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FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

show how the Free Church had come out of this testing,
process. To the principles the Church had announced
they had adhered, and without one iota of modifi-
cation they intended t,) adhere.—(Cheers.) He should
not attempt to carry the meeting back into the wide
controversy by which these principles came into conflict.
But he would say that they were the distinguishing
principles of the Reformation.--(Cheers.) The essence
of the Reformation was that it recognised the Word of
God. The work of Luther might be described as this:
that he recovered the great standard of truth and, duty,
and the only infallible rule of faith. Reestablished the
great principle that God alone was the guide of con-
science. On these principles they had seceded. But
he contended that they had seceded as a Church.—
(Hear.) It was as a Church that they sought the decision
of the Legislature; both legally and constitutionally the
Free Church claimed to be the Church of Scotland They
had no intention of troubling the Legislature with that
question now. —(lmmense cheerin!, several times re
newed.) As long as duty required it, they had sought
to nducetheLegislature to grant them protection against
the decisions of the courts of law, by which their rights
and liberties were trampled under foot. It would seem
not an impossible thing to get from the Legislature a
protection against the decisions of courts of law when
those decisions deprived Arians and Unitarians of the property
they had usurped and applied to purposes different to those
which the owners intended. Protection from the Legislature
against these decisions could be obtained. There was a Bill
then before Parliament, laid on the table of the House of Lords
by the Lord Chancellor, practically for the purpose of subvert-
ing the decisions of courts of law, because those decisions took
from heretics property that never ought to have been thetrs,
and which they misapplied to the propagation of deadly errors.
But when they went to obtain protection against decisions
which tramelled their movements, and thwarted their efforts to
evangelize the waste places of their native land, then no legis-
lation to protect them could be obtained. The decisions of the
courts of law wr e f , -th the, utmost rigour; on the
principle , -Ironietsicesitary- hid down,-
gave the judgment of Parliament, and said that the principles
which the courts of law had condemned, he was determined to
extinguish. How far he had succeeded let the prosperity of
the Free Church in Scotland tell !—(Loud cheers.) Let its
600 ministers, its 200 probationers, its 3,000 elders, and its
million of people, tell !—(Cheers.) In proportion to the popu-
ht ion, this was the same as if 5,000 ministers, and six or seven
millions of people, had seceded from the Church of England.
Let this tell how far the Home Secretary had succeeded. Let
the meetings in England—let such meetings as thepresent
tell how successful he was.-(Cheers.) The Established.
Church, as it remained, had excommunicated Christendom ;
it bad cut off from itself the communion with all the Christian
churches in the world; surely it ill became her to make
charges against others of alienation and disaffection towards
her. She was now endeavouring to take the places of worship
built with the money of those who had joined the Free Church
from them. Standing, like Shylock, on the bond—on what
the letter of the law would give her—she took to herself these
places of worship, and even the buildings erected by the efforts
of their missionaries. And, as if to crown all, she was labour-
ing in many parts of Scotland to keep the adherents of the Free
Church from having a shelter over them from the inclemency
of the winter's sky. He would not allude to what had been
done in Sutherland; but he would read an extract from a letter
from that county, which stated that a congregation had been
compelled to meet in the open air, when there was snow a
foot deep on the ground. He admitted that objectionable
expressions had occasionally been used, but, on that subject,
he would say, let those who were faultless cast the first stone.
One proof that the charge was not very extensively applicable,
was to be found in the fact that their opponents were obliged
to have recourse now to the same hackneyed anecdotes which
were rife twelve months hack.--(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
He admitted that they were opposed to the Established Church ;
they must be so as long as it continued in error.—
( Cries of " Hearear.") That which justified their conduct
must necessarily be condemnatory of their opponents.—
(Cheers. ) They firmly believed that that institution could
not prosper, and must come down. Truth was mighty and
must ultimately prevail. The true secret, the true philosophy,
of the disruption of the Scottish Establishment was found in
her growing evangelism, in the growing fidelity with wh:ch
she was testifying against error and sin. Everywhere there
were growing indications of a great league between the infidel
and the Papist power. It was high time that they should
awake out of sleep ; it was high time that the old Highland
war cry, " Shouldes to shoulder," should be raised amongst
the soldiers of the Lord's hest, that so they might be ready, in
one united phalanx, to " come to the help of the Lord against
the mighty."
