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CONVERSION FROM POPERY. LETTER FROM M. Z.IOLLARD-LIFIVRZ, A RESPECTABLE MERCHANT OF LFIINS. IN FRANCE, ON TILE SUBJECT OF IltS CONVERSION TO FEOTESTANTISM. " I.rors, esso Joss, 1825. 66 SIR—You inquire what were, tee motives which actuated me in the step I have just taken, and why I attach so much importance to becoming a Member of the Christian Reformed Church ? I am ready to in form you, and to open my mind to you with the ut most candour. The Gospel, my consciencit, and my 'reason—these, in three words, have beets my guides and advisers. " I k low, by my own experience, that man is a reli gious being ; I felt the need of uniting myself to GOD ' 1 by an entire faith and by worship; but I felt also that this faith and this worship ought to have nothing in them contrary to that natural light, that reason, that consciousness of right and wrong. which GOD has im planted witlin us ; and that every religion which should not accord with these grand principles, or should sh! ink from being examined upon them, could not b.: Divine, since GOD cannot contradict himself, and his works cannot dread the light. " It became, therefore, my wish to recur to the foun dation of the Christian faith, by studying the Holy Se iptures in the love of truth; and from that moment 1 may say a new day broke upon me. I read also some of the writings of those Fathers of the Church who lived nearest the times of the Apostles; and they ac corded wi h the Gospel, in convincing me that the Christian Reformed Church was the true Church of Jesus CHRIST, since its faith and worship perfectly agreed with the doctrines of the Founder of Christia nity, and wails those of his Apostles, and since I found nothing therein opposed to my natural light. " I thought from the first, that I ought to have re course to the word of GOD alone, the divinity of which I acknowledged, and not to the opinions of men ire. quemly led a-tray by their own passions and interests; that I ought to look upon the Scriptures as infallible, and to mid it myself; that it must be so clear as to enable me to understand whatever in it concerned my faith and practice; and that I ought not to seek the rule of that faith in human traditions. Scripture itself confirmed my opinion ; for I there read that ' the law of the LORD is perfect; (1) that it is ' inspired by GOD to instruct, to rebuke, to cot rect, and to conduct to piety and righteousness; (2) that Jesus himself said to his disciples,' Search the Scriptures; that he condemned traditions, saying to the Scribes, ' In vain do they sect- ip me, teaching doctrines which are only the corn tnandments of men ; for they leave the commandments of Goo, to follow the traditions of men ; (3) that St. Paul anathematizes all religious instruction which is not drawn ft om the Gospel : There are some that trouble you, who would overturn the Gospel of Jesus CHRIST ; but should we ourselves, or should an angel from hea ven, preach a doctrine unto you different from that which we have preached, let him be accursed; (4) that the Gospel is plain to those whom their passions blind not, as St. Paul also says: If the gospel which we preach is yet veiled, it is to those who perish that it is veiled ; t those unbelievers whose minds the GOD of this world hath blinded, in order that they may not be • enlightened by the light of the Gospel of the glory of JE US CHRIST, who is the image of GOD; (5) that St. A'mbio.e also says, The Holy Scripture is useful to every ore.' Sr. Chryscittons says again, The reading • of the Holy Scriptures is a strong bulwoik against sin ; and ignorance of the Scriptures is a great precipice, a deep abyss' (6). St. Basil also tells us, ' All that is nut included in the divinely-inspired Scripture, not bring of faith, is sin.' " I felt, therefore, that it was my duty to examine Scripture alone, to seek therein what !ought to believe and to do. I perceive that it was the way pointed out by St. Paul himself, who, far from forbidding this exa mination to the people, says, ' Prove all things; ap prove that which is good.' (7). 