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!bir lfiationat AT"sitt /,‘„ .90e-py r , 7‘, r+, Our Wing, eanatitutton anb it abni. No. 1,243.—V0L. XIII.] MONDAY, MAY 2i, 1820. [Paicz 94d• The Cities of Lundoil Iliad Oxford to assist the Chief Butler. nu longer be required of Ministers of the Chnrcb of Eng land, find a large put of those Petitioners afterwards obtaineetpiefertueut iu the Church, and venue %%um ad vanced to great dignities in it. " Out of one hundred who subscribe the 39 Article.. slut more than a fifth believe theta iu oar uniform sense." — Archdeacon Blackburn in Confessional. The Eirl of Abergavermy to act as Chief Larderer, which was counterclaimed by Mr. Estcourt, .. P. The Duke of Norfolk, as Earl of Arundel, to be received as Chief Butler. 'foe Duke of Norfolk, as Lord of the Manor of Worksop, county of Nottingham, to find a Glove for the King's right hand, and to support hit Majesty's right arsu while the King holds the ceptre. The Duke of Montrose, as Muster of the Horse, to act u Sergeant of the Silver Scullery. Mr. C4sispbell, as Lord of the Manor of Lyston, in Essex, to make Wafers for the King. The Bishop of London, in respect to the service of the Organ in the Abbey. The claims of the Dukes of Norfolk and Montrose were presented by Sir George Nagler on behalf of those Noble Peers. Among the Commissioners present we noticed the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, the Lord President of the Council, the Marquess of Camden, the Earls of Shaftesbury, Macclesfield, Courtown, Viscount Strang. ford, Lords Gwvder (Lord Great Chamberlain), Ers kine, Arden, Henley, St. Helen's, Amherst, and Charles Rentinck, the Right Hon. Sir W. Scott, Sir W. Grant, Sir John Nichol!, F. Robinson. After these proceedings were closed, the Court was adjourned to Thursday next. ' CORONATION. The great authority which is attached to the exalted office of Lord High Steward of England, is scarcely at any time more fully displayed than on occasion of the demise of the Crown. As it was the acknowledged duty of the Steward to govern the kingdom during peace and war immediately under the King. and to controul the abuse of power in the judicial sersar.ta of the Crown, so it cannot be doubted but that a greater shisre of power devolved upon him during the interval between the decease of one King, and the Coronation of a suc cessor. This may be inferred, indeed, from his walking next before the King in the procession to the church where the Coronation is performed, bearing, as its tem porary guardian, the crown of St. Edward. This is one part of the ditty still performed by the High Stew ard • but the function to which our principal attention will be directed, is that which the Coronation imposes. At this time the High Stewards of England, by virtue of their office, were used to sit judicially in the White Hall of the King's Palace of Weatioinsier, near the Chapel, to receive the petitions of State Officers, and of certain of the Nobility and Gentry who, by the tenure of their respective estates, are holm(' to perforin services of different kinds at the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England. These petitions, or claims, the Steward had power to examine, and if sup potted by documents and precedents, to allow them ; or to reject, if wanting in the requisite proof—hence the tribunal is called the Court of Claims. For the the better understanding of the decisions of this Court, respecting the services to be described, a few words may be premised of the kind of tenure on which these ser vices are founded. Among the different conditions upon which lands were formally granted by the Crown, was that of performing some defined service by the per son of the tenant to the person of the King. This sereice was sometimes a military one, but more com monly official; and its time of perfurmance was fre quently the day of the Sovereign's Coronation, when he also received - the homage and fealty of those other tenants, who held their lands by these forms of submis sion. Tenure on the condition above defined, was ho. 'mutable front its certainty, and from 11 m the requirerl ser vice being due to the ay-JI person alone; hence, it was called magnums serviliuns, or grand sergeauty. Thus, if the Crown hath granted a manor or estate to any one, on the condition he shall carry a sword or sceptre, at the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England, such estate is said to be holden in grand sergeanty, by the service of carrying such Royal ensign. As another mark of the honour attributed to the services of this kind, we find they cannot be performed by any under the degree of Knighthood (they are indeed a branch or mode of Knight service); nor by a minor, or female tenant; for these a deputy of sufficient rank is appointed —with the sovereign's license. It may be well to note, in conclusion, that these services are to be considered as the tent or fine due for the enjoyment of the lands to Which they are attached; and therefore, though the tenants are sometimes said to claim the service, they must be understood in reality as claiming the continu ance of the estates, by appearing to fulfil the couditions on which they are granted. The High Stewardship of England