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      tfe&t into the jail to give him ghostly advice ^ and endeavoured to bring him to a confession of his other sins , without which they told him he could not hope for redemption—for besides this murder , he was strongly suspected , &c . &c- * * * But when the

      ministers had said all that was customary concerning the merit of confession , he abruptly asked them , if either or all of them could pardon him in case he made a confession : and when they had answered * No ; not absolutely /

      he said , ' You have told me , God can forgive me ? ' They said it was true . Then said he , ' As you cannot pardon me I have nothing to do with you , but will confess to him that can . ' "

      There are other curious matters related in the author ' s account of this extraordinary Highlander , but not of sufficient interest for your pages . I remain , Sir , Yours respectfully , S . C .

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      Secession from the Chnrth — Sir I . Newton ' s M 8 S- 143

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      London , Feb . 28 , 1816 . Sir , r is well known that Mr . George Baring has lately resigped the vicarage of Winterbourne Stoke , Wilts , and seceded from the Church of England , and that several other clergymen of the same neighbourhood have also left the Establishment . But the

      grounds of their section have not , I believe , been made public . I beg leave therefore to request of some one of your correspondents in the West an explanation of this curious piece of news . Have the seceders been actuated by love of orthodoxy or love of heresy ? NONCON .

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      Sin , H , Jan . 18 , 1816 , TN the second vol . of the u Annals JL of Philosophy , " by Dr , Thomas Th omson , ( p . 247 , ) the editor has reprinted from his « History of the Royal Society , " a *< Biographical Account of Sir Isaac Newton , " and to that part of the Memoir which

      touches upon Sir Isaac ' s religious sentimentis , has subjoined the following note ( page 32 a ) . " I have heard it affirmed by some of the self-constituted philosophers of the present day , that Sir Isaac Newton believed the Christian religion tttereiy because he was born in a

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      Plymouth , Dec . 25 , 1815 . Sir , HAVE lately had the pleasure of I perusing a work which I suspect is not so much known as it deserves to be i nor do I recollect to have

      seen the name of its author amongst those of the champions of the proper unity and supremacy of God the Father ,, although he well deserves to have been placed iu the very first rank of them . The copy I have before me is stated to have been published in the year 1815 , and to be < the

      fifth edition enlarged $ from which circumstance , and from the rank of the author , and the style of the work , I presume it has moved chiefly in the very highest circles , where I cannot but hope and believe it has produced

      a strong effect , although at present we have seen wo better proof of it than the facility with which the persecuting laws relative to Anti-Trinitarians were repealed in the last sesskfti of our parliament . Indeed the way in which Mr . Smith ' s bill Was carried after the bishops had been assembled

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      Christian country ; that he never examined it y and that he left behind him a cart-load of papers on religious subjects , which Dr . Horsley examined and declared unfit for publication . These gentlemen do not perceive that their declarations are inconsistent with

      each other . Nobody who has ever read a page of Newtoa ' s works could believe that he could write a cart-load of papers on a subject which he never examined . Newton ' s religious opinions were not orthodox ; for

      example , he did not believe in the Trinity . This gives us the reason why Horsley , the Champion of the Trinity , found Newton ' s papers unfit for publication . But it is much to be regretted that they have never seen the light . "

      In the regret expressed by the biographer , I presume all your readers will participate ; and my reason for copying the note is a hope that , by being republished in your Miscellany it may meet the eye of some of your numerous readers , who may be able , through the same channel , to communicate information as to the

      existence and present situation of th » papers in question . I am , Sir , Your constant reader , A . F . ^

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/15/