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II 'II I` r ~1 i • ir , . - k 41 11 1 i ' 4 ' • -s AN ADDRESS • TO THE DIFFERENT CLASSES, SECTS, AND PARTIES, Wema DIVIDE ♦xn AGITATE nut BRITISH EMPIRE. Why do ye disquiet yourselves in vain ? PART FIRST. Beset by present difficulties and distresses, and alarmed by fears of approaching danger, you blame each the others, as the authors of these evils, and are preparing for a conflict, which, if commenced, must entail misery on you all. Will it not be wisdom in each of you to pause be fore this dreadful contest shall begin ; to allow your selves to inquire coolly into the real cause of the dis tress and alarm which are experienced ; and to dis cover if it be not possible to turn these seeming evils into substantial good? Great temporary calamities usually precede greater permanent blessings ; and if you will fix your attention upon the circumstances which have produced, and are still increasing your present sufferings, there will appear to you abundant reason to rejoice ; for nothing short of these afflic tions could prepare you for the happy change which you are about to undergo. It is not my intention to flatter, or without din strongest necessity, to offend—but to tell you impor tant truths in plain and simple language, and which, if I am silent, no one, in these times, will venture to declare. In pursuing this course, I will be honest and sincere with you, and thus relieve my own mind from those feeling s which deep reflection and long experience have, trust for some wise and good pur pose, created. lam aware, that in declaring these truths, I must offend all the prejudices which have been implanted in your minds from infancy.—But, this declaration is necessary—for you cannot be re lieved from the appalling dangers which surround you, until those errors be removed. The time is in deed come, when your minds must be born again; w hen your whole character must be formed anew ; when truth, consbtency, and kindness pill take place of errors, inconsistency, and malevolence. Many of you, alarmed at the approach of a change, cling to your prejudices, and dread the consequences of part ing with them. Those feelings are natural. I expe rienced them once, and proceeded in my investiga tions with fear and trembling. As I advanced, how ever, brighter prospects opened ; and by a continued undeviating attention to Nature, and to facts, all that was forbidding disappeared, and the most saris• factory and gratifying results followed. Havingi now passed this ordeal, and discovered unheard and unthought of benefits for my fellow•creatures, I again put my life in my hand, and risk every per sonal consideration, that you may, without loss of time, be placed in permanent possession of these bene fits. So far as lam permitted to know myself, this the sole motive that governs my conduct. The prejudices which your minds have received, solely in consequence of the localities of your birth, will, as I have before observed, be opposed to those truths which, for your good, I must present to you. But, reflect for a moment, and say to yourselves, " Are they not the effects of the early impressions which have been forced on our minds? Are they not the ne cessary and unavoidable result of the geographical, circumstances of our birth and education? The constitution of our nature is such, that in infancy and childhood, any notions, however absurd and con trary to natwe, may be forced upon us as Divine truths, as is evident in all the great districts into which the world is divided. It is therefore possible that we, and our forefathers, may have been trained. in error, and taught even to call good evil, and evil good. Let us then endeavour to lay aside, for a season at least, those early impressions, and, as far, as they will anew us, examine carefully and atten tively what this man has to say, and to offer to us; Ile has succeeded in making a large - population around him much better and happier than has yet been accomplished by any of his more powerful com petitors, who have acted on those principles, which we have been taught to consider right. He has pure sued another course, put other principles into action, and by the testimony of all eye-witnesses, has pro. duced a better conduct, and greater happiness, than can be discovered in the same claA of people else where. Ile asks nothing from us—he seeks no per sonal advantage of any kind : from the very prin ciples which he professes, he can. claim no merit— and he refuses to accept reward: yet he freely de- votes his time, expends his fortune,' and encounters opprobrium, to promote what he appears conscien tiously to believe, is calculated to make us happy.