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 TO MR. CLARK BENTOM. 
 
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 1 HAVE just perused a Pamphlet intituled « A state- 
 ment of Facts and law, relative to the Prosecution of the 
 Rev'*. Clark Bentom," to which your name is prefixed 
 as the Author. This Publication is so full of invective 
 and indiscriminate abuse, and abounds fo much with ill 
 founded and malevolent cenfure, fo far as respects mc, 
 that however much I might allow it to pass to that bles- 
 sed cblivion to which all your works hasten, I cannot 
 permit it to escape without observation. 
 
 You accuse me, Mr. Bentom, of deserting your cause, 
 and of disobedience to your orders in not fyling a Plea 
 for you, after I had engaged to do so. I may ask you 
 as a man of sense, why did you resort to me for ad- 
 vice ? If it were for no other purpose than to follow 
 your own, you might, without consulting me, have pur- 
 fued the dictates of your own fuperior understanding. 
 
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 Recollect yourself, Sir, and if you have candour (which 
 I suspec^t you have not) you will acquit me of any disregard 
 to your interests. I told you, when you first consulted me, 
 that the information against you in the nature of ,^«5 
 IFarranto was novel in the annals of Law Proceedings 
 in this Country 5 that as your interest, and the question 
 of Religious toleration, was involved in the ifllie of the 
 Prosecution, I thought it prudent to defer fyling a Plea, 
 till I had given your case that consideration its impor- 
 tance merited. I never as you falsly aflert, moved for the 
 business to lye over till another Session. 
 
 Was there any thing in this conduct, Sir, which could 
 authorise you as a Minister, and a Christian Preacher of 
 the Gospel of Jesus Christ, (as you call yourself) to accuse 
 me of want of integrity and modesty ? of deserting your 
 cause, and abandoning your two suffering companions^ reli- 
 gious liberty, and the Constitution of the Country^ 
 
 If these are your companions, which the world doubt, 
 indeed, Mr. Bentom, you are enobled by them, but I 
 fear they are disgraced by you. You say that you were 
 under the necessity of employing one of the honest law- 
 yers of Canada, and you applied to me : 
 
 Lawyers, I must tell you, are as other men, not free 
 
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 from the frailties and imperfeclions of human nature, but 
 they do not, hke you, Sir, add hypocrisy to the catalogue 
 of their vices. 
 
 You are ignorant, you say, of the Arcana of Law Rec- 
 titude ; and after this confession, was it not presumptuous 
 in you to ascribe false motives to the Court in all its 
 proceedings ? You forget that my conduct was approved 
 of by the Court, in not hastening on your prosecution as, 
 the Court obferved, it involved a question of constitutional im- 
 portance. Did this discover a disposition in the Court to 
 do you an injustice ? 
 
 I ask you, who have the Constitution and Religious Li- 
 berty on your lips, ( 1 ) was it decent, constitutional, or praise 
 worthy, to animadvert on the conduct of a Court of Jus- 
 tice during the dcpendance of a prosecution, and endea- 
 vour to overawe its judgement, by publishing, a partial and 
 false statement of its proceedings ? This is the way to 
 trample under foot both Constitution and Religious liberty^ 
 of which you declare yourself the Champion. 
 
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 (I) These catch word?, Comtitutkn anJ RJigicus liberty, wliich are so 
 continually upon Mr. Bentom's tongue, remind us of Swifc's lines on 
 ludge VVhiished : 
 
 Libertas, et tiatale solum : 
 
 Fine words ! I wonder where you stole 'em. 
 Could notliing, but thy chief rfproach, 
 Serve for a motto on thy coach i 
 
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 You should have waited, Sir, the event of your trial 
 before you had imputed to every one the charge of hav- 
 ing perfccuted you ; and if it had been a persecution, e- 
 vcn to death, you would have had the consolation like 
 your Predeceflbr John ZlSCAy to order your skin t j be 
 Jload, and a drum to be made of it, to carry into the 
 
 Field against your enemies. 
 
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 The burden of your fjng/ is that you are persecuted^ 
 and this favourite idea cling.|i to your heart. It is this 
 your pious muse invokes, anji to be considered as a per- 
 secuted mmiy is the darling object of all your hopes and 
 wishes. Like Sir John Briue, «' every thln^f you .■.v.rs, e- 
 very thing you hear, ever^ thing you smell, and every 
 thing you taijte," has persecution in it. liut Sir, has not 
 Government a right to know by what authority you ex- 
 ercise a Civil ryfficey and one too, that is the most im,. 
 portant which can be exercised in society f 
 
 I have alwise considered you, Mr. Bentom, as too in- 
 r,ignificant a creature to be the objea: of Persecution, and 
 I lament, even in appearance, you should be so far lifted 
 rp into public notice as to pass with the ignorant as a 
 persecuted man. You remind me of the Dwarf Jeffery, 
 in the time of Charles Ift, who was pulled out of thp 
 pocket of the Giant, and exposed for a moment to Pub- 
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 Be assured of it, the Public, at leaft the sensible part of 
 it, fee you in your real character, stripped of that robe of 
 sanctity which you have thrown around you, and that 
 they have now before their eyes the irc/f in shap's 
 clcnthing. 
 
