The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-06-26 00:00:00

v f - STA' :7 obese trial they were Wl**lnd, wee teat away without desire to establish will;eipepiv:iiirsolidtotional a t e' being tried at all. He wield pat it to the house, V i tro- priniples, in which Heiman of good order am ree ding* like the present did not call fo r inquiry . ' ey. morality might be *imported In the lice of all opposi nin't be dead to touch of humnity, and to all title. The write• stated that he was unequal to eons sense of justice, who did not feel that there was no se- menu the undertaking upon his owitimeaes, and within' curacy for any one if such persecutions as these could the certainty of support, and that If be could be sr, be sanctioned under the forms of law by the Learned of the enenteence of the Officers of big Maj 's Lord. He wished for inquiry that it might be known vernment in the 'sentry It would give sufficient Mieits how Scotland was governed, anal for the sake of the to the paper to make it sueeessfel. His answer to the' Leaned Lord himself, he wished it, whose character letter was, that however desirable each a poblieatisit. w ould sever be wholly free from taint, without a fell might be, he knew that it went the practise of his ea sed fair inquiry. He then noticed the action brought jeety's Government to give their eopport to a paper by by Mr. Gibson Neatest Mr. Cheap, a gentleman of the the Government advertisements solely on aeconnt of the li a r, who was said to he the real Editor of ',she Beacon, principles of it being In conformance with their own.— aed that brought by Mr. Stevenson against Mr. Ninon*, This answer he sent on Nov. 5,1819, and from that time who was a journeyman earning five-aseldwenty shillings he beard no more shoat that paper. He applied to gm week, but who was bound to indemnify Stevenson other quarters and succeeded; bet he bad uniformly re hr damages given against the paper. On the very day fused to give any assistance to his. even by ordering the latter action was brought, Nouse took his dew.- the paper. It was certainly true that is November, 1820, 'metros Seethed for Paris. He knew sot, however, that individual came to him with a paper. drawn up by whether hi was still at Paris. bat this be knew that if the Hon. Member for Lanarkshire, and subscribed by a the Leaned Lord thought the good opinion of his fel- great number of the inhabitants of that county. This low-citizens of issportasee he would do well to bring paper stated that be lied actually been reined by his ex - amp sod Ni... forward, for the people of Scotland effigies in the canoe of loyalty and good order, in his en would never be satisfied with respect to the part which the deavours to establish the paper he was concerned in, and lemma Lord had aoted,rill those persons had bees exa- went on to a pledge of support. His impression woe idled. Sons. time before the Hewes was established, a that he had not signed that paper; bet he was, willing paper, called the Edinburg/6 Correspondent bad existed to admit, from the Hon. and "Learned Gentlemen:a asset lei sees time nadir the indorses of Government. But it Oath that it was so. He bad long been connected with Timed that the Editor of this paper slid net carry his Lanarkshire, and was s freebelder Ni the wanly, sodas virulent far Neagh for his trans;pa bet after the di. such h e s ubscribed to the lad es of support. •ft was to etramiee of the Beacon then person returned to the be observed that the licentieseaeea of the press at that Cerrespoadent. - In both of those peppers was observed time was venereal. sad bed emend six or anew trials Oureame virulent libels against Mr. Stuart. After the in 1810 for blasphemy and nadirs, and was considered neretiation for the undertaking with respect to the is the main-spring of all the insurrections about that Beacon, discussions took place-as to the extent of abase time in the west of Scotland. Under these circumstances to be blurted in the articles in it, and also as to the ap- he put it to the house. whether it was not natural to ac poistment of an Editor. The result of this part of the cede to the recommendation, brought to him from a re discussion that took place was • determination to have spectable quarter. and which was eel? intended to, ape. as Editor not known in Edinburgh. and who should rate as an inducement to others to s upport the papee. l mate to his other qualifications a dee mixture of the Bat it never could be construed into a pledge to support belly and tile bravo and accordingly an Irish Student all the papers emanating from the same source. This was provided.