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    ^ WgiOifr wbs jMwMcataoa ; . uoon what wittcqgfe are Uait ^ a ^ who , as a jWBPr ^ l ^©' f& ^ ' * 1 p * & ttjpoatosanc-^ U | ie ? W oald H be right to in volve < 4 (| 6 jM ^ mefous adheren ts of the . Church «? f - Cttg ^ and , in the censure which may jufc&y be attached to these un-Jpuiided charges , or to any other instances of misrepresentation or

    supprestsion , which individuals have practised in its support ? Indiscriminate censure is at once illiberal and unjust ; it cannot advance the cause of public reformation , or deter from the most

    mischievous pursuits . But in the present instance the censure is unfounded , and the Jtevisens entitled to Unqualified-approbation for their truiy benevolent design . With as little reason- has the Improved Version of the New Testament been involved in

    • this unwarranted attack , as it is cer tataly founded on the basis of Arch bidhopNetvcome ' s Translation , with oufinvolvnig that prelate in any re « pon * ibility for the numerous varia tions from his text .

    Oil Ifte who ) e , Sir , these censures could only have proceeded from persons determined to find fault ; from men , resembling a certain highchurch dignitary , who having vented bis wrath against the new edition of

    the Great Importance , on the mere perusal of the preface , arraigned the conduct of the editor , as if his purpose had been studiously concealed . Want of candour and ingenuousness has

    prevailed through the whole of these pitiful attacks : unqualified assertions , remote from truth and probability , have supplied the place of evidence , whilst thg most pure and disinterested motives have been " scandalously 1

    and industriously maligned / Can » uch unwarranted proceedings have emanated from correct and honourable minds ? Are they calculated to gupport the credit of the Church of iSngland , or consistent with the diffusupefceoevoJence of t \ ie gospel ^ which

    inculcates charity a , nd good-will to all ? ¦ Dd . they not rather savour of those narrow pr ^ udices , which tQ | Jh ^ destruction of eiver y liberal , princiblef and feeling , have too often foowfeedthe . conduct of established churches , in their hostility to the ti ^ ams of ^ rivat ^ judgwen t , and the fr ^^ etti ^^ tt of re ligious truth ? PETECTOR .

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    Theff ^ Affl ( S * ej > p . U . 3 , « 4 ^

    A curioiis circunistai ^ ce retaftigg 4 the Holy Affiance Jately ^ ip ^ between the Emperors of "fl ^^^ i ang Austria , and the King X > f Pi ^ ia , W come to our knowledge ^ brouj ^ T respectable a channel , that tyl ^ cob ceive it deserving of being % oniA ]^ i . cated to ottr readers . In 1815 , a Madame la Gjridner wa $ at Paris , whither she arrived from

    Riga , her native couttfry , invited there , as is generally fiftdersftood , by the Emperor Alexander , ' wlio had previously known &nd consulted ber . The Prophetess Grid ner , w bo , like

    all the inspired persons bf tbitf class , is not devoid of talent , and particularly possessed of the sublime and obscure jargon of mystical rites , trusting to feeble minds , reasolis about 1

    every thing , discussestacts tolerably well , supports her opinions by religion , and frequently "interrupting ber coaversatipri to implore , tfy a feiveot prayer , the ra ^ rs of a di vine Spi rit ^ terminates by an emphatic tfrdphecjr

    developing some conftised bilt brilliant idea , together with certain consequences which she foretells , as an in fallible and aln ^ Qst divine solution 6 f ti ^ e con v ersation that had bee n agitated .

    La Gridner arrived apd gtabliab E ^ d herself in a Wge , hotel ^' ^ s . prepared fox her , which i ) ttW ^ tWt $ after her own fashion 4 that Ja , ween one had traversed a suit of pve or six

    apartments , where nothing * but tbe bare walls were to be seen , and even no lights in the evening , one arrived at a large inner room , the whole furniture of which consisted of a few

    rush-bottomed chairs and a pr ^ llett , on which she was alwa ^ reclined . It was on thi ^ throne of tripod , frpm which she never descended , that # b « ushered forth her mystical reverie * au 4 pronounced tier oracled . The Emperor Alexander w ^ | cnown to go almost every evenif ||| . to the rendezvous of that Sybil , atra ( ere it was that the three SpV 0 rciffn « ,

    authors of the Sainte Alliance , diacussed their projects , tyc . as wel | " Op # ^ interests and line of political conduct ; and it is Wei } understood | ha ^ upder the dictates of the W& ^ 'pifyjh . fl ' 1 * treaty in question was dra ^ if ug . fj ^ ftigned * without tlie iiiter ^ fl ^^^ any one of their re ^ pectiv ^ i ^ lft ^ '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/24/