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WiUmm Bell SIR,— " • 7J?^:x^Z"^:^:^:t!i:^V-^''^^^ oryour besetting sin, ..e. publication of aSr WBtJrIt Ut°"'' '"^-j^.^t •""''''«^* ^'^ «'» tion, under th«Bia8k of h!K "^^' V* ^^'*'' Jesuitical prqduc- Mr/Stewwt you havelott n"^ your character against the attnck^ of sity, of tSS out darfc^.^^^^^ *° '"^"'^^ '" your natural prupen^ not name in cZS wUhT^^^^^^ P^^""' '''^°'" y°» ^ara private nature TrreDrfnJhi;?«r'"°P*'^ whether of « oub|ic or ny occuMons fulmlated 4^^^^^^^^ ^t''^'^ ^°" '^ -<' °" -"•> fw above the utmost reafh«r '"• P? "*°"''' whose characters stand dust everyTeaC of Zi^^llTwI^^^'TJ^^ ff""*'' "^ '«^'«' '» *he own accoint! But elt hi Z^ '''?' J ''♦"'j''^ ""* "^"•'''^^ o" yo"*" morality may induce Si ^^e&L ''*'"* ''^'^ ''♦'"« ^^'''^ '" •"??«'' of your hior to S« tn "'^ lt'*"«''''«'**'^"°^«'" "'Wch it hai been which TZ ^ArCX^Vr "'^ "*f V^'^^^^ individual rantly tn»8pa^fZ7aU^S??n^nT'1' ^""f "»'««*"«<'• J "hM reluc vcur DrocJedin^. «ni ♦« t ?.! '" '*'^'" *^ '"'*"* »"* ^^e impropriety of with EjSvTt^ue^^^^^^ *>f thal^dis'c'onL; Sabbath bvindulirinfl^ 21J ^l^'^y^*"- hearers, and profaned the passions^n Vat X«aieCjShTi:rK*' "'"'''??•'"'* "ngovernable to meekness, forSaJce S^ter"^''*,^^^^^ exhorted p^ier. notice of the lettw Z hLv^Tl^^ ii"* ^"""'''y- ^"^ ^^f^ ^^^g maynotbTan^iMto^everrtoafl ^?.^^^ your Congreg,uion. it ceedings sino2 your arXa a^this 1^ tT^*'T "^ ^?"'" P"''"« P^" cau8eitwillenS>leZtrcontaitth«^:nJ^^^^ becomes important, be- you would fain hav* J Ir? ? ® professions you ^jake and the zchI I to others sben., Uuf merer shew to n», " ' P"^"'- " *<» f""^/ received m rw»h«^„ *^ „ °*er'«nR per annum, that vou .4 t»y .he e.yvj n^;«i 01 uie-se coxr.iortofai. urcumiUnces, obviouV^ ti-; .-U r your abode, in the dross and appearance of your family, in fact in erery t mg coiinectod with you, it was almoHt your first public act to inform the settlers that they were bound M ttlahe Ihrtlier provision for your aup- I»ort, and in the most cold hearted indifference to their hardships and want, you cruelly insulted them by reproach, for not biving built a jioiise for your reception : little did you regard the recital of many dif- licultics which had obstructed theit success, the failure of two crops With thoconsequeiU scarcity and all but starvation of their families, found no sympathy irt your breast ; all these distresses were treated with utter diarcg.ird when adduced as reasons for non-compliance with your exorbi- tant (1( mauds— net long after you tauntingly told theitt you would leave tlie seillement toer.joy your salary elsewhere ; was this conduct befit- ing a servant, a missionary of him who said " unless ye forsake hus- band and wife, children and lands, yc are not fit to fdlow me." I think your hearers will an«w6r no I This unfeeling conduct together with rarious instances oJ a simihiC kind gave at that time much dissatisfac- tion, whicli even at this late day is not wholly oradicated-^all your grum- bling pecuniary applications and illnatured attacks were made on Sun- flay ! in the House of God ! ! always after divine service ! ! ! and not tinfrequently Sacramental service ! ! ! I which in the expressed opinion «1 many pious members of your church is an awful breach of tbo Sab- bath, even worse than the youthtbl folly of riding in a sleigh on that day. Do you remember the manner in which you atttempted to pay honese Daniel Buchanan the debt you owed him for house rent ? & docs not the award df the arbitrators Tise \tp In judgment against you when you have the hardihood to exalt yourself as a pattern of " Morality." Was it revenge which prompted you to withhold baptism from the chil- dren of tliis old veteran in the service of him who givesyou a hun- dred pounds sterling a year 1 If so, I liope it will be forgiven you. But in every prayer you should remember with what scorn you refused to inform the old mm how often ha must attend your church before you ln'ouid l)aptise his child, and that iu consequence of sUch unchristian conduct, he was driven to the minister of another Church for the cele- bration of Hint ordinance of which our Saviour said, 8ufef little chil- dren to cotite unto me and fofhid them noti You did not " set apart Bolnly fer religioUs purposes" that Sabbath evening which found you in the dwelling of a neighbouring Justice of the Peace demanding a war- rant under the Black act against a young lad named Joseph Pitt, who had accidentally injured your Cow by the discharge of a fowling piece, and you did not " remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" when yeur uasfer waxed warm because the Justice told you he did not see the neces- sity for issuiiig a warrant on that day, as he thought Monday morning ^'ould answer as