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London, England, 1819-08-27 00:00:00

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1819.

A,ltc iii EI~ISCOP a VISITATION.

On Saturday his Grace the Archbishop of CAN-
TERBURY held a Visitation at Maidstone Church,
and confirmed from this and surrounding parishes
about 1680 persons of both sexes. ilis Grace
was irecompanied and assisted by the Bishop of
EXETER. After Confirmation, the Morning Prayers
were read by the Rev._James Reeve, anti a very
excellent discourse preached by the Rev. Philip
Le Geyt, from the IBth chapter of St. .liihn and
part 01.38 th, verse—" Pilate sarth unto him; what
is troth ?"—At the conclusion, his Grace deliver-
ed an admirable Charge to the Clergy, of which
the follawing is the substance. His Grace com-
menced by stating, that since- he last addressed
the clergy of this Diocese, great' and important
changes had taken place throughout Europe. He
then descanted upon the 'piesent agitated state
of the country, shewing that it was only a
-continuation of that which had agitated the
whole of Europe for the last five-and-twenty
years—that though tranquillity was 4estored to
External Europe, still that much remained to be.
done in quieting the internal of all countries.
\.Vith us, meetings were formed, and had been
publicly held in many distrieta, which, under their
mischievous leaders, were convened for tui other
purl t-se but ,to disseminate infidelity--=and with
that sedition ; that the Church and State are in-
separable. must be well known and admitted.
These, men, (said his Grace) who are tiving thus
to undermine this glorious and venerable fabric,
are not, by their confinement in .kaowledge and
education, equal at all it it were necessary, to
reform ally part of the Church and State ; still
they had, as ever would he the'case if,not prevent-
ed; the ears of the mare uninformed multitude ;
and he -invited*"iteery public "person to exert his
influence tun' knowledge in suppressing these
meetings, by timely and successful interfeetnee in
shewing.the misgnided.the errors and intentions
of such restless spirits. He then eloquently and
powerfully called up ,t) the Clergy in their several
iHrishes, tir•tiing a just distinction between the
country Priest, whose vigilant activity.was "not so
great, from the confined Ambers, aa.dtherefore,
more immediate -personal knowledge of his parish
inners, as those who have the sup, rintendance of
populous parishes ; andhe remit het', that thongh
it would be considered as savouting too much of
pers(:nality fora Priest to ha busying himself in
prying too nearly into domestic affairs, yet, in act,.
ing in conjunction with the aid of persons of in-
fluenee and property in their respective parishes,
Much and Might he effected : and he animatedly
reconanftiqied them, upon all occasions, to
vate such good understanding.

In calling their attention to the want of ac-
cournaodations in Churches for the population, he
stated that it arose from two grounds, one of
which was that the population had left many dii-
triets in which Churches were to be found wherein
the Chancel ,v as more than equal to the popula-
tion of a whole Parish, wheteaS at one time the
whole Church was scarcely equal in proof of
this historic fact, he noticed the Diocese lie for-
merly superintended (Norwich), the Eastern
part of which was totally depopulated, and many
beautiful Churches were left with very Sew pa-
rishioners—the other ground was, the increased
population of the country, arising from our vie-
csstul commerce—this likewise brought large po-
pulations together in some districts where new
churches, were much wanted and accounted like-
wise for the depopulation in others, where
Churches had formerly been built, ivhere no ma•
nufaCtories were carried on—that the last Parlia•
nient had sealed their great efforts, by which they
had obtained the -grail itude, not of their own coun-
try alone, but of all Europe; in bringing to ['suc-
cessful issue the severe contest,' by granting one
million sterling for building and enlarging
Churches and Chapels. Here his Grace went
into a detail of the obtaining the Act, for that
purpose, as also the second Act for enlarging the
powers of the Commissioners, but (said his
(Trace) great as this act of munificence is, granted
at the close of the most expensive war known in
the annals of Europe, it will fall very Short of‘the
desired object, for the bnilding of a few Churches
alone will expend the whole; but a Society has
been formed totally independent, whose object is
to solicit voluntary contributions in further aid of
this most praise-worthy anti desirable object,
which, though it boasts all ranks in their vOltin•
tary contributions, still the sum is very limited in
comparison with its object his Grace here de-
fined the object of the Institution, recommending
it to their greatest attention, as by the increased
acceimmodations in the several places of worship,
might naturally be expected the return to the
Established Church of numbers who go to places
'of dissenting worship. In respect to the Educa-
tion ()lithe Poor, mach bad already been done
through private munificence alone, bul very far
short of what sixes wanted, and he trusted that this
Was a subject which would call for the immediate
attention and aid of Parliament.

After the delivery of the above charge, his
Grace repaired to the Star Inn, where an excel-
lent dinner was provided, at which about 30 of
the Clergy were preseta. Ills Grace took his
departure front this town in the 'evening, and Pro-
ceeded to his seat, Addington-place, near Croy-
don.—(illaidstoto Jaura,ol, plug. 24)

Requisitions are now signing to be presented to
tile Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, for the pur-
pose of obtaining a meeting of the Court of Com-
mon Council, and also a Common Hall, to ex-
press the sentiments of the Corporatidn and
Livery Of. Londonon the late proceedings of the
:Magistracy and Military at Manchester.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
COURT OF CHANCERY, AUG. 26.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE SITTINGS.