belonged of old to the Karla of Leicester, who were serascaile regis de feado, or hereditary Stewards. It was first holden by the family ot Grentemaisnel, with the Lordship of Hinckley in the county of Leicester, and became connected with the Earldom of Leicester by the niarriae of an LeireSi of the Lord of Hinckley; it afterwards descended to the illustrious house of Dc Montfort; and on the attaiiider of the last Earl, Siniou de Alontlort, the Stewardship, with the Earldom of Leicester, was granted by Henry 111. to Edmund his younger son, from is .ioin it passed in descent to John of Gaunt, King of Castile and Leon, who was admitted to the full enjoyment of its privileges at the Coronation of his nephew Richard Ib. Ile WaS succeeded by bis son Henry of Lolinglooke, who after wards became King of England, when the ofii a merged in the Crown. From ibis tine nor 11.111;b hale bveu rchevect from ilie-cointssi?. and .Mialallce of a hereditary high Steweril, which is mild have the auto en,ey of u Tudor or a S!thitl, cod tit. ollicc has Obi) , been VifilLed jri iialC lasi/Mc public sulcuuuty, when the vatic:is,: of it was indispensable. In the late reigns also the pi esiikiley of the Court of Claims has been usually giten to Commissioners appoibied by the Sovereign, with power loth) all such acts with ree ,rd to this Colin, as the High Stewards of England hail be. ri used to do in former times. COURT OF CLAIMS. Thursday the (list meeting of the Court of Claims was held in the Paiutcd Chamber :fat the Mouse of Lords, in tilittlit Oct to his Majesty's Pro laniatiots. At t‘t eke otliark, several of the Lords -l;tniimis sroners hat mg :isseitilded, the Earl of ILorimby, Lipid President of the C 1111 l look ilia Chair, hat log on Ins right hand his Royal the Duke of IL:howlice, told on his kit li:s thatl;nyal Hit t :hots!, the 1)oke of Woo • cester. Silence has.ng been proektintctl thy Cotentin'. SIMI was no:lad, and was read by the Cleik of the Crtmli Among 111.: t.141:111 Wade, W6tC lin-st. of ST. ATHANASIUS'S CREED. -........-- In our Parliamentary Report of last week will be found an account of the presentation of a Petition by Lord Holland, from the Rev. Mr. Jones. a man of unimpeached and (as we believe from the best of information) of unimpeachable character, complain ing of grossly intolerant conduct on the part of his Diocesan, the Bishop of Exeter. The Bishop of Exeter might act from the purest principles, but his vision appears to have been distorted ;—he seems to have listened to certain serpents, as we are told Eve did to the devil (and perhaps, from the deceit we often meet with in the form of a Tory parson, his Satanic Majesty may, in ides, have been clothed in black), who have stated falsehoods to his Holiness (we beg pardon, we mean his Lordship, who appears to have a vast antipathy to any thing that is Catholic), as coming from the worthy divine, which it is clear he never uttered; and if he had said all that was imputes to him, he would have said no more than every honest man ought to say, no more than every man, a single remove from the two con ditions of rogue and fool, must own. We write as members of the Establishment, but still we remem ber that our late good King held that damning Creed in such abhorrence, that though usually devoutly audible in all his responses, he was reso lutely dumb in ail attempts to make him follow in damning three fourths of his fellow•men. In proof of his correctness of judgment, we quote the follow. ing authorities, accompanied by, we hope, appropri ate remarks:— EIGHTH ARTICLE OF RELIGION. The three Creeds, Nicene Creed, Athanaslus's Creed, and that which is conunucly called the Apostles' Creed, ought thoronglity to be received and believed, for they way be pros ed by mast certain wart Ault% of Holy Scriptures. CLACIII7 4 I IN AVIAN 4tlll2S'S CREED. Whosoever will lie saved, befot e ail things it is necessary that lie hold the Catholic Faith, which faith, except ever y one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shalt pa • rich everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this, &c. ['Dien follow the doctrines regarding the Trinity.] He therefore that will be saved must thus (that is, as predicated in the Creed) think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that be also Wiens rightly the incarnation of our Lord Justus Christ. Far the right faith is, Cc. [Then follow the doctrines of the incarnation, resurrectitm, ascension, and last judg ment.] %his is the Catholic Faith, whir% except a man believe faithfully. he cannot be rayed. By the :161h Canon, no Iverson shall be received into the Ministry except he shall first subset ilk Oiler articles, tile third or which contains the Iv:lowing wot ds, and that •' lie acknowledgeth all and every the articles therein contained (that is, in the Book of Articles of lit V . .gion in 062), being in number nine and thirty, besides the istification, to be ogler:title to the will of Doll." " 1 wish mit Church were well rid of the Athanasian Creed."—Archbishop it: is Lett, r to Dr. Bur nett, quoted in Birch's Life of ss 'I he greater part subscribe the utti,ies without ever examining them, and others do it, he c.a.se the) must do it, though they ran kindly satisfy Omit cohsciemc es ahutit tqitc things in them."