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      PAMPHLETS ON LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY .

      1 . A Plain Statement of the Trusts and recent Administration , $ c By T . W . Tottie . 2 . An Appeal to the Public against the Imputations of Mr . Knight , Sjfv By William Hincks .

      3 . The Improved Version truly designated a Creed . By R . Halley . Our opinion on the proceedings in the Hewley case has been repeatedly expressed . If confirmation were needed , it would be found abundantly in the first two of these pamphlets . They both contain , besides what relates more immediately to the writers , much historical information concerning English Presbyterianisxn . That of Mr . Tottie has also some 4 remarks on efforts now making to effect a total disconnection between church and state , * in which it is needless to * ay that we cannot

      coincide , but which we are glad to see iu print . Those Dissenters who would rather leave tho principle of an establishment uutouched than annoy the Whig ministry , have been somewhat backward ia tke public defence of thoir position , and may find here some useful aid . Mr . Uincks need not , we think , have troubled himself about the as ^ emoas of a hired pleader , and might as well hav * left his character to xiaikate itself . A * it is , h « has laid bare a notable iltustaaHMi of |« o 6 msmma 1 morality , His # xpo * Uiou of the mode of Ukmy evidence , i * a strtfctag

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      latter * arid Essays ; in Prose and Verse . Moxon . Both the prose and verse are easy , sensible , and graceful , The writer must be a very accomplished and pleasant old gentleman . We cite part of a critique written fresh from witnessing the debut of John Kemble in Hamlet ( 1785 ) , which it might make Time younger to read . It is in a letter to Henderson .

      * 1 went , as I promised , to see the new " Hamlet , " whose provincial fame had excited your curiosity as well as mine / ' There has not been such a first appearance since yours : yet Natore , though she has been bountiful to him in figure and feature , has denied him a voice ; of course he could not exemplify his own direction for the players , to ** speak the speech trippingly on the tongue , and now and then he was as deliberate in his delivery as if he had been reading prayers , and had waited for the response . 4

      He is a very handsome man , almost tall and almost large , with features o [ a sensible , but fixed and tragic cast ; bis action is graceful , though somewhat formal , which you will find it hard to believe , yet it is true . Very careful study appears in all he says and does ; but there is more singularity and ingenuity than simplicity and fire . Upon the whole , he strikes me rather as a finished French performer , than as a varied and vigorous English actor ; and it is plain he will succeed better in heroic , than in natural and passionate tragedy . '—p . 17 .

      Equally sound are many occasional criticisms on higher matters . The remarks , for instemee ^ ren the Definition of Morality / p . 147 ; and many of those addressed to a * Young Friend , ' and a * Law Student . ' The dates of the compositions range through the years from 1784 to 1831 ; and besides those to anonymous correspondents , letters are addressed to Rev . John Fell , Sir James Mackintosh , Home Tooke , Francis Homer , Samuel Rogers , and Lord Holland .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/77/