The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We recommend " A Reformer," who writes to us on the
subject of the corn-laws, to read the article "On the
Working of the Averages," which appears in another co-
lumn.
" Fair Play"
Committee
H. 0." ought to have furnished us with his name
The paragraph headed " Welsh Honesty" appeared in this
paper some weeks ago

had better lay his statemeut before the Dock

Zig iLibtrpool Otanbatt.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1840.

The foreign news which has reached us since our
last does not present any features of prominent inte-
rest. The French journals are chiefly occupied with
speculations on the recently-published quadruple treaty.
The proceedings of the revolutionary junta in Spain
are daily becoming more and more violent. The latest

from that distracted country announce the for-
mation of another ministry, evidently under the dicta-
tion of the rebel Esnartero. There is no news of any

... from Portugal

importance.

No change of any consequence has taken place in
the aspect of Eastern affairs. On the 28th ultimo,
Mehemet Ali had a conference of above four hours with
Rifat Bey and the consuls of the Four Powers. At

this conference, Mehemet requested Rifat Bey to pro-
ceed to Constantinople at once, and that matters should
remain in statu quo until his return. The French pa-
pers have officially announced the purport of Rifat
Bey's mission. It is stated that the Viceroy has of-
fered to cede Adana, Candia, and the Holy Cities, and
that he demands only Syria for his life. This is de-
scribed as the compromise originally thought of by
the French government. It is difficult to say how this
proposition may be received.

It appears that Commodore Napier continues to
detain all the Viceroy's ships that have warlike stores.
This is acting upon a system of " pacification " with a
Ali was quiet at Alexandria at the date

vengeance!

of the last advice

" Vive Ia liberty ! vive I 'egalite! vive Ia constitu-
tion !" three glorious words of the three glorious days.
Thenceforth liberty of tongue and pen, and equality
under the law, were guaranteed to France for ever,
under a monarchico-paternal sovereign. To France
did we say ? We beg pardon for the unintentional
offence in confounding things without difference. To
France? foutre ! a fico for that phrase! To condense
revolutionary Frenchmen into a monosyllable, savoured
too much of constraint, with fetters and bastiles, and
such mementos of the old regime. The new and popu-
lar King stoutly swore that he would not be King of
France, but of FRENCHMEN. This proof of love for
his people and their liberties produced throbs of con-
vulsive devotion towards him. The canaille threw up
their greasy caps to such a liberty-loving King, and
even old Lafayette mounted his white horse and gal-
loped about Paris in unutterable ecstacy.

'Those were glorious days. Old revolutionists told
their sons how the glory of their own youthful time
was returning, when Lafayette, his horse, and la liberte"
were all three young, and the Duke of Orleans took'
the name of Philip Equality, citizen ; altogether re-
straining his private grief at the murder of his cousin,
the king, in his love for social equality. Fathers pointed
out to their gaping children the identical young La-
fayette, now grown old ; the fruit, the dried fruit in-
deed, of the first revolution ; and if Philip Equality
survived not, who could better fill the place of a father
than his "liberal" son !

All Paris, and, therefore, all France (we beg pardon
again) hugged each other on the day when Philippe
Egalite's son, Louis Philippe, good pay-triotic man, al-
lowed himself to he converted from Lieutenant-General
of the Kingdom into King Louis Philippe I. It was
delightful to study the motives of the patriotic citizen,
the unambitious King of the Barricades. He could
not wish, of course, for kingly prerogative; Charles
X. had just been expelled for exerting it. He could not
wish to form a DYNASTY ; he was himself the principle
of elective instead of hereditary succession. He had
been an exile and a schoolmaster, for, he hoped, the
benefit of his country; and subsequently a stock job-
ber rather extensively, for the benefit of one portion, at
least, of his country. But to be KING ! he, the an-
t?gonism of kinghood; the son of Philippe Egalite ac-
cept a crown ! The inconsistency may certainly have
appeared considerable both to his own mind and others;
but he allowed himself to be prevailed upon—" for the
good of his country"—and possibly, also, with an eye
slightly towards the Bourse, whose transactions may
be occasionally modified by a King of the Telegraphs.
But then his " liberal " sons, with whom Nature had
liberally supplied him, what was to become of them?
Of course, in the new liberal state of things and elective
monarchies, they would not be thrust upon the nation,

