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effectual discipline ; and if a right of appeal against his sentence 
were thought advisable to be granted, it should be either to an 
Archbishop, or to the King in council ; since a power of reversal 
lodged in the India Company might be found as detrimental in 
ecclesiastical, as it is in civil affairs. Even delicacy should induce 
them to decline it, since it is scarcely possible that all could be un- 
prejudiced judges in the case of a person appointed by them- 
selves. 
I should be much inclined to urge the propriety of extending to 
the whole clergy of India the principle of perpetual residence ; but 
in order to induce men of real merit to accept of an office requiring 
them to abandon the hopes of returning to their native country, a 
stipend should be annexed to it, sufficient to enable them to support 
a mode of living correspondent to their dignity, and make an 
adequate provision for their families. If a pension were allowed for 
the widows, it would be an additional motive to the truly respect- 
able, and would render a large salary less necessary. 
In every view, political as well as religious, it is highly desirable 
that men of liberal education and exemplary piety should be em- 
ployed ; who, by their manners, would improve the tone of society 
in which they lived, and by the sacredness of their character operate 
as a check on the tendency to licentiousness that too frequently 
prevails. 
The splendour of Episcopal worship should be maintained in 
the highest degree our church allows. On the natives of India, 
accustomed to ceremonial pomp, and greatly swayed by external 
appearances, it would impress that respect for our religion, of 
which, I am sorry to say, they are chiefly by our neglect of it at 
