SIE,—Does not Coleridge spell it with an " e "
? Certainly Emerson does ; and I think Coleridge also spells it with an "e," —" cleresy "; at least so I quoted it in a printed sermon or essay of my own of many years ago,—I quite forget when and which. Again, "the cleresy " are not Churches, but classes or types of men, and, I presume, women,—unordained persons who preach and teach and have something to say about morals and ethics, poets, essayists, public speakers, and the like. "The clergy" used to be exclusively ministers of the Anglican Church, but the designation is now frequently applied to our Nonconformist brethren, as is the title Reverend. "The cleresy" are not necessarily clergymen or Dissenting ministers, but include many Members of Parlia- ment and a sprinkling of the nobility. If I am presumptuous, pray pardon me; I have observed thq.t you do not profess infallibility.—I am, Sir, &c., S. B. JAMES. Northmarston.
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