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    of these prepepts , fre w&& unexpectedly , in soixte periodical publications , attacked on the subject ot the Trinity , and lie was consequently obliged to assign reasons for not embracing that doctrine . * The conclusion of Sutyu-Sadhun ' s letter is an appeal to British

    liberality , and an instance of the prevalence of free and generous sentiments , founded upon the Scriptures , amongst oUr Indian fellow-subjects . * I am not all surprised , ' he says , * at the reference of the Layman to the penal statute against those who deny the divinity of Christ : for when reason

    and revelation refuse their support , force is the only weapon that can be employed . But I hope the English nation will never exhibit the disgraceful spectacle of endeavouring to re-]> ress by such means opinions for the truth of which the authority of the Bible itself is appealed to by iuy countrymen /*

    " Mr . Ivimey ' s sarcasm of c Pagan Unitarians / shews , therefore , his ignorance of the-real state of things in Calcutta . If it were meant to reflect upon Unitarians at home , it would be

    enough to remind this Baptist Minister of the indignation and contempt Avhich were generally felt by the Baptists , when , some years ago , one of their Ministers libelled his own

    denomination , or , at least , a considerable portion of them , by calling them ( in h phrase borrowed from Dr . Young ) * baptized Infidels , * merely because they- differed in opinion and feeling from him on the subject of the French Revolutionary War , and the public conduct of Mr . Pitt . These

    ill-natured words serve no other purpose than to shew the mind of the speaker or writer . But had Mr . Ivimey been as well-informed as he is ill-informed with respect to the actual faith of the Indian Reformer , it would have been more in character for a Christian

    Pastor to have expressed warm congratulation rather than a cold sneer , on seeing an idolater of eminence and influence reclaimed to pure Theism .

    * ** See an interesting paper , entitled * Unitarian Controversy at Calcutta / in The Number of The Monthly Repository ; before referred to , by Mr . Kutt , the biotfrapher of the late Mr . Gilbert Wake-^ eld "

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    "Of Mr . Adam I know little . Being sent out to India by the Baptist Missionary Society ^ as a Trinitarian , £ nd becoming , by whatever means , an Unitarian , the Society is fully justified — — —< - ^ —¦— ^ H " ^ ^^~^^— - ^— - ™ " — — ¦ g ~~ ~ " ^ - ^ ¦ M ^^>^ V ^^^ ^ W ^^ ^^•¦^^ ^^^ ^^^^»

    in withdrawing from him its patronage : but , in my humble opinion , it is not becoming nor consistent with Christian equity for any individual to charge him in a newspaper with undefined * aberrations and errors : * he is

    not at hand to defend himself , nor is he amenable for his faith or conduct to your correspondent , who is probably not better prepared than himself , either by his education or his talents , to judge of the sense of Divine Revelation , or of the duties which it imposes upon those that submit to its authority .

    " I am , Sir , " Your obedient servant , " ROBERT ASPLAND . "

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    IIL Mr * Ivimey ' s Reply to Mr * Aspland . < c To the Editor of the Morning " Chronicle * € C Harpur Street \ . " Sir , October 4 , 1822 . " The reply which Mr . Aspland has given to my letter on the subject of * Ram Mohun Roy and the Calcutta

    Unitarians / in your paper of yesterday , is written iu a spirit which I shall not imitate , and contains some illiberal and personal reflections , which ,

    perhaps , the writer would not attempt to justify . Sober argument disdains such weapons , and that must be a weak cause which they are employed to defend .

    " Mr . Aspland is offended that I used the term Socinian in designating Mr . Adam . But when a person avows his determined opposition to the doctrine of the proper divinity of the Son of God , and denies that his death was an atonement for sin—when he

    declares that Jesus Christ was a mere man , and that he had no existence before he was born of the Virgin , &c , his creed is so nearly allied to that of Faustus Socinus , that there wt \ s no impropriety that I can perceive , when , for the purpose of avoiding circumlocution , I called Mr . Adam by a term which has always bpeH used by Trini-

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    Free Press and TTnitarianism in India * 68 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/29/