re no converts to Rome, till after the condemnation of No. 90."

3. As if all this were not enough, there came the affair of the
Jerusalem Bishopric; and, with a brief mention of it, I shall
conclude.

I think I am right in saying that it had been long a desire with the
Prussian Court to introduce Episcopacy into the Evangelical Religion,
which was intended in that country to embrace both the Lutheran and
Calvinistic bodies. I almost think I heard of the project, when I was
at Rome in 1833, at the hotel of the Prussian Minister, M. Bunsen,
who was most hospitable and kind, as to other English visitors, so
also to my friends and myself. I suppose that the idea of Episcopacy,
as the Prussian king understood it, was very different from that
taught in the Tractarian School; but still, I suppose also, that the
chief authors of that school would have gladly seen such a measure
carried out in Prussia, had it been done without compromising those
principles which were necessary to the being of a Church. About the
time of the publication of Tract 90, M. Bunsen and the then
Archbishop of Canterbury were taking steps for its execution, by
appointing and consecrating a Bishop for Jerusalem. Jerusalem, it
would seem, was considered a safe place for the experiment; it was
too far from Prussia to awaken the susceptibilities of any party at
home; if the project failed, it failed without harm to any one; and,
if it succeeded, it gave Protestantism a _status_ in the East, which
in association with the Monophysite or Jacobite and the Nestorian
bodies, formed a political instrument for England, parallel to that
which Russia had in the Greek Church and France in the Latin.

Accordingly, in July 1841, full of the Anglican difficulty on the
question of Catholicity, I thus spoke of the Jerusalem scheme in an
Article in the _British Critic_: "When our thoughts turn to the East,
instead of recollecting that there are Christian Churches there, we
leave it to the Russians to take care of the Greeks, and the French
to take care of the Romans, and we content ourselves with erecting a
Protestant Church at Jerusalem, or with helping the Jews to rebuild
their Temple there, or with becoming the august protectors of
Nestorians, Monophysites, and all the heretics we can hear of, or
with forming a league with the Mussulman against Greeks and Romans
together."

I do not pretend so long after the time to give a full or exact
account of this measure in de