The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-10 00:00:00

Zifn No. 43.3.--Voz.. IX. ON CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY. AIR. EDITOR, —AS I observe ant h hes berme a kitoro of your NATIONAL to wow the least oll'enet. , to dry Christian w•ct wliesoerer, on ac count of its religious establishment, I tleigrt to avail my sclf of this mark or your impartiality, in order to draw your attention, anti that of some at least of your numerous Readers, to what I deem a viA principle of Christianity ; without which, whatsoever may he our sanctity of life and manners, or the extent of our alms, we must expect to be counted dead before our Divine Master and Law giver. I mean that liberal charity to all our fellow christians, to whatever sect or prsunsion they may be long, which thinketh no evil, and vaunteth not itself.— aUci oat Alt i icittr+ Our Q_' - on6lttutiort imb lial33d. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1616. verted ! Blessed be Gal, we now have arrived at a p.- riod when the experience of pan ages has improved the Canners of the cross, and taught its vineries that univer sd conciliation and peace are to overeomb the sword ! Our blessed Lord has lett us the 'wage of his divine ex amok ; and thus, if we would be his disciples, and hope to be acknowledged as such by hitn a. the last dread day of account, it is indispensably mteessary, without any reservation or palliative, that our o•,vn cooduct should be conformable to that 'divine precept which he conunanded to be our daily pursuit.—" 13e ye followersofme, us dear children. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy: blersed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the :hildren of God.—WVio is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judg ment :—first be reconciled to thy brother; then come and offer thy gift. Love your enemies.—Judge not, that ye he not judged:—,and, with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." The tenor of his life and doctrine, and the instruction which lie gave to his apostles, have left us no room to doubt of that liberal judgment which we are bound to form of one another—that we should love as brethren, and especially those that are of the household of faith ; that we should esteem ourselves as one tinnily, united by the santo filial love to the same divine parent, instructed by t lie samehol v teacher—redeemed by the same Saviour— and trarellingby the height of his truth to the same ever lasting bliss: it' we should be careless of this love, and " 1411 out by the way," we shall not be fit to come into his sacred presence ; if we should withhold our mutual confidence to each other, we should be very unsocial com panions for our journey, and thr our eternal abode ; if we should thus deny the master we profess to serve, he will probably deny us before the throne of Grace, and reject our final suit! Then shall we begin, when too late, to de spise the shadows of things on which we disputed and quarrelled : and while despair takes hold upon us, we shall call on the mountains to overwhelm us ! (t Cur. The frailty of human judgment, and the imperfection of huie.an morals, will always furnish sufficient warnings to any L•onsiderate mind how little any of us can assume a claim of condemning those who differ from aions of Divine truths ; and it should be remembered, that truth remains intrinsically the same, notwithstanding the many steps we take to discover it, or the mire numerous channels of interpretation by which we are all inclined to take possession of it, anal to in sist on that possession as exclusively our own ! I will soppuse, for a moment, that none of us, in any awe or country, ever took any religious dogma for granted, hut well examined it before we adopted it as part of our Creed ; and that every one deemed it his best in terest anal duty to use this pr,:zious mimination, because his eternal felicity depended upon it ; and I will not dare suggest that any part of our Christie, Brethren could be either so blind or so much misled, as to suppose that they could be• satisfied to be called Chris tians withoht it. Then they will find how flr their eon s iction differs from that of others, equally well disposed 34 themselves, equally inclined to promote their prospe- We have received the Barbadoes Mercury of the city, and equally to be relied upon for virtue, veracity, 30th of April, and various letters, which contain accounts and a conscientious discharge of every moral obligation. of a lamentable insurrection which has agitated that If, as soon as they discover any differenee in opinion on island. The plot broke out on Easter Sunday ; hot the - sacred subjects, that should be ground of strife and envy, most prompt measures were taken for its suppression. So the result must be the entire ruin of that pence by which early us two o'clock on the thllowing morning the island society, civil and religious, is held and o n, toga- was placed under martial law. The militia and troops from the garrison instantly marched against the slaves, they : for, as members of the same union, one member cannot say to the other, " I have no need of thee." The who, in lar g .e bodies, were plundering and burning the plantations in the interior. The latter were soon (lis some unjust