4 ' I dare not assent to theopinion of anyChurch,merely as a Church, nor of any Council,- while JESUS CHRIST announced There shall arise false Chiists and fllse prophets, which shall do great signs and wonders,inso much as to deceive, if it were possible, the very elect. (8) St. John also says, on this subject: My well be loved, believe not every spirit; but try whether the spirits be of GOD, for many false prophets are risen in the world' (9). The Abbe de P:alernie himself admits, • that the council may err, and that, in what regards faith, the conviction of an individual ought to be preferred to the opinion of the Pope himself.' I read councils,' says St. Gregory of Nasianzen, • and I have never seen any which have not done more bairn than good.' 4 ' The principles of Scripture, and of the earliest Fa. tiers, are those of the Reformed Church, and I re marked with p'easure that she establishes her faith only a. (iOD and our own understandings tell us that it ought to be established. I observed that the ministers of re ligion were in the Gospel forbidden to seek temporal power, riches, and honour; that charity, meekness, and humility were to be character 'sties of the priests °Us-sus Comex. Peter says to them,' Feed tie &A of GOD with Ivhich you are charged, watching ever its conduct, not by a leveed necessity, but by a volui.tary affection, which should be according to Got); not by a shameful &site of gain, but a disinterested charity ; not domineer ing over the Loan's heritage, but becoming examples to the flock, by a virtue which springs front the heart (10); and Jesus CHRIST himself tells them, Trouble not yourselves concerning gold or silver, or other money in yoor purse: (11). He declares to them, that if they act otherwise, they are but Scribes and Ple.risees, whom he reproves, saying,' They love salutation iu the public places, and w be called of men master; but as for .you, desire not to be called master, because yr u have but one master, and you are all brethren. Nei ther call any one on forth your father, because you have but one Famen,which is in 1-leaven; and be not called teacher, because you have but one teacher and but one riaster, which is Cuntet. He who is among you sharp be your servant ; for whosoever exaheth himself shall be abased, and whosoever abased' himself shalt be ex. alted. Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypo crites, because under the pretence of your long Prayers you devour widows' houses. It is lor this that you shall receive a more rigorous judgment. Woe unto you, for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, and yet you are-within full of rapine and uncleanliness' (I* • " I observed,, likewise, that their marriage was . . 294 proved of by the word of GOD, since it was his will !io snake of them a separate caste, with interests inimical to those of society, and preventedliom practising those eumerous virtues to which a fathei of a family is, called. St. Paul says,' Let them mercy, for it is better to marry that, to burn.' (13) In Wilt:l.g to he Bishop,' AIM then, must be blameless; he most have m an-led but one , wife ; he snot be Sober, pr u dent,. grave, and modest, loving hospitality, able to teach ; he mu.t not be given to wine, neither violent dor hasty to stlike ; but just anef moderate, far from disputes, disinterested; he must govern well his own household, keeping his children in obedience, and in all propriety.' (14) He says again, 4 Have we not power to lead about with us a wife, who may be our sister in Jesus Cuaisr, as do the other Apostles, and the brothers of our LORD, and Cephas (15) And St. Clement, of Alexandria, $475 h ims elf, Tnere are some who condemn the Priests that marry ; but will they not also condemn the Apostles? for Peter and Phillip had children, and the latter had his dauvh• tors married.' (16) The Miaisteis of the Reformed Re ligion follow this principle, and the example of the Apostles; they are, like them, fathers of families, pat terns to their flocks; they live in simplicity, milting no vows contrary to human nature, the precepts of Scrip ture, purity of manners, and the good order of society. " I have embraced their communion, because in it there is no prostration before wood, or stone, or old re lics of corpses to which corruption has paid no respect. " I have embraced th;s communion, because in it everything is roamed immediately to (ion the SA YIOUR of men, and not to creatures sinful like ourselves ; tor, saith St. Paul, There is but one Gov, and one MEDIA TOR between GOD and man, the man Cantsr Jesus.' (17) And St. John: 'lf any man sin, we have au AD VOCATS with the FATHER, Jesus CHRIST, who is righteous.' (18) And consequently, Jssus Cnntsr be ing here the only hope of believers, they are entirely and uniformly Christiaw. 