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1200 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
soon after its establishment in 1784 (see the "Rise and Pro
gress," p. 23).
In the Report of the Swedenborg Society for 1827 we read the
following statement respecting him, "Your Committee cannot speak
of Mr. Flaxman here as an artist; but as a member of the New
Church they feel themselves entitled to expatiate on his character
and deportment. In the Reports of all the several Committees of
this Society his name is found as a contributor to its funds, and as
a cordial promoter of the cause. Of late years, however, he was
seldom present at these meetings, through bodily infirmity ; but on
the last time, in 1817, when Mr. Flaxman was appointed one of the
Committee, he interested the Society by an affectionate and im
pressive address in furtherance of our great object. He was a man
of amiable manners, and was beloved and respected by all who
knew him."
The Times newspaper of December 8, 1826, says on this subject
as follows, "Mr. Flaxman professed himself a member of the Esta
blished Church, and did not publicly associate with the congregation
founded by Swedenborg, though he did not scruple to avow to his
friends that he adopted, in general, the doctrines promulgated by
that celebrated mystical theologian."
Mr. Noble, in animadverting upon the statement of "The Times"
which we have italicized above, says in the "Intellectual Repository"
for 1826 and 1827, p. 438, as follows : "The steadiness of Mr. Flax
man’s adherence to the principles of the New Church, was, by many
belonging to the ’ congregation’ of that Church, abundantly known.
There have long been two classes of the receivers of those doctrines
in England-those who have thought it their duty to unite in the
celebration of public worship in forms consonant with those doctrines,
and those who, though allowing the abstract propriety of such a
measure, have thought that the time had not yet arrived for carrying
it with prudence into effect. If Mr. Flaxman was latterly to be
numbered in this class, it was the result of untoward occurrences.
When the Chapel, then called the Temple, in Cross Street, Hatton
Garden, was the scene of the ministrations of Mr. Proud, Mr. Flax
man was an active member of the Committee for conducting its
affairs: but, among the circumstances connected with Mr. Proud’s
removal to York Street, were some, we regret to say, which gave
a wound to the tender feelings of Mr. Flaxman, and occasioned his
withdrawal. His attachment to the principles of the New Church,
however, continued undiminished. In the Reports of the London
Society for Printing the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, his name
is to be seen in the list of the contributors to its funds, from its
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