I certainly have no reason to be dissatisfied with my defenders.

All the bishops who have spoken on the subject (with the single exception of the Bishop of Winchester) have approved the step--so I believe have a vast majority of English churchmen.
How any one could expect that I should make a distinction between confirmed and unconfirmed communicants, which would render any administration in the abbey impossible, or that I should distinguish between the different shades of orthodoxy in the different nonconformist communions, I cannot conceive.
I am sure that I acted as a good churchman.

I humbly hope that I acted as He who first instituted the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper would have wished.
You are very kind to have taken so much interest in my essays, and what you say of the Athanasian Creed is deeply instructive.

You will be glad to hear--what will become public in a few days--that of the 29 Royal Commissioners, 18 at least--including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of St.David's and Carlisle and the two Regius Professors of Divinity--have declared themselves against continuing the use of it.
I found your note here when we arrived last night to assist at the coming of age of young Lord Elgin.

We were obliged to pass rapidly through Edinburgh, in order to reach this by nightfall.