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:he result of those measures, and the i,3ue of the important I .leliberations to which the events which are taking place in the Southern Provinces give rise at this momont on the part of my allies, who guarantee the existence of this kingdom. " In general the army, by its bravery and moderation, has worthily fulfilled my expectation. Nevertheless, however, I have to deplore that lately, so great a portion of the troops, seduced by erroneous opinions or deceptive promises, should have suffered themselves to be so misled as to break their oaths, forget their duty, and abandon their Bags. " These circumstances, so different from a state of peace in which the kingdom is now placed, have obliged me to open your present Session at the Hague. It is agreeable to me to be able to communicate to you on this occasion, that I continue to receive from foreign Powers an assurance of the sincere interest which they take in the evils which afflict our country, and of their friendly sentiments. " It is not lees agreeable for me to be able to inform your High Mightinesses, that the courage and perseverance of the army has put an end to the war, that desolate the island of Java ; and that, according to the latest accounts, the desired tranquillity reigned in the other parts of our ultra-marine possessions. " Continual rains have in general injured the harvest. I have taken all the precautions which were in my power to provide, during the approaching winter, for the wants of the poorer classes. " The internal situation of the kingdom forms, for the moment, an insurmountable obstacle to a correct estimate of the receipts and disbursements for the approaching year.— Consequently it has appeared to me proper to secure, as much as possible, the continuation of what exists. A project of law which tends to this end, and according to which all the changes which were contemplated will remain without execution, and will immediately be presented to your High Mightinesses. " In virtue of the declaration made at the opening of your last Extraordinary Sesiion, I adopted a measure proper to provide for the moat pressing wants of the Treasury ; the patriotism of the citizens makes me hope that it will have entire success. However, this measure must be regulated by legislative provisions, which will be submitted to your High Mightinesses during the present Session. " Whatever may be the difficulties of the moment, it is imperative to fulfil the engagements relative to the redemp tion of the debt of the State, and I propose, in consequence, to present to your Assembly a project for the purchase and redemption of the public debt. " Energetic means of repression and punishment are ne cessary to prevent the acts and menaces to which the evil disposed might have recourse, to disturb the public mind ; ane, if such were possible, to extend the revolt even to the faithful provinces and cantons. I invoke for this purpose the co-operation of your High Mightinesses. In the mean time, I have been compelled, by the urgency of the occasion, to make the preliminary arrangements in that respect, and to direct measures of precaution and surveillance with refer ence to foreigners and travellers. " In order to satisfy the just desire manifested on many occasions by your High Mightinesses, I had fixed on the Ist day of February next, as the period for the introduction f the National Legislation, and of the judicial institutions. The revolt which has broken out in the Southern Provinces, prevents at this moment the fulfilmeht of that desire for a fixed period, and consequently the previous establisment of the High Court cannot be effected. " Noble and Mighty Lords,—The rapid course of the events by which, for some time past, this kingdom has been shaken, may have an influence on several other of our institu tions ; the issue of these events cannot yet be foreseen, and the very unexpected news that has been received to-day from Antwerp, gives a further proof of the daily progress of a real separation between the two great divisions of the king dom. However, I will wait the issue with confidence, for my conscience is tranquil. I may always reckon upon your concurrence, upon that of the faithful provinces of the North, as well as upon the support of my Allies, who will maintain the political system of Europe, and I find my self still at the head of a people whose religious sentiments offer the best guarantee of the tutelar protection of the ALMIGHTY." ........... The Burgomaster and &henna of the city of Antwerp, in virtue of a letter from the Governor of the province, hasten to communicate to their fellow-citizens a despatch addressed to them by his Excellency Lieut.