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THE EXAMINER.No. 520. SUNDAY, DEC. 14, 1817.Z.
This poor wretched lying and cowardly creature has now had more than ample time to come forward, and
has not done so. He has, to be sure, published a second edition of his atrocious nonsense, in
which some of the worst of his insinuations are withdrawn; but he, or his employers, must not
think to escape, while the same venomous malignity survives in the remaining parts of the
reptile. Reptile indeed he is, and most unhappy creature must be, to feel excited to pour forth
misrepresentations, which could not be falser, if he had cried out, in his anguish, at the
blackness of the green leaves or the hatefulness of affection.
In the mean while, the Editor of this Paper cannot but return
his cordial thanks to two gentlemen, strangers to him, but not altogether, it seems, to those
who really know him, for the manly and cordial indignation with which they have stepped forth
to spurn back this unhappy being. He alludes to a writer in “The Edinburgh Magazine,” and to the author of a pamphlet
entitled “A Review of Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine for October 1817,”—both of them, he will venture to say, men of
excellent hearts as well as heads; but not the less so, he may add, for defending one, who
however he may differ with some of the other speculators in human happiness upon particular
points of faith or theory, or partake of infirmities common to his nature, is an enthusiast in
“whatsoever things are lovely, and whatever things are just,” and might bring
forward eulogies, from those whom he is most in habits of intercourse, as extravagant perhaps
as the calumnies in question.