The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-04-19 00:00:00

, lb.- !.<7.4TE OF rrEturioN One micht •urd: expecrtitnt, in a country possc•s inE cigh; archiddsops, neon, than Itlty hishups, and tuure than a littio:resi abbacies, with a jurisdiction aintost epi,copal—"in n hich," to use the language of u Spanish writer, " there are more churches than houses, more altars than hearths, more prie4ts tSan pea .ants:"—in which every dwelling has its saint, and every individual I^4 scapulary,--one might expect to see some benefits, finite blesiiags resulting from this gigantic ma. .4 of ecclesiastical influence. Let us, then, look upon a picture drawn by the hand of an a:•knowledged master. . _ " Our universities are the faithful depositaries of the prejudices of the middle age ; our teachers, doc tor.; of the truth centnry. Beardless noviciates in struct us in the sublime mysteries of our faith ; men . tiic•awt friars, in the profound secrets of philosophy ; while barbarous monks explain the nce distinctions of nietaplryaics. " Who goes into unr streets pithout meeting mfrs. dias, processions, or rosaries,—without hearing the shrill voice of ennuelts, the braying of sacristans, the cunfund sound of sacred music. entertaining and in structing the devout with composition% so exalted, and imagery so romantic, that devotion itself is forced into a smile? In :he corners of our s q uar e s, at th e doora of our houses, the mysterious truths of use re lifion are coiti u •nted on by blind beggars, to the discordant accompaniment of an unmet' guitar. Our walls arc papered with records of ' authentic miracles,' compared to which, the 3letamorphoses of Ovid are natural and credible. •• Anti letter:trier has been the Ivan n:. not of super stition aloae, hut of incredulity and infidelity. The Bible, the argument and evidence of our Christian faith, has be• n shauo.fully ali.oelonetl, or cautiously buried beneath piles of deeretals, formularies, puerile nieditatiuns, and fabulous hiatories. " Monkish influence bas given to the dreams and d:liriunis of foolish women, or crafty men, the autho rity of revealed truth. Our friars have pretended to repair, with their rotten mid barbarous scaffolding . , the eternal edifice of the Gavel. •they have twisted and torturod the moral law into a thousand monstrous forms, to snit their passions and their interests. Now they describe the path to heaven as plain and easy ; now it is difficult; to-morrow they will call it im passable. 'I hey have dared to obscure with their artful commentaries the beautiful simplicity of the word of Oaf. 'They have daeltened the plaint* truths of revelation, and tin the hallowed charter of Christian Liberty they have even erected the altar of Civil Despotism! In the fictions and falsehoods they have invented to deceive their followers, in their pretended visions and spurious miracles, they have even ventured to compromise the terrible liajeaty of Heaven. They show us our Saviour lighting one nun to put rakes into an oven; throwing oranges at another from the sarrttrio taetiag dith•rent dishes in the eunvent kitchens, and tortnentihz friars with childish and ri di:Arians playfulness. They represent a monk gather ing together tne fragments of a broken bottle, and depositing in it the spilt wine, to console ■ child who had let it fall at ►he door Of the wine-shop I another, rejteatiug the miracle of Cana to satiety the brother hood, and the third rest.irini; a still-b trig chicken to life, that some humor of t; e cunvent might nut be disappointed. "They represent to us a man preserving his spec ch many years after death, in order to confess his silts; another, throwing himself from a high balcony with out danger, that he might go to mass; a dreadful Gre instantly extinguished by a scapulatory of Esta- Lanka. They show us the Virgin feeding a monk tram her own bosom; angel% habited like friars, chanting the matins of the ronvent, because the friar, were asleep. They paint the meekest and holiest of men torturing and murdering the best and the wisest, professing a different religions creed. " We have indeed much ecq..irioa, but no Christian charity. We hurry with our pecuniary offerings to adva•rre any pious work, but we do not scruple to de fraud our fellow-men. We c •nfess every month, but .air vices last us our lives. 