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    thank God » 2 have no favour to ask , either of the Prince or his ministers . To the Regent I owe nothing but that allegiance which is due from a frce . born Briton to

    bis lawful Prince ; and in this duty I flatter myself that I am not inferior to the learned prelate himself * Nor do I owe any thing personally to the Regent ' s

    ministers , excepting gratitude in common with my brethren , for that wise and conciliatory measure , by which Unitarians have been placed under the protection of the law : A measure- the importance of

    which we have learned to appre . date , from that wild effervescence of an intolerant spirit which has lately manifested itself where it was least to have been expected . Happily , it is now perfectly harm , less .

    Mr . B . himself , says his lordship , *• quotes Lord Thurlow as an admirer of Bishop Horsiey ' s tracts in this controversy . " It is

    true . Lord Fhurlow was as every one must be , a great admirer of the talents and learning of Bishop JMorsley , nor would be esteem him the less for that useful talent which

    the Bisjhop possessed in an eminent dlgree , of throwing dust into ? the eyes of the simple and the ignorant . That Lord Thurlow was convinced by the arguments of the learned prelate , Mr . B . never

    asjetted . , He has good reason to believe that the noble lord saw the fallacy of them as distinctly as the Bishop himself , and that he made no hesitation of expressing his sen .

    : ti merits accordingly . -7 - But » adds his lordship of St . . pAvid ' s , Mr , Whitaker was no ignoramus , ' * and be * in a public edtcatioh' todBishop Horsiey ; congratulated l » m upon his victory .

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    That Mr . Whitaker possessed a profusion of learning cannot be doubted by those who arQ&cquain * ted with his works . Of the extreme exility of his judgment , there

    can be , amongst intelligent readers , but one opinion ; and of bis competency to discuss an historical question , his defence of Mary Queen of Scots is a notorious

    specimen . We give his lordship this Mr . Whitaktr . \* ?; His lordship charges me wifch using harsh language concerning the clergy and their doctrines . The idea I mean to convey in that

    passage which has given offence to his lordship is , that persons , all . whose expectations in life depend upon their profession of a particular system of opinions , cannot , in tife nature of things , be unbiassed inquirers after truth . If , in the

    expression of this sentiment , , unpue asperity of language has been allowed , I would readily retract it . In the mean time , it may , perh&pj , contribute to take o . ff ^ the edge of resentment , if it be recollected th ^ t

    bis lordship him ^ elj and his partizans have uoX been in th ? Jiabit of using the gentlest epithets and the most temperate language when speaking of Unitariamsnv and its advocates . - *¦ > & ¦ ¦ . %

    lhacos tntra mitred : pecxatur et extra . - x _ . , ¦ •; ' * -& , * . - . . . *

    Yours , Sec . . , ...-. ^ ? t T ^ BELSHAMP . S . I will beg leave t <* , Qgfer the following plain Jnt ^ iprctatiLan of the two important tejits : ^ v ^ iih bis lordship has : cited ; vvfeicbvCQW

    perhaps be acceptable to so # je ^ f your readers , till his lords ^ jpii ^ s time to propound hia own moj ^ e critical and elaborate « olutio | i Df them , ,. ,-, -j . ; ' n / i -ii . . ¦ -, ^ , 1 . David in spirit jc * Us thO ; ltffc « -

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    Mr + Brisham ' s Answer to Bp . Burgess . $ §§

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 609, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/21/