6 JULY 1872, Page 16

DEAN STANLEY AND THE SCOTTISH MODERATES. [To THE EDITOR OF

THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Permit me to point out a not unimportant error which .occurs in Dr. Stanley's recent letter to you. For the piirpose of fortifying his own high estimate of the Moder- ates of the last century, the correctness of which your reviewer had called in question, he quotes a very eloquent eulogy pro- nounced upon them by—as he supposes—the late Sir H. Moncrieff Wellwood, whom he justly considers a first-rate authority. To those who know intimately this period of Scottish ecclesiastical history, such glowing words of commendation, spoken of a party which Wellwood is generally supposed to have despised and dis- liked, must have appeared sufficiently startling. The explanation is that, through some strange inadvertence, the Dean has quoted from a sermon,---not by Sir II. 1Vellwood at all,—but by Dr. Inglis, a respectable member of the Moderate party. —I am, Sir,