The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-01 00:00:00

1 HE L0..1) MAYOR'S CHAPLAIN.

TO MR. '«AITI-IMAN

Slll,-1 am mite rejoiceo totod that 'ciu hive
been (w,•eliletl upon to restoke your place in
Council—(tlns swim's well)—and it., threat

o' be'eo moperleded by a to
keep odr-Otlier,;, ixtio weee ti) anxious to stize

•tupon the -seat of populaiity vihiCh yon hail va-
cated. Yon, no dotibt, like other great men',
.diienNtred rite fatal truth, that past .services a•ri,

speedily forgoasen, and drat V 7ott had Versereted
in your repeatedly professed determination of
shutting ,up si,op (I mean in Common Hall), yoo
would,-at the approaching General Election, hare
been clean forsaken by the herd who were at) well
satisfied with new Tribunes ! I perceive, bow.
ever, that in resuming your public functions, you
have taken up a new office, antlaince Mr. ‘VcroLza
and Mr. Iluatt have assnthed the political depart•
meat, you have most laudably established your-
self Spiriti al Conservator of the Rights of Citi-
zenship, awl Jccretary for the HOME DEPARTMENT
Of MORALITY and RELIGION. There is no saying
to what AO extent this new scheme may be carried
wider your superintentling auspices, and If ever
those days of perfect Reform, which dance so
brilliantly befe,re the eyes of your friends and fol•
lowers, should arrive, we may hope to see the
freedom of speech, when not applied to the right
side of the question, duly curbed, and the blessed
times ast an IMPRIMATUR restored. Nay, as an
immediate,step towards this halcyon period, it is
to be hoped in future, that upon all vacancies
which may occur in City preferments, the candi-
dates may be compelled to undergo a due exami-
nation, toliching-their fitness, at your episcopal
residence in Bridge-street, and that the Bishop
be interdicted from induction until these testimo-
nials be signed at least by your Foreman, in your
.absence ! I need not, to a man of your clear
perceptions, explain that this Letter is occasioned
by the proceedings of the Coma non Council .on
the question of a Vote of Thanks to the Lord
Mayor's Chaplain, tor a Sermon, Ste., &c. Of
Mr. Bomstead, • who opened the commission
against the offending Chaplain, I profess to know
nothing beyond his name, which, from its peculiar
struct are, might, in the Shandtait school perhaps,
he thought ominous, but which I rather conceive
to originate in a much older school, and to haste
been adopted as a Cognomen, to imply either that.
the learned Speaker's Head is where his Tail
should be, or that you, my good Sir,'are the
bread, and he, to express -it facetiously; your sit-
ting part. Be that as it may, his name, coupled
thus, or any how, with the Head of the Linen-dra-
pery Faction, becomes of importance; and having,
through intuition, or from immediate contact
with your nobler part, ascertained that the Re-
verend Preacher had no motive either of charity,
good.w ill towards his Fellow-citizens, or pa-
triotism, in what he had uttered in his public
discourse, he itnmediately decides that his object
was the purchase of Lawn sleeves; and having in-
terpreted this somewhat too literally perhaps,
from the quarter which first insinuated it, he very
good naturedly recommends him, iu the way of
business, as a customer to you. That you re-
sented this piece of folly and misconception was
clear, from the magnanimous manner in which
you threw off the Trader, and attacked the de-
linquent Parson at his own weapons. Yes, Sir,
you fought him upon his own ground, quoting
Scripture, (as we find in Scripture itself, another
most powerful Reformer c.in do upon occasion)
against him ; you beat him out of the field—

" With dritm Ecclesiastic;"

and there is no saying what might have been the
consequence of this burst of pious indignation
had the offender been present. No doubt, a man
who was possessett of sufficient effrontery to avow
the strange doctrines he had uttered from the pill-

-pit, would have presumptuously opposed his opi-
nion to yours—have taunted you with being ". a
mar) of tuany words," which Solomon despiseth,
or have further affected that wise man, who main-

tains, that ".a fool's lips enter inti) contention,
and his tuotith called' for strokes !"—fiut, bless
the poor man, he never would have been beard
out—such doctrines are not to the taste of men
who are contending for their rights, and Solomon
must have known little of what the wisdom of
this world was to consist, when he put such opi-
nions upon record. There is, nevertheless, one
topic of your speech which might perhaps have
been omitted without injury to the " Good Old
Cause," not that I would imply the possibility of
injury to you, by any thing you can now or shall
hereafter say—but it would have been as well, as

it appears to me, to have slurred it over, as it
must naturally have gone against time grain—nr,
• in other words (which I k►►ow to be a very deli-

care point with you). agaimt your conscience.—
I perfectly agree with you (tur I too am a Livery-
fatal) 1) that a Parson—nay the whole box!), of