The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-28 00:00:00

I NOT. MI. I am, Sir, Oar, Bay Norwich, Nov.. 1,3, A CfIRISTIA/7. TO THE EDITOR. " Some persons coloured their spirit of persecution and un christian cruelty, with IS p retence tame foe me public weal and observation of the Lams.—Mr. Lo4wc. •tits,-1 was surprised anti disappointed that in a pa per in wnich I have read 60 many just mid literal political Se ttt l items there should have appeared so entire and unyuahtied an approval of :tlr. Carlile's sen tence.. You coissider it as tuAkrate and lenient. I con fess iLappears w use that any persecution on account of a Aitleretice of opt ll i 111 l in matters c eted with religion is in direct oppinition to the spirit of the Gospel, in the recorded declarations of Christ: a mum and fuatlamen sal principle of whose religion it is that no body of men has any riAht to impost their belief nu their telloss •iseii. "'Toe Kings of the earth exercise lordship, .bap . shall nut ke so. amongst you."—" If my kingdom .were of this o odd then would my servants light, bul. my kingdom is um of this world. —" Who art moo that joilgest atioilier titan's servant, to his.oun ni.:ster statitleth or talietli." These words ore of more autLa ;sty MIMI all the decrees, bulls, anal heinas,•atid acts of Parliament that es er were Iraitieti, ordhat r hall be fra med to the end of time. These may be wrutig, but 1 trout the words of Citrist there is no appeal. And 1 , therelOre I :illicit' that it power can be Utilised Iron. the Scriptures by any Maul or set of melt to enforce any article tit chrsstiau lade by any other mode tuau argu ment and persuision. Any attempt to sir this, is an invasion of aim unalienable right, an usurpation of the lordship of Christ, and it, becomes our duty to. protest a‘aietst such an attack s and to •• stand fast to the Wit rty which hefts, MOOS .134.frar.:7 the magistrate or tla legislature have no poorest° maw titeuiselves juitAes of truth, which is quite indeptaitlant of. them, and can neither be helped nor hindered by their decisio s. These are no new tangled opintoos, but I hunt bly con ceive Are iII strict accordance with the title spirit of dais nanny, and hate been heist by its ablest and most pious defenders. Of these one of Inc first was Mr. Locke. If a titaii," says he, " doubt of both Testaments, he " 4 nut therefore to be punished as a pernicious citilen. "The power of the magistrate, .11141 the estates of Lie " people allay be equally secure, whether any man be "heva these things or no. I readily grant that fits • opinions are false and absurd. But the business of "i the laws is not to provide fur the truth of opinions, "Mr fir the safety aim security of the. continutiftwealth, "and of every 111101'S goods and prison. And to nought "to be. Fur troth certainly tvotild do. well- enough, "if she were once left to stint for herself. She is not " taught by I ists, our has she any need of force to pro "elite het entrance " soul persuasions any man . may use as much as he " pleas( s, but all hirer and. compulsion are to be fur. "tfortie. is to Le dune. impiously. Nobody "is obliged iu matters of " the injunctions 61 anodic', Umber than he himself Is " pC194146.3i., Every mail, in that, h.is tile suprein sod "• 11) ""te muthotilY of juslgiug for lintiself: •-•LOCKE ON TOLINATION. Besides the prosecution of (*ethic is unjust in entailer point of view.. Why are the tofidel attacks of Hume, .rliessbroke, Gibbon and others, sold in every booksel lers slimy any day in the week with impuinty, wude Cable is to be three years incarcerated fur selling tile infidelity of Paine ? Have the vile political principles tit: the Cornier domed fur their attacks upon christianity. Is. their Deism tolerated because it is bound up with their slavish sod detestable politics ) Allow me before 1 finish, to correct,' gross error him which you have fallen respecting the 9555 atoll tut Of William and ,Mary_.• So tar was that till ruin at fording any whet to Uitarians, Him souse pains And pe nalties were inflicted by it against I'any.persons woo lay " writing.; 1111 l tin& teaching, to advised 'Faking, shall "deny any 0t the persous of the Holy Tromy so be " God ;" and Mese paint and penalties continued 555 foil force until' tile 21St of July 1813. When time 53rd of the Bing (conanuttily called The I riaity. „Disietriae Bill) avas passed, hatitir been introduces' into the House tit CUM. moos by M.r.Thllsatn. Smiths. This bill repealed the Act of the Ist of ‘V,llians .aiol Mary, and that to .the 9th and Inds of tivasatne reign, as well as two Scotch Acts by which Unitarianism .was puiiishalite with death, in ASIA; as they excluded Uultarians from tlo. benefit of that tolcsation which the Acts of William and Mary were intended to atiord to usher classes of Dissenters. •• Supported by troth on — either side." we insert the above letter. Our opinions.are unchanged, but we have pot leisure for Theological..l)isputations; we may add however. our belief, that the publication of blasphe mous works would