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moral •ielt the acquaintance oflit lag worthies and Inlegscholms,
be telt a manly and genres, regard for the memory of the dead.
you muse youraelf, Sir, have heard, that he republished o Charge
atedao by Bishop Butler. of Durham, one of the must prottomel
prilosophers and rumt enlightened thee:dogmas, that ever adorned
th! Church of England. That Charge, Sir, by some unaccount
obi, misconception in the hearers or readers, bud for some time
ben considered as ferourable to the Church of Rome ; but the il-
losion vanished, when Bishop Hal Vax republished it, and united
loth it, what I think, a wary judicious preface. Will you pardon
sne. Sir, foradding, thee, long ble&re the republication. I had my-
self adopted and avowed the principles upon which Dr. Butter rim-
noel, ar.d that 1 felt very great satistsction front the aid of his
✓ibonts, and undo the protection of his authority ?
ru such remora, then, as are acquainted with the events of
jr,uaori Halifax's life, or,the character of los writings, must it not
be Moldy improbable that a prelate, who, upon one oecaukia, bad
Medicated the fame of Bishop Butler front the imputation of
pkiony, and who, upon another. defended the cease of the Church
of England in opposition to the Church of Rome, should in his
Int moments have renounced the tenets, which he had 'glues pro-
fessed and Kt ably maintained ?
Retain you and myself, the, there can be no difference of bpi.
yam loom the importance of the fact, which you have deliberately
proclaened to the world. The establishmeett and the confutation
of that fat are alike connected with the honour of Bishop Halifax,
with the feens of honest Protestants and honest Roman Catho.
and wilith gthe general cause both of the Church of England
arid the Church of Rome. that, your prudence has per-
ibllfg you to tell the pubic Bishop Balite: probably died a
kattiel,c ; I trust, Str, that your love of truth, and your sense both I
deastos and justice, will irduce you to declare explicitly
and fauf what, in your own mind, were the grounds of such
goenbioty.
The public may rest assured that this challenge will not
be .a.cc pied. Such writers as Dr. Milner are callous to
thin sort of appeal They have a purpose to answer, and
having once Allot the means by which it can be'
best promoted, they go 4, turning neither to the right nqr
to abe felt. It ntattere not, when they make an attack on
4g-liotestant Establishment, that proY is imperiously
Galled far. In vain may you urge that it is the interest of
maiddad at large that the truth should be known. The
fslricated calunimv is left to make its own way, It being
‘well known beforehand that its fethrication will not 0/taint
its currency. There is no act more inexcusably baneand ,
unmanly at an/ time, than to attempt to tiz au iinputaaion
os thailuirsicte matt When he is no longer liv-
ing to repel it; the character of such a man is a sacred
vast to the friends he has left behind, and it is therefore
oatnral that the following paragraph in Dr. Alilner's work
shmild call forth the most indignant animadversion :
'fhe present writer," says Dr. Milner, " has been informed,
on good authority, that ore of the Bishops, when calumnies are'
late quoted, when he found himself on his death-bed, refused the
revel:tea ministry of the Primate, and expressed a great wish to die a
Cithohe. When urged to Satisfy his conscience, lie exclaimed,
• Ind slien trill become of my lady and my Aiitircnr"
It would be difficult to invent any charge which could
more effeetnally brand the moral character of the prelate
against whom it is adduced, or more painfully afflict his
surviving relative., than that which ill contained inilte I
above paragraph. A heavy accountableness rests upon the
writer if lie shrinks from the proof. We shall come to his
Conduct on this had by and by. In the mean time we I
quote the following impressive and animated comment
from the pamphlet before us :
.• Reflect, I beseech you, upon the excruciating and perilous
situation in which Dr. Halifax must have been placed, if your nar-
rative. Sit, be well founded, at that moment when hypocrisy, as
Dr. Young rays, • drops the mask, and real and apparent are the
same.' He, from want of conviction. could not time consolation in
the Church of EnglnaJ, and from want of fortitude he did not seek
it is the Church of Rome. 1p a man so accustomed as Bishop
Bolles was to the study of theology, such a change of sentiment as
you have ascribed to hint.' could not be instantaneous. It was not
affected by the interposition of any wily enlist, or any proselyte-
Lusting *ergot, who might take advantage of those circumstances
elicit sometimes are found in the death-chamber of the most
virtuous and the most devout ; and by such circumstances, Sir, I
mean flattering spirits, an impaired understanding, a disturbed
imagination, mammary tears succeeded by momentary hopes, one
dim and incoherent esaieePtion rapidly succeeded by another, and
sentences formed impesteerly or ttuered indistinctly. No, Sir, the
Bishop of dt. Asaph, according to your own account, was visited by
Protoleiet Metropolitaw.
