lect can be but rarely established against individuals of the order, and seems plainly to intimate that the purity of their doctrines is unimpeachable. Now, as on a former occasion, we cannot help expressing our surprize, that any sensible man, moderately acquainted with the world, should venture upon the hazardous experiment of becoming thus responsible either for the faith or practice of so large a body, even of his brethren. The clergy, in general, we really believe to be at least equal in professional knowledge and respectability to any other order of men. But discarding, as Protestants, every notion of infallibility, or necessary sanctity, why is it that those of them who disdainfully reject any distinctive appellation which may seem to imply some spiritual superiority, should be represented as almost immaculate in conduct, and irreprehensible in doctrine? To be complimented with this character may be very gratifying to their feelings, and is, doubtless, often done with great sincerity; but is it either wise or probably well founded? Would Dr. Holland be willing to vouch in a similar manner for the professional information and skill of all the members of the learned faculty to which we believe he himself former ly belonged? Would not such an undertaking be deemed, by every competent judge, rash, delusive, and unsatisfactory? We put the case very favourably when we suggest such a comparison; because it is á priori far more probable, that the members of any secular profession, in which success too, be it remembered, depends almost exclusively, upon merit, (not, we fear, the case in the church), should be well-informed and able, than that this should be equally true with respect to those whose acquirements and excellence relate to subjects remote from our natural apprehensious, and in a great measure contrary to our natural dispositions

and habits. Certain we are, that there is nothing in the education of the clergy which can afford any positive ground of security against incompetency or even error, or which can warrant the presumption that with the very few exceptions admitted by Dr. Holland, they will all be found workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing," and strenuously inculcating, "the word of truth."

We cannot justly be

suspected of being deficient in respect to the great body of the English clergy; but we know too much of the weakness and corruption of man, not to be convinced, that every order in society stands in need rather of incitements to self-diffidence and exertion than to self-compla cency and ease. We greatly regret, therefore, the publication of such general vindications, and such. indiscriminate praise, as the sermon before us contains. Addresses of this nature to the clergy, in order to be really profitable, should be of a different description. While they ought to encourage ministerial labours, and to breathe the spirit of that charity which " hopeth all things;" they should tend also to lead those who are the objects of them to serious self-examination, and to excite them to higher measures of duty and watchfulness. We are perfectly ready to admit, that occasions will arise, on which the vindication of the clergy from false or exaggerated charges becomes absolutely necessary. We are no less willing to allow, that there was room for something of this kind in the case which we have been discussing. The clergy in general have certainly been too harshly censured, and their labours too much depreciated, by many of the seceders from the church; and we are not ignorant that in the parishes of many exemplary ministers, the efforts of Sectaries to alienate the affections of their parishioners have been frequently most unchristian and unwarrantable.

In all th se cases, however, deeply

e of the revolutionary noyades and fusil ies of Lyons and the Loire? What will e say of Bonaparte's conduct towards ain and Portugal? Were Charles IV., d Ferdinand, and the Prince Regent of Portugal, actuated by a spirit of implacable Lustility to Bonaparte, which forced him to

in pure self-defence? What will this writer say also of the invasion of Russia in 1812? Was that, likewise, a defensive meaare? Persons who, whether from motives of interest, or from the love of what is base and detestable; whether from hatred to the grinding oppression of the British govern

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ment, or affection for the mild sway of Bonaparte; persons, whatever be their motives, who can thus prostitute their pens, in corrapting the best feelings and preferences of our nature, are chargeable with treason, not against their own country merely, but against the whole human race. We scarcely believe that even a Frenchman of intelligence could now be found, who would describe Bonaparte's wars, of the last "few years," as defensive wars, and would desig nate those who were arrayed against him, as despois, actuated by implacable hostility.

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Indians, both at Fairfield, in Canada, and at Goshen, within the boundaries of the United States, have been greatly disturbed by the war, which tended to draw away

as they are to be lamented, and calculated as they are to excite the dissatisfaction of the clergy; as well as respecting the complaint which is reiterated on all sides, and we fear not without some just grounds, of the rapid increase of Dissenters; the remedy is clearly not to be sought either in the undistinguishing defence and flattery of the clerical body, or in uncandid and disfigured representations of sectarian doctrines. The true and the only effectual cure of the evil will be found in the increasing wisdom, spirituality, vigilance, and exertion of parochial

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there of the revolutionary noyades and fusillades of Lyons and the Loire? What will he say of Bonaparte's conduct towards Spain and Portugal? Were Charles IV., and Ferdinand, and the Prince Regent of Portugal, actuated by a spirit of implacable hostility to Bonaparte, which forced him to arm in pure self-defence? What will this writer say also of the invasion of Russia in 1812? Was that, likewise, a defensive measure? Persons who, whether from motives of interest, or from the love of what is base and detestable; whether from hatred to the grinding oppression of the British govern

ment, or affection for the mild sway of Bonaparte; persons, whatever be their motives, who can thus prostitute their pens, in corrapting the best feelings and preferences of our nature, are chargeable with treason, not against their own country merely, but against the whole human race. We scarcely believe that even a Frenchman of intelligence could now be found, who would describe Bonaparte's wars, of the last "few years," as defensive wars, and would designate those who were arrayed against him, as despots, actuated by implacable hostility.

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