The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

,kAAAJT, . , • • _ ( - t •,_ • - / •I - LOND ON, tRIDAY, JUL Y 4, 1823. " The Caws for which HAMPDEN fell in tie Field, and SYDNEY died on Me Scaffold !" NUMBRK 5720 PRICE SEVEN PENCR. REDUCED FARES AN') UNEQUALLED 'MS, VELLING To I)3IMR, Di , ' L, RAM. 0.1 7 ,:, MANG Vlit AND CANTARDWIT, Four Inside Coaches. lind bee,' rood time, by R. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. - 13 URS N't to a Decree of the KWh Court of 1 Chancery, made in cause " Butlin acenst Stather." the Creditors and Legatees of JANE BUMP,' heretofore of Turville Park, in the County of Buckingham, and afterwards of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, Spinster. deceased (who /fled in the month of April, IN %) are by their Solicitors forthwith to comp io and prove their .Debts, and claim their Legacies, before John Edmond Dowdeewell, Esquire, one of the Masters of the add Court, at his 01fice,in Southaiupton-buildings, Chancery-lane, Lon don, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. EYRE and COVERDALE, Oray's Inn. FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. tie than to single out lb. Intemperate publications of modt ra unbelievers for legal reprobation, and thus by implicatio n to give a heense to the grave ressoaings of those that pre ceded them in the course of open hostility to the Chris tian rel givr, which reasonings are much more Rielly to n ake a dangerous impression upon the minds of their readers. But, independently cf considerations cf tr pediency and policy, your petitioners cannot forbear record ing their humble protest agalost theprinciples implied In the prosecutions alluded to„snat a religion proceeding from Infi nite Wisdom and protected by Almighty Pewee, depenes upon human patronage fer he perpetuity and influence. Wherefore they pray your [Right] Honourable House, to take into consideration the prosecutions carrying on aid the punishments already inflicted upon unbelievers, is order to exonerate Christianity from the opprobrium and scandal so unjustly cast upon it of being a system that countenances in tolerance and ptrsecution. And your retltioners will ever pray, de. SARACEN'S HEAD INN. SKINNER-STREET, Petition presented Monday, 30:h of June,.by Mr. }fume, signed by 2,047 persons, of whore J 3 are Ministers. To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parlament assembled. To tits Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled ; the humble Petition of the undersigned Ministers and ' Members of Christiun Congregations. fitheweth,—That your Petitioners are sincere believers in the Christian Revelation from personal conviction on exit minable of the Evidences on its behalf • and are thankful to ALMIGIITT GOD fur the unspeakable bl essing of the Gos pel, which they regard as the most sacred sanction, the best safeguard, and the most powerful motive of morality, as the firmest support and most effectual relief amidst the afflictions and troubles of this state of humanity, and as the surest foundation of the hope of a life to come, which hope they consider to he in the highest degree conducive to the dignity, purity, and happiness of society. That with these views and feelings, your petitioners beg leave to state to your [Right] Honourable House, that they beboll with sorrow and shame the prosecutions against persona who hate printed or published hooks which are, or are presumed to be, hostile to the Christian religion, from the full persuasion that such prosecutions are inconsistent with, and contrary to, both the spirit arid the letter of the' Gospel, and, moreover, that they are more favourable to the spreading of incdelity, which they are intended io check, than to the support of the Christian Faith, which they are professedly undertaken to uphold. 3d July, 1923. ALBION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Ni* BRIDGC•STRICT, BLACMIARS. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. , CAPITAL = O74II MILLIOS. INSURANCES falling due at MIDSUMMER will .expire, unless renewed within fitteen day* from that period. The Company's Rates and Cenditkum are of the most rea sonoblie description :—ao Charge is 111•4111 for Fire Policies when the Premium exceeds Ils.: 1 —ao Admission Fine is chargedon Life Insurenee:—a Ilherel Commission is al lowed to Solicitors, and others, who effect Life Insurances : —and every facility is afforded by which the Interest end Convenience of the Public may be peornoted. WARNER PIIIPPS, Secretary. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. , -...m....,-. VOLTSE OF LOIXDS-4 . IIIIRSDAT. frefittlYttiohliTtip frdsi the House of Commas theßomanlatholiciluali'ieatioo Bill. There were also brooght op from the Gammons the Pa'sago Vessels' Regulation Bill, and the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill. Mr. Croft presented certain Accounts from the Cons miss'oners of the Holyhead Road•. Mr. Dighton, frau the Royal Military Canal, present ed annul accounts. COU NTY FIRE OFFICE, ♦ND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, ExoExT-STREET, LONDON 4 Es tablished le 1906. PRESIDENT AND TROiItEIS. The DUKE of NORFOLK, The DUKE hf RUTLAND. The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY. LORD RR AY BROOK E. LORD KING, Sic. &c. &e. DINICTORA. Sir Henry Pynn, James Sedgorlek, Esq. Hon. Washington Shipley, Walter Strickland. Esq. Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. Sir Robert Wilson, M.P. are. &e. it.c. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the East India Company, praying for an equalization of the Duties onsugar.—His Lordship also presented a petition from Carnarvon in favour of the Holyhead Road Bill. The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Lar. cenies Bill, when an amendment, the nature of which we were unable to hear, was proposed by the Earl of LIVER POOL, and agreed te. On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the Reso lutions respecting the Appellant Jurisdiction, were or. dered to be printed, and taken into consideration on Mon d.), next. Cori ELLENBOROUBH said he was hostile to that resolution which went to compel the attendance of Peers. l'he Earl of DARLINGTON was of opinion that there Should be a compulsory order for the attendance of four Preis on the hearing of all Appeals, in order that the at tendance of three, as a quorum, might at all times be in sured. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said it was originally in. tended to adopt a plan of that kind ; but it was consider ed that each of the (our Peers would consider himself lt, s supernumerary who might be absent; and, by that means, there would be a difficulty even of getting the attendan a three Peers. However, this point might be considered on Monday next.—Adjourned. Your petitioners cannot but consider all Christians bound by their religious professioq to how with reverm.ce and sub mission to the precepts of the Gags? Fol.:soca of our faith, and nothing appears to them plain-r in the Gospel than that it forbids all violent measures fur its propagation, and all vindictive measures for its justification and defence. The Aurnoa and Fistswee of Christianity has declared that his kingdom is not of this world. and, as io his own ex ample he showed a perfect pattern of compassion towards them that are ignorant and out of the way of truth. of for bearance towards objectors, and of forgiveness of wilful enemies,—so in his moral lay ,he has prohibited the spirit that would attempt to root up speculative error wish the arm of flesh, or that would call down fire from Heaven to con sume the unbelieving, and has commanded the exercise of meekness, tenderness sal brotherly love towards all man kind, as the best and only means of promoting his cause upon earth, and the mostaccrptable way of glorify log the GREAT FATHER of Mercies, who is kind even to the un thankful and the evil. Lord Northwick. Francis Const. E.g. Sir John Doyle, Bart. Robert Downie. E.g. M.P. Sir Deo. !Niche% Bart. William Praed, Esq. Mantling Director. J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. F.A.S. throorstrr BENEFITS REALIZED. Capitals—A MILLION STEELING. and upwards. All Insured SIIARE PROFITS EQUALLY. Ettentptioa fro n liability for Losses. RETURNS of 23 and 40 per Cent. paid Invariably; 42,0001. returned in the last One years. BONUSES of 131. tis. and 261. 