4 ' I have embraced this communion, because it does not enjoin upon believers to exhibit their piety in the pomp of streets and public places—a practise which Jesus Contsr reproves, saying, 4 Be not like the hypo crstes, who affect to pray standing apart in the Syna gogues, and at the corners of the streets, in old r to be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have received their reward; but you, when you play, enter into your closet, and the door being shut, pray unto your FATHER in secret, and your FATHER, who seeth that which passed' in secret, will give you its reward. When you fast, be not sad, like the hypocrites ; for they affect to appear with a disfigured countenance, in order that men may know when they fast. Verily I say unto you, they have received their reward. But you, when you fast. anoint your head, and wash your face, that it may not appear unto men that you fast, but to your FATHER, who is present in the most secret place; and your FATHER, who seeth that which passers: in secret, will give you its reward.' (19) " I have embraced this communion, because in it there is no assumption that - he is a better man who eats fish than he who eats beef; for I can never believe that it was the design of GoD, in creating an aliment always wholesome, to prohibit ns from using it at cer tain periods, unless we purchase exemption. Jesus CHRIST speaks not thus in the following words: 6 It is not that which enters into the mouth which defiles the man ; but it is that which comes out of the mouth of man which defiles him.' (20) And St. Paul says: Eat of all that is sold at the shambles, without asking whence it comes, for any scruple of conscience ; for the eat th is the LORD'S, and all that therein is.' (21) " I have embraced this communion, because in b public service everything is understood and comp • hended by every individual; and having never learnid Latin, I cannot believe it to be the will of GOD that. Ministers should edify me in Latin: The custom is condemned by St. Paul Also, my brethren, if I should come unto you speaking in unknown tongues, what usefulness should I bring unto you ? I would rather speak in the Cnurch five words which I could understand, and which should instruct others, than repeat ten thousand in an unknown tongue.' (22) Pope John VIII. was as much a Protestant as toyseif in this respect, for he said, ' Let the praises of GOD be' sung in the native language ; and I really think that. if what is said to us is good, useful, and euifying, it ought to be understood ; and if, on the contrary, it is something bad, it ought not to be said, either in Latin, Greek, or Chinese. " I have embraced this communion, because it does not exclude from futere happiness p ror little children, on account of their parents' neglect in not having them baptized before their death. This doctrine has always appeared to me absurd, unjust, insulting to the DEITY, and unauthorized by a single word of Scripture. 66 I have embraced this commoni:tn, because in it the' LORlll's Sapper is a wholly spiritual ceremony,remind ing us of the benefits which the SAVIOUR came to con fer on humanity,—a memorial of his death, in which the bread and wine represent only the body and blood of Jesus ; for I never could allow that a GOD wholly spiritual, the CREATOR of the heavens and the earth, — that GOD, whose nature alone is infinite, could be swal lowed like a wafer. It has ever appeared to me, that the idea which materialized the CREATOR, was an insult offered by us to Hilt, as it is an insult to reason. 