condemnation which is exercised by the one, is the fair right of the other; and us it is impossible in persed, many killed on the spot, and still greater numbers the commonest Alirs of life that almost any two should tried and executed, in virtue of orders issued by the Pre think exactly alike on the same plan or mzesure, or see to Gen. Sir J. Leith at Guadeloupe, who instantly em the same prospect in directly the same point of view : so barked in a French schooner of war, and reached Kir in the cause of religion the shades and ramifications of badoes on the Oath of April, and on the Vith issued an Bar each man's interpretation of the same truth afford no cause for censure ; but, on the contrary, they rather tend address of exhortation to the disaffected, and of encou isesement to the faithful part of the slave population.— to elicit improvement, and to ratify the leading princi - T plo of our Divine Religion. he result of all these measures was, that on the 30th of April Sir James was enabled to issue another Prods- It is one of the manifestations of the goodness of God , motion declaring the insurrection at an end. No less that, in the essentials of religion, nil are agreed by one than O 0 estates in one parish had sustained an almost impression,—the God and father of all is adored by all entire destruction of houses and cane-fields: and the nations, from the pnlare and the university, to the cottage number of negroes killed and executed has beer calcu and the shed. Life is received as Ids gitt, and death is lated at little short of 1 0 0 0 . A very large proportion the common lot : the modes of adoration and worship, and of the slaves, however, rallied round their masters, and the study of the revealed word , have afforded to many contributed their efforts to reduce their misguided coun the blessings of this confirmation, which arc not yet ex• to men. tended to every part of this sublunary sphere :—but many that are yet ignorant of the truths of the Gospel, are, by We have received Jamaica Papers to the 11th of April. nature, prepared t 4 its instruction in the light of eternal The Slave Trade Registry Bill lately before Parliament life ; they have, as the ancients had before them, a she- attracts great attention in the Wog Indies. The Houses dew of good things to come, which the t Lis pe l brou g ht to of Assembly in the different islands have appointed Com light,ant secured. The present diffusion of the Scrip- minces to report on the tendency of the Bill. The Re tures through every nation the !dope will have the ef- ports arc worded in the strongest manner. That of Do feet of civilizing the eievage, and enlightening the igno- minim protests against the right the British Parliament rant ; and the basis on which those Scriptures are written, assume of legislating internally for the colonies.—They is the general love of ene another. by which all men may contend, no such right ever existed over any colony know that we are the disciples of the s.,nie divine master ; which enjoys an independent Legislature ; that if it ever did exist, it was solemnly renounced by his Majesty , with and although it will necessarily be that there b e some of Cephas, mind some of Paul, yet, it' every one is well per- the consent of Parliament, in the year 1778. The Re sunded in his own mind of the troth which he has cm- ports attribute the agitation of the measure to the wild braced, it is cl that tins very truth will lead him to and enthusiastic sectaries, who are totally unacquainted embrace null as brethren of the great household of faith, with the subject ,on which they would wish to enact and to che-i4h the obligations, by which he will become laws ; and that the assumptions of the Africans Institu instrumental in the bruving on of everlasting righteous- Lion arc vague, coutoulictory, and untrue. ness. If different bodies of Christians were to ind,:hze a Moscow, the sacred city, has risen with so much splen contentioo against each other, and persecution MRS to des- dour from its ruins, that on Palm Sunday, it it computed, grace the church of Christ, to what immeasurable length there were more than 800 equiptu.tes on the promenade. would the party spirit of the world extend, and to what phat a train of important reflections are associated, with dire destruction would the peace of the gospel be con- the conflagration of 4 that 2 city! 1 7 :405,v .d: 1 4 '2 ./ to our.;clve it& in our opir, A LAYMAN. PatcE 91d. IMPERIAL P.IRLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSD4r, JUNE O. The Ertel of DONOLIMMURE gave notice, that he wolfs! os Tuesday present the Catholic petitions. • _ The I:a . rl of Liven POOL moved the second reading of dig Civil List Bill. His Lordship stated the principal le tines o► the measure, and contended, that an the principle of :I I., e d revenue for the Crown had been adopted since the revointion, it ens desirable that the articles of thictitatia4 espe;aliti ee ►hould he separated from it; and (hare conl•I he no objection to bring all the articles of fluctuating expi nilitore annually before Parliament. To obviate certain prejudices respecting the supposed enormous expenres of the royal peisonal este.