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% e Benchers of Gray ' s Jim have , I believe , for a length of time contemplated the abrogation of the test , and have in the course of the recent Michaelmas Term carried that object into full effect by a resolution , passed on the 16 th November last , whereby
it is " Ordered that receiving the Sacrament by students , as a qualification for the English bar , be in future dispensed with . " This instance of liberality will not be the less highly appreciated , when I state that it has emanated from the Benchers
themselves , as their own spontaneous act , founded upon general considerations , and without reference to any individual application that may have been made to them for relief .
The regulations for keeping terms at Gray ' s Inn present certain peculiar conveniences , especially for students residing at a distance from the metropolis , and of which the knowledge of the existence of the late test has
alone , I am persuaded , prevented many Dissenters , having the bar in view , from availing themselves . I consider , however , that the recent repeal of that test derives its chief importance , not so much from the intrinsic
value of the actual benefit conferred , as from the liberal and enlightened spirit of which it is the fruit and pledge : and I trust , Mr . Editor , you will concur with me in recognizing the propriety , 1 may even add the justice and duty , of giving every publicity to a measure that confers honour on the Society from which it has proceeded . JOHN EVANS , Jun .
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JBristol , Sir , December 16 , 1825 . HTViE letter of H . W . in your last JL number , ( p . 681 , ) respecting t } ie intended Second Part of my Reply to Archbishop Magee , appears to require from me some notice ; and this is rendered the more expedient , by various private inquiries which have , at different times , been put to me . .
It was always my intention that the publication of the Second Part should not be prevented , though it should be discouraged , by an inadequate sale of the -First . I thought that what was to- come would be more generally acceptable , and more permanently uselul . If , therefore , I hud enjoyed , since
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I wrote my Preface , the V two or three months of tolerable leisure , " I think the loss attending the First Part would not have operated to prevent my proceeding . But though I have very often renewed my attention to the subject , I have not had the power of completing the work . Nor do I regret this . My opinions have , acquired greater stability and precision : and though I have not seen reason to change them materially iu ( I think )
any instance , yet ray sentiments have increasingly become what I may be allowed to call evangelical ; and the work , if executed , will therefore , I think , be more calculated to render service to a cause , which , whether to
be promoted by direct or by indirect , but often equally effective , exertion , is never out of my heart . —If life and health are preserved to me , I shall make the completion of the work a
leading employment of the time I can devote to such objects , as soon as others more immediately pressing are accomplished .
While I thank H . W . for his suggestion , I must decline the plan lie proposes : I would prefer leaving myself unrestrained in the time and manner of completing the Second Part . — The simplest-way of preventing loss on the whole , would be by promoting the sale of the First Part . I have still
one-third of the impression oa my hands , and the proceeds from sale have not yet amounted to the direct expenses " by above < £ 50 . * Remuneration for the work I knew was out of
the question ; and from the first I had not looked for any pecuniary advantage from the time and labour I gave to it : indeed , the marketable value of these would have been several hundred
pounds . Finding , after about two or three years' trial , that the sale did not go on , I reduced the price from fourteen shillings to half-a-guinea : but I am not aware that this answered any purpose . The volume is large , and
* I may be allowed ta suggest that our friends who approve of the work , and are disposed and able thus to encourage the completion of it , might get copies from me , ( or even through the ordinary channels , ) at the present price , 10 tf * ( k / ., for . the purpose of giving them to public libraries or orthodox divines , &c , kaowu to possess Archbishop Magee \ s work .
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Dr . Carpenter on his Reply to Archbishop Magee . 739
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/35/
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