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 mastai*8 from protiting by lal)ourers whom they neither supported nor cootrolled. He maintained that Ein*; was nover at large, and he extracted froio Lawsou, one of the magistrates who fined him, that Lawson liimself had more than once paid convicts for services sanctioned by their masters, who allowed them to work for him. The result ^■of the inquiry was favourable to Marsden^ but a letter (Jan. ^■1825) from Barron Field proves that Marsdon*s friends were "anxious. Tehoig Marsden that Archdeacon Scott would be impartial and just, that Forbes was another assessor, — added, "But leave no Btoiie unturned, for Dr. Douglass htts not spared you latterly in Kngland, and if he don't fall, you will. You may wrap yourself up in couscioin mtegrity, and at your time of life, aud with your ^^ religious conaolatioLia, you uiriy he indilfGrent to temporal opinion; but ^Kvou owe somethiu^ to those who have pledged themselves in your canse* ^Hlf you are defeated, your friends will full with you. Mr. Wilb'erforce will ^Hbe mortified. The Church Mi»aionury Society will be scandalized. You ^Bire therefore liound to exert yonrself on tlie behalf of those who are ^"implicated with you, and who are (as it were) sureties for your good beha- viour. Think of the^e things and get up your proofa well, and not in that ^—sloveuly manner that Mr. Scott Bays you did before Mr. Bigge, Never ^^bras there suck powerful interest made for anybody as for Dr. Doufilass, ^HBir Thomas's letter was all in bin own handwriting. Major Goulburn ^Birged his brother as it w^ere for a life and death matter. Mr. Stephen ^Bkould not have advocated Dr. Douglass's cause better (in ray presence) before Mr- Horton if he had had a brief of fifty guineas. . . . Mr. W'ilberforce is wholly yours, but I am aimized at his nephew's enmity to Ron- 1 combated this before Mr. Horton so successfully that the Under- ecretary took your part, and Mr. Steplien was forced to apologize for his artiality. , . . Your letter to Jfr. Peel worked as you intended, and it the ooe depiirtment upon the other ; and Lord Eathnrst could only uiet Mr. Peel by promising further intjuiry." That Sir T. Briabane Blioidd write earnestly to Lord Batlim'st, and that Major Goiilbtn-n (Brisbane's Secretary) shonld with equal fervonr importune Mr, Goulburn, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, was a combination sufficient to alarm Marsden'a friends. They on their part awakened the interest not only of Wilberforce but of the just and generous Peel. Lord Bathurst was constrained to express publicly the sense entertained by the government of Marsden's "long, laborious, and praiseworthy exertions in behalf of religion and morality." He directed Brisbane to increase the stipend, in consequence of ** the long and ia^(vl 'fe^x- vices'' of the old chaplain, wliom tlae «bip^om»ms5oi^ ^V
 * and therefore I consider you will prove your charges;** he