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FRErlffilsoivS; CHARITY' CHILDREN. ded, that the establishment had nothing to fear from the dispersion of the Scriptures by the Bible Society: but argued at the same time, that the Clergy ought never to forget that they are Churchmen, and that it is their bounden duty to procure Prayer-books for all their poor, who can use them. After animad verting on a hand-bill, which had been put into cir culation with a view to injure the Institution, he con cluded by calling the attention of the Meeting to the prospects which the exertions of the Bible Society are opening to us in every part of the world. Sir JOHN S. Sk:BKIGIIT having moved that the cor dial Thanks of the Meeting be given to the Secreta ries of the Parent Institution for their valuable assis tance on the present occasion, observed, that he per fectly concurred in the sentiments expressed by the last speaker, and was a warm friend and viell.wisher to the Church of England. It was in this view that he felt himself particularly called upon to support the Society. 'I lie motion having been seconded by Mr. Fonn- HAM and adopted by the Meeting, Mr. OWEN, in a speech of much playfulness and animation, entered into a description of the extensive field of labour, which lies before those persons, who wish to destroy the Bible Society and its numerous branches. After leading them through all parts of Great Britain and Ireland, he then proposed that they should visit America, Asia and the Continent of Europe ; and when they should have finished their work of devastation to the extent already pointed out, he thought he could tell them of additional em ployment. A grand NE scellaneous Concert was given on Thurs day night at Free Masons' Tavern, for the benefit of the Free Masons' Charity for Female Children. Up wards of 600 persons were present. Madame CATA. LAM, Mrs. DICKONS, and Madame Bitansorri, ex erted their great and admired powers with their ac customed success; and the treat was rendered com plete by the effective aid of Signor TRAMEZZANI and Mr. BELLAMY. The Band was ably led by Mr. F. CRAMER, and the whole was under the direction of Sir G. SMART. The female children educated and supported by this excellent charity were presented to /he company, and a more interesting or gratifying sight has rarely been witnessed. HYMN SUNG BY THE CHILDREN. Guardian Guides of Innocence, Almoners of Providence, Hither turn your eyes and view Infant hands held up for'yoo. Friendless, helpless d'd we stray, No one mark'd to Heaven our way: Now.in you we Friends possess, Now a SAvinues Name confess! B!essingi, blessings then receive, We have nothing else to give; Yi.t, beyond the atnpleA store, ,Are the blessings of the Poor. Hear, then, HEAVEN, our earnest Prayers, Make each ble,sing tenfold their.) ! May they never be distresed, But for blessings still be blesed. Mr. PUJMER seconded by Sir Junx SEIMIGIIT then moved the cordial Thanks of the Meeting to W. BAKER, Esq. for his able conduct and important ex ertions in the business of this day. Mr. BAKER, in an address of great feeling, expres sed the delight,which he experienced at seeing on the close of a long political life, one meueng of unani mity. It had been his lot to witness many of dis sension ; he had been opposci to gentlemen near him on questions of great interest to public men, when both sides, considered thera,elves as engaqed • in the right caule. It rejoiced his heart to hod at last, that there was one subject on which they could all agree, and especially that this subject was the dis persion of the Se!iptures. " Thr.y are," he observ ed, " the only solace of affliction in this life, and af fro d the only ground of lioEe for the lite to come." Mr. Baker closed a most striking and impressive ad dress by returning his thanks for the honour conferred upc n him. GOD of Love! to thee belong Highest strains of gratrft.l song : Though from men thi: bounty came, Thou didat raise the gen'rouc flame. Let each voice with ours combine, To adore the Source Divine.! Great Er eittrat. THRF.F. above, Goo of Life, and Goo of Love! Hallelojzh!