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... - 1* Aationali 3!.rgieLi. trr+ Our Ring, Conititution anb it Muff. No. 1,242.—V0L. XIII.] 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 co occasion of the demise of the Crown. As it was the acknowledged duty of the Steward to govern the kingdom during peace and war i 1111 l ted:ately under the King, and to controul the abuse of power in the judicial servains of the Crown, so it cannot be doubted but that a greater share of ixwwer devolved upon him during the interval between the decease of one King, acid the Coronation of a suc cessor. This may be inferred, indeed, (rum 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 duty still performed by . the High Stew ard ; n t the function to u lrich 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 u-:.tl to sit judicially in the White Hall of tile King's Palace of Westminster, near the • Chapel, to receive the petitions of Stale Officers, and of certain of the Nobility and Gentry who, by the tenure of their respective estates, are honod to perform services of ditlarem kinds at the _Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England. These petitions, or claims, the Steward had power to examine, and if sup ported by documents aid 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, eespectiug 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 forausaly ;ranted by the Crown, was that of performing some defined service by the per son of the tenant to the person or the King. Tit; s service was sometimes a military one, but more com monly official; and its time of p affirmance was fre quently the day of the Sot ereign's Coronation, when he also received the homage and fealty of those inner tenants, who held their lands by these ffirms of submis sion. Temire on the condition above defined, ho nourable from its certainty, and from the required ser vice being due to the Royal person alone; hence, it was called magus"; serreiten, or grand sergeanty. Thus, if the Crown hails Knotted a manor or estate to airy one, on the condition he shall carry a sword or sceptre, at the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of Englatol, 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 wider the degree of Knighthood (they are indeed a blanch or anode of Knight service); nor by a minor, or female Laraot ; for these a deputy of sufficient rank is appointed —with the sovereign's license. It may be veil to !Joie, iu conclusion, that these services are to he considered as the rent or fine due for the enjoyment of the lands to which they are attached; and inere,ore, though tile tenants are sometimes said to claim the sen ice, they 'Lust be understood in reality as claiming the continu ance of the estates, by appeariog to fulfil toe cuuditions can whi.:ll they are granted. The High Stewardship of England ! elute:ea of old to the Earls of Leicester, who were senescultz tei4is tie jiudo, or hereditary Stemmas. It was first holden by the family of Grentemaisne I, with the Lordship if 11 rock ley iu the county of Leicester, and became connected with the E Adorn of Le icester by the nr.rriaLe of all !wires, id' the Lord of Mickley; it afterwardi descended to the illustrious house of De Vendor.; and on the anaitoder a the last Earl, Smarm de Montfort, tire Stewardship, - with the Earldom of Leicester, was granted by Henry to Ed und his r son, from is how it passed in descent to John cilGrutit, King of Castile and Leon, who was admitted to the toll enj .yment of its privileges et the Coronation of Its nephew Richard 11. He was succeeded by his son H, cart of Bolingbroke, who after wards became King 01 Erse land, when the office merged in the Cron it. From this tithe our limp hare been relieved from the cc 1111 l sels and assisatoce of a hereditary High Steward, which would have ill-suited the auto cracy of a Tudor or a St strut, and tla office has only been granted for the time or s • public sob tunny, when the exercise of it is as tedispensalde. In the late reigi.s also the presidency in t h e Court of Claims has been usualry given to Commissioirers appointed i.y the !sin r eig , with pow.r to do atl such acts with regard to Mt, Court, as the flight Stewards of England had been used to du in forum owe.. COURT OF CLAIMS. Thursday tile List attertire o; site Court of Claims was held Ita the Pau d Cli:titll,er at the noose o: lams, iu Idle:di/lice to his Nlajt•t;y's Prt,Claltiation. At let the o'clock, teteral of the lawsCwsittlia slope's hat n µ asstshlthd, the Earl of Harrowby, Lout President of itie 4P:lc the Chair, hat tog nu his right hand his Royal lIIt t.lless die Duke of Clasence, end oil his left his Hughtiess the Duke of Glou cester. Silence has ;Itg been proclaimed the Coltun:,s• 3 , 41 n was oi.ctitd, and was raid by the Clerk of the truwn Antoi l ; the wade, Were those of SUNDAY, MAY 21, 18;.0. 