Sir Jamas FORREST, an elder of the Free Church of Scot-
land, next addressed the meeting. He said it should not be
snpposed that the question which they had heard mooted that
evening was a clerical question, although it was one in which
they had, from the first, felt the deepest interest. Their
reverend friends had not been contending for clerical power,
or for the interests of their own order, but for great principles,
in which all were interested. It was for this reason that the
Scotch people had supported them in their struggle. A mil-
lion of people had already joined the protesting Church, and
new churches were at that moment rising in all parts of Scot-
land. There was a necessity for instant and immediate ri.ssist-
ance. Eight hundred churches were being built. and others
were in contemplation ; and in such instances it was necessary
to put forth strenuous efforts.—( Hear, hear.) Their minis-
ters had made great and noble sacrifices ; many of
their flocks were wershippin as yet, under the
canopy of Heaven.—(Hear, hear.) He was happy to say that
they had in England met with thekindest sympathy. Even in
Cambridge, in spite of all the prejudices excited against them,
they had been received with the greatest kindness, and they
expected to derive considerable support from that town.—
( Cheers.) To-morrow they proposed to visit another strong-
hold of the enemy—Oxford, where they hoped, notwithstand-
ing the character of the University, to meet with similar
inceess.—(Cbaers. )

A public meeting of the friends of the Free Church
of Scotland was held last evening at Exeter Hall, for the
from a deputation from the Free
pcuhruprocsiel
ofo srceoct el
al vnidn! ,
a statement of the present condi-
tion and prospects of that Church, with the view of rais-
ing a contribution towards the expense of erecting new
places of worship for those congregations which, by the
secession from the Establishment, are left without church
accommodation. The meeting was very fully attended,
the hall and galleries being crowded. A large propor-
tion of the meeting consisted of ladies. P. M. Stewart,
Esq., M.P., presided.
The following gentlemen, being members of the de-
putation, were present :—Rev, Dr. Makellar, Dr.
luford
Forrest,
Forbes, Dr. Candlish, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Buchannan,
Messrs. Belt!), Wallace, Smith, Alexander, Tweedie
Bart.,Co w e I
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on
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tuocnh a; Iv, C.
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of
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aruotO rnd, , sr qj. ,a omfe Crs 1
land ; James Bridges, Esq. ; Alexander Thompson,
Esq., of Banchory, and Dr. Musket. There were also
present the Rev. Dr. Alder, Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Leifchild,
' Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Bennett, Dr. Bunting,
Dr. Henderson, Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel, Rev. J. Hamil-
ton, Rev. Mr. Sherman, Rev. Mr. Cubitt, Rev. P. Lo-
rimer, Rev. Mr. Roxburgh, &c , &c. The following
gentlemen of the lay friends of the church were also
present : Captain Macintosh, It. Saul, J. Nisbet,
\V. Hamilton, J. Robertson, Townley, D. Wither-
spoon, J. Finlaison, Thomas Farmer, C. Virtue,
G. Webster, Alexander Gillespie, William Brownley,
W. Stevenson, Esqrs.; and iNfaor Jervis, &e., &c.
The proceedings of the meeting having been opened
by a prayer from the Rev. Dr. Jenkins,
The CHAIRMAN called attention to the objeCts of the
meeting. The question to be submitted to them was not
one that could be confined within the limits of Scotland
or England. It was a momentosta _question affecting
every Christian In the 'world. He was not going to
trench on the business of those around him—that was
in abler hands than his; but one point he must refer to.
He had the privilege of glancing at the characters of
those who had come as the deputation from Scotland.
