250 
one, be’ desirous, by means of his pa- 
tronage, of ameliorating the condition of 
the clergy of his own religion, the op- 
portunity exists of doing so, without in- 
juring the parishioners, or driving them 
from the church in which they have been 
aceustomed to attend divine worship. 
Let him sell the advowson, or should he 
be reluctant wholly to part with it, let 
him sell the next presentation, which he 
may legally do; and with the money it 
produces, create an income for the sup- 
port of a clergyman of the religion of 
which he is a member, to officiate either 
in his own immediate neighbourhood, or 
wherever else his religion may most pre- 
vail, This, he and his family may re- 
peat on every ensuing presentation ; and 
the money thus produced, may be em~ 
ployed to encrease the income of the 
clergyman already created; to found a 
fresh one; or in the erection and repair 
of chapels, fur such clergymen to officiate 
in. H. 
February 17, 1811. 
-_——— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE read with much satisfaction, 
in your last Number, ‘ the celebrated 
trialof William Penn and William Mead,’ 
and believe there are many of your rea- 
ders who will agree with me, that at no 
time, from the era of the glorious Revo- 
lution to the present awful crisis, a re- 
publication of it was more necessary. 1 
am not alone in the opinion, that the vio- 
Jent and arbitrary conduct of the magis- 
trates, who, at that juncture, sat on the 
bench, fully confirmed the well-known 
dictum of a celebrated author, that 
* summum jus est summa injuria,” 
After baving made these few cursory 
remarks, it seems proper to add, that the 
gentleman who sent that article to your 
Magazine, has, through inadvertency or 
misinformation, been guilty of a mistake 
respecting the yreat William Penn, He 
was committed a prisoner to the Tower, 
not for writing No Cross No Crown, but 
for a publication entitled, “ The Sandy 
Foundation Shaken,” in which the com- 
monlyereceived doctrines of the Trinity 
were explained in a different manner 
from the creed of St. Athanasius and his 
adherents, though he explicitly owns the 
doctrine of the divinity of Christ.* 
** With his prison hours he enriched the 
world;” for. the ‘well-known treatise, 
* Penn’s Letter to Dr. Arlington, in his 
Life. Select Works. page 5. 
Life of Witliam Penn.—Improvements, 
[April ¥, 
“« No Cross No Crown,” was written du» 
ring his confinement; a work which 
the learned and pious Dr, Henry More, in 
a letter to the author, says, he looks upon 
“asa serious book, and very pious in the 
mein,” though he differs from tbe author 
with regard to titles and ceremonies. He 
also acknowledges that ‘a soul well 
awakened unto a sense of the best things, 
can scarcely want any external director 
or monitor; but the quaker’s principle is 
the most safe and seasunable to keep 
close to the light within a man.”* 
It must give pleasure to # large circle 
of your readers, to be informed that a 
Life of the great William Penn, is prepa- 
ring for the press, by a person well quali- 
fied to do the subject justice ; and as he 
will doubtless have recourse to a great 
uumber of letters and manuscript papers 
in different hands, and other original do- 
cuments, much entertainment, as well as 
instruction, may be expected from the 
publication; and perhaps some of your 
readers, who enjoy the friendship of the 
gentleman in question, may give us in- 
formation whether the intended Life is in 
forwardness. BeNEvoLus, 
March 5, 1811. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING lately had the pleasure of 
paying a visit to an old friend at 
Canterbury, I was induced (as formerly) 
to attend divine service at some parish- 
church in the week days: accordingly, I 
resolved to go to St. Margaret’s un the 
Friday, at the usual time of prayers; but 
alas! the doors were shut. Upon inqui- 
ring the cause of it, I was informed that 
the week day’s duty had been disconti- 
nued for many years. ‘This was my first 
disappointment. On the Wednesday 
following, I was determined to pay a 
visit to the church of St. Alphage, where 
the Jate rector never omitted the weekly 
duty without sufficient grounds; and 
where the congregation used to be a very 
decent and respectable one. But here, 
alas! the doors were shut. On the Fri- 
day, I sallied forth to St. George’s 
church, where, to my great comfort,, I 
found the doors open, and a congregation 
devoutly assembled for the purpose of 
offering up their prayers and praises to 
Almighty God. This, I amsorry to find, 
is the only parish-church in the large and 
populous city of Canterbury, where the 
* Life of Dr. Henry More. By R. Ward, 
A.M. page 247, page 540, London 1710. 
weekly 
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