Lord Dover's mistake is, I think, to be attributed to his assumption that bishops are peers of the realm. This is, however, by no means the case. A bishop is simply _a Lord of Parliament_, and possesses none of the privileges of the peerage; not those, among others, of freedom from arrest, and trial by their peers. A peer can only be deprived of his peerage by a special act of parliament, and after a trial by the House of Lords; while a bishop can be deprived of his see, and, of consequence, of his seat in the House of Lords, by the sentence of the archbishop of the province, assisted by such of his suffragans as he may summon. The two last instances of deprivation were those of Bishop Watson, of St. David's, by Archbishop Tenison, and of the Bishop of Clogher, in 1822. A bishop so deprived does not cease to be a bishop, but only ceases from having jurisdiction over a diocese. Whether a bishop can be deposed from his episcopal office altogether is a matter of doubt, though it is held by most of those who are learned in the canon law, that there is not sufficient authority in any ecclesiastical person, or body of persons, to degrade from the office of bishop any one who has once received episcopal consecration. R. C. C. Oxon. CHARACTER OF A TRUE CHURCHMAN. (Vol. v., p. 105.) J. Y. makes an inquiry as to the author of the _Character of a True Churchman_, printed 1711. Your correspondent will do me good service by stating the size, and giving the first few words, of his tract. In 1702, or perhaps in the preceding year, Richard West, D.D., Fellow of Magd. Coll. Oxford, and prebendary of Winchester, published _The True Character of a Churchman, showing the False Pretences to that Name_, one sheet in quarto, no date, of which I have two editions; and it was reprinted in the Somers' _Tracts_: "It is commonly observed," &c. This was answered by Sacheverell in _The Character of a Low Churchman_, 4to. 1702: "It cannot but be visible," &c. And in the same year there was an edition of both these characters printed, paragraph by paragraph, the original character and the reply: London, for A. Baldwin. I have also _The Character of a True Church of England Man_, a single sheet in 4to.: London, by D. Edwards for N. C. 1702: "Next to the name Christian." And _The True Churchman and Loyal Subject_: London, for J. Morphew, 1710, 8vo. pp. 168.: "The name of the church in whose communion I am," &c. Is this the same with J. Y.'s book with another title? P. B.