This was no slight point. What an evidence had they
not offered of their sincerity, by giving up all their
worldly endowments, to which they refused to sacrifice
religious liberty and spiritual independence for the sake
of expediency. These were the men to whom they were
asked to listen. Tkey were there, not to plead for them-
selves, bat for the destitute congregations left in the
wilderness without shade or shelter. Eight hundred
congregations came out from the Establishment, and for
these congregations 500 churches had been built, or were
about to built. They had, therefore, still to provide for
200 or 300 congregations. This was the cause they came
to plead for, and he was sure that the efforts of those
who were to address them would be both successful and
convincing. He then called on
Dr. MANELLAR, late Moderator of the General Assem-
bly of the Church of Scotland, who addressed the meet-
ing. He said though the nature of the events that had
taken place in Scotland was becoming better known in
England, still some explanation of the objects of their
mission was necessary. They came as a deputation from
the Church of Scotland—not from the Church of Scot-
land as by law established ; with that they had no con-
nection ; they differed with it in spirit, in character, and
in proceedings. He did not use this language in an
offensive sense ; their controversy with that Church was
one of principle, not of passion. They envied not that
Church its possessions. Their object was not to set up
a rival Church ; they wished to constitute a real Church.
—(Cheers.) And that the Free Church was the real
Church of Scotland was proved by reference to the books
of their Church, the proceedings of its General Assem-
blies, the history of the Church, and to the constitution
of the country.—(Cheers.) By the union of Scotland
with England, the independence of their Church
had been injured, and their full enjoyment of
the privileges of their Church been prevented.
The evil their forefathers contemplated had
occurred, and by the preponderance of England they
had been wronged and injured. They did not wish to
bring " a railing accusation" against those who had
caused that injury and wrong, whether they were judges,
legislators, or ministers of state. But from an un-
wiliingness to look into and examine what was really
the constitution of the Church of Scotland, they had
been induced to judge it by a theory of their own, not
by what was really the constitution of that Church.—
(Hear, hear.) They did not accuse the English people
of being parties to this wrong ; they were a just and
generous people ; they did not accuse them of being the
instruments of this injury. But they trusted that
through the intercourse they had with them, and the
information that had gone abroad on this subject, the
people of this country would use their best endeavours,
not to put them back where they were—but to assist
them in maintaining the cause of God and truth—a
elms. that might, sooner-than they were aware of, come
to their own door.—(Cheers.) That the Free Church
was the true Church of Scotland, might be proved both
from its constitution and the conduct of its ,ministers.
They had no desire to speak there of their own sacri-
fices ; but at the same time it would be miserable affec-
tation to say that they had not suffered, and suffered
severely.—( Hear, hear.) Five hundred ministers had
quitted connexion with the Established Church of Scot-
land ; from the relative number of the ministers of the
Established Church in England, and the number of the
population, they would be able to estimate, if such a
secession were to take place in the English Church, the
extent of the sacrifice. Of the probationers, too, of the
Church of Scotland—men duly licensed to preach the
gospel-170 had quitted the Establishment with the 500
ministers, and that under circumstances even. more try
ing than those attending the separation of the ministers.
They were in the morning of their days, in the ardour
of their hopes, seeing before them a prosperous career—
and all this they had renounced.—(Cheers.) They had
further evidence that the Free Church was the true
Church of Scotland in the conduct of the students
of those who were in course of training for the miaistry
of the Gospel. At their Theological College there were
more than two hundred students, and those who had the
advantage of being the most intimately acquainted with
them—their professors and others—stated that these
students were more distinguished by talent, ardour of
study, fervent piety, and real devotedness, than the stu-
dents before them for forty years back.—(Cheers.) He
could also refer, as a proof, to the missionaries sent out
to foreign countries, to India and elsewhere, as furnish-
ing another proof of the influence of the Free Church.
The missionaries had, without a single exception, given
their adherence to the Free Church of Scotland.—
(Cheers.) This testimony was of great value.—(Cheers.)