well : bat if you Would swear that you had reason to J«3liHve that Pitt would leave the place that night, h© would examine tlie law and grant the Warrant. This sound advice had no effect on your meek and forgiving mind) for I have heard that you posted off tiie same evening to artother Magistrate who also refused to break the Sab- bath by complying with your oppressive demands ; that the young mail's lather willingly paid the value of the Cow but never forgot your cruel attempt to banish his son io Botany Bay, must come witliiu your recol- lection. The n«\t conspicuous part of your hypocritical Drama is a vy- iume i^ublisbed by you ou the suiyect of emigration, its real character d ^89 forcibly exhibited by one of the Montreal Editors, whom ym threat* emd to prosecute for defamation, but wisely forbore doing so. The whole work, in the opinion of people on Uiis side of the Atlantic, was HiMipid misrepresentation, and to prove this condemnatory sentence I need only pomt out the ungrateful description which vou so jecringly gave of hospitality bestowed on yourself and family by a Clergyman at the Pentland Firth. • I will not trespass on the time of the reader, by giving a detail of all the particular instances, wherein your ov« bearing and malicious dispo- sition has been exercised to tlie annoyance ? your neighbours and con- gregation 5 for tlie subject is quite proverbial among them, and while they live, they cannot torget how often from the Pulpit you have forgot- ten the solemnities of the day, and at the close of the Service indulged in vituperation and mvective ill becoming a Minister of the Cospel, and altogether unseemly in a place of public worship. On one occasion so violent were your passions, Uiat you sat down without desiring the people tojoin in praising God ; on another, when quarelling with retiring Eld- ers, you violently threatened to leave the settlement, if they did not furnish you with certain reasons. These are but a few of numerous vi- olations of the Sc .bath, which you have publicly committed, and which compel others to think, that you ought to cast the beam out of your own eye, before you attempt, with such violence, to pluck the mote from your brother s. However as I have little inclination to follow you through all the disputes in. which, you 4wv« b<Mm involved, or to do more than notice your indulsence in tale-bearing, and receiving the kitchen tattle ol the whole neighbourhood, I will pass over to a recent period, when your restless spirit was again brought into dishonourable action c I mean tlie wrath you manifested when you heard that some respectable persona saw fit to propose a Subscription for the support of a Clergyman of the Church ot SScotland. Are you not aware that a very large portion of the Presbyterians of Bathurst and DrUmmond, in consequence of your unpleasant temper and tyrannical conduct, are dissatisiied with your ministrations, and earnestly desire the labours of another Clergyman, and do you thmk it is vour duty to oppose, in the manner you do, so rMsonable an anxiety ? especially as their contributions, in no shape whatever, can interfere with your living, and when it is noto- Sous, that the Presbyterian cause is daily suflering material injury for Want of an active Minister to preach in the remote parts of the District, which you are perfectly sensible are never favoured with the services of a Clergy- man et that oersuasion. The Episcopalian and MeUiodist ministers ar© w:tiveIy»mployed ineyel-ypart of the Settlement, end the numerous Presbyterian proselytes who are said to have joined their standard, point out the strongest censpre oayour clerical laboura, confined as they ce- nortitly are to a sermon in the village once a week. True you have of late gone a few miles into the country, where there is little occasion lor any one, as the people are within reach of the Church. But in vindica- tion of your strenuous exerrions to prevent the spread of Presbyteriamsm in tins neighboilrhood, let the public know how often you have preached beyond eight miles from home during the hist five years, and name the ditferent places. The only reasonable olyectioa whicli I lunre ever been able to discover jfflgroMndft for your attemptiU prevent the introductien of anofhoF Minister here, is the certainty that many of your beui«rs will leave you It the other la a popular preacher, and an amiable pious man. Already a ronmderaWe number of Uicm have aubscribed for hi« aupport, and •hould he answer Una descriptieo, others stand iwidy to follow their ex- ample. But tbeM^circumstancea cannot in reality 6e considered injur- ious to the cause ofReligion. aa they will natumlly tend (o produce double activity, and agreeable deportment on your part, eaaentiab lona wanted, apd which hav* ibrced