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' sible conduct, unhappily terminate in an adverse
decision against that officer—on those who have re-
fused to listen to the suggestions of what is due to
the office and to the public, for whose interests it
exists, will the odium rest. If Mr. Alderman Gibbs
can induce the Livery to return, and the Court of
Aldermen to select, him for the Mayoralty on Sa-
turday next, he cannot be blamed. The blame will
rest on those who have so low an opinion of what
are essential requisites in the Chief Magistrate
of London, as to place in that office an individual who
has managed to render himself conspicuous by conduct
that has gratuitously involved his administration of a
public trust in suspicion, and subjected him to general
reproach. We really wonder that some shrewd fellow,
charged before Mr.. Alderman Gibbs with embezzling
moneys belonging to his employers, has not set up a
kind of argumentum ad hominem defence. He might,
with at least some show of propriety, question the
right of his prosecutors to claim an investigation of
his accounts, or to demand the books and vouchers by
which they might be elucidated. The legality of their
partnership might be questioned—the form of the
deed, if any were in existence, might be impugned ; or
the absence of a deed might be adduced, to show that
no partnership existed ; and that the parties claiming
the moneys the prisoner was charged with illegally
detaining, had really no claim to either the right of the
accounts, or the moneys. We do not say that the case
we have imagined is, pari passu, that of Mr. Alderman
Gibbs. But should such a defence be set up in a case
of disputed accounts, in which malversation was charged
against a party on the ground that no proper account-
current had been rendered, it is likely that the persons
in court would be remindeed of Alderman Gibbs, and
some of his reasons for refusing to produce and verify
his accounts, when called upon to do so by the pa-
rishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook. The Times
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the chief men of a city, such as London, ought to be
worthy of the high reputation of the body over whom
they preside. The character of men in office is
the test of the soundness of the system which puts
them there." There is much which requires reform
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The proceedings of Saturday next will have a
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choice that will be then made—or should there be a
contest, which we do not anticipate, the result of the
poll, and the selection by the Aldermen—will either
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are requisite to render the Mayoralty really respect.
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aspire to that office must not only be men of in-
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by the universal consent of all who have had dealings
with them.

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A HYGEIST.

London, September 26, 1544

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.41ARSPITE CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Times.)

