Star.
London, England, 1824-10-09 00:00:00

REV. ALEX FLETCHER.

When the late Managers of Albion Chapel retired
from their office, on the 27th of May last, they pub-
lished, for the consideration of the members and seat-
holders, a Report of their proceedings for the previous
four years, and their reasons fa declining the manage-
ment in future; and they hoped they should not be
called npon to trouble the public with any observations
in reference thereto; but alter t..e Appendix (dated the
lst of October) which Mr. Fletcher has thought proper
to publish to his Protest of the 29th September, it is im-
po.sible for them to remain longer silent. The Mana-
gers understand a full statement of the whole proceed-
ings before the Presbytery and Synod is p:eparing, and
v. ill be shottly publi.hed, and which, they also ehend,
will be a complete answer to the Protest and Appendix ;
but in the meantime, for the sake of their own charac-
ters, they feel compelled to call the public attention to
two of the charges against them, and to their answers
to those charges.
Mr. Fletcher, in the Appendix, says, with reference
to his Managers_" I have charged them, at an early
stage of the business, with their interference in this mat-.
scr, which interference I never sought— which I always
resisted—and which I foretold, if not checked, would
de,troy all hope of a revival of the interrupted
Co. resp ondence."

To this they .answer, and that in the most positive
manner, that, as a body, they never interfered with the
Linientable affair (which has since caused them the
deepest anguish) until urged to do so by Mr. Fletcher 's
request, ochich was first made durifig a conversation with
oto or their number, who had tendered their as-
siqance :is private friends, and again in a letter to
one of t!:em, dated 21st November, of which the follow.
ing is a copy :
I think highly of your pacific spirit. From being
in the Forest your kind note was riot received till
this afternoon.

" The plan of the Managers meeting immediately,
meets my hearty approbation. I wish you could excuse
my meeting with you. If agretable, [Apia call a meet-
ing for Monday evening. If you had a,letter ready at
the commencement of the meeting, addressed to 'Dr.
Dick, pressing upon him the expediency of submitting
to arbitration, it might be subscribed by the Managers
in time to be sent off bY'the Monday's post.
" I hope PROVIDENCE will smile on your plans, and
bless them for minoring the threatening cloud which is
now over us."

And again, in another letter of the 25th November
" I think that it is the imperious duty of the Ma-
nagers, as Christians, to write Dr. Dick, dissuading him,
by the most powerful arguments, from carrying the
matter into ,a &bac Court."
.Mr. Fletcher, in a subsequent part of his Appendix,
says, " I have charged them with proposing to me, for
the purpose of averting the threatened calamity of
legal violence to give my name to a blank apology,
which they and Dr. Dick were to fill up at pleasure,
and to which I should bind myself before knowing the
materials with which it was to be filled. With these
things I have charged them, and they are truth."
Such is affirmed by Mr. Fletcher to be truth ; hot
whether the things charged are the truth or not, the
public will judge, when they have perused the two fol.
lowing letters :
The first is from Mr. Fletcher to the Managers.
" December 5, 1843.
" GENTLEMZNIrII reply to your last communication, I am wil-
ling-Ist, That you confer with Dr. Dick on this unpleasant busi-
ness, in whatever way your own discretion and concern for the interests
of religion may dictate.---2d, That Dr. Dick be solicited to send up
the form of the apology, to be subscribed by me, which he may con-
sider satisfactoty, and calculated to vindicate the character of his
daughter.
" 3. That I shall most readily give my name to any doctiment
presented by him, through the Managers, to me, provided it is not
at variance with my knowledge of facts, and the imperishable rights
of conscience.

" 4. And all this in the fullest confidence, that no use whatever
will be made in Court of any of my apologies.
" I remain, Gentlemen, your's respectfully,
" ALEX. FLETCHER."
The other is from seven of the Managers to Mr.
Fletcher, viz.

" TO TOR REV.

December 22, 1823.
_ _

" Ste—Having received from Miss Dick's solicitor, a copy of a
Ladyletter, which he thinks will be satisfactory to that ady and her
fritnds, and which, if signed by you, he is of opinion will terminate
this unpleasant affair, we most respectfully request you will have the
goodness to peruse the same, with Mr. Rawlings and Mr. Creak.
After having ourselves given it the most mature consideration, and
fully agreeing with its contents, we do most sincerely recommend
your signing the same, in order that it may be transmitted imme-
diately to Dr. Dick.
" We remain, Rev. Sir, your very sincere friends,
(Signed) "C. M. JOHNSON, Chairman,
" ALEX. THOMPSON,
JOHN HAY,
" WILLIAM GItUBB,
" JAMES RAWLINGS,
" THOMAS RANDOLL,
• " JOSEPII ADAMS."

The last letter was accompanied by another from Mr. Rawlings,
appointing Wednesday, the 24th, at eleven, as a time for meeting.
About eleven o'clock on that day, Mr. Fletcher sent Mr. Rawlings
a letter, dated the previous dap (the 25d), in which he says—
" Though there is no one within the range of my congregation with
whom I would more readily confer than yourself upon the present
unhappy affair, as you have uniformly treated me with the most
marked civility, yet I haste not yet decided whether I shall see you
on Wednesday.'

Mr. Fletcher di not attend on Wednesday ; he never
inspected the aroky which it was proposed be should
sign ; he said, on being called upon by Mr. Creak,.
that he would nut sign any ; and by his subsequent
conduct he has shewn that he preferred complying with
the terms required of him in a 'public rather than in a
private manner.

The new building for the late KING'S Library, in what
were the Slocum Gartierts, prtrceeds with great activity.