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T ^^ fl ^ % <^ t ^ * fo whfeh htt w a ^^ l ^ i ^ P ^ oprfetoif > ' « foi * e tfc >^ ia 4 « tJ 6 rt # & * * ' < 4 taie HH beitig * &o g ^ nVjbttttn ^ aftid la ^ fe ftB ^ # ter ( i 6 k ^^; Sfrdul * fak ^ the ^ pfetrtm ^ nt tf £ tt e * k-da * tnetin the purlieus of St . James s-street , he being , in his voettt&ki ' ttf * ^ etifcft ^ &w , * admissible to coteries riorpSndtt-able by the regular known r ^ Jtorters of the journal , tf the fac ts' be not so * EdWard Sferlnig'bkn contradict them , and thus disabuse the frequenters of iritite than one bookseller ' s shop of their errors . But Edward
Stealing has given evidence , if report speaks truth , that he has infrrfe respect to principle than Thomas Barnest for , when the 'Times * was sold to the Tories , he resigned his office and salary . In ah honourable spirit he refused to sanction with his pen the ftefaridtis violation of principle , which his coadjutors had not boggled a " t . But he is still understood to be a proprietor of the ¦• 'TOfe *^'
" Edward Sterling-, in his letter to John Roebuck , having * denied all the charges made against him , John Roebuck withdrew them iigtekabl y to the modern cartels of ' honour . ' This wa . 6 don £ by IK ^' ftdWee oF William Molesworth , one of the patriot bsm < i , whose ^ oikthful efforts betoken a spirit which in mature tfgS will rriarshai iM the people to higher objects than they have hitherto sought . tie " must have smiled at the absurdities in ^ hich he was
con-|* tYarhed to be an actor . These duel farces surely arfc on in ® eve 6 f extinction . 111 The letter of Edward Sterling is a sample of ' res | pe table bombast . It seems to me that it did not require so apologetic a letter as was sent in answer . The simple mode for John Roewek would have been to reply by questions to Edward Sterling , yoWlething as follows . ' Are you a proprietor of the " Times ? " ' * Do you write in the " Times / ' and use the pronoun " we ?" fit * 't ) o you receive a salary as a writer of editorial articles for the ^ THnes ? ? I ' 4 fVou answer these questions in the affirmative , then have If to is
^ foWe yoi no wrong . the firm you belong infamous , you kn ^ i be ^ . ' feharer in the infamy . * If you answer them in the negative , then I have done you Wroh ^/' 1 ' Stteh a letter as this would probably have been replied to by a ^ haflfetrge , but what then ? If John Koebuck has not the moral ttoiir&ge to Tefuse to fight a duel at the bidding of every atigry ' tyufly , then he is not fitted to be a leader of the people .
I Join * Roebuck , in * the pamphlet on the Stamped Press , rather ttnhecessaTily aptAies hard words ta Albany Fonblamjue , and f 'ASH ^ ttrjf FrtJbkinque fed xinheee ^ sarily * calls him out . ' Mutulal W ^^ t 5 bh ^^ rWrA * Ae , ktfo thfer ^ the m » tter > nd » . Now ftilrely tHis H * Wki ti 6 i ittfedW 1 . " Aib ^ tiy ^ FbiMatt ^ n ^ ri lie ^ hd *^ ^ h cilt ^ Iitee a ' Wtikftoiim ; tires xrf his ^ o ^ w ^^> nv h ^ ^ ttii itV * ilieh all the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/52/
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