141. per Cent: paid on Lire Po;icieg. By these reasonable, charitable, and peaceful meats., the Christian religion was no.t only established originally but also supported for the three first centuries of the Christian era, during which it triumphed over the most fierce and po tent opposition, unailled by temporal power: ■nd your pe titioners humbly submit to your [Right] Honourable House, that herein consists one of the brightest etidences of the truth of the Christian religion ; and that they are utterly at a loss to conceive how that which is universally accounted I .'save been the glory of the Gospel in its beginnings, should how cease to be accounted its glory, or how it should at this dsy to less the maxim of Christianity, and legs the rule of the conduct of Christians, than in the days of those that are usually denominated the Fathers of the Church— that it is no part of relLtion to compel religion, which must be received, not by force, but of free choice. AMU EL WOLLASTON, WINE-ME RCH A NT' 17., 129, Recent-street, sew Vitro-lane, begs must parti cularly to call Me attention of the Nobility and Public, to his pres -nt STOCK of WINES, which he has now on Sale. A siagle trial wit' bear hitu out against all cotnpeti lion. Sample Bottles may be had, Per Dttz. Per Doz. . I Old Port Xlc. to Ils. Weit India 31adeira......501. Sherri... ...Us. to 1.4. Uneellas 18s. Tenerife..... • Vidoui e And all other Wlneapropurtionably reasonable. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tim:soar. Mr. BANKES, sen. moved that a Committee he ap pointed to examine into the progress that has been made towards forming a General Index to the Journals, pnr suani t.a a previous Resolution, and to report th.reup an to the Manse. Mr. HUME moved as an amendment, that it be an in struction to the Committee, whether any improvement may be made in the method cow in pramtire of engross ing to facilitate the business of the House. Mr. 13ANERS thought it inexpedient , to couple the amendment with the present motion. Mr. WYNN sail, that the charaiter now employed in engrossing Bills, would be mach more legjble yOll years hence than the common Italian hand. Mr. RICARDO did not think that the time would ever arrive when the Italian hand now in use would he illeggible Mr. HUME then withdrew the amendment, and the original motion was agreed to. Mr. MAQUEEN presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Dunstable, against the importati in of straw plat. Also a few words from Mr. Alderman C. SMITH and Mr. RICARDO, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Another petition to the same effect was presented front the parish of Luton.—Laid on time table. Mr. HUME moved for Returns of the last contract.) entered into with the Nary Board, fur supplying seamen's clothing, commonly tailed slopmlothing.—Ordered. Mr. DOULBUILN, after a tew words, obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the division of the county of Cork, sa as to allow live Quarter Sessions in the year instead of four. _ _ _ ; , Mr. BROUGHAM moved for leave to bring in a Bill for repealing the 21st tleo. 11., the circumstances under whim' that Act was passed no longer existing.— Motion ;screed to. Dr. PIiILLIMORE moved fur leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to the marriage of English Catholics. The object be promed was, that after the ceremony had been performed by the Catholic Priest, thn certificate of the marriage should be given by him to the Clergyman of the parish, who should have it entered in the parish register.—Leave granted. Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL presented a petition front Leighton Buzzard, praying fur additional duty on im ported straw plat.—Laid on the table. .1 INOW-HILL, LONDO?4. T HE following'LltiHT POST COACHES, Mails, &r. set not from the above Inn : The Telegraph," Dover. Deal, Ranarjate, Margate, 'Broad Stairs, Canterbury, Feieraidam, and Sandwich sew Post Coach, -every -noonday st a quarter past 7 —ln consequence of the decided nrcferenee given to the above ( oath, the Proprietors are etbsonined no erpense shall be spared to render it the first conveyance on the Aent Road. Brompton, Chatham, Rochester. Gravesend, Stroud, Sittiwybounte. &asthma 4 Ospringe, Morning, quarter pad 7, A T RSDUCID PALS. The •• fed. Eclipse." Paws* Plymouth. Exeter, _Truro, Borimen. Pettily's. Ashbmrtom, Totnese, Weymouth. _Dorchester, Dartmouth and Salisbury. emery' morning at. 7. through Hittites - . *.eismiosier. Bridport. Binnotfar& litockhaidge.Slttass. Basingstoke Hartjer4,loridge, Blstet-1 safe Bagskot. ' The only Day' Coach to Weymotith. (driven Armagh with Oro coachmen only.) through Bayshot, Blockreater, . Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, WoOdyates, .Cashmore,Satitehury, Blasstford a t Dorchester, at a VW'. ter past 5 o'clock in the morning, at reduced Parer. The •• Union," Southampton. LYmtrigten; 14nd/wrest Winchester. Basingstoke. Hartford-bridge: Blackwater. and Beigshot new jour inside Coach, every morning past 7 ; arrives at the Conch and Horses, Southampton. by Fire. This is amost delightful emtreyance to the isle of Wight. Jersey. Gvermsey. Matoes, Havre de Grace, C'kerisurg, ke.—The Proprietors of the above Coach hope to receive a coadinuaare of that sapport vita has hitherto been experienced since the connmencentext of the " Union." The •• Champion," a new Light Day 'Coach to Dorches ter in 13 hours only, throuok P.agshot, titachwater. Ba singstoke. Overton, Whitehurch, Andover. Salisbury, Woodyeats, enamor, and Woodford, at a g past o'clock in the morning.—The Proprietors of the above ('ouch are determined no equate shall be spared to render it the first conreyanee on the Western Road: Bath and Bristol' Post Coaches. through Chippenhans, Caine, Marlborough. Newbury and Reading, every After. noon at One.; arrive at the Greyhound inn. Bath, the London Tavern. Thomas Street, and Swan, Bristol,early the next morning. Couches to ll'e!ts, Bridgewater, Timken, and Plymouth, at reduced Fares. The •• Umpire," a new Liverpool light Coach, only One Night on the Road. carrying Fr* .• I:Wide. sets out Daily at One; arrives at Circa-pool next Afternoon at 3. Hero' Wu/Jaen, Lathintryt Northampton, We/ford, Lulterworti, Ilinekley, Atiterstoite, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, Knott ,ford, Wet rrittyton and Present. Shrewsbury, Wcilieyfon and Skiff:tat Light Post Coach, . every ,Vlcrieoon. Gear-are!. The •• Union." Weymouth, thro' Doreheiter. Bland. ford. Salisbury. Andor.r, Overton. llasioystoke. Hart .lprd-bridge. Black-water and ilagshot„. nets Post Coach, every Afternoon.—At reduced Pares. Packets front Weymorth to Guernsey, Jervey, Cherbourg, St. Jhelum lye. every Wednesday and Salatrday After noon at 2 o'Clork. Barnstaple and Sonthenotton New Light Post Coach. ov...ry Monday; Wednesday, and Friday mornings, at 7' o'Clock. •• Rockingham," Leeds Light Post Coach. sets oft. every .uti moon •at Two ; and passes through lialdockt itigyteslrb-le. Eaton. Buckden, Stilton, Wandjocd. Stam ford. Greet4aan, Granlifunc. Newark, TnAtord, Markham moor. Retford, Bantry, Doncaster, and Ferry-bridge,to the Golden Lion lain, Leeds, next Afternoon, at reduced Fares.—Lregyage and Packages only W. per lb.—Notwith standing the 10001411104 expedition of this Coach. it is allowed to be the most agreeable and complete public eoureyance on the North Road, being unequalled by any other. Harreargate and Ripon New Light Post Coaches every. Afternoon, at 2. /4 1 • S in the Morning. Glasgow, Looyttorn, Gretna-Grven, Annan, Dumfries, Brownhilt, Sanquhar Kiln. Canmock, Kings, well, aid all Paris of Scotland, a Light -1-inside Post-- ("each Dailo. The •• Express," to York, Scarborough, Whitby Shields, Sundeviasul, NI areastle and Edinburgh a New Light Four inside Post-Coach, with es Guard throughout ; sets out every Morniny, by way of Nekark, Retford, Doncaster, Ferry-bridge. 7'adeaster, Durlinyton„Vorthallerton, Durham, Morpelle. and Berwick, and orrice' at Fork the next Morning at 12 o'Clock, at reduced Fares--Passen gers finding thew:ekes fatigued on the journey, may rest what lime they please, and then proceed without any additiowalfilre. Marlborough and Swindon Four Inside Day Coach, thro" ,Ildbmern. Reading, Lambourn, Porton. Lod inyton, Perrsey. Wootton Basset, Rainsbury, Houser f ore!, New bury c 4 ,-I Maidenhead. Brid9enurth, Watsal; Shrewsbury. Salop, and Holy head Near Light Cwseh, every Afterooon, at reduced Fares. The New Royal Patent ,Dail, Boston and Louth, thro' Roysloa, Cambridge. Huntingdon, Stilton, Peterboro', Deeping, Spalding, Spilsby. ii(ford, Grimsby 4^ Hull, Evening, at half-part 7 o'clock, Sunday, at a quarter before 7. 