Besides all this, the Free Church was the true Church of
Scotland, because it was the Church of the people.—
(Cheers.) There were at least a million of the people
once attached to the Established Church that were now
on the side of the Free Church.—(Hear, hear.) And he
believed that if no undue influence were exercised over
the people of Scotland that three-fourths of them would
be on the side of the Free Church. The district to which
he had the happiness to be attached was part of the
Highlands' of Scotland. They all knew the character of
the Highlanders for loyalty, for courage, and bravery.
—(Cheers.) The battle plains of Europe and of
the world had testified to their devotedness. to
thier courage, and their bravery.—(Cheers.) But he
had now to tell them that never had they given such
testimony of their devotedness to any cause, of their
courage in any earthly contest, as they had given in
their firm, faithful, and determined attachment to the
cause of the Free Church of Scotland.—(Cheers.) The
people of that district were almost entirely on the side
of the Free Church, and if they only had teachers
enough to send among them, acquainted with their own
language and feelings, they would be all on their side.
The Free Church claimed nothing which did not '
of right belong to the Church. The independence they
claimed meant an exemption from the authority-
of the civil magistrates in things spiritual.
They claimed nothing more. On the con-
trary, in civil matters, they were ready to give
" tribute to whom tribute was due, custom to whom •
custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour."
But in things spiritual they felt it would be a violation
of conscience to yield to the authority of any one. He
had also further to notice the sympathy they had re-
ceived and were receiving from the other Christian
Churches of Europe and America, and especially of
England. The various religious denominations of Eng-
land had expressed towards them a sympathy of the
kindest and most gratifying nature. All the
visits they had paid to this country had been
times of refreshment and consolation, and he
trusted that these were but the first fruits of more pre-
cious blessings to come. Their contributions were
needful and valuable to them. Hundreds of congre-
gations were without places of worship, and they were
there to ask their assistance to pro‘ide them. He believed
that 3001, or not much more, was enough to erect a
place of worship for some of these cone,regations, and
he trusted their appeal would not be in vain. He con-
cluded by thanking the meeting for the kindness with
which it- had heard him, and hoping that the same in-
dulgence would be extended to the Others who had to
succeed him.

(Loud cheers.) England itself might be benefited by what
had taken place--(Hear)—but whether that were the case or
not, the ministers of the free church would be equally
entitled to admiration. The two principles to which
he had referred were destined to be the lights, not
of Scotland alone, but of all Christendom.—(Cheers.) The
act which the seceding: ministers had committed was imperish-
able ; it would live in history ; and it would be recorded as the
noblest event which had occurred in the present age
(Cheers.) In conclusion, he apologised for having so long de.
tained the meeting.
The Rev. Dr. LEIFCHILD seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
A collection was then made in aid of the building fund.
The Rev. Dr. CA NDLISM then came forward to address the
meeting. He said the sympathy which had been manifested
for them by that meeting. was an ample recompense, if any were
needed, for all which they had suffered in the defence of their
principles. It was most cheering to him and to all the deputation,
to find their sentiments advocated and pressed home with a power
which they bad not seen since they were first put forth by
their great master-spirit, Dr. Chalmers.—(Cheers.) They
had besought the Legislature to look at this question
with reference to Scottish statutes, and Scottish practices;
and through their refusal to do so, they were now engaged in
diffusing them in England itself.--(Cheers.) Throughout the
whole past history of Scotland they had maintained the print
ciple upon which they seceded to be vital and fundamental;
there was no course open to them, therefore, but that which
they bad pursued. Nothing had so sustained their minds in
the contest as the circumstance that they had never bad
any doubt as to the path of duty.--(Loud cheers.) He then
proceeded to reply to some accusations made against him in a
pamphlet written against the Free Church, and concluded a
powerful address amidst loud plaudits.
A vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, and ac-
knowledged, the meeting dispersed.

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LIEUTENANT MUNRO'S CASE.
