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AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Diftricts of England and Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal Beer or Big 3. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. S. d. S. d. S. d. S. d. 76 749 1 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For DECEMBER, 1806. Mr. URBAN, I Dec. 12. N the Review of Bp. Bathurst's and Dr. Law's Charges, (p. 929), your Reviewer cenfures the Eftablifhed Clergy, and their Leaders, and the Bishop of London in particular, for great remiffness in not preventing the increase of Licenced Conventicles, and in other matters relating to the Difcipline of the Church. And as thefe animadverfions are made by one of your own Coadjutors, your candour and im partiality will, I am fure, induce you to give a place in your ufeful Magazine to what I have to offer in anfwer to them. The Reviewer afks, in the first place, whether the Bishop of London has no remedy against the building a chapel for the College of Trebecca in the inmediate vicinity of the parish church of Chefhunt?" The plain anfwer to this question is, that neither the Bishop of London, nor any other Bifhop, has any remedy against the faid. Chapel, if duly licenced under the Toleration Act, as may be feen by looking into that A&. I lament with the Reviewer, that fo many new Conventicles have of late been erected, not merely in the vicinity of London, but in almoft every part of England and Wales. The Reviewer feems to fuppofe that this evil is confined to the diocefe of London, and that, therefore, there is fome peculiar, remiffness there. But this is fo far from being the truth of the cafe, that I am inclined to think there are fewer Methodists in that Diocefe, in proportion to the immenfe population, of London, Westminster, Middlefex, and Effex, than in many other dioceles, particularly in Yorkshire and in Wales. In thefe places prodigious numbers of Methodilis are fometimes collected together from every part of the king dom, and fuch inftances of wild fana In a newspaper called the Statefinan, Aug. 1, 1806, is the following article: "On Wednesday fe'nnight, the Committee of Delegates of the Methodist Societies commenced their meetings at the Old Chapel, Leeds, to arrange the bufinefs of the enfuing conference which affembled yesterday. The town is expected to be univerfally thronged during the next fortnight," as numbers of the Society from various parts of the kingdom ufually attend, exclufive of the preachers, fome hundreds of whom (it is fuppofed) will be prefent on this occafion." In a town called Bala, in North Wales (which, if I mistake not, is in the diocefe of Bangor), there is a fect of enthufiafis called Jumpers, who affemble them felves together once every year to the amount of four or five thoufand perfons; when, after being inflamed almoft to madness by venting their fanatical doctrines, they begin to groan, and howl, and foam at the mouth, and then jump violently about, and ftruggle with each other till they are quite spent and exhaufted, and obliged to be carried home to their lodgings to recover their firength for the next day, when the fame frantic fcene, and favage cries, and extravagant gefticulations, and jumpings are repeated. Why Your Reviewer, Mr. Urban, will, probably, be astonished at these things, and will indignantly exclaim, are fuch irregularities and fuch indecent practices as thefe fuffered to pafs unnoticed?" "What are the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Bangor doing?" "Why don't they fupe prefs in a moment fuch montirous extravagances as thefe " I answer, for the very fame reason that the Bithop of London does not pull down the Diffenting Chapel at Chefhunt; because it is not in their power to do it. If the gentleman who wrote that article will have the goodnets to point out the means by which the erection of Methodist Chapels may be ftopped, their Minifters Gilenced, and their Synods at Leeds and their ad pranks at Bala fuppreffed, he will then have the thanks of many fiaunch friends of the Church of England; but, till he can do this, I thould advise him to fpare his cenfures on the English Prelates for not doing, what it is utterly impotlible for then to do. the smallest hesitation (for I have mad● the firicteft enquiry as to this point) that not one of the inftances of mifconduct cited by the Reviewer is known to the Bfhop of London; and I venture to fay further, that if the Reviewer will mention the names and refidences and preferments of the perfons he alludes io, and will adduce fufficient proofs of the facts alledged (without which no man can or ought to be punished), the Bifhop will, on the conviction of the offenders, inflict that punishment on them which the law preferibes. Anonymons accufations against anonymous perfons are the easiest things in the world to make; but they answer no one good purpose; and will not, I hope, be hereafter admitted into your refpectable Mifcellany. ESSEXIENCIS. PURSUITS OF ARCHITECTURAL INNO- For my own part, Mr. Urban, I am as cordial a friend to the Church of England, and as defirous to give fome check to the progrefs of Enthufiafin and Schifm amongst us, as you or your affifiant can poflibly be. We are agreed, therefore, as to the end to be attained; and the only queftion between us is, what is the best and mott effectual way of attaining it. I have revolved various projects in my mind, but, after confidering them all very maturely, I find no mode of counteracting fanaticifm and fectarifm fo rational, and fo effectual, as that recommended by the Bishop of London to his Clergy in the Charge he delivered to them in the year 1803; a Charge which met with their warmest appro bation, and which has fince paffed through two or three editions. If the Reviewer will look at that Charge, pp. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, I think he will be of my opinion. If not, let him propofe a better remedy, and I for one (as far as the exertions of a private Clergyman can go) will moli readily adopt it. I have only a few words to add-re-`ing on our antient edifices; a third fpeting a charge of a different nature which the writer of the article in quef tion chufes to throw out againft our venerable Diocefan. He produces two or three inftances of irregularity in fome Clergymen in the diocefe of London, and complains that they have not been noticed or punished. But, admitting the facts to be as he has fated, does this gentleman fuppofe that the Bishop's eye can be in every part of this immenfe Metropolis! Is it poffible for him to fee and to know every thing that palles in every corner of this populous and extenfive diocele ? Surely a litle allowance is to be made for any cafual inadvertences of this kind arifing folely from want of proper infor-mation, efpecially to a Prelate at fo very advanced a period of life. Now I take upon me to lay, Mr. Urban, without partition (by far the leffer tribe) filentfit, and raniinate over thofe Antiquarian ills they with to prevent, but have not refolution to protest against or to repel them. The following anti-antiquarian sentiments, lately fported off at a convivial meeting by a fet of brother Profeffionaltis, will not inaptly, I conceive, have fome effect in this place. May all our anfient mansions (that is, thofe in perfect repair) be moderniled, that they may become habitable !" "May the Tudor fiyle of Architecture (1500) be found most appropriate to fit up a Library to contain Saxon Manufcripts +!" * Windfor caftle, Ramfey abbey houfe, &c. &c. † Stowe in Buckinghamshire. May A |