7'he " Expr ss," a New Light Four-Inside Post Coach to Carlisle, Penrilk and Whiteltaren ; goes with Four AI nd a Guard all the way; passes through Appleby, Brough, Bones. Greta-Bridye, Richmond, ('atterick. Bo rooglabridge, Ferry-bridge. Ammeter. Newark, Bewley, Grantham, Stamford. Greet/am, Stilton. Biggleserade and Baldoek. Sets out its the Alarming, and performs the Journey with the greatest Facility. AT REDUCED FAMES. Passengers detained on the road, by business or plea sure, hove the peculiar advantage of their teats being se cured ix the next Coach. THE ONLY DIRECT COAC'II TO CARLISLE.. The New Royal Potent Mail, Cambridge Hero' Ware, linntingford, Bnektand, dc Royston, Evening, al half-past 7 tie oek, Sunday, at a quarter before 7. - Kendal, Lancasteo, Preston. Kirby. Lonsdate, Bolton: Cloorteg. Vrentkirla and Garstang Light Post Coaches, every Afternoon. The •• Royal Express." Near Light Four-inside Post Coach, to Liverpool, in 25 hours only, thro' Warrington, Prescol. Coogiclon, Lawton, Newcastle. Rudgly, Ankh ford, Stone, Stafford and Litchfield. (fey One Night on the Road.) every Afternoon; art-lees at the Saracen's, Head Inn. Dale-street, Liverpool, twat Evening, al 7, AT REDUCED FARES. Wakefield -h-Inside Post Coaches, every Morning and Afternoon, AT eassnuoso PARES. Chester. ,scirport. Whilechnrch. Turporley. Nantpt sick, Northwith and Middlewich Light Post Couch. crery Afternoon. Sunder and. Stockton and Yarn. light Post Coach erery Morning. to the Georye Ins., Sunderland.. AT REPCCED PA ass. . Mountain's " Express." to Manchester. lYinslow, Con eel's, Newcastle, **(dud. Wolverhampton 4- Knutsford. New Four Inside Post Coach. every Afteritooia. One Night on the Road. AT itenveto PA REY. Sheffield and Rotherham new Saar beside Post Coaches every Morming. called The .;:xpress." and also •• 77as Rockingham." every Afternoon. AT SEDUCED FA RES. - s.. At Reduced Fires. to Leeds. York, and Doncaster: X.aggage and Packaged at only two-pence per lb.' H. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. respectfully acquaint their Friends and the Public, that they will not be accountable for any Parcels, Passengers' Lugsmge, IVritings. Mae, &e. of more than Five Pounds value, if lost, stolen, or damaged. Riess entered as suck and the Insurance paid fur accord fagly,mt the Saracen's Head Inn, Skinner-street, c w London. Cape Madeira, very go . od 90s. per dos. Do. surpassing in devour an,l quality, 1144. per doz. 01 tiers sent free of carriage, within ten miles of London, Hampers Is. per dot. Bottles 3s. Same money allowed when returned. Dames et platens usor.--llon. Thy house, and (in the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. 00CRATItS, by his Discolirse on Marriage, so enrap tnred his 'editors with the subject, that the married men flew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened to be wedded ; and The Spectator" has affirmed, that the word " wire" is the most agreeable and delightful name in nature. The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the desideratum of our enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize with bliss hereafter. Previous, however; to entering Into this hallowed obli gation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passicns, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may have eatalled upon it. To the neglect of such attention ere attributable, many of those hapless instances, whic.i while they excite t he commiseration of the beholder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effeminize the body —a residetlee la the tropics will reisx the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently cons promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonited sufferer more than doubts the chance of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering hope—energy—muscular strength—felicity: nor will our ads antes appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience. The ensy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings whic4 concentrate the nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy im proved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as In every relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability fp cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to Expel the unfeeling empiric from the position so presumptu ously taken up, we deviate from general principles with less hesitation ; and confident in our own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the suffer ing community of either Sex (especially those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attend ance is given for personal consultation; and letters from tne country are immediately answered ; these must contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be forward ed to any part of the world, however distant. GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons, No. I I, Bouterie-street, Fleet-street, London. •.