"Pen tously, therefore. to his dissolution, while offend by sick-
pees sod oppressed by age, he must have sufkred many a pang
from conscious insincerity ; and opon the near approach of that dim-
eoletion, he was doomed to breathe his last in a disgraceful and
dr.adfid conflict beta eta timidity cad piety—bet wean culls upon his
prasknot, from the praise of men, and upon his CJISOCKPICY, front the
approbation of God—between the impulses of paternal and conjugal'
slimiest oroo one hand, and of self-preservation upon the other—
between the opposite and irreconcilable ir.tereits of time to his
family and eternity to hie own soul.
" f o the Primate who proffered his ministry, and to the Bishop,
who, according to your reprmentatien, could not *rail himself of it,
DO apg..al can be made, for they are numbered among the dead.
But the faces said to he known by your unnantzl informer could
net ligoakkenknoan so thaseralso wow unties sismaseroot
Wee exPiring prelate. Such, I mean, Sir, as personal
friends, as near vela/Yes, as chaplains, as domestics, and.
perhaps, medical attendants. These tree surely can bear a direct
tail decisive testimony to • plain fact. They must have been
drep'y imrwessed by such a conversion as you describe. They must
have the evidence of their senses 'tether or no such conversion ever
onittsixr i
d, upon the supposition that it did riot occur, if such
,t of

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LAW INTELLia ATE.

of &ether chapels. Every one knew that matte" were placed 1 en-
,.
der des reunietanc very different to those of parishioners—that tley :- • ••e• e • . .
seldom had the means of attending divine weeship, tied were, in a ; COV*T OF CLIAN6E:IIIt, A :ESTRADA'S'.
degree, because of the peculiarity bf their situation, cuteness (rem . .
religion. But their resulinew to accept catch relerious inanuctiore ,r ii ___
Tun ittorTtlit Or weer. Ter enterer eon CASTER CHARf TY •
was also well knot, n) as well as their zeal to attend the chapels of ,
1' 4$ has been so long before the public, that it is unnecee-
this kiad that had been estabiislied, and divine service on bused', nary
to recapitulate the facts. It now came on to be argutellwhether
those vessels is which that service wan preformed. The leieure afe
, tits Lord Criancellur had jurisdiction.
, forded by a Eaval life, rendered it necessary that books :Mould be
Mr. SPENCE stow ssid, that if the Oversecla were not Sigel as
'given and lent to the seamen, and with this feeling the weir', had ;
contemplated by the founder of the charity, it was neces+ary to litre
(contemplated the ietiolueden of a circulating library into scone I &deuce, expresoly deolaring such tone the fact. This weitll then
chapels, in order to give the shims such works se would mete t heir
aril toe affect the rights and interests of the prementorereeere, end hi+ Lord.