6 . Lastly, I have embraced the Christian reformed communion, and I have embraced it with faith, con fidence, and-happiness, because it is not supported by the sword of the executioner; it does nut place the scaffolds and tertutes of the Inquisiri. , n be,ide the Cross of Hist who came, not to destiny men, but to save them. I acknowledge that the violence with which some of its early members may have been reproach,d, arose from the rem tins of human prejudice, from a habit of domi nation and of double power, (ecclesiastical arid civil,) om which those men could nor at once free themselves ; but at the present day this Church is mild andcharitable ; it needs not rie 7orquernada to support it; it would not receive such aid its precept is the precept of the Seetoun: • You shall love the LORD your Gov, with all your heart, and v:iih all your soul, and with all your mind; 6 this is - the greatest and first commandment; and this is the second, sOlich is lite unto it : you shall love your neighbours as yourselves.' In these two com mandments are contained all the law - and the pro phets. (23) ".In this communion I recognize the true Chinch of JESUS CHRIST, that primitive Church which was re stored by the Gospel at the time of tie ltef,rmation. I bless Goo for haling given me thus to distinvish his divine light; rily children will one bless olefin having acted the pan of an honest man,, which is to. embrace the truth of soon as he perceives it; Without 'disquieting hiinself on account of the menaces and, 'cattippies of those who shun the light, because their deedaske evil. gibe step I have tat n wer e . yet to ,take, the piosi ect of tortures and of scaffolds ‘Yould be vainly , presented in order to stop me; truth is my molt the approbation of Goo and of my conscience is my law. Numbers are deterred from imitai .g me by their iudifiercnce to the troll and to religion, and becalm tl-ey fear rather to he cencured in this world, than to be cnndemned in the other. " Sucb, Sir, are the motives which have satiated me. I believe you have a firm and upright miadotnd I feel assured of your approbation. -.: " Accept the sentiments with which I remain, Sir, your very humble and devoted servant, " MOLLARD-LEFEVRE." (I) Ps. See the version of the Hible, by Lemaistre Sacy, pub li shed at Paris in 1759, with the Royal approbation and privilege, by Wm. Despres, printer to the King and Clergy of Franc". (2) 2 Tim. iii. 16. (3) Mark vii. 7, 8. (4) Gal.!. 7,8, 9. (5) 2 Cor. iv. 3, 4. (6) St. Chrysostorn, 3d Homily on Lazarus. (7) 1 Them v. 21. (8) Matt. ::iv. 24. (9) 1 Johu iv. 1. (10) 1 Peter v. 2, 3. (11),Matt. I. 9. (12) biatt. 1,7, 8,9, 10, 11, 14, 25. (13) 1 Cor.sii. 9. (14) 1 Tim. iii. 2,3, 4. (15) 1 Cor. ix. 5. (16) Strom. I. iii. (17) 1 Tim. ii. 5. (18) 1 John ii. 1. (19) Matt. vi. 5,6, 18, 17,18. (20) Matt. :v. H. (1) 1 Con x. 25, 26. (22) 1 Cor. :iv. 6, 19, read all the Chapter. (23) Dlatt. :ail. 37, 38, 39, 40. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING, 1825. Timm, woe. 29. First Chippenham Field—For the Gold Cup. Mr. Rust's r. d. Baron, beat Mr. Syer's Emily. Adm. Wilson's Undaunted beat Marquis Huntley'. Vintner. Mr. Hoskins' Sir Hildebrand beat Mr. Wright's Waxy. Mr. Denn's Dre..dnonght beat Mr. Redhead's Leo. Mr. Grant's Mk. d. Sterling beat Mr. De Burgh's bl. cf. Quod. Mr. Edward's hl. and w. b. Zephyr beat Mr. Bnctwortb's King. Mr. Wilkinson's hi. d. Change beat Mr. Usborne's w. d. X. Roy. •vir. Scott Stonekewer's Ivy beat Mr. S. Tharp's Quicksilver. Matches. Mr. Rust's Mk. d. Blackbird i;;;t iii. Wri g ht's w. b. Whinlg. Mr. Denn's br. b. Daphne heat Mr. Buckworth's Kitty. Marquis Duniley's Valiant beat Mr. Wright's Whiskey. The Chippenham Stakes for Old Dogs. Mr. Scott Sronehewer'x r. d. Idler beat Mr. Edward's Zsida. Mr. Hoskins bl. b. Ilerniolue beat Adm. Wilson's Uxbridge. The Cbippenham Stakes for Puppies. Mr. Hoskins' Ilerdsman beat Mr. Syer's Ermine. Mr. Scutt Stunehewer's Index beat Marquis Hundey's Viscount. Matches continued. Ur. Redhead's bl. d. Lance beat Mr. Edward's r. b. Zara. Mr. De Burgh's Quality beat Mr. Grant's blk. b. p. Stella.; Mr. Rust's Banker beat Admiral Wilson's Usquebaugh. Mr. Redhead's Lovely beat Mr. De Burgh's blk. d;). Quod. Mr. Buckworth's Kimberley art Mr. Syer's Essex. No course. Second Class. Mr. Buckworth's blk. d. p. Kite beat Mr. Wright's Wellington. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. HAIM& IP. ASCU AWD Alzunion.