• Private Door round the Corner. Just published (Sixteenth Edition), I, THE . ) Eots or Lire. a familiar commentary on the a sove Diseases.-2d. livosi- ANA, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex.—May be had at 20, Paternoster-row; SS, Pall Mall; 16, Princes-street, Soho; 174, Fleet-street; Porter, 72. Grafton-street, Dub lin ; Jones. !IT, Trongate, Glasgow ; and of all Booksel lers, Price Eis. A most extraordinary occurrence took place last night (Sunday, 29;h tilt.) between nine and ten o'clock. A coach v,te observed coming a'ong the South-bridge, with the end of a coffin pro'ruiling nut at one of its window. which circumstance roused suspicions in Diose who witnessed it, that a churrh•v'ard had Leen viol:aril, and a cry was instantly set ep that a corpse was carry lug to some disseeting-room. Despite of all remou• strance, the mnh dragged the carriage to the police , office, into which the coffin was removed, and the horses unharnessed. Not satisfied with this. however, the pi,. puttee, headed by some drunken fellows, proceeded to dr.:w the coach along the Ntreett until they reached the fo•t of t..e Mound, where they threw it over, an set i• on fire. dancing round it, while burning, like a b,nd of Indians round their prey. On inqiiiry, we were informed that the coffin was intend►d to receive the remains of a respectable medical praetitione-, who died a day or two ago in the environs, aid that the aro sch man was merely employed to retry it out to the country lodging in which the deceased bad been residing.— , (gdisborgh Observer.) Your petitioners would earnestly represent to your [Right] Honourable House, that our holy religion has borne uninjured every test that reason and learning have applied to it, mil that its Divine °stele, its purity, its excellence. and 14 title to universal acceptation, have been made more manifest by every new examination and discussion of its nature, pretensions, and claims. Left to itself, under the Divine-blessing, the reasonableness and innate excellence of Christianity will infallibly promote its influence over the understandings and hearts of mankind: hut when the an gry passions are suffered to rise in its professed de fence. these provoke the like passions in hostility to it, and the question is no longer one of pure truth, but of power on the one side, and of the capacity of endurance on the other. It appears to your petitioners that it is altogether unne cessary and impolitic to recur to penal laws in aid of Chris tianity. The judgment and feelings of human nature, tes tified by the history of man in all ages and nations, incline mankind to religion ; and it is only when they erringly as sociate religion with fraud and injustice, that they can be brought in any large number to hear the evils of scepticism and unbelief. Your petitioners acknowl-ilge and lament the wide diffusion amongst the people of sentiments un friendly to the Christian faith ; but they cannot refrain from stating to your Honourable douse their conviction that this unexampled state of the public mind is mainly owing to the prosecution of the holders and propagators of infidel opi nions. Objections to Christianity have thus become familiar to the readers of the weekly and daily journals, curiosity has been stimulated with regard to the publications prohibited. an adventitious, unnatural, and dangerous importance hat been given to sceptical arguments, as suspicion has been excited in the minds of the multitude that the Christian religion can be only upheld by pains and penalties, and sympathy has been raised on behalf of the sufferers, whom the uninformed and unwise regard.with the reverence and confidence that belong to the character of martyrs to the truth. Your petitioners would remind your [Right] Honourable House, that all history test ties the futility of all prosecutions for mere opinions, unless such prosecutions proceed the length of exterminating the holders of the opinions prose