11e insist (almost exclu- sivcly) on the name of Christians, u bile our run duct is worse than that of intiflels. In cne conclnding word, we fear the dark dungeon of the Inquisition, but not the awful—the tremendous tribunal of trod"' This is the representation of a SpaniarJ. Though the colouring is high, it is a copy from nature, and the shades might have been heightened, had he wit nessed the conduct of numbers of the monastic orders during the late convulsions of Spain. There are, in deed, few examples of such infamous want of prin ciple as was exhibited by many of them on the King's rAurn. Those who hail gone about preaching the rights of man, proclaimieg the wisdron and exalting eie blessings of the new Constitution, exhorting their hearers, often with a veheMentelittle becoming their situation, to live and die for its preservation, and hurling their bitterest anathemas against those who dared to question the wisdom of a single artiest•,-- when the King refused to sign that Constitution, be- Caine the eulogists of every act of tyranny, the perse. sastora of the libcrals, and the chosen friends of Fer dinand. They have hail their reward ; and though a few of them have occupied the vacant sees, and have been caressed and recompensed with no sparing hand, the linger of hatred and of scorn points them out to the exe cration of betrayed and suffering millions, while their names will go down to posterity, accompanied with reproaches, nurses, and iufamy. If those he forgiven who have gone on in one cun'i•tent career of servi tude and degradation, who Nave betrayed no cause of liberty—•for they arc by habit and by election slaves who haw sacrificed no manly prin'lples, for manly principles they had none,—•still uo charity can wash away the stains of those traitors to freedom, to hu manity, to Spain, who so atrociously deserted the ban ners of their country's welfare, to range themselves around the standards of a profligate and unexampled tyranny. The most notorious of those, however, who co-ope rated to establish that fatal and ferocious despotism which degraded and oppressed Spain, have already become its victims. In their sorrow and suffering, assts chile, let the unsha',en friends of constitutional liberty, who are scattered over Europe, console them- Lelves with remembering that their personal fate is no THE slArtns\lASi. niore sevrre than that of the }lase tools of a wretched Monarch, who have nothing to accompany their wan &tines but sadness, shame, ard self-reproach, dark and barren prospects, and desolate remembrances ; while those shall receive, from all around them, the smiles and the praises of the wise and good. They may look back on the " hr...“1"_44 virtue which they have " (:t<t on the waters. — and forward in the t oat de:,t lo:Fe that they " shall find it again after many days ;" but they, who saeritit ed their country to their cold-hearted and selfish avarice, have wholly erred in their calculations. Their country is fallen indeed ; but they, too, have been buried in its ruins. Fer dinand, who has just as much of gratitude as of any other virtue, has already trampled on the iiii•erable tools of his early tyranny. It were well it th,i.e, who "put their trust in Princes," would study the many impressive lemon! which the reign of the Spanish ty rant Words. It is consulitary to turn from the profligacy and vice so often prominent amidst extraordinary political revolutions, to the spirit of truth and liberty which they always elicit; and Spain has had a most tri umphant list of patriots. Their mantis must not be recorded: for, to receive the tribute of affection and Brntistole from any hater Of a tyrant, would be suffi cient to subject them to his merciless ferocity. flow wretched that country, where no lured of applause may follow the track of talent or of virtue—where knowledge and the love of freedom ore punned mill persecuted as if they were curses and crimes! Other. wise, with what delight should I speak of some, who, buried in the obscurity of the cloister. or retiring into, solitude from the noit , v eriti-ti, sigh in secret and 'd iemee over the wretched f.ve of the land of their birth, their admirable powers of body and mind fettered and froren by the hand of despotism! All around them is slavery and ignorance: to them remain alone the joy of holding, converse with the wise and the good o f departed time, and the ecstatic lope that their coun try will one day burst from its death-like