The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-20 00:00:00

No. 17,-3
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BY SAMUEL LiUMERT, M.D..
9. BEDFORD-STREET. BEDFOBD•SQUAEE,
LONDON.

oetor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Hoiorary Member
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DR. HAMPDEN AND THE SEE OF

HEREFORD.

The Dean of Hereford has presented the subjoined
memorial to the Queen, through her Majesty's Prime
Minister :

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's
most dutiful and loyal subject, John Merewether,
Doetor in Divinity, Dean of the Cathedrp. Church of
Hereford, most humbly lay before your Majesty the
assurances of our deepest and -most heartfelt attach-
ment to your Majesty's sacred person and government.
We thank your Majesty for having graciously
granted to us your royal license to elect a Bishop of
our church, in the place of the Wet Rev. Father in
God Thomas, late Bishop thereof, and for "requiring
and commanding us, by the faith and allegiance by
which we stand bound to your Majesty, that we elect
such a person as may be devoted to God, and useful
and faithful to your Majesty and your kingdom."
We also dutifully recognise the goodness of your
Majesty in accompanying this your royal license with
letters missive, graciously announcing to us that out
of " your princely disposition and zeal you are de,
sirous," as we cannot doubt, " to prefer unto the same
see:a person meet thereunto."

...1) And we further acknowledge your Majesty's gra-
cious intention towards us in "naming and recom-
mending unto us" by the same letters missive Dr.
Renn Dickson Hampden, your Majesty's Reader in
Theology in your University of Oxford, to be by us
"elected and chosen unto the said bishopric."
But we most humbly beseech your Majesty to per-
mit us, as in duty bound, and in obedience to your
Majesty's gracious command touching the qualities of
tite„persoß 44) in. chosen, by us, to represent (And, if it
e deemed necessary, by stifficieht documents to
prove), that somewhat more than eleven years ago the
said Dr. Renn Dickson Hampden, then being the late
King William's Reader of Theology, the said University
did, as
.by its laws, rights, and privileges, and by
the law of 'the land it is empowered, and on fit occa-
sion bound to do, judge of the published writings of
the said Dr. Hampden, and did solemnly decr-e, and
by a statute in the House of Convocation duly made,
did enact that the said Dr. Hampden should be de-
prived of certain weighty functiGns, importing the
right of judging of sound teaching and preaching of
God's word, which had been specially annexed by
former statutes of the said University to his office
iherein—to wit, " that he be in the number of those
by whom are appointed the select preachers ' before
the University ; and, further, that his counsel be
taken in case of any preacher being called (as by the
statutes of the said University every preacher who
may have delivered any unsound or suspected doc-
trine in any of his preachings is liable to be called)
into question before the Vice-Chancellor." And such
deprivation of Dr. Hampden was expressly declared
in the said statute to have been &creed, " because in
his said published writings he has so treated matters
theological, that in this respect the University hath no
confidence in him."

Furthermore, six years afterwards, the Convocation
of the said University having been called together to
consider the question of the fitness of repealing the
said statute, so that the said Dr. Hampden might be
restored to the functions of which he had been as
aforesaid deprived, the said Convocation did there-
upon solemnly decree that the stctute should not be
repealed, but should still be (and accordingly it still
continues to be) in full force and viglur; whereby
the said Dr. Hampden stands to this day denounced
by the judgment of the said University as "devoid
altogether of its confidence in matters theological, by
the reason of the manner in which those matters have
been treated by him in his published writings."
And here we deem it our duty to your Majesty
humbly to submit, that not only by the people and
Church of England, but by all your Majesty's royal
predecessors, the solemn decisions of either of your
Majesty's Universities of Oxford and Cambridge on
questions and matters of theology have always been
deemed to carry with them very high authority, and
that such is the renown of these your Aiajesty's fa-
mous Universities throughout the reformed portion
of Christendom, that everywhere their judgment is
heard with reverence and honour.

