The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-12 00:00:00

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THE Insnor OF CHESTER'S I.ST. TO THE ARCHBISHOP.
I" Palace, Chester, July 20.
"My Lord Archbishop,—l think it,my duty to lay be-
fore your Grace the following statement :
" A young man, named Purdon, a native of Ireland, but
lately resident at Carnarvon, having been disappointed in
his expectations of being admitted by me as a candidate for
Holy Orders, went to the Bishop of Norwich, by whom
he was ordained Deacon on Trinity Sunday last, without
any title whatever, and thereupon came into my diocess
and began to officiate without my licence or permission.
I have prohibited him from doing any duty within my
diocess, but I think it right to make a cotnplaint to your
Grace of this violation of the Canons on the part of the
Bishop of.Nortvich, the frequent repetition of which would
obviously render ineffectual and nugatory those regulations
which I have adopted, for the supply of fit and able men to
serve the churches in this diocese. An instance of nearly
the same kind occurred last year.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,

" Your Grace's most obedient bumble servant,
" C. J. CHESTER."

Being much interested, for reasons underneath stated,
:r1 fully understanding 'thin question, as a non of the Bishop
of Norwich, I some time afterwards addressed a letter to
his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, of which the fo:
lowing is an extract

" Creak, Nov. 4, 1527.

"My Lord,—l am in possession of a letter from the
Bishop of Chester to your Grace, touching the admission
of a young man, Mr. Purdon, into orders, whieh letter
your Grace sent to my father, the Bishop of Norwich, to-
gether with a letter from yourself, importing, simply upon
Dr. Bloomfield's letter, an admonition to the Bishop of
Norwich upon ex-parte statement, &c.
" Permit me, my Lord, as it is my intention hereafter to
publish this transaction to the world, together with other
particulars of my father's life, if I survive him—and if I do
not survive him, as it is my intention still that thepe mat-
ters shall be given to the world,—permit me, with the
sincerest respect for your Grace, nod with a sincere general
admiration of your conduct awl character as Primate of all
England, to ask your Grace for an explanation (if you
will condescend to give it), whether the letter which you
wrote to my father, on enclosing Bishop Blomfield's let-
ter, was intended to be a positive and unconditional repre-
hension of my father's conduct, or merely a declaration of
your opinion, (supposing Dr. Blomfield's letter to be a
correct and full statement of exact particulars) ; and whe-
ther you consider it as a matter essential to Church disci-
pline, that all bishops should reject an individual whom
ono bishop has, without stated objections on moral grounds,
rejected ? as it appears to me to resemble rather a sort of
courtesy due from one magistrate to another, in the exer-
cise of his temporal effice, according to which one magis-
trate may grant a warrant legally after another has refused
it, though courtesy and general respect to authority would
certainly induce such a one to correspond first with the
refusing magistrate, and ascertain his reasons. I beg to
subscribe myself, with the greatest deference, your obliged
servant, " H. BATHURST."

The substance of the reply was plain, thoroughly polite,
and to the purpose ; viz., that the admonitory letter was
written under a conviction that a candidate for orders,
who had been rejected by the Bishop of Chester, had bees
admitted to orders by the Bishop of Norwich, without
previous communication with the Bishop of Chester, and
without a title in the diocess of Norwich ; and on this
view of the question his Grace's observations were con-
fined. That it is, however, competent to any Bishop to
ordain a candidate who has been rejected by another Bishop,
after due inquiry made into the causes of rejection, and
a conviction that the party is qualified in every respect
whatever to be employed in his own diocess.
I do not see how I can do either my father or the Arch-
bishop justice, without giving fairly this communication so
far ; and I have only to add, that with all submission to
the excellent and amiable Archbishop, it does not appear to
me that any offence, beyond an unintentional breach of
courtesy and a misunderstanding, perhaps, as to what could
be termed a rejection ou the part of the Bishop of Chester,
has been committed by the Bishop of Norwich; as the
Canon does not forbid a Bishop to ordain without a title,
but subjects him merely to the risk of being obliged in some
way to provide for a candidate ordained without a title, or,
in other words, without a curacy at least provided for him.
Public differences between clergymen are to be greatly
deprecated ; therefore I now leave to the world to decide
on this affair, which had better been never noticed in the
public prints. I am, Sir, yours, &c.
Creak, Dec. 6. HENRY BATHURST.

