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    pfct always with strict propriety . The second edition was a great i « ipfovefti ^ ht upon the fi rst , containing some corrections ' of ' inaccuracies ,, arid many important additions , pfarticttlarly some excellent sketches of lectures , and other college papers .

    Tn order to give this edition the advantage of a more correct and elegant typography , he spent the winter of 1810-11 , in Edinburgh , that lie might personally superintend its passage through the Ballantyne press . He was also at the * expense of a very excellent engraving of the portrait of Paley , in the combination room of Christ ' s

    College . At Edinburgh he employed his leisure hours in attending the lectures of Dr . Brown , the successor to Stewart , in the Ethical Chair : he also contracted several valuable

    friendships . One most excellent friend has justly observed to his sister on the occasion of his death , that " his Whiggism was bounded on the true Christian principle of love to his neighbour . "

    Having dismissed the second edition , he began to make collections for the Life of Algernon Sydney ^ whos e biography had before been very imperfectly given . In the mean time , the death of his friend Mrs . Jebb ,

    occurring , lie was induced , at the request of Dr . Disney , to draw up a short Memoir of that excellent friend to civil and religious liberty . This was handsomely printed at Dr . Disney Vexpense , for private distribution ,

    and by the permission of the Author Was inserted in the Monthly Repository , VII . 597 , 661 . Though he used great diligence , And was favoured with every assistance , he had not all the success which

    lie had hoped for in his search after new and important facts . Much , however , that is rieVr he did discover ; and he has arranged the whole in a perspicuous and pleasing tfrcfcr ; but I confess he has not placed the per ^ sOhal character of his hero under an

    attiiabie or engaging form : nor am I satisfied with his apoldgy for the change brought against Kim of havirig received money from the French Cofcti * ( supposing the ch | rge sumciehtly proved , whfch I fcfcink is ndt Well matte out ) . But it is fair to Mftife Wl&t dtit ati « h 6 r toritftffalleged

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    in his defence : €€ I agree ! With ypfo f " says he in : a private tetter , * in deprecating the interference 6 f a for 6 % tt army in any domestic broilsj But when Sydney sought assistance frofti the enemies of his country , he was an exile , like the unfortunate Moreau .

    And 1 do not see how his conduct can be fairly censured , without involving * the proceedings of our Spanish allies , the conduct of Washington and Franklin in the French alliance , and the intrigues of our own Revolutionists in 1688 . "—The Merndirs of

    Sydney wer £ published in 1813 . A trifling occurrence , ' connected with the Sunderland Library , involved him about this time in an unpleasant controversy . A copy of Dr . Disney ' s

    edition of Melmoth's * ' Great Importance * having been offered by him to the Library , and accepted by thfe usual ballot of the committee , its

    admission was afterwards severely censured , * and many reproachful expressions were used against both Mr . M . and his friend ; which were retorted with nearly equal severity , and led to a complete rupture with a reverend divine . The objections to printing

    editions of the works of others , With abridgments or alterations , having beeii afterwards stated with express reference to this publication in th ^ Gentleman * s Magazine , and also in tne British Critic , Mr . M , published a spirited reply , in which he pointed out some curious circumstances relative to the

    publication of Dr . Paley ' s Posthumous Sermons : the controversy was continued on the other side in the Gentleman ' s Magazine , but Mr . M . * s rejoinder having been rejected , Vras printed in the Monthly Repository , IX .

    467—469-About this time also he printed , in a single octavo sheet , an Arranged Account of the several Motions for Parliamentary Refeii ^; one pa&e allotted to each containing the Mover ,

    atid his spfecific plan of teforin distinctly stated in his own words , the dates bf the sjevdfcal debates , the p r incipal speakers on each side , ana the numbers oti the division . It waa

    afterwards printed by Mn permission in the Pamphleteer , and without his knowledge , but With some additions , in Woollens edition of Bentlmnfs Political Catfedtfsifi .

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    140 Memoir of the late Mr . G , W . Meadleif ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/4/