THE WORKS OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH INCLUDING HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. IN TWO VOLS. VOLUME THE SECOND. LONDON LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS. 1859 ARTICLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. PERSECUTING BISHOPS. (E. REVIEW, 1822.) 1. An Appeal to the Legislature and Public; or, the Legality of the Eighty-Seven Questions proposed by Dr. Herbert Marsh, the Bishop of Peterborough, to Candidates for Holy Orders, and for Licences, with in that Diocese, considered. 2nd Edition. London, Seeley, 1821. a naked circle about the object in dispute, so that there may be a clear view of it on every side. In pursuance of this disencumbering process, we shall first acquit the Bishop of all wrong intentions. He has a very bad opinion of the practical effects of high Calvinistic doctrines upon the common people; and he thinks it his duty to exclude those clergymen who profess them from his diocese. There is no moral wrong in this. He has accordingly devised no fewer than eighty-seven interrogatories, by which he thinks he can detect the smallest taint of Calvin 2. A Speech, delivered in the House of Lords, on Friday, June 7, 1822, by Herbert, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, on the Presentation of a Petition against his Examination Questions; with Explanatory Notes, a Supplement, and a Copy of the Questions. London, Rivington, 1822. 3. The Wrongs of the Clergy of the Diocese ism that may lurk in the creed of the of Peterborough stated and illustrated. By the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, M.A., candidate; and in this also, whatever Rector of Burton, Northamptonshire; we may think of his reasoning, we supand Vicar of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. pose his purpose to be blameless. He London, Seeley, 1822. 4. Episcopal Innovation; or, the Test of power so to interrogate and exclude; believes, finally, that he has legally the Modern Orthodoxy, in Eighty-Seven and in this, perhaps, he is not misQuestions, imposed, as Articles of Faith, taken. His intentions, then, are good, upon Candidates for Licences and for and his conduct, perhaps, not amenable Holy Orders, in the Diocese of Peter must borough; with a Distinct Answer to each to the law. All this we admit in his Question, and General Reflections rela- favour: but against him we tive to their Illegal Structure and Per- maintain, that his conduct upon the nicious Tendency. London, Seeley, 1820. points in dispute has been singularly 5. Official Correspondence between the injudicious, extremely harsh, and, in Right Reverend Herbert, Lord Bishop of its effects (though not in its intentions), Peterborough, and the Rev. John Green, very oppressive and vexatious to the respecting his Nomination, to the Curacy Clergy. of Blatherwycke, in the Diocese of Peterborough, and County of Northampton: We have no sort of intention to avail Also, between His Grace Charles, Lord ourselves of an anonymous publication Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Rev. to say unkind, uncivil, or disrespectful Henry William Neville, M.A., Rector of things to a man of rank, learning, and Blatherwycke, and of Cottesmore in the character-we hope to be guilty of no County of Rutland. 1821. Ir is a great point in any question to clear away encumbrances, and to make VOL. II. such impropriety; but we cannot believe we are doing wrong in ranging ourselves on the weaker side, in the B |