 May I ask you. Sir, whole presumption and vain glory 
 have (in your own eyes,) placed you in a walk of re- 
 ligion and virtue above other men, if no mean and sor- 
 ded views have induced you to seek applause, at the ex- 
 pence of the reputation of others ; and of Characters in 
 high estimation for public and private virtues; 
 
 In vulgum ambiguas ? 
 
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 Have you no itching palm ? Do you not expect to 
 raise yourself in the estimation of the society, of which 
 you are an unworthy member, by holding yourself out 
 as a persecuted man ? Do you not expeft by such means 
 to lay contributions on the faithful ? Commune with your 
 own hearty Mr. Bentom, and see whether ambition, ava- 
 rice, vanity, self-love, envy, want of charity do not oc- 
 cupy a considerable part in it? Do you entertain no le- 
 velling and disorganising thought, no disloyal sentiment ? 
 If your conscience acquit you of these, the world, Mr. 
 Bentom, do you an irreparable injustice. 
 
 One word more, honest Parson Bentom, and I have 
 
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 done with you. Repress, I bcscecli yon, those tumultuous 
 passions which lead you " whithersoever they Hst," and 
 seek that hunuhty, meekness, patience, charity, wliich 
 can alone give you a claim to the aj^pellation of an 
 /Ipostle of Jesus-Christ, which you have profanely assumed. 
 (2) Endeavour to practise, in the inspired language of 
 St. Paul, « whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things 
 «< arc just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things 
 " are lovely, whatsoever things arc of good report; If 
 *« there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on 
 " these things." 
 
 Think not, Sir, because I have added the sharles to 
 the picture you have drawn of yourself, (.')) that I am 
 not your friend. I recollect what Tacitus says, and as 
 
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 (2) Whoever will take the troiiVle to turnup Ut tlie X!,I. chap, ol' 
 Isaiah, verses 14 and 15, and eoinpare thf,e with ilie passage' in liic 
 title page of the «« Statement," will observe how much Mr. Beniom 
 has garbled and transjjobed these ver^es to answer iii:, own purpo cs, 
 and turn the Proi^het into ridicule. Poj.c justly considers Isaiaii as tlic 
 most iuji/ired and most sublime of all the sacred wnters. IIis Messiah 
 opens wiih this beautiiul iiivocaiion ; 
 
 " <) ttioti my vni.o iii'iiir" 
 " Who toiirh'd Isaiali's hallnw'd li(u with fire." 
 
 Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, or any of the primitive Re- 
 formers, would have thought it profauity to. mutilate and traa.-posc a 
 passage in tiie Holy Scripture to make a p,ni or play upon words of 
 it. It was for the unhallowed hands of Clark Hentom, <« Gejulenun 
 or no Gentleman," to cut the Prophet into shreds and patches, and td 
 join tliem together in a fantastical way, to indulge his malice. 
 
 Does he in this resemble an Apoi le ? 
 
 (3) This will remind many of ; y readf ^ of the honest Publican 
 Sir Roger de Coverlcy's tenant, \ :, o si .v his attach.Tient to the 
 good Knight, got a picture of h'm „. wn, i.vl hurip it up tor his sign 
 Post. Sir Roger, with great moaesty, cesireu iiiia to pull it down, and 
 
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 you are a scholar, Mr. Bentom, you have read him, 
 " Pcssimum gc^'c', hilmicorum lauJuntes." I have there- 
 fore held " the mirror up to nature." (-l) 
 
 I am, Sir, your devoted 
 
 Humble Servant. 
 
 J. KER. 
 ^^c^ec, 21 J-/ Mat'df 1804. 
 
 the honest Publican by adding a pair of whiskers to Sir Roger, past 
 him off as a Saracen's bead. 
 
 If any of »hc Faithful bhoulJ shew so great an attachment to Clark 
 Bentom, as to hang up his picture for their sign post, and the Parson had 
 equal modesty with Sir Roger (which it is feared he has not) the 
 Jikeness could witii a dash of the pencil be turned into a Turk's, a Su. 
 raceti's or a Mameluke's beaj, 
 
 (4) Mr. Bentom has read Gulliver's Travels, and has no doubt peru- 
 sed another part of the joint production of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot. 
 «' The memoirs of P. P. Clerk of this Parish," in which P. P. shews 
 the great mpirtana of a man to himself. 
 
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