Mr. AGAR, said, that trout the expressed inten-
tion of the Lord Chancellor to have adjourned the
Sittings on Monday last not having beet) carried
into effect, a consultation had been held besweett
himself and bis Legal Friends, which had ended
in an expression of their wish that the adjourn-
ment should take place this day, as they had,
under the idea that the former arrangement woul►l
not have been altered, made several arrangements
which they must now forego.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that when
he hat! said the Court would adjourn as last Mon-
day, he had hoped tbe whole of the Bankrupt
Petitions would have been gone through before
that time ; but that, however, hail not been the
case, and it was impossible for aoy one to fore-
see how long It Petitions would take in hear-
ing. His Lordship would, however, if agtee-
able, close the Sittings to-morrow,
Mr. CULLEN said., it was impossible that any
man could' have in idea how long the bearing Of
Petitions might last.

140BlilMANCELLORI-That is shown here,
for one Petition has oceupW two whole days,
and will, in all probability, occupy the remain-
der of this day.

Mr. AGAR hoped hii Lordship was not offt,nded
at what he had done, as be had ooly acted in
pnrsoance of a message that had boo lest at his
chembers. •

The Loup CIIANCELLOR.—Not in tire least, but
no message was ever sent by me on the 'subject ;
on rile contrary, I have try wish to end tits §Lt7
Dings now, or at any time, if I can have (be' atten-
dance ot Counsel, who may have causes of a prtss.
in", nature to bring, before the 'Court, But if,
said his Lordship in conclusion, cases are trot- of
that pressing nature, I cannot see any imprOprie,
ty in letting them•stand over till the next Siftings.
I hope I shall not be again told that the J midges
of tins Court do not enter fully into the merits.ot
• cffses htonght before client. On my own part, I
wilPnow say, that I shall always keep to the old
doctrine, namely, that Counsel have a tight to
speak.to the foil extent every thing on the part of
their clients ; and try opinion is, that a Judge is
hound to hear, tptielly and patiently, what they
have to adduce, that being the only way in which
he can come to a sound couclUsionon the Merit is
of the case. lam determined that; ‘vh'eneversl
shall die officially, no person shall have it in his
power to say ot me.,, that I have not heard every
word they had to say by their Counsel; for 1 be-
lieve themolyromphint that can be made against
me is, that I am disposed to bear parties too much.
My conscience and toy God bear witness that
every delay is occasioned by my anxiety to do jus-
tice. I. will say to all of Gentlemen, as I
wonld say to my own family, on you as my
children ; and, I hope, ti.at what I have said will
not be taken unkindly, and that Counsel will en-
dearottr in future to make short speeches, if they
can do so without injury to their clients. As to
the ending of the Sittings, if 1 am not engaged
here, I must be at home in reading the immense
bundles of pipers, and perhaps I hart better look
into them while they 'are fresh in my memory,
than stop till I am worn out here.

Mr. MoNTAouR hoped his Lordship's recom-
mendation woUld be attended to. The 'waking
short speeches would, be observed, be a great re-
lief to Counsel.

Mr. HEALD.-1 should be very glad to see Mr.
Montague the first' to hold out the example of
making short speeches—let him do that.

TherLORD CHANCELLOR.--We will close to•
morrow (this day.)

IN THE MATTER OP STEPHENS.

The' LORD CHANCELLOR, 'addressing the At-
torneyAieneral, observed, that he bad read over
the papers'in this Most important cause. Fie had
also Seen the three physicians, AinSley, Latham,
and Powell, and Mr; Warburton,' from`whom' be
bad got a certificate; stating that they had Seen
the Gentleman in question, and that they had
found none of the delusions that had tornierty ek-
isted operating on. his mind, and-he was at pre•
sent of sound mind; but .they could not under
take to say that the .disease might not return:—
This certificate, in his Lordship's opinion, was a
sufficient warranty to the Court 'not to keep the
Commission hanging over the Gentleman in ques-
tion, and therefore he should, :sopereede.it, with
liberty to the parties, in the event of a relapse, to
again apply to the Court. He could not, how-
ever, let the opportunity pass without obset ving,
under all the circumstances of the case, that.the
friends of the applicant bad done. nothing more
than their duty. No blame could possibly attach
to them ; for, said his Lordship, 1 would, had 1
been similarly situated, have done the same my-
ielf.

Hi 3 Lordship will, after giving so'ne few judg-
ments which stand over, close, the_ Sittings till the
Ist of November.

PPM--An alarming fire broke out on Wednes-
Atty evening, at the paper- manufictory of Mr.
Burfetf, stationer, Iligh-street, Shadwell. The.
entire of the collect us were destroyed, which had
been insisted only two days previous. The 'flames
communicated to the slaughter-honk of i.lr.
Sweet, butcher, in Seven Star-alley, which was:
entirely destriiyed, and in- which there Were up
wards of 30 sheep; some of them were so mate-
rially injnred, that k was deemed necessary to
slaughter them; the remainder were rescued with
much difficulty from the flames, only sustaining:
the loss of their wool: The fire was at length
snlodued by the engines and a plentiful .supply of
water.

[PRICE SEVENPENCE.

GERMAN PAPERS.

Nuremberg Paperi to the 19th lost., and Frank-
fort Journals to the 200), arrived yeiternay even-

inn: The following are extract. :
" BERLiN, AUG. H.—There is a report in
circulation; that Dr. Jahn will be restored to