We are informed that the writer' of the first e,
the three letters which found their way into our
columns last month from the Warspite, in Tangiers
Bay, has, in consequence of the " inquiries," the in-
stitution of which we noticed on Monday, disco-
vered himself to the " authorities," and been " severely
reprimanded" accordingly by the Admiral in com-
mand at Gibraltar.
On what pretence, or on what conceivable principle,
this gentleman, who turns out to be the chaplain of
the ship, has been " severely reprimanded" by the
Admiral of the station, or any other Admiral, merely
for expressing his own private opinion about the
manoeuvring of a couple of French line-of-battle
ships, of which he happened to be an unconcerned
spectator, we are really at a loss to conceive. We
should have thought that the Bishop, if any one,
was the authority to which this gentleman was
responsible for his opinions ; and to have an Admiral
catechising the chaplains of his fleet with a view
to limit their freedom of speech and opinion about
things indifferent, certainly appears to us pretty
nearly as great an incongruity as would be exhibited
by that well-known naval wonder, the service of the
horse-marines. We are really surprised that an "in-
quiry" has not been instituted into our own esta-
blishment, with a view to a naval court-martial, or
perhaps an Episcopal Synod being held, for the satis-
faction of the French Opposition, upon the guilty
printers and publishers of these wonderfully ac-
curate epistles. But in any case, and overlooking
the absurdity of such an exercise of jurisdiction by
a sailor over an ecclesiastic, we put it to any one
whether it is—we do not say just or decent, or in
accordance with our English notions of freedom of
speech and opinion, but—whether it is compatible
with the plainest rights and liberties of the meanest
subject of the realm—whether it is not, in short, a
downright act of oppression and tyranny thus to
punish a man for freely saying what he thinks and
believes about a matter on which he has as good and
undoubted a right to form and express an opinion as
has the Admiral who reprimanded him, or the Lords
of the Admiralty, or King Louis Philippe himself.
We remember to have heard of a tyrant who was
grievously angry, and indeed threatened war, against
a neighbouring free State, which pleaded the freedom
of her institutions as a reason why such summary
and irregular proceedings as the oppressor himself de-
sired and could in his own dominions have put in
execution, could not, nevertheless, be taken by the
neighbouring State against one of her subjects who
was the object of his resentment. It was rightly
held that the formality of a trial, and the free and
regular course of justice, were not to be waved or
impeded at the request or instance of any foreign
power whatever, merely because that power was
unable itself to comprehend the reason or admit the
justice of any such formality and delay. But it
seems to us as if, in order to please our French
neighbours, or rather to please the worst and least
worthy part of them, our own Admiralty had con-
sented, in a spirit directly the reverse of that which
we have instanced, to wave for this once the ordi-
nary maxims and forms of English justice and Eng-
lish freedom, and to punish men actually for exer-
cising their undoubted right of forming and expressing
opinions about matters open and accessible to all.
The lay officers of the Warspite, we are told, have
resisted this most inquisitorial and un-English in-
trusion upon the free exercise of their hitherto un-
doubted right of speech and opinion, and have re-
fused to discover the authors of the remaining two
letters. We are heartily glad of it. A plainer case
of tyranny—of vexatious, truckling, and most un-
profitable tyranny—could not occur; and there can
be no breach of discipline involved in resisting, or
rather baffling, it. If a military or naval officer
takes upon himself to have an opinion about any-
thing concerned with the due administration and
order of the service in which he is engaged,
and expresses that opinion in a way calculated to
impede or injure it, he is then, indeed, amenable
to the authorities who direct it, and is guilty
undoubtedly of a breach of discipline. But in
this case the matter about which the opinion was
expressed had nothing whatever to do with the
British service. It would have been just as reason-
able to have punished an officer who wrote home word
that the weather was, in his opinion, indifferent, or
the Moor's deficient in personal appearance, or the rock
of Gibraltar a picturesque object from the sea. What
is it to the Admiralty even if all the officers in the
British navy think, as indeed is not unlikely, that the
appearance of his French Majesty's ships Suffren, Je-
mappes, Triton, and Belle Poule, is not altogether un-
exceptionable in the eyes of a practised critic, or that
their crews do not handle them quite as crack and ex-
perienced as seamen should ? Is it a crime to enter-
thin such an opinion ? Or is it a breach of discipline
to express it? It would appear that the French
Government in requiring (if they do require), or even
accepting, such measures as these, are, in truth, con-
fessing that they have no other or better answer than
this to give to the letters in question. To suppress
the free exercise and expression of opinion on any
given matter of fact, is tantamount to a confession that
the subject will not bear discussion or scrutiny. We
should like to know whether any British officer would
be afraid of any criticisms that the most ill-natured
Frenchman, or set of Frenchmen, could pass upon any
ship or ships under his command; or whether he
would ask that the naughty boys who pointed out his
mistakes should be whipped for their impertinence.
But before this spirit of punishment comes over
our ruler=, we would suggest whether it would not
be as well to inquire if it is likely, after all, to
answer its object. It is done, of course, to please the
French, and for no other reason. We would put it
to the-Lords of the Admiralty, whether they seriously
believe that anything, short of hanging all the letter-
writers at the yard-arm, and formally proclaiming, in
the most bombastic language which can be com-
manded, that the French are the first maritime and
naval people in the universe, would be likely to please
our very implacable neighbours. We extract, on
this head, the following paragraph from a recent num-
ber of our Parisian Contemporary La France:—
" When a grave offence has been committed, and the
necessity of reparation is felt, this is done honestly, and
in the retractation complete justice is rendered to the
adversary. England does not act in this way. We have
published the order of the day of Admiral Owen on the
subject of the letters of the officers of the Warspite. We
now publish a letter from Captain Wallis to his Admiral.
It is a very dry and insignificant acknowledgement of
the receipt of the order of the day, and the name of
France is not mentioned in it."