—Amen. HERTFORDSHIRE AUXILIARY' BIBLE SOCIETT. A very numerous and highly respectable Meeting, convened by public advertisement, was held in the Shire Hall, at Hertford, on Friday, January 24., for ,the purpose of establishing an Auxiliary Bible Society. to co-operate with the British and Foreign Bible Society. WILLIAM PLUM ER, Esq. was unanimously called to the Chair, but declined it on account if ill health ; when in compliance with the same unanimous re quest of the Meeting, expressed on the motion of Mr. PLUM ER,, seconded by Sir JOHN SA UN DERS S EBR MUT, Dart. WILLIAM BAKER, Esq. politely accepted it. The CumnstAN, in a very concise and able man ner, explained the occasion of the Meeting, and stated, that, according to his view of the question, the only difficulty that existed on the subject must rest with those, who were disposed to object to the formation of so truly excellent Ind important an institution. " The object the observed) is simple, totally unconnected with every question of, politics, on which parties might be formed, and the means proposed to attain k such AS, in my opinion, every Christian might safely and conscientiously agree to unite in. It has soy cordial approbation." Mr. Baker concluded amidst the acclamations of the whole assembly. Mr. PLUM ER then rose, and when the acclamations, with which he was received, had subsided, he addres sed the Meeting in a short but very impressive speech. He stated, that this ss as probably the last time he should ever meet his friends and neighbours or any public occasion, and he was glad that he h.tel an opportunity of bearing his testimony to so good a cause. It would be a consolation to him as he ap proached his last hour. Difference of judgment might exist upon many points ; " but if we cannot reconcile all opinions," said Mr. P. (quoting Mr. Vansittart) id let us endeavour to unite all hearts." Mr. Plu mer concluded by moving that certain Resolutions be read ; and that before they should be submitted from the Chair, the Secretaries to the Pareßt So ciety be requested to explain to the Meeting the na ture of the Institution. Sir JOHN SEBRIGUT having seconded the motion, ,Mr. OwEN, in a concise manner, introduced the other Secretaries, Mr. Steinkopff and Mr. Hughes, reserving any remarks of his own to the close of the Meeting. Mr. STEINKOPEP, in his peculiarly forcible and artless manner, stated the want of Bibles in various parts of the world, and the great anxiety which exists to obtain them. Of the several important facts which he mentioned, we were particularly struck with the following : —An offer was made, by a person from Stockholm, to the Governor of Russian Finland, of some pecuniary assistance towards supplying the poor Finlanders with Bibles the Governor enquired from what generous hands the offer came ? and when he learnt that they were indebted for it to England, he could not refrain from tears, but added, that without The harmony, which has been so uniformly mani fested the formation of auxiliary Societies, in every partof the kingdom, was eminently displayed on this interesting occasion. We have seldom witnessed a more gratifying scene. The effect produced on the minds of those, who were present, will not be the tran sient impression of a day: they will many days hence acknow•leJge the excellence a a cause, which can unite in perfect cordiality gentlemen of distinction, who have long been c pposed upon political questions, and elicit the best feelings from men of every class. The principles of Christian Charity wil: be enlarged and confirmed ; and from the good, which has alrea dy been done by means of the Bible Society, they will see, what the united exertions of Christians can accomplish in the most benevolent of all projects, and will perceive that they are invited not merely by a sense of duty but by their best interests, to partici pate in the service, and to share the blessings which a:tend it. The Sixteenth Report of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry has been printed. It relates to the Ordnance, and is divideA into several parts, under the heads of Contracts, or mode of procuring Stores, and performing services, Royal Laboratory, Inspec tor of Artillery, &c. and Royal Carriage Department. It is principally grounded upon the examination of Mr. MAISERLY, who appears to have had most ex tensive contracts Er tents, &c. and Messrs. WILLAN and