ABSTRACT
The Bishop should rather have said, “at the expense of Lord Viscount Barrington:” for though such a line of conduct would probably have been most beneficial to the public, as it might have prevented that ruinous and unsuccessful war, yet it would certainly have cost his Lordship his place. The same consistent writers, and friends of civil and religious liberty, who are delighted with the restoration of the Bourbons, of the Pope, and the inquisition, have lately made an attempt to run down the Dissenters in this country; and in this they are right. “In conjunction with the other Members of Administration, Lord Barrington bore the censures which were very generally directed against the supporters of the American war; yet no person less merited those censures. The Divinity Chair was the first office for honour in the University,—all further advancement which could add to his dignity to be looked for from the Crown.
