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so often advocate the cause of the clergy. But I love
justice and detest persecution, whether it is on the
high or the low. From particular circumstances, I
have for the last ten years been more connected with
the clergy than most people, and I can assert, that in
this connection I have seen nothing short of a sincere
desire to do their duty. In a prosecution of seven
years which I carried on against a most unworthy
minister of our church, so far from finding any desire
in the heads of our establishment, to screen the delin-
quent, they afforded me every facility; and I can with
truth declare, that without the assistance of the present
and late Archbishop, I should have failed in my endea-
vours to bring to justice and a deprivation of his bene-
fice, this unfortunate but disgraceful rector of the
parish of Sutton. Nay, more ; as soon as the difficulty
of punishing such offences, in consequence of the in-
efficacy of our ecclesiastical law was discovered, it was
publicly declared by a distinguished Bishop, in the
House of Lords; and soon after, an Institution was
appointed to investigate this law, and to propose a
more summary and less difficult process of punishing
such offences. I have lately witnessed the zeal and
anxiety of these Prelates and their Ministers in support
of the Christian Religion, not only at home but abroad,
over every part of the Globe subject to the British
Empire. At present their labours towards the East
are unceasing, where they are endeavouring to over-
come the most horrid species of infidelity, and convert
to the happiness of Christianity, one hundred millions
of their fellow-creatures, subject to the British Empire.
They have built churches, and established schools for
twelve thousand children. The progress of Christianity