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.41MER1C4. Nr%T.YOAK, JUNE 1. The English packet Queen Charlotte, was to sail England on the 7th of Jnnt. It a ppears that tie Chamber of Commerce at Phi ladelphia loaded tun ships with provisions to succour the su ffering inhabitants of Trinidad, when the Pre. edent refused to permit their sailing, commending the humane intention, and assigning reasons why he aid not judge proper to comply with the request. American vessels in England arc employed by Eng ligs merchants to make voyages to Russia and Spain If Portugal. To Russia, the freight is nine guineas n u ton, so that a vessel of 300 tons, clears 2700 ',W igs, or 12,600 dollars by a voyage, which lasts f rom ix to te n weeks. Now is it to be supposed the mer chant would venture his property unless he had by s ome means obtained the Emperor's licence ? Thus Ng American merchants who happen to have vessels i l loa d find employment enough, and advance their f ortun es in a foreign country; while their unfortunate n eghbours, whose ships have once entered their own ports, are obliged to pay a dollar per day to some pod democrat wharfingor, in whom a democratic co rporation have confidence, for the privilege of rotting in the slips. Excellent Government !—Now-York fuming Part. STARVATION OR SrarerssroN.—The people of Mas. sachusetts must all turn democrats ; they must gain the confidence of Governor Sullivan, or have..no bread ; they must submit to kiss the feet of a minion of the President, or starve. We have heard of hunger breaking through a stone wall—the Administration ought to have thought of this before they attempted to enforce such a regulation. They ought to know that hunger knows no law, and that /reclamation, end circular letter: are more easily broken down than stone walls. _ _ FATAL Drzt.—On Tuesday, the 12th' April inst. the remains of . John D. Burk* were con►igned to the gave. He had particularly desired in his will, that his body should not be interred in a churchyard, and r.quested- tooth t the usual religious formalities, on funeral occasions. might to dispensed with. His cape was therefore conveyed to Cedar Grove, the seat of General Jnr.es, in the suburbsof this town, and buried with military honours. The Volunteer coin. yanies of Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry, attended the funeral, as well as a numerous concourse of citi tens. The following are the circumstances which led to his death : " Saturday. April *. " Burk, dining at a public tavern, with his friends around him, expressed his sentiments, with regard to the French Coeur.. pent, in the following manner: " What will the cavillers againo the Administration now say What will they Ety to the letter of Mr. Armstrong, in answer to the arrogant note . of Mr- Champagny t I am in hopes, when they lead the honest, manly, and luminous remarks of an American citizen, in refutation tithe pretensions of the French rascals, they will bare honesty and modesty enough to withdraw their accusa tions, and be silent ; for the French are all a pack of rascals." Mr. Coqubert..." Did you mean to apply those observations tamer Burk..." Sir, I do not knew who you are—What'YOU VC 1 did not know there was sack a being in existence. W'ho arc you, Sir I What are you T Ido not so much u know your seamy, or even sour name." kir.C..-" I ask, if you mean to insult me Sir r mg. a-- Seeing, Sir, that you have no right to intrude upon nyteteranor converse ion, you must even take it as you please." Mr. C.—" Very well, Sir." The observations of Mr. C. were ettered at the public table in $ tamed defiance, which precluded any thing like gentlemanly or wanly explanation. Sunday morning Mr. Burke received the following vette I— " have been so long In the place that yne could not help krowtrg that lam a Frenchman. I sat so nearly opposite to ycu et dinner, that ••nn could not avoid seeing me. What you said mild not fail to hurt my feetiega—l do not pretend to conirou' the cnnvetNation of any ratan, in as much as it does not relate to Ine—tv't I cannot overlook what is said in my very face, let it be said directly or indirectly. " tf (alluding to politics) you did not mean to insult me, and had not observed that a Frenchman %vac within the reach of your yards, I suppose you have no objection to ease those feelings by .am acknowledgment of it in as formal a manner as that I take to address you. " Sunday, leth !Ire " F. COQUEBERT." hurk." . To the- foregoing note, Mr. Richard N. Thweatt, the friend of Mr. Burk, delivered the answer as fol lows :---- friend, Mr. Thwevt, who w.s privy to the on set-ration you complain of. will arrange with your friend any thing necessary to dinassion, or tattle, if it shall be so determined on. I nope you will mute the inaccuracy of not replying to your po- . lie note by a written answer. " Senday Morning. April 10." " Mr. Coquebert." After the preceding notes passed, nn further com munication took place between the parties, except Mr. Thweatt being called upon to name the time and plant for battle. A challenge was sent by Mr. C. which was accept en. and, early on 4londay morning, the parties. with th r seconds, met ia a field adjoining town. On the first fire, Mr. C.'s pistol snapped, sad the contents of Mr. B.'s were discharged ineffectually. The second fire proved decisive. Mr. C.'s ball passed through the heart of his antagonist, who expired without a ward tr a groan. S uc h is the relation which we have hail of this unfortunate affair.