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your hands is my son, the Rev. Philander Chase, jun. in the holy order of Deacons : the same, as by his papers he will show, is duly authorized to confer with you on the subject of this address, to receive your directions, and, if permitted, to collect and be the bearer of charitable contributions to the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocess of Ohio. PHILANDER CHASE, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio. Worthington, Ohio, September 21, 1821.

Letter from the Rev. Philander Chase, jun. to the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart. Right Reverend and dear Sir,

I enclose you the letter from the Bishop of Ohio, in the name of the Church throughout the western country. I can add nothing to the detail of this communication but my fervent prayer to our common Father, that the relief it implores may be afforded. It was not, you must have perceived, our intention to have made this application to you at the meeting of your Diocesan Convention, when the cares of your own flock press so heavily upon your attention. But having arrived in this city, ignorant that the Convention was to meet at this season, you will: excuse me for wishing to be speeded on my way, considering the distance I have yet to travel in going to the north and east before the winter and the very infirm state of my health.

With regard to soliciting aid within your diocess, suffer me to beg that you will consider us, not as the "Diocess of Ohio," but as a portion, and a suffering portion, of the Church of God; and, although we do not pretend to have equal claims upon your notice with your own spiritual children, yet we think our wants entitle us to freedom in soliciting relief

from our brethren in Christ.

It would be my highest warrant and sure pledge of success, to obtain your recommendation and assistance in prosecuting the work before me; yet, if from any cause that be impossible, grant, I beg you, dear Sir, your permission, without which, as a stranger, I can do nothing, permission to address our brethren of your diocess for means to relieve our great necessities.

I cannot but know, by what I have already learned from yourself in conversation, and from the perusal of your public journals, how great are the wants of your own people. But still, while I fully appreciate these, I have had cause to see, this week, how flourishing and numerous a body you are. I see you already a "name and a praise" among the sister churches." The wants of your vine (pardon the comparison) lie at the extremities of the branch, which the strength of the soil, vigour of the root, and the diligence of

the husbandmen, can soon overcome. Our need of nourishment and supply is at the root; where, if we fail, all our future efforts will be hopeless and unavailing; but where, if supply be now, though in a small degree, afforded, it will bring forth, in due season, its thirty, sixty, and hundred fold.

Although I may be importunate, I beg I may not be considered obtrusive in this communication.

With great respect, I am,

Right Rev. Sir, your's, &c.
PHILANDER CHASE, jun.

Thursday, October 18, 1821.

Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

Ir is believed that never, since the final organization of the American Church, has a question occupied her counsels, of greater interest and importance than the measures adopted in the late Special General Convention. The subjoined Constitution of the Theological Seminary shows to what we allude. It is well known to our readers that there was danger that the munificent bequest of the late Jacob Sherred, Esq. of this city, would give rise to a difference of opinion as tọ what institution should, of right, enjoy his bounty; and that this difference might lead to circumstances very painful to the friends of the Church, however, in their estimation, unavoidable.

In anticipation of this possibility, the Bishop of New-York brought the subject before the last Convention of his diocess, in his official address to that body. Although, as he was fully warranted, he took the ground of the exclu sive right of the New-York Seminary to the legacy of Mr. Sherred; yet, from regard to the dignity, unity, and harmony of the Church at large, he urged the propriety of a readiness on the part of the Church of New-York, to meet and co-operate with any disposition to compromise, on correct principles, which might be evinced in the then approaching General Convention. The Bishop's advice on this subject concluded in the following words :

"Under these circumstances, it would appear advisable for this Convention to adopt such measures as may admit of a union between the two schools, on prin

ciples which will secure all the essential arrangements with regard to our theological schools, and the just influence of those parts of the Church who may contribute to the general institution, in its concerns."

The Convention, consisting of about 730 clerical and lay members, entirely concurring in the sentiments expressed by the Bishop, passed, with hardly a dissenting voice, the following resolution:

"Resolved, That this Convention will concur in any proper plan for consolidating the said seminary' with any seminary, for the like purpose, which the General Convention may, in its wisdom, see fit to establish, and permanently fix, within this diocess, all the essential provisions and regulations of the seminary now established, under the authority of the Convention of this State, being preserved, and a just influence in the management and controul of the general institution being secured to each diocess within which contributions may be obtained, or donations made towards its funds. Provided that the terms of such consolidation be approved by the Bishop of this diocess, and the clerical and lay deputies from the Convention of the Church in this State, to the approaching Special General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; and that those terms be submitted to, and also approved by the Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Education Society in the State of NewYork, or the Board of Managers acting under their authority."

Actuated by the same desire that Mr. Sherred's legacy should be so enjoyed as most effectually to promote the general interests and harmony of the Church, the Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Education Society in the State of New-York, appointed three of their number to be present at Philadelphia during the session of the General Convention, as the agents of that body, with power to concur in any plan for consolidating the two schools, conformable to the resolutions of the Convention.