— Let us then give him a fair and patient hearing. He is only one against all the millions in the world who have been taught from infancy to oppose his notions. If he is right, and we are all in error, good, not evil, will ensue ; while a full investigation and discussion of his plans, if they really are visionary and imprac ticable, or not beneficial, will bring them into con tempt, and speedily consign them to oblivion:— Such seems to me the language of reason. In your cool moments, I know the most intelligent of you will adopt it ; and to the reflecting and intelligent among you I now address myself. You see those bonds which heretofore held society together, loosening in every direction. Learning, wealth, and titles, have lost their hold on the imagi nations of men ; for they have failed to give them happiness. The moral, political, and commercial systems of the civilized part of the world are hourly sinking into disrepute ; they are found to produce far more evil than , good ; and all with one accord cry out, " that something must be dorie." You look at, each other for this " something" to remove the public distress, which each is conscious, that what ever has been offered by the different parties of which the population is composed, is quite unequal to meet the crisis at which we are arrived. But why are all the old systems of the world falling into discredit? Is it upon record, that any truth, when once esta blished, ever fell into disgrace? Such a result would be contrary to the known laws of Nature.— It is, therefore, evident, that there is some funcla -•el error in these old systems, and that this conf ronted to relieve us from the difficulties which in on every side, is to remove this error, that may enjoy the endless benefits which experience now offer. in search of happiness. Can it be obtained mental freedom, and an abundance of all isaries of life? Have the old systems given Can they permit them to be given ? -these old f a or re th al ey in c terts ould t n in ot p ez er is m t w. Have supportinglar any parti" give thei t: the in fluence, a tithe of the happiness which the least fa voured would enjoy, if trained under a system• of truth, without error, which the experience of the world may now easily form. It is on this ground I ask you not to persist in your present headlong dangerous course, but to stand still and reflect on the principles upon which your con duct proceeds, and you cannot fail to discover that you are all equally in error, and are acting in direct, opposition to your own interests and happiness. It can hardly be necessary to state, that I am no advo cate for premature changes--for violence or disorder of any kind. These must ever be adverse to the in troduction, of a beneficent system. But is not the civilized world at this moment threatened with ge neral confusion ? Are not the old bonds of society giving way in every direction? This is a change brought about by the great laws of Nature ; it has become necessary, from the progress of knowledge and improvement, and human power eannot stay its course. The only question for your consideration is, Shall its future march be directed by wisdom and moderation, with regularity and order—or by igno rance, anger, and violence, which will speedily un hinge the whole fabric of society, and sweep away existing institutions, before superior arrangements can he formed to supersede them? It is evident that the well-being of mankind *quires that the future progress of this change should be directed by the old-established Powers, who have 'as much interest in bringing it about as any of the individuals whom they govern. But before they tan be expected to act cordially in a cause opposed to all their early prejudices and local views, it is reasonable that their jndgments should be convinced of the errors on which the old systems have been formed, and of the benefits which the Public will derive from the introduction. of another system, founded on principles capable of bearing the test )f every investigation. Knowing, as I do, that belief or conviction does not depend on the will of the individual, I will now attempt to pro duce this result, and endeavour to place before the minds of those wl , o now govern society, reasons which will satisfy them that in all they now do they are acting contrary to their own interests and happi ness—that they perpetually catch at the shadow, while they may enjoy the substance. All the old systems of the world, then, have the same base, and may justly be considered as one. l They have all been formed on principles which are at variance with nature and experience. It has been taken for