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      r 1 ^ is alleged that a manuscript wonikof Milton ' s hm been discovered in the State Paper Office , but in the hand of bis nephew Phillips . It is theological and controversial , and consequently , ( says the Editor of the Monthly Magazine , of whose reasoning this is no favourable specimen , ) of little interest or value 3 < f if

      printed * ? ' ( adda Sir Richard , who really appears not < to know that to . Milton ' s polemical tracts we owe some of the finest bursts of- his genius , and what is more , the earliest assertion of the principles of religious liberty , ) ' < it could only addrto the lumber of the polemical writings of his bewildered times . " We hope tfrai no such critic as this will have it in

      his power to stifle even a fragment of MUton ' s ou any subject whatever ; though we cannot help fearing that in this instance , the intelligence may be as little worth sis fche judgment of the Monthly Magazine . We had written this , when the Metro-Spective Review * No . XVII . came into

      On * hands , and from , this we learn , that the discovery of the Miltou manuscript i $ fceal . The discovery is attributed to the < Deputy * Keeper of Records , in the State Paper Office , Mr . Lemon , to whoi ^ ta very high compliment is paid . The writer iu the Reyiew differs ao far from the Editor of the Monthly Magazine , that he

      prono uoces the discovered work to be f * i « magnitude and importance of subject * surpassing all that has hitherto been known of Milton ' s remains in prose : " ami in a note , p . 122 , he gives the fofc lowing description of the MS .- ~* *« Wet shall do no injustice to the gentleman wlio ^ i has xn ade . this discovery , mnfl . 1 » therefore entitled to all the credit of the

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      first announcementy' by faerety stating that it appears to be the identical work which is referred , to . by Anthony Wood * in his account of Milton . ( Athens OxonU ensis ) asva theological writer , under some such title as ?! Idea TbeologSse , " and stated to have got into the hands of the author ' s friend , Cyriae Skinner ; since which it is not known what had become

      of it . It was found in a neglected corner of the Old State-Paper Office , Whitehall , wrapped in a * cover , directed to * M r * Skinner , Merchant , together with a MS * copy of some of Milton's Latin Letters , already published * And , besides the name of the author written on the

      title-page , it is identified by a comparison of the hand , writing , which Mr . Tddd has ( we are informed ) examined and a&cerf fained to be that of Edward Phillips , the Nephew of-MUton , { in the first 100 pages which are fairly copied , ) and that of one of his two daughters , with many

      interlineations in that of the other ( duriiig the remainder of the work ? consisting of be , * tween 400 and 500 pages ) . It is a treatise in Latin , divided into books and chapters , of considerable extent * and apT pearing % o be in a state of complete preparation for the press , "

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      124 Intelligence . ' ^ MiscetMneiiitis ^ ' ^ IjUerdtyi ^ ParUamentarff .

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      m * he churchy with a woman whom he had formerly baptized ,, and himself mar ? ifed all his fooi * children ^ .

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      , TkE Hulsean Dissertation -Prize at Cambridge , for the year 1 & 23 > has been adjudged to William CiAYTON Walters , Esq ., B . A ., F-elJow- of Jesus College : Subject , The Nature arui Advantage , _ of the Infiumce of the Holy Spirit . (* Advantage % > is an odd word , in this application , but the theologians at Cambridge nmy be pardoned for connecting ** advan-3

      tage" anct « the Holy Spirit . ' ) The subject of the " Dissertation for the present year fe ^ suggested by tot . Bentham * s book , * f Not Pacil , but Jestis / and is worded , The DocMnes of our Saviour , as derived from the four Gospel * , ure m perfect harmony with the Doctrines of St . Pav 2 9 as derived front his Epistles .

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      Feb . 4-Sir Jollitf Newport gave notice that 09 the 49 th instant , ( afterwards postponed

      to March 2 , ) he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for the Repeal of the 9 William llL ch « 7 , and for declaring and securing the right of burial for Roman Catholics and all other Dissenters .

      Feb . 6 th . Sir J . Newport moved for papers to enable the House to ascertain the steps taken by Government on the violated right of sepulture . His motion was " for copies of all communications

      made to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the subject of the interruptions given to the burial of the Roman Catholics , and copies of the answers which had been returned to such communications . "

      Mi \ GouiBUkN put it to the prudence of the Righjt Honourable Gentlemen , whether on & subject of all others the most delicate , the mo § t calculated to excite popular feelhfg , he would persist iu his mption : the spirit of party could not hate found out a 3 ubject more dangerous

      than that to which the communications Iti question referred . Sir John Newvotit ^ said he should certainly persevere , tt W d \ ie to the people of Ireland , wltose' fecilfings had been scandalously outraged ; it" was due to justice that the documents should b& presented to the

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/60/