The National Register. — London, England, 1811-05-05 00:00:00

~.,. ~~ 084 REFORMIST'S DINNER. Friday the Friends of Parliamentary Reform - dined at the City of London Tavern.—R. Wait Julian, Esq. in the Chair. The h eeting was very numerously attended ; and as soon as the cloth was removed, the Chairman proposed the health of " The King," with three. He then gave " The Prince Regent, and may he never forget that the powers and prerogatives of the Crown were vested therein for the benefit of the People." This was drank with enthusiastic applause Mr. Waitliman then proposed a toast, which, he said, natu• :ally arose out of the two former, namely, " The People."— . (Greta applause.) Mr. Vk aithznan said, he had the health of an Honourable Friend of his to propose, who had shewn himself so good a friend to Parliamentary Reform, that no apology Wag necessary for uniting his name with the object of the Meeting. He re gretted that parliamentary duty prevented his worthy friend from attending. The person he alluded to was Sir Francis Bur and a•fair, free, and equal Representition of the People in laetr liament." The Chairman next gave the health of Mr. Brand, and the wot thy I..:e.aors of 1 lert ford. oa the toast beirg given, Mr. Brand rose, and addressed the Meeting in a speech of considerable length, in which he expressed his entire concurrence:in the objeaeof the meeting, and his conviction that the country could not long stand without a reform in the representation. lite health of Mr. Whitbread was then proposed from the Chair, which was drank with enthusiastic applause. Mr. Brand then gave the health of the Chairman, which was drank with three tiuers three ! ! ! Mr. Walthman, lu a short speech, returned his thanks for the honour conferred on him, and declared himself .4.vitys ready to promote the cause of reform. The worthy Chairman took that opportunity to read a declaration, ready prepared on that sub ject, and put the question, whether this declaration should be signed by himself and left for signatures at the bar.—This pro pt )n was adopted unanim The health of Lord Ossalstone was then propo.ed, drank with applause, and the Noble Lord returned his thanks. Waithman then proposed the • health of Mr. Byug, and the hActors of Middle sex. Mr. Byng then ;Addressed the meeting, and expressed himself favourable to Parkiinnentary Reform. The health~ of Mr. Smith, Member-for Norwich, Mr. \Var ela, Mr. flutchinso,j, and several other Gent lemen p resent, were drank ; and after an evening spent in the utmost .convivi ality, the meeting broke up at a late hour. -------- - • TOUBJN-HAND CLUB. This Club met on Thursday at Mr. Buxton's. Ca.gendish 'square was crowded with carriars and horsemen. The e.•;n dows were full of elegant betaitces. On horseback were the Duke of Yell, Lord Sefton, Mr. Whitbread, Furl Portsmouth, Szc. They di ove off at two o'clock, in the following order, to dine at Salt Hill :- 1. C. Buxton, Esn. President, Four Bays. 2. Lord Hawke, V ice-Pr.n.ident, ditto. S. Captain Agar, Four Greys. 4. Mr. Spicer, Bays. 5. Sir beihrigham Graham, Bays. G. Mr. Champion, Bays. 7. Captain Murray, a new Member, who brought up f.e rear in a flue style, with w elegant new Barutche, Harness, and Bay Horses. 'Try all went off in a full trot,,cut •the angle of Cavendich thire to the le;t, with sinplar advaitricss, made tit. circk ar o und, and from thence t.oot lie Waal route by Oxford ,sn et t and Park-hle, for Salt Hid. ihe second meeting is expected to be more nianitrously attended. A I3jronet was •011 io sureti.s to KN.') the peace, for ',ending a challengii to a 'Noble .I.ord to fight :t du,l. It was reported em: Friday mornin::, that three of the favourite horses which wertit4.llr. - te run at the present 'letting at New mark et, had been poi-Anted. After having been t,keii out in the Trioriiirg, as usual, to their watering - troughs, they becan:e sud denly iil, and tumbled and' roiled about in the greatest agony. It is reported that they ruspeetivyly ,:vholed to Lurd Kainaird, Sir F. Standish, and Mr. Ove thonsand guinuag re ‘wrd, it is said, has been off,:ickl for the discovery ut . the perpe tra•or. On Monday 1 :10: the Ea .I of Camden was elected a Governor of the C . /timer tioube. • ik , .. _~ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ...