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    p ^ ebj ^* tapi » t ? itt ' h * vit * g T'ttfe interests 34 * 4 * ; . property 6 f -my fellow-subjects submitted to my iintTted ^ judK ? ial fa * c I ^ ir tfoi % s&tfatioi ^ « ew to me , and iww , ii * r the-f judicial jurisprudence of

    S&Qfifrafk JtdeFkve'comfort when I lp £ > k f a » # * yi 4 earned brethren on each at « le offiae » t'Who add to learning and a fcnowJedge of mankind , high faculties ^ od practice sanctioned by the opinion ? of < an approving public in ( he dispensation of justice .

    When Llook before me to the bar , I derive comfort from the certainty tha £ I ana to be enlightened in the seat of Justice by Aiieir learning and their eloquence , and that I am sure to receive comfort from their urbanity , and frpfti the mildness of their judgments on , my-first exertions .

    Wthen I look to the Jury now assembled * and the succession of such a class , of men to discharge this duty , thereagain I derive comfort , and feel convinced that their anxiety to do ju&ticjEV and their steady attention to ever ^ rcase , will secure against any bad effects from my want of experience ort incapacity .

    If * t should prove at all a serviceable , instrument in giving success to this- impox&a&ti measure of justice , awhile * X live I shall enjoy the comforting reflection that my early education in J $ jeot 1 and , and my habits , have preserved unabated through life my devoted-attachments to its interests

    and Aits . people , and made the high station to winch I have been graciously advanced au object of my most ardent desire . * J » will conclude , therefore , with the anxious hope , that it may , be inscribed with truth upon my tomb , that the experiment has proved successful , and that 1 have not been

    useless in the accomplishment of this migbty benefit to my native land .

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    im Outcry again * t \ jke * Revisitoi qf , Popidar Works .

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    But . as the same motives cannot actuate minds of a different Compass , or expansiqn , it is scarcely justifiable J iri such persons to attribute to others those principles of action , which , \ m

    similar circumstances , th ^ y woa-ld n ^ fe have hesitated to adopt * The selftsh hypocrite is rarely able to coenprehend the grasp of truly generous-and enlightened minds . The man of honour should not be reduced to th «

    same level with the sycophant . Atid such as conscientiously resign preferments or prospects in an opulent establishment , rather than forfeit their integrity , cannot be fairly eatimated by the aspiring pluralist , who defers implicitly to his superiors , both in Church and State .

    I am led to these reflections , by the virulent and illiberal censures , which have been of late so often cast on the judicious and truly scriptural revisions of Watts ' s Hymns aud Moral Songs for Children , and Melmoth ' a Great Importance of a Religious Life ;

    as if such revisions had been actually u palmed upon the public , " as the genuine works of the original writers , without any notice of the alterations whatsoever . Yet nothing can be fairer than the conduqt of the editors , in their respective prefaces * by which all idea of deception or concealment is removed . The revision ofpn Watts ' *

    Hymns avowedly proceeded » from a lady , who " considering them defective , or rather erroneous , in some particular doctrines and phrases , judged it expedient to make many alterations in both respects , in adapting them to the instruction pf her own children j and afterwards for the better accommodation of others In the same

    sentiment , and for the further early advancement of religious truth committed her useful labours to the press . ' Nor was the Editor of the Great Importance less " studious to avoid involving the original author in any responsibility for the omissions of doctrines originally adopted fry him , or clandestinely ingrafting his own

    alterations on the labours of another ; earnestly hoping that no just cau ^ e of ofience could be taken , by the raojt tenacious theologian , for the simple omission of occasional language or sentiments , thought . to bc ^ jiSerogatory from the genuine sense of the gospel of qhrist , aijd distant from tfs ^ rde and even tefio * . " In couformit > V there-

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    Sir , Feb . 21 , 1816 . AS a truly . honourable mind will not hastily impeach the integrity of ajao , thers motives , . more especially in matters of opinion , I cannot hel |> suspecting that those strenuous

    supporters of the Church of England , who ^ ave recently assailed Unitarians -nifijDp many chwrges of disingenuousue * t opti * misrepresentation , are conscious of that very' < , obliquity in their ^ ownj ^ OjU / Juct * M&hteh they so earnestly lp b ^ uf 1 4 p . # a ^ , ^ o ^ th ^ ir oppott «» t « .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/22/