B. C. COLLINS, and E. EASTON, Salisbury; SMART and M.DCC.LXXXIX. 110. i. 218. dually by this mode of communication, as a testimony of my affection for my Clergy; and my folicitude for their temporal and eternal interests. $ 1. THE events to which I allude are the progress of Sunday education; the exertions of private persons and focieties for the promotion of piety, decency, and good order; and, above all, the Royal Proclamation for the restraining of wickedness and vice; for the maintenance of religion and virtue; and, as the means of attaining these invaluable ends, for the due obfervance of the Sabbath. Two years have now elapfed fince his Majefty was induced, from motives of paternal regard for the morals of his people, to iffue this proclamation. The call to obey it's injunctions more immediately affects magiftrates, as vefted with authority to execute the fubfifting laws against drunkenness; curfing and fwearing; gaming, especially in public houses; lewdness and debauchery; profanation of the Lord's day; publication of obscene and impious books and prints; yet yet it extends to all perfons who poffefs the means of affifting to remedy or to leffen those evils, which, if unreftrained and undiminished, will throw down every barrier which law and religion can oppose to them. But the Parochial Clergy, by an express clause, are commanded "to read the proclamation, сс at least four times a year, in their refpec"tive Churches and Chapels, immediately "after divine fervice; and to incite and ftir << up their respective auditors to the practice " of piety and virtue; and the avoiding all "immorality and profaneness." With this Royal command, in both it's parts, all of you, I trust, have hitherto complied, and mean to comply in future. As teachers of religion, we cannot but moft fenfibly feel the benefits which result from that influence which flows from the fupport, the countenance, and the example of the Sovereign. Let us therefore convince the world by our behaviour, that our gratitude to God for the late act of mercy, which restored a fovereign most justly endeared by every tie to a loyal and affectionate people, is not merely the gratitude of a day, but a A 3 fixed Α LETT E R, &c. REVEREND BRETHREN, THE HE fubjects of this Addrefs relate to fome events very interefting to the church of which you are minifters, because very interesting to morality and religion: to fome topics of ferious confideration, which concern your temporal fituations, and religious duties and, to others, which cannot fail to influence your conduct as friends to the future welfare of the Church of England, and the due inftruction of the people committed to your care. On the feveral fubjects which fall within thefe views, I felt it my duty to deliver my fentiments to you collectively on a late and former occafion. I am ftill anxious to leave them with you indivi |