-General Baron Chassit, commander of the fourth military district, and which fol lows. They invite the inhabitpnts if this city to act in accordance with it. Given at the Hotel de la &grace, Oct. 17. (By order) The Burgomaster 0. DE CATERS. WELLENS, Secretary. Head-quarters at Antwerp, Oct. 17. " The agitation which prevails in this city, and the alarm ing reports which are industriously circulated to excite the public mind, oblige me to inform you, that in order to calm them I am forced to declare this fortress in state of siege,—an extremity to which I come with re gret. As, however, circumstances imperatively demand it, I pray you, Sirs, to enjoin the inhabitants to provide themselves with provisions for one month. A forthcom ing despatch on this subject will announce to you the formal declaration of putting the fortress in a state at liege. It is only a regard for the quiet and tranquillity of the inhabitants which could induce me for some days to defer he execution of this severe measure. (Signed) Baron CHAISE. The Secretary to the Regency at Antwa7, WELLENS. This morning, between one and two o'clock, a dreadful accident happened at the house of Mr. Green, the owner of brothel in White Hart-yard, Drury-lane, to an unfortu rAte girl, known by the name of Ellen, who, after partaking ii , ost copiously of ardent spirits, went into the above ( , use to rest, and seated herself close to the fire : she be- Mae sleepy, and fell into it, and in an instant was ene ttloped in a flame of fire. In this situation she ran into the stret, burning both inside and outside, and became quite fr , tutie. Some persons passing at the moment hastened to bet assistance, and rolled her several times in the kennel, and thus extinguished the flames. The poor unfortunate is dreadfully burnt from bead to foot, and cannot survive. 44e was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital in a coach. MR. orrsN's PUBLIC MEETltiii AT THE LO 'LOA' TAIBUY Yesterday a Meeting took place at the London Tavern, to teak: into consideration " the Advantages and Disadvantages of Religion, as it has been hitherto taught, in forming the character of Man, and in governing thegWorld." The Meeting was called by Mr. Owen, and was respectably and:ou maously attended, there being upwards of 1,000 persons assembled. At l one o'clock Mr. Owax took the Chair, and proceeded to address the Meeting as follows s Under the new circumstances of general political excitenvan, *which have lately arisen throughout the civilized part of the globe, not one practical step can be wisely taken, in the improvement of society. upon a film and permanent base, until it shall be calmly and temperately de cided, whether the foundation of all new arrangements to ameliorate the condition of the human Pace, shall be religion and what religion ; or facts derived from all the past and present experience of mankind. This is now a vital question of paramount interest to the humaa race, and must be decided, not by angry feelings, or the violence of passion, or the errors of country, or by prejudices of any kind, but by facts which cannot deceive, and by self-evident deductions from those facts.; In the examination of this subject, so deeply involving the highest interests of humanity, I will endeavour to avoid hurting the feelings of any of my fellow-beings as much as truth will admit, and I trust may speaker to-day will also endeavour to keep in mind, that we do not meet here for personal contest, but to elicit, if possible, high and important truths that may be applied to practice for the permanent be. nefit of all. Hitherto the character of man has been formed, and the world has been governed, under the direct influence of what is called religion ; and facts to.day prove what that character has been formed to be, and how the: nations of the earth have been governed. All will admit that the character of man is no where what it ought to be; and also that no country has yet been rationally governed to pro. mote permanently the general advantage of its population. It is, therefore, a legitimate object of inquiry to ascertain the real cause of these arras and evils. Under the arrangements which have hitherto existed for educating and governing man, four get anal characters! have been produced among the human race. These four classes of characters appear to be formed, under the pas and present trangemente of society, from four different original organi zations at birth, which may be numbered one, two, three, and four. No. 1. May be termed the conscientious religious in all countries. No. 2. Unbelievers in the truth of any religion, but who strenuously support the religion of their country, under the conviction that, although religion is not necessary to insure their own good conduct, it is emi nently required to conyel others to act right. No. 3. Ut.talievers who openly avow their disbelief in the truth of any religion, such as Deists, Atheists, Sceptic, &c. ore. but who do not perceive the laws of nature relative to man as an individual, or when united in at social state. No. 4. Disbelievers in all past an] present religions but believers in the eternal unchanging laws of the universe, as devel oped by facts de rived from all past experience ; and who, by a careful study of these facts, deduce from them the religion of nature. Class No. 1. Is formed, under certain circumstances, from those original organizations which possess