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or religious opinions ; but we had both of us too much sense tosuffer a diversity of sentiment to deaden the activity of personalattachment. I never attempted either to encourage or to dis-courage his profession of Unitarian principles, for I was happy tosee a person of his rank, professing with intelligence and withsincerity Christian principles. If any one thinks that an Unitar-rian is not a Christian , I plainly say, without being myself anUnitarian, that I think otherwise.

I never printed any thing else in a newspaper except a letterin defence of the Bishop of Peterborough, who had followed theDuke of Grafton in quitting the ministry; and the subsequent onein support of what I conceived to have been neglected by ourChancellor, when he recommended to us for one of our membersof Parliament an obscure country-gentleman : —

“ My Lord Duke,

“ Learned bodies have ever been studious of acquiring the pro-tection of men distinguished either by eminency of rank orexcellency of talents. Your Grace became our Chancellor fromthe united influence of these motives. We were happy in thinkingthat we had attached to our interest a nobleman, whose high birthwould add honour to his abilities, and whose abilities, upon anyemergency, would explain to the House of Lords our ancientprinciples, or solicit for us such new indulgences from the legis-lature as the change of times might render suitable to the par-ticularities of our situation, and conducive to the good of thepublic. ■*

We doubt not Your Grace’s disposition to exert yourself in our