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learning deserved. Those talents were of a very 

 exalted cast, and his powers of labour, while his health 

 remained unbroken, were fully equal to any demand 

 upon them. His merits in spotless integrity, perfect 

 temper, sound judgment, and devotion to his prin- 

 ciples, have been often and fully acknowledged even 

 by political adversaries, and never exaggerated by 

 the partiality of friends. But some of the most zeal- 

 ous (Cockburn, for example) have greatly underrated 

 his talents, and really suppressed some of the most 

 extraordinary instances of their successful display. 



To return to the Eeview, it may be observed that, 

 beside the exception taken to occasional vehemence 

 of the censures on works, there arose some doubts 

 upon the orthodoxy of the opinions in religion, and 

 objections to the undeniable bias against the existing 

 policy and ministerial arrangements. The attacks on 

 the Methodists by Sydney Smith gave great offence 

 to a large and powerful body, the Evangelical party, 

 especially in England. They complained, and most 

 justly, that he had confounded the Calvinistic with 

 the Arminian Methodists, charging the former with 

 all the views of the latter, which such men as 

 Wilberforce and Henry Thornton, Babington, Ste- 

 phen, and Macaulay were just as incapable of fall- 

 ing into as Sydney Smith himself. * The Eeview 

 suffered not only from this great mistake, but from 



* The article is in the Keview for January 1808, in the form of a 

 review on ' Causes of the Increase of Methodism and Dissension,' by 

 Robert Acklem Ingrain, B.D. 



