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London, England, 1824-04-17 00:00:00

V&IL 17, 1824.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
THE MAN OF LETTERS, Nn. 111. price 4d. of
Tim DAY, contains the Report of the Coroner's Inquest
on the Wasystixsna Ravine, by the Author of the Trial of the
Rev. Edward Irving; With the usual quantity of Wit and Waggery.
London : Knight and Lacey, Publiihers,.Puternoster-row.

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• PROTESTANT CLERGY IN CAN ADA.

The subjoined address to the King was moved and
carried in the Iloitse of Assembly of Lower -Canada, in
their sitting of the 4th ult.
Ti) TIIE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, your
Commons of .Lower Canada, in Provincial Parliament
assembled, humbly solicit your particular attention and
paternal benevolence in favour of your faithful subjects
the Clergy and people of the Established Church of
Scotland and "this province, and in favour of your other
faithful Protestant subjects, dissenting from the E aa-
Wished Churches of England and Scotland.
respectfully represent to you, that since Canada
has become a portion of the vast and flourishing em-
pire over which long may your Majesty reign, emigra-
tion to this country has constantly been much greater
from Ireland and Scotland than from the other parts of
the empire. That the causes which have produced that
effect continue, and still probably continue to act in fu-
ture, and will produce the same result, so that there is
every appearance that the members of the Presbyterian
Church of Scotland and the Dissenters mill continue to
be, as they are at present, much more numerous than
the members of the Church of England.
That it is with lively satisfaction that your faithful
Commons can assure your Majesty that no feeling of
religious animosity has disturbed harmony and concord
among your subjects of the various religious persua-
sions in this province, and we are persuaded that the
most effectual means of perpetuating among all a spirit
of peace and charity, and the same sentiments of de-
votion and ,gratitude towards your Government, is to
extend your Royal favour and protection equally by,
just laws, the same for all.
That. the advanced state of civilization and knoMr-
ledge has convinced aY minds that the principles of re-
ligious toleration ate xn imprescriptible right of man-
kitid,. and ought. to be exercised in the fullest manner.
Snd we have seen, with sentinaents of the liveliest gra-
titude;those principles reduted into practice in the pro-
vince durin the whole reign of your late august Father,
of happy memory, and during your Majesty's reign, by
several Acts of the Imperial Parliament, and especially
by the Act con qi:uting the Government of this province.
By this Act one-seventh of all the lands to be granted
in the province is reserved and set apart for the support
of a Protestant Clergy ; a proportion which, if it could
be construed as being reserved far a single ecclesias-
tical establishment, would enrich that Church in a far
greater proportion than any other Christian Church has
'in any age or country been enriched.
That those reserves which might hereafter become an,
endowment much too opulent for the support of a single
ecclesiastical establishment, not having hitherto, from,
their situation in parts of :the country as yet thinly
peopled and unimproved, given a revenue, its disci ibu-*
tion has not as yet given rise to divisions and rivalships
among the Protestant Churches in the province. But
your faithful Commons see with disquiet and sorrow,
that the time cannot be remote at which so happy an
order of things must be disturbed, if the interpretation
which-some persons endeavour to give to the said Act
were supported by the constituted Authorities in the
provinces, and its liberal provisions were construed in
a narrow unfavourable sense, as if what appears to have
been enacted for the benefit of your Protestant subjects
bad been done exclusively in favour of the Anglican
Church, whose members in this province are, comp.
ratively to those of other Protestant Churches, among
the least numerous.
That by the Act of Union between the kingdoms of
England and Sccitland their respective Churches have
been acknowledged as true Protestant Churches in the
territory of each of the said States; and the subjects of
the two kingdoms were put upon an equal footing of re
ciprocity so as to enjoy in common the same rights, pri-
vileges, and benefits. That it results from that dispo-
sition, that when your subjects of either kingdom emi-
grate into any of your colonies, some of them ought
not to be entitled to civil advantages from which the
others would be excluded, which would be the case if
your subjects of the Church of Scotland had no other
resources titan their personal and voluntary contribu-
tions for paying the Ministers necessary for their reli-
gious instruction, while your subjects of the Church of.
England would be freed from that expense by these re-
serves,.if by law they had been set apart in their favour
exclusively, out of the territorial property in this province.
Your dutiful Commons conceive that the true sense
and meaning of the said Act gives an equal right to the
clergy of the Established Church of your kingdom of
Scotland to participate, •in common with that of the
Established Church of England, in the advantages and
revenues which will arise from the seventh of the lands
which have been reservei for the support of a Protest.
ant Clergy ; and that if the Midisters charged with the
religious instruction of the very numerous class of your
faithful Protestant dissenting subjects,have not an equal
right to.participate in the revenues which those land,
might produce, they have e.;lttable claims for some
participation in those revenues, in consideration of their
utility with respect to the religious instruction which it
is just to facilitate
,to a class so numerous in this pro-
vince, as that of your dutiful Pr otestant subjects dis-
senting from the Established Churches of England and
Scoiland,..mho, in consequence of that separation, a-
conscientious tine on their part, justly authorized by the
laws, ought not be excluded from civil advantages, nor
from any act of royal munificence and protection which
other classes of your faithful subjects enjoy.