—Bishop kirititt t, in colic Itiiiutt of 'flit History of his own Times. vol. IN . In 1772,1.50 persons, of which the isy were (Acr e) 'nen of the Church, sit ncd a rt-110.111 to Penh too, pi a : log, that subseripuion to the thirty-nine articitb:•lioultl " Our author, good man, is fully persnaded that the generality of the Clergy firmly believe what they sae,- scribe to." lem persuaded much otherwise.—Defrnce of Considerations by Mr. Paley, who was afterwards promoted by D►. Law, Bishop of Carlisle, to the A rehdearoary of that Diocese, by the present Bishop of Lincoln to the Stilideatiery of Lincoln. and by the present Bishop or Durham to the Rectory of Bishop's Wearmoutli. • Great objections have been made to the clauses of tli°;. Creed, which denounce damnation against those who do not believe the Catholic faith "as there awed, diet i . certainly is to be lamented that assertions of so peremptory a nature, unexplained and ungnslified, should have, been used in any humeri composition." P. 219, vol. 2, el Eta • menus of Theology, written by Dr. Pretyinan the present Bishop of Lincoln. " I am ready to acknowledge that in my judgment, not. withstanding the authority of former times, our Church would have acted more wisely, and more consistently with its general principles of mildness and tukration, if it had nut adopted the dominators clauses of the Athanasior Creed. Though I firmly believe that the doctrines of the Creed are all founded in Scripture, I cannot but conceise it to be both unnecessary and prairesplewirs to say that • except every man do keep theta whole and undefiled, without doubt lie shall perish everlastingly. "—Ditto, p. 221. N. B. The author of the last two paragraphs was one of the Bishops whir refused to institute Mr. P. Jones to • living, beraine halt testimonials had not the counter signa ture of Iti*Diocesan. Words imputed to Mr. Jones, and denied by him .Vinie•terillis of the Clergy of the Church of kugland sign wasl they do nut believe. The substance of the passage objected to in Mr. Pike Jones'. speech. as reported in Treiensan's Gazette, Exeter, acknowledged by Mr.Junee, and attested by several per sona present • My Rev. Brother (Mr. Radford) says, the Catholics think all damned without the pale of the Chinch. There is a creed, that of St. Athanadus, in ninth it is affirmed, that all are lost who do not believe the doctrines therein contained. Every Clergymen is forced to sign his belief to that creed. Yet if a Clergyman were to state that lie believed others could he saved without the pale of his church, an opponent might then say that lie bad stilted a contrary doctrine." We do not mein to make a profession of faith, but we mei be allowed to state an honest opinion. We cannot regard Archbishop 'I illotson, and Bishops Burnett and Law as ornaments of the Church of England, with the opinions they have deliberately recorded lig print, and yet think Mr. Jones unlit to fill a benefice in that church on account of the opiuion imputed to him, or of that acknowledged by him. We cannot think that it was wise and praiseworthy to promote Mr. Paley in the Church, who was petanaded that " the generality of the Clergy did not firmly believe what they subscribed to," and yet think that it is just to exclude Mr. Jones from his livings because he had said, or is reported to have said, " nine-tenths of the Clergy did not believe what they signed." And as we regard Tillotson, Buruett, and Law, as ornaments of our uatioual Church, and do also think that the promotion of Paley cts great credit on the Prelats s to whom lie was in debted fir it, we insist acknowledge that, in ou► jadetneut. Mr Jones has been deprived of his rights, and debarred aids preferment most cruelly, unreasonably, and unjuittl: . The information received yesterday morning flow Batavia is of a very alarming nature. By letteis from that Island, dated January 44, it appears that. nearly the whole of the Dutch troops had beet , drafted from tl,ence to Palembang, in order to strengthen that military position; consequently the inhabitants of Batavia are much alarmed, as not more than 600 European troops were left to defend the place against the Malays, who are able to mot. ter a force of near 100,000 men ; if the check should be made, a general massacre is expected. Letters from St. Petersburgh state, that the de parture of the Emperor to visit the southern Iwo. vinces of his vast empire, is put off for some weeks. and sonic persons say that his Majesty will not un dertake his journey during the present year. The fact of sentence of death having been passed on Sandt, who assassinated M. Kotzebue, is cone firmed by letters from Frankfort ; but the time of his execution is not yet known. A person who has an opportunity of seeing Sandt sometimes, asked him how he was? " Alas !" he replied, " the thread of my life seems to be formed of such a te nacious substance, that it cannot be broken, unlcs.s by forcible mans." Ile is, however, still very weak, and cannot leave his bed. A letter frem Berlin, ,dated April 9:.; says— " The Juts who, in the disguise of fAissacs, cote. mitted various robberies in 1814., in the Ithem.it provinces, have been condemn:Al to death.' ‘,. ••• 4 vi t.