at birth strong moral and weak intellectual faculties. They usually become amiable, hottest according to the religious notions which they receive, good-natured, and what are called in the present defective state of the human character, the good members of society. They very seldom govern any class, sect, party, or country, as individuals, but they have considerable in. fluence when acting in a body as a party, for they arc numerous in all civilized countries. Class, No. 2. la composed of those individuals who by nature possess a smaller quantity of moral, and a larger quantity of intellectual fa. culty. Of those who have sufficient intellect to discover the most glaring inconsistencies between all religious and undisputed facts, and, therefore, are compelled to disbelieve the truth of any religion, but who are deficient, under exisLing circumstances, in intellectual capacity to proceed further in the investigation of the laws of nature, and with out sufficient mural faculty to declare their disbelief in the truth of religion. They have also too little intellectual faculty to discover the incongruity of their own opinions, or notions, that, although conscien tious belief in religion is not necessary to make them good and useful members of society, yet it is absolutely requisite to make other men honest. They are therefore unavoidably hypocrites upon almost all occa sions, or act from thoughts and feelings not publicly expressed.— Usually these men, who are endowed with much cunning, called worldly wisdom, and with physical activity are, under the existing sys tem of the world, at the head of every class, sect, profession, party and country, and from it, in all nations the arisotcracies are generally formed. The number of this original constitution of mind is considerable, per haps equal to No. 1. Class No. 3is composed of men of strong moral and moderate intellec. teal faculty ; of men who possess as much intellectual faculty as enables them 'to perceive the discordance between all the religions of the weld and the general facts around them, also to discover that if religion is I not necessary to make them honest, it is not required to make others conscientious s having at the same time as much moral faculty as to induce them, in opposition to their worldly interests, to express their con- I scientious convictions in opposition to the religious notions, or dogmas of thegcountry they inhabit; but yet without sufficient intellect educated and placed as they have been to investigate sufficiently for practice, the laws of human nature and of society. These characters are much abused by classes Nos. 1 and 2, and have hitherto suffered all manner of Injustice from them, owing to their su periority of intellect to the first, and their superiority of intellect and moral faculty to the second. They are not very numerous, chiefly in consequence of the obstacles which the present system places in the way of moral honesty. Class No. 4, comprises those who, by nature, possess a high degree of intellectual and moral faculty; who distinctly perceive the opposi tion which exists between the fundamental notions on which, alone, all religions rest, and the everlasting laws by which man is governed, from his.earliest formation to his decomposition at death ; who can tram in their minds the necessary results of these laws when they shall be ap plied in practice, and who can comprehend a highly improved state of human existence, formed in all its parts in unison and perfect accordance with those laws ; who have also sufficient moral faculty to discover the vast superiority of truth over falsehood in the intercourse between man and man, and who possess moral courage sufficient to contend openly against what they are compelled to believe are the errors of antiquity. This class of natural minds, under the present ignorance relative to the improvement of human organization, is not numerous, it has, along with some of class Nn. 3, supplied the martyrs of former days, and they are always prepared to go to the stake if necessary, to promote the advance of general knowledge, and permanently to increase the happiness of the human race. When men shall learn real wisdom, through a rational education, and be taught to understand the laws of their nature, and to act upon them, the original organization of almost all human beings will be formed of these qualities. We thus see, tqat as long as the character of man shall be formed under the influences of religion, as it has been hitherto taught to man. kind ; and as long as the world shall continue to be governed under these influences ; the four preceding characters which have been do. scribed will, with endless and small varieties, be produced. And the necessary consequence of training the present varied organization of man to acquire these artificial characters, is to degrade human nature, and to instil into the human race every conceivable crime, and to afflict it with every conceivable misery. In the first class are produced not only many amiable weak men, as the modern evangelists of this and