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The Bishop was forced into the open, and constrained to make the best defence he could in a published speech. In November 1822, Sydney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review, came to the assistance of his brother-clergy against the high-handed tyranny of the Persecuting Bishop. The reviewer begins by giving the Bishop credit for good intentions; but maintains that his conduct has been
Sydney Smith's peroration, though it failed to persuade his brother-clergy, is so good that it deserves to be reproduced.
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