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At a meeting holden at Mr. J. J. Stockdale's, No. 41, Pall-Mall, on Satur day, March 25, 1813,-It was resolved

1. That, holding, as we do, our establishment in Church and State in the highest veneration, and impressed with the deepest gratitude for the blessings we enjoy under it, and deprecating all change in the essential principles of the Constitution; we, being desirous of promoting its per manent stability, by means specified in the following resolutions, do resolve to form ourselves into a society for that purpose, under the de nomination of the "Society for the Support of the Constitution in Church and State."

2. That the general objects of this society, are, to promote the security, and support the general rights of the Church ;-and, for these purposes; to form in the Metropolis a centre of union with all friends to the Established Church, on Principles of Charity with all denominations of Chris tians, but of inflexible adherence to the Established Church.

3. That, considering the exertions, which are now making by the Ros man Catholics, for obtaining a repeal of such laws as were deemed by our ancestors necessary for maintaining the Protestant Establishment in Church and State, we consider the danger, which threatens the Church from this source, an object of primary attention.

4. That this society, not being formed on the supposition that other societies, friendly to the Established Church, are inadequate to their several purposes, but to pursue objects which do not come within the view of such societies, will, in no respect, interfere either with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, or with the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church.

5. That this society, when constituted, will reprint scarce and valua ble treatises, tending to show the grounds of our Ecclesiastical Establishment, the aid, which it derives from, and affords to, the State,-the arguments by which the usefulness and necessity of Ecclesiastical Establishments may be defended, the superior excellence of that under which we live, as a National Establishment,-the means by which it may be maintained and supported,-the dangers which immediately threaten it, and the means of averting them,-the origin and extent of its rights and immunities, the true nature of toleration, and the protection which religious liberty necessarily derives from the preservation of the Church of England, the relation which subsists between the Clergy and Laity,the peculiar duties of both at peculiar junctures; and will give an extended circulation to treatises which have these objects in view. 6. That the following form of recommendation be observed for the admission of Members into this society." We, the underwritten, do VOL. I. Prot. Adv. April, 1813.]

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recommend A. B. to be a Member of the Society for the Support of the Constitution in Church and State, and do verily believe that he is well affected to His Majesty King George and his Government, and to the Church of England as by law established."

7. That persons, members of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, are eligible to be balloted for as members of this Society, without further recommendation, and that a subscription of one guinea, or upwards, annually, or a donation of ten guineas, or upwards, shall entitle any person, so elected, to be a member of this society.

8. That no ballot shall take place for any new member, without notice has been given at one meeting before that at which the ballot shall take place, and that a minority of one-fifth shall be sufficient to exclude. 9. That this society do not meet from the beginning of July to the be ginning of December.

10. That this society meet once a fortnight, excepting within the period above mentioned, and that Saturday be the day of meeting.

11. Resolved, That Wm. Wix, Esq. F.R.S. be requested to take the office of Treasurer.

12. Resolved, That the Rev. Samuel Wix, A. M. be the Secretary. 13. The committee meetings of the Society will be held at Mr. J.J. STOCKDALE'S, 41, Pall-Mall.

14. Communications to this Society may be addressed to the Rev. SAMUEL WIX, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Secretary to the Society, or to Mr. J. J. STOCKDALE, No. 41, Pall Mall.

ERRATA IN OUR LAST.

Page 312.-For "Lord Viscount Middleton"-" read Midleton. Page 336." The bailiff and inhabitants of Penrhyn, [petitioned Par liament,] with 8000 signatures [to their petition.]"--This statement is erroneous. There are not so many inhabitants in Penrhyn; perhaps not more than 3000. The meeting was numerous, and the petition, voted with only three dissentient voices, was signed by the Mayor in the name of those who attended.-We make this correction on unquestionable, and most highly respected authority.

Page 329.-For-" The religion of the Papists is superstitious and idolatrous; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical; their Church, in respect of both, apostolical;"-read, apostatical.

Page 297.-Under the column Rhemish Version, for "Repentance"— read, penance.

MISTAKE CORRECTED.

In our last Number, page 335, we observe with surprise and regret, a mis-statement of the part which Mr. Tennant took at a meeting held last January in Leeds, upon the Roman Catholic claims. He is there, by some

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unaccountable error, made to support Mr. Tottie, who moved a petition in favour of those claims; whereas, every thing he advanced on that occasion was against further concessions. His object was to contravert Mr. Tottie's assertions, declaring his full conviction, that however varnished and softened down the present tenets of the Catholics might be made to ap pear, they continued the same as they had ever been-and that the same causes now existed which induced our wise ancestors to exclude them from political power.

We most eagerly seize this opportunity to rectify this mis-statement, for we should be very sorry that Mr. Tennant's name should be handed down upon record as one of those liberal-minded and enlightened persons who have so suddenly discovered, that no danger to the Protestant ascendancy is to be apprehended from admitting the Roman Catholics to a share in the Legislative and Executive Government.

To what strange accident this mistake is owing, we cannot conjecture. It is altogether unintentional; and we flatter ourselves that Mr. Tennant will be induced to accept of this apology. Our wish is to stand high in the good opinion of that gentleman.EDITOR.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Filiolus's favour shall soon appear.

Hibernicus still stands over. His favour is nearly superseded by his countryman's interesting remarks on the Kilkenny Dinner, p. 235. Britannicus is by no means consigned to oblivion. His directions have been observed. We hope to give the communication bearing this signature in our next.- A Free-thinker is not forgotten.

