Irtftr f n O 7th August, 1861. Srit,—My attention has
been recently directed to the last number of the ltrestminster Review, in which, at p. 239, there are some remarks on a letter which you did me the favour of inserting a few months ago in the Spectator. The reviewer gives an extract from a work called Crockford's Clerical Directory, in which it is stated that I was admitted to Deacon's Orders in the year 1821, and he draws some inferences which, on the supposition of the correctness of that state- ment, are certainly not unnatural, though _perhaps rather broader than the premises warrant. Nor was it to be expected that he or anyone should have suspected an error of six or seven years in the date.
Having applied for the most authentic and exact information on the point, I am informed by Messrs. Burder and Dunning, the Bishop of Ely's secretaries, that "they find, on reference to the Act-book, that I was admitted to Deacon's Orders on the 4th November, 1827." I have furnished the editor of the flrestrninster Review with the means of undeceiving. his readers in his next number, but I do not know whether he will think it worth while to do so. And, whether or not, I shall take it as an additional favour if you will publish this statement.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, C. ST. DATED'S.
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