hand. With the assistance of Jack, he put Lord Peter IN THE STOCKS; and then Martin said to Jack, "My good brother, you are a sober, industrious workman, as any in the town, and, if you will only go to Church* once in a way, you shall come into the Corporation." Jack said he would never go to Church, for he hated organs, surplices, and kneeling so Peter remained in the stocks, and Jack never got into the Corporation, and both of them declared that Martin had used them very ill; but Martin said to Peter, "Why you know how you kicked and cuffed when you was at liberty." Peter replied, "Kicked and cuffed? I don't know what you mean! I did nothing but for the good of your soul!" "Now," said Martin to Jack, "I should not so much object to your coming into the Corporation, but I am sure, when you were once got in, I should never be LORD-MAYOR any more, and you would turn out me, and my wife and children, to beg our bread, as you did before." Then Jack said, "Brother, you may do what you like, for I will come into the Corporation in spite of you!"

It happened that a great Serjeant of Dragoons† came into our town, and seeing Peter in the stocks, said, “I will take you out; but remember, Peter, if I do, you must not take upon yourself the name of Lord Peter any more." Upon which Lord Peter

* Test Act.

† A certain Duke. One of Mr. Peel's conditions.

was let out of the stocks; and immediately after he cried-“ I am a Lord, and a Lord I will be called!" And one of Martin's old Parsons got up, and said, "How do you do, MY LORD? I hope YOUR LORDSHIP has taken no cold, in sitting so long without refreshment." *

So Peter got out of the stocks, and Jack into the Corporation, by the help of the Serjeant and his Drummer and there, for the present, we will leave them.

But we must make this remark that, if Peter had not put a great many things into his Father's Will (Bible) which were not there, and acted so cruelly with the family of Martin, because they would not add or diminish from THE WILL; he would never have been put in the stocks at all, but would have remained in possession of his inhetance, as elder brother. And we may say of Jack-whom we should rather call now, Mr. John, that he would not have been prevented coming into the Corporation at any time, if he had not turned out his brother Martin's children to starve.

Now, every one must hope and pray, that, if these brothers cannot entirely agree, they will forget and forgive, and live in peace and charity—but up rides ESQUIRE KING, with a great book under his arm, about a relation who, he says, is one of "us," and this Squire tells the brothers that

* Bishop of Norwich's late letter.

+ Mr. P.

neither Peter in burning, nor Jack in kicking his brother's children out of their houses, is half so intolerant and oppressive as Martin- thereupon taking out his great book, he produces " a prayer" written by a relation of Martin's a hundred and fifty years ago!*

To return. If in exhibiting faithfully, from documentary evidence, many of the baneful and immoral fruits of Calvinistic Puritanism in the seven

* But not only is this unfortunate prayer, according to my Lord King, worthy a Turkish mufti - a literary correspondent of mine has absolutely proposed the example of the pious and tolerant Mahometan to the imitation of the Druidical and bloody Christian priesthood! Godfrey Higgins, the historian of the Druids, who, from his benevolent exertions in the cause of the Lunatic Asylum at York, I imagine is still

A sad, good CHRISTIAN at the heart!

has put forth a work, called "Mahomet," showing the injus-
tice that great Prophet has received from Christian Giaours,
and the Author sets before them a circumstance admirably
adapted to teach them humanity and toleration. The circum-
stance is this:-A traveller from England was going to kill a
viper. "Hold!" says the venerable Mufti,
"what are you
about? The same God that made the viper made
you. Surely
the desert is wide enough for both." All will agree this is
a very pretty, and, what is more, a very instructive story; and
it were only to be wished that the children of the tolerant and
humane Mohammed had thought of it when, in cold blood,
they put to death every man, woman, and child, of the unfor-
tunate Sciotes, and left a whole populous and beautiful island
a desert to the viper! Such are the lessons of toleration and
brotherly love we are to learn! Such reasoners are those who
accuse the Clergy of bigotry!
ada

† Scotland exhibits a most moral community, and the reli

teenth century, contrasted with those of genuine
piety, I may be thought to have had in my eye
some correspondent traits of religious profession
in the present day; I can only say, of this every
one must judge for himself; but I am sure no per-
son of genuine piety, or charitable feelings, will
think himself affected by any facts I have advanced.

I beg to add, lest I should be accused of being
an intolerant High-churchman, a name for which
I feel no great respect, that my sentiments, politi-
cal or religious, have never veered, on important
subjects, from the time I have thought on such
subjects at all; and if, by the kindness of friends,
I am now placed in a dignified station in the even-
ing of my days, I have been a "working" Cu-
rate for seventeen years (if this be to be one of
the "working" Clergy!) but I entered the gates of
our Sion voluntarily, and should think I had no
right to complain if I were a "working" Curate

gion of the country is Calvinistic. Yes; but in Scotland,
among the intellectual classes, the scholars and professors of
the cities and universities, how many are strict Calvinists?
In the villages "on Tweed," the baleful effects of this dis-san.
fand
tempered creed are practically corrected in consequence of
the greater power possessed, by Synods and Elders, of en-
forcing the strictest moral discipline, and a constant superin-
tendence of Pastors, almost parental. The hyena crouches under
such a regime; but what must be that system of Christianity
that requires practical and moral control at all?—how terrible
was the hyena when the unfortunate Archbishop Sharp excited
its rage?

still. I feel compelled to say thus much, to obviate, as frankly as I may, sarcasms which I foresee may be cast on a Clergyman, defending from a cathedral-stall the spirit of his Church, and not concealing his scorn of Iconoclasts and Puritans of whatever order. I close these remarks in front of the beautiful cathedral of Salisbury. May it still look to heaven uninjured! May its devotional services be heard, and its solemn bell note the departure of hours, days, and years, till time shall be no more, when sub-lapsarian and supra-lapsarian systems, which have hid the BIBLE and the shrine of truth, shall be but as the dust on Bishop Davenant's tomb.*

The late Life of Locke, and other publications breathing a still more intolerant spirit together with old charges lately revived and some most extraordinary parallels in the spirit of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries must be my apology for devoting so much attention to these subjects.

With this view, notwithstanding such gainsayings, I have endeavoured, in times abounding with

* The inscription on his monument is truly in character with his theology:

"Monumentorum omnium Johannis Davenant— minime perenne-quod loquatur, audi."

As if what was eternal could be more or less eternal! A finer satire on his works could not be devised.. By a curious reversal of the inscription, this monument has remained long after his works have been forgotten.