But we must call the attention of our readers to a few documents which appear to have entirely escaped the notice of Stowe, Maitland, and the other historians of London, but which are highly important for a clear understanding of the point at issue.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-October 4, 1677.

This Court doth desire Dr. Gale, master of the schoole of St. Paul, to consider of and devise a fitting inscription to be set on the new pillar at Fish-streethill, and to consult therein Sir Christopher Wren, knight, his Majesties surveyor generall, and Mr. Hooke, and then to present the same unto this Court.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-October 22, 1677.

Upon intimation now given by the right honble the Lord Mayor, that the inscriptions for the new Pillar on ffish-street-hill, prepared and lately presented to this Court by Dr. Gale, had been tendered to and very well approved off by his Matie this Court doth order the said inscriptions be forthwith made upon the said Pillar accordingly.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-October 25, 1677.

This Court now takeing into their consideration the ingenious inscriptions prepared and presented unto this Court by Dr. Gale for the new Pillar on ffishstreet-hill, doth order that Mr. Chamberlein doe deliver unto Mr. Lane, comptroller of the chamber, ten guineys, (to be placed on account of the cole duty,) and hee to lay out the same in a handsome piece of plate to be presented to the said Dr. Gale, as a loveing remembrance from this Court.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-November 12, 1680.

It is ordered by this Court, that Mr. Comptroller, taking to his assistance such persons as he shall think fitt, doe compose and draw up an inscription in Latin and English, to be affixed on the monument on Fish-street-hill, signifying that the city of London was burnt and consumed with fire by the treachery and malice of the papists in September, in the year of our Lord 1666.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.-June 17, 1681.

This day, Mr. Comptroller of the chamber, (psuant to an order of the 12th of November last) did present to this Court an inscripcon in Latin and English, by him composed, to be affixed on the Monument or Pillar on ffish-street-hill. The Latin is in these words (sed furor papistiticus, &c.*) wch he conceived might properly be added to the psent inscripcon on the north side thereof, after these words (stetit fatalis ignis,* &c.) and the English inscripcon follows these words, (viz1.) (This pillar, &c.*), which said inscripcons being read, this Court doth very well like and approve of them, and doth order that the same shall be forthwith affixed on the said Monument in the most convenient parts thereof, at the direccon and appointm1 of the R Honble the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldren.

And it is likewise ordered that another inscripcon in English, now psented by Mr. Comptroller, and read in this Court and agreed on, shall be likewise forthwith affixed on the front of the house where the said fire began at the like appointm' of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldren, wch sd inscripcon is in these words, viz. (Here by divine, &c.)

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Held, June 23, 1681.

The Right Honble the Lord Mayor is desired by this Court, to direct the setting up the inscriptions lately agreed to in Comon Counsell, touching the

• See before these inscriptions at length.

fireing of this city by the papists, A. D. 1666, upon the Pillar on Fish-street-hill, and the house where the fire began, in such manner as his Lordship shall think convenient.

A COURT OF ALDERMEN.-Held, July 12, 1681.

It is now agreed by this Court, that the Right Honourable the Lord Maior, who was desired by this Court to cause the additional inscription, lately agreed to in Comon Counsell, to be set up on the Pillar at Fish-street-hill, doe in order thereunto cause the inscription already made on the said Pillar, or such part thereof as his Lordship shall think convenient, to be taken out and anew engraved, the better to make way for the said additional inscription.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-September 16, 1689.

It is unanimously agreed and ordered by this Court, that the too generall inscripcons formerly sett up by order of this Court in the Majorality of S' Patience Ward, on the monument and the house where the dreadful fire in 1666 began, (which have been since taken down) be again sett upp in their former places, and that Mr. Chamblaine and Mr. Comptroller doe se the same done accordingly.

The only point by which the authorities can be brought into question, is the known servility of the magistrates of London at that period, which would have induced them to pass any resolution in accordance with the ideas of the ruling powers; an evidence of which is manifested in the fact, that the figure introduced for the Duke of York in the relievo, and which, in the early edition of Stowe and Maitland, is described as representing his Royal Highness, is, in later copies of the same work, designated as Mars; whilst the chaplet in his hand, with which he was about to crown the rising city, is converted by the time-serving editors into " an emblem that an honourable peace would be the consequence of war:" an enigma that Edipus could not have solved.

