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    hands and be the property of some permanent Unitarian body . The same provision should surely be made whenever a new place of worship is raised by the help of the Unitarian public , for every such building is in some sort an experiment . If the experiment fail , let not individuals or other sects reap an advantage .

    Once more , I recommend most earnestly that every new chapel should be erected on Freehold Groimd , and that sufficient ground should be purchased in the first instance to lay out a burying-place . There is an unseemliness in Unitarians being interred with Trinitarian forms of religion , which

    must be the case where they have no church-yard of their own : besides that it is sometimes in the power of clergymen to insult the ashes of supposed heretics when death brings them under their " little brief autho-1

    rity / The tombs of fathers have a hold upon the religious profession of children when better ties are weakened ; and sepulchres give a solemnity to Houses of Prayer , and supply that sentim-ent of reverence which

    fails to be excited by the small and unimposing temples of Dissenters . For these reasons I always inquire of those who solicit my subscription to our new chapels , whether accomodation be contemplated for the dead as well as the living ! ZELOTES .. ^ tmm

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    Mr . Evans on the Field of Waterloo . 155

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    Overysche , near the wood of Soignes to Neerysche , with the little , river Ysche in front , so as to cover Brussels and Louvaiu I The Duke of Marl borough proposed to attack them immediately , and Averquefque approved of the design . But it was opposed by General Schlangenburgh and other Dutch officers , who represented it in such a light to the Deputies of the State * who attended the army that they refused to concur in the execution . The

    Duke being obliged to relinquish the scheme wrote an expostulatory letter to the States General , complaining of their having withdrawn that confidence which they had reposed in him while he acted in Germany . "

    Thus it appears that in the reign of Queen Anne the Post of Waterloo was fixed upon by the celebrated Duke of Marlborough , with the view of annihilating the power of Louis the XlVth . at that time ( like Bonaparte ) , the great troubier of Europe ! And as his Grace is said * ' never to

    have fought a battle which was not won , nor to have besieged a town that was not taken , " he seems deeply to regret that the perverseness of his military associates prevented his reaping the usual laurels , on this occasion . It is , however , singular that the Duke

    of Wellington , in conjunction wi ; h similar allies , should a century after , in the reign of George the Third , ( June 18 , 1815 ) consecrate this same Post of Waterloo by a signal victory for the restoration of the descendants of Louis the-XIVth . ; as the best

    means of securing the peace and happiness of the Continental Powers ! This is is a curious fret , arid the more wortlry of attention as a parallel between these two distinguished British Generals hath been drawn by writers of the present day . Such is the mutation of human affairs—such the

    revolution of empires . May the awful and decisive battle of Waterloo ensure the permanent tranquillity of the civilized world ! Torrents of blood have been poured forth in the unrighteous career of ambition . It was time , as at the birth of our

    Saviour , that the Temple of Janus should be closed , and that Peace , the legacy of the Redeemer to his disciples , should diffuse her blessings among the nations of the earth . I am , Sir , Yours respectfully , JOHN EVANS .

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    Islington . March 1 , 1816 . Sir , THE insertion in your valuable Miscellany of the following curious fact , respecting the Field of Waterloo , will be gratifying 1 to the more intelligent class of your readers . It is taken from the Life of the Duke

    of Marlborough . in the seventh volume of the British Biography , a work chiefly written by the late Dr . Joseph Towejs , and uniformly favourable to the interests of Civil and Religious Liberty .

    "On the 15 th of August , 1705 , 1 the Duke of Marlborough moved 'from Mildert to Corbais , and next cday continued h \» marVh to Genappe , fifrom whence he advanced to Fischernmont . On the 17 th General Aver-Werque took the Post of Waterloo , aaud next day the » confederate army JJ * as drawn up in order of battle be-^ toeeMmyV who extended from

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/27/