Southey never threw over his friendship for Taylor, although their views ultimately came to be far apart.

Writing to Taylor in 1803 he says: Your theology does nothing but mischief; it serves only to thin the miserable ranks of Unitarianism.

The regular troops of infidelity do little harm; and their trumpeters, such as Voltaire and Paine, not much more.

But it is such pioneers as Middleton, and you and your German friends, that work underground and sap the very citadel.

That _Monthly Magazine_ is read by all the Dissenters--I call it the Dissenters' Obituary--and here are you eternally mining, mining, under the shallow faith of their half-learned, half-witted, half-paid, half-starved pastors.
But the correspondence went on apace, indeed it occupies the larger part of Robberds's two substantial volumes.