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F 1.031 THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Herald has opened its columns to
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" from a Correspondent," is from the pen of the
worthy functionary himself. The circumstance
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pugns the legal competency of the parishioners to ask
for such accounts—and interposes every obstacle in his
power to prevent them from obtaining such satisfac-
tion—we say, such a man makes out a prima facie
case against himself. He has himself to blame for
any inconvenience he sustains—for any injury to fame
or feeling which he incurs. We do, therefore, in
sober earnestness, ask whether such a functionary,
having placed himself in such a position, can, with
any reasonable hope of having his claim allowed, look
to his fellow-citizens to place him in the highest
post of the Corporation ; and confer upon him the
honours, and invest him with the functions of Chief
Magistrate of their city ? To comply with his request
would be to adopt the responsibility of a possible
result to the investigation by the Court of Chancery
of his suspiciously. withheld accounts. If the award
be against their validity, his administration of_ the
trust he held would be impugned, and his integrity
seriously damaged, if not irretrievably ruined. Nor
would this be the extent of the evil. The high
office of Mayor of the Metropolitan City would
be exposed to no small portion of the odium and
disgrace. Can the postponement for one year of
Mr. Alderman Gibbs' election to the office to
which, it seems, he still aspires, in the influences
such a postponement would exercise upon his
position, be comparable to the mischiefs which
would inevitably be inflicted on the Corporation, should
the chair of its Chief Magistrate be filled by an indi-
vidual whose claims to public respect and confidence
are of a doubtful kind ? The reputation and influence
of the Corporation would be lowered in the estimation
of the city and the nation; the administration of jus-
tice would be deprived of respect ; and the office be
denuded of efficiency. After the controversy that has
been raised—after the painful interest that has been
excited by the extraordinary conduct of the Lord
Mayor expectant, and the appeals which have been
made to the Livery and Court of Aldermen to
pass Mr. Alderman Gibbs by for the present
year, and choose the Alderman next in succession—
they raise him to the Mayoralty ; and the result of
the suit in Chancery, to which the parishioners hare
been driven by his inveterately obstinate and indefen-

STANDARD.—The occasion for reviving the
profitless discussion of whether or not we have ob-
tained the degree of reparation from the French
for the unauthorised conduct of a subordinate officer at
Otaheite—conduct which was reproved and punished
long before the Governments of either country
could have had an opportunity of expressing any
opinion on the subject—is one which ought to have
produced a very different result. We allude to the
" Jubilee," as it is called, of the London Missionary
Society, celebrated yesterday (its 50th anniversary,)
at Exeter Hall. We are far from insensible to the
praiseworthy efforts which have been made
by this Institution during its long and useful
career; but over-much zeal is often as prejudicial to
a good cause as its very reverse ; and some of the
speeches at a recent meeting of this society were of
a character but little reconcileable with the pre-
sumed sentiments of a body whose professed object
is to preach " peace and good will," and not to
minister to the evil passions of those who
fall within its influence. Meetings destined
to afford an excuse for mere manifestos of
opinion, can be productive of no possible ad-
vantage, and when such expositions of sentiment
have reference, as is often the case, to secular, and
more especially political topics, they are likely to be
mischievous to an extent which can hardly have been
contemplated by their authors. The speeches deli-
vered at a late meeting of the London Missionary
Society on the subject of Mr. Pritchard's treatment
by the French authorities at Otaheite (whilst his
Government was earnestly occupied in securing for
him whatever reparation was his due), for example,
was calculated to increase embarrassment without the
slightest chance of benefit to the object of its sym-
pathy—not to mention a violence of manner as well
as of language, on the part of one or two of the
speakers, which was clearly inconsistent with the
principles for which their authors claim credit, and on
the faith of which the society to which they belong
has hitherto been so warmly supported. The senti-
ments evolved at yesterday's meeting were more
moderate ; but why convert an occasion destined to
celebrate the, good service which the society has
rendered, during a period of half a century, to Chris-
tianity, into an excuse for a political manifestation
on a subject which has already given occasion
for the greatest irritation ; and which, but for the
moderation and good sense of the respective Go-
vernments of England and France, might have even-
tuated in a war which would effectually have arrested
the efforts of the society in many of the most promis-
ing arenas of their labours ? We have already seen
that a fair and reasonable reparation has been exacted
for the treatment of Mr. Pritchard—a reparation which,
whilst it cannot fail of having proved satisfactory
to his feelings, repays him for any pecuniary
injury he may have sustained. What need was
there, we ask, after such an arrangement for a
long resolution expressive of the " fixed determina-
tion of the society that Otaheite shall be free."
Does the London Missionary Society propose to
supersede the Government in its functions ?
Or has it the intention to carry on a " little
war" of its own, for the expulsion of the French
authorities from that island ? If the latter, its labour
is likely to be lost; for it has already been confessed
by more than one influential French journal that
Otaheite is not worth the expense and trouble which
it will cost the French nation to retain it.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
lIRALD.—The progressive decrease in the value of
money, and the consequent advance in the value of
Public Securities, have rendered it necessary for the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt
to enlarge the tables for the conversion of stock into
annuities for lives and terms of years. The tables con-
structed in 1828 did not contemplate the Three per
Cents. rising above par, and, consequently, the terms
co which annuities were to be granted being governed
by the current price of Consols above par, there was no
standard of conversion.

