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the managers. who said, " If you do tint marry that Individual,
'you are ruined." The that letter might have Is en got over; but
when a letter was sent to the managers of the chapel, he did feel
aggrieved. De then wmte to submit the cog to the arbitration of
I four inininers—two .0 be chosen by hinetelf--and four lay gentle.
1 men—two of the. also to be chosen by himself; and by their
I decision he was ready to abide. This letter was received with
disdain. Dr. \Cough then endeavoured to procure arbitration.
1 Mr. itmndfoot also petitioned for an arbitration, quoting the
' 6th of Ist Corinthians, as being decidedly against lawsuits:
but their efforts failed. The only condition that wsa offered
was, that he should sign a paper which Dr. Dick was to
till up, and this lie would not eonsetir :n as long as he hail breath.
After the trial had been stopped in Court, .11r. Gumey„ his second
Counsel, sent to hint to hold his tongue about the family who hid
I brought the action, saying the whole was at an end. lie was silent
about them, but that family, in a few week, sent all the papers
prepared for die trial to the Presbytery of Inndoo. " Tell it not
in (lath—publish it not is the streets of Askelon ;" and this after
the eomprmuise had taken place. Mr. Scarlet'. in his speech,
stated, that the cause of breaking in. the connection was purely of
a domestic nature, although he abutted the breach of promise,
'Merl he was not authorised to du. Mr. Brougham. the plain-
tiff". Counsel, Mid. the lady came not to persecute dot defen-
dant, and the Chief Justice said, that he was satisfied with
the conduct of built parties. Should not this reparation have
satisfied the Presbytery of London? Mr. Tuiie thought it
auffiernt--Mr. Rntadront did not. The documeno the Pres-
bytery possessed themselves of, must have been either offered
or solicited. They were not offered. and when solicited the
party possessing them should have said we can give you no docu-
ments for our chatarter's sake. If they had so acted, all would
have ended well. The last time he saw Mr. Boodfoot, he asked
how he had got possession of the documents that took three
hours and a.hall in leading. Ile said that he had seen George
Dick, and told hint that lie meant to bring the matter forwent
in the Presbytery. " Very well," said 31r. Dick, " All is ready."
If they, therefore, did not persecute, they suffered persecution
to get on els:is/here. The Reverend Gentleman then referred
to a letter receivel from a Dr. Hall, anti adverted to the conduct
of the Synod, and particularly dwelt on that part of their censure
in his ant attending the summonses of the Synod. lie said in
continuation. that he had attended the Presbytery In billsa'saanc
and Osendon Chapel, but he could tint be heard. and that was the
reason of his non-attendance latterly there. It was also stated' that
his conduct had been outrageous and extravagant. and that he had
by it driven away his congregation. Ile would appeal to that
conr,regotion if that were the tact? (Cries of " No, no; it has
rather increased.") Ittit who gave these facts ? They must look
tin mile's towards the Northern Pole., and then they might guess
where they originated. Ile could assure thou dot he never gave
them.

A 31r. L'ltr.ant called out—" Mr. Ammley said you would come
to the Presbyter• in live minutes."
11r. A scitst.Lir said, that he had in6omed the Presbyters that
Mr. Fletcher could be pmettretl in live minutes ; but he had never
said that he had promised to be there in five minutes.
Mr. FLtrrttcu distinctly asked 3lr. Amesley if he had ever
said so, or receiv, d authority from hint to say so ?
Mrt Aat r answered. " No."

A female said, 31r. Cleade was one of your managers, but he
never liked you.
Mr. Fi.t::retten then saitl—" I would have been there in five
minutes, but I was called a blasphemer by the man who wanted to
preach in my pulpit last Sunday." The Reverend Gentleman then
proceeded to read a Protest against the decision of the Synod, to the
following effect :
(The crowd and noise was so great towards the close of it, that
it was with difficolty be rould proceed.)
" In the presence of Site Searcher of Hearts. I take my protest
against the proceedings, the deed of the Session of the Associate
United Synod, at their late meeting on 15th September. 'f he pro-
ceedings of that Court were irregular and unjust, inasmuch as they
entered upon charges made against me in my absence, where it was
morally impossible that I could be present with a prepared defence.
I presented a petition to the Synod, beseeching them to send spe-
cific charges, with all the documents allowed me by the rules of the
Church and that I would send my defence at the neat meeting of
Synod. This reasonable request was refused; and though I have been
faulted in their employ during my whole life, they have neglected
to receive what was requested for securing the ends of justice. lied
a secluded curate, in similar eirrumatances, been refused what I
solicited, the voice of England would have been lifted up to assert
his injured rights; but the Secession Church, which, by profession,
has raised a standard for purity of discipline, has entered upon
proceedings against roc. refusing me an opporoinity of giving that
evidence, without which the ends of justice never could be ob-
tained.

