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spirit. There is no appearance of their having continued after this time to hold meetings for worship, or maintaining their connexion in any way as a religious society upon Unitarian principles. We mention this as a subject of regret, not of censure, with which we, who live in more peaceful tranquil days, have no right to visit those who yielded to trials which we ourselves might not have been able to bear. The only one of Mr. Biddle's disciples who has attained any distinction is Mr. Thomas Firmin, then a young man, who lived, however, to become a very eminent London merchant, and the associate and intimate friend of Archbishop Tillotson, Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester, and others of the most distinguished men of his time. In his private intercourse with these friends, he made no secret of his Unitarian opinions; and it is even understood that many tracts in the curious and valuable collection already mentioned, and known by the name of the old Socinian Tracts, were written under