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    learn , that this gentleman is decidedly of opinion that the charges of immorality , profaneness ^ and open flagitiousness , which have been brought

    against the Genevese , are illiberal and unjust , and in direct opposition to the truth . Let me then advise those who circulate these charges , to remember and obey the commandment , " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour . " ROBERT BAKEWELL .

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    up the pure worship of one God , to follow either Pagan or Christian idolatry . I hope , Sir , you have more of the intelligent writer ' s remarks to give us on the same history ; I hope you will

    proceed with them , and let us know by what means this admirable general led his army dry-sliod over the red sea . We shall , perhaps , learn that , when he paid his visit to the Arabian shepherd , whose daughter he married , he first became acquainted with the tides

    of the ocean , and approaching the arm of that sea at a favourable moment , took advantage of the outset of the water and drew the Egyptian Monarch after him , just when the tide was returning in its strength . An event ,

    Sir , for which even Britons are not always prepared ; for we are informed that King John , in the contest with his Barons , conveying his artillery and baggage and treasures from Lynn into Cambridgeshire , was so inexperienced in the tides of his own coast that he

    lost them all in the Wash between that county and Lincolnshire , and narrowly escaped with his life , in consequence of the unlooked-for return of the waters upon him . Of the character and power of tides the Egyptian King must have been ignorant .

    From this same interesting quarter we may , perhaps , learn , that the thunders and lightnings of Mount Sinai , might well frighten the Hebrews , who had passed their days in a land where rain and storms were unknown , although they could not move the soul

    of their general , enlightened as it had been , both by the learning of the college of HeliopoLis and an intercourse with that country of many years' residence . Above all , I look with some anxiety to the same quarter for information on the great question of the language which was employed by the

    Hebrew Legislator , and m what kind of marks the ten commandments were written , whether in hieroglyphics or m alphabetical characters . The barbarous people just escaped from an abject slavery were probably acquainted with no written language ; that which their leader made use of would

    be what he had learned of the priests of Egypt . Was the song of Moses , so faithfully reported , committed to writing or rehearsed by the Hebrew bards ,

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    Mosaic Mission . 335

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    Sir , 4 /« y 21 , 1825 . YOUR readers are indebted to you for the very ingenious and entertaining paper on the Mosaic Mission , ( pp . 194—204 , ) translated from the ft A _ a— _ — a * h > < h -M

    — . German of Schiller . In the character of Editor , you are not supposed to be accountable for the opinions of your correspondents , nor have you thought it necessary to caution your readers against the belief that the sentiments which have been offered to our minds ,

    under the siguature of J . P . S ., were those which you hold ; why , then , should you fear lest we believe you heretic enough to think , as the learned Schiller thinks on the Divine Legation of Moses , and under that painful apprehension assure us t ^ at you < c give the paper as a literary curiosity , not

    at all pledging yourself to its doctrine" ? I will not say what some of your suspicious readers may remark upon this gratuitous notice . However , I am delighted to think that , under the fearful pretext of your entertaining such heretical notions , you did not withhold from us this excellent

    piece altogether . But where were the evil although a Christian indulged thoughts running parallel ia some measure with those of Schiller ? Are we obliged to take up all the orthodox opinions of the Old Testament , while we hold ourselves at liberty to reject those of the New ? It is well known what the

    most intelligent part of the Jewish nation have long thought of Moses . They do not say he was an impostor . They regard him as a great man , and not having yet met with one more

    wise than he , they follow the religion to which he gave birth , and prefer it to all others ; and , all things considered , we respect their motive and admire weir integrity . They will not give

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/15/