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    and authorities which I have taken the liberty of presenting to your notice , I have endeavoured to divest myself of those prejudices which are unbecoming the character of a rational Christian . He of all men should be most

    solicitous to prove his approbation of the liberal sentiment of the poet : " Seize upon truth where ' er ' tis found , Amongst your friends , amongst your foes , On Christian or on Heathen ground—The flower ' s divine where ' er it grows . " PHILALETHES .

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    heard ) with the unanimous concurrence of the society , is too true . The following paragraph is incorrect : " In the neighbourhood ( of Yarmouth ) is an endowed place , over which one

    family keeps the direction , and this has given cause of offence to the Yarmouth Unitarian congregation : the services of a gentleman of excellent character , sound learning , and true Christian ardour , have been declined , because he has not received an

    academical education / ' &c . The congregation referred to is that at Filby - , in the neighbourhood of which one of the trustees resides , and the other three are members of the

    Norwich congregation . Neither is it true that the services of my respected and excellent friend Mr . Bowles , " have been declined / ' He has preached there , I think , for ten years , and also occasionally at Yarmouth . I mention these circumstances to

    shew the necessity of putting your Correspondent upon his guard , as well as to submit to you the propriety of admitting into the Monthly Repository statements for which no one is responsible . Opinions may fairly be discussed under anonymous signatures , but matters of fact ( especially when' they reflect on the character and motives of

    individuals ) ought to be authenticated by the name of the person who makes them . I have taken the liberty thus early to address you , because I observe that Norwich is to form the subject of the Traveller ' s next letter , and because I

    would not seem to be influenced in my opinion from any thing which may be said in relation to the Unitarian Soeieftv there . EDWARD TAYLOR .

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    Dalston , Sir , November 8 , 1820 . YOU have in your last Number , [ pp . 602—612 , ] with that impartiality which on all subjects

    characterizes the Monthly Repository , given us various letters , conveying very different sentiments and feelings of emigrants from this country to America ; and had not some of those letters contained

    reflections as unjust as injurious to certain persons whose writings are before the public , and who from their distance cannot for a considerable period be able to answer ftrr themselves ,

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    Norwich , Sir , November 4 , 1820 . fTHHOUGH the journal of the " Uni-JL tarian Traveller" may in some respects afford both instruction and amusement to the readers of the

    Repository , I think it already appears that his remarks will occasionally be productive of misapprehension , and of unpleasant feelings to some of those individuals who may fall under his notice . I have not the most distant

    idea who this gentleman is , but I would put it to you , Sir , whether a person who now and then makes a passing visit through a town , is likely to form so correct an estimate of the state of

    our congregations , the respective merits and defects of our preachers , and the various circumstances which , in some cases , have rendered our churches prosperous , and in others declining , as to authorize him to publish his opinions to the world ? Even if his

    information were on every point unexceptionable , it might , I think , be doubted how far it is deserving of indiscriminate publication : but where facts are stated on the authority of an anonymous writer , it surely becomes him to be quite certain of their correctness

    before they are committed to the press . With regard to Ipswich , one misrepresentation has already been pointed out ; and as far as my knowledge of Waodbridge and Beccles extends , there is nothing to warrant the remarks of the

    Traveller . I don't know of a place at which there is less of an opening for Unitarian preaching than Beccles . I believe it contains but a solitary Unitarian . The fact that , immediately after the removal of the minister alluded to at Lowestoft , a Calvinistic successor was chosen , and ( as far as I have

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    662 Mr . B . Flower ' s Remarks on Letters lately received

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/34/