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and sanctions as far as opinion is concerned of his conduct in supporting Missions in uncivilized countries."

The remainder of Mr. Glover's Reply is cast in the same mould as its introductory pages, and is little else than bush-fighting resumed upon the subject of the speech delivered at the Bible Society Meeting.

We now return to Mr. Forby, who, properly alive to his reputation in the world, feels it his duty to repel attacks which "vilify his character, defame his principles, misrepresent his meaning, distort his language, and call him by unseemly names." Of his anonymous correspondent, however, he deems it unbecoming him to take any notice, and he very truly states that what Mr. Glover is pleased to entitle his Reply certainly deserves But taught by the daily exhibited routine of Bible Society manœuvres that that gentleman" if he were not exposed, would certainly use à la mode de Dealtry, &c. his claim to victory," he judiciously considers that "a few leisure hours will not be misemployed in such short notices of his slight cavils" as will deprive him of that pretence.'

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Mr. F. sets out with observing that the most effectual way to prove Mr. G.'s Title a misnomer would be briefly to re-state the substance of his own argument, and compare it with what Mr. G. has advanced; but heartily disposed to say not one word more than is necessary to his purpose, he shall merely meet Mr. G. on a few points, on which he has attempted to be either argumentative or facetious. But the defence of his literary reputation is of very inferior moment in his mind to the clearing himself from the charge of disrespect to his diocesan.

"Before I come (he says) to these particulars, I must speak upon another part of my subject, which (whatever Mr. G. may think or say) lies much nearer to my heart. In every page of the Reply I am treated as the harsh, malignant, rancorous, and scurrilous calumniator of the Bishop. I will re-assert, and ratify what I have said personally of that good man: for a good man, I do most unfeignedly believe him to be.

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"I have expressed my conviction of his invariable benevolence of intention.' I have borne my testimony to his character of uncorruptedness and sincerity in the cause of religion'-that he " is believed to do whatsoever he does in that cause, heartily as to the Lord and not unto men;' and that in every thing, he is actuated by the charity that thinketh no evil.' I have declared, that for his private virtues I entertain an unfeigned esteem;' and that the little particular intercourse I have had with his Lordship, has excited no other personal and private feelings, than those of esteem and respect. All this I believed and I felt when I wrote it, and I believe and I feel it now." P. 6.

Having recapitulated his testimony to the private virtues of the Bishop, and thus shewn how much he had it at heart to qualify his remonstrance with the strongest demonstrations of personal respect, Mr. Forby's sensibility under the aspersions cast upon him constrains him to enter further upon his own vindication; and first renewing the asseveration of his belief," on the strongest probability," that the "words and sentiments" animadverted upon were not verbatim the Bishop's, but either" wholly supposititious, or at least greatly misrepresented," he challenges the production of any passage in which his "censure" is not "aimed" solely and precisely at the words, and in which his "strokes of sarcasm" certainly severe, are not so "guardedly" inflicted as to "ward them off" from his Lordship.

Upon the important fact of absolute verbal identity we have already stated our persuasion to be the same as Mr. Forby's; and after the liberties taken by Mr. Glover with words and meanings, which Mr. F. has exposed, we confess ourselves equally unable with him to allow Mr. G.'s loose indefinite expressions to the contrary to shake our conviction. Indeed that conviction has been strengthened by what it is impossible to consider in any other light than as more flagrant liberties recently taken with his Lordship's name. For it cannot be, that his Lordship has held up to the scorn and obloquy of a mixed multitude of factious Churchmen, and dissenters of all denominations, a member of his own Venerable Bench*: neither can it bẹ, that he has so condescended as to address a letter to such a man as Mr. Hay †; much less that in that letter, avowedly intended by its writer for publication, he has traduced that part of the legislature of the kingdom, indeed all persons indiscriminately, " either in or out of parliament," who have withstood the aggressions of the Irish Romanists, as actuated by "narrow, prejudiced, and selfish views," as justifying their opposition, in one instance by the use of" every possible chicane ;" in another, by "poorly quibbling." and in a third, by what "a man of common sense can hardly give them credit for saying in sincerity;" and in this spirit and by these means," exciting the discontent and outraging the feelings of more than four millions of the inferior ranks of Catholics; taking pains to wound the honest pride of the independent gentlemen" of that persuasion, and treating "the Peers" in a manner" resembling that in which an Algerine Corsair treats his Christian prisoners, unfeelingly adding mockery to injustice." These, we repeat it, cannot be the genuine productions of an English Bishop: they only call forth therefore a more confident reference to Mr. F.'s apposite citation, "Ciceronem ita scripsisse vix ipsi quidem Ciceroni

* See Norfolk Chronicle, Sept. 23d, 1815.

+ Dublin Chronicle, June 30th, 1815.

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affirmanti crediderim," whilst they shew by two additional pregnant instances, that it was no vain conceit on which his apprehensions were founded, that the "open" and " the covert enemies of our Church," and "its misjudging friends, who aim at innovation incompatible with the character of the times and the tempers of men, are closing round the Bishop on every side, and endeavouring to forward their own schemes, by practising upon that liberality and charity unsuspicious of all evil, which HE does, but they do not possess."

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It is sufficient for Mr. Forby to rest his vindication upon the ground which he took when he made his remonstrance, viz. “his real and strong persuasion that the speeches were not' his Lordship's, and this ground we are persuaded he has made good; but had he quitted it, and in deference to his opponents yielded the point of authenticity, still we conceive that the distinction between the speeches in question and the " Allocutio Episcopi,” so clearly laid down in the outset of his former pamphlet, would have rendered his vindication easy, nay that it is furnished by his opponents themselves for Mr. Glover has most certainly supplied" the strong and imperious ground of remonstrance" which he calls for, when he states in two passages, a few pages distant from each other, that some of the Clergy may have been particularly pointed at, in speeches which made too deep. and lasting an impression to be hastily forgotten, though this concession is coupled with an attempt, in our apprehension both captious and abortive, to except Mr. F. upon his own testimony, from the number: and the anonymous respondent has removed every restraint which delicacy might impose, by declaring, as he does, that the Bishop" is to be considered merely as the popular orator" on that occasion, and if so, most certainly not as the Diocesan.