other Christian countries, but also in cases where the physical powers are strong, the furious bigot equally conscientious with the former,but who keeps all around him in a continual state of ignorant excitement.which generates endless practical injustice to those who 'cannot think as he does. And as none of this class ate ever permitted to investigate the laws of their nature, but are trained from infancy to believe and not to think, and to talk at random respecting the imaginary notions which they receive in their early years, there is not only a considerable shade of difference among themselves, but there is also a most injurious antipathy created in their minds to the members' of the other three classes, but more especially to the 3d and 4th clam, who have too strong a feeling of morality te become hypocrites, and es. press their assent to their irrational dogmas. In the second class, religion, as it is now taught, implants net only hypocrisy, but the worst feelings and passions that unnatural rentainte rpm nature's laws CM generate; and thus produce endless crimes and evils throughout society. A disbelief ki religion by those who possess by nature weak moral faeultks engenders selfishness, jealousy, revenge, hatred, anger, cum. sing, and every human depravity. Upon this class of natural minds, k isealculated to create every possible variety of bed character, and they are formed to be very numerous in every class, sect, and party, in all countries. Nothing can be more melancholy than the effects which religion pro. diem upon this class, it destroys that can be called honest principles `thins, makes them enemies and opponents to each other as well as to ski other three classes, and they thus considerably contribute to keep all mankind at enmity, and prevent the existence of charity for the in finite diversity of opinion or feeling, which under the present system is unavoidable. It is from this class that the far greater part of the evils and miseries of human life proceed. Upon the third class religion produces the most nairreseable isms. sions. The individuals of which it is composed amid odd a die intendment notions on which all religions are Ihnninai ter l lit e d ib3 tracing the endless errors to which they hod In passim. an quite satisfied that of themselves, _ammo alter thdr ossvistions re. retire to these inconsiste nc i es i n OroApb esri errors in prised" and their moral sense Is too strong to mask or them boosoolog Itnteldbld. and saying, to please others, that *ay billow he thedotto or Wi gton when their convictions are dirooth "pond to dom. Way oboe fore fuel that they ere honest, and when the cooosisetisto and these oho have no conscientious religious Wisp, but who psind to ban them, apply abusive personal epithets to dim mend opposolo of religion, and call them deists, atheists, sceptics, and e.el..‘ . traduce their cuaracters by every unfair and unjust device that t... can invent : they iestil hatred and anger, and every evil passion and t a ding into these men, who naturally are thus taught to consider all pt: tension to religion to be he pocricy, and that religion itself is a monster of ir.leity and injustice. Thus, instead of kind feelings and genuine affection being engendered between man and man, through which dispositions alone :he world can ever be reformed and rendered happy, both parties are regu.' larity trained to become not only the secret, but the open enemies of each other; keeping the world in a state of perpetual discord, and affording no hope of its termination. Were it not for the irrational feelings and conduct of the classes Nos. 1 and 2 with respect to this class, the letter would always become honest, well-disposed, and comparatively intelli. feat members of society. As it is, the mass of the unthinking part of every population is in direct hostility to them, end consevently the me opposed to this mass, and the worst passions and feelings 'thulium nature are thus made to be the every day practice of mankind. Upon the 4th class religion produces the deepest commiseration for the ignorance, poverty, weakness, and crime, which it indicts upon the human race. They cannot avoid seeing the regular steps by which it is made to disorganize and disease the moral sense and intellectual facul ties of all who arc subject to its influence. They are compelled to dis cover the gradations by which it generates anger and discord throughout society, and perverts all the superior qualities of our nature into curses instead of blessings. They are penetrated with the keenest regret to perceive the earth, which might be, with ease and pleasure to every one, made a:terrestrial paradise, remaining a vast, a wild, and a disease, solely for the want of cultivation; and its inhabitants generally, which might be formed into beings of a far superior order to any hitherto known in the history of the human race, poor, weak, irrational creatures, asking for bread, while they are surrounded by the most ample means, if properly used, to supply an inexhaustible store of every good thing that the hear: