the business himself as he went to Birmingham. This he did not do, but took his journey to Birmingham, leaving all in the greatest confusion among his friends at Kingham and Banbury. The report quickly spread, and such was the popular indignation, that it was found necessary to keep the Meeting-house shut up, as both that and the persons who had attended it were in danger, from the insults of the enraged people of the town; the people were hooted and shouted at in the streets, and branded with the opprobrious name of S—m—s; the same was written upon the doors, walls, and window-shutters of the place of worship, and fears were entertained that the Chapel would have been burnt or pulled down. Messrs. J. and T. Gardenner now went over to Kingham to investigate the whole affair, the particulars of which are as follows:—It appeared that whenever Church had occasion to sleep from home he always wished to have a man or boy to sleep with him. At Kingham he sometimes slept with the son of a gentleman, who always made him welcome to his house when at that place, whom he used to clasp round the neck, after preaching, and say to him, “_Come_, _now_, _you must be my bed-fellow to-night_.” But the son at length refusing to be his bed-fellow, he had the servant boy in his place, for as yet nothing was suspected; at length both of them refused sleeping with Mr. Church; and when the reason was demanded, the son said “I don’t like to deep with Mr. Church, because he always — on me in bed;” the boy said “I don’t like sleeping with Mr. Church, because he — me so much.” From this rustic and simple statement of the boys the inference was easily drawn; and as the boys at every examination told the same tale, both when examined by the gentleman of the house, by Messrs. Gardenners’, and also from Mr. Church’s refusing to go to Kingham, and from many things that now came out in different quarters, as well as from many things in Mr. Church’s letter, no doubt remained but that he had acted imprudently and indelicately, to speak in no more glaring terms; and the people at Banbury thought they were fully justified in disowning him for their Minister, and all the neighbourhood was of the same opinion.