The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-23 00:00:00

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consent front, and, as far as hy the laws ecclesiastical of
this realm I and autburi III) prohibit such meeting be-
ing Veld in the church. church-lard, or atly chapel be-
longing to the church of St. Sai:ionr.
" ;V. MANN, Claplain.
"St. Saviour's, Sontlitrark, Sept. 2'2."
"Afy 'leer Sir,—dlr. Wild has enslosed me a handbill,
to which he requests an answer; and I have this moment
received another, signed by yourself and four other
wardens, announcing a meeting to be held in the vestry
to-morrow evening. Though I cannot enter the lists
with Mr. Wild, I feel it incumbent on tile to make this
Itommunientioti to you. I do it with the very best inten-
tions, and in a most friendly dispositions towards you ;
olltd. whatever may be the result, I hope it will nut di-
'AIWA am good understanding and goo,! will which have
hitherto subsisted bet n een

" Von have, in the very outset. as it appears to me.
acted coo:rar• to your dU!W as church-wardem by issu-
ing a notice, which has not been read in than church—
which von know I shonld not have suffered to be rood--
and which has nut the usual signature of your vestr•-
clerk. Will you, after all this, call your meeting a
vestry
" however, you have finally determined to bold the
said intended meeting, let me request of you, first of all.
to read over tiStli Canon, which yen will find in one Of
the prayer-hooks in the vestry ; and tousnit also Burn's
comment on this canon, in his Efo told:fire Low, which
Air. Collingwood, your vestry Clerk, will, no doubt,
:tare the goodness to furnish.
" From those documents you will learn that the rho rch-
tcardens cannot appropropriate the chord', nor any
Hart of it, to any purpose which is not Wlowri by the
minister of the place; and that they are no! to sutler
any muster to be kepi in the church, chapel, or church-
yard.
" I have too high an opinion of your good sense to
suppose for a moment, that von ran lia,e liven influ-
enced in your decision by the foolish tliintrs asserted in
the handbill addressed' to myself, as if the chorrli-
wardens of St. Savioitr's were exceptions to whet
rintrchwardens, anti as they, or any of ;heal, lucre
Hectors !

" Permit me, however, to offer a few observations nu
die subject, for the correctness of which, in point 111 law,
will appeal to any legal opinion.
" No lay-rector, layitstpropriato-, patron of living,
nor any corporation, can disturb the ecclesiastical law
of the land, nor interrere with the natural, ecclesiastical,
and clerical rights of the minister of the rhumb. No
wet of parliament ever passed, nor ever will pass. either
of the two houses for any such purpose; our was any
surf' privilege ever gr.intell to any individual nor 'to
any body corporate. I os- the wori minister, because
it is the term listad in all courts of law, eiviVue ecclesi-
astical. It I. ti, term nasal in the eationAtentinister of
the plan.; and for this obvious nteanine
cannot be misn nd erstood, uor misinterpreted. The in-
cumbent of a livioe, whatever may he his, title, whether
rector, vicar, chaplain, of csrale,iLtiiii.maiiiislet
church ; and all his ecclesiastical tool clerical rights are
secured to him under the only title of minister. If the
incumbent be absent, his rotate, it lie be duly lleensed,
is the minister of- the place, and- Isom take the chair so
ail parish vestries, and give directions in all china'
ma'•er. with the roue authority.
1 he chureliwardena of St. Savionr's though a car
porate body, whatever rutty he the privileges of their
great in-al, as to temporalities, have no eeclesias:ieal
authority in the church, or over this rlttirelt beyond that
of ordinary churchwarden% : fair the law Imoirs no dis-
tinction between wardens of O.IP Elotrele and those of
another; use between one warden and another in the
smog church. The seine oath is administered alike to
all; and, botrever proper it may as a mere parish
regulation, or however convenient fur the dispatch of
limitless, to give than different names, they have al: the
%AIM. authority. SO noirls fur the farrago of nonsense
in the handbill. A word to the wise limn is enough.
bet it not displease von. my deac 31r. t;:•yri ,irrorrne.
for indeed it is the (act, that the warden of .`sprat and
Jackson. is just as much the rector of St. Saviour's,
Southwark as yourself.
1 ant, my dear Sir. faithfully anti affectionately
Jcc. W. 31 tNN."
41, Iliinkside, Thursday evening."