1 mind" to a contemplation of the inetteee of a Redeemer,
ship would then have the question to decide of his ability to adju.
awful nature of etereity. He had now the honour to Prolswe a re-' drnate melee the act of Parliament. lf, however, his Lordseip
sedation, Met the meeting conoiders the religiousinstruetion of Dn.' sitould be of opinion that lie could make such a decree upon the
1 tish seamen a ttlbjeti of die utmost imponance. of canon el advert.. petition, he (Mr. Spence) wan ti.ea prepared to contend that the
take, stud as tending to the prosperity of the empire. Bolore he eat overseers were appointed in the same manner ite they were at the,
; doWn he was anxious to call the itteotion qf ehne great commercial I time of the foundation or the charity. To prove Mix- there were the'
city to the importance of giving religions iustretettou to Commercial . entries in the vestry
book. There was one to 1633, which was
seamen, in whase power it so o:instates:iv wpm in every putt of the thirty-nine years before the dole of the charity was executed. I.
world to raise the honour and the character of tits Bch" as'aer an peered by that entry that the pariah of Newington was then
AIL Alderman Baowx, in aecunding the rantlon, observed that divided into four districts ; that eight overseers were nominated in
he henraly concurred in the sentimeuts of the Noble Lord. It wet the vestry, out of which four were chosen by the magistrates, which ,
the intention of the Society to recommend to appointments in 112itree, was exactly the mode of procedure at protean There was a pre-;
!chaPels, only those who preached the "wines of the frata""det` chicly shinier entry in 1700, not to mention others, which proved,
;Church ; but be would take the opportunity of saying that much tinued
, good had been done by those dissenters who bad originally formed that the custom had
The Loan CHANcon CE
to be the same.
—But you can't make out that the
' the plan this Institution was cow adopting.
Lord CALTKORTE said, it was with sincere satisfaction he rose
custom, however continued, can overrule the statute of Elizabeth.,
Mr e
mr. .PENOR said, it was true ; but that the overseers were
although his Noble Friend who bail preceded him had fully de-1
to move the Resolution that had been put into his hands : and elected throughout according to the custom, in deiance of the sm.
scribed the object of the institution ; and although it was m mute of Elizabeth.e that .r.i_ r
aus LORD CITANEEL LOR —Then in that case I should •sar
presented such strong, such irmeistible.claitne to public stllen, there had been no overseen at all. Thee might have been styled
as to make it unnecessary to enlarge upon it,yet,ln jumice to his own
overseers, but not being legally elected. their acts were illegal.
feelings, lie felt it necessary to advert to seinea the points that Mr. SPENCE certainly thought that no ore could ages
should be particularly considered. He wart sure that Ito one that custom could get rid of an Act of the Legislature, uelete it
more complete g than hinetellt appreciated the advantages we en.
was old and demised ; but the observation he meant to make upon
joyed under so a government, and such a state of things Yit was it was, that they should thereby come to the donor's intention.
our high privilege in possess. But It would be strange indeed, ifs lie (the donor) could only know how the overseers were gruel
. living at we dill under the shade* of the most beautiful constitu.
appohoril, which was the Mine at it preeent : they might therefore
titan in the world, we should be strangers to the blessed privilege of
inter that Vie donor would not have attend hits intentions had it
becoming aoquaiated with the. word of God. He considered it re. been posaible foe him to have known that the mode of election
fleeted sonic degree shame those who possessed the power 'would have been confirmed by the Act tel Geo. Ii I. With *art
that they did not I IF the 'mention of the country to a
to the tumultuous meetings which bad taken •place in the parish,
subject of much vine mportange to se Ise and so useful a he.i had only t.oiadob, =whet elbtaa?tadallshrhaerdsrasuarte*lthheatiseartrieonfrowmatuthaebms 1
claws of the coaimunity. It Yeas a subject of gene
patisfeetion to every; friend and admire, of the Church to Kee her tor •".'"
ensuing forward to minister to the sotritgabooom,ege erailmelteed Die LORD Coeirext,won mid he had. made several arteopts
'of our seamen ; bot he was willingzd &riotous tad° the fullest
sear ties.
