"I make this public contradiction of these things out of a mere sense of duty to one whose friendship I value in the highest degree, and of whom, though the wide waste of waters' between us forbids any hope of personal intercourse, I shall ever cherish the most lively and affectionate remembrance. Many more learned men I have known-some men as amiable-some men as deeply, as unaffectedly pious-some men as much and as piously devoted to their holy calling: but it has not very often been my lot (and I think the declaration might be made by most men) to know one who united so many claims to respect and affection.

"Let us now proceed to the sermon itself; and I do not hesitate to say, however much I may dissent from the opinions contained in it, that if even one part be produced, written, as the reviewer asserts the whole is, in a malevolent spirit-in a petty feel

"But in boasting of our origin from the Church of England, he views her merely as a spiritual society, possessing the faith, the order, and the worship which were the characteristics and the glory of the primitive ages of the Church.

"We boast then of our origin from a Church which, in renouncing the despotic claims of the Church of Rome, tempered with such singular felicity, zeal and ardour, with prudence and moderation, as to reject the errors, the superstitions, and corruptions of that Church, while she retained the primitive faith, order, and worship, which those errors, superstitions, and corruptions, had debased and disfigured, but with which they were so intimately mingled as to render the separation a work of extreme difficulty and imminent hazard. We boast of our origin from a Church which, in reference to the soundness of her principles, the talents and piety of her clergy, and her efforts in the cause of the reformation, still maintains the proud title which at the first she acquired, of being the glory of the reformed Churches."

ing of national dislike-in a wish to fan national prejudices-I give up the cause. Such a charge comes with peculiar justice from a reviewer who believes and has causclessly repeated every calumny put forth by the outcasts of English society who have travelled in America-by a reviewer who talks of the tavern existence of America-of her captains and colonels who serve out their own gin -of judges who give up their duty to practise with rifles for their next duel-of the slave markets, gougings, scalpings, and other abundant and brilliant proofs of the forest blood and Indian inheritance of the virgin soil of liberty.' The reviewer is one of that enormous class of Englishmen who are exasperated into fury by a hint that any thing among us falls short of perfection. ***. This belief and these feelings make us deservedly objects of dislike and ridicule among our neighbours."

Mr. Rose then takes a most calm and dispassionate view of the subject matter of the discourse. The occasion of it he considers reasonable; the preference which, on many accounts, the Bishop gives to his own country, was natural; and though some of the conclusions to which he came might be erroneous, yet they were not to be regarded as proofs of malevolence or ill-will.

He notices, in the same candid and liberal spirit, the Bishop's remarks on the Church of England. He differs from him widely on several points,* but

For fuller information on these points, the answer itself should be consulted, which was republished in the Christian Journal for November, 1826, vol. x. p. 341.

agrees with him entirely in others. He regards it as "a serious evil that there is no regular education for the ministry in the Church of England," and considers it a great hardship that she has not the power "of regulating her own affairs, and that she is subjected to lay-legislation; while in practice the grievance is not lessened, since even bishops' ordination questions have been canvassed in Parliament by radical peers and infidel commoners.'

"On the other complaints made by Bishop Hobart, the opinions of true and zealous Churchmen will be more divided. By some, the matters to which they relate may be judged to be necessary evils; by some, to be difficult or impossible of remedy; by many, to be no evils at all." "But

still, the points on which he has spoken are not fancies of his own creation, but have often obtained the notice of the sincerest friends of the Church."

"For myself I can only say, that if, after a sojourn in America, in speaking of American Episcopacy, I were to urge the strong tendency of an election for the high office of bishop to produce intrigue, party feeling, and dispute among the clergy-if I were to state my exceeding dislike to make the clergy dependent on the voluntary contributions of the laity for support, and my belief that such a mode of provision would deprive them of that freedom of rebuke which I judge essential to the character of a Christian minister-if I were to object to the mixture of laymen in their lower house of convention-if I were to state these things in the honesty of my heart, in a deep conviction that these were evils, and in an unaffected regret to see them in a Church, for the

excellencies of which, as a true Episcopalian, I had the strongest respect, and for whose continuance and extension I devoutly prayed; I should feel both surprised and grieved that any man could be found who would proclaim me an abuse hunter for thus expressing my honest belief. But if he went on to charge me with hypocrisy, because, believing these things, and stating my belief of them to my American friends while among them, I nevertheless hailed the friendship of the worthy and the good there as a boon and a blessing, and enjoyed that Christian and rational intercourse with them, which is indeed one of the world's best blessings, and which is never diminished or destroyed between noble minds by difference in opinion, while each is assured of the truth of the other's heart and the soundness of his principles; if my accuser so misrepresented me, that those who read his statements believed me to be mean enough to court hospitalities in a foreign land, and to repay the hospitalities with abuse; my grief and surprise would not rise into indignation, but subside into contempt. A lofty mind may be led to love and to be indignant wrongfully; for love and indignation are passions of the noble mind, and it is the lot of man to err and to be deceived; but such a mind never lightly entertains suspicions of a mean and unworthy bearing, and is only brought by clear and irresistible proofs to admit that others can be guilty of conduct which it would spurn with indignation itself."

I conclude that after this free and noble vindication of Bishop Hobart, some extracts from Mr. Rose's private letters on this subject will not be

considered a violation of that delicacy and respect to which he is so peculiarly entitled.

"MY DEAR FRIEND,

"Horsham, March 16, 1826.

"I received your letter on the first of March. I had been impatiently expecting it, but still I remembered how many calls you must have on your time, and checked my impatience as well as I could. I was heartily glad to find that your spirits and health (except the temporary attack of cold) were good; but I beseech you not to give too loose reins to your active mind and disposition, for you will. I fear, suffer if you do. I have learned, by bitter experience of the last five or six years, that an abstinence from mental exertion is often quite necessary to keep the stomach, that spring of life and activity, in any order, if it be disposed to be weak. I acknowledge the pain and the difficulty of such an abstinence, but your life is too valuable to be trifled with; for though you may not be able to effect all that would with stronger health. what you do, what you support, and what you prevent, is of incalculable good.

you

"I have read your sermon with very great ple sure, and I concur in the greater part of all yo say as to our Church, though on one or two poin I hardly know that I like your plan so well. Ift patronage of livings were in the hands of bishops I should think all objections obviated on that head." (The election of bishops Mr. Rose regards as a perplexing question. He is aware of the objections to their method, but he still thinks "in a dominan