See No. 15586. Grey (left) and Thomson (right) stand one on each side of the Edinburgh Martyrs Monument (against the wall of Greyfriars Churchyard) which is carefully depicted with the inscriptions engraved at length. Grey, smiling as usual, points to it, holding a paper: 'Letters of Anglicanus, Letter VII, Page 69. 70'. from which he recites: 'The character of your ['their' in original] Forefathers, according to their views, made it imperitive [sic] on them, since they could not bind all men to their cause, as true Christians, to compel them to be staunch Presbyterians, their motto "Nemo me impune Lacessit," is still the motto of your [their] spiritual contests—Martyrs, who mistaken as to a part of the work that God required of them, fell, sometimes like Homer's heroes, rather than Christ's confessors, prophesying the day of retribution, and denouncing judgments against the oppressors." &amp;c'. Thomson, raising his hat, holds out a paper: 'Christian Instructor—January, 1828. Page 49. 50'. He declaims: 'Anglicanus, "you shew ['Mr. Grey shows' in original] mercy neither to the living nor the dead;—the very Martyrs, to whose Christian heroism we owe much of that freedom, and many of those privileges, in which we now rejoice, whose memories are dear to every man who is capable of appreciating high principle; you have tried to rob them of their peculiar honour, you might have spared us this outrage to our feelings.—Though, when we think of them, and look at you ['him' in original] we need not be afraid of the permenancy [sic] of their fame.—their exploits of piety will be remembered with admiration, long after all you have done and said have been shrouded in the mantle of oblivion"!' [The quotation is abridged.] Behind Thomson (right) is 'Brownie', holding a volume of the 'Christian Instructor'; he says (of Grey): 'My Conscience! that is a pretty speech to confront a Presbyterian Minister, he is not "aware, that in uttering \ "these opinions and | "statements, that every | "wise and holy man \ "in Scotland must be \ "deeply offended."' Behind Grey are roofs and church towers.   1828
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