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the above letter was written, a pamphlet has been put into my hands which purports to be written by Viscount Gage. I protest against the tone of it, by which he endeavours to throw, what he conceives, the odium of the opposition to the change of our law, on the clergy. For though I conceive it to be a glory, and not a shame, that our national Church has adhered to the sound interpretation of Leviticus on this subject, yet as a matter of fact Lord Gage may see, even by the names of the members of our Society, that the laity are quite as anxious for the preservation of the law as the clergy. He speaks of the "ingenious opponent prelates," and ends his somewhat violent invective on the Church of England by asking, "Will the House of Lords continue to show more deference to antiquated Church laws than to the report of their own Commissioners and the repeated votes of the representatives of the people?" I will venture to ask, will the House of Lords venture to outrage the moral