The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-11-12 00:00:00

John Waring was his servant; and we have toper
proved that the whole of the contents of that note. an/
the direction on the back of it are the hand-writing►
the Bishop of Clogher. The fact we have established
by the testimony of four or five witneeees,igine
been acquainte4 with the character of his hand-writ
end corresponded with him for a great to-
years.
That a person Cie....—.
ties such as are hue imputed. ahrialinastavywK
SW( Of hymning tt fictitious saute. as passions to
• wltailwAte was ookaows, is aot as loprwtgisopposi-
. wis...okeeosesrindividoal shaft # before

in the commission of clonal-

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AA, allrike time hashed preadata. My oreopiod
egs is tiontaguestreet, when no Wean wee.
AthilliAsoo by filename; le iuneonsiale
y motive. and yet wsilave proved
samipeessa who, en. the wieureeth.of Jell,
' 'Raps hhaself oat io the waiteltekoam as Bishop of Cleat.
: : boot sad sigma as lee his mune the initials •-P. C.' W
' lealgod at Mr. Fay's how, in 51•Magne eiroseilee asap
...-- de ea• Bishop of Clegber. This eirmineetanew, me
figs,
has great weight In establishing identity.
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- . The etrst material fact's, that when it became nevem.
'sr . ally eirmini bail, the person elm With' these resist.
..- • jam-molai his nem* as Percy, of Clegher, by
reset
die name and title he Wow" hie recognize
• sat witch.was so reeerdwitil. do' of the Meese:
. true
. These are all the facie which lea place in Loads..
, • wisiols we submit ibeallapily isheiMettleted, Mat the MN
IPA accused was the porno he represeited himself to Is,
eswall. the:Bishop of Cliegiser. Yet, add to this, that
the regular process of your Lordships (Alert has bettm
.. :dile saved aped rise rest Bishop of that See,.at hie epee-
Mai Palau. kis Cathedral COorch, and all other plamb
ftessi•illesto the service of nth rooted meet is reality I
.
. . . ho Selettedoil ,to each his k ousted,. ; anti that
eful charges, apes pain of rtepriort. That the
- ges against him are amorieas en die empire and the
•4/ , mid that no appearance has bete entered Whim,
. - Ito defehn made.' no finial 6%1114 charges Mtrutpted :
..seed a. doubt remelts silo the Oisip of Clogher being
the real guilty individual ?
. ;lest we have further proved that ell:dell Metiers has
. sakempleee at the Episcopal Palace; that this splendid
ejpostiageof his dig nhy tuta bees left as a asked rain ;
• - thaw all elsia must have broadest* by the aenterity-of the
Bishop ; that be bail absented himself from his See end
. his duty ever ohm he wit to London, a elivel time pre-
- fess to she emtimiedois of the enormities charged stalest
him. altogether forming a mass of oviduct. of'ldentity;
Which we coercive to be perfectly irresistible.
i The Wrenn: and the identity of the perm* accused
being thus established, 1 do not think it net:eatery to
leviable the Court at mach length is order to peeve their
jerhailetims and authority to punish such olresees, eve.'
• ta Mesoimat of depri Tattoo.
It is Om eettled law, that every Archbishop have°.
timid power own all hie Bishops, cad may hold his
Court where he please:lie his proviso', end oilleinte es
Jake, This is as lald dome is Lord Chief Baton lb-
We's- Digest. —Bed. Persons, r. I. mid it le shoo stated
that he may deprive. In the mash debated oast of Limy-
against Watson, Bishop of tit. David's, it is faid-tforie
Iv tend ilwit, este of Ma ablest Judgri that over at is.
Antlantl, that " atimittlag the point of leirlodietty
, " heiliepated, weeld be to admit the dieptitlerted fra :
" dameatals ; for the Archbishop has, witless ,
" preelatialjorisdietion over alt his &Wraps lidhe-pia,
" whir% he may eternise la what place of tile Peotlase
" be pleases," 1 Barn's Reel. Law,p. 167.—The history
of the lihurch, also, (rem the Most aacieet lineeegiste
abnadaat instances of the exercise of this JutietHetios ;
aMetoloor of those isogamete will be fasted collected by
