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    calculated to effect the avowed object « rftke luatiuitton , which the excellent recent publication of Ram mo ha n Roy , entitled , l % e Precepts of Jesus Hie 4 * wi (} & t $ Pe& £# and Happiness , willI » rove tao t&e conviction of many , " ; ; ?

    But at leagth he was brought to consent , aad filled the office during" two S ^ ars . This object of Le Griefs anxlety was effected at last , by a letter of' eight pages , addressed to the Baronet , ii * which he was pressed hard to become President by I * . O ., who states * * ' that be did it for the sole purpose

    of removing the prejudice he entertained against the Society and against tbe Established Church , and that he tfeoagltf liis acceptance at length was an attestation of his being converted from his error / ' " He triumphed m the thought that he had made a convert < of kirn . "

    In this transaction we cannot fail to perceive a sort of double dealing ; well worthy the advocate of established error . He thought , if he could not convince * he should at least silence the foe , and prevent the mischief he

    tmgbt be doing . Still it seems that Sir Rose did not blink the question , but weat on avowing his dissent from the opinions of the Church . He is charged with telling the clergymen who had taken alarm . " Mv Msentiwho bad taken alarm Cf y

    senti-, rnents are well known ; I promulge them ev $ ry where ; and I will disseminate them by every means in my power *" I » January last , two of the clergy

    waited on the Baronet , as they said , In a private , confidential manner , to request hica to resign his office as President ; but as he had not accepted of the honourable post without much solicitation , he discovered his tenacity when invested with it : at least he did

    not choose tp resign on the grounds which they offered to his coasideratlon ; because , he observes , ' * that his principles were well known , and that with the knowledge of those principles he has been raised by the clergy into his dignity /* A meeting was called ,

    m consequence of his refusal , © f the Goto mit tee of the district , and he soon received a copy of their resolution to displace him , and appoint his friend I * e Orice ii Ms jroom ^ " in consequence of his avowed disbelief of the essential doctrines pf the EstaWisfted Church , aad of his declared defcerim-

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    nation to disseminate his opinions by every means in his pbwen * Soon after this , the attention of the public vyas fitst called to the subject , by a long address of five columns of close , small print in a newspaper , under the signature « rf L& ( jnce ; ia which address , not without reason , lie lexpresses ¦ " his dread of the tedious ^ ne $ 8 of the task he had uodertaken ,

    and his fear for the patience of the public . " The next week brought out a reply from the Baronet , dated 3 rd February $ that a rejoinder by L . O * ; and this again a long letter from Sir Rose , in which he takes leave of the

    controversy , ajad declares , " lie will have no further communication with him on the subject , as it is out of his power to read any reply to this letter . ^ Sir Hose charges Le Grice with betray iag a private eorretpondence , " which , as a man of honour , lie was

    forbidden to produce in the support of his opinions , contrary to the true intent and meaning of the contract expressed in his letter , 8 th April , the conversation being private with two clergymen in his own house , who

    begged him to understand * that they toaited 0 ) 2 him out of respect , and hoped he would consider it as such ? " Notwithstanding which , L . < x . stated , in his published letter , the substance of the conversation which then passed between them . s

    I am much at a loss , Sir , to select the parts of this correspondence which should be laid before your readers . To give it all , or even the substance of it , would be an abuse of your induLgance . I will , however , remark upon those points of the controversy which will be the most interesting to them .

    Sir Rose is charged with declaring in the presence of the clergymen who waited on him , that he was a Unitarian : which he denies . He said , He was not quite a Unitarian , that he believed in the doctrine of the

    Atonement , which the Unitarians do iiot . " On this point the Baronet seems to be somewbat inisty , and , ia truth , mil find few Unitarians who will , unite with him , if his opinion , which i * given by L . e Grice in these words / lie true : ** I think the atonement wa&

    by Christ's obedience to all C&pd ^ commands , and by submitting to an ignominious death ; but mot through his blood , as your church $ uppa&es ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/24/