LETTER OF 748. FURDON, THE FATHER OF THE YOUNG )tax.
Sir—l am sure your candour will induce you to attend
to the following statement, partly in reply to a paragraph
which I have Just read in your paper of the 3d instant.
It is said, "the Bishop of Chester, finding great incon-
venience to have arisen from the admission to orders, by the
Bishop of Norwich, of a person in the diocess of Chester,
to whom he, from the want of qualification on the part of
the individual, had refused such admission, did represent,
as his duty required him to do, such inconvenience to hie
Ecclesiastical superior, &c." •
I beg to say that the above is not a correct representation.
The young gentleman alluded to is my sou.
He never resided in the diocess of Chester.
His qualifications for ordination were—an University
education and Degree in Dublin—being a distinguished and
successful seholar—having attended the regular and ap-
pointed divinity courses—being furnished with the Uni-
versity Testimoniam and the certificates of respectable
Clergymen and being a truly moral and religious charac-
te
r.Uphonnn.which qualifications the Bishop of Norwich
ordained

It is a mistake to say the Bishop of Chester refused him
admission to orders. My son never applied tl his Lord-
ship for ordination. But it was mentioned by a person,
who, I believe, bad applied? without my wife )cnowledge)

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that .his Lordship alitateg onstally to ordain from the
Dublin University.
While my eon was absent from this . .
place, and in Norwich,
to to
a respected and revered friend of his was applied
pro-
cure a curate for a rector in the diocese of Chester, and he
obligin:ly r2comrnended my son, in conw•nuence of the
good opluion he entertained of his conduct and attainments,
The Bishop of Chester thought proper to prohibit the,
young man from officiating in his diocess, because, as his
Lordship writes, he had " obtained ordination without any
title."

egree, to quustion I do not intend, in the most remote d
either the power or the motive of the Right Reverend Pre-
late. His ability and zeal in support of the established
church are deserving of more praise than I can pretend to
offer. All I wish to 40 is, to defend and N indicate a young
person of real merit and unpresuming manners ; and I ens
sure the Bishop of Chester will be es ready as any porgon
to do justice to the young man, and prevent any mis9pre-
i.insion as to the cause of his decision in this use ; and
that while his Lordship asserts his own authority, he will
net allow any person to suffer unjustly.
If it be not convenient to publish the whole of what I
have written, I hope and request you will give the substance,
contradicting the assertion that my son was a resident
of the diocese, that ho was not qualified, and that lie was
refused admission to orders by the Bishop of Chester.
I give yon my name and residence. I have enclosed
e.
copy of the above to the Bishop of Chester.
Your most obedient,
Caernarvon, North Wales, Dec. b. S. PURDON.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE came
to town yesterday from their ■eat in Bushy Park. Their
Royal Highnesses left their residence in the Admiralty in
the afternoon, on their return to Bushy.

The Duke and Duchess of CLIRENTE, the
Princess SOrHIA MATILDA, and the Princess EMILIE of
CAROLATH, visited the Princess AUCIDSTA yesterday, at her
residence in the King's Palace, St. James's.
The Princess SOPIHA MATILDA left WWII.
yesterday for her residence on Blackheath.
The Princess AUGUSTA visited the Duchess
of KXI4-T and the Princess SorsuA yesterday at their resi-
dences in the King's Palace, at Kensington.

Earl DUDLEY left town on Monday morning
for the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park ; when the Noble
Earl had an audience of the Kines and afterwards returned
to town.

SIR JOSEPH BANKS'S LIBRARY OW NA-
TURAL Iltsxonv.—This valuable Library, which cantains
upwards of fourteen thousand volumes, has just Cagle into
the possession of the Trustees of the British Museum, rs
sort of posthumous benefaction.
LORD FITZROY SOMERs:7;',3 LIST.—Lord
FITZROY Sottanstr, as Military Sc;:-otary to the Corn-
mander-in-Chief, went through his List yesterday, at his
Office in the Horse Guards. A few General, and a7:nut
' fifty other, Officers, transacted military business with hie
Lordship.

cioFnefutrsriy7oaNt AFBenit,orn,iAlißotßeltv; AML.
Mr. Broderick
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Ifinrl of
es,in.
Brook-street, from Paris ; Colonel end Mrs. Colston, and.
Miss Warington, at their house in Upper Berkeley-street,
Portman-square, from a tour; Mrs. and Miss Wynne, in
Gloucester-place, from Paris : Major Hawkins, in Waterloo-
place, from Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, in Great Cum-
berland-street, from Paris ; Captain Prescott, in tha Re-
gent's Park, from Manchester ; Mr. Beaumont, in Glou-
cester-place, from Leicestershire ; Captain Willoughby, in
Montague-square; Mrs. aid Miss Vernon, in Baker-street;
Mrs. and Miss Duffield, in Baker-street; Mr. and
Muncaster, and Family, at Batte's Hotel, Degr-stoet,
from Chishesber ; Mr. and Mrs. Preston, and family', 'et
ditto, from Florenee ; the Rev. Mr. Egerton, at ditto; l'
and Mrs. Smyth, at ditto, from Cambridge ; Lord Altherpa
at the Albany, from his seat, Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire ;
J. Hobhonee, Esq., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street,
from a tour; Colonel M'Donall, at ditto, from Scotland ;
the Countess of Mansfield and Lady Caroline Murray, at
Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Richmond Hill ;
the Rev. L. de Burgh, at ditto, from Cambridgeshire ;
Colonel Jackson, at ditto, from Hants ; Lady and Miss
Drummond, at ditto, from Surrey ; the Hon. T. Wallace,
at his house in Portland-place, from Sittingbourne ; Capt
and Mrs. Gordon, in Albemarle-street, from Bath.