' The following is the entire letter from Lieutenant Munro,
extracts of which were read by Mr. T. Duncombe in the de-
bate last night :
;'..-gfr.::a-."'ltiitciug' h I have not gnirair-Itifi 0....
quainted with you, yet, as I know your readiness to sym-
pathise with those who may (often for some wise purpose
be visited by Providence with severe and sudden affliction, I
beg leave to lay before you the following particulars of my
unhappy case, as I am desirous of their being published ; and
I hope that a perusal of them may remove from the minds •if
many good men much of the prejudice that I believe to have
been engendered against me by the falsehoods that have been
industriously circulated upon the very melancholy subject,
and also of drawing the attention of Government to the ne-
cessity, as well as justice, of protecting officers who may be
grossly insulted, by the obvious benefit that must arise from
inserting a clause in the articles of war, forbidding all officers
from giving or receiving challenges upon pain of losing their
commissions, and instituting a competent court before which
officers who consider that they had been insulted, or injured
in their characters, may lay their complaints for in-
vestigation, redress, or advice ; the establishing such
a point would in all probability put an effectual stop
to the lamentable practice of duelling; at present there
is a trap laid for all gentlemen who have the
honour to bear her Majesty's commission, into which the
most inoffensive man who ever lived might fall when he least
expected it. Few officers know anything of the civil or cri-
minal laws of the country, but there are also few but know
what an officer has to expect should he pass unnoticed a gross
personal insult ; and too many have seen the wretched and
piteous object that an officer becomes who may be supposed
to have shown a want of courage in action, or in resenting
an insult. The scorned existence of such unfortunate men
is too frightful to contemplate, as they are generally ami-
able and most sensitive; their unhappy lives are frequently
terminated by insanity and suicide, or they sink into a pre-
mature grave from indescribable and concealed misery. I
have to observe that I am most anxious to avoid giving
offence to any of the great and good men that comprise her
Majesty's Government, and I hope I may be pardoned for
publicly expressing to the Duke of Wellington my most un-
bounded gratitude.
" I will not. attempt to describe my own most unhappy,
state of mind, since I have been forced to fly from my coun-
try, my profession, and my beloved wife, children, father,
mother, and relations; but those who have known me from
my childhood, and my gallant comrades, can conceive what
I have suffered. I had a happy and a contented home, my
utmost and constant endeavours were directed to perform, to
the best of my power, my duties to my God, to all men,
and also as a faithful subject to her most gracious Majesty,
and lam now a marked and wretched exile. It has been
said that I was to enter a foreign service, and I have occa-
sionally wretchedness
everthoughtm
,i
ll ofdo i doing
soremain,
solitudeau
d affectionsand
re,
and
with my kindred and my country, and I do not think that I
t
need be ashamed of owning that when alone I have shed
ninny a bitter tear for what has happened, but which I could
but in
my myhea
not prevent; yet I have a great consolation in the assurance
that my merciful and all-seeing Maker will hold me guiltless
of the abominable and horrible crime which erring men, like
myself, lay to my charge.
" Most unfortunately I undertook, in 1839, to act as agent
for Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett ; and that, with the view of saving
the expenses necessarily attendant upon employing a legal
agent (during his absence in India), and to serve him to the
utmost of my ability. Among other things which I had
to perform for him, was looking after two houses which be-
longed to his wife. The houses in question were let to a
Mrs. Smith. of 37, Devonshire-place, Brighton, and she had
taken one of them off Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett's hands before
he sailed. It was occupied by a person who was considered
an ineligible tenant. Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett was anxious to
sell the house in question. About a year and a half after his
departure for India, Mrs.. Smith wrote to inform me that her
tenant had failed, that she could not get her rent, and had
had a great deal oftrouble with him, and she begged at the
same time that I would request Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett to
forego his claim to 50/. of her rent, as she had taken the
house to meet his views, and with the insolvent, a bad
tenant, in it. As Mrs. Smith was an old tenant of Mrs.
