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    ' ^ DWerepces of opinion then on fj&iiits lot ; % Sre -speculation are only incidentally tbe tianses bf evil , Bit a& essentially' productive of

    tyiidi benefit . Ttoey urge men on ' to iiwestijgBtte the truth , th ^ y pre-Veiit tHeiti from too readily embricinjg specioixs irinovations , and

    flicjr tend to discipline and improve the mihd in many of the most important parts of the christjkn character . On the other

    band , a complete uniformitv of band , a complete uniformity of sentiment , while it introduced a heaVy sattieness into human life , would remove one -of the most

    pofrerfulincitemfcnts to the pursuit df knowledge , and would deprive this life of 6 rre of tHe means wtiereby it is ^ fitted to prepare us for a better . On these Accounts

    I cannot join in tlie prayer against heresy and schism : I would rather rejoice in the conviction that they are hot evils in themselves , but are eminently instrumental in procuring for us th <* greatest and most important benefits * HiERETICUS .

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    Error in Dr . Priestley ' s Works . Sir , March 2 tO ^ 1811 . If an umfomi edition of Dr ^ Priestley ^ s works be published , agreeably to the recommendation

    of your correspondent , R . S . T . * I beg to suggest the propriety of correcting an error which appeared ( inadvertently , I am persuade « l , ) first in the Institutes fyc . and afterwards in the History of the Christimn Church *

    In the Institutes Spc . Part ii . at the conclusion pf chap vi . Dr . Priestley , speaking of a pretended miracle among the Camisards ,

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    mentions c < oneSerrefc , as giVitig , u when near his death , a circumstantial account of the manner in uhich the artifiee had been con *

    ducted * ** And , Hi vol vi . of the History of tke Christian Church , p . 248 , he repeats the stat ^ in ^ nt , sayingy Q this was declared by when he his

    Mr . Serres was m ®* death . ' Now the truth i $ 9 Sijyas we learn from the author | - to whom Dr . P > refers , thut the di $ ~ closure was inade to 3 \^ mSerre $ 9 by a person of the name of

    Dunnameu . Serres , a most respectable man , was not , as the iDr / fi language and manner iaitiinat ^ a party in the fraud : and I , wish , by the means of yow ReppsitQry , to vindicate his memory . I am , $ Sir , year ' s , &c .

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    Paris Edition of Prince Eugene's Memoirs * Sir , March l £ , 1811 . I dare say that most of your readers , among the proofs of the enslaved condition of the French press , have heard of the nijutilation of the iC Memoirs of ^ rihce

    Eugene , " charged upon the third edition of that work pubUshed at Paris . I latel y looked very cursorily into the Lpn ^ bh Frehch edition . At the encT is given an account of the Variations in the

    Paris edition . The passages Emitted there ^ . re seventeen . Two or three which 1 exapained did not appear to me to have any political reference . For the otnissidlf of

    one I could guess a reasori , aiiid it was the only passage which I had time to copy . Under the year 1 ^ 0 O ? Prince

    f Lcmoinc on Mim ^ lc « t pp . 43 i- ^ W ' , ' - it- .--... ,. . . ; . . ¦ - a ; ,. v . - / o ^ CiO

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    Error in Dr . Priestley ' s Works . 411

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/19/