—Pcterdursk 120. Mr. Bark was an insiunap, and fornwey s student of Tri nity Callrge, Dublin. On Monday morning, a Frenchman of the flame of Destouches, who was lately, we understand, sent out of the Kingdom under. his Majesty's order, was take►t into custody at a public-house at Newington, knAwn by the sign of the Green Man, where he had s'oreted himself. This foreigner had been embarked at Gravesend on board a vessel, the Captain of which had engaged to convey him to a neutral Nit. When the vessel arrived of Yarmouth, he succeeded, by in- Lmidatiug the Captain, in making his escape. Des touches has been committed to prison, and if the ii gour of the law is put in force, may be transported for life. The publican, in whose house he v. as lodged, is liable to pay a penalty of 101, for not having called upon him to produce his licence, authorising his resi dence in this country. It is a circumstance perhaps not very generally known, that all persons receiving ahem into their houses, for the purpose of lodging . or residing for morn than 24 hours, ought to req►ure them to produce a licence of this desortption, and to ' 66 ' a c o py of the same to the Justice of. Elevens 0 1 constable, residing in or near thei► parish, &c. Every Person neglecting so to do, is liable TO pay the above penalty, upon information before a Magistrate ; one • half of which goes to the informer, and the other to te pour of the parish, TO THE EDIrOR OF THE STAR. ON TN's PROPHECIES. No. XII. . THR THIRD TRUMPRT.-PART I. § n. Of whcm tie primitive Chrittion ilreettebrut were compote', and how the Member: were admitted into fel lowthit. _ _ The very circumstance of salvation proclaimed through a crucified Saviour, implies that mankind have departed from Goo and merited his wrath ; for to talk of restoring a man to health who has no ma lady, of giving sight to him who already sees, or of redeeming one who is not a captive, but a free-man, would not In more absurd than.to call the righteous to ( repentance. The scriptures of truth have declared, that there is none righteous, no not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after Gov"—all the world is guilty before him (Rom. iii.) The same scriptures declare also glad tidings—that the MESSIAH, promised by JEHOVAH, to finish transgression, male an end of sin, and bring in everlasting righteousness— (Dan. it. 24.) came into the world at the time ap pointed, abolished death, and brought life and immortality is light (2 Tine. i. 10.)-- 4, that Cnatsr died for cur situ ; that he was buried, and that he rose again, the third day, according to the scriptures" (1 Cor. xv. 3.4.) ; and that men are saved by receiving or crediting this good news, and keeping it in memory (ver. 1. 2.) ; for the word of faith preached by the Apostles was very simple : r The word it nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart—iv THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH TIIY MOUTH THE LORD YEWS, AND SHALT RELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD MATH RAISED hIM FROM THE DEAD, THOU SHALT NE SAVED." (Rom. x. 8. 9.) - These good tidings the Apostles-proclaimed to men, guilty and vile as they found them ; and those who gladly reeeived them were, on confessing the Loan Jaws with their mouth, immediately baptized and added to the church, without any previous qua lification whatever, or,any other proof of the sincerity of their conversion either required or expected.— That the profession of faith required from the con verts was short and simple, is proved by the case of the Eunuch, (Acts. viii.) When Pilate jt ined him he was reading in ISAIAH this passage, " He was led at a sheep to the alarghter ; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so oluned he not hit mouth."—PHILIP began at the same scripture aod preached unto him Jaws. And as they went on their way, " see here is water," said :he Eunuch, " what doth hinder me to be baptized ?" Naar replied, " if thou believest with all thine heart !Amt ',gayest:" and he answered, " I believe that dk sus CHRIST is rat JON 07 GOD"....