SMITH, who have had'similar contracts for horses. In July, 1810, Mr. WILLAN furnished about 700 horses, for the service of the Engineer Department— of these 112 were employed at Dover, and although allowed two Founds of hay per day extra, to be paid by Govern - ner, they were not able to do one half of the work of country horses, and it was found necessary to hire the teams of the country for ail great burthens. It also appears, that in .January, 1804., the Board of Ordnance purchased all the horses supplied by Mr. WILLAN under his contract of 1803, for the purpose of transferring them to the Royal Artillery Drivels. These amounted in number to 3500, and were purchased nominally at 25 gaineas each, but, in fact, they cost the public thirty-six pounds each, the allowances granted to Mr. WILLAN to induce him to relinqui4l his contract, amounting to the difference, in the aggregate, about thirty-five thousand pounds. This Magistrates of the Head Police-office, Dub lin, have received information on oath, that several anonymous 1. tiers have been written and conveyed duo:high the Post-oflice, to the Gentlemen who found Mr. Kirwan pray, threatening them with imme diate death, in consequence of the verdict they gave on that occasion ; and the Magistrates offer a re ward of £2OO to any person who shall discover the writer. consulting the Emperor nothing could be done. The Emperor was consulted, and has contributed from his private purse 5000 rubles to the Bible Society now forming in Finland. Mr. HuonEs entered upon a vindication of tke na ture and constitution of the parent society and its auxi liaries. His speech was almost entirely argumenta tive ; and to the conviction of all who heard him he established the perfect expediency of 'such a union for such a purpose. The usual Resolutions were then read from the Chair and unanimously adopted. The Rev. Mr. LIDDEN stated at some length and .tvith considerable force the character and probable . effects of the Bible Society ; he considered it not merely as a powerful instrument of good, but as likely to be. a permanent blessing. The Honourable Mr. BRAND, in proposing the Se cretaries of the auxiliary Society, delivered a very manly and strong appeal upon the beneficial tendency of the Institution. He adverted in terms of high en comium to Mr. Dealtry's 6 , Vindication of the Bible Society," and gave it his warmest recommendation. The motion for the appointment of Mr. DEA my and Mr.,MastEN, as Secretaries, buying been secon ded by NICIIOLAS CALvERT,'Esq. and adopted by the Meeting, Mr. Dealer) , rose to return thanks. As a Clergyman of the Church of England he cornea- Yesterday afternoon as a gentleman's carriage was passing rapidly along Mary-la-bonne -street, the hin der wheel bounded against a post in giving way for other vehicles, and was overturned with the utmost violence. An elderly lady and a youth about eleven years of age were inside. The coachman was so se verely hurt in his head that he died on his way to Middlesex Hospital, and the youth within was so much injured in his arm, that it is feared amputation must follow. To a Nation afloat in the midst of the Ocean as it were, whose existence pivots inn her navy, Nautical Themes and Subjects must ever prove congenial and welcome; and evc3 y effort and stride of excellence which tends to tnanifest its invincibility or to advance its merits, deserves the warmest encouragement and sup port. To such as possess a sublimity of taste to enjoy a treat the must delicious the human faculties are sus ceptible of, we recommend a visit to theNAusiactita, Prince's -street, Leicester-square, where the Fluidities and Motion of the Sea, with the EffeetOf the diffe- ; rent Elements and Vessels, , i n a S ea right, are re, presented with a brilliancy and effect to nature, far superior to.aoy work of art before produced. LAW INTELLIGENCE. child. B e , wh o to ik cloy'' , *PoliVaahli,4t the time, til _ I firm this Court, between the proceedi ngs upon he had interpolated the baptism of this r a m ffi on dav b it y o D f r D . sworeifa t that bap tiitsmwawsitiete;e:.;), COURT OF RING'S BENCH, FEB. T . ney-Geueral had now the a ffi davit of t he _..., a note THE BING V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF ,CANTERBURY