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They solemnly declare at the altar, that they 

 believe themselves called by the Holy Ghost to 

 take on them the cure of souls; they get pos 

 session of a living; and leave the cure of souls 

 to some curate, to whom they give a tenth part, 

 perhaps, of the income. Many of them have 

 two livings, at thirty miles distance from each 

 other. They live at neither very frequently ; 

 and, when they do they only add to the annoy 

 ance which their curate gives. 



443. As to their general character and con 

 duct; in what public transaction of pre-eminent 

 scandal have they not taken a part? Who were 

 found most intimate with Mrs. CLARKE, and 

 most busy in her commission dealing affairs? 

 Clergymen of the Church of England. This is 

 notorious. Miss TOCKER tells of the two livings 

 given to PARSON GURNEY for his electioneering 

 works in Cornwall. And, indeed all over the 

 country, they have been and are the prime agents 

 of the Boroughrnongers. Recently they have 

 been the tools of Sidmouth for gagging the press 

 in the country parts of the kingdom. Powis and 

 Guillim were the prosecutors of Messrs. Pilling 

 and Melor ; and for which if they be not made 

 to answer, the kingdom ought to be destroyed. 

 They are the leading men at Pitt Clubs a!! over 

 the country ; they were the foremost to defend 

 the peculation of Melville. In short, there 