A corresponding disposition to union and compromise was found to exist in

the General Convention-nearly as large, and quite as respectable as ever assembled as will appear by the subjoined article from the New-York Evening Post :

"As Episcopalians must be supposed to be much interested with respect to the Theological Seminary, we are requested to publish the Constitution, and to make the following statement. The subject was referred, in the late General Convention of the Church, to a joint committee, consisting of Bishop Hobart, of New-York, and Bishop Kemp, of Maryland, on the part of the House of Bishops; and the Rev. Dr. Wharton, of New-Jersey, the Rev. Mr. Burhans, of Connecticut, the Rev. Mr. Butler, of New York, the Rev. Dr. Gadsden, of South-Carolina, and Messrs. Duncan Cameron, of NorthCarolina, Richard Harison, of NewYork, and Alexander Jones, of Rhode Island. It is understood, that in the committee a plan for consolidating the General Seminary at New-Haven with that of New-York, with a draft of a Constitution, was proposed on the part of the New-York Seminary, and was adopted by the committee, with the exception of one or two important points. The advocates of the New-York Seminary were desirous of the representa tion in the Board of Trustees being regulated according to the amount of contributions in every diocess, in preference to a mode advocated by others, of a representation according to the number of clergymen only; but the union of these two modes was at last adopted in the spirit of compromise. This same spirit which influenced the committee, directed the proceedings of the Convention. The Constitution reported by the committee was adopted without alteration by the Convention—unanimously by the House of Bishops-and with very few dissenting voices, by the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies. This happy result was very much promoted in the latter body, by the exertions of Duncan Cameron, Esq. of North-Carolina. It is due to the advocates of the General Seminary, and particularly to those interested in its continuance at New-Haven, to state, that they displayed a very honourable

spirit of conciliation and compromise. Indeed, this spirit was general through out the Convention; and thus a subject which has for some time agitated Episcopalians generally, has been happily settled on a basis that promises to secure the peace and unity of the Church, and to advance the great interests of theological learning. The unanimity which animated the Convention, it is hoped, will pervade the Board of Trustees, as well as Episcopalians in general, and lead them to cooperate, with their exertions and contributions, in the great work of raising for the Church a pious and learned ministry."

The feeling of general satisfaction and harmony occasioned by this happy termination of a subject on which all looked with great, and many with pain ful anxiety, was rendered still stronger and more grateful by the deep interest and high gratification which the occasion inspired in the mind of the venerable and beloved senior Bishop. When the House of Bishops joined the House of Deputies, for the purpose of closing the Convention, as usual, with devotional exercises, he, of course, conducted the prayers. Having completed them, he rose, and, entirely unexpectedly to the members of both Houses, read, in a tone and manner evincing the deep est feeling on his part, the subjoined address. The effect on the Convention cannot be described. To that produced by the venerable dignity of person which characterizes this prelate, was added all that could arise from his high standing in the Church-from the circumstance of all the Bishops present, and, indeed, all in the country, having received consecration, and some of them admission to the lower orders, from his hands-from his having been an active and influential member of every Convention of the Church, and largely instrumental in securing, in its whole progress towards complete organization, its present primitive and evangelical character-and from his having so long survived all his early associates in the Episcopacy, and attained to that period of life which brings to mind, with rapidly increasing force, the affecting truth that each meet

ing with him on the concerns of the Church, may be the last.

The address, at the unanimous request of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, is entered on their Jour nal, and is in the following words :Brethren of this Convention,

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I take the liberty of giving vent to the feeling which possesses me, at the conclusion of our session.

I have attended all the meetings of the General Conventions from the beginning of our organization. On some of those occasions, we assembled with apprehensions in the minds of many judicious men who had the interests of the Church at heart, that the deliberations would be disturbed by angry passions, and end in disunion. In every instance, the reverse was the issue; which led me to hope, that there was in this matter a verifying of the promise of the great Head of the Church, of being with er to the end of the world.

The reason of this call of your attention to the fact stated, is the harmony with which we are concluding the present session; after having met with diversity of sentiment on some important points; on which, in consequence of mutual concession, and the merging of local attachments in the great object of general good, we are now separating with confirmed zeal for the great cause in which we are engaged; to be followed, it is to be hoped, by renewed endeavours for its advancement, each of us in his proper sphere.

With this prospect before me, I invite you to lift your hearts and your voices in singing to the praise and glory of God, a psalm appropriate to the occasion.

The Bishop then gave out the 133d Psalm, which having been sung by the Convention, he pronounced the blessing.

