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salary , however , continuing * the same . I had a rising family to support , and to maintain the appearance of a gentleman . There are no opulent individuals in the vicinity , and the few that had sons preferred sending- them anywhere rather than to be educated by a country curate . Independent of the chagrin of hope
induced by this circumstance , I could not afford to advertise for the precarious chance of obtaining one or two pupils ; while the emolument derived from giving daily instructions to a few boys in the village , has always been scanty enough , though arduously wearing , and—as I could not help feeling at times—not alto * gether worthy of such abilities as I have been thought to
p ossess . I have been led to consider this subject frequently of late ; for , let me assure your lordship , that there are many curates similarly situated ; and to hope that some plan might be adapted for improving the hard fate of the more humble ,, though , I venture to affirm , not least industrious ministers of the Gospel , We have seen immense sums recently bestowed in various ways , the advantageous effect of which I am too little versed in politics to gainsay ; I merely offer the opinion , that Government would do an unquestionable service to the cause of true religion and high morality , by purchasing all the lay impropriations , and then proceeding , by an equitable distribution , if not to an equalization of livings , at least to an adjustment in favour of those who have been expressly educated for such situations . As it is , my lord , the givers of livings , and many of the holders of livings , are r ich laymen : and . besides this . I am led to believe , that mere interest .
or patronage , has as general an influence in the church as it is known to have in the army ! Moreover it appears , that the same patronage has not unfrequently served for bothy and in respect of the same individual ! In a recent letter from a friend in London , I learn that he dined the other day at the house of a person of consequence , and there were three clergymen
present—rectorsat the same table , all of whom had been captains in the army . * I submit it to your lordship , and I think you will agree with me when I point it out , that an undue influence must have been exercised ,, first in their promotion in the army over the heads of * man y senior officers ; and , secondly , on their returning to
college , after selling their commissions on the establishment of the peace , taking orders , and steppinginto immediate livings . The same letter mentions , that a certain gentleman , who had risen to the high rank of colonel in the guards , is now rector of St . M— * s and West R— , in the county of k , and chaplain to the Earl of Roseberry ; f
• A fact . t The atave ex-colonel is the author of a volume of sermons , dedicated to the King . Would it not haw been more consistent to ha * e dedicated them to the Dufc of Wellington ? They might have produced a greater effect than any that cvuld issue from a leb » couutuial quarter , and might have been entitled * Senuooa from th « Sword / II . * H ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/3/
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