AND osifjesthitsbsee 1 THE BISHOP OF LONDON. d M oc 4G ui re ne go t r o , f w o t e s x a p s re a s i s o l s y t Povals had stated with disapprobetion, bin that P i — not o e doctrines came from himself ; and that he not r This was a rule niri for a mandamus, calling upon the defendants, or one of them, to hear, examine, and Ptism, but e t (L '!', determine, in order to licence the Rev. R. Povah, L. L. D. to preach the Friday morning lecture at the denied the iraiplmnce of infant ba baptism at all, and that ma in the Church, i n e a:" ch ' !the Applicant's witnesses had heard hi parish church of St. Bartholomew, Exchange, Lou- don. The lectureship was endowed in 162.3, with a year, out of lands, and the choice of the lecturer . Cher. His denial of these doctrines . rm. ' was given by the founder to the inhabitants of the 1 tem • tided the t Attorney-General of a story of a uur,e, who in en Rector Upon the last vacanc, Mr. Shepherd, the ,let some bread and butter for a chl, 1 -14nPened t o were Rector of the parish, Dr. Povah, and another person, were candidates, and the Doctor was chosen by a ma-i i loaf :" the child reported the i xcl inecion to isr jority of the parishioners. Upon tendering himself to user ; when the nurse nor only denied that she h e e the Bishop to be licenced, it was objected to him that:used those words, but declared herself to h • • he had preached against the doctrine of infant bap- , , 6 bless the bread." Al •e I A tism, a charge which the Doctor denied, and the au- 1 I I A Tile s-ATTORNIEY•GENFTIAL and Mr. DASIPICII thy' thor of which he requested to know. This infornia- proceeded to quote and comment upon the d •• • Lion was refused, and Dr. Povah attended the Bishop; ems% of Lord"Chiel Justice Holt, in 12 Morden, 435. a with the notes of the sermon, which had been thus i Pciveell J. 2 Lord Raymond, 12)::; end to so misrepresented ; and the Bishop appeared satistied i cases in 3 Salkeld, Si , 4 Burrow, 2013, e ct . aaj ''' on that bead ; but objected to him, that he was only I gued that the matter was of ecclesiastical jarisak eaL • lll. in deacon's orders, and had in that capacity out-land that it could not be taken thence, end sent to stretched his authority in reading the absolution.— : jury under a mandamus from this Court. Th etency I, - This practice Doctor Povah justi fi ed, by the direc- • I expressed approbation, which w as an act tithe p m a w. Wete tions of the rubrick ; and as to the com of his ; and how could the Court of King's Bench orders to warrant the liceuce in question, Dr. Povah • the Licenser to express a full confiJerce in the got himself forthwith ordained a priest in full orders, learning, doctrine, and diligence of a man, trfo e k h a although, as the Bishop alledged, and the applicant I i did not possess ? denied, this was done in an irregular way. This, and ' es r . ris . ea sastaitow, Mr. C. WARREN, Mr. CnM A* . much more, appeared by many affidavits on both I I Mr. BuoucolAm, contra, contended that the sides : the Doctor had produced to the Bishop three ' only required the Bishop to hear ;and that thee* 1 different sets of testimonials, his Lordship having ob- 1 1 cant had not yet been heard in any sense of dies e l jested to the testimony of some, and persuaded the attended withdrawment of others : hearing, which came within th e ju st i ce o f a Beidek finally, 1)r. Povah Court. They quoted a vari e ty o f cases , b ut stied his Lordship with his perfect testimonials, and hisl mainly on a decision of Lord Mansfield, in the Le g certificate of I'riest's Orders, and offered to read and! v. Blower, 2 Bur. 10 1.3. Mr. BROLOIIA/4 took aj u subscribe the thirty-nine articles, as required by thet tinction between the rights of holy orders, and /l ee Act of Uniformity, 13 and 14 Car. 11. c. 4. sec. 19.1 : 1 joying the profits attached to them ; and argued, th e , when the Bishop's objections were at last resolved i as a patron Lad the remedy of quare impeds agate; into this, that he did not approve of Dr. Povah .1., a the Bishop who refused t.' indu c t hi s c : er l s it u ILI fit person., The Doctor, thereupon, called open his never be the intention of the Legisrature to !ew e 1 had Lordshi ptendere to d s h pecify the reasons of that objectin, and 1 