But,  my  Lord,  the  truth  is,  that  you  have,  unconsciously,
most  incontrovertibly  established  the  fact,  (as  I  shall  imme-
diately show)  that,  according  to  your  own  view  of  the  mattery
there  has  been,  for  even  more  than  this  period  of  "  affectionate
friendship,"  no  change  at  all. You  tell  us,  that  the  "  additions
and  omissions "  made  in  the  9th  edition,  just  published,  of
his  Grace's  work  on  "  Apostolical  preaching,"  make  its  "  tone"
on  the  subject  of  Baptism  "  very  different  from  that  which  it
exhibited"  in  the  original  work  published  in  1815. And
you  courteously  remark,  that  while  his  Grace,  in  his  Preface,
"  speaks  of  it  as  if  it  were  still  substantially  the  same,"  it  will
be  your  ' '  painful  duty  to  remark  on  some  most  important
changes,"  &c. And  your  accusation  is,  that  this  change  is
recent. You  regret  that  "  now,"  in  his  "  advanced  years  and
exalted  station,"  he  should  "almost  contradict  the  sounder
teaching  of  his  earlier  years."  (p. 5.)  Now,  my  Lord,  would


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it  not  be  reasonable  to  claim  from  any  one  coming  forward
publicly  to  make  such  a  charge  against  his  Primate  and  former
" friend/'  that  he  should  first  have  ascertained  its  truth?  Is  it
too  much  to  expect  from  your  Lordship,  that  when  you  utter  the
most  confident  statements,  and  make  them  the  ground- work
of  charges  of  change,  and  insinuations  of  falsehood,  against
your  ecclesiastical  superior,  you  should  have  made  some  inquiry
into  the  grounds  upon  which  such  charges  rest  ?  Or  are  we
really  to  conclude,  that  your  most  solemn  asseverations  may  be
uttered  in  a  state  of  complete  and  conscious  ignorance,  whether
they  are  true  or  false  ?  Your  Lordship,  it  seems,  possesses  the
first  edition  of  the  Archbishop's  work,  published  in  1815,  and
having  procured  a  copy,  or  the  loan  of  a  copy,  of  the  ninth
edition,  published  in  1850,  you  straightway  publish  a  "  Letter  "
in  which  you  compare  the  two  editions,  and  then  tell  the  world
of  the  "  additions  and  omissions"  made  "in  this  new  edition;"
and  imply  that  they  were  made  to  meet  the  circumstances  of
the  case  of  Mr. Gorham. 