Chichester; 3. KENN, Bishop of Bath and Wells; 4. WHITE, Bishop of Peterborough; 5. TURNER, Bishop of Ely. The other two who retained their bishoprics, were LLOYD, Bishop of St. Asaph, (translated afterwards to Litchfield, 1692, and died bishop of Worcester in 1717 ;) and TRELAWNY, Bishop of Bristol, who after being translated first to Exeter, in 1689, and to Winchester in 1707: died in 1721. It was the CHURCH OF ENGLAND, and her ORTHODOX CLERGY, which stood in the gap" at that time, and fought single-handed against Popery and Arbitrary Power, at a period when the Papists and Dissenters combined together, inscribing on their banners-" Liberty of Conscience." There are three volumes of trials, a perusal of which cannot fail to give the Reader correct notions of the constitution of England both in Church and State: I mean an unprejudiced reader. These are "the Trial of the Regicides," "the Trial of the Seven Bishops,” and “the Trial of Dr. Sacheverel." I am, Gentlemen, July 3, 1802. Your most obedient servant, A LONDON CURATE. P. S. In your last number, p. 315, the paragraph beginning "Of Predestination" should have been printed as part of that which precedes it; and the marks (" ") of quotation should have embraced the two next; those threc paragraphs exhibiting the 17th Article of Religion. In two or three places the first marks of quotation appear, whilst the concluding ones are omitted. T Page 316. For "Propagators at Home" read " Propagators of the Gospel at Home." The following impressive Lines are selected from Mr. Ellis's elegant Specimens of the early English Poets: they are by Henry Delaune. 66 WHEN the straight columns, on whose well-knit chine, Some stately structure leans its weighty head; Are from their centre mov'd, or made incline, The pile soon sinks, and shrinks to its first bed.; So, when you see death's agents daily come, And from the earth just men and good translate, A sure and sad prognostic 'tis of some Impending judgment on a realm or state. Th' ascent is steep and craggy you must climb. |