Erasmus to Mr. Grattan is received.

We refer the writer, distinguishing his paper by X, for an account of the fictitious Pastorini, to p. 204. Our Casuist says this was a Popish forgery, perpetrated by Dr. Walmsley, intended to re-inspirit the worsted Papists; and animate them anew to the contest ;- -" Pastorale signum."

P. C. is received.—An Oxford Protestant's second communication is received. We intend printing it. He might, at Oxford, have had recourse to the fountain head of literary information. His extracts from the Bishop of Galloway's work are curious Bishop Cowper's is a small volume, printed at London in 1613. 12mo. p. 221.

A Protestant of the Church of England, who dates from Cambridge, does us great honour. We wish to make our list of petitions complete. We should be happy to be favoured with assistance in this and similar matters. -We hope to hear again from our Hibernian friend-the modest and reserved T. C. Jun.-Posthumus has our thanks. We intend noticing the Jetters he mentions. We hope to print his paper in our next.

A. B. is very obliging. We wish we had room for the printed copy

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which he has sent us of a speech intended to have been delivered at the Wiltshire county meeting, Jan. 27, 1813.

An Irish Protestant's account of the real principles of the much abused Orange-men deserves attention. We thank him for his present. We shall extract certain passages very shortly.-The Irish Protestants have our sincere regard. They stand in imminent peril. We hope the Legislature will never compromise their security. They shall not want an advocate in England, while the Editor lives to plead their cause, and assert their rights. Juvenis was intended for this month. He must wait a little. We have prior obligations to satisfy. Seniores, priores.

Britannus's 1st paper is received.-How many numbers are there? We think it would be very advisable for this writer to revise his series, adapt. ing his compositions to present circumstances. We could like to be indulged with his name, in the strictest confidence. Several of our most respected correspondents have done us a similar favour.

Exon, C. J. C. We are sorry for the trouble this gentleman has had in transcribing. Many of his quotations are valuable, and may be of use to us. Clericus Anglicanus in our next. The confidential interchange of names with this gentleman has been peculiarly gratifying to us.

We hail with profound respect the signature of " An Old Whig of the Revolution Stamp, that is an Enemy to Popery as well as Slavery." The occasional essays which he points out, are well known to us. We hope to inform the public mind by following the directions of this able adviser We too are from an old whiggish stock. The blood of the Jekyls circulates in our veins. A very near relation of our's made a present to the Member for Calne of the original portrait of Sir Joseph Jekyl. The new Whigs are the patrons of the Papists; the old Whigs abhorred and abjured Popery. The new Whigs are Jacobins, or, at least, Talents'-men; the old Whigs love their King, and are attached to the House of Brunswick, and the Protestant succession. The Editor desires the learned gentleman whom he addresses, to read the note, p. 286.

Mr. Campbell of Pontefract is about to publish an English translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia, with Historical Notes; to which will be added, the celebrated Sermon on 1 Cor. xi. 23, preached by Bishop Jewel, at Paul's Cross, March 30th, 1500.-Mr. Campbell is Editor of the Apologia with Smith's Greek Version. Mr. J. is aware, no doubt, that the Apologia was first translated into English by a learned Lady, wife to Sir Nich. Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and second daughter to Sir Anthony Cooke, one of the Tutors to King Edward VI; and that it was again translated, as the title-page tells us, "by a Person of Quality," a very copious life of the Bishop being prefixed. This last translation was published at the perilous period of 1685. A new yersion in 1813, cannot be ill-timed.

THE

PROTESTANT ADVOCATE,

For MAY 1813.

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"The disqualification which excluded Catholics from the Legislature, is continued as necessary. Necessary, for preserving uniformity in our Constitution, which, in 66 every feature and character, in every provision and appointment, is altogether Pro"testant. Necessary, for promoting unanimity in the Parliament, and in the Coun-* "cils of the Sovereign. Necessary, for removing solicitude from the minds of English "Protestants. Necessary, for securing the exercise of religious worship and the undis"turbed enjoyment of their possessions, to the Protestants in Ireland. Necessary, for "upholding a Protestant government in Ireland. Necessary, for perpetuating the con"nexion and union between Ireland and Great Britain."―The Bishop of Gloucester.

THE ENGLISH CLERGY VINDICATED, &c.

In direct contradiction of all the assertions that have been made as to the impropriety of our Clergy's interference in the Roman Catholic ques-> tion; and in utter contempt of all the maudlin lamentations which have been uttered on this subject; we cannot withhold the mede of our applause from the Clergy of England, who, in their individual capacity, have stood up the champions of Protestantism, and in the various collective bodies which they form, such as chapters, archdeaconries, &c. have nobly stepped forward, setting bright examples of moderate expressions, and firm principles, in the petitions which they have presented to the houses of Parliament. They have proved themselves worthy successors of those venerable men who, during the Marian persecution braved every danger in defence of pure religion, and in the hope of assuring to their posterity that toleration which Popery never would allow. Be their memory ever blessed among us! May the Clergy ever follow the pattern of their courage and constancy, their meekness and patience, and great charity." The horrors of a cruel superstition had no power over their minds and they were not to be entangled by all the artifices of sophistry. The bland manners of Pole could not seduce them into error, the cruelty of Gardiner, and the brutality of Bonner, could not terrify them from pursuing the path of truth. The Clergy of the present day, after all, have very little to fear. The approbation of their countrymen cannot but attend them, and although a few parliamentary characters have spoken disrespectfully of VOL. I. [Prol. Adv. May, 1813].

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