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 To the Ret. 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^ 
 
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 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 
 
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 ^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 
 
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 •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..^' 
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 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. . 
 
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 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 .. 
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