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Show (G. P.] of125;» r, and ofP/wmzt s none of 3. The clergy of the Diffenters receive at the tythes paid by their people, who mutt be own the additional charge of maintaining their _ - ip.-- worth ate tepar ‘ICYZ But it is find, that the Difi'enters 0f A/IZL'I PIZI‘IZ‘CZI/[ll‘zy in A M E R 1 c A. few feek it in England, where bifho 81 ' plenty.--Thefe fentiments prevail. wiih arifarin churchmen there, not to promote a defign which they thlnk mufi: fooner or later faddle them with great expenees to fupport it.-As to theDifTenters their minds might probably be more conciliated ojijngfl' the introduétion of a bithop. in £13, it ia not alone the DifTenters there that give the oppofition (if 720! encouraging mutt be termed 0pfg/frgj but the laity in general diflike the project, and fome even of the clergy. The inhabitants of M'Irgzizizz are almoft all epit- copalians, the church is fully ef'tablifhed there, and the council and general affembly are, per- haps to aman, its members : yet, when lately at a meeting of the Clergy, a refolution was taken to apply for a bilhop, againi't which feveral, however, protef‘ted; the afiémbly of the pro- vince, at the next meeting, exprefl‘ed their dif- approbation of the thing in the f'trongef't man- ner, by unanimoufly ordering the thanks of the to.the meafure if the bifhops here flaould, in their Wifdom and goodnefs, think fit to fet their facred. Character in a more friendly light, by dropping their oppofition to the Difi'enters a - plieation for relief in fubfeription ; and declarin their willingnefs that Diffenters {hould be eag pable of oflices, enjoy the benefit of education 1n.the univerfities, and the privilege of appro- priating their tythes to the fupport of their own clergy. In all thefe points of toleration, they appear far behind the prefent Diffenters of New England, and it may feem to fome a flap below the dignity of bifhops, to follow the example of fuch interiors. I do not, however, defpair of for many of the Ame- their deing it fome time or other, fince nothing rica/z laity of the church think it fome advantage-whether their own young men come to England for ordination, and improve themfelves 0f_the kind is too hard for Irue C/Jrgflz'zm [IIImz/zty. houfe to the protef'ters; at the fame time by converfiition with the learned here,---or the congregations are fupplied Iam, Sir, yours, See. by A NEW-ENGLAND-MAN vfu Eng/Mame" who have had the benefit of education in Engliih univerfities, and are ordained before they came abroad. They do not, therefore, fee the neeeffity of a bifhop merely for ordination; and confirmation is among them deemed a ceremony of no very great importance, fince . few 'i‘ [Db Fran/U"2%.] was b 0 m at 30/1le 1n atP/kila dehbia. . New England, and not M II. PAPERS- |