granted by our forefathers, without any in vestigation, " that a created being can be otherwise' . than it has been created," and they have built all their ' systems on this notion. AU the evils which have t been experienced by mankind may be easily traced to this source. It is the cause of all those we now suffer. When this one error can be withdrawn from your minds, all other errors will speedily disappear ; they are inseparably connected with it, flow from it, and cannot exist without it. Whenever it shall be removed, your difficulties and miseries will termi nate. This apparently trivial error has been the real aAd only demon in human society ; it is the source of all the bad passions, and the sole cause of misery.— When the notion has been received by men, " that a created being can become something else than the Powna which created it intended," then the imagi nation supersedes and destroys judgment, and all the associations of the mind become a chaos of confUsion, or an aggregate of contradictions and inconsistencies. Such has been the state of the human intellect from the earliest period of its history to the present mo ment, and hitherto the faculty of imagination has governed the proceedings of men. When the imagi nation had once supposed " that a created being could do something of itself, or act by a power within itself that was untreated," the next step was easy to imagine, that human beings, individually, each for himself; could corm some part of themselves. That a man could form any of the external part of h:s na ture, was, however, an absurdity too evident to all the human senses to be admitted, or even for the imagination to suppose. But as it was so palpably impossible that he could form the smallest part of his own body, it was, somehow or other, imagined that he could easily form some part of his own mind, his will, for instance ; although, to this hour, he knows not what the will or any part of his mind is, or one of its directing movei.•:nts. Ile is as yet acquainted with the effects only of this extraordinary creation. Those two errors of the imagination made way for the third, " that man, though capable of forming a will for himself, was incapable of forming a good will, or, of himself; of acting right ; yet, incapable as he was, and though he did not create his own in capacity, still he ought to be punished for the inca pability 9f forming a good will —or, in ocher words, a will to act right according to the notions of an ever varying imagination." It was a necessary conse quence of this step of crrcr, to suppose it wrong to act agreeably to nature. Thence came the endless artificial arrangements of Society to counteract Na ture, and thus create crime and all the bad passionti then followed other arrangements to counteract the effects of those crimes and bad passions which igno rance had created. Such is the foundation of all the old systems still in the world ; the root from whence they all spring ; they are in fact but branches of the same tree, and their fruit has ever been, and ever will be, the same—namely, ignorance, poverty, vice, crime, and misery, or a direction to the prosperity and happiness of mankind. It is the interest of every hu man being, that these errors should be now removed, and that man should begin to derive benefit from the experience acquired through past ages. The truly benevolent and intelligent, who have a sincere desife to ameliorate the condition of mankiad, without creating unnecessary evil, will not deem it requisite for me to descend to the exposure of the minor errors of each of the old systems. These er rors stand already exposed to each other ; and the great majority of the world have for centuries past seen them as I see them, except that they have not' heel permitted to perceive the errors which exist within the immediate circle of their own localities. When they shall be enabled to do this, the ignorance, poverty, evil passions, and misery, in which men in all countries are now enveloped, will be permanently removed. You may now say, perhaps, "if then the world is wrong, what measures ought to be adopted to improve the condition of hurnan nature?" I an- 4' siv. l4 • swer, that a conduct the reverse of that pursued by. any party ought to be immediately put into practice. In this. country, the most ample means exist to give immediate relief to all classes, without injury to an individual of any description, or of any rank ; and it behoves every one, in this crisis of our country and of the world, to bring these means, without loss ,of time, into action, that the hungry may be fed, the naked clothed, and the discontented rendered peace able and