- blishinent, his Lordship statett., that the total( xpenee was little snore now than it was in 1700. In this arrangt meat no exprnee was proposed which was not for the suppoi : of the proper dig nity of the Crown, and for the advantage of the pantie.. The Marquis of LANsnowN a agreed in the propriety of fixing the revenue of the Civil Lim, and giving the fluidic the benefit of the surplus hereditary revenue of the Crown; but when called on to make an additional sacrifice of 2.54.0001. it became the duty of Parliament to look into the variable reve nue.s of the Crown, such as the droits of Admiralty, which he . thought Should be surrendered to Parliament, in lieu of the present fixed revenue proposed to be granted to the Crown. Lord HOLLAND could not agree to the. Bill, because by it tiler. was still left in the power of the Crown n fluctuating revenue of the most dangerous tendency to this country. His meant the droits of Admiralty, whirl* were a bans. for the Crown to go to war with other countries without the, previous issuing of any declaration of war. He would undertake to prove, that the increase of the Civil List revenue to the Crown had been three times what was contemplated by Parliament at the beginning of this reign. The Earl of LIVERNIOL said, it was a fact which perhaps would excite surprise, that the expences for defraying tine civil government of the United States was nearly equal to our own Civil List expenditure. Of course, in this estimate was in. chided the charge of the provincial as well as the general go vernment.. The sum was stated at about 100,0001. or 800,0001. annually.—The Bill was then read a second time.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, JUNE 7. Sir William Abtly's Divorce Bill went through a Committee, with an allowance to Lally Abily of 4001. a year for life. The Earl of Lat.: Drana re moved that the clause prohibiting the intermarriage of the parties should he omitted. Lord Kenyon opposed the motion, on the ground that it would encourage adultery and inimorality. The Skimp of Cu EsTUR opposed the omission of the clause on the same ground as Lord Kenyon. The Earl of CARNARVON supported the motion. Such a de cree as making the adulterer marry the adult ress, would have, in the licentious Court of Louis XV. put an end to all gallantry; whereas a decree to prevent the offending parties from inter marrying, would, in that Court, have been treated with derision. The Lord CHANCILLOkt supported the introduction of this clause, because he believed that the great temptation was, the hoe of the woman that she should be married to the adulterer. Lord KEVYOt4 said, that on the third reading he should move the introduction of the clause for prohibiting the unending par ties from int.rmarrying. The Bill was then reported, and ordered to be taken into eousidelation on Monday.—Adjourned. 41 . 0 t. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURqD tv, Juse 6. Mr. CaLCIIAFT presented a petition from the electors of Rochester, respecting the acceptance of the place of Treasurer of Greenwich, Hospital by one of their representatives, Sir T. R. Thompson. They considered it as an office of profit tinder the crown, which rendered their Member's seat void ; and they prayed for a new writ for that city. Mr. Calcraft said, he wished on Wednesday to bring the subject to the question of aye or no, and for that purpose on Wednesday he would move for a new writ fur Itiwheiter, iu coasequence of the acceptance of the office now held by Sir T. B. Thompson. The petition was laid on the table. Gen. Gascovsis asked whether the Chancellor of the F.x. chequ•r had determined on what relief was to be afforded t• Innkeepers respecting the Malt Duty allowance? The CnAsicahtairt of the ExeitaQuErt replied, that the business was uuw under the consideration of the Board of Eacisc. Sir 11. P trUsIELL brought forward a variety of resolutions for the purpose of inducing the House to grant some minor concessions to the Catholics, by admitting them to the subor dinate othees in the State, the Army and Navy, and in respect to the mode of voting at election•, etc. IN the first resolution, for permitting the undisturbed exercise of their religion in their places of public worship, Lord cA,TI EREAGII objected to the mknner in which the subject was Ii: ought forward at this late period of the Session, and under ciretunstances so very inimical to the cause of the Catholic Petitioners, there not being any of the friends of the Petitioners in the House, wild the exceptiiin of the Hon. Baronet, and one or two other Members. He urged hint there thre, to delay the consideration to a more appropu late oPPor• tunitv.--With this recommendation, Sir H. Parnell reluctantly complied. Mr. W. Smelln gave notice, that he should move for Seine farther papers respecting Extents in Aid.—Adjourned at Eleven o'clock. FRIPAY, %E 7. A new writ was ordered for Gatton, its the room of Sir Cougreve, who hal aerepted theChiltern Hundreds. Ou the second reading of the Silver Console! Bill. Lord A. lismtt.Tos thought, that,esery person holding old coin should be entitled to receive the new coin for it at their own doors, and without loss. As the Bill now stood, the public would be consider..liie losers. Mr. ROOK was ready to confess that considerable loss would kJ es atlas. sem/was ill ablt to the low; but was 0//7 i ts /,4- /•' • :~;~ ~ < ~: 1 ~~ `; `. e'r? GA-%