17096.) 
a poor miferable devil, and have none of 
the fame advantages. I have hurt my- 
felf horribly, and here I am ftill.’’ 
-Not one of the multitude of wounds 
he had made was mortal. Strange as it 
may appear, they were even attended by 
bencficial confequences. By giving vent 
to an internal humour that had long 
preyed upon his conftitution, they re- 
ftored him toa ftate of health he had 
been a ftranger to for years; and Cham- 
fort might now have been alive, if, when 
his wounds were ¢lofed, the furgeons had 
given iffue to that humour by other 
means. But they neglected the precau- 
tion, and this amiable and courageous 
character was foon after feized with a 
mortal difeafe. 
{Thefe anecdotes will be REGULARLY 
CONTINUED, and the Conduors re- 
qucft the affifiance of all perfons who, by 
a recent refidence in France, are qual- 
fied to communicate original and interef- 
ing facts.) ’ 
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ORIGINAL LETTER FROM THE LATE 
Sir GEORGE SAVILE. 
[We have been favoured with the following 
letter by the gentleman to whom it was 
Jent, and who obferves that tt 1s a true 
fac fimule of the frank and liberal mind 
of the truly excellent writer. The fermon 
alluded to, was preached before a regi- 
ment of militia, and afterwards printed } 
Sir, Liverpool, Nov. 19, 1779. 
say I RETURN you the Sermon with 
thanks. It has entertain’d and pleas’d 
me much, I am inclined to think the 
political part of it more confiftently 
treated throughout than the religious. 
The queftion of obedience to unlawful 
commands is foundly laid down, & 
fubject only to that fort of difficulty 
which all political propofitions are liable 
to from the poffibility of being over- 
firained, & of putting cafes which 
fhall drive you to abfurd conclufions, by 
£etting into extremes. Thus it will be 
objected, “ Shall each common foldier judge 
of a nice point of law ?’? Neverthelets the 
doétrine is right and found. 
_ But Ido not fo well like the applica- 
tion of Chriftian virtue, to,enable a na- 
fon “to darken the Roman. fplendour, 
ae 
Original Letter of Sir George Saville. 
(645 
to conquer and blefs the world.” T 
take conquering to blefs, & cutting one 
half of a nation’s threats, to treat the 
other with lenity, to be the moft unchril- 
tian thing in the world. Indeed, I have al- 
ways thought, parcere subjects tobe a very 
foolith, as well as a very impertinent 
fancy language, for man to talk to his 
fellow creatures. 1 do not know whether 
I fhould add to the force of my argument, 
by faying, likewife,' fellow chriftsans, be- 
caufe, I conceive, the great point of the 
Chriitian religion was to teach us we are 
fellow creatures. MODS. 
But, indeed, where is the good of it? 
Why can’t one as well fpare people 
firt ? Iam fure one may fpare more of 
them, & with far lefs trouble. To 
talk of conquering people, and of the divine 
principles of free government, in the fame 
page, (nay, within four lines) makes one 
fick. 
To know whether conquering (under 
the faucy pretence of bleffing) 1s good, 
only afk how you would like for France, 
or Spain, or the Turk, if you pleafe, te 
talk fo to you? ery would all dies you 
, their own way ; fome with circumcifion, 
-fome with the inquifition. And to know 
Whether it is Chriftian, fo to do to others as 
you would not bc done to, 15 fettled, as I 
reinember, fome where or other; fo E 
need not argue it. ; 
Saving the few lines, p. 10, which 
the above refers to, I like the Sermon 
well; but that curfed habit, imbibed 
very early, of applanding fuccefsful ge- 
nerous highwaymen, leads one into ter~ 
rible fcrapes when one fets about to ma- 
nufaéture fuch a warp with a Chriftian 
weft. Charles the 12th muft have been 
a devilifh good Chriflian. What pity 
your Alexanders, &c. had not the fame 
advantages! I think a Roman general 
had mot the greater triumph, unlefs he had 
flain a certain number of men. To 
darken their fplendovr, I fuppofe the 
number muft have been increafed for a 
clever Chriftian triumph. 
And now having, I think, almof 
writ a fermon likewife, I thank you once 
More, & remain, fir, 
Your obliged, and 
Obedient humble fervant, 
. G.SAVILE, 
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T. B. Bayley, eff. 
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