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LONDON:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1839.

In again turning over the leaves of the ponderous
volume, recently published by the House of Com-
mons, concerning Charities, from which we have
already made an abstract of one or two most in-
structive cases, our eve was once more arrested by
the name of PRETYMAN. We were immediately
convinced that under it we should find something
worth notice, that in that page, if any where, an-
other case of robbery of the poor by the Judases
of the Church would turn up, and we read it. The
result did not disappoint us, and we resolved to lay
an abridgment of the case before our readers. Here
it is :

"PARISH OF HEHSVIIILL...-HOSPITAL OF STITTAL IN THE

STREET.
" This hospital," say the Commissioners, whose words we
uissep, 10.1%efo.undation,,,of which appears to be of ancient date,
Pre:n'ati d of considerable property. The. Rev. John
,iyuut filo. the Warden or Master, was appointed in or
aad, with Yiehaer 1815 by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln,
upon certain
reve-
nuer. It having
documents relatin
exception y
the Dean and Chagptcer the
q_uiring the production of Via very small portion bestowed
egnsb,coner3, he receives the whole of the reve-
etn ascertained that a great variety of
IV_:.ospital were in possession of
incoln, the usual precept re-
; Chapter held themselves boas,temvc issued. The Dean and
with the precept, and the och
.exempt from complying
it their duty to certify the caseatrolli Commissioners found
General. Of course, as the Dean :rdMajesty's Attorney-
allow the investigation, a most suspicious Chapter would not
information was collected from other sus circumstance, the
trilPag particulars, be incorrect. sources, and may, in
" The patronage has been ( time out of mind
by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, but no d exercised
ocument con-
' `erring this power on them has been discovered. The H
pital existed in the time of Richard IL, and the gra "-
n
Thomas de Aston was to the custos hospitalis, and hits from
c
censors, for his maintenance and that of the poor there.
Every poor mzn of the seven to receive 7d. per week, and
a chaplain reduced to age or poverty to receive Ind. It
was clearly, therefore, a grant to poor, to indigent, and
needy persons. Now it is all swallowed up by a Pretyman.
" A portion of the property belonging to the Hospital
has been lost; what remains has yielded, from 1821 to
1836, 12,6491., or a yearly income of 5431. Out of this
sum NTT. Pretyman pays -271. 4s. per year to four pen-
sioners and a half, at the rate of Bs. each per month. He
also gave 401. to the Church."
This is another case, then, of a gift to the poor,
winh the parsons know was given for the use of
the poor, and which, nevertheless, they have for
),ears persisted in appropriating entirely to them-
selves. If • there were no persons to receive it ac-
cording to the will of
the donor, it should have been
given up for the general benefit. lt is one more of
the many cases of spoil • •
spoliation of which the Clergy 1
,

Those who give the consolations of which this
life is susceptible will be credited as the heralds of
a life to come, and the dispensers of charity will
drive the plunderers of the poor out of the hearts
of the people. Thus will Protestantism be brought
into discredit, and thus by the rapacity of the An-
glican priesthood will Catholicism again become
the predominant priestcraft in the land. Real,
honest, well-meaning Protestants, not hypocritical,
insincere men of the world, who take up
a religion because it is the fashion, or
because they can get something by it--
real sincere Protestants, when they sec the effect of
the conduct of the Anglican priesthood, must at
once jump to the hateful and burning conviction
that this priesthood is the greatest enemy of the
Protestant religion. If there be truth or consistency
in man, sincere Protestants must turn against
those who have given such prodigious advantages
to the Catholic superstition.
Wise were the members of the Church of Eng-
gland in their generation when they imposed poli-
tical restrictions on the Catholics, and would not
allow them to have power ; and when they
made it a punishable offence to be a Catholic priest.
They were sensible that their own conduct afforded
such an unfavourable and mortifying contrast to that
of the Catholic priesthood, that nothing but the
strong arm of the law, preventing all competition,
and therefore preventing a comparison, could
enable them to preserve their influence over the
national mind. They have been unable to main-
tain their political supremacy. They are now ex-
posed to the competition they dreaded, and having
kept the people in ignorance, in order to plunder
them the more securely, they have prepared the way
for the re-ascendancy of the Catholic priesthood,
and their own ruin. Their best policy now would
be at once to conform to Rome, and secure them-
selves a place in its Hierarchy, for which they are
well adapted, by some few voluntary resignations
of the incomes of schools and hospitals, and the
zeal of apostates.