Neither may we omit dutifully to lay before your
Majesty, that to the office of a bishop, to which we are
commanded by your Majesty to choose " a person
meet to be elected," essentially adheres the duty of
judging of the doctrine of the clergy committed to
his charge, especially of those who are to be insti-
tuted or licensed by him to the cure of souls—which
high duty the University of Oxford has decreed, as
aforesaid, that Dr. Hampden is, in its judgment, unfit
to have confided to him ; the distressing and disas-
trous consequences which must be expected to result
from placing the diocese of Hereford, by the strong
hand of power, under a person so vharacterized by so
high authority, we are as unwilling as it would be
painful to recount.
For all these reasons, and not least because, in
common as we believe with almost every considerate
Churchman, we are desirous and anxious that the
prerogative of the Crown in nominating to bishoprics
should be for ever established on its only firm foun-
dation—the confidence of the Church in the
wisdom, the justice, the purity, the considerate, and
conscientious moderation with which it is exercised;—
we most humbly pray your Majesty to name and
recommend some other person whom your Majesty
shall think meet to be elected by us for our Bishop,
or that your Majesty will graciously relieve us from
the necessity of proceeding to the election till you
shall have been pleased to submit Dr. Renn Dickson
Hampden's published writings (so judged as afore-
said by the Convocation of th,, University of Ox-
ford) to the judgment either of the two Houses of
Convocation of clergy of the province of Canterbury
which is now sitting, or of the Provincial Council of
Bishops of the same province, assisted by such
divines as your Majesty or the said Provincial Coun-
cil shall be pleased to call, or of some other compe-
tent tribunal which your Majesty shall be graciously
pleased to appoint. In order whereunto we have
appointed for the day of election the 28th day of
December instant, being the eleventh day from the
receipt of your Majesty's conga cr aire, and the last
which we can lawfully appoint.
And we are the more emboldened to lay this our
humble supplication at the feet of your Majesty by
your known cordial attachment to our holy and
apostolic church, and by your faithful and uniform
observance of the oath made by your Majesty at your
coronation,—" That you will maintain and preserve
to the utmost of your power the doctrine, discipline,
and government thereof."
And even if it could be imagined that these last-
mentioned considerations apply not to our case, we
should nevertheless confidently rely on your Majesty's
experienced regard for that dearest and most sacred
right of every class and description of your subjects,
the right of liberty of conscience, and on your having
at the head of your Majesty councils a Noble Lord,
the proudest boast of whose illustrious house, as well as
of his own public life, it hitherto has been to assert that
right for all men against all opponents—a right which
would in our persons be trampled to the very dust if,
in spite of all our just and reasonable reclamations,:we
be coerced under the threatened penalties of preemu-
nire to elect for our bishop. a person whom we cannot
conscientiously believe, so long as the aforesaid judg
ment stands against him, to be " meet to be elected"
to that most holy office.
In conclusion we would add our fervent prayer, as
well as our most earnest hope, that youriMajesty may
long be permitted by the King of Kings to reign in
the hearts of all your subjects the approved " Defender
of the Faith," " ruling all estates and degrees of men
amongst us, whether ecclesiastical or temporal," as is
your sacred and undoubted right—giving alike to all
experience of the blessings of your just and beneficent
government 4 and .receiving from all the willing
homage-of grateful and confiding love. In witness
whereunto we have affixed our decanal seal this 17th
day of December, in the year of our Lord 1847.
(II S.)

DEATH OF ADMIRAL RIBOULEAIL—Vice-Admiral
Peter Ribouleau died on the 16th instant. The deceased
though not fortunate enough to serve his time for his
active flag, nevertheless saw much good service in early
life. He was a midshipman of the Prince William, in
the late Admiral Lord Hood's well-tnanatuvred action
with Comte De Grasse, off St. Kitt's, in 1781; and
served under the same distinguished and Gallant Ad-
miral during; the occupation of Toulon, in 1793, by
whom he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He
served as Lieutenant of the Glory, in Lord Howe's
action, on the let of June, 1794; and in the Monarch,
at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in the follow-
ing year. In the expedition to Egypt he commanded the
Astrea troop ship, and was disembarked with the army
during the various severe operations, for which service
he was gazetted.—United Service Gazette.
RELEASE OF BARBER, THE LATE CONVICT.—On
Saturday information was received, by private letter in
the metropolis, that the late convict, Barber, who was
banished from this country some years since, has received
a free and unconditional pardon, and that he left
Sydney on the 16th of August last. Barber, it will be
remembered, was convicted of forgery in the celebrated
will case, in which a man of the name of Fletcher also
appeared as a principal. It is stated in the letter that
it is not the intention of Barber to come immediately to
England ; he intends, it is said, to remain for some time
in Boulogne. No information is contained in this com-
municatiou ay to the reason why the pardon was
granted.

