by those who have an interest in the continuance of the system, that the slave should be excluded from the light of the Gospel, and the hope of immortality through the merits and mediation of our blessed Saviour, lest a knowledge of these high matters should tend in its immediate consequences to ease his yoke, and to lightn his burden. If however there be any one hardy enough to advance the argument, I trust there will be virtue enough in this country to draw it to a short conclusion. It cannot be a question with Christians, whether the propagation of the Gospel, or the system of slavery, shall be preferred." Having thus given a few specimens from the only work to which this prelate's name has been prefixed, we shall now say something of him in his quality of a peer of parliament. Dr. Sutton, very much to his credit, bas never distinguished himself as a politician. This is generally a character that begets many enemies when exercised with asperity even in a just cause, and has always been considered particularly odious in a prelate of the church of England. Content with assisting the government at all critical times, he has on no occasion displayed an overweening zeal or an unchristian-like severity. of Indeed his Lordship has seldom risen in the house peers but when the immediate concerns of his own order or the general interests of morality rendered it in some measure indispensable. When the " Clergy Farming and Residence bill," introduced by Sir Wil liam Scott, was debated in June 1803, he spoke several times; and, while he insisted on the necessity of it, pointed out the spirit of persecution introduced into the act of Henry VIII., some of the clauses of which afforded a lucrative employment to informers. But although he fully approved the principle, yet several of the provisions appeared to him objectionable, and these he was ready to point out in a committee. When the clause was debated relative to the resi dence of fellows of colleges, a member objected to their exemption; and observed, that at Oxford " some of them preferred an easy and indolent life, and chose to reside at the university, not to assist in the good works of education and science that were going on there, but, in fact, contributing by their example to retard." On this Dr. Sutton gave an account of the practice of Cambridge, bestowed a high character on the conduct of all its officers of every description, and remarked," that for discipline, regularity, learning, and every branch of science, this university never stood higher than at present." His Lordship spoke for the first time in his archiepiscopal quality on "Moor's Divorce bill," June 13, 1805. He seized that occasion "to deprecate every thing that might give facility to divorces; which, if carried beyond a certain extent, tended in fact to afford a direct encouragement to the practice of adultery itself." On the resumed debate on the Catholic Petition, after the Earl of Suffolk and Lord Hutchinson had spoken in behalf, and the Earl of Buckinghamshire against the prayer of it, the Archbishop of Monday, May 13, 1805. Canterbury Canterbury rose, and immediately fixed the attention of the house. His Grace enumerated at length the various privileges that had been conceded to the catholics by the eighteenth, twenty-second, thirty-first, and thirty-third of his present majesty, and " expressed his surprise, that after such a series of concessions a petition like that on the table should be brought forward. Toleration," he added, " was the brightest ornament of the church of England, but the claims now meant to be obtained were inconsistent with the very idea of toleration; for they struck at the act of settlement, and tended to give not only equality, but eventual superiority, to the Roman catholic religion in a protestant state." Dr. Sutton, in the spring of 1778, married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Thoroton, Esq.; a lady, we believe, related to him, and by whom in the course of twenty-seven years he has had no less than thirteen children *; all of whom, two only excepted, have been females. The Archbishop is very desirous to possess a suitable mansion within his diocese; and as a fund has been accumulating some years for this purpose, in consequence of the sale of the old palace of Croydon, about thirty-five thousand pounds of which is now realised, he will be enabled to purchase a noble residence for himselfand successors when a proper opportunity for that purpose shall occur. The revenue of the see, consisting of nearly all the tenths of the diocese, is now estimated at twelve * His father, Lord George, had twelve by his first wife. thousand thousand pounds per annum; but as the sum of two thousand six hundred and twelve pounds twelve shillings and sixpence is to be paid for first-fruits, and a variety of other fees and expences are necessarily in curred, his Grace will not perhaps touch a single shilling for the first year Dr. Sutton's influence and patronage are very considerable. He has twenty-one suffragans under him, possesses a visitorial power over thirty-six parishes, and is patron of one hundred and ten livings*, about half a score of which are however only alternately in his gift. He also nominates the six preachers for the cathedral, and appoints to three of the prebendal stalls, two of which are at this moment filled by two of the sons of his predecessor. That the Archbishop may live many years, so as to be enabled to provide for a very numerous offspring, and enjoy his metropolitical dignity with all imaginable comfort to himself, as well as to the due edification of the numerous body of clergy entrusted to his charge, is the sincere wish of the writer of this memoir. * Of these, some are very valuable; that of Wrotham in particular, which is perhaps the second in England in point of emolument. SIR THOMAS MANNERS SUTTON, KNT. ONE OF THE BARONS OF THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER. THIS Judge, the ninth child of Lord George Sutton by Miss Diana Blankney, a Lincolnshire heiress, is a younger brother of the primate. He was educated with the Archbishop at Emanuel college, Cambridge, and was one of the wranglers there in 1777, on which occasion he obtained a degree. This facilitated his admission to the bar, by diminishing the period of probation required by the society of Lincoln's-inn, of which he was a member. ! Being a young man of promising talents, the honours of the profession were of course laid open to him. He accordingly obtained a silk gown, with a patent of precedency; and was appointed first Justice for Anglesea, Carnarvon, and Merionethshire. He was also nominated Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales, and one of his highness's counsel as Duke of Cornwall. Mr. Sutton early in life was returned a member for the borough of Newark in Nottinghamshire, and sat as one of its representatives during part of no less than five succeeding parliaments. In the course of a career of such long duration he had frequent opportunities of delivering his sentiments on a variety of subjects; but he chiefly distinguished himself in the affairs of the Prince of Wales, whose claims were stated with such precision, and whose pretensions were |