The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

" Let Mr. William Nightingale stand up

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THE REV. FIELDING OULD AND HI

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD:

" Pure attachment to dissenting principles requires to be
kept up in minds of a certain class by keen hatred, and now
and then a little round abuse of the iChurch."—Dissenters'
Eclectic Review, 1832, p. 144.
SIR,—Of the many unprincipled attacks upon the Esta
blished Church and her clergy with which the radical
and t

le dissenting publications of the present day teem, one
cannot but be amused at the puerility of that on the above
rev. gentleman, which appeared in the pure columns of the
Albion of last week. That the faction must be hard up for
matter of accusation is manifest, when such a trumpery
charge as that, even if it were true, can find a place in the
well collated pages of the Albion, whose editor cannot be
supposed to be entirely ignorant of the principles and for-
mularies of the church.

But supposing the charge made against the rev. minister
of Christ Church were true to the very letter, dces it carry
any imputation upon his integrity, or on his moral or religi-
ous character ?—not the least in the world ; on the con-
trary, it argues a modesty not always to be found in men of
first-rate talents; a modesty that could appreciate excel-
lence in another, and avail itself of, and fortify itself with,
accumulated powers to bring into a contest of vital import-
ance, an overwhelming force of argument that should carry

conviction to the hearts and consciences of those supposed to
be in error, and for whose eternal safety and advantage the
course was undertaken.

But what shall we say of the organised slanderer, -and
of the publication in which it first appeared. However
mildly we may be disposed to censure the Albion for
lending itself to the dissemination of such slanders, it is
impossible not to burn with indignation at that vile
publication, the Eclectic Review, which first gave it cur-
rency. That this is not too strong an epithet to apply to
that pseudo-religious periodical, a reference to the prefix
above is sufficient proof, and yet, Mr. Editor, there is a more
infamous publication than that—one too, whose assumed
title, the -EvaNgelical Magazine, ought to have been a gua-
rantee for the asumptlon that nothing slanderous, and cer-
tainly nothing untrue, would find insertion therein—instead
of which, it is one entire mass of lying, slanderous abuse of
the Church of England, and full of the most bitter malignity
against her clergy. I have no right to presume upon your
indulgence, or I could give you a body of quotations from it
that would fill your readers with indignation too violent for
quiet endurement; but that they may be their own inter-
preters and their own judges of the correctness of my con-
demnation of it, I refer them to the Church Magazine for
the preceding month, in which they will find extracts suf-
ficient to satisfy a glutton in detraction and falsehood. This
said veracious Evangelical Magazine might be supposed to
be edited by Alderman Harmer's right hand man from its
virulence; instead of which, however, there are sixty-four.
Dissenting Ministers, who give their names as the Trustees
and stated Contributors to it : the list is now before me,
among which I find Dr. Burder, Dr. Bennett, Dr. Morrison,
J. Parsons, of York, J. A. James, of Birmingham—and also
one, to come nearer home, who stands in high estimation
with our townsmen, and who tags as riders to his name,
L.L.D and all I)ut a whole alphabet of letters, indicative, I
presume, of merits or attainments of some kind or other, al-
though conferred by neither university—even our own Dr.
Raffles.

To vindicate myself from the suspicion of dealing either in

fiction or unfairly towards those now introduced, I again refer
to the same No. of the Church Magazine, p. 327, in which
the true character of dissent and its diabolical principles are
fully set forth, and a very proper scourging applied to the
horny backs of these sixty-four unprincipled Dissenting Mi-
nisters, who are not only confessedly but professedly Trustees
and stated Contributors of monthly venom to this periodical,
which numbers a sale of some thirteen or fourteen thousand
copies.

The Church is but too apt to lose sight of the bitter hostility
'of these Dissenters, and to consider them as embued with
merely a supersanctity of professi,m, with but a slight departure
in form to itself; but if a correct picture• were drawn, Mr.
Editor, it would display feelings of rancorous hatred, inferior
to nothing which papacy itself could manifest, were it even in
the plenitude of a restored and renovated power, with all the
agency of state ascendancy, and the fulminations of his holi-
ness to back it. Little do we churchmen think of the depth
of that hatred which lurks in the heart of the genuine dis-
senter, while a simulated suavity covers his outward de-
meanour, and a religious solicitude falls from his tongue.
We are disposed to look on Roman Catholicism as the only
religious form we have to guard against; but, believe me, as
a man's enemies are frequently those of his own household,
so are the bigotted antipathies of dissent quite as exterminat-
ing, if not so cruel, as those of the church of Rome. Politi-
cal dissent and disloyalty are twin sisters—you find them
hand and glove on all occasions where a stab is to be given—
the most heterogeneous compounds are not too gross for
amalgamation, if any measure hostile to the church is to be
accomplished—witness the embrace of dissent and papacy
and the unity of purpose with which those two antagonist
principles will fraternise and move together : of the two,
popery is a fairer, because a more open enemy; the stab of
dissent is that of the assassin—that of popery, undisguised.
But to return to Mr. Ould if the paragraph was intended
to injure that rev. divine, the party inserting it will be de-
ceived ; the intention is there nevertheless ; but on Mr.
Ould's own flock and personal friends it will fall innoccuous, a
and with the public, I think something more, find from
more important quarter, will be requisite to damage so well-
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