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London, England, 1824-01-03 00:00:00


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LONDON:

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, IS'.:4.
THE FUNDS.

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aim sitestplion of ,Mr.Sirncoelts, who has obtained my
permission to go transwpsifer the recovery of hisbealth.
" There are churches it'd parsonages in t:eery parish
except the parish of Manchester, which has been very'
recently formed ant of three other parishes; and con.,
tracts have been entered into for building a church and

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parionage at Manchester. The churches are all open to
all persons, with Out any distinction of colour and class,
who may be disposed to attend Divine Worship.
"-Lhaie calif:4llllpm the several incumbents to make
4i-return-tr./me of the number of slaves bakitited within
their pastoral cure, and to furnish me with the amount
of the fee which they may. have demanded or received
for baptising slaves, and have dirkted their particular
;:ttention to the other objects of your.Lordshiesinstrucs.'
tions.N.,:-(Page 170.)
A. return is given •of twenty-one incumbents,. doing
duty upon twenty-one livings in the island of Jamaica.
37. CaILIROPIIIIIN, Navu4,I4OIIIIIIERILAT, Toator.a.—Copy of a
letter from Governor Probyn to Earl Bathurst.
" When 1 had the honour of receiving your Lordship's
circular dispatch of the 7th of April, I wrote to the se-
veral incumbents within my Government, enclosing
copies thereof, and desiring the required report to be
made to me for your Lordship's information.
" I now beg leave to transmit the answers which I
have received. They are so full and explanatory, that
shall Add no more than the expression of my belief,
that there reverend gentlemen discharge the sacred duty
of their t,ice with. propriety and taletn."—(Page 204.)
A aeturo is given from St. Kitt's, of $ churches and 5
clergymen.; Nevis, .5 churches and 4 clergymen; Mont-
serrat, no return; Tortola, 1 church and 1 clergyman.
Tossos.--,Extraet of a lett front Governor Robinson to Rad
"In reply to your Lordship's letter of the 7th •
April,.lBl7, I have the honour to state, that there is but
ono clergyman of the Church of England in the island;
his salatyis 7501. currency, which at the present rate of
eitcbange is equal to about 3001. sterling.
" There is a church building in Scarborough, which
by contract ought to be finished on the Ist of October
utixt, There is a small chapel at Coutland, made out of
a house purchased by the inhabitanti of that neighbour-
hood, where the clergyman does duty one Sunday io
each motah.“—(Page 211-) •
Tawseawo-Eztsact of a Letter t'rom Governor Sirslalith Wood-
ford to Earl 113thurer.
.46 I communicated to the Protestant Minister such
parts in your Lordship's letter n related to him more
particularly ; and I herewith enclose a copy of Mr. Clap-
ham's reply. 1
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" Having found. the -Rev. Don Joaquim de Afisti-
man° at the head of the Catholic church, 1 have only
to bear testimony to his labours, and to his disinterested-
stBs, as to those of the Fr iar Jose de Richt, by whose joint
efforts the greatest improvement in the religious devo6l
lion of the middriu-, class of Forte has been effected. I
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—(1). 212).
A return is given of one Protestant Minister, and
eight Catholic Priests ;• and Mr. Clapham states the ar-
rival of several Missionaries in the island, since the con-
flagration of Port of Spain, in 1808, inwhich the Protes-
tmit Church was unfortunitely clustroyed ; and :describes
the effects of their labours as fitlluws :

After all, I may be nii:taken in my opinions; but
when I see the general temper of the British nation, de.
parting so far from the at least prudent maxims bf the
Clinic!) of Rome, with-regard to uniformity of pnblic
worship—when every madman or every enthusiast is
allowed, without the 'sanction or the approbation of his
superiors in knowledge and in prudence, or sOrnesego-‘
iy constituted -authority, to entice others' into his de-
lirium, or enthusiasts—and
iteligious enthusiasm is ut
fectious ; and dissatisfaction arising from a thousand
sources of tem,.er and habits, lends its powerful airkr
apostacy—wlastis he forgets that toletation as to his pri-
vate o, is generously as well as proper! allowed
him, but ought to be confined to his private opinions=
when he thinks he has a right to make the Holy Set ip-
tures yield to his priyate interpretation, and to pursuade
others to imbibe his notion—all these things considered,
my decided .opinion is, that although such people may
make nominal Christians, they are more likely to make
them slangerous subjects; ane that this danger, in these
co. miles, tx-gieatest amongst the slaves."—(Page '2141.
be tinucd.

STOCK EX CII ANG E. Tw RLVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 87k, with little doing, since
which they have rather declined; at this hour they are 876. 6.

Thursday having been a stria Holiday at l'aris, we do pot ex.
pect iny F.:prosaism the above Capital ott that day.