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Established Churches. He was resolved, also, that the 

 Witness, under his management, should have a high 

 character as an intellectual newspaper, by no means con- 

 fining itself to ecclesiastical topics, but making wide in- 

 cursions into the realms of literature and still more into 

 those of science. 



We have seen the active part taken by Dr Candlish 

 in bringing Mr Miller to Edinburgh. In his sketches of 

 the General Assembly of 1841, the latter expressed en- 

 thusiastic admiration for Dr Candlish, and for some time 

 the relations between them were most cordial. At what 

 date they began to differ it were bootless to inquire, but 

 no serious discrepancy seems to have occurred in their 

 views of principle and policy until after the crisis of the 

 struggle and the formation of the Eree Church. Three 

 years after the Disruption, Miller felt so deeply aggrieved 

 by the proceedings of Dr Candlish, that he addressed 

 a letter to the Committee of gentlemen who had from 

 the first interested themselves in the paper, repelling the 

 attacks of which he believed himself to be the object. 

 The document contains every particular with which it 

 is necessary for the reader to be acquainted, and the 

 only preface which it may require is a statement of the 

 reasons which have induced Mrs Hugh Miller, her family, 

 and myself to publish it. 



I. Although it was formally private and confidential, 

 Mrs Miller has a distinct recollection that Mr Miller 

 always held himself at liberty to make it public, and did 

 not look upon that contingency as improbable. 



II. Mrs Miller and her family are convinced that, 

 since the vindication of Hugh Miller can be trusted to 

 no pen but his own, the publication of this letter is 