of man could require, and while he himself, with equal ease and gratification, may be farmed into a being of high intelligence, possessing the finest moral sense, filled with the purest affection and mast genuine charity for all of his kind, and with perfect good feelings for all that has life in the universe. It is therefore impossible for this class to know and witness this demo. lotion of the earth, and this degradation of their fellows, and not to feel an irresistible impulse to forego every private feeling and consideration, that they may assist the nations of the world to emancipate themselves from the depth of error in which they are now involved, and front the crimes and misery with which, in consequence of this thick mental and moral darkness, they are now overwhelmed. It is solely for these purposes that we, now, in the face of all nations, and in the centre of this great metropolis, hold these public meetings, to which we invite all those who have moral courage sufficient openly to meet error, under whatever specious name it may possess, or whatever garb of disguise it may assume. We are well aware of the hold which what is called religion, varied and opposed as it is to itself over the whole earth, has upon the confiding andiupon:the unthinking.part of the population of the world. We know that fur numberless years men of the second class of mind, who have hitherto governed mankind in all their affairs, have adopted every device they could conceive to make men not to think, but implicitly to confide in their ipso disit upon the most important questions connected with their intellectual improvement and happiness, and especially upon the subject of religion. We cannot, therefore, be unconscious of the difficulties which we have to encounter, even at the threshold of our proceedings, in p!acing before the public the real advantages and disadvantages of religion, as it has been hitherto taught, in forming the character of man, and in go. venting the world. I have endeavoured to explain the general effects produced by reli. gion on the four most prominent divisions of our natural organization at birth, namely— Ist. The weak of intellect, with a strong moral sense, which religion makes amiable and conscientiously honest in their belief and dealings, as far as the inconsistencies of a weak intellect, rendered still more weak by religious mysteries, will permit. 2d. Those with higher intellectual faculties, but having a weaker moral sense,—these religion makes into moral hypocrites, into selfish and deigning men, whose business through life is to take advan tage of the intellectual weakness and moral sense of class No. 1. and to make them their tools or instruments by which they oppress the mere era of all classes, but especially those of No. 3, who have been always most unjustly treated by this class for their opinions, when honestly and openl y expressed. 3d. Those w have a moderate share of Intellect, and a large pro portion of moral sense.—Upon these religion produces the most un favourable results, b yereating in them the greatest enmity to the consci entious religious, and to the pretenders to religion, and, in course. quenee, their lives are usually passal in endless and fruitless contests with those in their families and neighbourhood, who belong to classes Nos. I and 2. Finding that they are most uujusdy abused for expressing the convictions which they are compelled to entertain, and that they are grossly ill-treated fur being conscientiously honest ; the worst feelings of our nature are engendered within them ; they imagine the whole human race to be their enemies, and that every man's hand is against them. They are almost always reduced to poverty, and, by a conti nuation of unjust and merciless oppressions, they are goaded on from irritation to irritation, until their opposition to the professors of reli gion and the institutions of society knows no bounds. A state of so. siety is thus created most unfavourable to an honest enquiry after truth, and to a condition of charity anti kindness between man and man, and nation and nation ; and endless cruelties are devised and practised for the insane purpose of attempting to make men think alike upon imaginary notions in opposition to facts, and to the evidence of our senses. By this irrational conduct, engendered solely by reli gion as it has been hitherto taught, men have been educated, from infancy, to become open or covert enemies to each other, and thus the millions are made to fall and remain an easy prey to a few, otherwise mat weak oppressors. 4th. Those who havealarge Owe of intellect, and whose moral sense is strong. Upon this class of men, as soon as their faculties are sufficiently ripe to observe, compare, reflect, and to judge with accuracy, religion pro. duces many painful conflicts in their minds. They ardently and sincerely wish to retain the belief forced upon them in childhood, in the div:ne origin and untainted truth of the religion which they have been coiu pelled to receive before their minds could comprehend any part of it.