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early as 1841. He writes "The trials " which caused these spread over a per <rind of six years, began to cease in or
about the year 1847, and
my barrassments began also gradually " lessen : He has thus been in heavy pecuniary embarrassments for thir- teen years.
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2. . He speaks of the amount of his debts being tacuty to him on his leaving his parish. Does not this argue a very culpable laxity of principle in a
clergyman whose Rectory amounts of 1849 to only to 226 by Clergy list He before voluntarily admitted to one that £ 200 a year of his chaplaincy for three
years had been by a legal.
appropriated for the benefit
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of his creditors before leaving Fyfield, his salary was Office
in advance.
"that morconer £ 150
-paid at the Colonial
and that he has arrived in the Colony
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with the first portion of his salary cable here to the extent of £ 70 due
payable
to the Captain of the vessel for his pas
to China; - a
sage
heavy
debt
his
wad of for a Colonial chaplain to bear on entrance upon his situation.
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His defence to me has been
that he has been "» "improvident but not " "dishonest; unfortunate but not wicked":
In his written defence he appears.
admission of improvidence.
to make no
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Probably by inquiries in his late
barish it could be ascertained whether his seale and style of expenditure was morally right
whose Clergyman amounted to £226 a year.
rectory
In a
It appears that Mr Baxter left Fyfield at 71⁄2 P. M. after evening. and not after morning
have formed
regret to state that
-
service.
the opinion that this is the only par ticular in Mr Fortal's publie statement which appears to be incorrect. I have cacefully inquired into all the state. ments respecting his departure on that Funday from Fryfield; _ and while I await the Bishop of Winchester's fi_
nal and decisive reply to my of last mail before I give my final refusal to license, I regret to state that with the facts
before me, and : the admissions of Mr Baster himself,
I cannot regard
than open to
a
hasty
creditors.
non
letter
him as otherwire
- great suspicion of taking or clandestine departure from
In reply to
my questions he
admitted that it is unusual,
for a
clergyman to set off
on a
journey on
Sunday evening, and that he re- membered at the time that a clergy- man could not be arrested for debt
Sunday, and that his recollection. this at the time made him feel that his departure in a Sunday
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of
was
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