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shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, who shall have power to constitute professorships, and to appoint the professors, and to prescribe the course of study in the respective schools, and to make rules, and regulations, and statutes for the government thereof; and, generally, to take such measures as they may deem necessary to its prosperity: provided, that such rules and regulations, and course of study, and measures, be not repugnant to the Constitution and Canons of the Church, and to the course of study for candidates for orders which is or may be established by the House of Bishops. The Bishops, in their individual and collective capacity, shall be visitors of the Seminary, and shall see that the course of instruction and discipline be conducted agreeably to the foregoing provi sion. The Trustees shall make report to every General Convention of their proceedings, and of the state of the Seminary.

III. The Board of Trustees shall be per manently constituted as follows:-The Bishops of the Church shall be, ex officio, members of the Board. Every diocess shall be entitled to one trustee, and one additional trustee for every eight clergymen in the same; and to one additional trustee for every two thousand dollars of monies in any way given or contributed in the same, to the funds of the Seminary, until the sum amounts to ten thousand dollars; and one additional trustee for every ten thousand dollars of contribntions and donations, as aforesaid, exceeding that sum. The trustees shall be resident in the diocesses for which they are appointed. They shall be nominated by the diocesan Conventions respectively, to every stated General Convention, who may confirm or reject such nominations. The senior Bishop present shall preside at every meeting of the Board of Trustees. And whenever demanded by a majority of the Bishops present, or a majority of the clerical and lay trustees present, the concurrence of a majority of the Bishops present, and a majority of the clerical and lay trustees present, shall be necessary to any act of the Board-eleven trustees shall constitute a quorum. The trustees shall continue in office until their successors are appointed. In the interval between the stated meetings of the General Convention, the Board shall have power to supply all vacancies from the diocesses respectively in which they may have occurred.

IV. For the present, and until the next General Convention, the Board of Trustees shall consist of the Bishops of the Church, and of the twenty-four Trustees of the Theological Seminary, heretofore established by the General Convention, and of fourteen Trustees chosen by the Managers of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Education Society in the State of New-York. These trustees shall exercise the powers of the permanent Board, as detailed in the foregoing article, and agrecably to the provisions thereof.

The Board of Trustees shall always meet in the diocess where the Seminary is established, at such stated periods as they may determine; and special meetings may be called by the Bishop of the said diocess, and shall be called by him at the requisition of a majority of the Bishops.

V. The Professors of the General Theological Seminary, heretofore established by the General Convention, and the Professors in the Theological Seminary in the diocess of New.

York, shall be Professors in the General Theological Seminary hereby established in that diocess.

The Board of Trustees shall have power to remove professors and other officers; but no professor shall be removed from office, except at a special meeting of the Board called to con sider the same; nor unless notice of an intended motion for such removal, and of the grounds thereof, shall have been given at a previous meeting of the Board. The nomination of professors shall be made at one meeting of the Board of Trustees, and acted upon at a subsequent meeting; due notice being given of the object of the said meeting to every member of the Board.

VI. The funds and other property and claims to funds and property of the General Theological Seminary, heretofore established by the General Convention, shall be vested in, and transferred to the General Seminary hereby established, as soon as an act of the Board of Managers, or the Protestant Episcopal Theological Education Society in the State of NewYork, shall vest in, and transfer to the same Seminary, all their funds and other property, and claims to funds and property. And all engagements and responsibilities entered into, or assumed by either of the said institutions, for the purpose of their foundation, consistent with other provisions of this Constitution, shall be considered as binding upon the General Seminary so established within the State of New-York.

VII. This Constitution shall be unalterable, except by a concurrent vote of the Board of Trustees, and of the General Convention.

Episcopal Acts.

On Sunday the 28th of October, 1821, a building, procured and finished by the liberality of the wardens and vestry for a parish church, in St. Mark's, Clarendon, South-Carolina, was consecrated by the Right Rev. Bishop Bowen, assisted by the Rev. Mr. De Laveaux, the Rev. Mr. Folker, aud the Rev Mr. Chanler, minister of the parish. A sermon, suited to the occasion, was delivered by the Bishop, who also adminis stered the holy rite of confirmation. And, on Monday, the 29th, after morning prayer, read by the Rev. Mr. De Laveaux, and a sermon by the Bishop, the Rev. John White Chanler was admitted to the holy order of Priests.-As a tribute to the zeal of the vestry, upon whom the whole support of the church devolves, it is mentioned, that, after a long interval of desolation, from the revolution, when the original parist church was burnt by the British, to the erection of the present building into a neat and commodious place of worship, in 1819, when their present pastor first visited them as a missionary, with signal enterprize they commenced and finished this temple to the most high God in less than six weeks. Immediately after the completion of the church, the present rector received an official call from this, in conjunction with the lower St. Mark's congregation, to be their spiritual shepherd.

On the 23d Sunday after Trinity, Nov. 25, 1821, the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart held an or dination in St. John's chapei, in this city, and admitted Mr. Algernon S. Hollister to the holy order of deacons. Morning prayer was conducted by the Rev. Stephen Jewett, of Connecticut, and an appropriate sermon preached by the Bishop.

