CONTENTS 360275 THE ARTICLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN EDINBURGH REVIEW. PERSECUTING BISHOPS. (E. REVIEW, 1822.) a naked circle about the object in dispute, so that there may be a clear view 1. An Appeal to the Legislature and Public; of it on every side. In pursuance of or, the Legality of the Eighty-Seven Ques- this disencumbering process, we shall tions proposed by Dr. Herbert Marsh, the first acquit the Bishop of all wrong Bishop of Peterborough, to Candidates intentions. He has a very bad opinion for Holy Orders, and for Licences, with- of the practical effects of high Calin that Diocese, considered. 2nd Edition. vinistic doctrines upon the common London, Seeley, 1821. 2. A Speech, delivered in the House of Lords, people; and he thinks it his duty to on Friday, June 7, 1822, by Herbert, Lord exclude those clergymen who profess Bishop of Peterborough, on the Presen- them from his diocese. There is no tation of a Petition against his Exami- moral wrong in this. He has accordnation Questions; with Explanatory ingly devised no fewer than eighty-seven Notes, a Supplement, and a Copy of the interrogatories, by which he thinks he Questions. London, Rivington, 1822. can detect the smallest taint of Calvin3. The Wrongs of the Clergy of the Diocese ism that may lurk in the creed of the of Peterborough stated and illustrated. By the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, M.A., candidate; and in this also, whatever Rector of Burton, Northamptonshire; we may think of his reasoning, we supand Vicar of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. pose his purpose to be blameless. He London, Seeley, 1822. believes, finally, that he has legally the 4. Episcopal Innovation; or, the Test of power so to interrogate and exclude; Modern Orthodoxy, in Eighty-Seven and in this, perhaps, he is not misQuestions, imposed, as Articles of Faith, taken. His intentions, then, are good, upon Candidates for Licences and for and his conduct, perhaps, not amenable Holy Orders, in the Diocese of Peter borough; with a Distinct Answer to each to the law. All this we admit in his Question, and General Reflections rela- favour: but against him we must tive to their Illegal Structure and Per- maintain, that his conduct upon the nicious Tendency. London, Seeley, 1820. points in dispute has been singularly 5. Official Correspondence between the injudicious, extremely harsh, and, in Right Reverend Herbert, Lord Bishop of its effects (though not in its intentions), Peterborough, and the Rev. John Green, very oppressive and vexatious to the respecting his Nomination, to the Curacy of Blatherwycke, in the Diocese of PeterClergy. borough, and County of Northampton: Also, between His Grace Charles, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Rev. Henry William Neville, M.A., Rector of Blatherwycke, and of Cottesmore in the County of Rutland. 1821. Ir is a great point in any question to clear away encumbrances, and to make VOL. II. We have no sort of intention to avail ourselves of an anonymous publication to say unkind, uncivil, or disrespectful things to a man of rank, learning, and character- -we hope to be guilty of no such impropriety; but we cannot believe we are doing wrong in ranging ourselves on the weaker side, in the B cause of propriety and justice. The tion from the common practice of the Mitre protects its wearer from indig- Church. nity; but it does not secure impunity. The Bishop who rejects a curate It is a strong presumption that a upon the Eighty-seven Questions is man is wrong, when all his friends, necessarily and inevitably opposed to whose habits naturally lead them to the Bishop who ordained him. The coincide with him, think him wrong. Bishop of Gloucester ordains a young If a man were to indulge in taking man of twenty-three years of age, not medicine till the apothecary, the drug- thinking it necessary to put to him gist, and the physician, all called upon these interrogatories, or putting them, him to abandon his philocathartic perhaps, and approving of answers propensities if he were to gratify his diametrically opposite to those that are convivial habits till the landlord de- required by the Bishop of Petermurred, and the waiter shook his head borough. The young clergyman then - we should naturally imagine that comes to the last-mentioned Bishop; advice so wholly disinterested was not and the Bishop, after putting him to the given before it was wanted, and that it Question, says, "You are unfit for a merited some little attention and re- clergyman,"-though, ten days before, spect. Now, though the Bench of the Bishop of Gloucester has made Bishops certainly love power, and love him one! It is bad enough for ladies the Church, as well as the Bishop of to pull caps, but still worse for Bishops Peterborough, yet not one defended to pull mitres. Nothing can be more him not one rose to say, "I have mischievous or indecent than such done, or I would do, the same thing." scenes; and no man of common pruIt was impossible to be present at the dence, or knowledge of the world, but last debate on this question, without must see that they ought immediately perceiving that his Lordship stood alone to be put a stop to. If a man is a and this in a very gregarious pro-captain in the army in one part of fession, that habitually combines and England, he is a captain in all. The butts against an opponent with a very general who commands north of the extended front. If a lawyer is wounded, Tweed does not say, You shall never the rest of the profession pursue him, appear in my district, or exercise the and put him to death. If a church-functions of an officer, if you do not man is hurt, the others gather round for his protection, stamp with their feet, push with their horns, and demolish the dissenter who did the mischief. answer eighty-seven questions on the art of war, according to my notions. The same officer who commands a ship of the line in the Mediterranean, is The Bishop has at least done a very considered as equal to the same office unusual thing in his Eighty-seven Ques- in the North Seas. The sixth comtions. The two Archbishops, and we mandment is suspended, by one medibelieve every other Bishop, and all the cal diploma, from the north of England Irish hierarchy, admit curates into their to the south. But, by this new system dioceses without any such precautions. of interrogation, a man may be adThe necessity of such severe and scru- mitted into orders at Barnet, rejected pulous inquisition, in short, has. been at Stevenage, readmitted at Brogden, apparent to nobody but the Bishop of kicked out as a Calvinist at Witham Peterborough; and the authorities by Common, and hailed as an ardent which he seeks to justify it are any- Armenian on his arrival at York. thing but satisfactory. His Lordship It matters nothing to say that sacred states, that forty years ago he was things must not be compared with prohimself examined by written interro- fane. In their importance, we allow, gatories, and that he is not the only they cannot; but in their order and Bishop who has done it; but he men- discipline they may be so far compared tions no names; and it was hardly as to say, that the discrepancy and conworth while to state such extremely tention which would be disgraceful and slight precedents for so strong a devia-pernicious in worldly affairs, should, |