— 'Fhey begin to investigate its principles or dogmas, and are forced, by the facts around them and with the strength of their intellectual faculties, to cotnpare these dogmas with the facts around them, and with the laws of their own nature which they feel within them ; and to their grief and dismay, they can dis. cover no connection whatever between the dogmas of any religion, and the facts around them, or with the feel. lags of their own nature. They shrink from these first impressions of doubt as though they were committing the most heinous of all crimes ; yet they cannot, by any effort they can make, prevent their recurrence. As their intellectualpowers and moral sense increase with their years and experience, the discordance between thedoctrines of religion enciffacts, or the laws of nature, become daily more and more evident. Their first liars subside, their moral courage gradually increases, by degrees they investi. gate the foundation on which all religions rest ; they compare these with I the unchanging laws of human nature and to their utter surprise and aston ishment, they are obliged most reluctantly, to come to the conclusion that, there is not only no agreement between them. but that they are in direct opposition to each other. They are therefore compelled to enter tarn the conviction, that the facts of nature as they are presented to our senses, are not facts but delusions, and that all the religions in the world as hitherto taught, are the inventions of human creatures before they had acquired sufficient knowledge from experience to govern man except by the hopes and fems of future endless happiness or misery ; devices which they funned before they had discovered that ma I could be far better trained anti governed by real knowledge than by incense'. tent notions invented by men weak, but cunning to keep the mass of mankind in the very infancy of ignorance, and to retain them in mental helplessness. Ascertaining these important results, the men possessing by nature strong intellectual faculties and a high moral sense, cannot avoid feeling an irresistible desire to *et their fellows free from the mental bondage which ensiavesall their superior facultiesand feelings;while their inferior mental qualities and their worst passions are cultivated most success. fully. These men therefore look around in every direction, to ascertain in what manner they must commence their task. With their knowledge of human nature and of the laws which govern it, they cannot have any hostile or unkind feeling for any portion of mankind ; they therefore desire to perform their task with the greatest mildness and gentleness that will permit them to accomplish the great and good objects which they have in view. But after every attempt not to wound the feelings of their weak brc. thren, they discover that while the imaginary notions relative to reli gion shall be forced into the infant Wind, they can make little or no progress, and however unwilling they may be to hurt the artificial con science which has been formed in their fellow-ereatures, lay the doginas taught to children in all countries, they find that it is utterly imprae. ticable to benefit the human race without destroying all the errors of all , the religions in the world. This difficult but most important task must be effected toenable them to lay a solid and permanent foundation for that knowledge which can alone train man to have genuine charity and pure affection forall mankind. They know it is not only an easy i but a delightful employment to teach the human race truth, without any error from infancy. But they also know, from all past experience, that it is the most difficult and dangerous of all tasks in which man can engage, to attempt to unlearn or disabuse the adult mind of those errors and prejudices on the subject of religion, which have been with the greatest care and industry taught to them from their birth, We are now prepared to inquire what are the advantages of religion as it has been hitherto taught, upon the four classes of original caganisa. Lion. But first it is necessary to state what religion IN as it has been hitherto taught under all the various sectarian names and forms, which the priesthood us different countries have given to it. Religion then, as it has been hitherto taught, Is an attempt to force mankind to think spinet the evidence of their maws and of all facts, that there is emelt el the highest eider, in believing what the rictus say their votaries might to believe, and the deepest of all demerits in not believing thmedelpirs,which they amend allorhatever may be the name and form whisk they support, areoto call divine truths. And also in a siginst atuesse Nepal mankind to believe, against the evidence of their 11mtllt1 of ail facts, that there le 'seal merit in having real and mul things, such as they reectiamend to love, mad in hating resi a:..1 imaginal b,,n,r,4 trul things, mach as they recommend to be anti likewiim, t h .tt their votaries, whatever name they may bear, shall be e ernally regraded or punished for so klieviit . ; oe