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

in8:1111,,--Every one knows how difficult it is to express oneself
ibm "language as shall not be capable of having a wrong
..tung put upon it ; .lateraent and that, however carefully worded a
inge„ • may be, it seldom requires any great amount of
5421101 to extract from it a meaning which its writer never
era let? of.
.But I was not prepared for the. amount of per-
11,12,thigitentuty displayed by Mr. Pollock in his comment
Passage of the prospectus in which M
.r . Wray
t.."mits from charging the Puritans with " wanton Ind' er-
tiee:lnthteeor t.thheeir ordination vows." I will not dispute as to
Passage is, or is not, grammatically capable of
it, for:lnk! which Mr. Pollock has endeavoured to fix upon
the have neither time nor inclination to wade through
ahor,f Of Petulant witticisms with which his last letter
but I will venture to assert that very few would
tetVar Ve discovered such an interpretation of it as he has
th ; and that no one would be more astounded by the
;Pretation alluded to than Mr. Wray himself.
7fil.,Pollock
,w originally spoke of the prospectus as "a prize
14 ?lir Las a document which was never intended to meet
Dablishet,,a.n eye. In reply to this, I asserted that it had been
With.. intetz:lll7l Mail months ago. Hereupon lam charged
misstatement, because, upon inquiry, it
4,1'44. that the edition published in the Mail was not the
-"ue all itpoints as that first circulated ; and a great parade
That bY printing the two editions in parallel cob
its 4.,ade a misstatement, cannot be denied (and here let
tket7re Mr. Pollock that it is a matter of perfect indiffer-
ithiois'ilne whether he believes or disbelieves the statement
tliste,,,M, Ste in my last, showing that the misstatement was
litkotC"anat upon my part) : but the point upon which I
the 44 Present insist is this—that the edition published in
amitZil Varies in no essential particular from the other ;
bspl;trtfore, I still assert that all Mr. Pellock's talk about
4eethfe of war"—the prospectus never being intended to
'4 theteYe, Sze., is mere rhodomontade. It was published
inte,:ail (with alterations, and some curtailments, it is
atjll -"lgested by a reconsideration of its several parts, but
.tratitNeltiallY the same), containing the same unpalatable
'0111.,!$ altogether as offensive to the Puritans as the
editions would have been.
edition
before said that no one would suppose that every
1-
n-,,trove°.atained in such a document was intended to apply
'rat of Individual of the Puritan party ; but every charge is
'411(14214m as a party ; and therefore is Mr. Wray no
1.4411 y 4' One may deny this as regards himself indim
114)rth.' ,44k1 another may deny that ; but the party at large
1"` the charges brought against them are true to the
In an
hence the irritation they have displayed.
(S,°,innci'sinn, I have only to say that there has been no
ray duration, written or verbal, between myself and Mr..
`4faenng the course of this correspondence. When it
!it'ce cec! be was away from home. as I have been ever
'tts the Nursed, Each therefore, has first in your pages
,e letters of the other.—l am, Sir, &c.,
K. MACKENZIE PUGHE

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Nbury
. ?.ugust 31, 1554