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DR. DRUMMOND'S LETTERS TO LORD MOUNTCASHELL.
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To the Editor , Sir , Dublin , May 9 , 1828 . A new Society , calling itself a Reformation Society , has started up , in
Ireland . One of its fundamental rules is , that its members must profess belief in the doctrine of the Trinity . At one of its meetings , held at Fermoy on Thursday , January 24 , 1828 , the Earl of Mountcashell presided . The Southern Reporter informs us , that " on the following Tuesday , the , last day of discussion , a military guard was introduced . Those who defended the Roman Catholic cause expressed discontent at this measure . The red coats were removed , and the debate recommenced amidst alarm and
confusion , and in a short trme the meeting dissolved . " In consequence of this , the Protestant inhabitants of Fermoy presented an address to Lord Mountcashell , eulogizing his character and conduct . To this address Lord Mountcashell replied , and in his reply took occasion to introduce my name , to call me a Socinian , and class me with Infidels and Deists . I have therefore thought proper to remonstrate with his Lordship in some letters , the first of which accompanies this ; and if you think it suited to the pages of the Monthly Repository , I will send the rest in monthly succession . W . H . DRUMMOND . No . I .
My Lord , In your late address to the Protestant inhabitants of Fermoy , you have done me the honour to introduce my name . The notice of a nobleman of your Lordship ' s character might well gratify an individual of much higher consideration than he who how addresses you . But in me it has excited
other feelings than those of gratified pride ; for you have placed my name in association with that of Infidel and Deist , and spoken of me in a manner which a regard for my own character forbids me to overlook . You have therefore , authorized me to rernotistrate-with your Lordship , and to make a few observations on some parts of your address which do not seem to \* h
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XIX .
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JULY , 1828 .
Dr. Drummond's Letters To Lord Mountcashell.
DR . DRUMMOND ' S LETTERS TO LORD MOUNTCASHELL .
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VOL . II . 2 I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/1/
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