valuable members of society. On the strength of an experience such as no other individual has yet attained, I assert, and am ready to prove the assertion, that the Government possesses the power and the means to give immediate relief to all the working classes ; that this relief can be given only by a change of system ; and, for the advantage of all parties, that change ought to commence with the Government, in unison with the most respectable portion of the com munity, that the interest of the upper and lower classes may be again united, and mutuil good. will and confidence established between them. It will not be necessary to call for any sacrifice of property or opinion from a single individual. There will be no apparent alteration in any of the existing arrange ments of society, except that all those who are now naturally discontented for want of employment, and who are barely existing by the industry of others, or by the commission of came, shall be employed to create a very large increase to the real wealth of the State. The principles by which your present pro ceedings are directed, are so opposed to the character of the times in which you exist, that you are actually restrained by them from increasing your wealth, from the fear of increasing your poverty. Such is the in consistent and irrational state in which you now are, and out of which it requires but a very little effort to remove you, and place the whole empire in a situation of unequalled security and prosperity. It is of little con sequencewho takethe lead in the measures proposed, since all parties may be easily rendered equal to the task ; but to do away with every idea of a contest between the governors and the governed, which, if commenced, would increase the miseries &society, it is desirable that those who are now in power should direct these beneficial alterations. It may be thought by their political opponents, that those at present in , authority will oppose them. This is an improbable supposition. It is for their interest and security to ' introduce these improvements; and they will be more particularly benefited by them, than perhaps any other class of persons in society. Besides, the Go veraors of a free State must be directed by public opinion, and our Government is in a very peculiar manner influenced by it. The change which I propose, when its principles shall be understood, will be found to be easily prac ticable. It is simply to cultivate part of the richest soil in Great Britain and Ireland, under proper ar rangements, with the spade, instead of the plough, which will immediately give a superabundance of permanent beneficial employment to all the poor and working classes, and greatly increase the wealth and prosperity of the Empire. I have said part of the richest soil, because our present population is. tool limited to cultivate the whole with the spade; and I ha-e observed, under proper . arrangements, because those arrangements which were advantageous for the plough, will be fo u nd di sa d vantageous for the spade. The most important moral improvements may be gradually effected in society by the new arrange ments necessary for spade cultivation ; and I may safely add 'that, under existing circumstances, no other resource remains to save the country from the immicent danger which threatens it. As the public voice seems now to admit this- conclusion the next step becomes one of the highest importance to so ciety. It involves questions of political economy more profound than have ever been submitted for public consideration ; and to comprehend them in all their extent, requires an Acquaintance, not with the mere theories and local views of any particular dis trict or party, but with human nature ; and a practi cal knowledge of what is calculated to promote and secure its best permanent interests. In the second part of this Address, I will explain more particularly the causes which render a change of system now absolutely necessary and unavoidable. the objects of which, for the benefit of all, should be attained by any change that may be made; and the _adaptation of the new arrangements proposed to se cure those objects. ROBERT c0W21.1. New Lanark, November 12, 11119. The Pottery trade in the neighbourhood of Leed s , is considerably revived, and i s brisker at present than it has been for some time past. Saturday se'nnight, the Duchess of HAMILTON, ordered a quarter of mutton to be given to each of 150 distressed families, not paupers, of Hamilton. Tursday, two privates, belon g ing to the 33d Re giment, were apprehended at Sutton Scotney, for stopping Mr. PADBORY, of Bishop's Waltham, on the highway, and robbing him. Just published, by T. HARVEY, of Blackfriars road, a Pocket Manual, being A Jew Min u t es Ad vice fr om the Medical Board, - in a Lecture on the Lues Venerea and Sexual I)ebilities, as deliver id at Woodstock-House, and Charlotte-Rouse, in *arch last, a Publication highly interesting to young Practitioners, and of importance to the vital interests of Society.