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Obituary Notices.

Departed this life, on Friday, November 9, 1821, WILLIAM IRVING, Esq. The death of this estimable man has been deeply and generally felt in our community. Mr. Irving united with the toils and distractions of business, a love of letters, which raised him far above the intellectual standard of his profession, even in a country where the merchant is often tinctur. ed with the taste and refinement of the scholar, and introduced him to an honourable station in public life. He did not merely give to reading those weary moments which call for some light and diverting occupation, but went to it frequently and systematically, with a fresh and vigorous mind, and an appetite for improvement. Besides a familiar and extensive acquaintance with the best writers in our own language, he was skilled in several of the modern tongues; and he blended these studies with his other avocations rather from a fondness for literature, than from an ambition to display his acquirements. For though the easy and elevated tone of his conversation might have indicated his liberal pursuits, yet they were never betrayed by vanity. With a heart naturally disposed to every kindly feeling, and softened and refined by the influence of religion, a cheerful temper, a playful imagination, and a love of the retired joys of social life, he was interesting in every company, but the ornament and delight of the particular circle in which he moved.

A pious education had early impressed him with reverence for the truths and precepts of the Gospel; but brought up with peculiar strict ness under a system which did not seem to win his affections in youth, nor to approve itself to his understanding in riper years, he entered the Church late in life, in the bosom and communion of which he died. It was a favourite topic with him to descant on the mild and engaging views under which Christianity was here exhibited; and the more he became acquainted with a standard of faith which harmonizes Scripture with our reason and feelings, and with the beauty and propriety of our impressive ritual, the more did he enter into the spirit of religion, and feel its persuasive and controlling power. Amidst the success of his worldly plans, and the best of earthly enjoyments, he declared that he found a void in his heart, which God alone could fill: he showed an increasing concern for the things which belonged to his peace; and finally, at the altar, consecrated his body and soul to the service of his Creator and Redeemer. Shortly after, his health, which had been for some time declining, received a more ́sensible shock, and he sunk by the esiest and gentlest decay, till at length his feeble tabernacle giving way, the dust returned unto dust, and the spirit to God who gave it. It was a delightful thing to see with what patience he bore his fingering illness; with what resignation he vielded to the Divine will whilst the case was doubtful; and with what composure he looked forward to the issue when it was certain. In a

complaint so apt to encourage delusive hopes, he was never elated, but kept himself in a state of constant readiness for any event which Providence might prepare. He believed that his merciful Father would order all things well for

him.

He trusted for salvation in the merits of his Redeemer. And he had those sweet and quiet consolations, that calm assurance of present favour, and stedfast hope of future glory, which

the Comforter alone can inspire. His body was almost as free from pain, as his mind from agionly by weakness and emaciation, without viotation. The progress of disease was marked lence or deformity. And excepting the transient flush which crossed him from some pious emotion, or the bright and animated expression of some kindling hope, his countenance was habitually serene and undisturbed. But towards the close his sufferings increased, he longed for his departure, and his last words were, Come, Lord, come.

Died, lately, in Pennsylvania, the Rev. Slator Clay, rector of St. James's, Perkiomen, and St. Peter's, Great Valley; for more than thirty years a presbyter of that diocess.

Also, in Virginia, the Rev. Alexander Balmain, D.D. of Frederick parish, Winchester county; one of the oldest presbyters of that diocess.

Remains of Major Andre.

THE fate of the unfortunate Major Andre, whose case excited so universal a sympathy during the revolutionary war, is known to most of our readers. For the information of such of them as may not recollect his case, it will be sufficient to state, that Major Andre was an accomplished and brave youth, sustaining the office of adjutant-general of the British forces under Sir Henry Clinton; that in the summer of 1780 he was employed to conduct a confidential correspondence with General Arnold, then in charge of the important works at West-Point; that after a conference with that officer, he was sent on his way by land to the British lines, and was captured at Tarry-Town; whence he was conveyed to the head-quar ters of the American army; was tried by a board of general officers, and adjudged to suffer death; which sentence was put in execution in October, 1780, at Tappan, in Rockland county, in this state. His body was buried on a farm near the place of execution, where it has remained undisturbed until the tenth of August of the present year; when, by order of the Duke of York, Mr. Buchanan, the British consul, caused his remains to be disinterred and placed in a sarcophagus, with the view of being conveyed to England in the British packet, and deposited near the monument erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey. In proceeding to disinter the remains, the coffin was found about three feet below the surface of the earth; the lid was broken in the centre, and had partly fallen in, but was kept up by resting on the skull. On raising the lid the skeleton was found entire, without a vestige of any other part of his remains except some of his hair, which appeared in small tufts; and the only part of his dress was the leather string which tied the hair. The remains have arrived in England.

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