" I protest against the way in which these proceeding were con.
ducted, as evidencing dispositions at complete variance with the
meekness of Christianity. I protest against the decision of the
Court. They decide that I ant guilty of a breach of promise of
marriage. upon my own confeseion in the Court of King's Bench.
My Counsel was not authorised to make such a confession ; he
wisely, indeed. used such a discretion, under the conviction that
the friends of the plaintiff would never agitate the business in the
Ecclesiastical Courts. I challenge all the Barristers in England to
find a breech of promise of marriage in my letters, in the usual
acceptation in which that teen is understood. It is evident that
the data on which they proceed are false, and therefore the conclu-
sion cannot he just; and had they allowed me to give a fair,
and full defence, I 'might have convinced them, unless they
were blinded by most unreasonable prejudices. that they had
viewed the ',object erroneously; but this they have voluntarily
rejected, and tyranni=lly refused my just petition. The Court
has chlrged me with duplicity; but they have given no evi-
dence its support of such an accusation ; of this duplicity I
ant altogether uaconsciritts. If caution in dealing with a crafty
antagonist he cor.videred as duplicity, I am indeed guilty, but
not otherwise. If the Court had given me the advantage of
the most abandoned criminal, that of defending myself, I should
have been able m have given explanations of a variety of circum-
stances which in no other way could have been elucidated. But
this they have denied me. and therehwe I must have recourse to
other measures hi defence of my reputation.
" The Court has pronounced my conduct censurablein dispensing
the Sacrament in opposition to the wish of four of the elders of my
Stanton. But I couaidered the opposition to its observance 1111.
flammable, and at variance with Christian principles. and therefore
dispensed the ordinance of the Lord's Supper agreeable to the wishes
of my congregation. These men violently retained the communion
plate, the sacred property of the congregation, and endeavoured to
agitate their minds by the refusal of its use. I considered this con-
duct illegal, sacrilegious. and cruel. A stranger to the tear of men,
I gave to a beloved people the elements ofa Saviour's love.
" I take nil, protest against the sentence of the Court., for their
decision is built on a false foundation. They hare for six months
suspended the fonctions of my office, and nave forbidden the
('hunch of God to have any fellowship with me in Christian pri-
vileges. They have overlooked the most egregious violation of the
sacred canon of insp;ration, in any being dragged into a Court of
Law, which could have been easily avoided by the arbitration
which I proposed. They have refused to animadvert upon Imps-
fancied injuries which if have received from my servants ; but to
every thing which was uttered to my prejudice they have listened.
and they have refused any defence which I could bring forward
against the shafts of malevolence and envy. That Ecclesiastical
Court have published to the world a sentence derogatory to that
sacred lustre with which they have been so long irradiated. Let
them retrace their steps, and thus display that mercy has triumphed
over judgment.

" There are many things in my proceedings which are far from
meeting My own approbation. Were I again to traverse the same
troubled seas I might make considerable variations in my co sae,
but as it has been my lot to have conflicted for two years with the
most repulsive passionsof the human heart, I have reason to lift
op my eyes to the r/ispour of all Events. that the vi g. sr of my
constitution has not diminished, nor the disposition to prosec.tte fhv
duties of my sacred office abated. I take this protest in the pre.
t•enee of my congregation, and having ree• ived fmni them an aliec.
titillate entreaty to exercise my pastoral duties, I shall, in accord-
ance with their loving invitation, and in humble dependence on the
sztength of flint who has commanded one to " call no man master."
continue to labour among them during the future, a. I have done in
the past, to alleviate their sorrows in :his vale of tears. and to
assist them in their journey to that world, where the perfection of
wisdom. purity. and enjoyment shall for ever loran the inheritance
of the Messed."
The meeting then broke up.

The following clause in the new Beer Act merits atten-
tion, as it is calculated to render the Act nugatory, with re-
spect to a great part of the population of the country. It
is 'OS follows :—" That no brewer of retail herr for sale,
shall be entitled to renew his Hetrick, to retail beer, unless
he shall have brewed and been charged with duty upon, or
for, tow hoindred barrels al strong. herr, at the least, in the
year i.recetling the termination of such tinnier licence,
or so on in proportion,"&c. Now, it is only in places
where the population is large, that so much beer can he re-
tailed within the year, and thus the clause, to a great ex-
tent, defeats the object of the Bill.
As an instance of the inercase,, value of agricultural
rock, at a sale by public auction in this neighhottrhood on
reams:day, a three-year-old cart filly fetehed fts!. ; a two-
year-old colt, 33!. ; and a yearling, Is. At the same
sale several lots of sheep, having nothing to recommend
them either in breed or condition, and which, a short time
ago, would not have fetched at the utmost Ws. per head,
sold as high as r Herold.

FARMING LAYlOrntam.—ltgivcs us pleasure to be enabled
to state, that not only the candizion of the farmer. but also
that of the labourer. has bean greatly improved during the
present harvest. We understand that higher wages have
been generally given by the farmers, and that the labourer:
are consequently healthier and happier. This is prudence
as well as charity. The sick:lces of the poor necessarily
falls upon the parishes, and it is absurd to expect the same
degree of labour from an oppressed and ill-fed workman,
as from those who receive r just return for the sweat of th. it
brow. If the ox should not be muzzled that tree.' •!t the
corn, neither sh m!,l the labourer thAt Gtthereth it be t;',r-
-gartlly an,! fed.—Erd..r .