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ED; E769| 63
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[To] Richard Phillips Esqr N 6 Bridge Street,
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Black Friars
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17 Sth Molton St Oct 14 [1807]
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Sir,
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A circumstance has occurred which has again raised my
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Indignation
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I read in the Oracle & True Briton of Octr 13, 1807--that a
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Mr Blair a Surgeon has with the Cold fury of Robespierre
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caused the Police to sieze upon the Person & Goods or Property
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of an Astrologer & to commit him to Prison. The Man who can
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Read the Stars. often is opressed by their Influence, no less
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than the Newtonian who reads Not & cannot Read is opressed by his
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own Reasonings & Experiments. We are all subject to Error:
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Who shall say <except the Natural Religionists> that we are not
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all subject to Crime
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My desire is that you would Enquire into this Affair & that
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you would publish this in your Monthly Magazine I do not pay the
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postage of this Letter because--you as Sheriff are bound to
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attend to it.
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WILLIAM BLAKE
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[Endorsed by Phillips (returning the letter to Blake,
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unpublished): "W. B. Rec/d: Octr. 27th. 1807 with
Mr P.'s Comps."]
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[For a letter of January-February 1808, in three variants, see
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section IX above, The Design of The Last Judgment.]
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