—ard PHILIP baptized him. That this was not a singular instance of a convert in stantly baptized on professing the faith, but the ge neral and common practice, is plain from the preach ing of PETER, recorded in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, and the consequences that fol. lowed. He charge; his audience with having tekt•fr, and by wicked hands crucified and slain that sanicL,lesui whom GOD hash constituted both LORD and MESSIAH ; and yet we are informed, that those who gladly reeeived' the word of salvation were baptized, and ' 4 THE SAME DAY there nacre added about thr:e thousand souls" to the number that " continued stedfastly in the Apostle: doc trine and fellowship, Seed in breaking of bread and in Arayers,"—that is, on professing their faith in JESUS they were baptized, and by that act admitted mem taers of the church at Jerusalem. To enumerate in stances is not necessary, only it may be proper to add, that both men and women were admitted in the same manner (Acts viii. 12.) and also their households (Act. xvi. 15, 33) ; and when admitted they were taught and required to manifest the sincerity of their profession dy observing all the things commanded by him who dial, the just for the unjust, and by abstaining from even the aft/ earance of evil § 111. Of Government—Of the Office-bearers in the Church ; and, first, of Bishops or Prabyters. Having ascertained of whom the primitive Chris. tiara congregations were composed, and how the members were admitted into fellowship, it is necessary that we shz - uld understand how they were governed ; cr, in other words, what laws %ere instituted for pre serving them in their purity, and insuring a due. ob. servance of " all things" commanded by him who is tie head of his body, the Church : for, without a knov.• ledge of this, we than never understand in what that defection consisted, which made them become like filthy stagnant water, impregnated with gall and worm. wood, when they lost their primitive character, com 'pared in this trumpet to Rivers and fountains of water-- i that is to-living water, opposed to that which is dead I and stagnant. No society whatever can exist without some kind of Government, nor can any Government ;be admi_ nistered without Office bearers. That nothing might be wanting for the maintenance of the most perfect order in the kingdom of the /gasman, a regular code of laws was given by him to his subjects, every one of whom was appointed guardian of these laws ; and regular Office-bearers were instituted for their better maintenance, and to see them duly executed. Indeed the a ppointment of these office-bearers, and the duties ,to be observed by t hem, are a part of the laws ; and I without them the body becomes defective in its orga nization. In every state the enacting of laws belongs to the l a wgiver. Every subject is bound to obey them.— Neglect. or a breach of the l aws on t he p an of the subject~ ren ders him 1434 e to the penalties denounced by them—And he who takes upon bin' to set mil:, any of the laws, or to enact oew ones by hi s , own authority, usurps the place of thefiovereign----tha is, he becomes a rebel. It will not be denied by any person, who calls 'himself a Christian, that the hlksitiAzi remains eter• nally the supreme head of his church, and that th laws of his kingdom are declared in the New Testa ment. There we find Bishops and Dramas spoken of as office-bearers in the churches of Cnalsr. How were they appointed ? What were the duties enjoined them ? Were any other offices appointed by CHRIST ? These are important questions ; but we must take our answers not from any man or set of men, but from the testimony of the " FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNE.ss" himself. ELDERS [7yErt3:irspoz, - Pre.tiyitrs], or Btsnors [str.o.- xoTtra, Overseers], were appointed, not in one congre gation to rule over many, but in every congregation (Acts xiv. 23), and Consequently in every, city where there was one (Tit. i. 5). Every man who filled this office was required to be" l.lanul.•rs,thehusband o one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospi tality, apt to teach ;. not given to sine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a bravder, not eovetetu,one that ruled well his own house, having hit ciildren in :J. jection, with all gravity; not a now . convat, lest being ela• ed with pride he should fall into the condemnae.on of the de vil:" (1 Tim. iii)—not :elf-willed, a lover ofgood men, just, holy, holding fast the faithful word a: taught by the Apostles (Titus i). That elder and bishop mean one and the came office is so plain in the New Testament, that no common degree of effronnry and artifice was required to hide it from the eyes of the people. One or two examples taken from our English version will serve to • the one and illustrate the other.—ln the history of PAUL'S travels to propagate the 'Gospel we are told; (Acts ax. 17) that " from ltfiletus he strt to Ephesus, and THE ELDERS OP THE CHURCH" [rperEarrposs rgs txxasoicti] and said to them (v. 23) " Tole heed unto yourselves, and to all the fork ov:r which- tire HOLI SPIRIT hash made . you bishops" reIriPXO77IVSJ---in our English version " bath made yu ovoseers." Here the elders and bishops are the same persons, and of course these appellations mean one and the same office ; but if (pi:copes means overseer, how comes it that in no part of the New Testament have our translators so rendered that word excepting in this solitary instance? It is true in. deed - that in another place (1 Pet.v.2.) they have ren dered silriss-ourtsi by the words tallow the oversight," but there also the persons addresied are the xrcrilia rspoui (o.