come to mine kind of conctusiop, which woad traziefy all pare
[justice to the anelethilantinewen,
.C4Whilislß 4,24- Chet "a' ttes. Before coming to a decision ***bre re should bewtillni
eased' our Dineeilirkbiethren to set as so nettle oexample. It
was highly honourable to them, and instructive to us. lie, as ai to receive any propusitions from both tetras% .If he should be of
(mite= that he had jurisdiction, fie should then tele these propo-
Churchman, preferring as he did the liturgy and the ritual of the sitions into crinnideration ; but if hoshould be of opinion that ho
Church to that of any other, and preferring it because he eonsi-
dered it more calculate:l to make religion what he should always had not jurisdiction, the propositions would of course fall to the
wish sahsould finally decide on that day se'nnight (next
wish to see it, the highest, the nublest exercise of the understand.
f7rwaryetr,tyi)r
praptslsidattisawsould give thetu p;enty of time to bring I
log,. felt peculiar eatisfectiou in beitohling that Church nutv exert-
i had
ing herself to forward so good, so benevolent, so Chrheitin-like a ''.. e,
that hie
otr. DART hoped nis Lordship would consider that he lieu
work. He rejoiced to hear, that two of the most distinguisbed
Prelates of the Church, distinguished by their Christian seal, and given sufficient indulgence, for--
their anxiety to convince those who were placed under their care, The LORD CHANCELLOR—Ida not care what rest he thought
that the Church of Ceglsnd is what it ought to be, a high and in-
of my indulgence. It is my duty to do what I data right, and not
to
valuable bleating—he rejoiced that two such individuals as the attend to what other people may think of it.
Archbishop of Dui& end the Bishop of Chester had not, amidst TOW riiI:END L. A 96 Err.
Mr. AGAR said, he had a petition against the bill of costs in that
their spirituel cares, overlooked that portion of their fin: which else, which pew,' that they might be reviewed by the Master,
had lii:herto been einem at ~sheep having no shepherd ;" and he
and, also, whether his Lordship should declare whether the ate
confidently hoped thee their example watild be immediately followed tend and
of Solicitors or their Clerks should be charged, wizen there
up in the oilier principal ports of the kingdom. He also rejoioed was no probability of the case coming on. After commenting on the
that this important object had received the sanction of his Lord-
practice pursued, the Learned Counsel proceeded to read the items
ship (the Lard Mayor). No one could go through the City with-
of the bill, which among other charges, contained one far 97 at.
out being continually cheered at the sight of nainereus hospitals
and alms-bowies fur administering to the temporal comforts anti tendances, at the rate of nine-pence per day.
wants of the people, and it was now delightful to think tint equal After which, a conversation arose between iii Lordship and Mr.
care wail I be taken to administer to their spiritual necessities. His Agar, in which his Lordship, in nearly the same terms Ito used
Lordship had conferred a distinction upon Lis mayoralty which some days back, reprobated the manner in which the attendances of
would reflect honour upon his memory when he and the present Solicitors was charged.
Mr. AGAR then alluded to the manner in which some motions
are no more. The Noble Lord then moved sr-Resolu.
were called on out of the order they were put down in the het. -
lion to the effect, that as considerable obstacles prevented seamen The Loan Cueweneeon said, that whenever they had asked from deriving advantage from religious education on shore. it wit
the opinion of the Meeting that floating chapels, in connexion him to bring forward any thing, he always thought that they had
with the Church of England, should be provided for the seafaring considered their duty to their other clients. Thin ought to be the
I proem, of the community. case if it was mint, and he begged it might be considered es a rule
R. H. MARTIN. Esq. seconded the Resolution. He observed, for the whole of the bar. He should take this hint, however, as an
that lie knew the Church of England was, and ought to be, de-
admonition in good part, and if he did not hold hint (Mr. Agar) to
liberate In acting, because a great degree of importance was at-
the new rule, he might blame him.
cached throughout the empire to every thing it did ; but he also Mr. AGAR was well satisfied; ha hoped his Lordship would hold
knew, that whenever it saw the way to benefit the cOmmunity, it it with regard to the whole bar.