—For the acconnnodation of Patients at the West end of the Town, a Medical Board is established in 'Woodstock -street, Oxford street, under the patronage of Dr. COOPER, of Char lotte House, Great Charlotte -street, Blackfriars-rogd. The Board is composed of Gentlemen of the first talent, of nearly forty years' experience, all Members of the Royal Colleges of London and Edinburgh, who are consulted daily -by all ranks of inva lids with the greatest confidence. Patients afflicted with a certain complaint, strictures, erratic pains, eruptions of the skin, ulcerated throat, glandular swellings. in the neck, nodes on the shin bones, Stu are diseases which arise from improper treatment, the afflicted are immediately relieved, and speedily cured, without confinement.—Messrs. COOPER and Ca are consulted at Woodstock House, from Eight in the Morning until Eight at Ni g h t ; an d at Charlotte-1 House, Great Charlotte -street, opposite the Rev. Rowland Hill's Chapel, from Twelve till Eight, end no where else in London.--Mechanics have ad vice Gratis every evening, from Six till Eight, at both Houses; and o n S un d a y M orn i ngs until Twelve. o'Clock.—N.R. Raptures of 30 years standing, and. of 14 inches in circumference, radically cured, with out surgical operation...-... 0 Private Eatmance, and Private Rooms. for Consultation. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, NOVEMBI Wednesday, the following Gentlemen we undermentioned degrees: uoxoaaay uarmas Or AI lion, William Stuart, and lion. George John's College. M&STEII OF MITS. Thomas Robyn% of Corpus Christi Colle. 11. Wynne Jones, of Emmanuel College. OACIIELOIIS OF Mak Robert Cobb, of Cahn College. George Augustus Frederick Ilan, of MI EACWELOR c CIVIL LAW. William England, of St John's College. •LACHELUR IX ?WSW. Thomas Foster Barham, (blesses College. OXFORD, NOVEMBE: Saturday, the Rev. John Collier Jones, ter College, was elected Rector of that Society. the late Rev. Dr. Cole. Thursday, the Rev. John Wickham Griffith, Queen's College, was elected Fellow, and lancrion, Exhibitioner, of that Society, on The Reverend J. Strange Dandridge, College, has lately been appointed Chaplain bass)! at Berlin, by his Excellency the Right Yesterday, the following Degrees were r DOCTORS IN DIVIRITT. Rev. John Collier Jones, Rector of Ez Bev. Samuel Cole, of Enter College. YASTta or Rey. Thomas Parry, Fellow of Balliol NOVEMBER 20. Thursday last, the following Degrees were 'TASTER% OV Mal Right Hon. Lord Clifton, of Chrirt Church. Rev. William Briggs, of Queen's College. Rev. Henry Gordon, of Merton Colleg e . Rev. Charles Spencer Stanhope, of Christ SACHI.LOIIS OF All TS. lames Buchanan. Esq. of Brasennow r Richard Rowland Illovain, of Worcester Henry Gipps, SchoLr of Wurcester College. Joel Broadhurst, of Wadham College. Samuel Wright, of St. John's College. Henry Benwell, of Merton College. Charles Barton and 'Thomas Gronow, William Grove, of Oriel College. Janes Chapman, of Christ Church. ECCLESIASTICAL PRO: Rev. Edward Meredith, is presented to of Newport Grammar School, Shropshire, Rev. G. 'Stretford, M.A. of St. John's the Living of St. Andrew's, Ilolborn. Rev. Richard Midgley, to t:.e Rectory Rev. W. F. Manse!, B.A. of Trinity C: the Vicarage of Sandhurst, Gloucestershit Rev. Dr. Saurin, Dean of Derry, has i of Dromore. Rev. Z. S. Warren, B.A. of Sidney Colli been elected Usher of Oakharn School. Tuesday, Mr. John Russel, Preacher, Pastoral Charge of the Associate Congrezation, Yesterday morning the PRINCi Duke and Duchess of CLAttexci Service at the Chapel Royal, Sr. J. . Thursday se'nnight, Benjamin eey, and James Allen, of Great bridgeshi7e, labourers, were several fore the Rev. Mr. LIEWORTFIY, in shilling each, for neglecting to rcsol Church on the preceding Sunda Service, withont having any la' evcuse for such absence. RECORDER'S REPORTe•-.