The range to which the tables are now extended is to
when Consols, minus the dividend, are from 100/. 165.10 d.
and under 102/. I Is. 3d., and from 102/. I Is. 3d. and
under 1041. 6s. I Id. This, it would appear, the Com-
missioners consider a sufficient extension to embrace the
practical limit to which it is likely Three per Cent.
Stock will advance. The new tables may be procured
gratis at the National Debt Office, by any person who
may choose to call for them.
As to the future range of the price of stock, no in-
ference whatever can be drawn from this measure.
It is merely a provision made in the event of an ad-
vance above par, but has no connection whatever with
actual prices.
We understand the joint-stock banks in the City are
preparing to register their public officers, with a view of
availing themselves of the privileges conferred by the
Act (7 and 8 Victoria, C. 113) to regulate joint-stock
banks in England. By the 47th section it is enacted
that any joint-stock bank within the distance of 65 miles
from same powers of suing and
being Lgsouncdl s
y theirhall phaubvlieofficersthe as are granted to joint-
stock banks beyond 65 miles from London, by the Act 7
Geo. IV., c. 46, and shall deliver to the commissioners of
taxes the same returns,

By the Act 7 Geo. IV., c- 46, any joint-stock bank
may register its public officers at the Stamp-office.
The number of officers may be two or more, but
a suit is brought or defended only in the name of
one. These officers must be shareholders in the bank,
but they need not bo bank officers in the business
sense of the word. They may be trustees, di-
rectors, or simply shareholders, but they must
be resident in England. The board of directors may
at any time recal the name of a party who has been re-
gistered as a public officer, or supply his place in case of
death or other contingency. One of the public officers
must swear to the accuracy of the returns required by
the Act.

The returns required include thb firm or name of the
banking company, names and places of abode of all the
members of the company, names and places of the bank
or banks established by such company, names and places
of abode of the directors, managers, and other like
officers of the said banking company, names of the
several towns and places where the business of the said
company is carried on.
These returns are to be made to the Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes annually, between the 28th of Feb-
ruary and the 25th of March ; and every return must
contain a list of every new or additional director, ma-

This is the reception which the late order of Admi-
ral Owen on the subject of these letters meets. Let
our readers mark the last words of the paragraph we
have quoted:—" You have given us official disclaimers
of the offenders" (such seems to be the language of
French sensitiveness), " and you have punished and
reprimanded them—but disclaimers and punishments
are not what we want. We want, to be plain, some
flummery about la grande nation, some glorification
of France and her arms, especially her naval great-
ness, and then WC shall be content, but not before."
Such is the reception with which any step, even of
humiliation and abasement, however low, on the part
of England, would be met by the French war party,
and such the gratitude which we should get from
those wl.om we thus sought to please and conciliate,

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

for subjecting our own officers to an oppressive inqui-
sition and an unjust punishment. 'We recommend
the paragraph we have quoted to the attentive consi-
deration of Lord Haddington and his colleagues.