The LORD CHANCE LI.OR said, that he thought if curiosity on
immediately commenced to do that good. Ile was amongst the
such a point was worth while indulging, that it would be gratifying
first of the Bisset:tent to form and adopt the plan of introducing re-
to know how often Mr. Agar himself had taken advantage of his
ligioue education by means of floating chapels; and when he del
laziness to represent that a case was urgent, and thus have it called
w, he consulted many Church of England Clergymen, and several
Noblemen, of whom Lord Clarendon was one. So much was that on before the others.
Mr. AGAR said he should like to know, then, the same facts,
plasm Detoured by the public, that the Chapel on the Thames bad
relative to the gentlemen to the right and left of hint.
been the model of similar Chapels at (lull, Aberdeen, Leith,
Mr. HART begged that he would only expose himself, and not
Bristol, Dublin, Swansea, Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. 'file
root, therefore, that had been planted, had the remainder of the bar along with him. produced good fruit. , The Loan CHANCELLOR said. it was perfectly correct, for it ;
It was necessary to observe, that the collections made from the
was an exposure. But the fact was, that counsel first misled the
when',
milers on board the Thames floating Chapel, amounted to 60!. or
Court, and then complained of it. He always thought that
7W. • pear; and that during the seven years that it hail been buil:,
one case in particular was arg-.1 as important, that the counsel
it had been amended by 200,000 persons. The repairs and iin-
nad well considered his duty in preferring it to others.
provements there had been made in the Chapel had all been done
tuitously by the persons employed. He felt a
aaiiilart.eAresote.g then proceeded with his arguments, which were of
grasersrs ti
innards thtzt no
lousy whatever existed on the part of the Dtsesatsie
He was followed by Mr. KNIGHT on the game aide.
those of the Established Church, but that on the contrary they
Mr. IIEALn Men eddreseed the Court for Mr. Tilleard, the at.
sere most ready and anxious to assist their beet' a m.
torney, who had charged the bill of costs. lie contended that the
Adin. Sir It. Krirss, K.C.8., said, that nom his long se-
e. delay ism occasioned by the opposite party, which was what led to
OwaSsowaos with masa" latawalyriga a...."' 4166"1""
bb""'
so vast a number of ettendancee, and which was by Mr. Tillearel
which there had been MOM re 'ous and moral Instruction were
himself, and not by his clerks, iu the manner before alluded to by
alway* those that bestedieeleerged the duties they were called upon
hisLord,ship.
be their country to perform. The Resolution he had to propose
Mr. es IRDLESTONE argued on the Mile side.
was, that in order to carry into effect the end proposed. tlii+ Inert.
totion be formed for the purpose of promoting and diffusing roll. 31r. AGAR then replied; and his Lordship made some fend
glues instruction, by means of Floating Chapels throughout the
observatiorn on the practice of the Court, similar to those he made
some days back. lie finally promised to give his opinion upon the
empire, agreeably to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of
• , present petition on Friday next, when he
-should see the Master.
....

and learn his reasons for Passing the bill of costs.
Several observations were made, both by his Lostrisitir. and Mr.
AOAIL in the course of the reply, but iu so low a tone, that we
could net gather them correctly.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, WEDNESDAY, J 1:1.:

Ills HONOUR was occupied in hearing arguments on excep-
dons and further direction ;b ut nothing of interest occurred.
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LIVERPOOL, TeESDAY EVENING.

Wind S.E.-11iFh NVater. 24 m. p. 1.
Arrived the Beaver, Beare, from Antigua; Isabella, —, from
ditto; Eliza, Dick, from Maranham. sailed the Ilth June; Lune,
Young, from Mirandetii ; Lune, Brown, from ditto; Hofnung,
Deeding, from Memel; Eab Gross Ilerzog, Paul, Buck, from Ros. '
toch ; and Britannia, Connell, tiom Riga.
The May, Town, from Africa for Liverpool, has arrived at Mil-
ford ; bowsprit and !item- head damaged.
The Blucher, Gill, from Alexandria, has arrived at Minn!.