--{A laugh.) He *Louthd be able to con- paper, however, soon ceased to exist ; the types were asst with all these transactions one or other of the sold to a person of the name of Alexander, who, in cow Crewe Counsel as a principal actor and mover.—(Hear, junction with Borthwick, set up the Glasgow Seatistl. Mar.) The first witnesses he would examine to this He asked if it was fair to make him answerable fur this part of his ease were persons of the names of tVatson proceeding. which was set a going udder a diffuses* aid Thiselion. Da had now stated this case to the name and place and after the lapse of a year? It weal nese, in which he appealed to them as arbiters, it-cause be the last act of his life to do as had been attributed to he weld make that appeal to no other quarter. He did him. and he declared he never bad the remotest list ask the house to swot to the truth 'of his propnal- connexion, either by. purchasing, seeing, or pree dem, bet he was me th mistaken if the horse di'l not moting in any way whatsoever, that paper.—(Hear.)-- think that he bad mode eat • prime /nit ease to justify He wished else to state, that the removal of the Sheriff him is tallies for a fell, fair, and impartial inquiry : — Depute of Lanark. was in no way connected with this He had second a systematic plan of libel, and the in- transaction. With respect to the other parts of the tornados e possessed connected with these libels Ma- charges namely, any concern which be might have bad etßad persons holding situations of authority in with another paper, it was certainly true that in the end =try. spewing the effects of the evil example of of the year MO, a number of Gentlemen of high the Lensed Lord. ' He *treated the house to recollect, respectability—and to say, that any of them could that although ibis system appeared for the present pet be ender his influence—he was sure those who knew to rest. it was ready to be reatwed. The death of Sir them would deem impossible—these Gentlemen informed Alexander Boswell was sot the only lesson that they bins, that in consequence of the state of the press in bed bees taught by it. Already the lanseated Mr. Scott Scotland, there being a great number of seditious ',eb bed fallen • vials' to Scotch libels, and the success of lications afloat, the had come to the resolution of es the libeller's pistol epos their first victim, seemed to tablishing a paper in order to meet and refute the pen* km given fresh virile lo their proceeding". All that dons doctrines and principles which were thus spread he asked of the house was, that he ahoald be permitted over the country. They came to him end said that 15000 to show his grounds for what be had stated—that be would be necessary to establish such a paper. and be might be allowed to prove what be had advanced. If gave 1001. towards it. He did not stead there to deny I they ware proved, they might to be redressed. If they any part of his conduct, sod be therefore admitted this were sot proved, it would be to the honour of the Lord act. And for the purposes which be had stated hems. Atineate.—(Hear. Lear!) He concluded by moving. prepared to say that it was an honest, fair, and legal That a Committee be appointed to Winn isle the con- one. The piper called the Beacon was acc ordingly es dent *like Lord Advocate and the other Law Officers of tablisbed on the let of January 1821. From that period tilieCrown is Scotland, with reason to the pablic press down to the June following, he was attending hie odfi of that country, and especially with regar d to the pro- ciateloties in Parliament, and he paid se attendee to oeselitre again* William fierthwiek. the paper, sad knew very little t what it soot • ffsbeeetiee - listing been seconded, and pet from the The non- and Lamed Goldoni's sad that it coy, el Chair, libels r bat be had read Use of theta to the Muse. a they were consequently not enabled to judge whether The LORD ADVOCATE rose, bet from the low contests were libellous or not. He was bound to ha ton at Inn in *bids be spoke his first muteness were shewu to the boom that it did coma* libelloas matter, inedible lb the gallery. We understood him to say, before be called upon them to come to a vote declaring that he relied os the liberal *diatom* of the House, it to be so. One case only had been decided by the law,, tater the difficulties of Isle'siteetke, in rising to enter and that bad wins on within the last few days, The ra Spa the defame of his own character, which had been snit of that decision did not certainly go to bear oat the wera i mie d before t h em , th e Han, m id L ea rned He t i. Hon. and Learned Gentleman in his conclusions. The . spina" were carr i e d, it was h' be the appoi n t. case was one in which a Noble Lord opposite was a party, meet of a Committee. for such purpose, would haply a sad the Jury had given him a verdict of one shilling voteof ensure upon bim, aid thereby injure him in all damages.