slonthers, and spring forth Iwo " liberty, and life, anti light." And let those illustrious exit..., the martyrs of 'truth and freedom, who have been driven by an na va:ern! anti cruel tyrant front their homes anti their country, and doomed " to wan 'er through this miser able world," take heart ; fur a brighter and better day is about ttt dawn upon Spain. THE ItENULUTION IN SPAIN. --ow The f. , 110.t iit g remarlut upon the Itoroiution in Spain are (ruin the Abhe de limit, Ex-Archbishop de The revolution in Spain has given birth to a thousand reports and conjectures, one still inure absurd than another. It will be the cause of tiit•se 11l i l tating many more ; they were to have been expected. This revolution thwarts so many wilAtes ; overthrows so mane projects, and destroys su many hopes : We • should not envy the vanquished their last consoNtions. Every thing iu that country has Iteppened according to the very nature of the circumstances. A general more ' went has subverted the exhausted rover .ent. A gene r4l.lnovement consolidates the regenerated government. Spain wis:ted to deliver herself from an evil, and to esettre posoostos of Ira Ow thy Wait bileit -41)1. tained ; there no longer rentainitwettqor any other nt. , sement. The king has embraces the new order. The ministry, the junta, the while body of authority, move in the name direction with order. %1 ho then couid hate the means of disturbing it. since it is hum,- over supported by the nation ? rittiroga ansf ' corp trq , ;.se have had no power but by their sympa thy with the spirit of the nation. Ti.-day, if they world separate from it, they would hew what : hey hare. his explains what has happened to , nel. 1 his essiveral character has, for at least forty right hours, punted the observations of the drawing- I rooms of Paris, ordinarily so penetrating. Spain, forsooth, ought to have beets complaisant enough to the brothers O'Donnel to hays entered into a civil war on their account : At present it is to the club of Madrid that we must go, in t.rder to disco ver this important iwrsonage. He hail become as gentle as the lambs which he was embstilng in the month of July. On his side Mina wits to.„ltave devour. ed every thing--woe to Ferdinand if he laid fallen into his hands. And behold this warn r, kuhoared with the confidence of his King, invested with a splendid title, returns his favour by mainta' • g the nen• order in the extent of his command, by justifying his oat.- reign, and by pointing out to Spada the author: , of past evils. At the voice of our modern Cadnittses, who appeared to take their torn merit:slur their tidied d von's teeth, innumerable armies formed upon :oil the points of Spain, yet on the appearance ofs single order of Government, all this array has vaniehed, the dew disappears before the first ray of the Sun— thus vanished It the same time fears and hopea.• There is but one misfortune which history will place to the account of an act too unhappily fawns, askilLwhick . will be called the Sabot Berthotunstr of Cudir: have many thinirs to get pardoned for by'the nation) since I 11. They wou4l hose much in character by mixing themselves with any political movement which is beyond their duties and attributes. They would rnn the risk of making their condition worse, and of coripomaising the great intere4 with which they are charged---religion ; which has nothing to du in these debates. " Some papers have announce/1, in a pompous man ner. that MM.----- hare declared that they could not not accept. the employment conferred on them by a Prince, whom they declare to be roust:aided. This truly is very unfortunate, nevertheless it will not hinder Spain from advancing. " With regard to the occupation of Cadiz by the English, the romancers, the parents of these inge nious fictions, shuald have commenced by pointing unt the ships and tro ips put in motion by England, and tell tts since what time Spaniards had contracted the habit of apt eating to strangers, and delive.ing up to them their places of strength. The sight of a single foreigner would unite all Spain. If any one wished to do harm to King Ferdinand, he would only have t.) mix up foreigners with the affairs of Spin." LAW INTELLIGENCE. —so.