Excerpt from A First Letter on the Present Position of the High Church Party in the Church of EnglandFrom the date of this you will observe, that I am writing before the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has been pronounced in the case of Mr. Gorham against the bishop of Exeter. And so far as this first letter is concerned, I shall not care to suppose what the decision will be: whether in favour of Mr. Gorham, or, in favour of the bishop that is, as distinctly, as firmly, and as unequivocally as was the judgment in the Court below, by Sir Herbert Jenner Fust.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.