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and asked , eft passant ? if nothing could be gotten from the church towards alleviating the burdens of the state & The Bishop r ^ pressied th © inquiry by shewing , that if the revenues * of the
church were equally divided , they would aot realise above £ 150 per . annum fo each etergymam His projected reform extended to revenne jurisdiction and doctrine . He would begin with the revenue , with regard
t © which he proposed equalizing bishoprics , in point of both income and patronage , and making provision for the poorer clergy , by appropriations of some portion of the income of deaner ies * &c , as they became vacant . By
the foriner ineasrure , he cotitetbplated raising the bishops to a stateof independence of ministers , freei * i £ theni from the necessity of holding ecclesiastical ' preferments , m c&mmentkm , and taking away from them the desire
of translation : by the latter , securing the residence of the clergy * < m their cures , so essential to the credit of tfi ^ national religion . H * drew up his plan in ^ i printed Jetfer to the A rdh - bishop of Canterbury , which he sent to the ministers and the bishops of the episcopal bench . Only one , Portens ,
then of Chester , had the good manners to acknowledge the Receipt of it ; and as to the ministers , they all approved the scheme , but begged the Reformer to Wait , for the present teas not the time . It is surprising to us that so keen-eyed a naan as Dr . Watson should not have seen from the
beginning , that the aristocracy in the state would never consent to part with such a fund of influence as they possess in tile richer bishoprics , and that the heads of the church would
never consent to destroy the richer prizes of their high calling , on which their eyes are set from the moment that they gain the ear of a statesman in power or in expectation of place . Political and worldly considerations aside * his project could not hare been realized without a national
convulsion 9 for he would hare carried his reform ( as be himself explai n * , p . 10 S , ) t p " a revieyp of the doctrine and d *« - cipline of thechurd v and a complete purgation ef it front the ^ rpg $ ^ ojf JPq * PW & m 4 4 e | inmety * f Cahiinm *" Jp web 9 f * we « pj » g * efarm&fa > n , \ vhot wouWJ ^ veb ^^ wiwaQfthe XliMy -mne ArttvJe * * # <} tim wW « i mm of Cg + qh
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mon Prayar , and even of the prebfcfiH dal stalls of Ely aud the © pbcopal throne of Landaff ? It is not wonderful that " the pensioned pm ^ o € CiiHiberland ' shouM have been emK
ployed against the Bishop ' s jschem ^ 6 x that some * siiljy people would needs suppose that he was in heait ; a . republican , and meant harqa to the church establishment . ^ In truth , Xfo . Watson « oou found , md these Memoirs
uniformly shew , that he was out of his place as a bishop in a pjolitical church in the reiga of George the Third . The Bishop made his first speech in Pa ^ iament , on the 30 th pf Maj >; It 83 * ^ n the < : ase , brought up from
tl fe poi . irt of King ' s Jfeu ^ ljot thus Bishop of London aud Pisney Fytche ,, Esq . respectiu-g the validity hf general bonds of resignation ^ " . it ; tiisplaycd great lpgieal ^ Lcuteness and precision ^ At the end of this year the Bishop ' s independence W 9 $ severely fifeft . * T ||^ j > u&e ^ f Portland , the minister , sent
for him to come up to town and vote for , ivir- Jotfs JEM Ufa Vmiwi ^ n patron , the ttuke M Rutland , who had joined Mr . Pitt , pressed him on the other side : l > e disapproved of the bill , but be Would iti > t ; oppose ^ r . Fox ; add bv his neutrality he offended
and lost both parties . | Jis conduct in this dilemma was truly dignified . u Soon after tbis I iveat to LDsdoo , and o « calling' ob the Duke of Rutland , I thought there wa ^ t att yauftual distance m
his mann « r not gr « at enough to found a direct quarrel on , and yet too great for me to submit to without assuming- au equal distance on 111 y part ) this soon brought him to a little better temper . Lord Sfcelburne told me at the time , that he was afraid somebody had been endeavouringto make mischief between ( fee Duke of
Rutland and myself , on account of my 1 * 0 cemin ^ to oppose tfce t « dlia dilL Me did not tell me who the person was who kad done me this injuryf nor did nj susgjfriti oa * till several years afterwards ^ faU on Mn Pitt ; nor do I know whether it has foll e * rightly at las ^ . I hope it has not £ for thoug-h I must ever consider it as u bad
trait In Wr . Pift * s chacacler , ithat « | neV 5 r experienced from him the sligYitest return o ( gratitude % fot the services which I ba 4 rendered Mm when Ire stood ittost lit need ef them at GJfcaibridg * ; yet 1 « m utiwHlm ^ tf > think « f him ds h » vipg- poM « 8 flMNl a littte an 4 reve * g « ^ mi « nd , mvpfiag to iajnne U ^ s ^ who iw ul n « rt . bMom the Mi « i wUim ^ atf of bi « aj ^ Mtiw . I # * nj Lotf
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Rewew . S — Life of the Bishop of lAnfoft . \ $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/53/
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