— COURT OF CHANCERY, TVESDAY, Aram 18. IN TIM NATTER Of BIRD, A LUNATIC. This, It may he rscolerted, was a question as to provisi of the expenses of a suit in the Eccle siastical Court, to determine the validity or nulFty of the marriage of the lunatic. An application had been made by the mother I,f rile lunatic to have those expenses paid out of the lunatic's estate, and this brought be fore the Court the stihject of the marriage itself, which, • from the report of the Master, appeared not to he to the disadvantage of the lunatic. The Lord Chancellor desired the case to stand over, and in the mean time to have it ascertained, whether the mother h er. If w.. 11141 pay the expenses of an inquiry into the facts of the marriage, which would be preliminary to it suit hi the Ecclesiastical Court, aad without winch his Lordship would mil nu 4rder. Mr. COLLINSUN app.•ared f.is ►la An. the mother, and stated, that she peas ready to pay the expenses of the inquiry, ani to obey any further order which the, Court would think pr iper to wake. .1t the same time she wished that the Coi!rt should be made aegnaint►sl with the peculiar circumstances in which she was si tuated ; these she stated in her and, as they were of a delicate nature, the Learned Counsel thought it unnecessary to expose the r.irairs of the family, hut he handed up the am:avit to his Lordship fur his i drat, perusal. Mr. WICTIIEHELL 110pril ticit the Court wale.' not see am ;mounds for di-turbiliz the marriage. Th•• luau Cit ‘NCI:I,I.Oit said, that the order which he h:►d made, (lid not, in a• , v degree, prejudge the question of the nom-rine. Ile, ind:.ed, prevented him-, self Irvin entering into that question at ull, until he should klegr, whether the mother wits pre:latk►l to pat• the expenses fif the previutt, inquiry ; and as this was now Assented to on her part, he would read the affida vit, and decide what was further to be done ta-morrow. • Gourds: r. criattox. In this cause, wbieh is between two hrbthers, and which has been in Conrr for several years, Mr. tiordon (the defendant and a barrister), sul 'mil a motion to the Court to have a certain affidavit filed, which had been made use of by 3lr. Heald, which was ani9ng the papers in the hands of his Lordship. Mr. 117. Ln denied that any such affidavit was airing the papers in the possession of the Court. .Mr. tiorilon said hr had 5.4 u it among them, and if it was not among them still, it must have been surrep titionsly_withdrawn. The LIORD NrELLoa warmly observed, that !inch a thing was impossible. Ile would Wok over the paiwrs, and if such au affidavit were among thew, he would order it to be filed. DrrEar.vx o.lloL3l,tvn LL'DIKT. The plaintiff is 'Oda case Is General Devereux, Atm expeditions to South America have acquired for hi. much notoriety. This was a motion fur a writ of Nr carat against the defendants, to whom the plaintiff in Septets*lser, 181t4, consigned prowls to the amount of „WO/. prime cost, and destined for the Russian market, where they were likely to realize a considerable profit. The defendants were at present in this country, and were now preparing to leave it. The plaintiff received from them 2,49 W., but his davit 441 not state that they had artual!y sold the tuills consigned to th,in, and the precise amount of the equitable debt was nut inserted in any part of the affidavit. The LORD CHANCRLLOR would not therefore mark the writ, but he observed, that the plaintiff might hold the defendants to bail at law. General Devereux wapioCoutt. • 4;-- .• .; testable act, and calculated to) pnt men on tht•il Against a Imrb.trisiti equally atrocious and altsuesfupon the part of military chiefs, who drill soldiers to as sassinate their fellow-citizens, and who fin , ' nothing more seitif, more pleasant, than to :Awl by anibtsioade an entire population. Short-sight-d ruffians ! who, in perpetrating crime, forget that there is a to-sidur, vie • which belongs to justice. " At present we may be tranquil with regard to the revolution of Spain. It will be solid au.' talni.- 1 , The elements of the troubles which have drawn down so many storms upon the French Revolution, do not exist for that of Spain. Every thing between the revolution of the two countries is different* the King. the Court, the Government, the AnthuritieS in Spain, are Cos/Armlets. In France, they were dissi dent by half ; hen:e came the combats and the cits stroOes. The revolution of Spain has already els dered an immense service to the world, by rediNfsg ed a4aterchins, the calling upon foreign %diners to ip t•rpose in the divisions which spring up between princes and nations. Let princes keep their Sahli* to defend their frontiers--this•is their place. " The last hope of Spain reddns npun the Clergy. Heaven grant that the great virfnis of the high Clergy of Spain may have sufficient influidit; &hi the isfeript Clergy, to prevent them him vent fatal ho stigationt, and to keep them coltirnetibilltly to the functions of their Ministry: The t.feeirli Spoils POLICE. 