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    ra 1 and Revealed , it is irue , that a bigot might intrude controversy into thefce , attd indeed into any subjects ; but a professor , filling a national ehair , dependent on the public for his support , and having nothing but his character tfbr learning and integrity and the lore of truth to procure him their favour , would be placed in circumstances peculiarly favourable for preserving a tone of candour and impartiality in his lectures ; and , for instruction in what the Germans call Dogmatic Theology , and the grounds of the

    different controversies agitated among Christians , each sect might make a separate anamgei » en t and a specific provision . In every point of view , considering the advancement of moral truth as supremely important to the continued haatppaaess of mankind , we trust the moral sciences will receive equal encouEageinent with the physical in the London University * Our prayer is , that the lcrve of troth may be the presiding genius of the place . If our hopes are realized , if learning and talents and eloquence meet with the encouragement they deserve , and . the Dissenters heartily avail . themselves of

    the advantages which such Jm institution so ^ bundftRtly ^ presents , we shall not despair of ultimately seeing a race of jnoral and Christian teachers arise , wtovwAfh the various and accurate learning , the discriminating judgment and correct taste of the Bishop of Peterborough , shall combine that unconfined spirit of Christian charity and that attachment to the rights and liberties ^ mattkkid , wto we are sorry to say the present Ghar ^ ge will no t att&w nw tkoudd to has Lordship ' s other esdowments , and to the . cultivation of fl » bicb we fear there me Jaut too many -obstacles within the limits of an ostefolishrafint .

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    Art . III . —The Constitutional History of England , from the Accession of Henry VII . to the Death of George Tl . By Henry Hallam . In 2 Vols . 4 to . London * Murray , 1827 *

    ( Continued fmm p . 173 . ) In the second volume of his Constitutional History , Mr . Hallam resumes fhe narrative of the dissensions between the King and the Parliament , and traces it at considerable length to the death of Charles , in 1648 . In his estimate of ( he character of the two contending parties , he differs as much from

    Hume on the one hand , as from Mrs . Macatdey and Mr . Godwin on the other . By the admirers of the former it will probably be thought that he has drawn too harsh a character of the King ; by the partizans of the latter , that he has not done justice to the merits of the Parliament . In his desire to be most strictl y impartial , it does indeed seem to us that Mr . Hallam has judged the Parliament too severely in passing upon them the following sentence :

    " Of the Parliament , Ao begin with the more powerful and victoripus party , it may belaid , I think , with not greater severity than truth , that scarce two or three public acts of justice , humanity , or generosity , and very few of political wisdom or courage , are recorded Of them from their quarrel with the Kmg to their expulsion by Croinwifll . "—Vol . II . p . 2 . Of the justice or generosity of fhe Long Parliament , it may be difficult to qpeak jba favourable terms . The men who erected HjighXJourts of Justice to deprive their political enemies of the advantages which the free judgment of A jury would have g iven them , —the men who shackled the press with fresh restrictions , and who , for the offence of slander , passed a sentence of banish-

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    25 Q Review . —HaJktin's € &x * titutioml Hutonj of England .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/34/