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    ta the late JE > n 8 tok * ges ; in the Repository for-last December * . I had pleasure in seeing that tribute of regpect to the memory of that gentleman ; and from sen * timents of esteem for his character

    and of gratitude for some personal and handsome attentions , I wish to state some circumstances ^ that I am certain will do him much credit in the opinion of

    liberal men . On the publication of my u Letters" to him , I directed a copy to be forwarded to himself , and another to Dr . Lowth , the Bishop of London , to whom his u Considerations on

    the present Church Establishment " tyere addressed . On the receipt of it , I was politely favoured with . the following letter . Reverend Sir , London ^ Feb . fci , i 7 82 . u On my coming feithcr a few days

    ago , I met with the Letters which you nave been pleased to address to me ; and thank you for the civility and on the whole the candour with which you treat me and which I think becomes us

    all on these occasions , if we consider ourselves as scholars , gentlemen and Christians . < c I shall probably leave the subject in debate between us as it stands * to the

    judgment of the public j but may perhaps in a little time , when I return into the country , trouble ybu in private with a few strictures on your tetters just to give you mV own opinioa on the principal arguments contained in them .

    I am , Jtev . Sir , with respect , Your most obedient servant , J . STURGES . ' In the November following , I was obliged with his remarks on * he " Letters" filling near four sheets of quarto post paper :

    " Written / ' as he was pleased to express himself , " freely and unreservedly after an attentive consideration of them ; but I hope not in a inanner to give you any offence T continue quite o £ the * a * ne nxind to leave the subject in debate between us as i % > atawds , tp the jud gment of thp puJWic ; whom we

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    should both of us find , little interested in such a controversy were , it prp- * longed . These remarks . in private you ¦ will I hope accept as a mark of that at «» tention to your Letters which I think they deserve .

    " X desire to repeat my thanks to you for the civility and on the ivhole the can- * dour with which you have treated me , My expression is a little qualified , because you will see in my remarks , that I think it not quite preserved in one or

    two instances in youi : Jast letter . I am sorry that the spirit of controversy , religious controversy especially , should be such in general as to make civility and candour in it rather singular . u The Bishop of l ^ ondon desired m $

    to present his compliments to you and thanks for your Letters , I am , Reverend Sir , With much respect , Yooir obedient humble servant , T . STURGES . "

    Dr Sturges considered joining his name with Mr . Robinson ' s , p . 85 . as , the least candid thing in all the * Letters /* H ^ id there been a call for a second edition of the

    " Letters , " the author would have availed himself of Dr . Sturges ' s strictures to have corrected , or strengthened , or elucidated more fully his own arguments ^ though he could not consider himself at

    liberty , without the writer ' s express permission to have published them . The debate was never resumed . But the correspondence between Dr . Sturges and , the author pf thje cc fetters" did n <} t end ' thus . From that tirne the

    former constantly paid a polite and liberal attention to the latter , by sending him a copy of every publication , fis soon as it came from the press ; and seldQm did an opportunity for the author of the u Letters" to return the favour

    by similar testimonies of respect occur , but the receipt was acknowledged b y a letter , written in such terms qf re ^ g ^ rd &n 4 candid

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    Jfartieular&tofthe late Rev , Br . Sturges , hy Dr . Toulmin . 23 S

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    * M , Repos , < vol . & p , 66 % ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/7/