61:11.11111A Cliritno discovery was developed yesterday. before the sitting Magistrate. Mr. Ald.•r wan SynoLvv. Mr. an•: Mrs. Walker, a middle-aged couple, who keep the waggon yard in 6iltspur-street, the sign of the Ureen Dragon, were alarmed between three and tour o'clock yesterday morning by a noise in the yard, which they conceived to be occasioned by thieves breaking into one of the warehouses; Mr. Walker ac cordingly resolved to get up and ascertain the fact ; his wife too determined to share the danger of the enterprise, and they both sallied forth together, the lady with a candle in hand leading the van. Upon opening the door of a warehouse in which were stowed two pipes of port wine, destined to pro ceed by waggon to the country the same day, they per ceived their hostler, Stephen Vince, stationed close to the casks with a lamp in his hand, which he blew out on hearing the door opened, but seeing his mistress had a light, he said ituinediately, in - a very innocent tone of voice, " Lord bless me, I've put my light out." Mr. Walker then advanced from the rear to reconnoitre the place, and discovered close by the side of his trtutty servant a pail with-nearly two gallons of water in it, and a tin machine !lofting in it, admirably well contrived for withdrawing the wine from. the cask and introducing the water in its place; a gimh let also for making the necessary perforation to intro- duce the tnhe of the machine (which md2-lit h e c4 1,,i a pocket wine lynch), was found near th e spot Although so well prepared for a• t i on, i t turned ow, on stn examination of the casks, that th e h ost l er had n..t commenced his nefarious Nwrations ; under .nett piefous circnuistanees, however, his master liesitat.d not to ilia rfe him with the intention ; this Vince 'h.. nied, but titer some time confessed that there had b een souletlaing wrong going on in the pr em i ses f ur a length of film., hut refused to ray who wer e the guilty p art i es , Worrall, the officer, was sent for, who, after lodging the prisoner in the (*moister, proceeded to search his aparments in Chick-lane, where be found !wrer b w. ties with gin, brandy, roam and wine hs them, the py,.. battle produce of some previous operations of the alore. said lynch. Worrall pressed hint to dibeover all he knew of these sorts of robberies, but he strenon s 4 refused, and declared " he would not s pli t. " 11 'hen brought before the Ma.:,istrate Vince hok:, denied any intention of takiur the wine, and all k n ; . ledge of the pail, the water, or the lynch, &owl, : also that tlir liquor found at 111, 1.) .gin ; :s he ha.! ncstly bought and paid for . Ile ansionted . . _ . being in tip. a•:arehouse at that boor hr yard bell 113 , 1 been rnng, and he waA obliged to and to go by toe warehon‘e to get to the it i o ) ;,., I..:toler then. eirennistlinees the 11[i:inner WM NOW to afford DI;. Walker time to nialis tardier bnisiTi, On the night of the 29th tilt. four armed :ars It. tacked the house of Jarne% Dalton, of I;torkr uftr Daugarvan, roan ty of Waterford, sun of Patrick thison, a respectable faristei. They demon:lett his antis :T.. %tautly, or else they would burn h:s house ; h e ~c , t out a gun and pistol; the); then clean :Met! % one kk . n , and actually se' fire to the thatch. Dalton's wife s r out a posttol note; they then extinefuidied fa- fire,.:e.t told his wife that she was right in vier:az ion cash, as site would hear in the moraist; of their auk. ing elvmplert in the parish of afiery arils they attacked the house of l'a•riek When,. the father of the above Janie Dalton: they demanded his gun, or cl%e they would burn hi% house. His youngest son, who lives in the howr wi'h him , mid theta he would sooner part with Isis life !lite rive ur his gun ; they immediately set fire to the h o ur i t three or four ielarcr, and remained a: out it until spec sew it in tiaims ; every atom of o d ison' s h ew , hi, furniture, and stone ant-houses, were ceased T s , ashes. Five Captains of the Bilibtonnwe rectirwl vestry? of death at the late Galway Assizcs, and ate kft for execution. A Mr. Roelof .rd, c:ta,•ged with being a leafier :Mow.; the bantitti, has put off his trial unlit the next :1s•: ; coil that of a Air. Egan. against whom St siwil.tr uliarge is pending, has bees pedpeneil, at the instance of the Clown, to tie suer time. Ist PoRTANT INVORMATION.