—This was a dispute as to the value of labour in weaving a new sort of silk, named Gres* Biers. A Gres de Naples is a plain silk,with ninety threads wove in every inch, and the weaver is paid one shilling a yard. The former silk differs io that the threads are alternately one fine and one very coarse, so that the fabric appears to be ribbed or carded. The Gros de Naples is wove with one shuttle, because all the threads are of an equal thickness, but two shuttles must be used for the new silk, one to throw across the fine, the ether the coarse silk ; but then, to compensate for loss of time in min two shuttles instead of one, there can only be, from the thkhasse of one of the threads, sixty threads in an inch. The journeyman, Harris, demanded is. Sd. a yard for the latter work, because the abolished Spitalnelds Scale would have given bins that, and because be would then only earn, by fourteen hours labour at it, the same sum be should earn at other silk work. The master urged that he would earn the same sum if he accepted is. 3d. a yard, and that 130 out of 140 men had accepted those wages. The Alderman decided in favour of the master. NARY-LA-BONNE. This Office was yesterday again crowded to excess, to bear the final examination of Ireland and Mrs. Graven. At one o'clock the prisoners were placed at the bar. Mr. Ireland was much improved in appearance, and bowed politely to the Bench. A number of witnesses were then called, who clearly proved the active partici pation of both prisoners, particularly from Mr. Daniel, of o:ford street ; Mr. Harding, of Regent-street; and Mr. Conolly, of Blandford-street ; and, in the two first cases, the goods were, imme diately after being delivered in Gloucester Place, pawned • Th ei goods were ordered in the name of Ireland, but he repeatedly denied to Qe witnesses that that was his name. He cross-examined the wit nesses, as did Mr. Price, but elicited nothing. Considerable legal discussion then arose between Mr. Goring, the Solicitor for the prosecution; Mr. Price, for the defendants; and the Magistrates, as to the nature of the offence. But it was cut short, at last, by Mr. Rawlinson's committal of Ireland to Newgate for felooy, and ordering Mrs. Gravett to give forty-eight hours' notice of bail, for entering into a conspiracy to defraud. The prisoners were amazed at the decision, imagining their offence could only be reached by a civil process. L A MBETH-STEEET. No/sib a master bricklayer, was sharged by the officers of Poplar hamlet, with not supporting his wife. In defence he said she bad committed adultery with two persons, and that he himself caught her in the Tact, which he thought was a sufficient reason for his leaving her. Dirs. N. recriminated, and denied his assertion; adding, that since their marriage be had had two illegitimate children. The Magistrate, after listening patiently to the crimina tion and recrimination, ordered Nolan to pay 55. per week to the Parish Officers for his wife's support. UNION HALL. Yesterday a toung man, named Thomas NW, was brolight up for Anal examination, charged with robbing a Gentleman named Luck, of 58/. There was another person concerned in the robbery, who is not yet in custody. The complainant, it appeared, had been drinking In several pub lic-houses on the night of the 7th ult. in his way home to Camber wel, in one of which he met the prisoner, who claimed an ac quaintance with him, and offered his services to escort him home, which were accepted, and they both set out together. In the way, prisoner proposed to call upon a friend, who accompanied them, and the three proceeded onwards until they arrived at another public-house, called the Windsor Castle. Into this house Mr. Luck bad occasion to go, leaving the prisoner and his companion outside, when he joined them they walked towards Newington causeway, and as their arrival at an unfrequented part of the road, one of the men slapped his hand over the complainant's mouth to prevent him from calling out, while the other struck him violent blow that caused insensibility, and while in this state he was rub- bed of 581. in Bank of Ea:gland and country notes. The thieves escaped, and a day or two afterwards the prisoner, hating got drunk at a public•house, became quarrelsome, in fact outrageous, and in the midst of his passion ai:sl phrenzy displayed a handful of Bank Notes, offering to light any one in the room for all that he then ethibited. Such a command of money attracted the notice of the landlord, who took possession of it until the drunken man's return to reason. In the interval information was given at this office, when an officer, who was on the look-out for the thieves, upon seeing the note, identified them as the