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From the Rochester Volunteer.Seduction'-Acgravated case Rev•Washington' Van Zandt.—Last Wedncs-day night, the Rev. Mr, Van Zandt of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this city, was held to bail in 83009. to answer the complaint of the parents of a young lad}', 16 years of | age, on a charge of seduction. JV/r. Van Zandt ;3 Rector of Grace Church in Rochester, with an amiable wife and three lovely children, great wealth, and a comfortable in* comc. The vestry have had their pastor un* der examination, and stopped his preaching, and it is said that the Bishop has arrived a-mong us to conduct the spiritual investigation. The connexions of the young: ladv who is«r O wpregnant arc most respectable, and her rcpu-tation has been fair and unsjottcd. She states [ that the seduction took place in the Vestry Rooms of the Church about a year ago, (she was then but fifteen!) aud in his study, where she went for pious books, tracts, and hoi} in* st ruction.UJKan]ofanlt;thepci\V(cotinthenostoChtheThch:sol87pobyl.jMith,Orko:ofThe following is from the Rochester Eve* ning Post :UNHAPPY AFFAIR-Rf.v. A/r. Van* Zandt.—The proceedings in this case are assuming a shape which jus* tifies publicity on the part of the public press.We have forborne thus far to allude to the matter, in the hope that such explanations would be afforded as might satisfy ail parties that there was no foundation for other proceedings against this Mr. Van Zandt.In this we are unhappily disapjoiiited. Legal proceedings have been commenced against the Rev. Mr. Van Zandt, in behalf of the young w oman who ciiarges him with being her seducer; and bail has been given in the sum of 83,000. A/eantime, the Vestry of Grar. | tio Church have had some meetings, to consider \ Ri the charges, fo which ihcir attention was invi the ted ly Mr. Van Zandt himself. The Bishop , e has directed a preliminary inquiry, which w ill be held on Wednesday, the 2Lst of July, to decide if there is sufficient cause for calling an ecclesiastical tribunal to decide whether Mr,V. Z. should be continued in holy orders. It may be well to add that Mr, Van Zandt ascribes the charges against him to a conspiracy for his ruin.Dr. Whitehouse w ill probably preside at the preliminary clerical inquiry on Wednesday, if he should return to the city in season. The | in; inqtiiry will be held in the church, and to its ■ kii results we look w ith deep interest. The ac‘ | cuscd repels the imputation as firmly as it is Pa asserted by the young woman. That a clcr* gyman, highly esteemed, could thus commit ; h o himself with one of the communicants of his own flock, is not more horrible than the supposition that the childlike girl (for she is but six teen, and was esteemed artless and chaste) could doubly dye herself with infamy by falsely charging her spiritual adviser with such a*■ trocious criminality.Be the decision either way, it will be shocking enough. It is with deep sorrow that we 1 loa | refer in any way to the subject—connected as | the we are with the congregation; and we do so I hei 1 now- only in compliance with what seems to : hei j be the duty of an impartial journalist—to cor- i an rcct misrepresentations aircadv widely prcva- ; caj lent. - \ with.vlisSi;soha’ sar of I Ba thebil voi bu! pi I the csi ap| madis
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Middlebury Peoples Press
Middlebury, Vermont, US
Tue, Aug 10, 1841
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