Widam la his Clergyesedee Law, p. 57. The
jorledletios isthevefeer gala, eke:. liMpoeitaaa‘.;
vet, have Wes saggested, that this jurredidlep
ie. altogether conlineUto the cam Beelmiamikaf
To this I answer, it is sdasitted, ill BeelseiesdaalCitart ,
• kosaut try a mere temprieal offence— tor • laohnsde, al
Moiler committed by as Bectesiastiet fee that Coen
germ.? try warder, *glade whale warder. In such
cue, in order to punish. she *lntent Conn must,
welt for conviction by the Temporal Courts, for out-
lawry' which is tantamount) and head their 'entrees
upon this conviction. This role extend" to all curs
where a temporal offence clone has byes committed by
an ecclesiastic. But where a elerpymaa is guilty of
leading a profligate life, of lewdness. drankentsess,
gross scandal, notorious ittuntsrality, sad she like, such
conduct is punishable by the Kcclerlastical Courts ; and I
is that sue, facts amounting to a temporal offence, may
. beckarged as evidence (incidentally) of the guilt int-
maid. -The law is /has laid down by Sir 'William
Boon in thermal of Nash against Nash, Ist volume of
. Mr. ilaggard's Ho-ports, p. I.M.
letillat rase, which was • snit fora divorce, the libel
alearged-that the party hapngnant was married before,
to which it was objected that such a charge was lead-
• iniadhle. as amounting to felony. In giving his kill/-
went on obis point. Sir William Stott say.," Certainly
. this Court canoot inquire into a felony directly, even
.. .thers a Clogyalan ts sued for the purpose of deprive-
" floe. But it is very frequent, and has occurred In
" practice to admit a fact in itself criminal, to be
• " pivoted as a necessary fact of the evidence in a
"civil snit."--ln 'the use of Lucy v. Warn*, be•
fore notice I, it was alto objet ed that many charges
against the -Bishop were temporal ; on which Lord
Holt observe', "The distinction which will answer most
" of the objections is this. that as to what relates to the
" Ace of Bishop and is against his duty, the Spiritual
4. UltUr t one deprive him, but sot punish as for a tens-
."rovel Orearre." His Lordship also cited Cswdry's
case ma 5 Coke's Reports, p. I, in which the lame law
is laid down. " The Ecclesiastical Law, and the Tem-
" peal Law,have 'antral prOceedings and tosereral ends.
." Ti. one Temporal. to inflict punishment on the
1. body, land., or goods; the oiler 'SPiriteal, !Wu'
" seers wawa : the one to punish the outward man
" —eh, other to reform the inward."—These authorities
weeiserative to be decisive. But farther it is to he :Ar-
mee...l. that it the case before your Lordships no Tem-
poral Glenn, amounting to/dray is charged. The ar-
ticles impate lewd habits, gross and scandalous prac-
tices and ionnoralities, none of them amounting to
felonies, hod clearly cognisable in this Court, contrary
to the Canons, and littiljentinC the party to deprive-
titan.
Having now. as we conceive, estaloliaberl the facts
charted against the iodivi.lotai accused, and also the
jarictiction of the Coati, it only remains to pray for
your Lordships' sentence. This is a only Ima aware
must be mod painful to the Court; yet however distress.
Log the act may be. I em coolideot your Lordship will
costsciention sly and boldly proem' rice that sentence which
the law demands. Yoe will cut off this pestilent Mem-
her, and discharge your duty to your Conetry and year
His Orate the Lord Primate, *flee saw coafeetteee
with hie Breams. requested that die Wart shmaid be
cleared : Sir Heory Meredythe before ha retiesiLteadered
to his Oleos a writtea sametme, foe his perusal awl sp.
prep', referring to, aid fosailmi lap& She evidence in
the cans". Tits mateaso was sad le sontesee of lie-
wigwams aid Depseithu. His Ocoee remierei mad mob
pamemios of the seatoare. His Wage and brethren r►
mislaid for awe time in coefersect —l4 was they ao-
oaanord thatihalleatt wan opened, and that the attend-
the Adepeatos and Praetor of Use was nem-
e▪
d. They asearillsgly aillothd. sad• tbeteopon his
dm** Leak =011.61-Bripopelmenco end hearlag of
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