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    certain delicate affair that agitated the king dom some few years since . M ay , Ebenezer Johnston y Esq . P . 297- To this faithful and interesting memoir , &n effusioa of fraternal aff ection , little can be added * The

    late Mr . Johnston possessed a large share © f public spirit . He was a political as well as religious reformer , at a time when it was not always safe to avow the character . His love of liberty was an enlightened sentiment , and though firm , he was never

    intemperate in its assertion . He had not enjoyed the advantage of a learned education , but he was well informed upon a great variety of topics , and found in books solace and amusement . His choice of reading shewed hk good sense and sound taste . We

    might instance in other authors besides Lucas , aanoed by W . J . His mind was characterized by promptitude and self-command . As chairman at public meetings , he appeared to great advantage . He had no inconsiderable portion of humour , and excelled in

    repartee . But his highest praise is , that he was steady in the support of what he regarded as the cause of Christian truth ; that he was uniform in his attention to the duties of piety ; and that he regarded the Christian character as the highest attainment of the human beiilg .

    June . " The Minister ofMalton . " P . 318 . These " Orthodox wilfulMisstatements" remain unexplained , and Mr . Bartlett deserves thanks for exposing " part of a systematic plan for defaming Unitarians , as one step towards robbing them of their places of worship . "

    " Protestant Society . " P . 371 There is much that is good in these anniversaries , but there is some bad taste in the style of the eloquence ; the compliments to the " distinguished" friend of liberty in the chair are too

    bald ; and the detail of little grievances is carried to a length which J ^ ust , one should think , weary the honourable , or noble or royal ( as it maybe ) Churchman in the chair . The Published proceedings have furnished

    uo apt an occasion for derision on he part of the enemies of the Disseners Yet let us acknowledge that we Have always admired the frank and £ > ki manner in which the rights of all fotes tant Dissenters have been vindi-

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    cated at the Protestant Society anniversary . The time may come when the members will acknowledge that the Roman Catholics have rights and endure wrongs also .

    " Anecdotes of Job Orton . " P . 382 . We must have been singularly unhappy in our mode of introducing these extracts , not to have conveyed the impression that we extracted them solely for the purpose of having them contradicted , if , as we suspected , they were untrue . A real and judicious

    friend to the memory of Mr . Orton would have been glad , one should think , that misrepresentations of his character were pointed out , with a call for further information , at a time ( and that time may not be of long con * tiriuance ) and in a work when and where such information could be obtained .

    Nepos , however , was offended ( see pp . 467 , 468 ); but we trust his anger has been appeased by the satisfactory contradictions to Mr . Hazlitt ' s story from the pens of Mr . Belsham ( p . 467 ) and Mr . Jevaus ( p . 530 ) . The signature of our correspondent would lead us to make every allowance for his

    soreness . But why does he adopt , whilst he censures , the flippancy of the " Plain Speaker" ? Referring to Mr . Orton ' s " maternal ancestor , " " the learned Mr . Perkins , " he says , "Mr . Editor , Didst thou ever hear of Perkins ? I dare say not . " Nepos need not he told that there is no wit

    in this , and we think that in reading it again he will acknowledge that it is not quite consistent with good manners . At the risk of still further offending this querulous correspondent , the Editor will venture to inform

    him that he had studied Perkins before he had heard the name of Job Orton . —Still , that he may not be mistaken or be undesi £ nedly instrumental to historic injustice , he begs to state , that he has a sincere respect for Mr . Orton ' s memory , from some of whose books at one period he derived no small advantage . He does not

    agree with all this writer ' s judgments of books , much less with all his political decisions , some of which have been happily falsified by the event ( Nepos may perhaps know that we refer to his opinions on the Arnericaa War ) ; but we bear cheerful testimony to the sound maxims and p rudential advice which he has left oa record for

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    Review of the preceding Numbers of this Voltlme . 70 JT

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/7/