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      recital is before the public in Goakman ' s pamphlet , already referred to , and also in the present little work , of the thefts and frauds committed or attempted upon this gentleman . One convert , the clerk of the chapel , is accused of purloining the com no union

      plate and of forging a clieque for six hundred pounds : the same man is said in the newspapers pp . 43 , 44 ) , to be now in custody , together with his wife , also a pretended convert , on a charge of uttering forged Bank of England notes .

      Mr . Sailman gives an account likewise ( as he promises in the title-page , which is too long to extract ) of '•* Nehemiah Benjamin ^ olomon , who , after a . conversion of some years , in treated to be ' taken from between Christians , *

      but who returned , and has latelj been ordained q minister of the gospel : with various interesting facts relative to the conduct af about forty other converts , disclosing a scene of iniquity not to be paralleled in the aqnals af religious impositions /'

      The author is , it must he remembered , a Jew , and therefore his opinion and conjecture weigh little without solid facts : hut there is , we thinkt

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      POETRY .

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      ELEGY ON THF LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE . All ! that the bridal bed So soon should be the bier , O ' er which the frequent tear , Oh the cold corpse is shed : The husband ' s heart-wrung tears , In gushing * streams that cannot vent his

      woe , But s ' v leut bathe his trembling" ebeeks , In fitful eVb and flow , For her who late h , i $ soul did gladden With sweetejst gaiety of love . O blissfulest delight

      That played like sunny light , His dancing * heart along *! Ah ! heart forlorn , how dost thon sadden ^ To see that form that cannot move , That ever closed eye and ever silent tongue !

      She sees not th ^ e , nor hears thy sobs and sighs , Nor feels for all the anguish of thy heart ; But late , not one uneasy thought could ri # e , But she would see and sooth * and bear her part : —

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      evidence enough at least to justify the late Lord Mayor ' s representation of the society ( Mon . Repos . XT . 6 < 25 ) 9 as doing very little good , and as being imposed upon by designing persons for fraudulent purposes .

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      Art . III . —Priestly Tyranny Exposed * A Short Statement of the Ganges of the Disunion and Division which took place in the Congregation assembling in Helens Lane * Colchester ^ in which the Conduct of the Rev . Joseph Herrick is set in its true Light . 12 oio . pp . 36 . Mattacks , Colchester > Katou , London . 9 c ? . 1817 .

      WE have here an example of insolence - ^ nd despotism in a gentleman in *• pretended holy orders' * which is rarely equalled by any legitimate son of the church , educated ta magnify himself and disparage the people . We recommend it to

      ministers and congregations ; to the fomiev that they may see how odious priestly assumptions are , and to thfe latter that they tn&y learn that it is both their interest and their dut # tfa take care that their liberties be not invaded .

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      No , it is all ^ all a * er With that sweet soul tfyou must convi ra * no more 1 Sweet sou ] , where art thou new * What wakmg » visions break thy sleep of death ?

      What scenes of joy or woe , Unknown to us . beneath ? O God ! all merciful , aJL gq ^ rdiaii friend , From her companion toro ^ O leave her not forlorn , But gracious guidance s $ nd . A nation ' * tears sfcall o * er tbe 6 fall , And thousand breasts shall deeply st ^ h : Beauty and youth shall spread % hy pall ,

      While hope and love stand weeping- bj ^ And eveKj softer virlue come , To lay thee in thy early tomb 5 And there shall pity Hngering be , T engrave thy mournful memory . All Britain's isle with sorrow soon , Shall hear the deed that death has 4 ° nct Intruding rudely to remove , The object of her loyal love . November 6 , 1 S 17 .

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      Poetry . — El&jft on the late Princess Charl&ite- 6 % 5

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/45/