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SLEYI Si-f thef theI and neverlappy hand, Bnc'e’* reater shed, con-I him r mo-iment iomi-good under a and rhollyfact-thisILEY,iman,h. It;alcu-s unisuedthingrided,ler of«prac-f, too, yand urch, t the owes h, on tafltisbeing lighted up, by way of deception, in the lustre of their high characters.When’ ' VU1 tWHCUl|IUl rtlICO opuivo UA maw“ unholy alliance between the religious Watchman and the flagitious Times” he was not, perhaps, aware how distinctly that alliance had been ratified on the part of the former of these arcades ambo.,, He will find, however, if he have the patience to look, that, on a certain occasion, it recommended, to the notice of its readers a rich specimen of thatmixed, bully-blackguard style which has earned forthe soi-disant leading journal the nicknames ofThunderer and Puddle dock, as lt;c furnishing an example of the only mode in which its friends of the Wesleyah Connexion, whether ministers or others/*should carry on controversies.• . We have thought it well to draw attention to this fact before introducing to our readers (under theauspices of the Watchman,) a few recent specimensof that peculiar species of writing which attractedits irrepressible admiration- They shall he taken from some tirades upon “ political Dissenters,” subject on which, we know the Watchman and the Times especially sympathize. The Rector of Chelsea and Dr. John Morison, the amiable editor of the Evangelical Magazine, having engaged in a pamphletwar, arising out of an unprovoked attack by therector on the Dissenters within his parish, and Dr. Morison having presumed to vindicate himself and his brethren from the clerical charge of being r‘ .unauthorised teachers,” and their chapels from that of being irregular places,” the Times has taken occasion to prove to Dr. Morison and his brethren how well it can deserve the encomiums of its patron and u ally,” the Watchman, making him and them the subjects of two articles» the one a week after the other. We shall not make ourselves ridiculous by treating these stercoraceous effusionsSi mon v, the crime of buying or selling church-preferment*—•Wamui’s DicTioNAar,
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Christian Advocate
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Nov 21, 1836
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