—(Hear, bear.)—lf the Noble Lord was satim that was valuable to him to preserve untouched, viz. fled with this verdict, it was very strange that he had his homer and character. He complained not so much laid his damages at 5000/.—(Hear.)—When he returned of the manner and time that the Hoe. and Learned to Scotland in June. he received an iodisation from Mr. Oeatlemaa had pat forward this motion, so mock as of Gibson that be intended to commence a pruned*. his sat having gives him timely notice for preparation against him as proprietor of the Beacon. He then seat fen such .a statement as be had made. He looked upon a copy of the bond to Mr. Gibson by Mr. J. Stewart, wbe the maim ie the Order Book as touching only his was the agent employed in the affair. Soon after this general endue as to the press, and did not anticipate the correspondence appeared to which the Hon. sad such minute particulars being goes into as they had Learned Member alluded. The letter which gave dee kind. When Mr. Whitbread brought a charge against to it, was a private and con4dendal one, and never is. the last Lord Advocate he had the courtesy, before tended to be considered in any other light by the writer, petting him on his trial, to fend* him with a coin- The words of the bond declared it to be expressly ono pieta knowledge of all his accusatioos.aed thus enabled derstood that he should have no property in the *el iii. to come fully prepared before the House. But he newspaper, and no responsibility for its contents. Ifs bad heard theirs& of his charges that night, although never was, therefore, a proprietor, and bad so 111110 he might have broapiat forward a general motion on trout whatever over its management. The Hee. sad the subject ten months ago. and had threatened to do Learned Gentleman bad said that in law be was a proprim so. it was not till three days after the death of Sir tor. but that question was to be tried before the Courtof Alexander Boswell, in whom he had lost a friend, and Sc otland in about ten days, mad he would put it to dm when the public feeling ran high that be had thought bones whether it could fairly anticipate or prejudice a It time for such a modes. If lie th ought as he stated quetiun which stood for the decides of a Court of he did, it was his duty to bare taken measures not to He gave his 1001. for the reasons he had already stated, allow him to disgrace the office which be held. For and when he saw the paper come oat be timed it a veer the last eight days, the public press bad dose every doll and stupid document, and encleded that his mosey Wag in its power to prejudice ibis question; and this, was gene and there was an end of it. But when he heard tee, at a time when be defendant in an action for that the contents of the paper had given personal offence damages to the amount of ten thoomind pouedaas a pros to individuals, he immediately withdrew hie security pricier in one of the papers alluded to by the Hon. and upon the bond, and the other Gentlemen concerned did Learned Gentleman.--(Hear.)—These were the peed- the same. Asa private individual, he apprehended that Minify observations he bad to trouble the House with. nothin could be objected to the part he had taken in With regard to the charges brought against him, that this a ffair; and it still remained to be sheers how his home must be aware that be stood in a situation of citadel situation would be affected by it. If a private dile-shy, inasmuch as he was connected with other in- libel appeared in the paper, by the law of Seotiand it (Heide*, Mr. Hope, Mr. /O'Neal, and others. The could not be ed against by &criminal *forma boos, wo u ld b e aware of the hardship of the case upon don ; the par ties proceed by private action. There these individuals, be being called upon to make their fore be was sdll to learn how his official duties could defence, baying no means of communication with them, have been compromised, even if he had supported the sad not knowing of the charges stalest them till that paper, knowing It to be the channel of private libels. die. The Hoo. and Learned Gentleman bad began by Libels upon the Crown were certainly sot very likely to speaking of the nature of the powers belonging to the appear in •paper setting oat with the principles which Laid Advocate. The chief power of that Officer was had induced Mm to give it his support; and he ahead that of public prosecutes', and the