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will have it greatly in his power to procure for it the countenanceof Majesty. We are certain Your Lordship will be happy to con-cur in any measure His Grace may propose for carrying theproposal into effect, and we humbly hope Your Lordship’s fer-vent wishes in this and other ecclesiastical concerns will meet withthe success they merit.

“We are, My Lord,

“ Your Lordship’s most faithful and devoted Servants,

D. Brown, Minister of the Orphan House.

W. Chambers,'

Cha. Grant, }>Of the Company’s Civil Service .”

Geo. Study.

I had been for many years, as Professor of Divinity, a charteredmember of the Society for propagating the Gospel in foreignParts, but I had never subscribed to it, nor attended itsmeetings, from at first suspecting, and afterwards from know-ing, (see Baron Masere’s Canadian Freeholder, vol. iii. p. 424.)that its missionaries had been more busy in bringing over dis-senters to episcopacy, than in converting Heathens to Christi­ anity ; but the establishment of a mission in the East Indies hadmy approbation, and I had ordained Mr. Brown a deacon, whenthe Bishop of London would not ordain him for want of a title.The Orphan School was just then established, by the subscrip-tion of the British Officers, for the education of the children ofthe soldiers by the women of the country, and I thought aclergyman might be as usefully engaged in such a school, (thoughit was not a legal title,) as in a village-curacy in England, andthat such a school would be instrumental in extending the Eng-