JUBILEE OF THE LONDON
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Lor don Missionary
Society was celebrated at Exeter-hall on Wednesday,
when every part of the spacious building was
crowded by a respectable auditory. Sir Culling
Eardley Smith, Bart., took the chair at eleven
o'clock, and the platform was filled with ministers of
various denominations.
The Rev. Dr. VAucua..N opened the meeting by
prayer, after which
The CHAIRMAN commented on the operations of the
Society in various parts of the world, and dwelt at
some length on the efforts which had been made by
the Pope and his emissaries to counteract the exer-
tions, not only of the London Missionary Society,
but of all similar institutions, the objects of which
were to disseminate the Gospel in its truth and
purity amongst the heathen, an exemplification of
which had recently been afforded by the devastating
influence of that insidious and anti-Christian system
upon the peaceful missions of the Society in the
South Seas, and which had brought to the verge of
war two of the greatest and noblest nations of the
world. Popery was still the same superstitious, perse-
cuting, Anti-Bible system which it ever had been. In
proof of its wretched superstition, shameful impositions,
and miserable cupidity, he need only state that in
1842 the Pope had received upwards of 10,0001. from
the King of Naples to make a certain woman a saint.
Some priests in Italy were exhibiting a letter which
they sai I had been written by the Devil in Messina.
The priests pretended to have a letter which they said
was written by the Virgin Mary in Paradise, accept-
ing the patronage of that city. The Pope had re-
cently received an enormous sum of money to say a
single mass for the soul of an English Catholic. A
physician had been imprisoned in Rome for recom-
mending his patients not to fast; and certain students
had been similarly punished for haying Protestant
books in their possession. The honourable baronet
cited other instances of the baneful influence of
Romish imposition, and concluded an able address
amidst much cheering.
The Rev. EDWARD BICKERSTETH, Rector of Wot-
ton, then moved the following resolution in an ap-
propriate address :—" That this meeting, in com-
mencing the fiftieth year in the history of the London
Missionary Society, humbly presents its grateful
praise to God fur the decisive and abundant proofi of
his favour with which he has vouchsafed, during that
period, to crown its varied interests and operations:
it glorifies the riches of his grace in those holy and
devoted men whose memory it holds in affectionate
vemeration as the fathers of the institution : it

ascribei to the animating power of his love the spirit
of seal and benevolence which has been excited and
sustained among the Society's ardent and long-tried
friends : it recognises his wise and gracious provi-
dence in the wide fields for missionary effort, once
inaccessible, but now open to the labours of the
Christian church : it attributes to his power and grace
the sanctified gifts and arduous achievements which
have characterised the men sent forth by this Society
as messengers of mercy to the heathen ; and, above
all, this meeting, reviewing the vast amount and the
inestimable value of the society's success in the actual
conversion of the heathen to the faith of Christ,
would devoutly adore and bless the God of Israel
who only doeth wondrous things, and would cherish,
from past success, an assurance of the still more
glorious extension of his kingdom, with which the
future labours of his church will be rewarded."
The Rev. Dr. BUNTING, President of the Wesleyan
Conference, seconded the resolution. The Rev. Gen-
tleman having remarked that the formation of the
Society was an act of noble, daring, and undaunted
faith in the promises of God, proceeded to eulogise its
operations, and added that it would be almost pre-
sumption for him to attempt to condole with such
Society upon the recent events in the South Seas.
They had nothing to fear from what had occurred in
Otaheite : the truth of the Gospel must prevail and
overcome all the anti-Christian assaults of Popery.
Greater obstacles had been surmounted by the Lon-
don Missionary Society in various parts of the world,
and nothing had happened to them in the affair of
Otaheite which was not common to missionary enter-
prise; moreover, they had once before been driven
away from that island when they first endeavoured to
plant the standard of the cross there, and they would
yet see the religion of the Gospel triumph over all its
foes.