diminution of prose- like to hear in what way it was possible that his coins& cations 'hewed that it bad bees exercised honestly of Lion with it should interfere with the strict discharge of late, and h e was convinced, that the effect of the power his duty. When he entered into that connection, be so exercised, was to bring fewer persons to trial. The saw before him the great number of prosecutions ion& power had always been exercised with the greatest mo- tested for seditious crimes, and the many unha ppy derides. With reference to the matters immediately sons sentenced to death for engaging in rebellion, sad teaching himself personally, is which the Honourable all this he considered to be the consequen c e of the Hew aad Learn e d Gentlemen had dealt. it appeared that be doneness of the press in the western part of otland. "Urged him with a connexion wish three newspapers.— This was all that oeporred to his mind at t h e h time, add One of these newspapers was entitled the Bdiabsirgk as won as he found the complaints made, wi thdrew Correspondent ; and on that subject all be bad to say from it altogether. Thesewereall fae ts htsim beadasi n ttet Was. that the statement be had made was entirely new and the other charges whichre l a ted to were, to him; and although he had occasionally sees that bad dative. wholly urifoundembLouseNowfaas as well qualified augury was Piper in his hawse, he solemnly declared that be bad n ot therefore necessary, a nd the hem connected with that paper.—(Hear, bear.) —He to corns . to t_he ese vote w a e t re on a ce ll t u h p e u o n hse s rv e r o a n o d n u s et w , i as ai e w ve h r ich it wished to be understood as wishing for the appoinuneet could be . t Th ese isle he house as far the charges affected Oa Committee, could it be done without implying cen- he ba him iadi o vid7a u lls , t ond be begg ed that the house would sate upon him. Indeed, were it not for that, was . . wi th what fo ll owed as species of inquiry be did not court.—(Hear.) The not eontoum his persona enamel seat paper be was said to be connected with was the Sea- as to the Gentleme n . bo h bad been b attacked ht without the nut H e confessed he was surpr i se d to bear his name means o f . answeriog had t against e be c e a s se th e ro oh ag jecuofa cha the r m ge . is connection with that paper. He had sever read it, Two of his frien d s which certainly gave hi. *outmost surprise. He bad " wi Mr _ eu it. Pl4 —( r frear. it he i a li r.) any H a e he reeei r' let or had aa n y e c ;r il e:s ez M i° r gi . sever before heard that Gentle:leen who said a his De- Borthwick in November, 1819, in which be stated his peeks were to be prevented from undertaking private .:.,r * --11 J rAN. eerep Tbrr had hewn till that the f 0.,„ Jones/ and the Sentinel were not the lame isaiterit.o the Right Hon. Gentletup 'had asked what evidence there was of libela in these asperse Borthwick the prie.or stated that it was libelless, which was the of Sir A. Boswell's death by libels io the Glasgow tine!. That lamentable event was surely proof danger arising from the eadeavour of a Learned ' support such papers. These journals were systems% ly conducted, and the Learned Lord contributed mi weekly, for piloting and circulating thew libels. tiot this furnish ground for enquiry whether the Lest rend Lord had not as a public officer violated decorum ' good morals. The Lord Advocate gaited ell the - offices of Scotlaid, and according to the statement IN•ble Lard, he bad been the director et the movements is that country. He was the public , tor of Scotland, and certainly bad neglected bs o suffering a hatter? to play agaiaet private character. was a case Parliament were bound to take op. Afte Niels charging Mr. Stuart with cowardice tor nut het Mr. Steveisson, a plea was put on the rerord, proms acquainted with the law of b bad des' that the charge was justified. Such a plea was r grace to any Court. He thought the laws of Ii were written on the hearts of Gentlemen, and he expected to find they were in a corporation of it Such a plea could only aggravate the offence, cosh! arise from nothing but the furious seal wl tingnisbed all the parties. He could not sap the Lord Advocate would be boaourably acquitted charge, or censured by the Committee ; bet inquiry der all the circumstances of the charge, teel4 disposed with. The Marquess of LONDONDERRY did not 11 revive the discussion. His argument would tura what the hoop owed to its own character. It mir asked why was this motion made at a period of t" siott when it was impossible to eater upon I The fact was, the Hon. Gentiennewhad not come at the proper time, and his whole object