DEPARTURES.--MajOr Shall, for Bath ;
Colonel and Mrs. Jones, from Batts' Hotel, fur Paris; Mr.
and Mrs. Conyers, from ditto, for York ; Mr. and Mrs.
nothews and family, from ditto, for Hastings 5 the Rev.
Hawtrey, from Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-street, to
lettings; J. J. Guest, Esq. M.P. from Fenton's Hotel,
ror his seat in Wales; G. Robinson, Esq. from ditto, for
Worcestershire; W. Smith, Esq. from ditto, for Bath ;
R. Hobhouee, Esq. and J. Palmer, Esq. from Mivart's
Hotel, for Huntingdonshire; W. Jackson, E-1 front
ditto, for Brighton • Sir C Coekerell, Bart. iront his
house in Piseadillyfor his seat, Sosineot, Gloucestershire.
CHANGES.—The Earl of Chesterfield, from
his seat, Bradley Hall, Derbyshire, to Melton Mowbray;
the Earl and Coruatess of Jersey, from their seat, Middle-
ton Park, Oxfordshire, to the Earl of Westmorland's seat,
Apthorpe, Northamptonshire.
SILK WEAVERS' TURN-OUT.—The stand
made by the silk weavers against the attempt of the manu-
facturer' to reduce the price of weaving one penny par
yard still continues, and apparently without any hope of
accornme,-(lation. On Friday week, two of Mr. CHARLLS•
TnoarE's workmen summoned him to the New Bailey, to
show cause why he should not pay each of them bs. 2d.„_

alleged to be owing to them urder the following circum-
stances :—They and the rest of Mr. Trmapies workmen
had taken out warps to be paid at the rate of Bid. per yard,
the price at that time given by all the manufacturers, un-
less at the time of bringing the work in, Alessrs. RAT and
Co. should have made a reduction, in which case they were

to be paid according to that reduction. The work on
which the wages were claimed to be dee, was delivered on
the 23d November, and Mr. Tuoars deducted them one
penny per yard, alleging that Messrs. KAY and Co. had
made that reduction. The weavers resisted this, and the

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Kay on Tuesday, but he being unwell, did not attend.
their men,
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it appeared that Mesers.*Kayand Co. had made an attempt
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The Lausanne Gazette
relates the following
fact :—" On the 20th
September last a Bernese student,
coming from Vienna, resolved to passthe mountains of the
Grisone canton to reach Glaris.The snow fell in vast
quantities, but he rewired to pursue his road. On arriv-
ing at Panir, he fell in with two men of Linthall going
the same way with himself. They set out at one in the
afternoon •
) at two o'clock they arrived at the most elevat-
ed huts, which were already inhabited. There, his fellow-
' travellers, more robust and better practiced, left this young
1 man behind, in the midst of snows and dangers. His steps
every instant became more painful and slow. On arriving
at the top of a rock the anew gave way from under him,
and he was plinged in it 'p to the middle. In this fright-
ful condition he vainly shouts :•••,' ,alls ; he makes efforts
to extricate himself, but each time !. , falls exhausted with
fatigue. At last he abandons himsel' to Gon and his fate.
In these frightful eircurnstancWa young dog that be had
bought that very morning *t Pattiz, became the inst;o_
meet of the heaven he implored. Cqpstantly attentive to
, that a travel..
cannot be too much admired, be awoke him whenever the
the danger of his master, and guided by tor}
cannot
forgetfulness of death, gaining insensibly upon him, was
about to put an end to his long agony. In the meanwhile
his fellow-travellers arrived the same evening at Elm, and
ler, had started with them from Panix, but that they had
been obliged to leave him on the mountains. Ai yitzy...
told the innkeeper, M. Lit Juan FRITTAG
TAG immediately hastened to send in search of him
men filled with courage and devotion. These fins soma
fellows
every instant plunged into the anuvr,braving with '
constancy
all the obstacles opposed to them. They were long
tain of their road, bat suddenly they ,
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1 dog upon a height ; they followed the '
medati at last, after unheard of _ e signal, and istif:
efforts, in reaching.'",7
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