The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-21 00:00:00

REV. ALEXANDER. FLETCHER.

All the Documents in the affair of the Rev.
A LczANDEtt FLETCHER being now before the
public, those who take an interest in the history
of those " backslidings" which sometimes occur
among the leaders of what is termed, par excel.
lence " the ItcLtotous PUBLIC," may gratify at
respecting
ourselves,
once their curiosity and their love of justice, by
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The " filthy rags" of some of these household
troops of the Faith, are but too conspicuous, and
we have resolved " flatly " not to march them
through Coventry, to which place their unfaith-
ful Minister seems likely to be sent. We think
)Miss Dm( has great reason to complain ; she
seems to be of an amiable and confiding
and never to have suspected that sanctity could
ever be a cloak for selfishness, or that love as well
as religion had its " lip service," pouring forth
protestation where the heart is cold, and profess-
ing an adoration of which " the inward" man
is a mockery. Her gay we beg pardon, her
serious deceivr appears to have the phraseology
of the Scriptures always at his pen's end. He
pays his addresses to his ELIzA, as if he were
offering them up at the Throne of Grace. "From
Goo 1 have sought you, my loving ELIZA, and
to llim I look for the fulfilment of all my wishes.
Long, I trust, we shall travel together, hand in
hand, and heart in heart, walking in all the com-
mandments and articles of the LORD, blameless.
Your sweet letters make me more and more
anxious for the arrival of a dny when we shall
no longer live separate from each other, but when
we shall be one in relation, as we are now 071 C in
affection. I trust Divine Providence will prepare
the way before us,"—and so on ; and to all this,
and a great deal more, to his dear, dear ELlz.t,
he subscribes himself,
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" Your own loving ALEXANDER." I
We have here a sample of the style in which
they make love in " the religious world." Our
" Loving ALEXANDER," like his Imperial name-
sake, does not fail to connect " Divine Provi-
dence" with the object of his holy alliance, and
to implicate in all his proceedings the name of
the Most High, as if the agency of Heaven was
specially concerned in its consutnmation. As we
have mentioned the Holy Alliesy it is really
worth while, as matter of curious coincidence, to
advert to the language in which their public DE..
CLARATION of love and ailachnzent to the liberties
of Christian Europe is drawn up by that pious
Confederacy
"The sole principle in force, whether between the Govern-
ments or between their subjects, shall be that of doing each
other reciprocal service, and of testifying, by unalterable good-
will, the mutual grection with which they ought to be animated ;
to consider them all as members of one and the same Christian
nation—the three Allied Powers looking on themselves as
merely delegated by Providence to govern three branches of the
one family ; thus confessing that the Christian nation, of which
they form a part, has in reality no other Sovereign than him, to
whom alone power really belongs, because in him alone are
• found nil the treasures of love, science,
, and infinite wisdom ;
that is to say, God,
.our divine Ativionr, the word of the Most
High, the word of life."
We quote this to show with what fluency the
language of devotion can be prostituted to the
basest purpose, by hypocrites of all classes, from
the highest to the lowest, when an alliance of any
kind is on the carpet.
With respect to the pamphlet before us, we,
upon the whole, regret its appearance, as likely
to injure the interests of real religion, which are
always more or less connected with the public
character and conduct of its Teachers. That its
effect will spread very rapidly there is no doubt,
as the curiosity both of thefaitquid end the faith-
less is so strongly excited as to have already, we
understand, exhausted an edition of two thousand
copies. We do not think it fair,
in justice either
to the party or to the publishers, to fill our pages
with garbled extracts from it, more especially all,
in the spiritual circles, no one whom it concerns
is likely to be without it.—(Britith Press.)