Mr. !het: came forward to propose a saris- of resit-
intions to the meeting. lie ptrfaceil IT a
brief and exj:reisive roview of the several on•ragra
offered to the Queen; and observed, that the fzootl
feeling and spirit of the country hail now, as hitherto,
:nterposeil between her Majesty and her infamnici ars
nisei's, and asserted the national sense of jostle,. in
opposition to private, an I, as it Wove.l seem. inter-
minable persecution.—(lfrar.)—The worthy ,:entle-
man then read the resolutions s, , and forcibly
commented al them as he went on. They were de-
clar.itory of the determination of the -inhabitants to
support the Queen in this period of her suffering, and
expressive of the strong hope of the meeting, th it, in
such a conspiracy as this against the hn ttttt sr of the
Queen, Parliament would refuse the sappiie, for pay-
ing the expences which had been incurred.
The resolutions, which were drawn up with Treat
force, were loudly applauded.
Mr. Dnywv, in seronding the motion for their ado!).
tion, took a retrospect of the iinhapi,.y situation in
which the Queen hail been placed front thi• hone of
her first landing in this eimiltry. lie ile'ssailicit the
artful snares laid fur her at the outset by certain in-
dividuals whom he did not h sitate to WIMP, anti the
foal conspiracy of Lady llonefas, which was at a sub-
segnent time pressed upon attention. lie :hen,
in very eloquent terms, t •hefi upon the transisory
nature of her :Majesty's enjoyment:, even hearts% the'
triumphs which the misfire of-her enemies (mild nish
withhold from her. tier triviniph over Cie lisoiglasil
conspiracy was almost immediately foiloweri by her
exratriation. While ahroail at that that time she waal
visited by the irremediable affliction of the death oil
her only child. The King's life ants tel a stay fbill
her character ; but the moment she lost lice only ins--
riving protector, thew was nurtured in open day the
present foul conspiracy, which had been at. Inns
hatched in darkness.—(Applause.)—lt was the hap-
less lot of the Queels to seek solar, in vain in distant

PRICE SRVEN

were new deserts, because they had departed from the
terms of their original strength, and heroine the vic-
tims of arbitrary p.iwer.—(Applanse.)--1 his nail an
awful lesson to an European Government who slighted
the voice of the people when fairly and honestly ex-
presseil.—(Applause.)—The worthy gentleman then
animadverted with great force upon the taumerous in-
strutnents employed in the conspiracy against the
Queen, from Baron thopteda, who stood charged %%lib
tile felonious act of breaking her locks, down to the
meanest scullion, that was not ashamed of confessing
she had betrayed the beet of mistresses. He afterwards
tiuelleil upon the eciikrice in support of the Bill. He •
would not say that :hey were perjured and bribed, but
he still thought that by their ocim admission they were
most liberally provided for, to give the people of this
country the benefit of their testimony. Ik their com-
mented with much indignation on the visit of Sirn-t•
Non-mi-ricordo (Maiocci) to Carlton Palace toil the
day of the late King's interment, and also upon the
indemnity given to the " skipper and Ilk wee," for
coming front Messina. For coming over to give evi-
dence they were to have three times as notch pay as
they reatived from the Princess of Wales for conduct-
ing her during her voyage. and supporting as crew of
22 in nunils..r. He spoke ill very humorous terms of
the modest demeanour of the chambermaid Kroll., and
the Lore-letter Docide Ekreader lady, Madame lie
Mont, who had au tirlinii•ed credit upon a banker,
opened for her in so mysterious s tuanner. rifler
commenting upon the character of falsehood whi:h
the tales against the queen Lutrinsicaliy bore, hr
noticed the shocking outrage to morality offered by
the dissemination of so mud' filth throughout the
rountry. lie asked why did the Society for the Sup-
pression of Vice sleep ilium such au uceasi-,n? If they
felt it right to pit• down private breaches of morality.
when calculated to ilk. •niinate public mischief, why
seep at their posts now when his Majesty's Ministers
delirtred the country with so much abominable
—(Applause).—lle concluded by expres?ng the gra-
tification he felt at the exhibition of sound and goutt
feeling Odell the country had di-played on the present
occasion, and radially seconded the motion.
The Resolutions were they read reire,ion, and car-
ri,•ll unanimously, as well as an appropriate address
founded thereon.