'rhe Cities of London and Oxford to assist the Criief Butler. --..... 'l' he Earl of Abergienny to act as Chief Larderer, which was contiterclaiitie_d by Mr. Esicoort, 3i. P. The Duke of Norfolk, as Earl of Arundel, to be received as Chief Butler. The Duke of Norfolk, as Lord of %e Manor of Worksop, county of Nottingham, to find a Glove for the King's right hand, and to support his M.rjesty'r right arm while the King holds the seeptie. The Duke of Montrose, as Master of the Horse, to act as Sergeant of the Silver Scullery. Mr. Conpbell, as Lord of the Manor of Lvston, in Essex, to make Waters for the King. The Bishop of London, in respect to the service of the Organ in the Abbey. claims of the Dukes of Norfolk and Montrose were presented by Sir George Nayler on behalf o f thos e Noble Peers. Among the Comoti3sioners present we noticed the Dukes of Cla:ence ao.I Gloucester, the Lord President of tne Council, the Alarquess of Camden, the Earls of Sod' tesbork , Macclafirld, Com-town, Viscount Strang. ford, Lords Gwvder (Lord Great Chanitserlain), Eis k me, Arden, Henle', St. Helen's, Amherst, and Charles Bent kick, the Ri;tht Hon. Sir W. Scott, Sir W. Grant, Sir John Nicholl, F. Robinson. After these• proceedings were closed, the Court was adjourned to Thursday next. 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, bot 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 fimm of a Tory parson, his Satanic Majesty may, in idea, have been clothed in black), who have stuotd falsehoods to his Holiness (we beg pardon, we mean his Lordship, t•..ho 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 imputed to him, be would have said no more than every honest man ought to say, no more than every man, a single remove front 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 ail his responses, he was reso lutely dumb in all attempts to make him follow in damning three fourths of his fellowmen. 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 'lmre Creeds, Nicene Creed, .11/om,hi's Creed, and that which i. commonly called the Apostle: Creed, ou 4 ht dicronglity to be feet ed and believed, for they may be played by tnoit entail warrants or Holy Scriptures. CI AUSI II IN ATHANASIL i's CHF SD. Whosoever ss ill be Ka ved, before MI thimis it is necessary thsa lie hold the Catholic Faith, tebirii fain., except eye , . o ne d o ;c u p Whole and uudefilcd , iCiiilUili doubt he aliall • l'h everluaing/11. - And the Catholic Faith k this, etc. [Then follow the doeti ines egarding the Trinity.] He therefore that will he saved most thus (that is, as predicated in the Creed) think of the Trinity. Fortin moo e. It is uremia, y to eve.' lasting salvation, that he als.. believe rightist the 'nem nation of our Lori Jest's Christ. For the right faith is, lke. [Then follow the doctrines of the Inca. nation, resurrection, ascension, and last judg ment.] This is the Catholic Faith, which, except a mats &thin , faithfultl, he 4 ittomt be saved. ltr the :Atli Cation, no prison shall be received into sh,• Ministry exerl't h^ shall hest subset - Ihr dirt e avid, 5, tile Old of tslliclt contains the followiug cords, and mat " lie Rektor tr ledgeth 51111414 •• very the artirks liis eau einitaice4 that is, in the (look of Articles of Rel Lion in I: tk2), b. in:: its Milli:it r eine and thirty, besides t h e to hi: n4reeithie to the will of God.* " I wish mil Chinch were well rid r f the ilianasian Ci i'ti."—Arelditshoo Tdlrdson. in a Letter to Dr. Bur s.ei I, epoott•ii in Bitch's Life of Tinoison. " Ilw crsaPet part sobscri he Ilie a: tick.% w;tlintit ever eaaminiag them, and others ito it, because they most it, dowels they eau hardly satisfy' their ciusrit aces about some thingsitsthem."—llishop Harm it, is conclusion ol The History of his own Tinies t vol. IV. In 1772,250 pet II MO, of which the majority were Cler cysticl ut the signed' a Petition Isl 'Parliament, praying, that stib.rOptlou to the this ty Mae at ticks should [PRICE 94d. no longer be reqnired of Ministers of the Church of Er.,- laud, and a large pot tioa of those Petitioners afterwards obtained pitteiment in the Church, and some were ad vaurrd to great dignities iu it. Out of one lisindred who subscribe the S 9 Articles, 'lnt more than a fink believe Hams in ear uniform ewes."— Archdeacon Blackburn in Confessional. _ . " Onr author, good man, is fully persuaded that the generality of Ilia Clergy firmly believe what they sub setitte to." lam persuaded mach othorisise.