impression can be expected beyond that which a falsehood, confidently asserted, generally produces at the moment. It has led to a strict investigation of the fact, and the result has not only exposed those shameless exaggerations, but has shewn that the total endowment of the Clergy is far from exceeding such a moderate provision as their numbers, and the station in society which they are expected to maintain, render fitting and necessary.

It must not, however, be supposed, that the enemies of religion will abandon their efforts to vilify and traduce our order. While many recover from their delusion, the spirit of those who deluded them will only be exasperated by disappointment; and their determination to speak evil of the ministers of religion, as persons who cannot be seduced or deterred from the performance of their duty, will probably continue. In this case, one retaliation only is allowed to them-by perseverance in the blameless discharge of their duties, they must shame the malignity of the accuser; always remembering, that they are the servants of Him, who when reviled, reviled not again. Forbearance in this respect may sometimes be difficult; because when his reputation is attacked, the Clergyman knows that the injury inflicted upon him is peculiarly severe, as tending to deprive him of that upon which his influence, and his power of doing good essentially depend. But in his patience and for

bearance under such provocations, he has the far higher satisfaction of proving himself a faithful disciple of his crucified Lord; he displays to the world the genuine spirit of his religion, and secures to himself a reward which the tongue of slander can never take away.

But to revert to the object of this day's solemn assemblage, we must consider, that no conduct will more effectually and securely tend to check and frustrate the designs of the enemies of Christ's Church, than a practical exercise of that benevolence prescribed to us as a duty by our religion; of which this blessed Charity affords a strong and unexceptionable instance. While we pray for them who persecute and slander us, and supplicate the Almighty to turn their hearts, let us not forget that our light must so shine before men, that they may see our good works: the enemies of our faith will thereby be more and more deprived of grounds for attack upon the Christian profession, and we will hope that they themselves may become sensible of the blessings of the Christian dispensation of mercy, and finally be of the number of those, who glorify our Father which is in heaven.

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

LISTS of the NOBILITY, CLERGY, and GENTRY, who have been STEWARDS for the FEASTS of the SONS of the CLERGY, together with the Names of the PREACHERS, since the Year 1797*.

1798.

His Royal Highness the Duke of
York

Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
London, Dr. Porteus, 2d time,
(1st was in 1777)
Right Hon. Henry Dundas

Rev. Richard Frank, D.D.
Rev. Robert Price, D.D. Preben-
dary of Durham

Sir John William Rose, Knight,
Recorder of London
Rev. John Thoroton, Esq. M.A.

Right Hon. John William Ander-Henry Thornton, Esq. M.P.

son, Lord Mayor, Treasurer Rev. John Strachey, LL.D. Archdeacon of Suffolk

Rev. Durand Rhudde, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary

William Markham, Esq.
John Julius Angerstein, Esq.
Alexander Adair, Esq.

Collection £811 10 0

The Sermon was preached on Thursday, May 10, by the Rev. Gerrard Andrewes, M.A. Text, 1 Cor. iv. 13. Printed, 4to. 1798.

* Lists of the Stewards of the Feast of the Sons of the Clergy, with the Names of the Preachers, and the amount of the Collections, from the Year 1721, to the Year 1819, will be found in the Appendix to the Anniversary Sermon published in the latter Year.

E

1799.

His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales

Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Winchester, Dr.
Brownlow North, 2d time, (1st
was in 1770)

Right Hon. Earl Camden
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Trea-

surer

Col. Sir William Johnston, Bart.
M.P.

Rev. Thomas Powys, D.D. Dean
of Canterbury

Rev. Arthur Onslow, D.D. Dean
of Worcester

Rev. John Fisher, D.D. Canon of
Windsor

Robert Thornton, Esq. M.P.
Rev. George Markham, M. A.
Chancellor of York

Rev. Philip Wroughton, M.A.
Reverend John Kenward Shaw
Brooke, M.A.
William Gosling, Esq.
Thomas Roberts, Esq.

Collection £1151 7 0

The Sermon was preached on Thursday, May 9, by the Rev. Charles Moss, D.D. Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, &c. &c. &c. Text, Matt. xi. 5. Printed, 4to. 1799.

1800.

His Royal Highness the Duke of | Rev. Sir John Fagg, Bart.

Clarence

Sir Francis Baring, Bart. M.P.
Sir John Nicholl, Knt. his Ma-
jesty's Advocate-General
Rev. William Douglas, M.A. Ca-
non of Salisbury

Earl of Westmoreland
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
Bath and Wells, Dr. Moss, 2d
time, (1st was in 1757)
Right Hon. Harvey Christian
Coombe, Lord Mayor
Hon. and Rev. Edw. Legge, George Rose, Esq. M.P.
LL.B. Prebendary of Canter-William Borradaile, Esq.
bury, and Chaplain in Ordinary
to his Majesty

Rev. Robert Markham, M.A. Arch-
deacon of York

The Sermon was preached by the Right Bishop of Chester. Text, Psalm cii. 28.

Collection £944 7 0

Rev. Henry William, Lord
Printed, 4to 1801.