-- ebe pulpit. No. XLII. •=1;mi•••• While they kept in view that wise and liberal part of the system of this Church of En , :land which excludes a, well the claiming; as the acknowledg. in:: of sn n eh spiritual subjection as may be inconsistent with the civil entire; of her children, it was neverthe'ess their earnest desire and resolution to retain the venerable form of Episcopal Government, handed down to them . a: tl:ey conceived, from tho time of the Apostles; and endeared to thtr* by the remembrance of the holy Bishops of the primitive Church, of the blessed Martyrs who reformed tne doctrine and worship of the ('Lurch of Eughtiql, and of the many great and pious prelates who have adorned that Church in every succeeding' ag.e.--Correspeintlence of the Clerical and Lay Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; October b, THE BISHOP OF NORWICH, AND HIS 'LAI E SERMON AT THE PHILANTHROPIC CHAPEL. 1-bEamtenY itself is of great antiquity. Episcopacy however is yet more so—hierarchy presupposing episcopacy—and has bee 4 accordingly reverenced. Whether Bishops are indeed of Om nipotent appointment, or, as the schoolmen term it, whether Bishops be jure divino, is one of those questions which, it is not now proposed to meet ; but which must still be left for scholastic theologians to discuss, and, if they can, to decide. — Doubtless Bishops have, notwithstanding, their distinct duties. ON Est tees has been admonished, it appears, by a clergyman of the establishment, that his " attempt to prove that Bishops have more important .duties than preaching * is absurd.and unscrip tural." Language like this might be naturally enough expected from him who afterwards stigmatises the kneeling " before a Right Reverend Father in God,'" for the purposes of ordination into the Church, as " a farce" ;—it was certa 7 nly consistent oa the part of this writer, one must own, when he intended to represent the episcopal ordination as " a farce," first to set about denying the assertion 44 that. Bishops have more important du ties than preaching." Bishops have duties more important than preaching to perform. They are set on her hill as the lights of the church. What thinks the present prelate of these things ?- 66 I shall study," said the Bishop of Norwich, addressing himself, at his primary visitation, to the clergy of that diocese, " to con ciliate their affection and esteem, not however by any mean un mAnly compliance with the prejudice, the passions, or the selfiA views of individuals, and still less by granting any indulgence to idie3ess, or the least willful neglect of that solemn obligatioa which we all of us entered into when we were ordained ; but ty giving every one, who may have occasion to come to me, a pa, tient hearing, and a kind reception, and the few who can want it, the best advice which it is in my power to suggest." Evi dently, therefore, some more essentially responsible duties than those of the pulpit inseparably appertain to the episcopal clue rac ter. i-lE.NRY BATHURST, L. L. D. the Lord Bishop of No:- wich, and Vicar of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, is stated to have been born about the year 1718. Hi= Lordship, being et.- sigurd for the Church, was sent first to Winchester, wheLce he • This rent - Ark ref - era to the account of Bishop Portcus, given in the fir •t volume of h. Pulpit,' at page 4.—" Many pious persons,' observed ONE.SIMUS, " scums to mistake the functions pecy4 r to the episcopal character. Blending the preacher with Ow prelate, and not separating the two, these men censure Bishops for not doing what it is by no means their duty to perfirm. Preaching, it should be known, is mvrely incidental to episcopacy; since the mitre enjoys duties distinct from, but equally important with those of, the pulpit. Strictly the bishop of souls, the Christi:it, Bishop, it he fulfills his part, is perfect'y employed in superintenni:ig the spirituaiities of the Gisurch tO which he below:, and watching tile conduct of those pastors t" whom the . peuple look up for the:r religious instruction." t'' o ' far the writer of lhe Pulpit : we shall presknt'y sec what arc the svnume.its of the Bishop of Norwhli on this head. •- 41.1 h - • • It