Mr. Wit.o came forward to express the gratifi.sa-
!ion he felt on the present occasion. The retthnsia.:ts
.of this speaker, as well as the characteristic pianist*
and bluntness of his manner, drew forth considerable
applause. lie commenced by saying that he felt great
diffidence in coming torw•rd .on this occasion, kit
tha homely and nogrommatical latognage in who lo Lr
might express himself should bad to any misint..r.
relation of the sentinten's 4.f his hear —(App!ans.).
respect to the Queers, be thought the preset:o-
- even without thr explanaticii of any 'Acute, L.J
left her perfectly harmless. The great evil of toe
country, in fact, cousisted of the weakne.s and
cillty, of his 3lajestv's Ministers. They loved
Loaves and fishes letter than they did feeding tin'
poor, or doing real or snbstantial good to the coon-
try 'they talked of irreligion and blasphemy, anal
vecia one short month they hoof circulated matter cal-
culated to sap more MOTION than were ever in danger
from the obscene efforts of socrossive previous years.
now an administration romposed like the present
saw no hope either fur the Queen or the itt
tact. it toss not the Queen they degraded, but their
royal master, who unforitinately placed his ottotideuce
in thew—(.lpplause). he only hope of sairraoism
for the ronntry was ;n a change of ministers. Mit!.
dlesex was ai tto meet to consider Of a petition ft
their dismisvol: be hoped the enmity of Stirrer woted
f.4!10w the exinyle. Being a freeholdi r of bo•
Clillules. he liould he found at his post in the pr.-
formatter of his ditty. If the voice of the poop, e
was time heard by the throne, the Ministers most give
the thing np—(Applause).
Several other resolution's were then adopted for the
pvirpose of carrying into effect the original motion `Jr
pi... rating the address to the Queon.

31r. Ilacx sad hr held in his hand a niotionwith
which hr really ktuTw not what to do. Itwa • a no-
lion requesting the attendance of their chap) tins ..t
the presentation of the petition, and it had Ven
p.tred before the Rev. )Ir. Mann had favoured them
with his protest. It would hr now tinge useless to
' propose this mutinn after the protest which they had
heard read. They might indeed hive hoped that
their clergy wonld have set an example more becom-
ing the mild and just spiel' of the faith they preached.
a 11.111) which the itilvalifiatits might hare looked u,,
with pride, at fiwnishing a rontrait to the interested
conduct of the other parts of the clergy. In that hope
they were unhappily disappointed, and he deeply la-
mented that this disappointment had fallen npon them
when they hopeel to have embodied in the CARS* ut
innocence 1011 justice the mild ministers of th
which preached nothing but truth and benevo-
lence. He repeated that he knew not what to do eith
the restelotion Which he now held in his hand per-
haps he had better dispose of it at one. in this °tan-
ner—(l he worthy gentleman then tore the resolution
lu'o Oyer.. amid do, apphinse of the unostag).
Complitn-ntary vote. of thanks to ehe rharri,
wardees, the ehwirtnati, and other gentlemen who! Iwo-
m Wed the I,treing, were then 'Dudek:tritely a.mall to.
And successively seknouttbdgrd by tba *betimes to
whom they trete wettlrestied.• •eri a r ! w .

, Lettrrs were then reed frost Mr Robert Wilgus and
31r. Calverr, the reeteillleth Ideiliehtlitisek 3 lame t
their inatility to atteed, °velour° the beuraeli.it:
'pre Eire 'of ireliapetiaable ritraTra tate, arhi lb t
Ahertrie4 the *Wive gikes of fhisitteataida f re•