Fawcett's father, and as she assisted in endeavouring to ob-
tain a purchaser for the house, I considered myself justified
in recommending that the 50/. alluded to should be deducted
from the rent she had agreed to pay. In due time I received
an answer from Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett to the effect tint

The Hon. and Rev. B. W. NOEL said he had had great cause
to examine the principles and conduct of the Free Church
before giving in his adhesion to the cause ; and he
was happy to be able to state publicly that both
met well his entire approval. —(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
In accordance with his views on this subject, he had to propose
a resolution, which he trusted would be adopted by the meet-
ing:—" That this meeting, having heard the statements of the
deputation, renews its expression of gratitude, for enabling se
many ministers in Scotland to witness before the world this
good confession of the supremacy of Christ and the spirituality
of his Church, and learns with delight that such a large pro-
portion of the people of Scotland adhered to their faithful
pastors, and their testimony for truth in a day of peculiar trial,
and deeply sympathising in the privations to which ministers
and people have been sebjected, and st the same time recog-
nising in the Free Church an instrumentality which promises,
in the hand of the quickening Spirit, and in friendly co-
operation with other evangelical churches, to revive the
religion of Scotland, besides largely aiding in the
Christianisation of the world, this meeting resolves
to render the Free Church its best assistance in
providing places of worship for its adhering people."—(Cheers.)
The resolution divided itself into four particulars. First, it
recognised the justice of the principles upon which the free
Church was founded; secondly, it expressed approval of the
conduct of those who maintained these principles ; thirdly, it
called upon them for sympathy with them in their sufferings
to which their fidelity had exposed them ; and lastly it pointed
to the consequences which might be expected to result from
their principles, their conduct, and their sufferings. The Rev.
Gentleman then went on to show how in each of these
particulars the resolution was worthy of adoption by the
meeting. He said he did not hesitate to declare his conviction
that the prir.ciples of the Free Church were sound to the care.
It appeared to him that these principles were resolvable
into two ; the first being the principle of non-in-
trusion, the second that of the spiritual liberty
of the Church. By non-intrusion he meant that no minister
was to be forced upon a reluctant Christian congregation, but
that the assent of the congregation must be obtained in order
to the formation of the pastoral relation.—(Cheers.) That
principle was one of the simplest common sense. In a relation
so important, and upon which so much of the happiness of a
village, town, or district depended, it was not reasonable that
the people should be debarred the right of protesting against
the introduction of an unspiritual and unconverted minister.
The Rev. Gentleman then referred to a number of scriptural
passages, for the purpose of showing that this principle was in
accordance with the practice of the primitive Church. Hooker
himself had assented to the principle that a minister was not
to be intruded against the consent of the people; and both
Catholics and Episcopalians in great numbers had
recognised the same principle. In the Saxon, in the French
Protestant, in the Helvetic, and in many other churches, the
principle in question—the principle of the Free Church—had
been distinctly recognised. Were not this the case, however,
the ministers of the Scotch Church would still be worthy of
respect, for maintaining what had been the principle of the
Scotch Establishment from the very earliest period ?—( Cheers.
But this principle could only be sustained by the aid of a
second and larger principle—that of the spiritual liberty of the
Church of Christ. This was, in substance, that the Church
of Christ should in every land, and in all its branches, be at
liberty, unrestrained by any stranger power, to fulfil all the
commands of Christ. The ministers of the Church could not
delegate to others, for any emolument, or on any ground, the
exercise of that authority which had been entrusted to them alone.
If a court of law were to determine the meaning of Christ's
commands, then might the Church itself trample on his coin.
mands in obedience to the law.—( Hear.) There was a great
contrast between the claims of Papal ministers and those of the
ministers of the Scotch Church. The Church of Rome had
always linked itself with the civil power, and sought to load its
arm with the thunderbolts of the State. The Church of Scotland
disclaimed any suck aid. There might be danger where an Ec-
clesiastical Corporation separated from the laity were erecting
a civil and spiritual despotism ; but there could be no danger
where the very authority exercised would not be exercised
without the consent of the people.—(Cheers.) The charge
of Papal usurpation appeared to him wholly factitious, and the
cause which needed such support must be feeble indeed.—
Was there no check in the Church of Scotland which might
have quieted the fears which had been entertained ?--( Hear,
hear.) In reference to the manner in which these principles
had been maintained, he demanded from the meeting admira-
tion for the courage and prudence which had been displayed.