lecturer alone at the mercy of th e Bi s h op ,— that to which the Bishop thought proper toimself to submit to any insjune, but examinetion burthen of chewing Dr. l'ovales unfitness lay ea r I ;hose who denied it ; and that the applicant came It. that his Lordship had not thought prowl- to isistionel fore the Court with every claim to rhea favour, bas such examination, or to specify the mesons of his rein-lin point of character (which he rejoiced in this u m . sal to licence the applicant, otherwise than by a ge i amity of setting rielit with the public) azi in post neral declaration of his unfitness ; and h ad refuse.' to ;of the justice he cl-tinned. i convene his accusers before his Lordship, so that the , The Cour: deferred its judgrrtens on 2evir.tof :le I applicant might have an opportunity of meeting them. ' lateness of the beer ( fi ve t. clock). $ A. letter was recited, dated the 9th April, 1810, from --- I the Bishop to the Churchwardens, stating, that Dr. Povah was only in Deacon's orders, and dolt it si as customary to elect tiie Rector (Mr. Shspherd) if there should be no valid objection against him ; and also a letter from his Lordship, dated the 21st of the same month, and addressed to Dr. Povah, telling him, that it was in a sermon preached a Month before that, which he had justifies!, that the doctrines against In fant Baptism were imputed to him. It also appeared, that Dr. ?oval) had written a letter to the Bishop cf Sodor and Man, in which he accused the Bishop of London of refusing his licence, only because his rela tion, by marriage, Mr. Shepherd, was not elected. This Dr. I'ov.tli now attributed to common report, and could not tell from whom he heard it. In the Easter Term, 1811, the Court refused a mandamus to the Bishop alone, unless it could be shewn that the like application had also been made to the Archbishop, and rejected by him ; the Act of Uniformity enacting, that no person should be al lowed to preach as a lecturer in any church, &c. 166 unless he be first approved, and thereunto licenced by the Archbishop of the Province, or the Bishop of I the Diocese," (13 East. 419.) , Mr. ATTORNLY-GCNERAL, Mr. DAMPIER, and MS. Atmore, now shewed cause against the rule nisi, which had, after much deliberation, been granted against both the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of Land in. The mandamus would command i them to do what they had alre a dy d one ; f or t h e • Bishop stated, in an answer to the rule, that the ap plicant had been repeatedly admitted before him, with a view to being licenced ; that his Lordship had made diligent enquiry into the applicant's conduct, and being in his conscience convinced that lie was an improper person to be so licenced to the lecturership fo width he applied, had thought it right to reject him. And the Attorney-General submitted that the Bishop bad a right to abide by his own judgment, formed as it was upon fair and solid grounds. The Archbishop (for the present rule was addresed both to one and the other,) stated his respect for every rule of this Court, and his anxiety to perform what the I.lw required of him ; but his Grace held it his duty to re ' fer the Court to the Act of Uniformity, and to what had been the invariable practice under it, and to lay before the Court his impression of the line which he ought to pursue, leaving it to their wisdom to direct him. The repertories and muniments at Lanibeth palace had been seerched, and there was no instance in which a licence had been applied for to the Arch. bishop under the circumstances of the present case; and the Attorney-General submitted, (and his Grace submitted through him,) that it never could have been the intention of the Legislature to grant an ap peal from the judgment of an Archbishop to t h at c f a Bishop ; as would be the consequence of the preva lence of that construction for which the applicant contended. The Act represented the licence as ne cessary from either the Archbishop or the Bishop ; and there was nothing to prevent an applicant, if lie had made an application to the Archbishop in the first instance, from appealing to the Bishop in the second, provided this doctrine of appeal e ere to be allowed, which would be an anomaly in law. The Attorney-General