Remarks on the Object of Church-of-England Religion, as avowed by the Bishop of London.*

In Appendix, No. I. pages 134, 135, 136, men

tion will be found incidentally made, of Dr. Kipling, Dean of Peterborough, and a threatening letter of his, privately addressed to a Catholic Clergyman. In the Bishop's Charge, as above, we have the theory in this letter of the Dean's, we may see that theory

* In consideration of the inordinate length, to which the work would be swelled by the addition, the papers, of which what follows between the mark inserted in this part of the text, and the correspondent mark in a succeeding page was designed for a prospectus, have for the present been omitted. But, in relation to every one of the topics therein touched upon,-and in confirmation of every one of the opinions or suspicions therein advanced, matter will be found, in some part or parts of this work as it stands at present.

For Dean Kipling, see as in the text App. No. I. pp. 134, 135, 136: for Dean Andrews, see App. No. II, the pages not difficult to find. For Archbishop Manners Sutton, see Introduction, from beginning to end: for Mr. Vansittart, see the same pages in which mention is made of his friend Dean Andrews: for Bishop Burgess-not less worthy than any of these illustrious persons to be had in remembrance-see App. No. I. p. 134, and perhaps elsewhere. But above all see his "BRIEF MEMORIAL," &c., including his "DEMONSTRATION" &c., by which any one thing as well as any other may be demonstrated: year of date 1814: and therein, as in a mirror, behold him rending his breast, if not his garments, at the thoughts of the end, now at length put, to the oppression for so many generations exercised upon Arians and Unitarians.

reduced to practice. In the Charge we shall see Non-Church-of-Englandists marked out as "enemies" and men of "guilt:" in the private letter, now very properly made public, we shall see them treated as such. Whether the threat of prosecution contained in it was executed, does not appear: but to the present purpose the threat is quite sufficient. It may serve as an example of that intellectual imbecility, as well as of that moral pravity, with which it is the tendency of this Catechism to infect the mind. The offence consisted in the having applied the epithet new to the Church of England.

In the sight of Jesus, if any credit be due to the Gospel History, all men were equal. On this principle, on the part of any assemblage of men, the claim to regard at the hands of the ruling powers increases and diminishes in exact proportion to the number of the persons of which the assemblage is composed. As between one such assemblage and another, numbers in each being equal, the comparative claim to the benefit of that social affection at those same hands will, by a title equally indisputable, increase and diminish in proportion to the need they have of the beneficial effects of that affection, in all the several ways in which they can be made to flow. On both these titles, taken together, the claim of the poor was, in the eyes of Jesus, superior to that of the rich.

Not so in the eyes of Dean Andrews. In those seats of instruction, in which, for the creation and preservation of pride on the part of the richer, and servility and undue obsequiousness on the part of the poorer classes, rank and riches are distinguished by those external marks of superiority, which, even by the proudest of the proud, have every where else been discarded,-Dean Andrews, as well as the two other dignitaries above-mentioned, had been taught to regard, as so many objects of just contempt, all persons less loaded than they themselves were, or hoped to be, with the pomps and vanities of this world. In his stall at Canterbury, chief of a set of idlers, paid for doing nothing, under the name of Prebendaries-in this his slumbering place, but still more impressively in his Rectorial mansion, in the purlieus of the Palace, in and by his familiar and confidential intercourse with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his Colleagues, and Subordinates, at the Treasury Board,he had learnt to behold, in the individuals belonging to the middling ranks, so many objects of profound contempt,-of contempt proportionably more profound, the subject and abject multitude.

To the sportive genius of this Receiver of the Holy Ghost, as displayed in a confidential address of his to those Receivers of taxes, the middling classes are indebted for the nick-name, under which they will be seen held out by him as fit objects of those antisocial affections. At the dawn of the reforma

tion, by the Dignitaries of the Church of Rome, Protestants were stigmatized with the name of Guex or Geuses, i. e. beggars. In the same spirit, by this Dignitary of the Daughter Church-or not to offend Dean Kipling, say the Sister of the Mother Church-men who are neither so rich, nor so wedded to wine as to loath all cheaper liquors, will be seen marked out as objects of scorn, and their health as an object of just disregard, under the name of Ale-drinkers.

In the person of Mr. Nicholas Vansittart, the public have long viewed (alas, very long!) a Right Honourable Gentleman, scarcely more distinguished by his situation of Chancellor of the Exchequer, than by the splendor of his piety, according to the forms and rites of the Church of England. In the list of members of the governing Committee of that Episcopal Society, which will be seen taking for its principal, if not sole object, the converting, by means of the above-mentioned exclusionary system, the new invented engine of instruction into a buttress for the support of the tottering Church, this lay name may accordingly be seen, while others vanish, occupying a constant place.

It was for the eyes of this Right Honourable and conspicuously pious Gentleman, that the letter in which, by the style and title of Ale-drinkers, all ranks of men beneath the level of the most opulent

are, in manner abovementioned, pointed to, as being of the number of those whose health possesses not, at the hands of their superiors, any title to regard. On this letter of spiritual advice, in conjunction with others, written by other persons in pursuit of the same object, certain Treasury Minutes will be seen grounding themselves: Minutes, penned under the direction of the piety of Mr. Vansittart. In these Minutes, certain maxims of government and judicature will be seen avowed and acted upon: and in regard to these maxims, it will be seen that for the utter dissolution of this or any other government, nothing more can, at any time, in addition to these maxims, be requisite and necessary,-provided always, that the observance given to them be impartial, constant, and inflexible.

Supposing these maxims uniformly acted up to, such, it is shewn, would be the inevitable effect. But at the same time, the intention of producing any such effect is obviously that sort of intention, which consistently with reason can not be imputed to any man who is not out of his senses, much less to a man so situated.--On the other hand, let but the application of these same maxims be partial, and at the same time arbitrary, government is not dissolved: it is only rendered corrupt and despotic, and the corruption and despotism supported and secured: and, such it is shewn, is the value of these maxims, so long as they are observed,— that to such partiality, corruption, and despotism,