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respecting Dr . Pearson * was an inference in which I might have been mistaken , and if so , I must acknowledge that shame which is so often the portion of fallible but itigendous mortals , ( See letter dated February 9 , p . 149 . ) " That you entertained the intention
and that you avowed it with your own lips , I pledge myself to shew by testimony that admits of proof / ' I think it is evident , therefore , that Mr . Le Grice did consider , that Sir Rose Price had said a 3 much , and I felt authorized by the language that passed between them , to think so too .
I neither professed " to sum up nor to act as a judge . " In this the gentleman has assigned me an office I am not willing- to undertake . My proposal was merely to state the
particulars of this Western Controversy ; in some trifling * particulars of which , I may well have been mistaken , considering the extent and the intermixture of times and circumstances winch
are conspicuous in the letters which lay before me . Mr . Le Grice then points out an error . " A meeting was called , and Sir Rose Price soon received a copy 5
of their resolutions to displace him . '—• Thus far I apprehend I am correct , ( see p . 89 , ) although by his manner of expressing himself , it might be thought that the wliole passage is false . In the latter clause I have
confounded the office of President with that of Secretary , which is held by Mr . Le Grice ; and herein I acknowledge my error . The most serious charge is next brought against me , reserved for the last as a coup de grace and ushered
in with all the apparatus that may be useful iu preparing the reader for some very deep feeling of indignation . Yet might I not say with truth that " Sir Rose Price is charged by Mr . Le Grice with endeavouring
to get into Parliament , in order that he might attempt the overthrow of the Church altogether , " after reading these words of Mr . Le Grice ? " I then proceed to your avowed wish to try your strength in Parliament , towards a reform in the doctrines of
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the Church , &c . &c ; and anew Act of Uniformity / ' This is a declaration which I am to suppose the Baronet had made , and which is equivalent , in my view of the matter , to an entire overthrow of the present system of the Church . The Divine conld not
sunpose that I meant an overthrow of the church of Christ , for he has candour enough to believe that Unitarians are Christians , although avowedly opposed to the doctrines of the Church
of England ; and if we understand any thing of the Baronet ' s principles , we must believe that , were an alteration made , through his instrumentalitity , in the service of the English Church , it would be an alteration tantamount
to an overthrow of the present Church Establishment altogether : for neither he nor I can say to what extent Sir Rose might wish to carry such a reform . The quotation which follows , "Whoever shall presume to innovate , " &c , is , I now suppose , not in the words of Mr . Le Grice . I do not find them in
that part of the correspondence which has appeared in the Repository . I must therefore have taken them from a paper which has not fallen into your hands , and incautiously applied them
to the leading champion of things as they are , instead of another of the zealous opponents of Sir Rose . For this mistake I sincerely beg * pardon both of Mr . Le Grice and your readers .
Having thus replied to the remarks of the reverend gentleman , I declare to you , that I feel some satisfaction in the thought , that , while he was desirous of keeping this matter a-going a little longer , it was not in his power
to find out any more grievous charge against one who had taken » ome pains to save the general reader the trouble of steering through a long correspondence , the greater part of which
is interesting only in the immediate neighbourhood in which it originated . I cannot regret , Sir , the part 1 have taken , having had in view only to give publicity to these circumstances in the most convenient form . ISRAEL WORSLEY .
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288 Cornish Controversy : Mr * tForstepifo Reply to Mr . Le Grice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/32/
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