DR. HAMPDEN'S LETTER TO
LORD JOIIN RUSSELL.*
My Lord,—lt is indeed painful to an honest mind
to have to answer a charge of unfaithfulness to a high
trust. And what else is the charge alleged by cer-
tain parties, who are reviving a clamour agniest me,
and agitating .the clergy with their jealousies and
alarms, but that of unfaithfulness to my engagements
to the church of which lam a minister ? If a per-
son holds not.in sincerity the doctrines of the church
to whose ministry he has been called—if he is no-
minally and professedly in the church, but in he=art
dissents from, or is indifferent about, its faith--
what is this, 'which is the substance, as far as appears
to me, of what has been advanced against me, but an
imputation of the grossest dereliction of religious and
moral duty ?
In ordinary circumstances I might treat such an
attack with silent contempt. But there are occasions
which demand a sacrifice of feeling. And the present
appears to be such an occasion, when, by thus publicly
addressingyourLordship,l shall at once discharge aduty
to her Most Gracious Majesty, and to yourself, my
Lord, the First Minister of the Crown, and may hope
at the same time, by a simple statement of the truth,
to tranquillize the minds of humble and earnest
Christians, who may have been perplexed by the im-
passioned appeals made to them against me.
It is, as I have said, a painful trial to have to en•
counter such most groundless but most unrelenting
enmity. After a devoted service in the ministry of
the gospel for more than a quarter of a century, of
which the last 12 years have been divided between
the labours of the Divinity chair and parochial
ministrations, I might well be excused: from replying
to accusatiinwhich my whole life passed under the
eyes off-minOind in thf -pr6.e4ge of that all: seeing.
God who tries the heart, effectually refUtes—friun
being required to deny having impugned those vital
truths of our holy faith which it has been my con-
stant study to uphold and enforce.
Alas, my Lord, how commonly in the jealousies
and heartburnings of the polemical spirit is that
precept of the Divine law, " Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbour," carelessly vio-
lated! The promotion of certain views, or the de-
pression of an antagonist, is too often regarded by the
corrupt human heart as a warrant for any excess of
uncharitableness, and even for untruth.
If ever there was a time when the circumstances of
the Church presented a temptation to this offence, it is
the present. The Church has now for many years been
grievously troubled by what is familiarly known as
the Trac,arian movement—an organized agitation for
the purpose of secretly revolutionizing the Church of
this country, for un-Protestantizing it, as it has been
said by some of the party, or "developing the Catholic
principle latent in it.' With what effect the move-
ment has been working is but too evident. Not only
have numbers been seduced from the Church of their
fathers to the corrupt Church of Rome, but among
such many even of the clergy, forgetting their ordi-
nation vows and their sacred obligation to the Church
which carried them to Christ in baptism, have led the
way in the apostacy. Nor has the evil been stopped
by these open secessions. Many remain among us
deeply infected with the same principles which have
carried others openly to Rome. These consist chiefly
of the younger clergy, ready, as late events have
shown, to respond to the call of their leaders and to
throw the weight of their numbers into any question
of high interest to their party. In such a state of
things no one's theological or pastoral character is
safe. Any one who is adverse to the designs of the
party, and whom it may be worth while to attack,
cannot expect to escape. Nothing is easier, in such
times of excitement, than to collect a number of sig-
natures of persons whose names are already registered
with their leaders, and to make such persons zealous
and active men, as they are for the most part eager
to prove their chivalry in the cause, centres of agita-
tion in different parts of the country.
Nor is it anything strange or novel, my Lord,
which is now happening. From the Scriptures we
learn how the Apostles themselves, following their
Lord in his persecutions, were reviled and evil-
entreated by their brethren. In our own country,
the learned author of the "Defence of the Nicene
Faith," Bishop Bull, had to complain of a charge of
Socinianism brought against him by a brother
minister of the Church. And be:ore him even the
excellent Hooker had to defend his opinions, delivered
in sermons at the Temple, against the exceptions of
an opponent from the same pulpit; and at a later
period-4 his life, amidst the simplicity and blame-
lessness of his daily conversation, to resist a scan-
dalous attack on his character, which nearly bowed
him to the grave. And thus Archbishop Tillotson
complains, in one of his sermons, of the evil tongues
