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    land / prejudices in the breasts of some of the worshippers , never wholly subdued , may break forth ;

    objections founded upon better grounds may be felt by others ; or even the caprice of some , vyho are by no means whatever completely to be satisfied , may soon render

    it necessary , in order to preserve the peace and union of a society of Christians who acknowledge no human authority in the worship of God , to withdraw the most perfect form that can be composed . " Wellbeloved ' s Memoirs of Wood . p . 92 .

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    *! & G . WALKER , ON THE DECLARATION OF THE TRUSTEES OF THELATE MANCHESTER COLLEGE .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Wavertree ^ near Liverpool , July 8 , 1810 . SIR , To the declaration which appeared in your number for June last , signed by G . W . Wood , in the name of the trustees of the

    late Manchester College " , I had intended to have replied at some length ; but the facts , by which I must have supported the truth of sny assertion respecting the remuneration paid to my father

    would necessarily have led me to a developement of circumstances , which , from my respect for the Institution and my personal esteem for individual trustees , I should

    most reluctantly obtrude upon the public . I shall > therefore , at present , content myself with observing , that this denial of my statement , has led me to a careful

    Revision of the grounds on which I originally made it ? and that the result of this subsequent examination has been , not merely a renewed conviction of its accuracy , but of the great moderation with which I have alluded to asubject ,

    on which , without any violation of truth , I might have expressed myself in much stronger language , I am happy ? however , that , on the present occasion , I can fortify Wy own opinion on the subject b y

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    adducing a testimony in my behalf , that , from the peculiar circumstances under which it is given , is of so decisive a nature , as to render any farther explanation , at leakt on my part , unnecessary ,, The following letter from Mr . Shepherd clearly expresses his opinion of the case—an opinion .

    not derived from any ex partc statement ^ but the result of a long agitation of the question before a meeting of the trustees expressly convened for the purpose , and which he attended , as the mutual h

    — j - — — - ^ m ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ V ^ V ^ P ^^^^^ ^^ P friend of both parties , to prevent , if possible , by an amicable arrangement , the necessity of any public discussion of the subject .

    For this purpose , I put him in full possession of the whole of my case , with all the documents belonging to it , which he afterwards most ably and fully communicated to them . Nevertheless , in their

    declaration it is alleged , in justification pf this public impeachment of me , that I sent them no direct answer to their inquiries I !! Were I inclined to indulge in the

    language of recrimination , I might here , with mare justice , retort the charge of incorrectness which has been so freely advanced . against me , and advise my accusers $£ least to avoid themselves , what

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    On the Declaration of the Manchester Trustees . 351

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/31/