(pt.ii. 1799). Frend rejected the use of negative quantities. A Letter to the Vice-chancellor of Cambridge, by Wm. Frend, candidate for the Lucasian Professorship(1798). Principles of Taxation (1799), advocating a graduated system of income-tax. Animadversions on Bishop Pretyman's Elements of Christian Theology (1800); to which Joshua Toulmin replied in a preface to his Four Discourses on Baptism. The Effect of Paper Money on the Price of Provisions, (1801), which was provoked by the controversy between Sir Francis Baring and Walter Boyd. The Gentleman's Monthly Miscellany, which lived for a few months of 1803, and was edited in whole or in part by Frend. Evening Amusements, or the Beauty of the Heavens Displayed (1804 to 1822), "an astronomical elementary work of a new character, which had great success; the earlier numbers went through several editions". Patriotism: an Essay dedicated to the Volunteers(1804) Tangible Arithmetic, or the Art of Numbering made Easy by means of an Arithmetical Toy(1805). A Letter on the Slave Trade (1816) The National Debt in its True Colours (1817). Reprinted in the Pamphleteer, ix. 415–32. He advocated its extinction by an annual sinking fund. Memoirs of a Goldfinch, a poem, with notes and illustrations on natural history and natural philosophy (anon.) (1819). Is it Impossible to Free the Atmosphere of London in a very considerable degree from Smoke?. A few copies only for friends, but it was reproduced in the Pamphleteer (1819, vol. xv. 61-5) A Plan of Universal Education (1832). A fragment of a volume, Letters on a hitherto Undescribed Country, "written some years before but never published". Frend, besides contributing two articles to Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations, edited by Francis Maseres in 1800, and one tract to the same editor's Scriptores Logarithmici (vol. vi. 1807), suggested other matters to him in the same publications. Maseres in his Tracts on the Resolution of Cubick and Biquadratick Equations, published supplements to his appendix to Frend's Principles of Algebra. See also Penny Post Notes and references External links Attribution 1757 births 1841 deaths Second Wranglers English Unitarians 19th-century Unitarian clergy British reformers British social reformers 18th-century English Anglican priests People from Canterbury