The duty to himself discharged, Mr. F.'s attention is now turned to Mr. G. to "meet him according to engagement, as the champion of the two Societies," on some of his attempts to be argumentative or facetious; and here an exposure very little creditable to Mr. G. takes place : for in one instance it appears, that in citing from Mr. F. he leaves out or changes what does not suit his purpose; in another that he gives Mr. F.'s words correctly, but slides from his meaning; in another that he composes his sentence of words and phrases most of which Mr. F. had used, but which have been taken from their respective contexts, and strung together with other words into a period serving his purpose; in another that with his usual dexterity he gives Mr. F.'s words a twist from the text to which he did, to one to which he did not apply them; and in another, that adducing Mr. F.'s authorities he omits the words to which he obviously did, and quotes those to which he obviously did not refer and the resultof Mr. F.'s rejoinder is, "that full conviction is af

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of his Reply. That Mr. G. has left Mr. F.'s argument exactly as he found it: that the secondary or subordinate parts of it, or the topics incidentally connected with it, at which he has cavilled, have all been prepared for his use by inserting, omitting, substi tuting, or transferring words, and that he has then proceeded to reply not to Mr. F.'s nonsense or falsehood, but to his own."

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Mr. Glover however will have the last word; the policy of the Institution imposes this hard service upon him; for Mr. F.'s are strong, and, as far as they are known, popular pamphlets; and the unalterable maxim is, that " Expositions which obtain a hearing from the public would be doing harm if no direct answer appeared.' And the Norfolk auxiliary anniversaries would have been two dull unedifying days, had not a new text book been produced against their meeting, to give the inferior propagandists their cue for the ensuing year, and to put off the evil day of complete reprobation. We do not however deem it necessary to enter much into this further attempt to perplex a case, which we conceive incontrovertibly decided. The single point of any moment, for which Mr. G. contends, is that the Scriptures sanction, and History records the preaching the Gospel to savages. He gives indeed an imposing aspect to his authority upon this subject, by setting forth the anxious enquiry in which he laboured during several years upon one difficult branch of it, and his almost universal acquaintance with whatever has been written in its elucidation. This is stated in his former pamphlet ; in the present one we are favoured with similar information, relative to the process which he pursued "to ascertain what were the actual tenets and doctrines maintained at the present day by the adherents to the Church of Rome." And his Oracles in this latter instance will form a good criterion for the value of his authorities in the former. These he states to be Bossuet and Du Pin; the latter of whom is well known to have been an objeet of jealousy to the members of his own Communion, as intending to betray the Romish Church, and to weaken the foundation upon which it pretended to stand; and the former to have been thought, by many of his learned contemporaries, to have perverted its essential doctrines in the very work to which Mr. F. appeals; a work to which the Doctors of the Sorbonne never gave their approbation though requested so to do, and which the Pope refused to sanction till, after eight years powerful solicitation, he was convinced that it was artfully contrived to support the Roman Catholic cause, and to reconcile the Protestants to it*. If a person pretending to arbitrate in the Roman

* See the condemnation of Monsieur Du Pin, his History by the Archbishop of Paris, 4to. 1696, and Archdeacon Tottie's

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Roman Catholic controversy will go to Bishops of the Gall can Church for direction to the genuine sources of information, he deserves to be taken in as Mr. G. has been: and if he can so commit himself, as to confront authorities thus chosen with Bellarmine and the class books of the college of Maynooth, all he has to do is to consider himself henceforth hors de combat; for it is impossible that his judgment can in future have the weight of a feather in theological disputations.

We now come to the second division of our series; and, as a necessary introduction to our strictures on the three remaining Pamphlets of which it is composed, present our readers with the extract from the Bishop of Lincoln's Charge, which was made the occasion of their publication. We make our citation from the second of the three Pamphlets, addressed to the Bishop by a clerical member of the Bible Society; and we have preferred this record of it, because of the pains taken by the author to collate the copies which had appeared in print, and thus to remove all reasonable doubt of its accuracy.

"In the pastoral Charge which the Bishop of Lincoln is at present delivering to his Clergy, his Lordship gives the well-earned meed of praise to the venerable Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which for nearly two centuries has been most unostentatiously, but effectually, employed in extending the blessings of real Christianity, as a Bible Society, as a Missionary Society, as encouragers of religious education, and as distributers of religious Books and Tracts: he also gives the warmest commendation of the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor on the Madras System; and he entreats the parochial Clergy to diffuse the benefits of both those Institutions as widely as possible. His Lordship expresses deep regret in observing that many of the Clergy of his diocese have become members of the British and Foreign Bible Society, when they might have obtained every advantage they there sought, from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, whose principles and practice have been long tried. From this Society they might have procured more Bibles and New Testaments, for the same Subscription, besides the additional privilege of purchasing Prayer Books, and many most excellent religious publications, on the cheapest terms. He considers the constitution of the Bible Society to be very dangerous to the established religion, and to the orthodox principles of those who attend its meeting, as it admits members of any creed, and of no creed; and he thinks, that, however sincere the motives might have been which originally induced unsuspicious Clergymen of the Church of England to join it, they must now have seen enough in the published accounts of its general and auxiliary meetings, and in the proceedings and Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Worcester, 1763, at the end of his volume of Sermons, in which Bossuet's design to decoy the Protestants unto Popery is well exposed.

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