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fiiderably beyond Cant and Co . ; and are disposed towards a reformation of the species called " root-and-branch , " From Ireland also there frequentl y arrive reports ; sometimes of pistols and blunderbusses ; but all showing that the Commission is sadly behind in its propositions . They must amend their motion or there will be a collision between them and the
Committee of Seven Millions which is now sitting , or standing rather , and seems likely to meet from day to day for the dispatch of business . We have before us a report from a dif-. ferent authority . Mr . Landor is well known as an author of no mean or vulgar repute . The heads of the church will not care about that . But he has other qualifications which are more to the purpose , and which may be recognized as claims
even upon Episcopal attention . The rogue knows where his strength lies . He says nothing about his " Imaginary Dialogues " , nothing about the " Examination of William Shakspeare ; " nothing touching " Pericles and Aspasia ; " these would give no weight with Bishops ; they are not Samson ' s hair ; but thus it is that he speaks ad rent .
LETTER IV " M y resolution was taken to collect , to continue , to revise , and to pub ish , these observations , when I saw the Second Report of the cciesiastical Commissioners for the Reform of the Church . Nothing moie illusory , or more impudent , was ever laid before Parliament . " Is it possible that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bisho o London can recommend so trifling a defalcation of their revenues , as two thousand pounds from s venteen thousand in the one case , and from twelve thousand two hundred in the other ... oven supposing- that , by
LETTER III . " Whatever I possess in the world arises from landed property ., and that entailed . My prejudices and interests might , therefore , be supposed to lean , however softly , on the side of Aristocracy . I had three churchlivings in my gift , one very considerable , ( about a thousand a-year , ) two smaller , which are still in my gift . It may therefore be conceived that I am not quite indifferent to what may befal the church . These things it is requisite to mention , now I deem it proper to appear , not generically as a Conservative , but personally /* Is not this a good letter of introduction to bear in one hand , while the other rings at the gate of Lambeth Palace ? Are not these fair credentials to present to his Grace ' s chaplain ? Well , then ; let us hear nothing- about ragged radicals , and deistical Dissenters , and plundering Papists . A Conservative landholder , who is the patron of three livings , one of them worth a thousand a year , must have some reason ui what he says . He has read the Commissioner ' s reports too ; at least the first and second ; the Commissioners should have returned the compliment to his Letters before they brought out the last . Hear what he says of the self-denying ordinance .
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Letters of a Conservative . 381
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/53/
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