property of Mr. Luck. Mr. Luck attended, and identified the prisoner as one of the men by whom he had been robbed. .. — A - ilentiraanfronsTMibridge proved that the notes now pro 4uced were paid by him to %lr. Luck. The prLsoner was committed. WORSHIP-STREET. Charles Hddssrs►th, the youth who last week underwent an ex amination on several chkrges of swindling, was again brought up yesterday. The number of applicants on this occasion was treble those of the preceding dn. and the office was so excessively crowded and heated that Mr. Twvroan caused all the windows and doors of it to be placed wide open. The prisoner was not so genteelly dres sed as on the previous occasion, and although affecting considerable indifference, he appeared to be suffering great anxiety. Mr. Stoitser, the boot and shoemaker, repeatetthis evidence sod Mr. Leah, watchmaker, in nath-street, City-road, identified the watch which he had lost. Several keepers of lodging-houses gave testimony as to the pri soner having engaged lodgings at their houses, and only accepted them two or three days, during which time several tradespeople used to bring almost every description of goods, and on the prisoner obtaining secure possession of them, be quickly decamped. His ' person was must positively sworn to byall these individuals. Representatives of the houses of Messrs. Josses Watkins, Dishopsgate•street ; Messrs. Clesnenti; Mr. Wien, of Goswell st reet ; Mr. Corse, of Shoreditch, and a variety of other bosses. at tended, and their evidence went to prove distinct acts of svrlsdling, order the assumed names of Clarke, Johnson, Smith, etc.— So conclusive was their evider.ce, every article on the pereonig the prisoner Was identified and claimed by the tr..de:peapt, i„ MCC. From one be had obtained his coat and wii-isait7l.B: another a quantity of shirts; a third had suppli‘d his lin an . 4;‘.. veiling cap: a fourth his trowsers and several fancy i m n a a ny hur of ry 7h at ic e h p art rieo it e es r w h e a r e e t. m ng ade erd w er i ed th g the rea m t i b n as e te t a rt h det.i ttzz ; enable him to attend some icon...rsatione, or musical Pally. one occasion, that of Mr. Cone i , the prisoner, in cnnwilueoc,ii'' being a few moments too late n bringing home the cluttie 6 „ it ordered, new into a vioknt passion, and used stat most 0 11404 lanMgura.gTe'svrtor.vovertzha,tfihnedictaiglied h thee il i ase i r so"litnummer;-ou.-sdirected Eve v • of the principal parties to attend to-morrow (thi s day) their evidence taken down by the clerk; the - renilinder asr, taken on Saturday, and when the evidence was comp l ete, he "' I appoint a day for final decision. Madame simSEPH BONAPARTS has arrived at I wick ber daughter, who I. to be married to the lac of BosAra E 22. In the course of Sunday night there was a consider. able fall of snow in the streets of Edinburgh. The weather, in Paris, has for many weeks been mini to a degree ; and a good deal of sickness, the usual J.c companiinent of a very wet autumn, pre va il ;. A coach has been established on the St,!ckton Darlington rail-road, which carries passengers at thelow rate of one penny a mile inside. Several coffee-shop-keepers were ccrivlcted •on Tues. day at Mary-la-bonne Office, in the penalty D iu. , n 4 costs, upon the complaint of Johnson, the infori te , : y q having their shops open before 5 o'cl,.ck the morniv. Last week, Mr. Joseph Stringer was convicted lit; i t the Magistrates, in the Isle vf Wight, in p end l tei amounting to 100/• for selling six bottles of pottei trl one bottle of brandy, without being authorised by license so do to. Mr. W. Brock's newly built premises, at Itunfr el for the purpose of a starch manufactory, were blov down on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, of Kentucky, la•ely deceasel provided in her will for the emancipation of al I . slaves, about 40 in number, and left 50,000 dollars t the College at Danville. Lutecium Nov. 23.