approving
the maintenance of any exclusive system in the colonies, he thought any
such system there, _bad_ and _dangerous_. He was of opinion that parties
of all religious persuasions were equally entitled to support, and he
deprecated the exclusive establishment there of any one church above all
others."--_Parliamentary Debate_, July 13, 1832.]

[Footnote 208: 30th September, 1833.]

[Footnote 209: "I would also earnestly recommend that provision be made
for the schools, in which the children of persons of different religious
tenets may be instructed without distinction, on the plan now adopted in
Ireland. The means of education being secured, I shall feel disposed to
leave it to the voluntary contribution of the inhabitants to provide for
churches and clergy. To aid all where the creeds are various seems
impossible, and a partial distribution of the public funds appears
nearly allied to injustice."--_Despatch of Sir Richard Bourke,
respecting land in Port Phillip, October_, 1835.]

[Footnote 210: Despatch, November, 1835.]

[Footnote 211: Minute, 1836.]

[Footnote 212: _Rev. J. Lillie's Letter to Rev. W. Hutchins_, p. 13.]

[Footnote 213: Arthur's minute, 1833.]

[Footnote 214: "The whole of the objects which the congregation desired
to maintain, are very clearly to be gathered from the second resolution,
and these appeared to consist in maintaining their connexion with the
church of Scotland by law established, and the control which belongs to
ecclesiastical courts of the national establishment over the minister as
well as the congregation; for it is evident that all grants are made to
them as a part and parcel of the community of the _national church_ of
Scotland _as by law established_: and it is only in that character that
they have claims on the government, any more than the catholics,
wesleyans, independents, or unitarians."--_True Colonist_, May 29,
1835.]

[Footnote 215: "Accordingly we find that the majority, if not all, the
protesters are not members of the church of Scotland, being either
burghers, anti-burghers, independents, or episcopalians, and as such
opposed to the Scotish church."--_True Colonist_, May 29, 1835.]

[Footnote 216: "The assembly instructed the committee for the colonial
churches to insist on the fair and full execution of the laws at present
existing, and on the insertion in any new enactment for the government
of the colonies, such clauses as will unequivocally place the chur