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Huntington Library, HM 4863 . Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), II, pp. 274–277.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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It is likely that there will be a Review started excluding all contemporary publications, & chusing its subjects
from all others, – its title Rhadamanthus.you upon you as my right hand. Scott proposes to bear a part, &
will be a very useful assistant, but I reply upon you & upon myself to build up & support the work.
Setting aside the moral advantage that we neither hurt the feelings nor the fortunes of any person, – there will there will be the main advantage of chusing any subject, & never having a dull one forced upon us. As soon as things are compleatly arranged I will write to you stating what subjects are looked out for myself for the first two or three numbers, & you meantime will hit upon what may best suit yourself. I should request from you an article upon political oeconomy, – any branch on which you feel most disposed to write.
Since you heard from me last many events have taken place in my family. I had a daughter born in March, – & yesterday we buried the one who was born last year, – a severer sorrow than perhaps any one who has never
experienced it can believe. My little boy has had the croup & been saved
from it, – his mother was alarmingly ill during her lying-in – thus you see the
house has scarcely been free from sickness. – But for these interruptions you would ere this have heard the Kehama was compleated.
I am afraid the Quarterly will proclaim itself Anti-Jacobine, & in that case of course we part. My defence of the
Missionaries attracted much notice, & has made Sidney Smith very angry in the last Edinburgh.xxxxxxxxxx by attacking the Methodists xxxxxxxxxx, & <yet> showing why they
must inevitably succeed against such an establishment & such dissenters as ours; <& such opponents as he.> It is neither
by invective nor by ridicule that any thing can be done against them, & to oppose them by ordinary orthodox means is as hopeless as
it is to present regular armies against Buonaparte, till they are formed upon his own plan. The way must be to split them into
Moderates & Jacobines, – to make concessions, to show what are the good principles in human nature to which they owe part of their
success, & to borrow their tactics. John Wesley
Had we a Cabinet of any ability, I believe that at this moment Buonaparte might receive his death-blow. Being myself
for thorough reform, – for Forsyth-ing the rotten tree of the Constitution,xxxx to perceive
that there is the same utter lack of xxxx common honesty & common talents in both. Of the two I believe I hate the Whigs
the worst, for their rascally failings towards Spain, – & of the Whigs Whitbreadst Quarterly is by George Ellis.
A letter by this nights post informs me of Harrys
marriage.
If Mrs Martinr Rathbone.