but obey their king, not dream of necessary succession,
and serve their country to the best of their respective
abilities, like other you men of respectable connec-
The heir was simply the Duke of Orleans; the
title of the heir to the throne, Dauphin, was studiously
abandoned ; it was an appellative which was the re-
verse of fragrant in the nostrils of republico-monar-
chials ; it fumed of hereditary rights to one and conse-
quent bondage to many.
Instances of such freedom from the idea of family
aggrandisement, are perhaps rare; family considera-
tions were no doubt altogether as much out of the
mind of the patriot king, Louis Philippe, as they have
always been in the Elliotts and Russells, for instance,
with us. For whoever heard of a Russell or an Elliott
or a Fleming, obtaining post, preferment, or promotion,
solely through the circumstance that a member of one
family sits at the council table and one of the other
presides at the Admiralty ? But to change our tone.
A more ambitious, circuitous-coursed politician than
Louis Philippe has seldom occupied the throne of
another. Realizing in himself the traitorous schemes
of the house of Orleans, which had for ages promoted
troubles and torn asunder the peace of the kingdom,
he seeks to found and perpetuate a dynasty. By con-
summate art wielding circumstances and working upon
a popular delusion, carefully fostered by his partizans,
he has clutched the sceptre, whose possession haunted
the imagination of his remoter ancestors, and which
his father, Louis Egalit6, unsuccessfully sought by
self-degradation.

The King of France we are not canvassing as a prl-
vate Character ; in many of the private relations of life
he may be worthy the imitation of some of his subjects.
But ambition is his master ; not the ambition of Na-
poleon, which, partaking of the same element, enthu-
siasm, aroused the enthusiasm and devotion of a nation;
but an ambition, if equal in degree, more limited in
scope and less looking to the proud association of
glory. The one rallied an entire people to its further-
,,,ance ; the other has widely engendered contempt or
detestation.
" Liberty," poor prostituted word, was the step by
which Louis Philippe of Orleans mounted his throne.
Did this ambitious man endeavour to secure his seat
by maintaining for those who made him king the
same sort of liberty as they virtually bargained for ?
It is not to the purpose to say that such sort of
liberty ought not to be maintained ; that strict order
and stringent law, incompatible with real liberty,
are necessary to a nation's welfare. His was a
bargain. Has he kept it with his people ? , Nay,
when he considered his throne secure, did he counte-
nance even the men themselves whose opinions he was
put forward to represent ? No. He soon proceeded
in th kingly career of less " glorious" times. He
dashed aside, like a sucked orange, when no longer
needed, old Lafayette, white horse and all. Then the
press was attacked—the press, which had mainly as-
sisted to make him what he was, by delighting to use
the words " liberty " and " Louis Philippe" as much
like synonyms as possible. Well, the press was as-
saulted ; newspapers were prosecuted ; and editors,
too honest to be bribed by the King, or so dogged in
their ideas cf liberty as to canvass the advantage of
the mushroom royalty, were arrested, fined, and 'incar-
cerated right royally. After a time, Frenchmen found
that " la liberty," " 1' egalite," " la constitution," &c.,
although excellent words for making an extempore
king, had become dangerous texts for those who had
• made him so.
Disappointed masses, be they French or English,
will grumble; and a man in Louis Philippe's position
does not require the ear of his fellow-schoolmaster and
king, Dionysius, to hear their grumbling.
Time reign of Louis Philippe has been painfully re-
markable : on his own side, for prosecutions and vio-
lence done to expression of thought, as well as for
apparent absence of any other leading principle than
that of consolidating his dynasty ; on the part of his
people, by• emeutes, conspiracies, and, above all, re-
iterated attempts to assassinate the ,once-popular King
—attempts in number, perseverance, and deliberate-
ness of purpose, hardly equalled in history. The
DYNASTY was tottering amidst ill-suppressed conspi-
racies and undisguised ill will ; and its preservation
might have baffled the talent of even Louis Philippe,
" hark ! to the rescue," the EASTERN QUES-
TION springs up

