The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

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is 4,11, Everyi one knows how difficult it is to express oneself
'Mtge no shall not be capable of having a wronga
ita...11/11t UPun it ; and that, however carefully worded ``nlent
tallY be, it seldom requires any great amount
. of
iirea°geo:elcitY to extract from it a meaning which its writer never
ler%
.Blit I was not prepared for the amount of per-
u"4"tenuity displayed by Mr. Pollock in his comment
thnotl that
passage of the prospectus in which Mr.. Wray
tot. ,_"041 charging the Puritans with " wanton indiffer-
.o 1° their ordination vows."
„ether
I will not dispute as to
lb It tile Passage is, or is not, grammatically capable of
meanie which Mr Pollock has endeavoured to fix upon
-e 1
have neither time nor inclination to wade through
ttoetriaBB °f Petulant witticisms with which his last letter
e'ier ha but I will venture to assert
.that very few would
letfo,t, Liaeovered such an interpretation of it as he has
inteto'r" ; and that no one would be more astounded by the
ort.retaliteieoku alluded to than Mr. Wray himself.
originally spoke of the prospectus as " a prize
tte purisjaa a document which was never intended to meet
kli4her,", eYe. In reply to this, I asserted that it had been
inte" In the Arai, months ago. Hereupon I am. charged
it
thattipPeer,lticinitl misstatement, because, upon inquiry, meinl'
1,14 Jakietbil,Peints as that first circulated ; and a great parade
~,-.4414,‘,/ Printing the two editions in parallel columns.
kutire't 4 rniastatement, cannot be denied (and here let
et, r. Pollock that it is a matter of perfect indiffer-
Wtitliike Whether he believes or disbelieves the statement tnade
' last, showing that the misstateme.nht. was
111C'd set" uPon my part) : but the point upon
.w
,Vircift;e4llt insist is this—that the edition published in
u"' theret:4 in no essential particular from, the otbeorut;
4Prite 'A I still assert that all Mr. Pollock 's talk a
to
tileet hi °I Wer,;_
the prospectus never being intended. d
Zatile eYe7‘e•; is mere rhodomontade. It was publishe.
gale:4°llth alterations, and some curtailments, it is
es°4-I,ed by a reconsideration of its several parts, but
ter,,,-th'i4e4;ll! the same), containing the same unpalatable
der 41- ailngether as offensive to the Puritans as the
editions would have
the bet° been.
a,ke e •said that no one would suppose that every
trot Ytlit',,t-ned in such a document was intended to apply
.
•ree -°"'vidual of the Puritan party ; but every charge is
tilatzierert.henn: a Pftrty ; an.cl_ therefore is Mr. Wray no
and „ may deny this as regards himself indivi-
."`,th "iintber may deny that ; but the party at large
at the et_
"'"irges br u.ht against them are true to the
tom 14 cc4ii- lien burets
irritation they have displayed.
R4municahare only to say that there has been no
tomy (Nisi "r 1 written or verbal, between myself and Mr.
course of this correspondence. When it
ti-eetec 11° was away from home, as I have been ever
N 4 t4l'-'11"'". Each therefore, has first in your pages
'tteri, of the otter.—l am, Sir, &c.,
K. MACKENZ[E PUGHE.

'7' August 31, 1554

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