dim b,:lieving, sad Me so loviog or hating. Woatcvcr sectarians may say to the contrary, this la dr.: religion, stripp:d of all mystery, which a:o.te has ever yet been taugi.i 7a the in habitants of the earth. It is the religion, in all its naked deformity, which is, at the day, alone, taught in every country in the world *litre any religion is known. It is against this religion I have contended, and it is probable I shall contend against it to the last hour of my life. Now when:the:yes of men shall be opened, when they shill Acquire the power to investigate Eicts. to observe with accuracy, cause and etf:tat, and to sez all things within the rang- of their sense. as trey really are: all well know that this religion could not originate with a w.st and good power, but that it mast proce.al from a ignorant oil makvolent power. Because each of these notions have necessarily a most it nmaliting influence over the four general classes of organization which or:, given to mankind at birth, under the present netlect of forming a sup:nor organi. ration for the human race Mr. OwEfr then proposed the foil wing Resolutions ; :.f(et which some persons, and particularly 31r. Osrooti, attempted t., address the Meeting against the reasoning of Mr. Owerr, but it was no2ossible for them to obtain a hearing ICESOLUT lONS. 1. That the thoughts andfeelings of all men are, by their organist. tion or human constitution, formed for them, 2. That the thoughts and fe lings of all men create their will, and that the union of their thoughts, teelingt. and will, in all case , , stimu late to action and forat the moral chameter and conduct or ry 3. That consequently, it does nut beloog to the constitat'an of man, or the original nature of his coastitudon, that there can be merit ur de merit in the opinions or feelings of a numan being. 4. That to force a belief tot an op'" citaractet, or that there i 4 merit or demerit In the individual for il!a (Tit: ions or his feelings, is di rectly calculated to produce disorder and confusion over the weld ; t. engender all manner or crime, and especially to rend , :r it im: . rsctirt!.l., to produce love and ehar.iy wrong the bll:dat , race. b. That therefore true principles in accordance with hui t rin nature, and all nature arc now imp.ratively demanded to relieve the rf orld front ignorance and crime, and violets feelings of hatred and anger, threa:e:.- ing to exterminate those situ hold opposing opinions in reh i tion and policy. G. That these principles declare that Cali and perf.et liberty of con. science is the birthright by nature of every :11111:111 being. 7. That consequently mural truth consists alou: in the plain mitts , gutsed expressions of oar real thoughts attd tedint.l%. U. That moral truths, however, or the conscientious convic: ions co' individuals, and the everlasting truths of nature, have no necessary coa - flexion with each other, but arc now generally oppowd to each other. 9. That this opposition between the moral truth of individuals add the everlasting truths of nature, necessarily produce an irrational state of human existence. 10. That the unavoidable condition of this sta.e of soc:ety is to dos. organize all the rational faculties of human natt.rft. and to co:•t,rt them into wild and discotdant Imaginations. 11. That, in consequence, the human race. is, at this moment, aU the earth, involved in universal perplexities, contradictio..s, feelings directly hostile to their well-being and happiness. 12. That, every where, poverty, or an excess of injurious %teal! abounds.—That ignorance and selfishness form the clod qualities 1., the character of every individual ; and misery pervades the earth. 13. That this is the true state of society, which these fundamental errors have produced in all countries deemed the most civilized. 14. That, at this moment, this is the true state of the lititish +Tire. 15. That there is no possibility of changing this latnentabl . Lion of the human race, except by the discovery of the mars by teitic.. moral truth, or the conscientious convictions that men are now comp.:lea to receive from their birth, shall be, in every instance, mad: in full .ac cordance with all the everlasting truths it nature. Id. 'l'hat as moral truth is now in almost every instance direetly n . posed to all ascertained facts or real knowledge, the progress of fir knowledge of facts, lately made by scientific men, will now enable us unite all moral with all the everlasting truths of nature, anti thus ' to.: of mental and moral chaos, produce mental and moral order and har mony, and thereby obtain and secure, for the human race, that g e n t ile ; charity, pure affection, and permanent happiness which the comrara• lively wise and good, in all ages, have darkly foreseen and foretold, would, at some future period, be he condition of mankind. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Clinic, OCT. 20 —Arrived the Sarah, Cook, front Rhodes ; at.d. Wilke-the- Wisp. Clark, from Batavia. Poursmount, OCT. 20.