—nom calculation be the College of Physicians, no less than 40010 die annually' in Great Britain of Consumption, and that every 29th person were ruptured. These complaints are truly alarm trig to every individual who use tile least exertion. It is also incredible the number that fall victims to a cer tain Disease, by being improperly tr.ated. It was tho.e circumstances • induced Ik. t mina to soled coition Physic Tana and :Surgeons, of at least 30 years experisook to torin a Beard ; an 1, slate the establishing, upwards of 30,000 Patients have been duet', withect confinement—many of them after Hospital" had failed. Messrs. Course and Co. are embodied at Woollsteek• street, Oxford-street; and at Charlotte How% Orrat Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev. Rowland daily, from eight till eigh..—blechanics have advice gratis every evenin, from six till tight; and on Sunday mornings until 2 o dock. • • Ruptures . of 30 years standing, are alsooradically cured without being confined. tit There are private doors to each Image, and private rooms for Females. N. B. Messrs. Coorau and - Co.'s lodate, en tau prevailing Diseases, are polilisheti at on: shilling, I y Mr. llarvey,22, Blackfriars-road. They contain useful information fur young pra‘.!itioncrs. THR PAT MULLITII was an 111%/11P110, is Browd st.gpes's lared, Rut pitl,that bewitehin: god, ben4teh'd poor Paddy's Wee; The fair folle w ho listl met, Fail heart as hit.! s 4trei. And tkreateti'4 she would skin Boor Pat as soon as skin anti. However Pat still nen'd his sait,andthoult he could not sleep, A watchful eye resoled Mullifan to keep; At last a fatal rival hr discover'.l, beyond doubt, And as he was a font:man, resoled to call him oat. His rival was a tailor bold--2135 ! he'd but one ey Aid when in any danger, always fond of fighting ;hie: Pat au ore that he would noasairekise torridity's/ eta 'snit, Aid, boding out Ids lodgings, he west isstant in fumed. t Paddy Mullins had a (rived a soldier in the horse. He ben 41 his pistols be woad lead ; --be lent thisu hip of course : Then nailing on the Tailor, sore, ea 111011 es it was light. • • If dead or tiring, Master Stitch, give ap your eait,ur 50." Then waiting for a moment. and hearing an reply. Reside a corner-eupboard. 'faith. a visage caught Haar. And thinking 'twee the Tailor's. Pad,' y le% cirri as 113 WWI, Andirrislehig to crake sure, he *AI higth Out 9111olvindogr lira In shatters—oups and lieu revs all assebeolc, oche lodgers, la eland, beheld Pat Mullins la the Wake And *Hang what be waited- - FaillsibeTeliorisseear ri ! t • • So with a hrwe of ollets t love eat Ms thread of life.' That Pat had rut the Tailor's thread undoubtedly weetrae. The siiielyer of his boots were est,the tors u ere Lamed tag: The boots with Warren's Blacking had been polisti'd like s glass, And Paddy Mullinv,blind with love, had shot at blsnwe bc , • This Easy-Shiniog and Brilliant Blackleg, Prepared by KOBER I WA lilt EN, Eth STRAND, LONDON • And sold le every Tows in the kingdom. Liquid. In bottles. 6d., 104., fl*ti., and lfkl• Paste Blacking, in pots. 64.. Hid., and Hid. eaeli.—A ling put of Pasta lt equal to four shilling bottler of 1. 44 1° 4. ••• Asa Vint WAters's Buie ciao, RIRTII. At the Orttoare:b Parracks, Chethanwou the I to.h tbe lady of Llaut.-Colouel Pasley, of the Royal Raffinaers. ° I daughter. • hillinisey, on the 6th of Febraary last , at the yallaw fever. Thaw Cumlae. Esq., (north soma Alleil bitht Cam Esq., of Anchry, in the county of AN:Tikes. Oe ihs 3d sit.. at Hasannah, after fie days Mews. Olt' Matthew fltoele, of the Matthews, of Workingiatly Cotte r land. ou Friday laht. Lydia, only ffinghter of Mrs. Tart telbe ilangerford Coffeu-boese, Straod. Oa Mooda. at Fetersield, Huts, alter oils ell . ' 'WY ." Mr. James Andrews Minable. 'madam : Printed sad Polettbheel by , the P WAItDELLJaa. at tha Office. WON. * We Mt. Clement's Church : whirr ell Comatose den. sad Advertlaaionia are repalfed to " I .t s I.