Passed Holyhead 18th July, the Pacific. for New York ; Belvi-
dera, for Baltimore; Lord NVhitwortli, for Mirnmichi ; Berlin,
from Jamaica for Liverpool; Margaret. from Quebec for ditto;
Westmorelaud, from the Brazils, for ditto; and Oglethorp, for
New York. _ .

The Wellwood, from Liverpool, has arrived at Alvarado.
This day-three fine steam vessels were.thrown in grand and ms-
jestic style into the bosom of the !Hersey, viz. Etna and Comet.
each of SOO tons and upwards, Post-office Packets, front hence to
Dublin; and Hibernia, of about same tonnage, to carry gaoos and
passengers between this and Dublin.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALIIOUTIS, JULY IR.—Sailed the Auriga, Walford, for Val-
paraiso; the Stanmer packet, fur Lisbon; and the Sphinx ditto,
for Halifax and New York. Arrived the Trial, Jenkins, from
London.
Pots's/100TH, Jur.'" lb.—Arrived the Triumph, Green• friim
the Downs, for Bombay. Sailed the Superb, George, for Phila-
delphia.; the Ada, Cox. for Yucatan; and his Majesty's ship
Jasper. for South America. Came into hatboor his Majesty's
ship Dr.
DEaL, JULY 19.—Passed through for the River, the Hiram,
—, from Gallipoli, widi several others, names not reported.
Gaavasts 0, Jtl Lir 19.—Anived• the Endeavour, Collison;
Charles Wiliam, 'from? • Pamela, Covey; Sappho, Oalisby ;
Europa, Willis; mid Alehymist, Ileitis, flora Quebec—Camden,
Billitighurst, from Antigua; Demerara packet, Venable', from
Dominica; Ant, Esterb , from ilamburgh • Lusitania, Gibbons ;
retil
and Hope. Hick, from( rto ; Elizabeth. 'Ekins, from St. Vin-
cent's ; Eden, Jackson, Demerara; Louisa, Danbery. from
Grenada ; Cecrops, Gilmore, from Trinidad • Micmac, Bake', ;
Eingstune, Luckie ; and Henry, Westmorland, from Dern ;
Eliza, Hind, from New York; Grecian, 59uires, from Sr. John's,
r Nevi Brunswick; Margaret, bring, front lien Leone; Stakesby,
(*tier, from ,bliramichi ; Roseville, Scott, from Lantatotte ; Lady
Holland, Rogers, from Jamaica. Several other names unknown.—
Sailed the Albion, Radcliff, tar Smyrna; Astrea; Barclay, for
Messina ; and George Home. Ilippius, for India.
Scannoaotrog, JULY 18 —The Brothers. Morton, from Sun-
da-land, for Spaldir.g, ran on the rocks this morning, to the south.
ward otthis port, but was aglalatil Off and broaght to here with
trifling damage.
Martens. JULY 18.—The Eolus and George IV. lately ar-
rived at W-terford, from Quebec, have this weds been seized fur
haring smuggled tobacco on board.
biII{IANICHI, JUNE 13.--The Royal Edward was on ACT* off
Pox Island, but is off again and sailed.

ATT:ved or Dover, the Martha, from the Med Iternir.ein.
--Dartmouth, the Hannah, Scott, from Attra.
Holyhead, the Berlin,' —, from Jamaica; anti the
Lintolu, frau. Ncw To►k.
The JancOlosaack, sailed (ruin Belfast on the 10th March, fur
ISt. John's, lJrw Brunswick, and has not since been hears of.
The Recovery, Brooks, was at Callao Bth January, with 190
barrel's of 'perm oil, and was to sail es the 9th for the Sandwich
Island►. _ _ _

1 he unlispensablo, Fenton, was oo the Caul of Pero 9:h Josoaiy.
with 400 barrels of sperm oil.

nat.—A fire broke out yesterday evening, about six
elo.dt, on the prettifies of fife's». duntrr and Hopwood,
piano,forte mikeri,lat the corner of Pratt-place, Camden-
Tow*. lta the short space of an hour the whole interior
' was cannoned, leaving the walls only "tending.