contended, that an applicant had only an election, whether to apply to the Archbishop or to the Bishop, and having made that election in favour of the Bishop, he could not appeal to the Archbishop ; just as if he had elected the Archbishop, he most certainly could not appeal to the Bishop. The applicant produced the affidavits of twenty seven persons who pretended to swear to the words of a sermon, preached by Dr. Povah, more than two years ago; and one of these persons made oath, that such was the effect of the sermon upon him, that he immediately had a child baptized, in whose case that ceremony had been delayed ; but this person waited till another child was born before he had this done ; and before that event, too, a rule had been obtained TUE LATE Mennens.—The result rf tilt rem private esaminAtions of Alblas and Hatt, a; toi. street, has er:u`:):ttea them it ,tu Any participatiAs the hatt id murders of MAr and Wilh.tmson's and both are now dicharged from cor.finrmcut. Mrs. Vermillov, it now cicarly appeArs. vat de first r erson who gave information to Hewitt ad Hope, the officers, of her suspicious again.' 'Lc*. duct of Williams. The htigicrates at Mad:cell have compnesel willt tl,e creditors of Mr. Venni uid effected lei release Jim prison. The officers at Shad well are not to be memo% the rewards offered by Goverment will be met, tamed according to the merits of the officers us de establishment. Last night Adkins and Pearks arrived in tnvs with Gas , /ler, the Clerk in the Navy Office, from Nee. castle. Yesterday morning four men hr)ke out of House of Correction in Cold Bath-frelds • their nal are as follow :—J. Cole, G. Doran. and T. Tucker (the sham parson). They lurid pr:son•dresses on. _ _ _ An erensive system of snindling has been on in Leeds, by three female advenit rers—a and her two clashing daughters, residing is Pi square. After cheating the tradesmen of the u and neighbourhood of proper.y to a consider' amount, they decamped on Sunday last. Sunday n;ght, Mr. Philpot's shop, in Tama Holborn, was attacked by a gang of robbers. 'II noise awoke Mr. Philpct, he g )t up, looked out of I)2d-rooni window and sprung a rattle, whieb ala el the villains, and he saw three men run away fr his shop. On examining the shutters, it senrit tuned that they had in vain tried Clem in l'.: '1) ey had forced au opening blow, but shich r only to I..ad to the place where the shuttas ate and not to the shop. Osterlev Park, the seat of the E trl of Pesti. been lately much infested wits poachers ; and 0 Wednesday night G. Wood, 8 -Arne-keeper to the EA with three assistants, went out to endeavour to Istan some of them. In a short time they heard a which they conceived to proceed from as a:r 'Platy immediately proceeded t 'wards die spot, they heard a similar report, four times repast:4 o d shortly were assailed by a large dog, which, how& they disregarded, and pre,entle came up with asok who presented his gun in a menacrag attitude P b' se:ing his opponents were cot intimidated, brow , and bading Wood close in Lis pat suit, he threw* gun into a hedge, and surrendered ; at that one of his companions, minted G •o2leilow, from a cover, and by repeated boas with all 461 strument, knocked Wood down, which esablatik p: ironer to escape. At this juacture, two at W assistants came up and secured Goodfellow. It is a pleasing circumstance to relate. tbst • medy is oti.bred which completely removes dist pleasant sensation, (itching of the now mg which for ages has been severely felt bob by it and adults. A suiking instance of this ' Bll 7 ver.fied in a respectable Lady of rank, who " I , above affliction, was necessitated to decline 111 pony, till by Dr. GARDNIneti Worm Medical, was completely restored. This comp' lint arisow: small worms called Ascarides, which breed de." mouth. The Medicine to he had at 74, 1- 4 4 and 3, Sitor.:ditch. Dr. Gardner attends fog a week in town, for the benefit of poor. Sa l o'clock. Packets Vs. 9d. M. 6d. .10 1 . worth for a guinea. I - HIGH WATER A f LONDON BRIDGIXO - MO I%l"rning... ....... ................. •S ows 7Z.4' A 'Lin noon LONDON s • Prbtord by Urn liews. Published Ow+, sad at Ow • 41 4 ; a r 4 , r 1 N II to kr it Os Ms as a the ell POI CO IL I is is M Tr tat eV the thy Pn , 4 1 kr • aid t