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to complain of being anywise injured by tlte misstatements which lie had here enumerated . He has not even attempted to explain of apologise for some of the most exceptionable things found against him by LW .
On mitigating Negro-Slaveryy I must differ from Androphilos with regard to the wisdom of selecting One of the West-Tndian Islands ¦ ' to try an experiment upon . But in this most difficult and perplexing question , let both sides entertain the most perfect candour and charity for each othefc .
Mr . Cogah on Ntxtural Religion . I am siding with Mr . Gogati in this controversy . Mr . Sturch in reply to Mr . Cogan * As far as I can deliberately and candidly judge , Mr , Sturch is certainly labouring against very superior odds .
Mr . Wallace on Isaiah ix . 6 , 7 » finds in the writer of these lines a thorough convert to his leading principles and aim , and an admirer of many of his criticisms . Z . N . on his two first Chapters , &c . A sturdy champion .
An Old Subscriber might have attempted to be more explicit in shevying how the fact to which he alludes results from the supposed custom among the ancient Jews . Review of the Life of Toller . A beautiful specimen of dignified reproof .
East-India Tracts . Highly curious Dr . Tytler seems to be a Unitarian in disguise . Review of Wellbeloved ' s Sermon * A happy abstract of a noble argument . Intelligence . And have the Dissenters any hope of < c success" in their petitions to that British Parliament ? Let them not be deceived .
And yet the prospect would appear a little bright , when next glancing at The Debate on thd Unitarians' Marriage Bill in the House of Lords . I am particularly struck and gratified by observing throughout this debate
so many compliments paid to Unitarians , and their , persons and opinions treated in so gentle and liberal a way . Every noble lord has a kind word to say to them , with the exception of the Chancellor * There is
something exceedingly gloomy and ironJike in his treatment of them . He seems to be a man whose heart is covered over with the dust of
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* £ o ^ rite * and encased in tfie stiff forinS of law . All his notions of feKgum , conscience atid morality , £ ppe& £ to be borrowed torn the statute-book .
And theii ^ how fierce , ho # inhuman , how tinged with the blackest prejudifcie i is that question which he hiirl&d wit& ( & vain tritiinph at Lord Harfov ^ . by ^ ll' Wb ul # you permit a Mahometan Jto set up his religious scirti ^ T * lo 6 »? H / fbi ? r » rfi-il liaavrjvtt t UlTrfciil / i Ivte * lefc ? ' * Merciful heave **! Would Iri
p s Lordship haive uttered such a senti * naent , if he wete now in the morning of Jife , and on the point of setting ' out to pass a few years of classical leisure and research ki Turkey ? - ^ Lora Calthorpe s speec&j ^ ia comjpkrison with the others , lias made the
deepest impression and excited the longest train of reflections in my mind . I think , if I were an Englishman , I would write a gdod round letter to Lord Calthorpe , and send it for insertion in the Monthly Repository , beginning it perhaps after the following fashion , and subscribing it An English Unitarian : — -
My LorDj In the name of the denomination to which I belong , I hasten to thank you for the favourable colours in which you have been pleased to delineate our character before the
highest tribunal of the country . Your testimony to "the remarkable observance of the decencies and proprieties of life by the sect of Unitarian Dissenters , and their regular and exemplary discharge of the duties of their situations , " shall not fall
without its proper effect on our hearts . It shall awaken our gratitude for the noble liberality that dictated iti stimulate us to new exertions to deserve it , console us under the storm of unjustifiable odium and outrageous prejudices with which we are elsewhere assailed ,
and induce us once more to review with candour and deliberatiop , the arguments for the great doctrine on which we are so unfortunate as to differ from your Lordship—I mean the doctrine of the Unity of God ,
We also acknowledge feeling that particular sensation which persons of every religious denomination feel under £ he influence of flattery , when you " recognize the excellence of th&se virtues which , " you say , " have placed us in the foremost ranks of the friends
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 591, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/15/
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