when,

The eastern question was, and is, a godsend to the
King of France. A reprieve suddenly appeared for
his dynasty, and right eagerly he seized it. Clever,
strong-minded, and persevering men want but oppor-
tunities; and Louis Philippe
,is all three. Under his
treatment, the eastern question saves him.
The point at issue is not the slight cast on France
by the quadruple treatry ; but the quadruple treaty
has been adroitly pounced upon, as a foil to hide deeper
designs than the majority of his people seem to sus-
pect. After the publication of Lord Palmerston's
note, the . French war-wishers were silenced awhile by

conviction

This would not do : the DYNASTY must
be secured ; the nation must be united upon some one
popular matter ; present grumblings, conspiracies, and
premeditated assassinations, must be forgotten in one
great enthusiasm for something ; Bonapartists, royal-
ists, republicans, must merge all differences in the
glory and honour of France; and meanwhile, against
the time when this hurricane of military preparations
and enthusiasm of union have subsided, Paris must
be girded with ramparts, bristling with cannon, capa-
ble of being turned upon the capital itself, when, in-
stead of the Four Powers, Louis Philippe himself be-
comes the subject, of lucubration. No more will be
heard of barricades, and rebellioui faubourgs. Safe
at Versailles, the patriot King may and would coolly
command the destruction of his unquiet capital, to
save Ids dynasty. This plan, when proposed some
time ago honestly, raised a storm about his royal ears ;
now, thanks to proper management of the eastern
question, and judicious diplomacy " anent" the qua-
druple treaty,'his volatile people extol him for expend-
ing a million.-of francs on their own political destruc-
tion.

That the threatening attitude and blusterings of
France are solely attributable to this piece of domestic
policy in the King of the Barricades, we by no means
intend to assert ; but we do assert that he engrafts the
success of his long-cherished domestic policy on the
turbulent national excitement arising from the eastern
question and its treatment. Even war, if decidedly
popular, might work to his personal advantage; whilst,
without doubt, his separation of French interests from
those of Russia and England, powerfully arouses in
his favour a large mass of Frenchmen. Still his main
objects are in process of attainment, and the probabi-
lities of war are so far diminishing.
These views, however, even in their widest scope,
would not warrant our position. France threatens—
nay, like a " liberal" in lack of argument, bullies. Eng-
land is unprepared for war, and, in comparison with
French preparations, unpreparing. The silly remark
of Lord Melbourne, in justification of Admiral Fle-
ming's appointment to Greenwich Hospital, that cou-
rage and success in action formed no merit in an offi-
cer, seems to meet with a corresponding principle, that
precaution or national defence in a government is no
duty. Whether war or peace result from present
symptoms, one painful fact cannot escape the quadru-
ples or quintuples and France—that, under a Whig
ministry, England may snarl at China, and bully Por-
tugal, but that the once mistress of the sea cannot
equal a Russian or French fleet, nor can man a few
ships without bringing vessels from the Tagus to
draught off their crews ! That the energy of the nation
would, if need called for it, repair the errors of the
most unnational ministry which ever chanced to get
office, we do not for a moment doubt; but despicable
must that ministry be, which, in times of danger,
throws the nation under unnecessary disadvantages.
Still not fearing war, we cordially hope for peace.

Some of onr radical contemporaries affect to be
greatly horrified at the immense number of objections
which have been made to the registration lists of mu-
nicipal voters. These objections, we understand,
amount to about eight thousand. The Mercury is un-
usually angry and dolorous on the subject. According
to our contemporary the objections are " frivolous and
vexatious," and constitute a " systeth of mutual an-
noyance," which is " disgusting in the extreme," and
" discreditable to all parties." In still stronger lan-
guage the Mercury proceeds to designate this system
of wholesale objections as "a practice more like the
spiteful recrimination of a parcel of angry boys, than
the conduct of rational men," adding that " the nui-
sance has becoine so intolerable and notorious that it
must lead to some legislative measure for its supres-
sion." The terms in which the Journal speaks of the
matter are equally strong. We are glad that the radi-
cal journalists of Liverpool are beginning to discover a
few of the beauties of the reform act. A little more
experience of its working will, perhaps, enable them to
form a still more correct estimate of the character of
that bungling specimen of whig legislation,

