Sir , "the writer did not entertain an idea that
the correspondence would appeal' in your pages , or he would not have " troubled himself with sending you any account of it at alL My communication to you was in London when I saw the first letters in the Repository ,
and I instantly regretted that it had been written . I had thought myself called on , in one point of view , to make this controversy known to the Unitarian public ; but should have been as well satisfied as Mr * Le Grice
appears to be , had I known that the letters would speak for themselves in their own language . And now for the incorrectness of my remarks . On referring again to the letters , I feel no disposition to retract the assertion I have made , that ** the attention
of the public was first called to the subject by a long address , " &c , for in truth the public cared little about the matter until Mr . Le Grice's long letter appeared , which brought before them the numerous particulars that are stated in that letter . It was then
assuredly , that the attention of the public was fixed , and not before , and then too , that the attention of the great body of the readers of newspapers was called to the business t
for as a controversy it had not been regarded until that letter appeared * Let the reader now say what he will , of the unpardonable sin of which I have been guilty . What was said in my statement
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Cormsh C&ntrovprsp . Mr ; Wwstey in Reply to Mr . Jke Gri& * 287
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/31/
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