-Sattlrdi made his Report to the PRINCR wards of 20 convicts, capitally con , September Sessions at the Old Royal Highness was graciously _Henry Scent, the butcher, of Pimlici maiming his wife, at the Saracen's hill. The following, who were way robbery, accompanied by peal outrage, at the late West-End Fait wet* ordered for execution next Fktchee, John Henley, Henry Lovell, Cassidy; also, at the same time, Thema; forgery. William Peterson and John highway robbery, were ordered Wednesday sennight. The folio , Scent, were respited during the Re, James Ellis, William Risley, Jane Mo John Britton, William Hairy Bond, Ambrose Pennington, Martha Kerr, William. Lowndes, Griffiths, for stealing goods in dwelling-houses William Burke, Matthew Radium, and J glary; John Jones, John. Powell, Joseph Dunkey, John Mayo, Thomas Saunders, _ zer Bowen, and Timothy Leary, for house-breaking tine; and Thomas Atkinson. MARRIED. The Rev. T. W. Richards, to Marian, late E. Pope, sq. ' The Rev. J. E Sheppard, M. A. of Blackheath, Mann, eldest daughter of Charles Mann, r The Rev. John Holcombe, of Brinkley , market, to Miss Housen, daughter of t Vicar of the Collegiate Church of South% Rev. William Sturges, of Hiunpstead, to ter of Mrs. Briscoe, of Bark. Tuesday, at Margate, Lieutenant Edward Miss Wood, only daughter of Lieut. Wood, Nov. 8, at Great Haddnw, Hue:, T. T Commander of the Ron. Company's ship daughter of Walter Urquhart, E.sq. of Great DIED. Lately, in South America, the Rev. Francis St. Edmund Hall. ___ ' iredlesday, after a short illness, at Ms Vicarage, Suffolk, the Re►. T. Halward, late ter College. At Sidbury, near Bridgenorth, at in adl John Pusan, Rector of Sidbury. The Re". W. Stevens, M.A. late Fellow legs, Cambridge, and Master of the Grammar bergh, in Yorkshire. At Chatham, the Res. Mr. Palmer, late a Preacher in the Wesleyan Met hodist Connection. Lately, at Preston, the Rev. Janes Douglas, F.A.S. fir• merly of St. Peter's College, Oxford, Vicar of Kenton, Suficlt. Rector of Middleton, Sussex, and Chaplain to the Prince Beget!, October 26, at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, the seat of the btu` quip of Cholmondeley, Dr. W. Armstrong, of Dublin, aged 4:. Nov. 12, at Deal, Catherine, the wife of Captain Jobs ?ste aler., of the East-India Company's Service. Nov. 7, at Portobelk., near-Edinburgh, Miss Isabella Clunha sixth daughter of the late Rev. J. Clunk, Minister of Whirekirt. October 14, at Greenock, D. M'Fadven, Surgeon, Lodiggio head, late of the Royal Navy. At Bourdeaux, the 19th ult. Mr. Franco Johnstone, Writ er is Ayr. a. MAiLS /ZVI DAY.—aaa. ant. •Illt• D lll6 Dahlia 2 0 f Lisbon 0 Witeireid 9 1 France i 0 Comm isd Jersey .1 0 I Hamberiii 0 Heil ad- • 0 1 Gottenbuigh 0 I 0 Malta u 0 lIIGH•WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, Morning •t 1 minutes after 6 - 40 LONDON; Pruned and published by invas Kairts l'►ciea' fiat% Temple-Mn- li l mental erro i Ming, want( i` - hem us in o mankind n r} . science and You are it without me the necessari t ‘ ' tllese ? Cai 0 . I, LmIGBEI::72.t * were admitted ts , • ARTA. George cone v . lege. 'a'. f Christ Coke, LAW. Sic ege. raw. >liege. it ERR 13, irs, lilt Fellow et t Societry, is the rows Griffith, B.A. &y e w and Mr. Fdomnd • • / I on Slither s foim2.sek— :e, SchOlar of w, plain to the Right lion. G. IL ere conferred: err, a Exeter College. iol College.. 's were conferred: rs. : Church. liege. Christ Church. ,ors. se College. :ester College. r Collage. ;e. 'ge. w, of Brasennose Cclleg si !OMOTIONS. to the lleod-mastersh4 n's College, Carntrilge,:i :nry of Mid I ley, y College, Cambridge, to rehire, has been appointed Bid" College, Cambridge, he her, was e:•.lained to grezation, NCB REGENT and th lcce .attended 1 / 7 in , r. James's Palace. in Baker, John Mu it Eversden, in Cam. verally convicted in the penalty of c . resort to their l'ariA nday, during Dirir lawful or moo , r&ey, the Berns:it E REGENT upon tip• convicted at the last Id Bailey : u•Lea his ly pleased to respite mlico, for cattiilg and en's Head Inn, Snow- y convicted of high- great violence and , air, near Hampstead, !xt Friday Lovell, and Liked Thomas Fonsick, for I John Andrews, for a ed for execution on Following, including itEGENT's pleasure: Moggridge, John Stow, arae odin m irt b .jh ro wohnound se se t essi t a g t on . d a Id fR Samueljcbati o r ba eph Anderson, ' Elizabei rrs, Peter Fagen, Lbw. , house-breaking is the drf in, eldest daughter of the kheath, to - Miss Mariam in, Esq. same place. skley-House, near New- of the Rev. H. Houses, thweU. I, to Maria, eldest daush• dward Chaplain, to Wood, of the same place. • T. F. Balderston, 149. ship Asia, to Elizabeth, Great Baddow. Francis Humberstone, of his father's„Assingtew d, late Fellow of Worms• is advanced age, the Rev. 'ellow of St. John's Cof- lranunar School, at Sol - , late a Preacher in the es Douglas, F.A.S. fir. Vicar of Keeton, Suffolk. lain go the Prince Heger , folk, the seat of the flu` ong, of Dublin, aged 4:- e of Captain Join Pane ice. gh, Miss Isabella Clunie. t, Minister of Whirekirk. Ivan, Surgeon, Loditilr !ands Johnstone, Writer I~