The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-17
TRIAL OF BISHOP DoANE-HIs CONFESSION
M ADJOURNMENT OF THE COURT.

4-,,,,r or BISHOP DOANE-HIS CONFESSION
IN ADJOURNMENT OF THE COURT.
100. Y ! Sept 1.-THE following is the
..s,s,nen; submitted in writing by Bishop Doane to
tie Ccu-t Of Bishops -. II, 49,. -.
THE undersigned, III prosecuting NJ pans OF
,,,,ris,iau education in connection wHa - harys
fTslrsrd Burlington College. iounu tu"t t'Ic eA pen
-. 81 the enterprise greatly exceeded MS caisuia-
- y,f;ia sssis;asee on watch he had confidently
r:4 ,erhaus 700 san2uuely, tell aitoze'iiet snort
r,,bat he deemed his reasonable expectations
y. .li, condition OF tnga, being entirety ieit s4one
AMI wi.iaou. advisers, every step WIZ &c auNaiiC
I'd involved him more anu lNoie "N'P'' - P'"
= elnharrassments. .,.,
-..Heaf.niis tia. he made representations Whlcf,
O.. no ti,,c he believed 10 be correct, but many
+,y}j-h t}lrne out in the end. TO he erroneous
a.. "a. also led br his too confident reliance on an
.;.s..5 aid 10 Ike promises which he fully eX-
,.r,oi 70 pertorm but which experience has
,.,. nj him were tar too strongly expressed He
ca. sIso induced f3r the sake ct obtaining money
-rae, HE necessities 70 resort 10 methods by the
,,syo,el, of exorb.aut interest, which he dld not
t,1:.-,l-c vcrcin conirayeution Of law, and which
common usage seemed to him to justly. He ALSO
En- entire conf lencc in his ability 10 replace tnen
.1s5,.use al certain trust funds in way which he
deeply rerrets and. although they nave long since
Iaen ue-te ty secured. he does not now justify IT,
THO e:g!haYra-snlents here referred TO were follow
a Nv a long and well nigh fatal sickness, which,
viii irswirc him from business which he mad car
,la!on alone, nearly instrumental III the entire
failure OF his pecuniary affairs. The perpleSl'y
arising from this failure, with the protractcd III
trinity which followed his sickness, made him liza
be 10 many errors and mistakes which might easily
bearauyearaEces ofintcntional misrepresentation.
In connection with the assignment OF his pro-
Jsertv he Sc: his name ana oath 70 an inventory OF
Ii goods and also TO list OF his debts, which he
relieved 10 be coTrect-an act which he grleyes TO
n1i has given rise 10 impression in the minds
o.. some that he exhibited an insensibllity to the
awful sauctity OF tue oath OF a Christian man.
tut while he laments the impression, he declares
tat this act was only done Rpder legal advice, and
- the tirn conviction Of its correctness.
Some time after his recovery from tee Illness
ABOVE alluded 10. but whilst ne still in the
l.iist Of perpexiies, smarting under his heavy
disappointments and wounded by imputations 10
winch in some quarters he was subjected the lei
ter OF the three Bishops came 10 him. He has no
disposition to ascri5e 10 them any other than just
a.9 proper motives IN thu, addressing him, but at
tie time when he received the communication he
viewed it otherwise, and under the strong excite
.nent Of the moment he penneda phanphlet part
[; which he does not now justify, and expressions
II which IN regard 70 these brethren he deeply re.
gre.s.
In reference to his Indebtedness, he now re1evvs
re declaration OF his intention, whien he has con-
staIy made and has acted 10 his utmost ability
thus tar to devote his means efforts and influence
Il dependence Gods blessing to the payment OF
principal and interest Of every just demand against
L!!n-du expectation OF which there is reasonable
hope Of having fulfilled, since committee of the
trustees and friends OF Burlington College have I'M
Certaken an enterprise which is nearly completed
10 discharge the whole OF the mortgage debt and
tlus securcthe property at Riverside and St Marys
Hail. with that Of Burlington College. to the church
forever, for purposes of Christian education This
done the trustees have further agreed to appro-
pirate during his lite, the surplus income OF both in
stltutlOns to the liquidation fall his debts incurred
u carrying said Institutions
That III the course of all these transactions hui
man inirlnity may have led him into many errors
IL deeply feels He does not wish to justify or ex-
cuse them. If scandal to the Church and injury to
TIE cause of Christ have arisen from them, they
the occasion to him Of modification and regret
For these things, in all humility and sorrow, be-
fore God and man, he has always felt himself liable
Il. and willing receive the friendly reproots of
his brethren in Christ Jesus, and especially the
Bishops ofthe Church. (Signed)
''G. w DoANE, Bishop OF New Jersey"
We announced yesterday, in telegraphic de-
spatch, the dismssion of the charges against Bish
e. Doane upon his making the above confession,
and the adjournment of the Court OF Bishops sine
die The prosecutors of the Bishop themselves
were satisfied with the Bishop paper, and abandon
e3, or rather did not insist upon their charges