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    dated the 7 th September , 1821 . ^ - ' AKith respect to Evanson ? s Dissonance , I received it from the Rev . Mr . Thomson ^ and not Mr . Thomson from ^ nej and I shall ever respect him for putting it into my hands . ^ The Letter

    to the Bishop of fct * David's , which I sent to a iriend an 4 neighbour was occasioned by his undertaking to find & reply to it iwhich I shall be very glad to read )~*? nor do I despair of seeing the Creed of St . Athanasius made to bend to public opinion , which shall have my best assistance . *

    " Mr . Le Grice ' s reply is dated the 9 th of September , 1821 , in which he says—* I ought to mention that I do not allude to Evanson ' s Dissonance , but to his Reflections on the State of

    Keligions , in which he makes our Church to be a portion of the apostate Churchy and which Mr . Thomson marks * as a gift from you * ia my possession /

    ' *? Jt is for the committee to inquire how Mr . he Grice did not know my religious opinions % 23 rd Nov . 1818 , when he recommended me to be President of -the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , and when and of whom he obtained possession of this book *

    " Mr . Thomson died in 1811 5 soon after which , his books were sold ; and during his life he was intimate at Trereife with Mr . and Mrs . Le Grice ,

    plae of the few places he visited * Ifc is for the committee , to whose impartiality the country will look , to in > *] uire also , how Mr . Le Grice , ( if his conscience wa& as tender on the 9 th

    September , 1821 , as it was on the 8 th of January , 1824 , ) came to suffer me to remain President of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , mor 6 than two years after he knew my opinions . My letter to him of

    the / th September , 1821 , has this passage : —Main sure you had no more the hope of turning me to your opinions , than I had of converting you to . Bellamy ' s Translation , when I sent it for your perusal—rior wbukl I Substitute it for our own translation were

    I able / " Postscript to Mr . lie GrieeV letter of the 17 th March , 1823 . —* I will leave it to your courtesy mid honour $ can you , consistently continue Presi *

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    deftt of mb * Society Ibr iPromciting Christian Knowledge ? wheti 4 t W * a fundamental rule > that 110 one shall be president / or any other officer c * f it , but a person * don A fide a person , well affected to the united Church df England and Ireland , as by l ^ vv established ? As such I recommended

    you to the Parent Society—otherwise you could not have been elected / "I replied on the 8 th of April , 1823—* When you request my at * tendance , I shall come to your anniversary ; if I receive no notice of it ^

    I shall stay away . I beg-, however ^ to refer you to my letter to you Ion the subject , of the 28 th Novetober ^ 1818 . My opinions were the same then as they are now , and as well known , nor do I imagine I shall alter them / ; f

    " Mr . Le Grice replies on the 15 th of April— < At the close of your letter , you refer me to yours of the 28 th November , 1818 , and you assert that your opinions were as well known then as they are now . * -To this I answer- —not by me . '

    " Mr . Le Grice , however , has departed from ' leaving it to my courtesy and honour , by proposing my removal himself from the office of president . The resolution proceeded from him , when in honour it should have come from any one else . He

    now acknowledges that he exhibited our correspondence to three clergymen of the committee : His shewing it to one , was a , breach of faith , and cointrary to the true -intent and meaning of my contract on that subject . —I feel

    lie had no right to use a private investigation of a subject > eveii' to his own advantage , contrary to my intent and meaning . —On the subject of shewing our correspondence * I quote the following passages : —

    "Mn Le Grtee in his letter of the 17 th March , 1823 , says— ' You apologize about an amanuensis . I can have no objection , provided he seeg nay replies to your observations /— -I replied to him on the 8 th of April : — * I have only to add that I have shewn your letters to me to n \ y amanuensis * and that no one else has seen them . ?

    In the samue candid manner ; you are welcome to shew , our ; correspond dence to any one you choose ; oni / ij : UST ME KNOW VX ± ...

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    Corresponded ^ m u Chatge Heresy agaimt Sir Rose Price , Bart , # 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/27/