The Rev. Dr. LIEPCHILD, in moving the next reso-
lution, took a brief review of the operations of the
Society. The dozen missionaries which it had at first
sent out had been multiplied to 400, and with native
teachers, to 700. It had eighty-five stations in the
world, each station having several outposts ; it had
caused to be translated and published sixteen versions
of the Scriptures in the various languages of the
earth, and since its establishment the Society had
expended more than a million-and-a-half of money
in furthering its mighty object, and they might fairly
conclude that more than a million of individuals had
been taught the Christian faith by the efforts of the
Society. These circumstances were sufficient to cause
thanksgiving and to make them rejoice; but theirky
had been tempered by the recent events in Otaheite,
which, however, were not to be attributed to any
want of exertion, insufficient performance of duty, or
improper conduct on the part of the Society or its
agents, but solely to the aggression of a foreign
power.—(Hear, hear.) When the time came for the
calumniated persons to speak out and tell the whole
of what they could reveal, he was certain that the
pUblic would be satisfied with their proceedings. The
direCtors of the Society had been placed in a
difficult position by this circumstance—their
difficulty arising from the complication of the
affair with politics and the civil interests of two
great countries. He had seen the directors abused
on the one hand for pusillanimity and truckling to
the Government, and on the other for rebelling against
the Government, and inciting the nations to war.
But they had pursued the middle course—they had
laid a fair account of the matter before the country,
and called upon all communities of Christians to re-
monstrate with the Government—to appeal to it to
take such prompt and vigorous measures as should
put a stop to the outrages of France, and procure
redress for the wrongs which had been inflicted—
(Cheers)—and he believed the directors meant to
continue their appeals to the public, in order that the
Government might not be permitted to go to sleep
upon the matter.—(Cheers.) In inspecting the false
assertions which had been made, the directors hail
done what they ought to have done, and nothing
more: that was his conviction, and it was well that
the approval of the conduct of the Scciety should be
expressed by so great and intelligent an assembly.—
(Loud cheers.) Should truth be silent because folly
frowned? He offered them his thanks and approba-
tion for the wisdom and firmness of the measures
which they had pursued.—(Cheers.) But the affair
at Otaheite, and the melancholy events in Mogadore,
did not impress him with alarm. He did not despair,
for he had too firm a faith in the prophecies of the
final triumphs of Christianity over the whole earth.
—(Cheers,) These events would but direct greater
attention to their operations, and excite sympathy on
their behalf; and although they now beheld the lour-
ing cloud, he could see a brighter scene beyond, when
the triumphs of the Gospel should be complete; then
the chances of war would cease, the contentions of
nations would be hushed, the disorders of society
would be at an end, and the vast brotherhood of man-
kind would be of one heart and of one soul.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Gentleman concluded by moving the fol-
lowing resolution :—" That this meeting bows before
the righteous though mysterious providence of God,
which has permitted the power of persecution and
oppression to fall upon the Christians of Madagascar
and Otaheite ; and humbly acknowledges that the
imperfections and evils of the best services offered to
his sacred cause, might justly provoke his holy clans-
tisements towards its suffering Christian brethren in
those islands, the meeting cherishes the most afrees
tionate smpathy and prayerful solicitude ; and in
relation to Otaheite, it cannot withhold the expression
of its severest reprobation at the perfidy and cruelty
perpetrated by the agents of France on the defence-
less Queen and her oppressed people ; and the meet-
ing
hereby expresses its strongest desire and assurance
that the Directors of the London Missionary Society
will not fail to employ, as opportunity may be afforded,
all means consonant with the spirit of Christianity,
for effecting the
.complete deliverance of Otaheite
from the deep injury
and galling oppression under
which it is now suffering."
The Rev. J. Haattr..Tox, of the Scotch National
Church in Regent-square, seconded the resolution in
a forcible address, in which he vindicated the conduct I
of the missionaries in Otaheite, and in the course of
his speech read the following address by them to
Captain Bruat
"Mission-house, Papeete, March 19, 1841.
" Sir,--.We, the undersigned body of Protestant