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    during that interval are tinctured with a degree of morbid impatience , and a sort of personality in his political hostility , which rendered him more an unpleasant than a formidable adversary . He did not either see or take heed of the impressions which the arrows of his satire would make upon others , although no one appeared to be so poignantly sensitive to such attacks as himself . He has been

    repeatedly accused of alluding to human suffering with a levity inconsistent either with a proper degree of sympathy for the misfortunes of his fellow-creatures , or a decent respect for the feelings of the public . The supposed expression which he made use of , in allusion to an unhappy sufferer under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , has been made the

    theme of many a violent attack on Mr . Canning , and the " revered and ruptured Ogden , " has been more than once thrown in the teeth of the Right Hon . Gentleman . The author of an anonymous Letter to Mr . Canning , which has been ascribed to Mr . Hobhouse , and which , as a specimen of forcible writing , would not shame the pen of Junius , accuses the speaker of

    having in this instance committed a monstrous outrage upon his audience ; adding , ' that the stupid alliteration was one of the ill-tempered weapons coolly selected from his oratorical armoury . * However , there is some doubt that the epithets in question had been ever used by Mr . Canning . The letter of which we have just spoken , excited a very strong sensation throughout < he country . It probed Mr . Canning to the quick , for

    he dispatched a short letter and a friend to the publisher ' s , inviting his literary antagonist to a contest with more serious weapons than those of pen and paper . Several years afterwards the arrow still rankled in Mr . Canning ' s heart—he took ail opportunities of insulting Mr . Hobhouse in Parliament , and one night had the rashness to allude to him , and his colleague , as ' the Hon . Baronet and his man / For these offences Mr .

    Hobhouse , on a subsequent occasion , introduced , into a speech on the question of Reform , a very elaborate portrait of the Right Hon . Gentleman , which more than revenged the previous insults . ' * In copying from the public journals the preceding account of Mr . Canning ,

    we must mot be understood as pledging ourselves- to the opinions of the writers on every part of his character . There are some points on which we decidedly differ from them : they need not be specified . In respect to religious liberty , the chief evidence we possess of Mr . Canning ' s sentiments is his advocacy of the

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    cause of Catholic Emancipation . This he had latterly supported on very broad principles . The case of Protestant Dissenters he seems never to have understood , and when brought under his notice , to have treated with very unbecoming levity or contempt * He had expressed his opinion , that since the passing of the Annual Indemnity Bills , the Dissenters had

    no cause of complaint in consequence of the stigmas and proscriptions of the Corporation and Test Acts . It is , however , pleasing to add , that his mind was daily liberalizing in relation to religious as well as to civil freedom . —His speech on the Unitarian Marriage Bill ( see above , p . 549 ) , did him great honour . And his

    declaration as to the late application to Parliament for the repeal of the Sacramental Test , was probably forced from him by a momentary irritation . His threat of hostility , as subsequently explained , was meant to apply to the present time , and not to future , and , in his view , more eligible opportunities .

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    Rev . David Davis . Lately , at Llwyn-rhyd Owen , Cardiganshire , in the 83 rd year of his age , the Rev . David Davis , for nearly sixty years one of the most eminent and popular of the Dissenting ministers , in the Presbyterian connexion , in South Wales . His father was a respectable farmer residing at Goetre-issa , near Lam peter , where Mr . Davis was born on the 14 th

    of February , 1745 , O . S . The first elements of his education he received at the village schools of the neighbourhood . For about a year and a half he was placed under the instruction of his relation , the Rev . Josiah Thomas , of Leominster , the

    father of the late Rev . Timothy Thomas , of Islington . On his return to Wales he went to Llanybydder , to Mr . David Jones , who had been educated at the Carmarthen Academy , and was deemed a man of excellent abilities and a good classical scholar . From hence he was

    removed to Llangeler , to Mr . Thomas Lloyd , a clergyman of the Establishment , who was considered a sound scholar , a very exact and critical teacher , and a Revere disciplinarian . Mr . Davis being intended for the

    Dissenting ministry , was sent , in 1763 , to Carmarthen to the grammar school , kept by Mr ., afterwards Dr ., Jenkins , who was also assistant tutor at the Academy . Mr . Davis remained here only a quarter of a year , being admitted a student on the foundation after the Christmas vacation of 1763 . At this time the excellent and learned Mr . Samuel Thomas held the

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    692 Obituary , — Rev . David Davh .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/60/