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    accurate judgment can rarely be , formed without an intimate knowledge of the whole character , and that unfavourable opinions should not be lightly hazarded , because the principles of action are sel * Horn unfolded to the view of a

    casual observer-Theg £ ^ reflections arose in rny yiii . nd o $ reading in tl > e Repository for Feb . { pp . p 6 and 67 ) some observations by Episcopns respectins : the sentiments and character of the late Dr . Percival of

    Man-< chester prefacing the communication of Archdeacon J ? aley ' s singular letter , on Subscription to Articles of Faith . That letter > ¦ ¦ " ¦ . ¦ / may be regarded , as a characteristic appendix to the chapter on

    the same subject in bis IVjoral Philosophy , and it will doubtless be read with gre # t interest ; but the introductory remarks on Lfr . Percival appear neither necessary to jthe letter , nor appropriate fo his amiable and conscientious

    ^ character . It is there stated that Dr . Percjyal was tf * a liberal , accommQdating Dissenter , wjho bad no objection to an established ^ hurch as such , and admitted jthe power of the magistrate in religious

    matters . This / ' the writer proceeds te observe f is rather strange . , as he was a convert jto the ? dissenter 5 ; but he was more attached probably to individuals among them than to their jSrinciples . The children of such dissenters , as far as I have observed , usually slide

    by degrees into conformity . That Dr , I ? eroiv 5 * i was a lib ^ r ^ l dissenter could never M < £ . doubted by any one who knew tiim either through ' . the medium x > f his writings or fi ' om personal intercourse . But the term accommodating is ill

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    coupled * with- the . former epithef , and ca 4 \< io , t in any degree be applied as here used , to liis inde ^ pendent and upright character . Connected as the word accommOm

    da « ting stands with the wliole pas * sage in which it occurs , it conveys an intimation ^ that Dr . Percival professed dissenting principles frpra motives of convenience ,

    and regarded them only as subservient to his interests . This is the obvious meaning of the * expression ; the author might not intend to cast so hateful a

    reflection on Dr . Percivars meniory ^ but as this conciusion has been drawn from the passage ^ by those who were not acquainted with his character , and may be by others similarly circumstanced , I think

    it the office of justice , no less than of friendship , to endeavpur to remove the groundless imputation . J-uet me farther premise that this vindication cannbjt be needed by any who enjoyed Dr . PercivaFs

    personal acxjtiaihtance , an 4 that if Epjscopus jiad been of thar number lie cou ^ cj not thus hat ^ e erred in his judgment of so enlightened a frjend of ^ ruth , science , virtue and religion . The memoirs from wbich Episcopus has cotninn . nicak'd Dr . Par

    ley ' sleiter contain a selection fropi the literary correspondence ot Dr . Percival , and as ^ iis dissents ing principles sire there expressed on sevetaroccasions ' , I § hall trah T scribe his own words on the sub- ^ * •/ . . ¦ ....- t .

    ject . In a letter ( dated \ 7 $ 7 , ) tq one of his friendp , who was a Quaker , Dr . Percival writes ( page } 2 fi ) u You will Iciment With me the failure of the late appli * cati ^ i to parliament for the re « , peal pf the corporation and test

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    Mr . Higgiqson f s Vindication of the late Dr . Percival . S&y * - - * -

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    T » h VI * ' ¦ - ¦ " *•*> ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - V :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/17/