In allusion to this worthy magistrate, Thomas Ward says, in his Poem upon the disclosures of Titus Oates regarding the papists,

"He swore the Jesuits, 'ere we mind 'em

Steal in unseen that none can find 'em,
And cut our throats, and burn our houses,
And stop our windpipes in close nooses,

As country farmers strangle hares,
And hurtful polecats catch in snares.

He swore, with flaming faggot-sticks,
In sixteen hundred sixty-six,

They thorow London took their marches,
And burn'd the city down with torches;

Yet all invisible they were,

Clad in their coats of Lapland aire.

That sniffling whig-Major Patience Ward,
To this d-d lie had such regard,
That he his godly masons sent
T'engrave it round the Monument;
They did so, but let such things pass,

His nien were fools, and he an ass."

England's Reformation from the Time of King Henry VIII., to the End of Oates's Plot, By THOMAS WARD. Hamborough, 1710. Cant. IV. p. 160.

But let the Court speak for themselves, and shew how readily they could accommodate their tongues to the servile flattery of a popish monarch.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-ffebry 12, 1684.

This day it was agreed that the Address following shall be presented to his Majesty from this Court, when his Majesty shall signify his pleasure to be attended therewith, the tenor whereof is as followeth :

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

The humble Address of the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Sherriffes of your
City of London,

SHEWETH, That as we canot but with deepest sorrow of heart reflect upon and condole the death of his late Majesty of happy memory, soe wee doe greatly reioice, and esteeme ourselves and these nations very happy, in your Majesties coming to the crown your undoubted right. And wee humbly presume to tender your Majesty our heartiest thanks and acknowledgements for your great grace and condescension, vouchsafed in your late gracious declarations. And we beg leave to assure your Majesty of our hearty and earnest desires and praiers, for your Majesty long life and happy reigne. And that wee shall ever be ready to yield your Majesty our hublest duty and obedience, and to serve your Majesty in our stations with our lives and fortunes.

And it is ordered that Mr. Sherriffes doe forthwith goe up to Whitehall to know his Majesty's pleasure, when hee will be attended with the said addresse, and that a Court be accordingly sumoned to present the same,

This specimen will suffice as to the quantum of the sincerity of the proposers and authors of the inscriptions; and had we no surer grounds to proceed upon, we should have let the accusation against the papists have gone to the "Tomb of the Capulets," without endeavouring to perpetuate it but history fully bears out the charge; and the incidental proofs we have adduced must carry conviction to all who desire to be convinced. But it is time to close this desultory paper, which we do by expressing our hope that, notwithstanding the violation which has been offered to the pedestal,-notwithstanding the march of irreligion and revolution under the influence and guidance of certain city demagogues,-sufficient true and sound Protestant feeling exists in London, to spare Englishmen the foul and indelible disgrace of having destroyed a noble monument of piety and gratitude to God, as well as a splendid work of art.

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In 1786, the corporation of London, at a very great expense, thoroughly repaired and beautified it, and regilt the flame; and, to prevent accidents, caused a new iron railing to be placed round the balcony. The emoluments arising from its exhibition are at present given to Mr. Charles Chapman, an old and meritorious citizen, the price of admission being sixpence.

In this expression of our sentiments, we may possibly have rendered ourselves obnoxious to the remarks of certain Latitudinarians, who hate every thing that may conduce to the prosperity of the Reformed Church. Should this be the fact, we have only to reply, that, what we have now, and heretofore said or done, appears to us strictly in accordance with OUR character, as "THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER."

MONTHLY REGISTER.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

Ar a numerous meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, held at the Society's House, 67, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, on Tuesday the 6th December, 1831, it was unanimously resolved:

"That this Board has received, with feelings of the deepest regret, the melancholy and afflicting intelligence, which has just been communicated, of the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Turner, Bishop of Calcutta, and of the severe loss which the Indian Church has sustained by being deprived, for the fourth time, of its Bishop; that, in the opinion of this Board, it is the bounden duty of the Society to renew the representations formerly made to his Majesty's Government and the East India Company, relative to the appointment of an additional number of Bishops in India; and that a Special General Meeting of the Society be summoned, at an early day, for that purpose."

In consequence of which, a Special General Meeting of the Members of the Society was fixed for Tuesday the 13th December, at two o'Clock precisely, when his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, President, tock the chair; and the following Resolutions were agreed to unanimously:

1. That this Special Meeting sincerely concurs in the deep feeling of sorrow for the death of Bishop Turner expressed at the last General Board.

