To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-.As your paper has been the vehiclc for e9tesidirg ttie defa- matory actisaCrtio bnrought against l.c before the Lord lilayor5 by an Irish gentlemnaLn vrho hr s daredts publicly to Wsperse tivyharacteC with thc charge tf scespticism ar.t in fidelity, I hope your .instice wilt slldbrd mze the means of vindicas,ing mvself frorn, s' foui a tld mali- cioas n slander. It is a satisfaction to v mind, that the Rigbt 1-lononrable t4e Lord Mayor was not to b' cajoled b,. the ivaper- tinent adulatioi with Vwhici the sneaking svcophanc! of jzpatzl hypocrisy wolild worun itseiY into influences noT be led by thlz I-' Supporte'd asseveration of tbhis zeat,us Papirt to bidieve that a man and a gentleman would obrfeit his voluntary pledge, bui as wt portion of tlse rubric may not be eqltnJv just, it beton;es ineom- i;ent on m e to state, that tfle Society of Cbr;,xitian Evidenc4 of whicht I have the honour to be Secretary and Chaplain, aims in gmr1 faiths solely at the end it professes-the snpprertinit of infidelity ane, scepticism, by meaT;, of a rasional discussion alone. I:tfidel, I atO none ! I defey the charge. and ll /who have the temcrity, to bring ii' against me; and as for scepticisni, I trusttbfat even the leas, reflcct. sng part of the commuaity milst be awaire that tke thrawing at of such an insinuation against the chariWter ofa regulrr andcaaenic;Dlv o:dained clergyman of tke Establishcd Church, whose arholeliife bare been and ever shall5 bedevoted to tfiegreat duty of doing awav every degree of doubt as to the trutli of oatr most holv religton-tlis cats be nothintg more than a " weak invention of the enem5y," racal- lated only to wound Chrhstianiiy throughi the sides of its professors. and to ecite a genteral su"picion as to the sincerity end orthodoxy even of the hivhest dignitaris of our church. If it came within a possiliility that the Secretary -nl founder of the Christians Evidence Society could himself bc an imnbeite-;r, the whole bench of Bishops mifht be suspected, and constquentiy the great massof Christian evidence be rendered eqeivocal anto unceitain, Alty accuser, however, hab ppens to be correct in his steteneur as to the intention entertained by the gentlemen of Trinity CoLlege, Dublin, to have conferred on mne th' crown of martyr lomn; and I have 7io (loubt would himself have contributed to prevail over mr reluctance to accept that weight of honour; but as mV soul was not ripe for ietmortality, I confess that in thst ungualrded roment ra- ttre overcame graeL, anti I made my esycapc through a window from. the dlory of whichi I felt inyself so unw orthv. The public, vill I hope, perceive with wha; feelirgs of tent'. r anet humnaancacquieseence this pious man gives his account of the inzeyd- e,l sunmamary infliction, and his evident chagrin at " ihe irmerfererece of the police,. which preventecl bloodshed ;" as Satnder's News- letter in the same spirit c ngratu!ated the students tl' Trinity Col- lege on the zeal which they nanifiisted on that occasion. Wlitis re- spect to every otiler assertion of this zealot. I amr indifferent to the care of contradicting, froml the finr. conviction in mynind tiat taSs- hood in such men is not what it fi in otherx, in th;it neither him.nelf nor any that thir.k with hi-n noessa the faculty of truth-they re- ally cannot help lying. Unhappy men! why s.ould we be angry vwith tttem i they could nuot speakc the ?trh *f tiey would: is. ; YOr-d, they never knew mhat truth meanr I atu. Sir. vour humbl.e servimt. ROBERT TAYLR, A.B. 9. Amrndel-street. **a Mr. Taylor must nowi be satisfQed: we cannot diroom fbr any farther Ictters, except as ativeTtiscminerts. TO TlJI, EDITOR OF THlE TIMES. IMPUTrE1 INFTDE!,ITY REFUT-D,