cuted—an extreme from which the liberal spirit and the hu manity of the present times revolt. The very same maxims and principles that are pleaded to justify the punishment of unbelievers would authorize Chris tians of different denominations to vex and harass each other on the alleged ground of want of faith, and likewise form an apology for Heathen prosecuti ins against Christi ans, whether the persecutions that were anciently carried on against the divinely-taught preachers of our Religion, or those that may now be instituted by the ruling party in Pdl• gen countries, where Christian NI stionaries are so laudably einn,l6)eil. in endeavouring to expose the absurdity, folly, and mischievous influence of idolatry. Your petitioners would entreat your [Right] Honourable House to consider tint belief Jars not in all cases depend upon the will, and that inquiry into the truth of Christianity will he wholly prevented if persons are rendered punishable for any given result of inquiry. Firmly attached as your petitioners are to the religion of the Bible, they cannot but consider the liberty of rejecting to be implied iu that of em bracing it. The unbeliever may. indeed, be silenced by his fears. but it is scarcely conceivable that any real friend to Christianity, or any one who is solicitous fur the improve ment of the huinsn mind, the diffusion of knowledge, as it the establishment of truth, should wish to reduce any por tion of marlin(' to the necessity of concealing their honest judgment upon moral and theological questione, and of inek ine an outward profession that shalt be thcousistent with their inward itersuistun. Your petitio ,ers are not ignorant that a distinction is commonly made between those unbelievers that argue the question of the truth of Christianity e.sl nly and dispassien rawly. and those that treat the sacred subject with leii y and ridicule ; but although they feel the strongest disgust at every mode of discussion whiad appr iaciles to Indere , cy and pr.,- (*ernes., they calm' help thinking that it is neither wise nor safe t constitute the manner and temper of writing an object of legol visitation; inasmucti as it Is impossible to define where argument ends and evil speaking begin,. 'lle reviler of Chrietianity appears to your petitioners le he the least formidible of its enemies; because his scoffs can rarely fall of arousing against him public opinion, than which nothing more is wanted to detest his end. Between freedom of dis mullet; and absolute persecution there is no asiisplablat taw diuna.—Aud nothing seems to your petitioners more i•nroll- CATHOLIC ENDOWMENTS. Sir HENRY PARNELL moved for leave to bring iit a Bill to enahle Roman Catholics to make and execat.• gifts and grants of 'sods for pious and chatitahlo ytir. poses. to the same extent as their fellow subjects, protest ant dissenters, are already perm' t:ed by law. Mr. GOULBUKN said, he had no objection to the bringin in of the Hill, hut it was clear that it could not be passed into a law in the present Session. The motion was agreed to, and a Committee named to bring in the Bill. NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr. FORRES moved. that a humble Address be pro rented to his Majesty, th t he would be graciously pleas ed to order that there be laid before the Houw a Copy of the I nstmetions given by Lord Bathurst to Mr. Bisgt, on his proceetlihg to New South Wales.—Agreed to. LAW MEFICII %NTS' BILL. • This Bill ;yrs re•comtnitted, and the clauses h (wen agreed to, and s one verbal alterations made, i reported n ith the amendments, and was ordered recd a third time to-morrow (4.is day) CIIIEF BARON O'GRADY. Oh the Motion of Mr. S. RICE, the House ith. if i to a Committee fur the further consld( ts , e eh. '_•+ against the Chief Baron of the Cott chey er in Ire'and. A Itesd'utinn, submit►ed by Mr. Rice, was, after enne-ration between Mr. R. Smith, Mr. Caooir he • 4 01.tit..r General, withdrawn. Mr. S. RICH then proposed another Reellnti, civato►y} of facts connected with the Chief Baron duct. Among.t other thing's it was asserted,' t' had taken fees for 134 rau•e• titian their being though decree* bad not bAn made upon theta: . j : .. es having Ide it W. 14 • to be e resolve! aeration of urt of Ex- after some wing. a d ntion, iron's eoo• I,' that h• let Aiwa, It wa ; • 1 / 4 . . -