—Arrived his lajesty's ship Undaunird. from Terceira; and Georgiana,Thompson, from Ceylun—sailed the t.:l May, Mauritius Ist July, and St. Helena 9th August. Cowas, Oct.. 20.—Arrived the Prince Regent, Heutwich, from Ba tavia--sailed 24th June. Of the Wight, the Nathalina, Dutch cor vette, from Batavia. PLTISOUTII, Oct. 19.—Arrived the Solace, Cross, from Dema and St. Aubia, Curoll, front Malaga. Off the port, the Olen, A , front Charente. Famous/1, OCT. 19.—ArrIved the Osborne packet, !rum the Leeward Idands--sailed from St. Thomas's the 12th ult. Arrives! the Rapid, BrewfeU, from Smyrna ; Albion, Burrell, from Leghorn , and Hippocampo, Row, tram Gibraltar. Off the port, the Volusia . Mathias, from Monte Video, and Comet, Ormiston, from Madeira. PII3IIIANCI, Ocr. 19.—Arrived off the port, the Lady Flora, Boyle, from Bengal, Mauritius, and St. Ilelena. Baum., Ocr. !O.—Arrived the Speculator, Cooper, frum St. Vi, - rem's; aad Henry, Westeott, front Valencia. The Amarylle, Howard, from Prince Edward's Islaul, was wrecked at Dominica during a gale 12th August. Crew saved. The Fabrico, alias Nlarma, front Cadiz to Havattnah, was wrecked at Tortola during a gale 12th August. The Thomas, M•Auley, from Dublin to Riga, tv..s on shore un the Isle of Islay 14th hot. Monsieur Bermudez, the Spanish Mini.t..:r, 11.141 a long conference with the Duke of Wellington pistol-day at the Treasury. His Excellency afteru or& trim @lewd business at the Foreign-office. Count de Ludolf, the Neapolitan Minister, had an in t-I-view with the E rl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Mexican Minister transacted business yest:rilay at tl 8 office of the Secretary of State for Foreign A ffai P. The Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Levesou Gower visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. The Duke of Wellington gave the first Cabinet dinner this season to his colleagues, yesterday evening, at Apsley house. The Earl of Aberdeen entertained the Anita:4:ldt), Gun► the Netherlands, and Madame FaIA, the Prussian r, : and Baroness &low, the Marquis and Marrhionems of Salis bury, Lord Grinisten, Lord Douglas, Mr. Deun, and a ve•b et party, to dinner on Monday evening, at the Priory, near Stanmore. The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen gave a grand dinner 'party on Tuesday evening at the Priory. CIIARTLEY FATALIST.—The unprecedented thliU• lathy of that admirable work" Cyril Thornton," has stimulated ano. ther of Blackwood's contributors to appear in the field of fiction. witha new Novel called Chartley the Fatalist. This work, like Cyril Thorn ton, records the adventure% of a gentleman of birth at tt fortane, doting his youth and manhood, but with this differeaee, that Chasti t y is i'tf h .. encial through the days of his m.nhood by a strange lataiity, sprmging from one of the roost extraordinary marriages that was tie: art vier solemnized. So remarkable indetd M this event, which is considered to be, even be the author himself, tint hr h tnutti2 iit . ctssary to certify its truth in a notice prefixed m his slitiitt. Yesterday a Court of Directors %vac Lela at ;leer 12. , 5t India-house, when the following %hips were thus Niattitais of Handy, Captain John Hine ; Buckinghanehme. l'aptat.. Glaseponle. fur Bombay and China. Thames. Capt. Forms la. lv Melville. Capt. Robert Clifford, for lieng.l seed Chins. to b.: istleat t n the 701 'ii December, sail to I:rarest:id on tie 28th, soy 'hue does, 314 1 be in the Downs on the 24ut Or January. lien. rat Kyd. C: p. tail! Nairne, fur tit. Helena. Bombay, and Lhir.4 ; Duke of SUN. sex, Captain Whitehead, for Sztnbay and Chir.a ; F at:o t ta , c4o ,, c a p. tam , c ru j e k„h„,,k , f or B e n ga l a nd China, to be aftoat on t h e :fist of lk. cember, sail to Gravesend on the 11th of Ja u.rv, mat inert %I days. and be in the Downs on the 7th of February. Captain Urihuk I Vansittart, Captain Scott, for Bengal ..nd t.hina. to be alkem on the 4th of J tnuary, rail to Ur ivegend on the 250), stay I htre 21 days, anal be in the Downs nn the 21st of February. iferctold shire, Captain Hope; Hythe, Captain Shepherd, fur Bombay and China ; Warren Hastings, Captain D'Averne. ter St. HI knit, Prince of Wales Island. and China, to be idiom 19th January, sail to Graves. end 9th February, stay there 21 days, and be in the Down% Eth of March. Rose. Captain ' • Doke 'of Y o rk, Captain H. Locke ; Waterloo, Captain Borten ficaleby Castle. Captain Blakeley, for China direct, to be afloat 6th of klatelt. rail lb Gravesend 211th of !Starch, stay there 21 days, and be in the Dawns 22d of April. Inglis, Captain ; Winchelsea, Captain —; Bo.nbay ; Captain ; Low. dm Castle, Captaill ; foe Chi.zsditvet, to Or 'Gnat 19th March, sail to Gravesend 9th Aprll, stay there 21 days, and be in the D owns 6th it' May. The following Capiadas were sworn lobo the command of their respective ship*, via. Captain Henry tirihble, Repulse; Car. Robert Clifford , Lady Melville ; for Bengal and Chita. Capt. Ilion. I r Shepherd, Hythe for Bombay and China; and Captain Wait'. Rix Blakeley, Saileby Castle, for China direct. , i'' I 1 i. !il ;p a ' . t ~ ,I