must fated. The Hoe. sad Learned Waders** had that he did not want to condemn the lased Advocate, to promote inquiry. It was no small punishment to t au Individual under the examination of a Committee that house, and more especially when the individual we already before a tribunal of the country. After all, the Lord Advocate was net implicated in the transaction with respect to Mr. Boswell beyond suspicion. sot suggested that the Lord Advocate ought taken any legal steps in his official situation these journals. There was no seditious libel, whih the only one the Lord Advocate was legally capable prosecuting. The law was open to iudividaals to o redress, and there was no instance of the power o Lord Advocate having been denied where it was ap for. The Noble Marquess bad been told of libels ii Beacon and Clydesdale Journal, but bed never see alleged libels. He was, with respect to any know) on that subject, a complete sheet of white paper.- It was a little too much to ask the house to the Loot Advocate, without haring seen one word _ libels. The Hos. Gentleman ought to have laid on the table all the journals containing the calumny. He un derstood the Clydesdale, like the Morning Chronicle, which the Hon. and Lea rned Member had often praised,. was a paper of.fair character. What the character of the Sentinel was be did not knows but it was too muck to make the Lord Advocate responsible for what it con tained. The Beacon did not always bear the ebaracter the lies. Member had given it. His Learned Friend denied all calumny in those papers as far as lie could. He was induced whoa the country was in a bad state in teammate of the east of the Radical press, to sob seribe for a loyal paper, which was to oppose orpiment to argument. ,lithe paper termed out bad, was the Lord Adrecatit to he respotmlials? inquirywoald Power no purpft* tut *low suspicion and calumny on the Lora Advocate. The Noble Marquess bad no difficulty in de ciding with his Right Hon. Friend that the Lord Advo cate's sharacter stood without reproach.—(H-.r, hear.) —lt would have bees more discreet if the Lord Advo cate had kept himself fret from the paper, but there was • nothing which attached to his character. Mr. LOCKHART was ready to acquit the Lord Ad vocate of any bad intention, but could not allow he was free from the charge of indiscretion. Mr. ABERCROMBY briefly replied. He said that as to the time that would be occupied by the Commit. tee, he was ready with his witnesses to proceed before the Committee to-morrow.--I(Hear, hear.)—and in six days the whole investigatio.. might be concluded. If the House did not go into inquiry upon such a case as this, it would not, in his opinion, do its duty. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the motion, 95—Against it, 120—Majority against the motion, 25. The House went into a Committee on the Police Act, when Mr. Secretary Paso proposed several Resolutions, which were agreed to, and the Report ordered to be re ceived this day. The other Orders of the Day were then dispm se I of, and the House adjourned at two o'clock. prectiee. Their salaries were miserable enatili,, owe ddering the importance of the duties they b ad to pee. .orla i UPPI when it was remembered that t was ewer to have own of talent, and men who were rising at the Her, it was utterly impossible that they should IN debarred from private practice. It was said, then, •liat these two Gentlemen had signed • paper in f of a prisoner. Ilat the fart was they had only done their luty to their clients as Barristers.—lfe did nut expect from the notice, that these matters would have been brought forward, and therefore lie bad no means of he ing informed upon these charkes. But he knew Mr. Hope to be a man of the highest honour and character, and quite incapable of the contemptible motives with which he bad been charged. This part of the question ought, therefore, to be thrown entirely out of view in the decision to which the house was about to come.— The fase of Borthwick had been spoken of as if lie bad beenthe author of all the acts of oppression complained 0( by him. But lie was quite sure that if Mr. Hope mild he present, and the whole case seenthrough, every nut of his condnct would be justified. He thought theft had been committed, and a most atrocious theft, by the person charged. He had obtained the papers by force without a warrant, for it was no warrant until ex truded by a messenger.