VII. Cases in which the act reported is the act of a party, not in connexion with the Society.*

Such are the circumstances, under which the sincere reader will have to pronounce his judgment, on the subject of the omissions and truncations which have thus been brought to view to pronouncein the first place, whether they had for their cause mere accident or design: and, if design, what that

been detached from the paper, to which it properly belongs, viz. No. I. "Summary of Reports from Societies, &c. in Union "with the National Society." In this detached paper, (p. 181.) not only is the day, as above, designated, but prefixt to the names of the three persons officiating as Secretaries, are the words, "By order of the Committee."-Thereupon in the next page (p. 182,) follow three paragraphs, to the last of which is attached another date, viz. Norwich, 28th October, 1812, but without signature, or any mention of any Committee.

XIV. 5. Anno 1812, October 19.-Proceedings at a Meeting at North Walsham, in Waxham Deanery, Norfolk. Report II. p. 183 to 185.-Concerning persons present, information is here given in these words: viz. "Present, the Honourable Colonel "Wodehouse, in the chair,-Rev. Dr. Hay, and others of the "Clergy and Laity." Quere, Who is this Dr. Hay, who, after the Honourable Chairman, is every body, while all the "others,” Clergy and Laity together, are nobody? It looks as if these others were such, that on account of the smallness of their num→ ber, or on some other account, prudence forbad the bringing of their names to view.

* XV.-1. Anno 1813, March 9.-Application made in the name of the East-India Company, for two Schoolmasters trained by the Society, to be sent to St. Helena. Report II, p. 16.

design was: in a word, whether it can have been any other, than the design of causing a multitude of acts to be generally regarded as acts of the Society in question, whereas in truth they were not: and in particular the acts here held up to reprobation, under the name of exclusionary acts, and under the notion of their being repugnant to morality and to the religion of Jesus.

§ IX. Authors, acting and consenting, of the combined systems of exclusion and imposition.

Of that system of ill-will towards men, by which the benefits of religious and moral instruction have been withholden from so many, and by which that security which depends upon the religion and morality of all, has been denied to all,-we have seen the authors-active authors and connivers together: viz. those in whom, under the name of members of the General Committee, is vested the sole right of conducting the affairs of the self-styled National Society: Archbishops and Bishops, 26; nominees of the said Archbishops and Bishops, 26 others. Of that system of misrepresentation and imposition, by which the main actors in that antichristian and anti-social system have endeavoured to hide themselves in the crowd of passive connivers, and by that means to become screened from that pre-eminent share in reproach, which is so justly

due, the existence has also been proved, and the contrivance developed and brought to light.

These main actors then, who are they?-This is what remains to be shewn in the present Section. -These main actors, who are they?-Answer1. In the first place, constantly and regularly, the President of the self-styled National Society, Dr. Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and under him the so often mentioned and no otherwise denominable, T. T. Walmsley, Sec. In the next place, occasionally,-and though probably with not less than equal zeal, yet not with equal assiduity equal assiduity on the part of any other agent not being deemed necessary,-Dr. William Howley, Lord Bishop of London:-self-constituted Prostrator-General-as there will be such frequent occasion to shew and to remember-ProstratorGeneral of understandings and wills. (See below, p. 88, &c.)

I. First in order, though neither first in dignity nor equally constant in operation, let us behold his Lordship of London. By this transposition, we shall from the first be rendered the better acquainted, not only with the zeal by which these combined systems have been produced, but with the nature and extent of the designs to the accomplishment of which they have been and are directed.

On all these accounts, what seems matter of indispensable necessity is that in this place the reader should be presented with a specimen of the

graphic art,-in which, by a sort of spiritual imitation of one of the temporal curiosities of Bullock's Museum, two portraits-viz. that of the late Bishop and that of the present-himself being the limner— are so conjoined, that by a slight shifting of position, either the one or the other may be contemplated: both of them being not only enclosed in the same frame, but, like two colours of a changeable silk, both occupying one and the same portion of space. After the examination of this double portrait-and let it be with that attention to which it presents so irresistible a claim-it will rest with the sincere reader, to form his judgment on several points, the importance of which will scarcely be dubious in his eyes:-for example,

1. Whether it be the fault of either of these Lords of London, any more than of the Bishop of St. David's, if either London or Country still continue to be infested, with any persons who, in opinion (1) or in practice, (2) by heresy (3) or by schism (4), are separated from the Established Church:

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2. Whether, in this view of the matter, all such persons are not men of " guilt:"(6)—

Of this and the ensuing figures of reference, the use is-to guide the eye the more promptly to the passage in the ensuing original, from whence the words here quoted have respectively been extracted.-To some readers it may perhaps be found more convenient to peruse the original in the first instance.

3. Whether any such guilt ought to be "palliated:" (7)

4. Whether any "desire of conciliation," by which such palliation may be suggested, is not in their view, a" vain desire:" (8)—-

5. Whether, according to the principles of the two Prelates, for the purpose of clearing the country from such guilt,(6) the growth of every "opinion" (1) or " practice, (2) which even by remote

consequence might unsettle the faith of the in"experienced, or introduce confusion and dis"order into the Church, (9) ought not to be "checked:" (10)—

6. Whether, for this purpose it has not been the desire, design, and endeavour, of these two Right Reverend persons to "replace ecclesiastical discipline upon its ancient footing :” (11)—

7. Whether that ancient footing be not to be found in the principle and practice of Archbishop Laud, and his predecessors in the days of Elizabeth, or, in respect of every thing but bodily torture, in the practice of the Spanish Inquisition :—

8. Whether among the purposes, for which, in this same Charge, it is declared that the aforesaid "discipline" ought to be, and which, if the necessary power is to be had, of course will be,-employed, be not the "recovering the rights of the "Spiritual Governor :” (12)—

9. Whether, among these rights, which, having once been possessed and exercised, have since been