Vol. 6 p. 24. Remarks on Mr. Cruikshank’s experiments upon finery cinder and charcoal. Ibid p. 158. Observations on the conversion of iron into steel. Ibid p. 271. Additional remarks on Mr. Cruikshank’s experiments on finery cinder and charcoal, November 15 1802. APPENDIX, NO. 2. _Of Dr. Priestley’s Metaphysical Writings._ The principal source of objection to Dr. Priestley in England, certainly arose from his being a dissenter; from his opposition to the hierarchy, and to the preposterous alliance, between Church and State: an alliance, by which the contracting parties seem tacitly agreed to support the pretensions of each other, the one to keep the people in religious, and the other in civil bondage. His socinian doctrines in theology, and the heterodoxy of his metaphysical opinions, though they added much to the popular outcry raised against him, were not less obnoxious to the generality of Dissenters, than to the Clergy of the Church of England. Nor is it a slight proof of the integrity of his character, and his boldness in the pursuit of truth, that he did not hesitate to step forward the avowed advocate of opinions, which his intimate and most valuable friends, and the many who looked up to him as the ornament of the dissenting interest, regarded with sentiments of horror, as equally destructive of civil society and true religion.