It is necessary that we should remind our radical
contemporaries of a fact which seems to have escaped
their notice when they ventured to declaim so virtu-
ously against the system of wholesale objections—viz.,
that the liberals originally commenced this mode of
warfare, and thus rendered it necessary, on the ground
of self-defence, that the conservatives should retaliate
upon their adversaries. The necessity, on the present
occasion, is still further augmented by the notorious
fact that the liberals have thought proper to adopt a
system of manufacturing spurious voters on a scale of
unprecedented magnitude. It is necessary that the re-
gistry should be completely expurgated of the hun-
dreds of " Protectors" who have recently had their
taxes paid by the "aristocrats" and "top-sawyers" •of
the Whig faction. It is necessary that those " fungu-
ses," as they were felicitously called by Mr. Tindal At-
kinson, should be rooted up. We have all along
warned the liberals that they were playing a game the
consequences of which would descend on their own
heads, and issue in their own discomfiture. It was
scarcely to be expected that the conservatives would
contemplate with indifference the recent nefarious at-

tempt of their opponents to swamp the registry, by in.-
troducing among the bona fide ratepayers a horde of
beggarly Irish Papists, to become a future burden upon
the parish.

We have no fears whatever, if fair play be allowed,
of the result of the approaching revision of the lists of
municipal voters. We believe that it will issue in the
signal triumph of the conservatives. We look for-
ward, therefore, to the first of November with the ut-
most confidence. It will then, we have no doubt, be
triumphantly demonstrated that the anticipations of
future ascendancy in our " local legislature," in which
the Whig-radicals have lately indulged, are utterly with-
out foundation. The sooner they retire from the con-
test the better. They will thus avoid the mortification
which they cannot but experience from the sound
drubbing which is in store for them.

Our conservative friends, however, must not relax
for one moment in their endeavours. Despondency,
in their case, is certainly out of the question; but they
may sacrificc, many advantages by over-confidence.
Against this feeling we hope they will guard them-
selves. They must be incessantly active, both
tending to the registry and in canvassing the electors,
if they wish to secure a victory at once complete and
final.

' We publish this day the particulars of another aw-
ful and atrocious murder, which was perpetrated on
the person of an aged and inoffensive widow at New-
castle-under-Lyme. For several weeks past we have
scarcely sent a publication to press without containing
similar details. Crimes of the most aggravated cha-
racter are becoming alarmingly prevalent in all parts
of the country, and more especially murderous assaults
upon the person. We are afraid that the present mode
of administering the law presents too many induce-
ments to the commission of these crimes. In too many
instances we find juries unwilling to find prisoners,
charged with takink away life, guilty on the more
serious indictments ; and in too many cases the sen-
tences upon such criminals are .far too lenient. The
murderer is thus led to speculate upon the chances in
favour of his escape from the extreme penalty of the
law. Punishment, in order to he effective, should he
uniform and certain, excepting in cases in which there
are extraordinary circumstances of palliation, to call
into exercise the prerogative of mercy.

But, as the prevention is better than the punishment
of crime; it becomes an 'imperative duty upon all who
are in authority among us to sanction and adopt such
measures as ate calculated to obviate such atrocities as
those which we now deplore. Among those remedial
measures, we know of none which promises better
results than a system of national education on Christian
principles. Nothing short of such a system, pervading
in its influence every town and hamlet in the kingdom,
is calculated to raise the tone of national morality.
It is under this conviction that we would urge upon
our readers the necessity of supporting the various
Diocesan Boards of Education which have been re-
cently organised in different parts of the kingdom.
In the absence of a general provision on the part of
the legislature, these societies are calculated to bring
within the reach of all classes the means of procuring
for the rising generation a sound, useful, and, above
all, a religious education. The machinery is here pre-
gented for effecting a complete revolution in the cha-
racter of the masses—for it is a revolution of the most
extraordinary character to change a vicious, ignorant,
and besotted population into peaceable, orderly, sober,
and virtuous subjects.

Let all, then, who have the means, render a prOpor-
tional degree of assistance to the Diocesan School So-
cieties. They will thus contribute most effectually
towards the reduction of our criminal calendars, and
confer a boon upon generations yet to come, the value
of which it is impossible to estimate.

BIRKENHEAD BAZAAR.—This bazaar, for the endowment
of the new church, commences to-day (Tuesday.) It pro-
mises to be fashionably attended ; and, when we consider the
importance of the object to be achieved, we cannot but hope
it will be eminently successful. Our next will contain a no-
tice of the proceedings.

LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.—The exhibition
this year is of a delightful character, and we would recom-
mend our friends to lose no time in paying it a visit. We
had written some remarks on a few of the paintings, but their
appearance is unavoidably postponed till our ru..ct pr,blication.

MR. BARKER, THE VOCALIST.—This gentlenlall has just
concluded a very successful engagement at the Theatre-royal,
Worcester, and has resumed his position in the corps of our
Theatre-royal. He promises to become one of the first vo-
calists of the day. As a teacher of singing no professor could
be more successful. His method of developing the voice is
excellent, and we can confidently recommend him to all who
wish to acquire the principles and practice of the divine art.
PUBLIC BAPTISM OF A Jaw.—On Sunday evening an aged
Jew was admitted into membership with the Church of Eng-
land, by the administration of the sacred ordinance of bap-
tism, in presence of the congregation of Christ Church. The
Rev. Fielding Ould, the respected minister of the church,
preached an eloquent and impressive sermon on the occasion,
to an audience consisting of between 3000 and 4000 persons.
THEATRE ROYAL.--The attraction at the Theatre Royal
for the present week is the French company, which was
performing at St. James's, London. Two pieces were per-
formed last evening, and they both went off with considerable
spirit, notwithstanding that the house was but thinly
attended, owing probably to the extreme wetness of the
evening. We recommend those who wish to improve their
knowledge of the French language to visit the Theatre during
this engagement.

ODDFELLOWSILIP.—Mr. J. Russom, of Tarporley, has
just published a very excellent little work on this subject : it
exhibits great merit, and treats ably on the subject. The
principles of oddfellowship are clearly laid down, and the
work will doubtless bring many members to these excellent
societies. We recommend the members of every lodge to
peruse the work, and committees would do well to distribute
some thousands amongst their immediate circles. The craft
are really indebted to Mr. Russom for this little work.
ALBION ANTICS.—The•A/bion of yesterday, among other
rubbish scattered over two mortal columns, called forth by
the Diocesan Educational meeting, asserts that the speeches
of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, re-
ported in the Standard of Friday, were furnished to us by
those gentlemen. This is a simple invention. The fact is,
Mr. M'Neile's speech was printed from the notes of our own
reporter, and that of Mr. Gladstone from the notes of ano-
ther shorthand writer, who had been engaged to assist us.
The insinuation that Mr. M`Neile's speeches are invariably
furnished, is equally without foundation.
THE LIVERPOOL WELSH BRANCH BIBLE SOCIETY.—
On Friday, the 4th instant, the annual meeting of the above
society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, the Rev.
Robert Davis, M.A., the president of the society, in the
chair. The proceedings were wholly in the Welsh language.
The spacious room was quite full. The annual collections
were made on the two subsequent Sundays by the Welsh
Calvinistic Methodists, of this town, in aid of the funds of
the society. The sums collected at their respective places of
worship were as follows : s. d.
Pall-mall Chapel £loo 0 0
Bedford-street Ditto
Windsor School-room..
, 120 0 0
Rose-place Chapel..
153 15 0
Pembroke-street School-room
Burlington-street Ditto 4O 1 6
Birkenhead Chapel ' 8 0 6
Seacombe Ditto. 4 0 4
The other Welsh congregations connected with this branch
have not yet made their annual collections in support of the
society.

GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.—The mem-
bers of the Royal Hearts of Oak Lodge, of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows, assembled to dine at their lodge, at
the house of Mr. James Bibby, Farmers' Arms, Greenland-
street, on the 18th instant. The room in which they dined
was richly decorated with royal colours and other emblems
of royalty, the British union hanging over the N. G.'s chair,
the beautiful conservative banner over the V. G.'s chair, and
the royal standard over the N. F.'s chair, surrounded with
abundance of laurel, Dinner was on the table at eight
o'clock, when each officer took his proper seat. After din-
ner the following toasts Were given The Queen, and
may she stand firm to the Protestant faith," by Brother
Grahame, N. G. ;—" The Queen's illustrious Uncle, the
Duke of Cumberland," followed by the Kentish fire, by Bro-
ther Sambrook, V. G. ;—" The glorious, pious, and immor-
tal Memory of King William the Third, Prince of Orange,"
by Brother Longworth, N. F. ;—" May the Tree of Odd
Fellowship be planted in the centre of the World, and its
Branches extend round the Globe," by Brother Windener,
P. S. Other loyal toasts were afterwards given in succes-
sion. The annual report, which was read by the secretary,
gave satisfaction to the members. The festivities of the
evening were kept up to a late hour. •
THE STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT.--The directors of the
Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company have placed at the
disposal of the Mayor £7O 9s. 6d., the proceeds of the ad-
mission of the public to the steamship President, previous
to her first voyage to the United States. His worship has
portioned it amongst the following institutions --
The Northern Hospital
The Southern Do.
The Mariners' Church..
Seamens' Reading Room
The Bethel Union Do

£25 0 0
25 0 0

} 10 0 0

10 0 0

£7O 0 0
0 9 6

Casual Poor
CHRIST'S CHURCH, ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRI.—On
Thursday the 17th inst., this church was opened for divine
service, on which occasion two very able and appropriate ser-
mons were preached by the Rev. Wm. Villers, minister of
St. George's, Kidderminster. The Rev. J. Hopwood, incum-
bent of Accrington, offered up the morning and evening
prayer. The rev. gentleman was assisted at the communion
by the Rev. M. A. Nicholson, the minister of this church.
Although the weather was very unfavourable, and the con-
gregation consequently not so numerous as might otherwise
have been expected at this most interesting solemn ceremony,
yet the collection amounted to the very handsoMe sum of
£237. In the evening a numerous company of clergy and
friends to the establishment assembled at the National School
to celebrate the opening of this church, by a tea drinking and
other congratulatory manifestations. The population of this
rapid increasing town like that of many other places in our
land, has hitherto beep lamentably in want of church ac-
commodation, in some measure and for a time this deficiency
will thus be supplied. The edifice is beautifully ornamental,
besides furnishing room for 1000 more sittings for the wor-
shipping in our national Zion. Our fervent desire and prayer
is, that while it stands a monument to posterity, recording
the truly christian liberality of its promoters, it may prove a
blessing to the surrounding neighbourhood, and be promotive
of the glory of our God, even our Saviour, whose_ name it
bears, and in whose service it will henceforth be employed.

THE REV. HUGH M`NEILE AND THE EARL OF
LOVELACE.

The following mild and Christian letter, which we copy
from the Ulster Times, expresses, we doubt not, the senti-
ments of all who have any regard for the reputation of Lord
Lovelace, under the circumstances of his recent correspon-
dence with Mr. M`Neile. That correspondence has, we
perceive, produced the desired effect. The Radical and
Romish press are silent upon the subject. They cannot now
hurl the Jezebel gibe at Mr. M`Neile without inflicting a
heavy blow on their friend and advocate, Lord Lovelace.
We congratulate the rev. gentleman on his noble shield.

TO THE EARL OF LOVELACE.
Cheltenham, August 14th, 1840.
MY LORD,—Your lordship's character is such as to induce
me, with confidence, to express to you an opinion upon a
subject which intimately concerns your lordship. Though, I
confess, the task is painful—but as the opinion is not an in-
dividual one, but held by me in common with all those, both
of the clergy and laity, and they are not a few, with whom I
have conversed upon the subject—l feel it my duty candidly
to state it.

Mr. M'Neile's correspondence with your lordship, lately
published, has produced feelings of surprise and pain in all
who esteem and value you. My lord, Mr. M'Neile's lan-
guage, in his last letter, is strong, but the charges brought
against him affected his character as a member of society and
his influence as a clergyman. If true, Mr. M'lsTeile would
_ have been no longer a fit instructor for the merchants of
Liverpoci and their families; he must have retired in disgrace.
Was it right, in the world's estimation, was it Christian-
like, to reiterate such a charge upon the ipse digit of the
editor of a provincial newspaper? The public say it was
not, and much more, your lordship's kindly and Christian
feelings, lam assured, will convince you it was not. Call it
be right, then, can it be Christian-like, to express no regret
at having done wrong? I leave the matter with your lord-
ship's conscience, and beg to subscribe myself
Your faithful and obedient servant,
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.