tail. I will but say that in the Act of
Parliament, under date of October 5, 1841 (if the copy, from which I
quote, contains the measure as it passed the Houses), provision is
made for the consecration of "British subjects, or the subjects or
citizens of any foreign state, to be Bishops in any foreign country,
whether such foreign subjects or citizens be or be not subjects or
citizens of the country in which they are to act, and ... without
requiring such of them as may be subjects or citizens of any foreign
kingdom or state to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and
the oath of due obedience to the Archbishop for the time being" ...
also "that such Bishop or Bishops, so consecrated, may exercise,
within such limits, as may from time to time be assigned for that
purpose in such foreign countries by her Majesty, spiritual
jurisdiction over the ministers of British congregations of the
United Church of England and Ireland, and over _such other
Protestant_ Congregations, as may be desirous of placing themselves
under his or their authority."

Now here, at the very time that the Anglican Bishops were directing
their censure upon me for avowing an approach to the Catholic Church
not closer than I believed the Anglican formularies would allow, they
were on the other hand fraternising, by their act or by their
sufferance, with Protestant bodies, and allowing them to put
themselves under an Anglican Bishop, without any renunciation of
their errors or regard to the due reception of baptism and
confirmation; while there was great reason to suppose that the said
Bishop was intended to make converts from the orthodox Greeks, and
the schismatical Oriental bodies, by means of the influence of
England. This was the third blow, which finally shattered my faith in
the Anglican Church. That Church was not only forbidding any sympathy
or concurrence with the Church of Rome, but it actually was courting
an intercommunion with Protestant Prussia and the heresy of the
Orientals. The Anglican Church might have the apostolical succession,
as had the Monophysites; but such acts as were in progress led me to
the gravest suspicion, not that it would soon cease to be a Church,
but that it had never been a Church all along.

On October 12th I thus wrote to a friend:--"We have not a single
Anglican in Jerusalem, so we are sending a Bishop to _make_ a
communion, not to govern our own people. Next, the excuse is, that
there are converted An