2. That in the ten years which will have elapsed between the death of the first Bishop of Calcutta and the time of the earliest possible arrival of his fourth successor at Calcutta, the Church of India will have been deprived of Episcopal Superintendence during periods amounting in the whole to nearly six years.

3. That it is impossible not to anticipate a frequent recurrence of a like injurious deprivation, so long as the duties of that vast Diocese shall be imposed upon a single individual.

4. That the arguments urged by the Society in a Memorial formerly pre

sented to his Majesty's Government, and to the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company, have acquired great additional force from the recent loss which the Indian Diocese has sustained in the death of its fourth Bishop, who sank under his labours at the close of his first visitation.

5. That the Society having been engaged for more than a century in promoting Christianity in the East, feels it to be its bounden duty again to represent in the strongest manner the necessity of making more effectual provision for the discharge of the Episcopal functions, the advantages of which, while they have more than realized the Society's expectations, have been officially recognised and put upon record by the authorities in India.

6. That, in the opinion of the Society, this object can be secured only by the division of the Diocese of Calcutta, and by the appointment of additional Bishops; an arrangement which, if not immediately attainable, the Society earnestly hope will at least make a part of the approaching settlement of the affairs of India.

7. That a letter be addressed by the Society to his Majesty's Government, enclosing a copy of these Resolutions and of the above-mentioned Memorial; and that his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, President of the Society, be respectfully requested to present the same to the First Lord of the Treasury and the President of the East India Board.

Additional Resolution. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting are eminently due, and are hereby offered, to his Grace the President, for having taken the chair on the present occasion, for the very obliging manner in which he has acceded to the wishes of the Board in regard to the presentation of the Letter, Resolutions, and Memorial, and for the attention uniformly paid by his Grace to the objects and interests of the Society.

DIOCESE OF ELY.

Ar a General Meeting of the above Committee, holden in the Combination Room of Jesus College, on Saturday, December 10, 1831, the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely in the Chair;

The list of Annual Subscribers for the year ending at the audit in November last having been presented, the following statement was read and unanimously adopted.

The Sub-Committee have to announce that, during the present year, they have distributed 252 Bibles, 283 Testaments, 650 Prayer-Books, and 4,643 other books and tracts, more than one half of which has been distributed gratuitously; and that they have complied with every application

that has been made to them.

They have further to report that

since the institution of this Committee, they have distributed 5762 Bibles, 4131 Testaments, 11,098 Prayer-books, and 56,917 other books and tracts.

The Sub-Committee have the satisfaction of announcing also that the state of the funds of the Committee has enabled them to grant supplies of books towards the establishment and support of several Sunday Schools within the Diocese.

After which it was unanimously agreed:

1st. That a donation of 401. be remitted to the Treasurer of the Parent Society in London.

2nd. That the Rev. E. Fisher, Vicar of Linton, and the Rev. T. Lund, Fellow of St. John's College, be requested to audit the Treasurer's accounts for the ensuing year.

J. GRAHAM, Secretary.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.

On Friday, December 2, the annual meeting of the Society established in the Diocese of Ely and University of Cambridge, in aid of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was held at the Town-hall, the Rev. Dr. Graham, Vice-Chancellor, in the chair.

Many and most able speeches were delivered on the occasion, particularly that by the Christian Advocate, which our limited space forbids us to quote; but we rejoice to observe throughout, a truly Christian zeal to spread abroad the saving truths of Christ's holy religion.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY for PROMOTING the ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING, and REPAIRING of CHURCHES and CHAPELS.

THE Commissioners for building additional Churches and Chapels have made their twelfth report, by which it appears that since the opening of the commission, one hundred and sixtyeight Churches and Chapels have now been completed, and therein a total provision made for 231,367 persons,

including 128,082 free sittings; that twenty-seven Churches and Chapels are in the course of erection, and that plans have been approved for the building of sixteen others. The Exchequer bills which have been issued for this purpose amount to 1,367,400l.

PROSPECTUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM.

THE government to be vested in the Dean and Chapter, the Bishop being

Visitor.

A chief officer of the College or University to be appointed, with the title of Warden; to whom will be committed the ordinary discipline.

PROFESSORS.-1. Divinity and Ecclesiastical History.-2. Greek and

Classical Literature.-3. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

READERS.-1. Law.-2. Medicine. -3. History, Ancient and Modern. To these may be added readers in