of his day. "I know not," he says, "how it comes to
pass, but so it is, that every one who offers to give a
reasonable account of his faith, and to establish religion
upon rational principles, is presently branded for
Socinian. . . . But if this be Socinianism, for a
man to inquire into the grounds and reasons of
Christian religion, and to endeavour to give a satis-
factory account why he believes it, I know no way, but
that all considerate,
inquisitive men, that are above
fancy and enthusiasm, must be either Socinians or
atheists."
tint
cm: ,trhtahgpeeandt,
belynwcteohutolosdelsiaai
and
ci
wmei Lord,ell, ivv
hloi
k, e
ibneexinstructed
esa
un
bdi:
nee
mys-
tery of His Providence, has appointed for good that
I, humble servant of His as I am, should pass
through this ordeal of calumny. What is most
afflicting in it is, that I am accused of detracting from
His glory and the infinite merits of his blessed atone-
ment. He knows, however, that I have not done so.
lam solaced and strengthened with this thought.
I hope, therefore, calml—
y to address myself to the ob-
jections which my importunate adversaries, with all
the vehemence of an electioneering contest, are
recklessly throwing
out against me. Let me endea-
vour to silence that conflict of feelings within my
own heart which so unmerited and so base a charge
naturally excites.
First, then, my Lord, I most solemnly deny the
scandalous imputation. As an honest man, 1 say I
do not, and never did for one moment of my life, in
thought or word, hold or maintain any other doctrine
respecting our Lord's
most holy Person and His
blessed Work of Redemption, than that which is
plainly set forth from
Scripture in the Articles and
Formularies of our Church. I hold, too, and have
ever held most firmly, the full doctrine of the Holy
Trinity, as stated on the same authority in the same
documents of the Church.
Nay, I go on to say, with the utmost confidence of
my sincerity, that I have on every occasion exerted
myself to defend these holy truths, which I believe,
not with a mere assent, but really love and delight
in. My conviction has been that no sermon,
no exposition of religious doctrine, or exhortation
to religious conduct, could have any unction of spi-
ritual instruction,
any living power to teach or to
persuade, which did not derive its strength from these
holy and lovely truths, which describe to us God the
Father giving his only begotten Son, his co-equal in
majesty and power, "to the end that all that believe
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life ;"
God the Son giving himself in love, taking on Him
our nature, and born into the world, living and dying
for us men, and for our salvation ; God the Holy
Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, the
third person in the blessed Trinity, sent down with
holy comfort from the Saviour to instruct and guide
the Church through all ages.
These great revealed verities, no mere opinions
collected by speculative reasoning, but the manifest
indisputable teaching of Scripture—without which
Scripture would not be what it is—l have then ever
taught and enforced both as most certain and most
necessary to be believed.
It is not my teaching, whatever may have been
attempted to be shown by prejudiced e
sin, justification
aundyiceoclthaedrveorsf a
irtisesg, that
grace, the efficacy
of the two sacraments instituted by our Lord—are
nothing more than theories formed by the human.
bft
uhyen
fddaao n
hte,rnipnt
areels
vt oer
nfu
tt Scriptureihrisg_
asnudeha s
aso
sirs
tin g
mind on the text of Scripture. It is a very great
mistake to suppose that I have ever meant this, in
what I said of the force of theory, in my Hampton
lectures or elsewhere. It is one thing to endeavour
to unfold the theories on which a particular phrase-
ology employed in the systematic statement of Divine
truths has been framed and adapted to its purpose;
and quite another thing to state that the truths them-
selves which that phraseology expresses are mere
theories, or mere opinions, or probable con-
clusions, having no positive certainty in them.
This latter misconstruction belongs to those
who have taken it up. It is not mine; it has
no warrant in anything that I have said in theological
discussion. My Hampton lectures, indeed, were not
written for popular reading, but for such as should
come to the study of the subject with some previous
knowledge both of theological questions and of ancient
to ordinary readers. I
philosophy. It is no wonder, then, that they should
be open to misrepresentationd
should be much concerne if, from any unskilfulness
in the use of words, I should have given rise to mis-
I would not assert, however, that I
at any rate, to be blamed for
succeeded in conveying my thoughts ex-
actlyhapa pv
have
eahlewnas
yi oen .
some
mistakes,; butla
mornort;ther perversions of my meaning.
For this I know, that arguments which I have ad-

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