APPENDIX. 



tics, wnich distinguished the dark ages of Pope- 



S, ana the oroceedings of the Star Chamber, 

 ow .ong will it be ere professed Christians 

 display a Christian spirit! and what is the utility 

 of Christianity to the world, unless candour, 

 forbearance, love, meekness, and other Christian 

 virtues, be the characteristics of its professed 

 votaries ! We dare any person to bring forward 

 a single instance of a man s being converted to 

 the faith of our holy religion, by the display of 

 unhallowed zeal, furious bigotry, sectarian con 

 tentions, or the manifestation of a domineering 

 and persecuting spirit. But, thousands of in 

 stances could he produced of such dispositions 

 being the means of recruiting the ranks of infi 

 delity and licentiousness. The following state 

 ment, sent to the Editor of the Liverpool Mercu 

 ry, Feb. 14th, 1833, displays the liberality of 

 certain British clergymen, in the thirty-third 

 year of the nineteenth century. &quot; I have been 

 recently called on by death to part with one of 



my children. I waited upon the Rev. 



of church (where I buried a child a short 



time ago,) to arrange with him about its inter 

 ment near the other. But, to what place of 

 worship do you go ? inquired most seriously the 

 Reverend divine. &amp;lt; The Me(hodists,Sir, of the 

 New Connexion, I replied. As you do not 

 attend my church, I cannot, therefore, bury your 

 child. Where was your child baptized ? was 

 his second inquiry. At the church of which I 

 am a member, I answered. How can you 

 think, exclaimed the liberal and pious, but indig 

 nant minister, that I shall bury your child, 

 which has been baptized by a Dissenter ? Take 

 your child to be buried where it was baptized. 

 1 But, Sir, we have no burial-ground connected 

 with our chapel. No matter ; the church 

 wardens of my church have determined not to 

 bury any that do not belong to the church. Go, 



eaid the minister, to , and arrange with 



him. So saying, he turned his back and left me. 

 R. Emery.&quot; 



The Duke of Newcastle so notorious^/br do 

 ing what he pleases with his own has the follow 

 ing clause introduced into certain leases in the 

 neighbourhood of Nottingham : &quot; That in none 

 of the houses to be built, shall be held prayer-meet 

 ings, or any conventicles for the diffusion of senti 

 ments contrary to the doctrines of the Church of 

 England.&quot; A fine specimen, truly, of Chris 

 tian liberality in the nineteenth century ! If his 

 Grace the Duke of Newcastle attended to his 

 prayers zsfrequently and fervently as the Liturgy 

 enjoins, he would be disposed to display a little 

 more candour in reference to the (: prayer-meet 

 ings&quot; of his dissenting brethren. With regard 

 to the leading doctrines of the Church of England, 

 there are few dissenters disposed to find much 

 fault with them. But what will his Grace say 

 of the indolence and avaricious conduct of many 

 f the ministers of that church, which have been 



the cause of the rapid increase of Dissenleri 1 

 The Vicar of Pevensey in Sussex (as appears 

 from a petition of the parishioners, dated Februa 

 ry 1, 1833) derives an income from the parish of 

 about 12001. a-year, and yet has never once per 

 formed divine service, since his induction, about 

 seventeen years ago. He has another living at 

 Guestling, about fifteen miles distant, from which 

 he derives a revenue of 4001. per annum. Whe 

 ther he does duty there is not known ; but it is 

 not absurd to suppose, that a parson who will not 

 so much as read prayers for 12001. is not very 

 likely to preach for 4001. R. Hodgson, Dean 

 of Carlisle, is also Vicar of Burg-on-Sands, Rec 

 tor of St. Georges in Hanover Square, Vicar of 

 Hellington, and yet at none of these places is he 

 found officiating. The tithes received by the 

 Dean and Chapter for Heshet, amount to 1000/. 

 or 1500/. a-year ; they pay the curate that does 

 the duty 18/. 5*., or at the rate of one shilling 

 a-day the wages of a bricklayer s labourer. In 

 Wetheral and Warwick, the Dean and Chapter 

 draw about 1000Z. a-year for tithes, and 1000/. 

 a-year from the church lands, and they pay the 

 working minister the sum of 501. a-year. The 

 tithes of the parish of St. Cuthberts and St. Ma 

 ry amount to about 15001. a-year ; and the two 

 curates, who do the duty, receive each the sura 

 of 21. 13s. 4d. a-year ! ! Three brothers of the 

 name of Goodenough, monopolize thirteen pieces 

 of church preferment. One of them is Prebend 

 of Carlisle, Westminister and York, Vicar of 

 Wath All-Saints on Dearn, chaplain of Adwick, 

 and chaplain of Brarnpton Bierlow. Those pre 

 ferments produce, of course, several thousands, 

 for which the incumbents perform absolutely no 

 thing. And yet, one of the persons above allud 

 ed to, had lately the effrontery to come to Carl 

 isle and preach up &quot; the Church is in danger,&quot; 

 because these shocking enormities are now ex 

 posed to public reprobation. See Times news 

 paper for March 7, 8, 1833. It would be no 

 great breach of charity to suppose, that it is such 

 doctrines and practices as those now stated, that 

 the Duke of Newcastle is determined to support 

 with such a degree of persecuting zeal and that 

 pure Christianity, detached from its connexions 

 with the state, is the object of his hatred and con 

 tempt. 



As a corroboration of Mr. Stuart s statements 

 respecting the liberality of Religious Sectaries 

 in America, the following extract of a letter, 

 dated 18th February 1833, which the author 

 received from the Rev. Dr. S , a learned 

 and pious Presbyterian minister in the State of 

 New York, may be here inserted 



&quot; I deeply regret to hear that so much of the 

 spirit of sectarianism prevails among the differ 

 ent religious denominations of your country. 

 We, too, have enough of it ; but it is here mani 

 festly on the decline. You may possibly tnink it 

 an unreasonable stretch cf liberality when I teB 



