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to undertake clerical labour, and thr
livings were as often by him declined : he had no id

separate off

enjoiing remuneration for labours that he could not fulfil.
In 1847 he was compelled to resort to the continent, and
at Chamouni the invalid protested with all the energy of
his soul against the tyranny of the Popish Government of
Sardinia, which would not allow two or three Protestan+
Englishmen to assemble tu,
their God after the manner of
and their consciences.

ether and render worship to
their country, their faith,

His return to England was only to die: there were,
indeed, hopes entertained of his recovery, but they proved
fallacious. He accepted the charge of Dowry Chapel,
Clifton ; but he was only able to hold it, and he held it
worthily, for a brief period of usefulness. He then went
to Malvern : there he lay, as it were, between life and
death, until the latter came on the breath of the east

wind and conquered. His dying hours were not allowed
to pass by him without efforts on hib part to render them
useful to those who stood weeping by. On the 23rd of

June, in 1848, he fell calmly asleep and one of those
men, who was not less the glory of our church for the
humble but honoured station he held in it, went to reap
the reward of his faithful stewardship.

TO HIS
GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,—.It is announced that Dr.
011ivant, of Cambridge, is appointed to the vacant see of
Llandaff. The petitions, the memorials, the entreaties,
the public and private representations of the Welch peo-
ple, to have a native bishop, after centuries of patient en-
durance and humble supplication, have again been disre-
garded by the Minister of the Crown. Xour Grace alone
has now the power to remedy this grievous injustice, as it
appears that no Englishman can resist the offer of a
Welch mitre. A refusal of the dignity in question is not
on record, however conscious the favoured parties must be
that they are utterly unqualified to preside as bishops of a
country whose language they do not understand, or at best
know so imperfectly that they must be despised by every
curate who can write his own sermons, and preach them
in such a way as to be understood in the sense intended.
To your Grace the eyes of the inhabitants of the Princi-
pality are turned, for an interposition in their favour. As
Primate, your Grace may prevent the continuance of this
awful mockery of religion.
Independent of the riot which the peaceable and loyal
Welch possess to have one of their own countrymen se-
lected to fill the vacant see, your Grace well knows that
the Church in the Principality is expiring in consequence
of the system so long pursued, of appointing bishops not
only ignorant of the language and character of the peo-
ple, but antagonistical in all their feelings,—devoid of
sympathy for their poor native flocks,—and equally una-
ble and unwilling to reform the abuses in their dioceses,
where their Anzlo-Welch predecessors have, with the as-
sistance of the Anglo-Welch resident aristocracy, driven
the native population out of the Church into dissenting
meeting-houses, by abolishing the services of religion in
the language of the people. To your Grace alone can we
look, to put a stop to this grievous evil. The Church of
Wales is under your command, and ought to be under
your protection ; and your Grace is implored to insist, be-
fore consecration, that the Bishop elect shall undergo a
proper examination by qualified Welchmen, as to his abi-
lity to write his own sermons, with proper grammar and
spelling, to read them intelligibly afterwards, and to con-
verse with fluency and correctness. If your Grace will do
this, it will afford the opportunity of testing whether our
alarm° arc grcranalcaa , but :should they prove to be well-
founded, it would be insulting your Grace to entertain
any doubt as to the course you will pursue, in order to
rescue the Established Church in Wales from a repetition
of the injury and ridicule she has so long endured, by the
elevation of Englishmen from Oxford or Cambridge to her
vacant sees, merely to serve the end of party spirit or pri-
vate connexion, and in defiance of every law of justice and
morality, divine and human.—With every sentiment of
respect, I am your Grace's obedient and aggrieved

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