—Defence of Considerations by Mr. Paley, who was afterwards promoted by Dr. Law, Bishop of Cat:isle, to the Arelnleacoory of that Diocese, by the present Bishop of Lincoln to the Stilideanery of Lincoln, and by tile present Bishop of Dm limn to the Rectory of Bishop's %Veal - month. Great objection. have been made to the clauses of this Creed, which denounce damnation against those who do nut believe the Catholic faith "es their sta4.l, and it certainly is to & lamented that assertions of so pet eitiptto y a 'mime, unexplained and unqualified, should have tiet used in any human composition." P. 219, vol. 2, of Ele ments of Thvology, o ritien by Dr. Prelylildll the present lli•hop of Liuculn. " I am ready to at that In my judgment, nil. willastambim the authority of former time's, null Church would have acted more etisely, and more cmoislcnity with its general principles of mildness and toleration. it it had not adopted the dammitory clauses of the .dt/mna.ion Creed. Though I firmly believe that the doctrines of the Creed are till founded w Scripture, I cannot but etilleCiVe it Iu be both unnecessary and presumptuous to say that ' except every man do ket p them whole and midi filed, without doubt he shall perish eve; lastingly."'—Ditto, p. N. B. The alliiitit 14 the last IKu par iglaplis was one of the Bishops who refused to institute Air. P. Jones to living, because his testimonials had nut the count e r siCnn lure of his Diocesan. _ _ _ Words ini;inted to Mr. Junes, and denied by him : .Vine-tenths of Clergy of the Church of hngland sign whol they no nut fndieve. Tile sob:41;111re of the passage objected to in Mr. Pike Joins's speei•h. as reported in T'rse►atun's Gazette, Exeter, acknowledged by Mr. Junes, and attested by several per sons present " My Rev. Brother (Mr. Radford) says, the Catholic• think all damned without Ike vale of the Church. There is a creed, that of St. Athanastits, an w hurls it is affirmed, that all are lost who do nut believe the duetrines therein Contained. Beery Clergyman is Laced to sign his belief to that creed. Yet if a Clergyman were to state that he believed others could tic saved without the pale of ID: church, an opponent might their say that lie had signed a contrary doctrine." We do nut mean to make a pmfessinn of faith, bat we may be alii.wed to stale an honest opinion. We cannot regard Archbishop Tillotsui., and Bishops 80/nett and I ate as ilittiirllts of the ChiliCh of Ea:glan.l, with the opinions they have &libel atrly fermi ded its print, and jet think Mr. Jones mitit to fill a benefice in that on accomit of the opinion Irupnte•d to him, or of that acknowledged by him. We cannot think th-t it Was wise and praisewoi thy to promote Mr. Paley in the Chards, who aas pttm.d.le.l that " the generality of the Clergy 'lid not thinly bt lace what they subscribed to," and jet think that it is just to exclude Mr. J Ales (ruin his livings becanse lie bad said, or is reported to have sail, " -tenths of the (Act gy did not believe what the v signed ' And as we ►egard Tillotson, Burnett, and Law, as ornaments of inn national Church, and do also think that the promotion of Paley reflects great credit on the. Prelates to %built he w•as in debted for it, we ntttst arkaa ledgr dist, ill our jiirk tarot, Mr Jones. has been deprived of his rights, and debarred of his pre lemma most ci isellyoinieasonably, and unjustly. The information received yesterday morning from Batavia is of a very alarming nature. By letters from that Island, dated January :14, it appears that nearly the whole of the Dutch troops had been drafted from thence to PalaniLing, in or:!er t() strengthen that military position; consequently the inhabitants of Batavia arc much shinned, as net more than 600 European troops were left to defeski the place against the Malays, who arc able to tau... ter a force of near 100,000 men ; if the attack should be made, a general massacre is expected. Letters front St. Petersburgh stiue, that the i 1..- parture of the Emperor to visit toe southern pro vinces of his vast empire, is put off for some weeks. and some persons say that his Majesty will not uu - dertake his jc:lrney during the present year. The fact ct sentence of death having been passed on Sundt, who assassinated M. kotzilii , _., ie. con . . firmed by letters from Frunktbrt ; but the time of V li.' ii• his execution is not yet known. A person who has rCoisU7!',.. ) an opportunity of secirg Sault sometimes, asked • AV. ) tA if him bow he wits.'" Alas !" he replied, " the . . *. -.. thread of my life seems to be form ed of such ate • '' %.:(4 ' nr.cions substance, that it cannot be broken, unless .., i by forcible means." He is, however, still very % •.tklits: , a j weak, and cannot leave Lis bed. . 1 .., ~..N r.d :,- A letter from Berlin, Aided April 17, says— t il. "1, , :i ) " The .b. us who, in the disguise of corn- Cossacs. co- Nt:V .2. 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