- 1.) who are exhorted to feed and oversee the or filthy kale, neither' as king Loam . .over th, heritag?4 •In justice, however, to our translators, I must here mention another passage, of which they have given an honest version, to far is it • does not conceal that the elders and Bishops there spoken of; art the same persons and fill the same offices. I mean tesiustructions given by PAUL to Trrus (ch. I.): 1t! left thee in Crete that thou shoulders ordain ELDERS in every eity.....if any be blameless :.....fora 11$1101' must is blameless :"—but the sense would have been more ob vious had they given the latter part of these word thttr.--" for an overseert must be blameless." From the passages of the last reference, it appears , not only that the Primitive Churches had Presbyters or Bishop', the same office being understood by both of these terms, but that each particular congregation was so furnished—nay more—that every perfectly or ganised church had a plurality of overseers or ciders.— Agreeably to this we find PAUL, after preaching the Gospel at different places, " ordained them ya.PF.lts every congregation"—and when he writes to the ing Philippians, (I. L.) he addresses his epistile re all the Saints, with the OvensEttis and DEACONS. 111 iwould be however begging more than the premises wil warrant to infer from this, that no assembly c 1 Christians could properly be called a church, where there was not a plurality ef elders. Such an asser tion would be a contradiction in terms. It would be asserting in the same breath and with the same words , that people congregated or asseml lel together, are not congregated er assembled. In the very nature qf things there can be no Overseer till there be a flock to be looked after, and to affirm the con trary would imply another contradiction as palpable as the former. Is point of fact, we know that the first Christian assemblies were formed before the office-bearers were appointed. The Very business of appointing elders in every church, which was per. • Tarn sorry I cannot give unqualified praise to the whn:e of their version of this passage. Why was isarapriar,i n o. tiered by Os DAIN, in preference to appoint, or eetabt ? roam, the old Eecle:l,2itital ucrdr" were olderctl " to be Ate . in theft translation. For the same reason, we read in Atte :Iv, 23 , Where they hod 01DAINTD them elders ap Ai" earn , 41....g.• they commended them to the Lose)." If th• word Xeifn-.••••• is here properly rendered Is seata;ft, why did they disregard Jehavie• injunction, and prefer another version of the same word In S Car viii. 19 ? In the tatter passage we read : . r ig r e hat , ' seat with Air' the brother vim was CHOSEN tithe chucks to treed with ta." iq the first of these three passages, Tiros only is named; in t: • se cond, Mg suppose the sed:wstion to be made by PAVL and BAR NA in s. exclusive of the churches; but in the third, the , -riot; was by the Church—and a n honest version might have shewn that every Christian Congregation has acme therein or daining its own °dicers. Had the word (pimps been uniformly rendered *wrier, in our common version, it would have been more inte.ligible to the English reader, for whose benefit the translating: was professed to be ma de. Whether it was from Inattention or design, it Is most singular, that It has been rendered 44.1 p wherever It occurs ; rient i eg o nly in those places where it woeld have beet' obvious to owe reader, that that *Sae, and the oast of elder bone and sh• NOW i -- ,r. ii:simA by P.tva. and BAIMARAS at Derbe, at tra, Icoaium, and Antioch, implies that at thess places covitegitions were alr:ady established. Indeed we are expressly sold that PAUL and BanN,saas prayed with thew, mod rester Add shin[ to Telt LORD, 0,1 whom they 6eliered (Acts xiv. ‘2l-2.5). But, though it ,cannot be questioned that. in the natural or :ler of things, clnsrchcs must be formed before paAors can be apptiated, it is equally clear that no songr.larien, in the ecripture sense of the word, can be coasidered as perfectly organised till it has Preelyterr. We learn, from Paez's Epistle to TatY, that different congre gations in Crete were in this situation, and theret re 1:e speaks of them as still wanting part of their order, and desires TITUS to id in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elder: in every city. From this we are bound to infer, that it was the duty of Christian Congregations to perfect their carder, as soon as tit y could find among then' persons qualified to' fill the officestn overseers, cr elders and deacons, the only offices appointed by the Apostles as necessary to their perfect order. And it seems reasonable also to inftr that, as congregations might and did exist