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him moft: in that particular view of his 
character. But in the work alluded to, 
Sir, he was reviewing the perfecutors 
of a particular period and directing his 
violence againft men aéfing as perfecu- 
tors; and not againft men acting as cler- 
gymen, oras bifhops. It is butjuftice to 
obferve, that he makes this diitinétion in 
his Preface. Inthe fame Preface, alfo, 
he certainly {peaks very feverely againtt 
the Eftablifhed Church, but not till after 
he has been calculating what he appre- 
hended to be its injurions effects on the 
happinefs, principies, and liberties, of the 
country. At the iame time, he puts in a 
caveat againit any mufconceptions of his 
objét ; intimating, that if he had the 
whole Eftablifhed Church at his difpofal 
as much as any ‘fovereign defpot had 
his flaves, he would not deprive it, by 
force, of one rite, of one ceremony, or of 
one prayer ; that he would only prevent it 
from impofing formularies and creeds on 
others, and from doing injury to other {o- 
cieties ; in fhort, that he would feparate 
the church from the ftate, and leave princi- 
ples, creeds, and prayers, to fhift for them- 
felves. Had Robinfon’s violence been 
directed againft men acting merely as cler- 
gymen, or bifhops, and not as perfecutcrs 5. 
had it been groundlefs attack or indi ferimi- 
cate cenfure, I thould not have taken notice 
of N.N.’s Letter ; but, taking into the ac- 
count the times of which Robinfon was wri- 
ting, and the faéts to which he appeals, T 
conclude that hislanguage wasviolent only 
againft intolerance, and betrayed no malig- 
nity of heart. Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
G. Dyer. 
P.S. The writer of this Letter certainly docs 
not believe nor approve many things that will 
be maintained in Robinfon's mifcellaneous 
works; but, independently of a with for the 
intereft of his widow, he is convinced that this 
Mifcellany will give proof of very benevo- 
lent feelings, and many liberal fentiments 
He has, therefore, taken the liberty of 
dropping thefe hints. The work will be con- 
‘tained in four volumes, price to fubfcribers 
twenty-four fhillings : money tobe paid on 
the delivery of books, Names are taken by 
Mr. Benjamin Flower, at Cambridge ; and by 
Mr. Johnfon, St. Paul’s Church-yard, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
4 BERS ; 
Bakes in your Magazine fer 
last April, a Letter from Common 
Senfe, I will trouble you with a few Ob- 
fervations on the fame fubjeét. 
Experience has proved that a foot-foldier 
Thould not have either fword or piftol; and 
that the firelock combining the properties 
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of both in a fuperior degree, will be more 
effe€tually ufed by. the man who has not 
other arms to depend upon, or to encum-~ 
ber him. 
Amongft other improvements on the 
arms of the Britith foldiers, the lergthen- 
ing the bayonet ovght to be adopted, as . 
it would increafe the advantage which they 
have ever had over their enemies in the ufe 
of it: the bayonets fhould alfo be fcrewed 
on, inftead of the prefent mode of fixing 
thems ; 
The locks, which are the moft effential, 
are in every particular objeStionable; to 
remedy this, an advanced price mult be 
given, and the trifling additional ex- 
pence of five fhillings would be fuffictent. 
Our flints are the worft in Europe, and 
indeed in the world; for the correétnefs of 
which affertion, I appeal to all foldiers 
who have had an opportunity of comparing 
them. vane 
The powder is much better than what 
was formerly iffued for the ufe of the 
army, but it is not fo good as it fhould 
be; at any rate I would recommenda prim- 
ing of the beft to be put into every car- 
tridge, by whlch the touchhole and pan 
would not be fo foon clugged as they ufu- 
ally are, 
I think it would be a good plan to have 
one of the divifions of the tin-magazines 
filled with cartridges, the balls of which 
to be cut nearly through into four equat 
pieces; which at clofe quarters muft have 
great effect, becaufe they would feparate 
as foon as fired, and do the bufinefs of 
four bullets. ia 
I cannot agree with your friend, that 
the charge is a favourite movement with 
the French; on the contrary, I think it is 
notorious that they feldom offer it to us, 
and commonly decline it, fans ceremonies 
when offered to them{elves by an equal 
body of Britifh foldiers. Your's, &c. 
Tim. Sxiver, ferjeant. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Mazaxine. 
SIR, 
CORRESPONDENT, in your laft 
Number, mentions, that Chatterton 
was buried at Pancras. I always under- 
ftood that he was buried in the burial- 
ground ofthe work-houfe to S:. Andrew’s, 
Holborn, inShoe-Jane. I viiited his grave 
fome years fince, and was directed to a 
fpot at the right-hand fide of the lower 
end of the inclofure. Some boards covered 
thepit, (for fo the keeper of the work-houfe 
called it,) and he faid that it was then, 
{in r792,) quite full, fo that they had 
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