(TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."]
Sru,—Although newspaper correspondence can do little either to retard or accelerate the progress of destruction, yet words shot at a venture may carry a straw here to a drowning man, or add one there to the camel's back. When the Dissenters have succeeded in climbing up some other way into the Churchyard fold, remains there not still the consolation that not that which entereth in deffieth,
but those things which proceed out of the mouth, they defile the man ? The panic seems chiefly to be caused by the vision of the funeral oration of some Thersites, as he 'improves' the death of his friend.
But is not the cruelest kindness to Dissenters that which allows them as much rope as they require for our purpose? Would vituperation, under the circumstances, more injure us or them ? The outrage of Appius Claudius is thought by Christians to have dishonoured less its victim than the Patrician gens. Should Dissenters abuse the freedom which is certain to be extended to them, and which, unabused, they are welcome to enjoy, there is still consolation to be found in philosophy.—! am, Sir, &c., CHARLES T. SCOW.
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