—(Hear.) If he was wrong in his opinion, any hoe. and learned Gentleman opposite might set him tight; but be asserted this to be the law. The charge was that Itorthwick had broken open the print* repository of his partner's papers, (even sup posing him to be such) with a felonious attempt. Mr. Hope believed this charge to he true, and committed hint accordingly. It was then said that lie was put in Mike,, end eondecmd to •prison. He could have no means of as wrtaining the troth of this from the name of the notice which had preceded this motion. But he wield venture to say, that no such order had ever been gives by the Town Connell. The liberation of the peplos in question, had taken place earlier than was ne mem by law, which proved that there was no unlust detention experienced. The suit of Alexander being the suit of a private party, the Lord Advocate could not withhold his coacoterse. He should conclude the observations with which he had to trouble the house, by stating that no part of the Government had any con emotion with or knowledge of the part he took with re gard to the newspaper in question. If wrong had hoes done if . belonged to Um alone, and it was most right for the Commons of England to pronounce the sentence which they always pronounced upon Injustice.' and aitieb of coarse would be adequate to his removal from Hie Ace be had the honour to bold. Should that be the result of their decision, be should doubtless be suc ceeded by some one more able to perform its duties, but by Done who would be more anxious than be bad always been to exercise its powers with moderation and intim tiality.—(Hear, bear.) The Hoe. and Learned Lord then retired from the boss& Mr. Secretary PEEL said, he could not suffer the question to btu disposed of without troubling the House with a very few observations. Upon the present occa sion the Hem. and Learned Gent. not with the intends. of doing so is all probability, had appealed is some to pies highly calculated to create an unjust and rase projedice against hie Learned Friend. The Hoses would permit bins to refer to the charges that bad bees addeeml. in the order in which they ocesered is the Hen. and Learned Gen.'s speech. The are was, that of connection sad support glue to the Cerreepenient and they bad his Learned Friend's deelaratios Open his humor. that be bad 110 connection with that paper what ever. In the same manner was the chase as relating to the Sentinel refuted. With regard to the It 00•1111011. doge* of the ardeadak Journal, the fleet gnomish:sk i with Berthwi howedtesbwod 'ss sad proved *et Ise to it to prteafterandhe, or a 'Weil y emir •to the press. He next came to the r. Aiken. as Under Sheriff. in which h s lies/ was represented ea having used his in bum to pessure him that appointment, in consequence Olds cowmen with the papers in question. The fact was, that he (Mr. Peel), beteg the author of the measure which emend **Tummy, suffered two months -to elapse before be .rimiliusended any one to his Majesty as a_propee penes twill it up. A Noble Friend o f his, the net Loyd of the Admiralty, being then about to go into Seed*, he gave him the names, and requested that he Wadi Impairs of the high law authorities there, who was the fittest persons for the office. This was as history of his appointment, and this was the answer to *at part of the charge.-s-(Cheers.)—He then came to the subject of the Beacon, and it was perfectly true that his Learned Friend had entered into this sort of security for its support. It was perfectly true that that paper bad contained attacks upon private character; and he did sot wish to be considered as standing there to palliate or defied their attacks.—(Hear, _hear, bear.)— The charge of the Hon. and Learned Member against his Learned Friend was " that he bad lent his motley. Sad the hideous of his office, to support private slaw der and calumny." Now, he would meet this with a complete denial.—(Cheering.)—The Right Hon. Sure tary thins read a document received by the Government from the Earl of Glasgow, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrew shire, to show the state of the press in the west of Scot land, at the due preceding the establishment of The Beacon. It described the organisation carried on amongst the reformers, and their secret meetings to read sedidou publications. It stated that every means were taken in these works to destroy religion and to incul cate the worst principles in the minds Of youth. The house must hear in mind, that it was under each cir cumstasces as these that the Lord Advocate had given his support to • paper whose avowedobject was to oppose the doctrines of sedition. Perliapshis Learned Friend was only anxious to follow the recommendations an often laid down on the other side of the house, to avoid strong measures against these misled people, and to meet sr gamest hp argument, so as to convince them of their urn.. lieppposing then he had wished to prepare an antidote for the poison which was thu insidloally die tilled ; and supposieg the paper had contained no private slander, would any man have said, that his conduct wen each as to criminate him ?