before bi. shops and deacOns, and might be ably, where the number of members was but small, to find only one person, instead of a plurality, endowed with the re• quisite character for either of these offices, in such a case it was their duty to appoint that one, as a step towards their perfect organization—but, Wing only a step towards perfect order, and not that perfect order itself, that they would, as soon as they could find others qualified for office, proceed to their appoint. meat also, obeying the Apostolic injunction, " Let all things be done decently and in order"—that is, agree ably to the order established in the churches which in Judea were in CIIRIST JOU& - 1 i 'ls not essipidal that arlarge flambe! if believers should be collected to establish a church. Where men two, or three, are gathered together in the name of CIIRIsT, there is he in the midst of than—there is a church (Mat. Iviii. 20). This passage is commonly consi dered Merely as a promise, that wherever,p few Chris tians meet in the name of Otani-, for mutual edifi cation, he will be with them to bless them. Of this no doubt: can exist. But, however true this proposi tion may be in itself, it is not the sense of the passage —for the " tit:o on three gathered togetlur," or arrem bled Cerovybesscs—literally "synagognedl are the very same mentioned three verses before (v. 17), and there called " the church" [exxXiria]e. The duty incul. cated in this places amounts then to this—that in no plade were his disciples to neglect the mode of disci pline niketed,coUt by their MASTER, on the pretext that they were not sufficiently numerous to consider themselves as a church; for though their number should not exceed two or there, if gathered together in his name, or, ib other words, associated for the pur pose of observing his ordinances, the " cfl 'hire commanded by hits, he who tvalieth its the midst of the chunks (Rev. ii. 1), assures them he will be present in their assembly. But if so small a _number con• stitutes a church, it follows that a church may exist without a plurality of Presbyters and Deacons, though it is equally plain, from the scriptures, that where the number of believers, and the gifts found among them, actmir ;he regulation, they are bound to have such a plurality. In the next section 1 shall, as far as I have been able to discover it, state what appears in the Set . tures respecting the election of those office-bearers, called Presbyters, or Bishops. EIBLIcus. • The mere' English Reader should be informed that Eitukr,crta and cru: aywyr i v (synagogue) have precisely the same signlEcation, r.amely, cenregatiss or asurnily. Thus, In Acts /di'. 42, we are told, that " when the Jews were gone out of the 'snit :Tar [Ctlvarcyr,c] the Candles begged that the same word' might be preached to tin m the next Sabbath;" and (v. 43), that I. when the oecregatint [stixxvotrf] was broken up, many at the Jews and religious proselytes, followed Paul and Parnabas." And the Apostle James (ii) speaking of meetings of -the Chur c h. •ays. " If there come into your duassibly [crtati*/ ter,t3 marl with a laid rieg," Zee. • NE MELANCITOLV EVENT AT LADY CAMPPVI.L'S.— f % night, Lady CAMPBELL gave an'elegant ball, on Monday IA night, at her house in Wimpole-street. No pains or i . expcnce were spared to render the entertainment wor- I thy of the numerous and distinguished persons who were invited and attended. The dancing commenced at • an early hour. An elegant supper followed. Har monyand pleasure prevailed, until an event hap. pened in the ball room, which banisled all the. hap. piness and comfort from the scene in, a moment—it was no less than the sudden death of one of the clan. cers, Mr. CALVER r, who ,actually dropped down dead. Mr-Can-Err burst a blood vessel in going down a reel. The utmost terror and distress were de picted in the countenance of every one of the guests ; as for Lady CAMPBELL, she fainted from the fright. This melancholy event broke up the assembly.— Most of the company departed in tears. Mr. Caae VT,RT was the son of --s— CALVILRT, Esq. of North. Aulley.:trect. A letter from Drogheda mentions an unfortunate transaction which took place on Saturday se'nni ght, in Ardee,—Mr. lEtt.raTruca, excise.offieer, assisted by a serjeant'a detachment of Queen's Bays, seized a qua , uity of malt in the town and neighbou rhood of A r lee ; and havinprocured carts to convey the sei zure to Dundalk the party were attacked by a num ber of men, armed with muskets, near the town, who fired on them, and on the first discharge the serjeant 1 i 1 w. is shot dead; the second wounded two men (one dangerously) and a Besse. The party, wish Mr. 1 . 1 KILPATRIcKI then retired, and those misguided men I took the malt off the carts, and threw it about the road. An inquest was held on the day following is., and a verdict of " wilful m i urder" was found again s t 1 ' v z inhabitants of the Krim, who were immediat e ly i, apprchended, and committal to Dundak pal. -- • N rS. re at