The Rey. Gentleman then referred at length to the Veto law
and the dispute with respect to it. To the establishmet of
that law he attributed great benefit to the Seatch Church.
He then proceeded to notice at some length the charge of vio-
lent language which bad been brought against Dr. Chalmers,
whom he eulogised as one whose writing, wisdom, and bene-
volence were equally blended, and who would live in the inieds
of posterity, as he now lived n the hearts of thous4u't. He
contended that the seceders had clime the potilest act which the
present ae bed wit"'"! ScotchEstabliainient fell,
It would deserve to fall for deserting the principles which it
ought to have maintained. But he thought a day was dawn-
ing upon Scotland which it was impossible to descr.l4.
If the seceding ministers remained true to theie principles the
prospect afforded was 844 as (eight to 011 every christiari`heart
with joy. There were in that country 500 Dissenting
ripo or pq places 'et' I?frtlngt;ls ttl Vrye eharch
were course of erecticuti 41 the Ministers of these last
were ne lopger argiopted in their movements, as they had
fateerly been, but were missionaries to every part of Scot'a.o,
Under these circumstances, it was not too much to ell'qct
that parish after parish would be found testifying their
proval of those principles yfhieh, mcii tied c9Pdeinnid..+-

if I could sell the house, and if Mrs. Smith had paid le,r
rent regularly, that I might forego his claim to 501.
Through Mrs. Smith's exertions and my own, I had then
received several offers for the house, but had rejected them,
as I expected to get a higher price than had been offered.
Soon after the time alluded to, I received Overtures upon
account of a Miss Howard, who was desirous of buying the
house, as she had previously lived in it. These otters were
the most advantageous that I had obtained; and, after several
interviews with Miss Howard's friends, I agreed to sell the
house to her for 2,0001., being 2001. hove the price that I
had authority to sell it for. When my power of attorney
came to be examined by Miss Howard's agent, it appeared
(having been written out by Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett
himself) that I was not empowered to sell the house ; but, in
order to keep so eligible a buyer, I let the house to her for a
year for 1001., upon condition of her purchasing it as soon as
I could obtain the proper authority from China to sell it. I
wrote without delay for a new power, and also stated what I
had done. By return of the mail I received another power
of attorney, which was also written by Lieutenant-Colonel
Fawcett, [i t which the legal gentlemen employed by both
parties agreed in saying did not enable me to complete the sale ;
but, being most anxious to retain so good an otter, I again
let the house to Miss Howard for another year, upon the
condition of her purchasing it for 2,0001., as soon as the
sale could be effected, or upon Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett's
return from China, which was expected in the course of last
summer, and, to get the matter prepared by his arrival, I
obtained the title-deeds from Messrs. Cox and Co., the army
agents, in presence of Mrs. Fawcett, who had returned from
Calcutta when her husband was about proceeding from
thence to China. When the title-deeds were examined,
some time in the beginning of last year, the legal agents in-
formed me that they were faulty. . I did everything I could
to save unnecessary expenses being incurred, and stopped
the affair from proceeding until Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett
should arrive in England; but, previous to his arrival,
I received a letter from Miss Howard, stating that the house
was in such a dilapidated condition, that her friends advised
her not to give 2,0001. for it ; and hoping that I would allow
her 2001. to put it into a proper state of repair. I replied
that I could not deviate from the agreement ; and I have now
to observe that, when the agreement was duly signed, I in-
timated to Mrs. Smith that, as she had paid her rents, and
as the house was considered to be sold, Lieutenant-Colonel '
Fawcett had let her off paying the 50/. formerly alluded to.
