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PRICE 111.

LETTERS OF ~ ANGLICANUS,"

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EDINBURGH OBSERVER.
Sir,—Having been made the subject of various
raise and insulting assertions in advertisements, and

other forms, to which your columns have been made
accessary,. I trust you will allow me, through the
same medium, to give some explanation of my cor
duct; for though I can willingly and cheerfully, for
my own part, take, whence it comes, all the obloquy
that the press has for ten days past been employed
to pour out upon me ; yet, aspect for my character
as a minister of Christ, and for the affectionate con-
grecation with which I am united, enjoins me not
to slight altogether the reproaches, though unjuu,
and the' insinuations, though unfounded, that are
brought against me. My -adversaryr—for I know
riot by what other name in this instance to charac-

:etise him,—seems to hold that his assertion eou-
ers truth on whatever he is pleased to say, turd

that the public will credit whatever he asserts, when
in the month of December .he proclaims me, iN the

newspapers, to be the author of a work, which, in
January, in the lnstructor," he declares me to be
utterly incapable of producing ; and having, in an

adroit but discreditable manner, come at the know‘-

Ledge of a circumstance which I really took no pains
to conceal—my having had a hand in the publica-
tion of" Anglicanus' Letters"—he takes upon him,
thence, boldly to assert that I had also a share in the

authorship; and not having evidence to help him a
step farther, he sets about the invention of an hypo-
thesis, which he :trusts the public will give him

credit for being able to substantiate. No doubt he
did what he could to turn the printer's brains inside
out ; but the poor man could not tell him what he
did not know, nor furnish him with any helps to the
discovery of the author. The pamphlet opens with

an account of the meeting held in the Assitul.4
Rooms on the 9th of July last; and he settles
the thing as certain, which I admit to be

highly probable, that the individual who writes
the, account must have been there, and could
riot possibly have been helped to his informatics
by the description of another. And, farther, he takes
it for granted, that in the crowd said to have been
met on that occasion, not one individual could have
been present whose person and sentiments were not
both so well known to him as to enable him to set
aside all who were not, and to fix infallably on the
single individual who could have been the author of
the first, and, by consequence, of the subsequent
letters in the series. Not, however, being quite
satisfied with this conclusion, and that individual not
being the person against whom he wishes to level
his principal attack, he lays hold of me to bear the
brunt of his indignation : but still distrustful of his
theory, he goes out. of his way to bring in a third
person, a relative of the other parties, who, it seemed
not unlikely, might have been engaged in the
production with the other two. In proof of what ht
says, he brings forward a sentence in a publication
of mine, between which and the sentences in the
letters of Anglicanus he finds a resemblance ; and as
I am undoubtedly not Anglicanus, at least now in
the month of January, lie strips me of the credit of
that sentence, and of several other, chiefly un-
published, productions, in order to ascribe them, with
the greater part of the letters in hand, to certain in-
dividuals, unknown as authors, and of whose style,
neither he nor the public have had the means of
forming a judgment. On such rash, reckless, un-
warrantable conjectures, he is satisfied to institute
one of the most brutal and licentious attacks that
ever proceeded from his pen. They are, like the
multitude of things he continually vends, the pro-
duce of pure ignorance, linked with an insatiable
desire of being thought knowing, and are, with all
who are really informed, a full attestation that the
matter is still a mystery to him,—of the same cha-
racter with his advertisements, contrived for eliciting
information and provoking discovery. The author,
I have great satisfaction in telling Dr. Thomson.
is very independent of his opinion, content so fat
with the effect of his work, which was not designed
to flatter or even to please, and with the proof, which
Dr. Thomson's full answer furnishes, of his having
found it unanswerable.
My share in the publication has been simply this :
—The writer of the first letter had presented it

anonymously to the editor of a newspaper, by whom
it was not received : he felt the want of an intro-
duction, and applied to me to get it inserted for him
in any paper I thought proper, which service I un-
dertook without difficulty. The other letters were
afterwards transferred to me, successively, as they
were written, not for alteration, but for publication.
My duty by them was to convey them to the prin-
ter, and to superintend the press. I procured leave
to make some retrenchments ; and some expressions,
or even sentences, that had been 'put out in the
manuscript were restored again in the proof in my
hand-writing. Beyond this, I solemnly affirm, I did
not go. The preface was not of my composition,
and never existed in my hand-writing. The asser-
tion, that it and the copy of the pamphlet furnished
to the printer, were, to a certain extent, in my writ-
ing, is utterly false. One of the notes, I believe, I
had occasion to copy over, but in that I acted the
authorship of Anglicanarre;iw,./e..dis..e.laimincr the
resent, as I ought, the extreme insolence of those
newspaper interrogatories that have been addressed
to me on the subject, importing that I held the im-
putation a dishonour from which I wanted to escape,
and that the work had not as good a right to appear
anonymously as any other publication or article pro-
ceeding from the periodical press. The just right,
of the author forbid my admitting of the mistaken
imputations of the work to me; though the insulting
manner and insidious object of the first manifesto on
the subject determined rue against meeting the chal-
lenge with earlier notice. As to my opinion of it,
there are passages, which, if it had been mine, would
not have had a place in it. I may say, as Burke of
Junius, " I could not have written these letters if I
would; and if I could, I would not." Alterations
occurred to me, which I should have been glad to
have made; but I forbore intermeddling, feeling that
to assume a share in the composition of the work
might be to involve myself in a degree of responsibi.
lity for all its sentiments, a consequence I could by no
means accede to. With respect to the church of .vhich
I am a minister, and the country in which Providence
has fixed my lot, my sentiments must have been cast
in a different mould from those of Anglicanus; yet
apologise for the views he has taken. We have oei
failings and peculiarities, and no wonder if the tile.
and the subject rendered them more cons
tahpe; o t
1 might wish, to a lover of the Bibldeio,:i,eov_coiticaltaYndlinxe‘N:l;;
circumstances. The satire is uulirngitehntr,ePsalield'il.iPlPotehhatni'll,',
harsh : it presents also but one side of
but there is evidently truth in it, or
have produced the sensation it has
higher
sher
character,
should we hold any thing obnoxious which it may h.
a benefit for. us to kibtoorwn:
parts of the work which,
Christian Instructor,'
it in some degree to the
it certainly would have
been more to my taste, had it been ftee from al
such resemblance; though 1 am not sure that i
this case it would have commanded so much ettee
I must own,
tion. And, for the complaints of those who hay

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