—(Hear.)--Was this the free &sande, a which they sometimes heard so much ? It was impossible to expect that he could be answerable for every paragraph that appeared in the paper after ha became security for iv; his intention was only to sup port it in maintaining constitutional doctrines and prin ciples. With regard to the treatment of Derthwick, be did not see how that could come uader a motion upon the conduct of the Lord Advocate and the Scotch press. That was a matter for a separate and distinct motion ; aid he implored the house, in justice to his Hon. Friend, not to allow this to influence their judgment upon his personal conduit. Sir J. MACKINTOSH said the publication to which the Lord Advocate had given his sanction had broken in upon the happiness of individuals, drstroyiug their peace and comforts, by barbarous levity, and producing blood. Decorum bad often distinguished the proceed lags of men who conducted public affairs, but a system of indecorum seemed to be reserved for the present an furthest* time*. The question was whether the Lord Advocate of Scotland Lad encouraged that system a long time is secrecy, without *envies the share he bad in it?—whether there was sufficient (found for a charge agaiast a Law Officer of the Crown in Scotland, accused of promoting private slander is the most Is gitious manner. The paper defended. was devoted to .he perpetrati At of every crime that could disgrace a , I• ~, . .._ • r rr "V' r * t ' ' • . , • .... A. Y de • •• pers. and . . evidence the pro- he noose ‘• row Sea- 111 of of the I Lord to omatical- S . id money I. eta. Did Learned SI9M and • - ;,. le antirnt tot of tied military : prawn- I ditty id , atter. It After thi i nut tis:.l- -ord, that .2": I decided rat a Ilia- , if honour` ' La r lawyers r. and it . I 'Welt die- - 1 .... 4 whether - ted of the - %airy, ue- S Id not be et wish to urn apes might be f the inquiry? Sem- to forward ...• est be de- sd stated °caw, but 1 ' eta to pat • positive of I ridoal was I .er all, the a rsassction a. It was I ~ t to have • against which was uspable of i , A.... . to obtain wer of the • 1 1 as applied , bels in the . ' ,. 1 . !t• seen the i ~ knowledge 1 . .—(hear.). A criminate . rent of the I aid en the i Li ti tA at A 4 I 1 • 1 a I 1 1 1 1 1 1 ,s THE BISHOP OF PETBRBOBOUOII. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sta,—Observing in your Paper a Letter from Hr. Fordhant, en the subject of the Petition. presented by a Rector against the Bishop of Peterborough, I must say that he appears to me to have mistaken the point in it, dad to have grounded his declamation on a false presumption. He presumes that the Bishop's opinions are right, and the Curate's wrong, or in ether words, that the man in power may do as be please, while those who are his inferiors must submit to him. A pretty doctrine indeed, and worthy a Chareh and State man ; though I know not whether I ess. apply the epithet to Mr. F. I would only compare the doetrioe of the Church of England with the cli nk*, of the Bishops, and leave any person to judge of the harmony of the pictures. It would be absurd to deny that the Rev. Prelate's opinions are not Arme nian, and that his questions are not shaped acc..rd %Fly; and cam a candidate for Holy Orders, looking to the foundation of the establishment. with the con sideration. that its Articles and Liturgy are purely Calvinistical, hope to obtain admission into it without being guilty of falsehood? How many wolves in sheep's clothing are there in the Cherub. who eat up the substance of the people as it were bread, and call not epos God; who Mammon alone, and neglect him whose kingdom is sot of this world ? What an age of impadenee do we indeed lies in. when men get into the Church for one purpose and prostitute it to another; and ander the sanction of knaves of the worst stamp, upheld by spiritual wickedness in high places, openly ridka% her pure doctrines! The ap probation of the Bishop's conduct can only be for having shown a little of the tyranny of Chunk go vernment, which is !lively to shake its totterlegedilice. An ►onest man,indeed. st all times challenges inquiry. and ilia tiiinstanoe It bad not been soppressed, it would not have subjected one party to she hypocrisy. That charge still exists. and least shadow of It remains. the praise of and honest man mast bs withheld: June 21,1821. - w c h ltt the a i i eg every jut T. S. , F '