The question, as under the conduct of the present Ministers, is closely connecting itself with religion.

Now after all, if we are to be preserved from utter confusion, it is religion and morals, and conscience, which must do the work.

The religious part of the community, especially those attached to the Church of England, must and _do_ feel that neither the Church as an establishment, nor its points of Faith as a church, nor Christianity itself as governed by Scripture, ought to be left long, if it can be prevented, in the hands which manage our affairs.
But I am running into unpardonable length.

I took up the pen principally to express a hope that your Lordship may have continued to see the question in the light which affords the only chance of preserving the nation from several generations perhaps of confusion, and crime, and wretchedness.
Excuse the liberty I have taken, And believe me most faithfully, Your Lordship's Much obliged, W.WORDSWORTH.[93] [93] _Memoirs_, ii.

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