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Objections of great frength will no 
doubt offer themfelves to a thinking man, 
why Theifm is ill adapted for a popular 
and focial religion? Its evidences are too 
metaphyfical, its morality too vague, and 
its fanétions too equivocal ; but thefe rea- 
fons cannot juftify an arbitrary interpefi- 
tion of the political governor to refift the 
profeffion of {uch a rejigion. In the cafe 
of Collins, and many others, it has been 
found compatible with high degrees of 
perfonal probity and public virtue. A fe- 
dulous attention to individual morality 
commonly diftinguifhes the profeffors of a 
new and fomewh2t obnoxious faith: fuch 
attention bas lefs motive if the converts 
are not permitted to embody as a {cparate 
fociety. Intolerance can affeét very lit-le 
the fecret progrefs of any opinion; but it 
may defraud fociety of the gain which 
public infpection and voluntary difcipiine 
would add to the moral worth of its ad- 
herents. 
It is a common intereft of all fects to 
obtain fo each that degree of lecurity 
and protection, which is already extended, 
in the cae of Jews, beyond the. Chriitian 
pale, by :nany European fovereigns; and 
which under the Britith Conftitution, al- 
ready embraces in Hindoftan both the 
Moflem, and the Idolater. 
EE 
To the Editor of the. Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE perufal of Dr. Watkins’s Biogra- 
phical Dictionary has given me great 
fatisfa€lion; and as J obferve in your Jaft 
number the author requcits commuaica- 
tions of negl<¢ted articles, and the ret fi 
cation of errors through. your refpected 
pubiication, 1 beg his accep ance of the 
following additional fketches. 
SIR WALTER RALEGH. 
To the account of this great man might 
have been added fome notice of his fon, 
Carew Ratecu, who was born in the 
‘Tower of London in 1604, and was edu- 
cated at Wadham College, Oxford. Af- 
ter {pending five years sn the univerhry, 
he went tocourt: but the king, not liking 
his countenance, faid, ‘* he appeared to 
him like his father’s ghof: on which 
his friend, the Earl of Pembroke, advifed 
him to travel, as he did till the death of 
James, which happened about 2 year a‘ter. 
On his return, he petition:d Parliament to 
rellore him in bl od, that he might be 
enabled to inherit whatever lands fllonid 
fall to him as his father’s heir, or in any 
other way. 
But after his petition had been read 
Biography—C.. Ralegh—C. Heron. 
(Sept. 1, 
twice in the Houfe.of Lords, the king fent 
for Mr. Ralegh, and told him that he had 
promiled to fecure the manor.of Sherborn 
to the Lord Digby, it having been given by 
King James to that nobleman, on the dif- 
giace of Car, Earl of Somerfet,.on whom 
it had been beftowed when Sir Walter Ra- 
legh was attainted. Mr. Raliegh: endea- 
voured to convince the king of the juftice 
of his claim, but in vain; fo that at 
length he was uncer the neceflity of com- 
plying with the royal pleafure, and to give 
up his inheri:ance. On this fobmiffion, 
an aét was pafled for his reftoration,, and 
with it a fettlement of Sherborne on Dig- 
by, Earl of Briftol, However, a pentfion 
of 40o0l.a year was granted to.Mr Ralegh 
fter the. death: of. his. mother, who had 
that fum paid during life in lieu of her 
jointure. About a year afrer this, he mar- 
ried the widow of Sir Anthony Afhley, by 
whom he had two fons and three daugh- 
ters. ' Not long afterwards, he was. made 
one of the geatlemen.of the king’s. privy- 
chamber. In 1645, he wrote a Vindica- 
tion of his father againft fome mifrepre- 
fentations. which. Mr. James Howel. had 
made relative to the mine-aftair of Guiana. 
After the death of the king, he applied to 
Parliament for a reftoration of his eftate! 
but though his petition was favourably re- 
ceived, he was not fuccefsful. in his ap- 
plication, although he publifbed, in order 
to enforce the neceflity of his claim, 4 
brief Relation. of Sir Walter Ralegh’s 
Troubles. In 1656, he printed his Ob- 
fervations on Sanderfon's Hiftory of King 
Sames, which were replied to by that hil- 
torian with confiderable afperity. In 16595 
hy the favour of Gene:al Monk, Mr. Ra- 
Jegh was appeinted governor of Jerfley. 
King Charies. If, wou'd have centered 
fome mark of favour upon him, but he de- 
clined it. His fon Walter, however, re- 
ceived the honour of knightheod. from 
that monarch. Mr. Ralegh died in 1666, 
and was buried in his. fa her’s grave at 
St. Margaret's Weftminfter. 
Anthory Woed fays, that he had feen 
fome fonnets of his compefition, and cer- 
tain ingenious d:fcouifes in MS. 
CECILIA HERON. 
This ingenious lady was the third and 
yousgell daughter of Su Thomas More, 
and was born in Lon@pa im igre. She 
was educate’ in almoft all kinds «© earn- 
ing in her father’s goufe, under the fame — 
mafters that inffeu&ted her filters, in which 
fhe made a confiderable progrefs. She 
was a complete mittrefs of the Latin lan- - 
guage, which fhe wrcete with great purity 5 
and for which fhe is highly GD secibiiy 2 
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