no check can be applied. If, of the setting up the maxims in question, the object was not the rendering the exercise of the power in question thus partial and corrupt, it will be for the reader to judge whether the establishment and exercise of it was not an act without an object: an effect without a

cause.

At the same time, what is obvious enough isthat any such intention as that of exercising government with partiality, corruption, and des potism, can never be professed, or so much as admitted, consistently with any pretensions to the reputation either of probity or of piety. To a public man, who lays claim to either, what is therefore altogether necessary is-that an habitual cloak of insincerity shall be carefully worn by him, and all his acts and words enveloped in it. But, to. the formation of such a habit, nothing (it will have been shewn), can more effectually contribute, than a thorough and continued impregnation with the matter of this Catechism. Accordingly, whether the complexion of the Right Honourable mind, here in question, be not to be numbered among the exemplifications of the. baleful effects of this formulary, is among those points, on which the sincere reader will have to pronounce.

In the Introduction, Part IV. will, as above, have been brought to view the grounds of the,

suspicion entertained, that the Reports published under the name of the National Society, have been spurious, and at the same time purposely deceptious: spurious, in as much as the acts, therein represented as having had the actual concurrence of the whole body,-or such and such large portions of it,-have, in the most important instances, and in particular in the instance of the exclusionary acts, been the work of no more than one member of those bodies respectively viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the President: purposely deceptious, in as much as a system, composed of general concealment and occasional disclosure, has all along been carried on, having for its object the producing a persuasion, that the acts in question have all along had the actual concurrence-in the first place, of this or that particular Committee,-in the next place, of the General Committee, of the Members of which the list is published in every such Report.

Supposing the case to be such as it is thus suspected to be, here would be guilt in two different shapes to be divided among those whom it concerned of active misrepresentation, and purposed imposture and deception, the charge would fall upon the Archbishop of Canterbury, the President of connivance with this active guilt, upon the rest of the Bishops and their lay-coadjutors.

Upon this supposition, the connection,-between the disposition, above stated as formed by the

instrument in question on the one hand, and the language and conduct of men in high places on the other, will be found still more particularly close in this, than in any other of the abovementioned five instances.

In the other cases, the disease produced is rather a general laxity of the moral frame, with or without its naturally, though not constantly concomitant symptom-general debility of the intellectual frame in this last case it is immorality in a determinate shape: viz. insincerity and fraud, or in one word falsehood—and this practised on a specific occasion, for a specific purpose.

VIII. Appendix, No. II. In the course of the examination made of this Catechism in the body of the work, occasion was found for bringing in some degree to view the abuses, of which the Church ceremony, called the Lord's Supper, has been the source: on which same occasion, another ceremony,-issuing beyond doubt from the same sacred source, and of the two the only one properly applicable to the situation of the followers of Jesus taken at large, is there held up to view, in comparison and competition with it. The more thoroughly the two ceremonies were thus conjunctly considered, the more impressive was the conception formed, of the advantages which would result, from the substitution of the perfectly innoxious, and at the same time eminently and usefully instructive ceremony,

to the unfaithful imitation of a scene in private life, in which no generally applicable instruction was contained, and the imitations of which have, in experience, been found to be in so deplorable a degree noxious.

On maturer consideration however, for the reason that will be seen, the feet-washing,-though pre-. ferable in every respect--and in a high degree-to the wine-drinking ceremony-and though in use, and even in practice, not altogether unknown in Catholic countries,-seemed not to afford a sufficient promise either of its being instituted by any class of Christians in this country,-or, if instituted, of its being decidedly useful. Hence, this being dropt, remains for the Short Title.-Lord's Supper-not designed by Jesus for general imitation-its utter unfitness for that purpose.

IX. Appendix, No. III. Against mischiefs, so enormous as these which will have been seen to flow from the exclusionary system,-hard indeed would be the condition of the people of this country, if such were the nature of the case, as to deny all remedy. From two sources alone can any such remedy be looked for one is, repentance at the hands of the authors of the system; the other is, a course, the. taking of which is already in the hands of the persons most immediately affected by it, viz. the parents and guardians of the children to whom the poisonous cup is held out.

Of these two remedies, for form sake, the first mentioned is indeed held up to view: but, of course, with scarce a ray of hope to gild it with.

The other will be seen presented for adoption : presented in the character of a lawful, safe, effectual, and, when well considered, an unobjectionable one.

Short title. Remedies to the mischiefs of the Exclusionary System as applied to Instruction..

X. Appendix, No. IV. Throughout the whole field of morals, dissocial and social affection afford a test, by which, in so far as circumstances admit of the application of it, they may be distinguished from each other. Dissocial, finds in the exposure of abuses and other imperfections, its ultimate gratification: social affection, whether operating upon a private or a public scale, puts, and keeps itself upon the look out for a remedy: and, howsoever remote and uncertain, it is only by the cheering prospect of a remedy in the back ground, that it can bring itself to face and dwell upon the afflicting spectacle, of the stream of sufferings so generally flowing from the abuse,

It is thus that, where the mischief produced by the injection of the matter of this Catechism has been brought to view, a remedy-and that such as it is, one which it is in the power of all fathers and guardians to administer-has been sought for, found, and just now referred to.-It is thus that,

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