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2 Feby. 1827 Inserendum in Memoirs of Lind & Foster
As Lord Mansfield held sentenced Peter Ance
to a year's hard labour for an Antichristian
publication,
and his patronage of Bishop Warburton who
had the reputation of being an Atheist was well known,
I had a curiosity to know the state of the Chief Justice’s
opinions on that subject. I accordingly desired Lind
to inform me: the answer was, unbelief. I put the
same question to David Martin; his answer was the
same. David Martin was a man who was admitted
to familiarity, being the Painter who painted the portrait
from whence the first of the his four engravings of his Lordship
was taken, and who had gone been sent by him
to engage an engraver for that purpose to Paris where
engravers’ work, by a capital artist, scarcely cost the employer
a fourth part of what it did in England. The engraver
he had engaged failing him before the work was half done,
he
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