Mr. WYSE'S speech on his unopposed and tri-
umphant re-election for Waterford, gives a plain,
unvarnished history of his exertions in the cause of
Reform, and a statement of his present principles.
We may augur well of a Ministry which selects
such a long tried and consistent Reformer, and such
s present fast friend to political improvement, par-
ticularly the improvement of education, for one of
its subordinate members. For several years Mr.
WYSE has distinguished himself as an advocate
of education, and we assume that the Ministry,
by offering him place, mean to give additional
encouragement and support to the principle of ex-
tending education. Till we read Mr. WYsE's
speech, which we insert at full, we were not quite
aware on what principles he had accepted offloc.
He now tells us he was appointed unexpectedly and
unsolicited by him ; and of course he has consented
to no bonds and given up no principles. He must in--
deed, as the public are well aware, be obliged to submit
his own particular views to the convenience of the
Government as to the period of urging them for-
nard. He can scarcely, for example, as a Lord of
the Treasury, propose next Session, unless he have
the approbation of the Ministers, the measure of
which he speaks for the improvement of towns.
But, with the exception of keeping his views sub-
ordinate to the Ministerial convenience, he is under
no restraint, and can more effectually serve the
cause of Reform as a Lord of the Treas-
sury than as a mere Member of the
House of Commons. On the subject of education
Mr. "NYSE convicts Lord STANLEY of a most
factious proceeding, that of condemning out of office
the very conduct he had pursued in office. On the
Ballot, on an Extension of the Suffrage, Mr. WYS E
goes with us, though he go not so far. To his
audience at Waterford, his able speech gave great
satisfaction, and his fluent, easy, off-hand, plain
and clear manner of expressing himself, will also
gain for him general approbation. His accession
to the Ministry free and unfettered, is an honour
both to him and Lord MELBOURNE.

On referring to our Mansion-House report, it is
agreeable to contrast the demeanour of the City
Magistrate, Sir PETER LAURIE, yesterday, with
that of the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street on
Saturday. A solicitor, at the instance of a pub-
lican, applied to Sir PETER for information respect-
ing one of the clauses of the new Act. The worthy
Alderman made no scruples about answering the
question--told the applicant how he construed the
law, and also how he should act if such a case
were brought before him. Not so with the Magis-
trates who receive 1,2001. a year. Their usual
reply to impertinent questions of this sort
is—
" that point is not before me to decide," or
"you must consult your solicitor," or, " I am here
to administer, noz to propound the law." For our
part we prefer the homely, familiar, and brotherly
way of administerinff the law in the City, and are
not at all surprised at the out-cry raised against
the proposed introduction of paid Police Magis-
trates into the City of London.

appears, from the report of certain proceedings
relative to Church-rates, inserted in another column,
that the worthies of Bungay, whose doings we have
so frequently had occasion to celebrate, are in the
not very enviable state of the foolish fishes which,
not relishing the treatment they experienced in the
frying-pan, wriggled themselves into the fire.
These sage administrators of ecclesiastical persecu-
tion, it may perhaps be recollected, not long ago,

are guilty which are to be found in every part of the
kingdom. The wrong is perpetrated, like the other
cases we have adverted to by some of the digni-
fied clergy for the benefit of themselves or their
children. A poor man who steals a loaf to satisfy
his own craving appetite, or rescue from starvation
a wife and family, is sent to gaol to improve his
morals ; a great high Priest, who takes 8001. or
9001. a year from the poor, is carried, by virtue of
his plunder, into the best society, and caressed and
honoured almost as much as if he were the Deity,
whose ways he pretends to make known to man.
When such are the practices of our moral leaders,
and such perversions of morality and justice consti-
tute the laws of the land, can it surprise any man
that spoliation is the principle of our social life,
and that to prey successfully on each other is the
height of our ambition ?
We cannot, on this occasion, lay down our pen
without endeavouring to impress on the religious
and Protestant part of the community the unspeak-
able importance of speedily taking measures to
purify and purge the Church of such enormities.
What do they show? That the poor are, and have
been plundered by the Anglican priesthood. And
what use is made of such facts ? The Catholic
priesthood use them to promote the success of Ca-
tholicism, a form of Christianity as bad or worse
than Church of Englandism, and for which the con-
duct of the Anglican priesthood is preparing a me-
morable triumph. Here is an example borrowed
from the pages of yesterday's Times of the use
which the Catholic priesthood do and will make
of such conduct as that of the PRETYMANS, the
WILDBORES, and of the Bishops of BANGOR and
of LINCOLN

" THE CHARTISTS.-On Sunday morning the Norwich
Chartists attended the Roman Catholic chapel in that city
by invitation from the priest. 1,500 of these deluded
men entered the chapel, when the officiating priest preached
a sermon from Luke iii, verse 1--g Let him that hath two
coats impart one to him that bath none.' The discourse
was one of the most indiscreet and inflammatory ever deli-
vered from a pulpit. It was an attack upon every institution
of the country, charging the reformed Church with having,
by its robbery of the Catholic institutions, reduced the poor
to the extent of suffering they now endured; that the minis-
ters of that Church deserted their flocks in sickness and
danger, leaving them to receive consolation in their trouble
from the preachers's church, &c. —Bury Post."
Such cases as those we have quoted bear out the
charge of the Catholic priest, and give into his
hands a weapon which it will be impossible to blunt
or turn aside.
The columns of the same priest-slave journal,
the powerful but degraded tool of the PRETY-
MANS and their like, contained a notice that there
are several Catholic Monastic establishments in
the metropolis, and that a new one for the order of
the Sisters of Mercy is now erecting at Bermond-
sey. A similar establishment is to be formed, the
Times also states, in Whitechapel, to which a large
school is to be attached. The Sisters of Mercy
are pledged to visit the sick poor in their neighbour-
hood without regard to creed, and to administer
to their wants as far as lies in their power. They
will win numberless converts for the Catholic
priests. The very fact that they contribute to the
relief of the poor, while the Protestant priesthood
plunder them, will be as a miracle in their favour,
and probably Catholicism will soon number its
votaries by hundreds of thousands and by millions
in the land.

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