—Saturday night. D. Diem, mate of the Jessie, of Rothsay, Nenian 111 , Kerdy, of th, same sloop, and Robert M'Kerdy, of the Anne Worth ington,were drowned whilst stepping from Fisheruay to their vessels lying there. The body of Duncan tsar found on Sunday morning, and the bodes of ex M 4 Ketcly's, who were twin brothers, were got on %g. day morning. Sunday, Acton Reynold Hall, the seat of A. V. C, HT, Esq. narrowly escaped destruction by fire. A lar.e beam ignited from a stove from whence Rues condtizt the heat to different parts of the mansion, and on one of the servants coming down stairs soon after six u'cltek on Sunday morning, it was found nearly burnt throng:: and, with the rafters, quite in a blaze. The :man roused the family, and the fire was fortunately gut on der before much damage had been done. Monday, October SO, the venerable John Adam father of the President of the United States, complete his 90th year. He has outlived most of his cotempotatil of revolutionary memory. He is the only surete,l the Patriots who constituted the first American Cm gress, and was class-mate of the late Judge Seed who at the same age has gone before him to "th bourne whence no traveller returns." Rousseau says, it is impossible to conceive a langlias more modest than that of the Bible, precisely haat' everything is expressed simply. The victors in the Nematan games received no 0 , - reward than a chaplet of wild parsley. Toe ga - themselves were funereal, and those who presided or them were clothed in black garments. The surveyors of the highways in the township Sowerby, Yorkshire, conceiving that an encroachn,er had been made upon the rights of the town,hir, by t, erection of a house upon the waste, took with them t number of persons last week, and peed down ti • erection. The owner of the house feeling himtei tggrieved, summoned the levellers before M. St , Clti Esq. and WILLIAM BARSTOW, Esq. who, after hear ing the complaint, determined to commit the sumpr and their co-adjutors to York Castle, for riotously op sembling, and they were only rescued from their impend ins danger, by giving bail to appear at the nut Assizes, Sittings in the Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors in the month of December: The Conamissiouees have appointed the following days WO which to hear the original petitions, as also to adjudiuta are those which bad been adjourned during the sittings held in there. ceding month: Friday Dee. I Wednesday . Des. .7 Thursday Dec. II Friday Dec. 9 Monday Tuesday • Dcc. 15 Wednesday • Dee. 14 Thursday Dec. 15 Monday • Tuesday Wednesday • Thursday • Friday • Thursday • and Friday • Dec. if Dec• Det. l . l Dec. I Ikon BI RTHS. Monday, at his house in Janses street, Buckingham Goo ' llB Lady of Capt. W. H. Smith, R.N. of a son. Nov. 24, at Montrose, the Lady of Campbell Locke, I. R.N. of a son. • At Northfield, parish of Dunipace„ the wife of Donald ga:. mot, of three children—the first, a boy, en the 1 1 th ; the n 604 a girl, still-born, on the 10th ult. and the third, a gni, " : ' e same day. The mother and children are doing well. • MARRIED. Nor. 22, at Stirling, the Rev. James Gil Mari to Mogartt• dent daughter of the late William Telford, Esq. At her father's house, Plagebery, sear Itz4hoe, /la Lf^' nova Matilda, second daughter of General Danican, to Lirottn..,: Augustus Von Mentz;lorff, of the Danish Light Monday, at his apartments in DIED St. James's Palace. aged `s' ward Cockett. Esq. First Clerk in the Office of the Burg 1 " Green Cloth. Nov. 22, at Minfield, aged IS, William Ml, Elq• ea some Provost of Arbroath, and many years agent the il re for the OvaJa Union Bank. Nov. 25, at Cheltenham, after a long and severe illnesr, Cr lotte, daughter of Admiral Robert Montagu Nov. 25, aged 41, Julia Ann, youngest daught er of the lb'. Washington fibula?. August 5, at Valparaloo, Harriet, wile of Capt. Mang , L' 31ajesty's ship Cambridge. At Liverpool, aged 35, Wm. Augustus Hamilton, E ° ll i son of the late Vice-Admiral Thomas Hamilton. At denan Leeds. alasing ai" ; 7 t o be . placed too near the fire, went, as she expressed it , " tu 4.; r.ci r fd epe n. n F n e l a a r d n e e. by H th e e r bdreeaatkhinwzaseta. f: l e I c4 y and she died almost instantly. MAILS—THIS DAT. mu.. I.us 1 0 Fenn, aim r t. ' 3 0 0 3 - I a Waterford 0 1 I Hamblin* 0 0 • Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Flanders 0 ° Lonna 1 0 I Buenos Ayres 0 0 Gotteoburgla 09 1 Americo 0 0 Malts 0 0 &ail 0 Holland . • 1 Leeward lolanda 0 HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE. TO-3600°W Swabs 35 initlittas attgr 6 MOW. ' 0 Minutes eta, Ulr r (omen Pm/edam/ Msblished try.). V. Kea LTI 'ti :td 5, YU I, Haat- Place, Tempic.Bar D.