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    Mr . Ward is not , however , to be diverted by the shifting and the retracing of his opponent , but endeavours ^ to bring him back to his original statements , while he proceeds to answer his newly-recruited arguments . The latter task is , easy enough , hut not so the former , for Mr . Ootteriil is too shrewd to advert again to

    representations , whose absurdity and falsehood had been demonstrated ; # nd yet it appears that , though utterly unable 10 withstand the proofs" of inis ' qnotations , false assertions , errors and oversights , ( the mild word with vhich the Catholic reproves the Protestant -priest , ) so abundant in the oration to the

    assembled clergy at Wakefield , he circulates more widely than ever that speech , as delivered , without the slightest reference to objections unanswered and unanswerable , and which , in fact , he has neither ventured to meddle with nor to meet . Such is the tribute which truth exacts from

    error . These discussions do incalculable good . Let the friends of Catholic emancipation determine that their adversaries shall have the exclusive use of every disgraceful weapon . Their cause , and all other good causes , have suffered more from the

    intemperate vehemence of some of their adv <* « cates , than from all the attacks of their opponents : while on the other hand , they liave been infinitely benefited by the intolerant ignorance of false accusers and feeble reasoncrs . The Catholics have , no doubt , more to excuse their warmth of expression than their oppressors . He who is trampled

    upon may be allowed to cry out ; and yet it were well they should remember , that a hundred inflamed and violent professed friends of truth and liberty do more to oppose their progress and counteract their beneficent influence , than a hundred thousand weak arguments /—and all such arguments must be weak—of open and active -enemies . J . B .

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    now living . The Botanical Professor at Cambridge ( Prof . Martyn ) being- unable from his years to discharge his public duties in the University , applied to Sir James to give in his place a course of lectures . Sir James consented ; the permission of the Vice Chancellor was obtained , and the lectures were publicly

    announced ; but the day before they were to have commenced , eighteen tutors of colleges delivered to the Vice Chancellor a protest against lectures by a person * neither a member of the University , nor a member of the Church of England , " and

    in consequence of this opposition the plan was abandoned * In the pamphlets , Sir James well exposes the stupid bigotry of this proceeding , its departure from precedents in the University , and its injurious effects upon science . But Professor Monk

    and the Quarterly Review think it quite enough to shew that the President of th « Linnaean Society is a Dissenter , and worst of all a u rational Dissenter , " , an Unitarian . Sir James is catholic enough ia conscience , for he avows that he

    occasionally joins in the worship and receives the sacrament of the Established Chureli , purely for the sake of Christian communion * -but this so far from disarming , only strengthens the enmity of his opponents , who seem to think that a Dissenter is a hypocrite if he be not a good hater of the Church and Churchmen , iust as some

    Roman Catholics have defined a Jansenist , Homo plus et doctus , inimicus Jescitakum , It was hardly to have been expected that the English Universities , and especially Cambridge , should at this time of day cherish such a mean and unworthy

    spirit 5 they will not receive knowledge from , nor impart it to a heretic : Disaenters are Samaritans , ami these orthodox Jews resolve ( as of old ) u non monstiare vias eadein ni « i sacra colenti . ' * _ umwt ^ mrmm ^ m .

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    Diocese of St . David * £ . ~ The Church Union Society ' s prizes for this year are adjudged as follow : — " The premium ( by benefaction ) of £ 50 . to the Rev . Harvey Marriott , of Claveiton

    near Bath , for the best essay ' On the Madras System of Education 5 its powers , its application to classical schools , and its utility as an instrument to form the principles and habits of youih tn the higher o relers of Soc iety . *

    " A -gratuity of £ 10 . to Mr . Thomas Hogg , master of the grammar-school in Tr , iiro , for a second-best essay on the same subject " A . premium of £ 25 . to the Rev . John

    Morris , of Nether-Bronghton , Leicestershire , for the best essay c On the Scrip tural evidence of the doctrine of propo rtionate rewards , in the next life , considered as a motive to < iuty , an impulse to j&ealou *

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    # g 6 Intelligence . —Miscellaneous *

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    We have often occasion to regret that the snlall space within which our IIeview is confined prevents us from giving- an account of very interesting publications . Had we been able to obtain room , we should ere this have taken soiue notice of Sift

    James Edward Smith e s two pamphlets , one entitled " Considerations respecting-Cambridge , more particularly relating- to its Botanical Professorship , " and the other , u A Defence of the Church and Universities of England against such Injurious

    Advocates as Profes&or Monk and the Quarterly Review . " The occasion of these publications is not very creditahle to Cainbridge . Sir J . E . iSimth is President of tlieLinnueau Society , and is known throughout Europe as one of the first botanists

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/62/