the appUcation for another Clergy- And now Sir, having pointed out a few of your own faultt, in order to she'v how necessary it is that a public censor should himself act up- nghtij J and before he commences a newspaper war with his neishboura remember, that his own " moraUty" lives in a houae of glass and may h^ broken by every scribbler who can throw a stone, 1 will just notice a Few of the pronnncnt improprieties of your ♦♦ Pastoral letter No 2" and then take leave of you, in the hope that experience will lead you to adopt a course of conduct better calculated to apawer the ocject of your residence in this place. I first observe that your remarks on the duty of Magistrates together with your eneomiuma on the GovemmenI and the intertion of His Migesty'a Proclamation, are evidently intended to bring into disrepute the many respectable Individuala, whose names are in the commission of the peace of this District, and notwithstandinir the opinion oftheGrantf^lmy at the tart anartere^ioiw, wlioee unwiim- oua Vote of thanks to a " Friend of Morality" appeara to please you ao much, they rthe Magistratea) Generally have the peace! order, ^,d morality of the settlement quiteaamuch at heart aa voufself, notwithsUuif dmg of the cenaure you cast on thoae who profane the Sabbath by do- voting that holy day to •♦ bimnM, travelling, or pleamre» Who could Buppose, after reading the first page of your pioua petition signed •♦Sabbath Day" that any individual under the roof of a peraon of your infallible sanctity couM have profbned the Lord'a Day, by hurineu, ar travelling, but look back virtuoua Sir, and remember the departure' of one of your sons from the good example of your paternal home to " Wn trance into business" and aay, if diat was not a Sabbath Day. Re« member also the return of the other son to cooperate in the same *«*• »■«€»«, and contradict, if you can, my assertion, that, that alao waa a Sabbath Day, and one on which you administered the Sacrament J and more, that his passage through the town in " trarelling" costume with Portmanteau &c. was duriilg divine Service. Notipe should not have been taken ofthese circumstances by me but ibr my firm persuasion qf the truth of what yon often inculcate, that eiample is better than precept —and had you pot triumphamly aaked ♦* what have they donp^ae if aJl were bad but your own. I urn Rur« their names would not be brought into observation by any one, if you were not so unre«$onably aeyere a- gainst other persoaa committing similar offorpcs. But were I disposed to accept your challenge, and shew the fau|t« of ypur pqnn aa you de^ hpht to do those oiotliera, I could have Utt|e reaaon to hope, that the attempt would meet with more credence, on your part, than ypu gave svhcn they were proved to nave grossly iiyured a i^ady of this' Town, »nd wbeu in stead of supporting the deaaioo in their procwdinsa asaiuat ■^^X^,.^*^ take occation to wLTrZt "weet tL L^^^uT ""*' """•eo'-nf. •UHDorts and heals IhTiouMeSZll ^^?i* '*?ii *«?«'•"•"«" ti'"t to tfc rock of ftUh wbeHetlSonhf ;J '^^^^^ young mind. Pure the voyace tea futum «nJ « Lv. .*"." *'**'** <«»* to en- therefrom wouiKeUnav"iied. *'"''* '^P~'*^""^^ '««"'»•"« mo^^icTSnssay, fcat djey re.pe7£.«jlve««. Ami i»«^ • J J anectionateinJook, And tender in address, as well becomes Amesseoger of grace to guilty me..^' B«l»oldJ»e picture l-ia it like I Like whom ?» CowrEK. in vtwra'roTrnt,::^.;^^^^^^^^^ Tr ^'^ "- ^^ «-- nwre like a vt^canHk puXnmy^Z'Il" *''« «»8i«g« «o<»ks much eccordwith the spirit ofipSnifi^'T- "o'^ ^r ""^h attempt . ion to decide. I shalinot noi H^^'J '*'*''« ^"^ >«"•• t^ngregat- Mr. Sto*a^ ha rntnT^h topreS.!J?jT,^'^^ ^^ «"J *liich will shortly b^omeXsubSnf^^^P," •''*''""*' on a matter everlcandotshutrreVariSSi^^^^^ Ho'v. . e«ttheEtecutive,thelCb LTj-^ /^" *° '"*"' certoiinlylaughabtetosefemkudini^^^^^ your favour, and it ia miniohsyou Sot lonir since ^i* Government beyond who«e do* high tWe toS;*" i^ZrSL'KK^ y«"!:«'o'»i«»e. ana it is .. Vthe Orond JK at theKi^„^«*^ >"* °^ *he «./ia«wnai» vote timetolTrSlf/iri^rtJtL^^^^ «» «'««««' i^togive lecturer on MoiALiTv^*'^"'"''**"'* ««»'»«/««» quali- a.d'^te'ri'^^.PXtS'K^^^^ *« Mar^^rsfo. thev ^■i\\^nZLiZf!:T^''.r"'\ ■'. persecute and prosecute*' ,or., it «i i( <( ti it the\^^;"or tw ;V"f "" :^;*^""'» ^""^-e q»ito as mi niifl uli rg^nun evince quite as much zeal ia aute of U»eirDivifl« ,„«:;:; rs,.T quuoasmuch zeal ia i>iflc master ub \oa <au fac^« aiiy pretensions to, *#^^ withoutcauMofconoplaint. on ih« contrary kighlr mtlnflidwith 4h« irinn W.II readily be wceivod. tUat the difficult*, of S ylcZ plain are of your own creating. ^ ^^ «J.!l'.*"w"°!'i?'""?^ 'oavoofyoufor the pr«aent, but not in vour owouochw,table.pu.t, byhopi,m you will till inti thepTwhrch yZ A PRBSBYTBBIAN.