Since the publication of our third edition, we have received the following curious epistle, in _print_, from the Rev. J. L. Garrett, whose name is mentioned by us, p. 29 and p. 31. This letter, we understand, has been very industriously circulated amongst his friends and acquaintance. Although we cannot comply with the reverend gentleman’s request, to erase his name from our pages, as it does not appear that we have stated any thing materially incorrect, we will do him the justice to print his vindication of himself, a mode of proceeding which we think will serve the reverend gentleman’s interests more than any other, our work having so unprecedented a sale, that it must carry it into every channel necessary for the Reverend Professor of Natural Philosophy’s vindication, of whose _reformation_ we are truly happy to hear. THE REV. J. L. GARRETT’S VINDICATION. _Letter addressed by the Rev._ J. L. GARRETT, _Professor of Natural Philosophy_, _&c. to the Publisher of a Six-penny Pamphlet_, _intituled_, “_The Life and Trial of_ Mr. JOHN CHURCH.” DEAR SIR, As bigotry, superstition, and misguided zeal, those dreadful sources of violence, wasting, and destruction, which once too often actuated both my tongue and pen, have now, through divine Grace, for several years, ceased to form any trait in my deportment; you will, I trust, allow me the humble claim, of having that erased from your pamphlet, which a better use of my reason has so evidently erased from my conduct. Rest assured, I most sincerely wish success to every laudable effort you can exert to suppress vice, but particularly vices so extremity disgraceful to human nature—but have the goodness, Sir, to understand that I never, in my life, was what your pamphlet calls me, a friend or acquaintance of the person you allude to, nor _never_ had any thing _to do with him_, but what was _forced on me_ by _his own insinuations_, which principally were carried on with some of my people in Lant-street while I was out of town. I also remark that I had no hand in getting him into Banbury; and can only say, would to God that those things which drove him out had been followed by sincere repentance, then I think I should have been one of the first to have administered the consolation of the gospel; but as things are, I shall leave the detection and suppression of vice in abler hands than my own, with this prayer, that “That truly wretched man, may yet be brought with sincere repentance to the feet of Jesus, obtain mercy, and, under the influence and operation of the holy spirit, gain the completest mastery over a nature so awfully depraved, and thus prove that nothing is too hard for God.” While I remain, Your’s respectfully, J. L. GARRETT. Philosophical Museum, Mile End, Aug. 28th, 1817.