I soon after received another letter from Miss Howard, to al
low her 100/. to repair the house. I again replied that, how-
ever ready oilget be to do so Jr the house belonged to my-
self, I felt myself so strongly bound to protect Lieutenant-
Colonel Fawcett's interest in his absence, that I must insist
upon the agreement being strictly adhered to, Soon after
that answer the amount agreed upon, viz„ 2,000/., was
placed in Miss Howard's agent's hands by her, to complete
the purchase,;but which had to be deferred until Lieutenant-
Colonel Fawcett's arrival. He came to London in the begin-
ning of last June; I immediately called upon him, the day
after his arrival. I made him acquainted with the delay
about the sale of the house, and said that it was then in his
hands. I also informed him that I had been so fortunate as
to have been principally instrumental in having saved a
considerable sum for him through my exertions as his agent,
and as a trustee far Mrs. Fawcett's father's property, as
.well as several other matters in which I had very effec-
tually served him. I requested that he would take an early
opportunity of examining his baukora' account, to see the
sums that 7 had paid to his credit, which he did in a few
days. I also accompanied him into the City, to examine
some accounts, which it was necessary for him to see, to un-
derstand fully all I land done oditiiee been irnezluii .ves_setr :i labsence.ile After having
ddelio nveosuor,slie
sseair ;le thhi
n in my en-
a
h
as soon as I could, to explain to hint what someta fortunate
smallupon him
were that I had paid to his credit. I did so, most unfortu-
nately, on the eV erring of the 26th of last June. I have now
to mention that when I accompanied Lieut.-Colonel Fawcett
into the City, that he hinted to me he had some suspicions
upon his mind that were of a most unhappy nature. When
I called upon him on the evening of the 29th ofJune he ap-
peared considerably excited. There was a person of the name
of Romer in tha tZtan, who was sent away as soon as I
entered, although upon previous occasions he had remained.
I think that I was expected; and from the accounts being at
once entered upon, and fro stater circumstances, I believe
that the gross insult m
lt titflj was pet upon me afterwards, was
premeditated; sums previously alluded to wore
soot} expiOlnd to his sat6ilictiou; but the 50/. that Xll rs.
Smith ex_
allowed rbr the loss she had sustained from taking
WarWiek.house with a bad tenant in it, \'s' 'made the subject
upon which a quarrel was to be effected. I endeavoured re•
peatedly to make him uncle44and that it was strictly in con-
formity with t‘;,A directions that Mrs, Smith had been
let elf wiling 64,k, as well as to &ANY his attention to the im-
portW services I .40 wildowd him in other matters and the
hOt peice A bad obtained for the house, but he
icns (tfelabantly reverting to the case of the 50/.,
ana insinuated repeatedly that I Lad neglected his
interest, and had allowed -4-„eselk to be bamhooeled
by Mrs. Smith., I have no doubt but that he
was itnxiena to leave London for some reason
Qr. ()tier.; for he said frequently that if he could only yet
and get rid of Ik(1 lease, that he would sell it :br
1,66°L, anti, he Would force the lawyers to do so by the
1)0).74 Attorney that he had seat to me from China, &c. I

addressed the
the(of qGuelsatsigooirim.h)e ltilaldeeto bring forward
meDetringl3.ucinir
said
was no longer a novel one. The nine or ten months
that had elapsed since the breaking up
of the connection
between the Church of Scotland and the State, and the
discussion the movement had since undergone, had ne-
cessarily deprived it of the freshness with which it then
struck upon the mind. But to an audience like the
present, the question must always have an inherent in-
terest. The event that happened ten months ago was
striking enough to excite an interest Pirliti in the moo
sluggish breast ; but now the interest was excited by
hearing how that movement had been carried
on, how it had been sustained, and how it was
telling on the cause of true religion among the people of
Scotland, and of the world at large, Brief as
wal the
space since their career hepia, it had putthg Ohnrch,
both as to its constitution and prineiples, and the Q 011:
duct of its adherents, to the most tryin_
g tests. And,
perhaps, at such a meeting as the present, it might not
be without its use to set before it what would suffice to