be compirr.eti%ely hartitles, if the perusal or them wt re confined to Rerun - 4 fully comp,: tent to form a judgment on the subject, it is itt the liJittls Mill tenth: pershiss only, that. their poison pos sesses its crittive power or injury. Eel. TO THE EDITOR. Stit,-- Hat ing heat that %r.t'okes reported statement respctting the wounding tt• it woman at Manchc•ter has been contradicted by ,Ilajor Cot brittle as having been sten by him, and tindeestom/ Mr. Coke al the Norfolk Itleenne, tee re I woe present. to state the cireumatauce era in conyeiliet ion with Major 1.,:131a lie', exertions in behalf of humanity, but cO4 ieuesuatesc of (1., neeessit! or those exertions, and uhich I betiebe to has e been a can adi nu tterstanding, and thinking it highly piolsahle that lie may bare heard, sis coining Iron me who live i:► his neigh bourhood, and is as present at Alsoiclweter, that such a cricnmioance did plat V, I beg to say Ilia, l ..tw one of the tenoeaeny al Aliitichester tu hese 1 via: in coo•e -rynenet• of toy death, in uhie-e atfaiis 1 was con cerned) strike and werinid a CUetiJet in the beenst ur olioatdrr with a sabre•—(the' lit I saw her she had all bifaiit child in her anus)—and I beard the man say some Idling like, " 11—n you, what do you do /arc 17 I was so THE /44trIONAL REGISTER. agitated, that the tears gashed from my eyes; and it is no wonder, amid the erturusion, it I cancan aceurately ncollect the words. I am, Sir, your's, ace. November, Idl9. Noa►otctansts. P.S. I saw a way kept by the Police and Constables up to the hustings till the ttraneat the Yeomanry rude io amongst the crowd ; and it ought to Ito °barn tql, that two days previous to the Alerting, the tigers desired both the streets and St. Peter's-4mA of every stone they could dud. [The Editor is unrestrictedly authorized to give urthe na►ua of the author of the above letter.] Volta. M AWSION HOUSE. Seorrious Bitts sureosku TO lIAT6 Fran. amain.* TED olf Srlga—A poor fellow, in wretched trim, named Joao Moulin, was biou,ht before the Lord Mayor, camp-el !club having distributed bills of a seditious seudeney. There was another offence with whack else defeodusit was charged. flee bills had nut•n pr inset 's name affixed to them, and ,Moulin sea liable tout woolly of 4251. for has tug dis. r feel the bobs produced against hum. The bills acre hooded to the Lord Mayor. They were es ideinly the work of a person whose object was much than that of the miserable band who met ia Smith field, 00 the 24th ; for the revolutions and speeches of that oily were trinea compared to the iucendiary spirit of those papers. Brown, the officer, stated, that on the day of the Radical Im:cling w 641110fitid,illbt briNre its eowelthilin, be saw one of the bills psueluaed bunging upon is hook *nista a door or too oh Loos-lane. It was headed •• to the non•represe'n te'd Reformers of Loud ~,,, r and tloe hoes" was purtisulaily *wick with the concluding .words, •• Universal Sulfrage, Parliaments, voting by ballot, or—Death," As he was cruising Stilithtielis towards the spot-where the Radicals were collected, he saw the defendant distributong-copies of the bill amongst Joe crowd and received Pure copies fiom him A brother-olfuer reetsused.tie o copies. Aluafill wa► thee takou intu custody by thorn. The defendant said, that As lie was, according ID *YAQUI, sweeping one of the eras sings in Ouswell-street-road, on the worming the Itedical io cling was held, a person respectably dreaed cure to him, mid offered him employ meat tar a ►hort time, that would be snore profitable thou the broom. The defentaist accurn ponied him to a pubic-house, se here a substantial meal seas giv..n toltibn by tile stranger, who put two shillings into his band, and a bundle of those bills, with o►ders to distribute ['situ alauiiist the crowd. The Lurd )Maine said, the defendant had acted most improper).., iu dist' ibuting hills N kl;Cil he had never read, at the comivand of ts strauger. Aloolin said, he wa glad to try any honest way of Aetting his bread, and his rimiest; %DI so steal, be was not ter; delicate, fur in truth be could out by a d. grey worse tLan he was at the moment he was des.red to hand about the bills. lie had been struggling in the street with his him nu for a length of time, and was known to soon; 4.f the iiii.nb.tants. . . Al the Lurd Ma) to', desire, he at es theft t h e pet SOll oho ciiiiiise2red him. The account t trotwly it witthied that of the iittlividual who hired a pstor fellow to distribute ititians mat ry hips nu a lousier net alba )))) . fitio person had a gold watt It, and seemed (to use the deftudtt..t's plasetteology Wit if money. . . . . The drEethlant, %I di.chargetl, after having reposed a night is the Ctmipter. ExectivioN.4—On-Friday morning the four unfortunate criminals were executed before the Debtor's Door, Newgate:—Thomas Fonsick,. for tinging a will, purporting to be the last will turf testament of William :Ltiderson, lately a seatuun on board the Batavia, ladle:nun, with intent to defraud ..essrs. Buckle and Co ; John Henley, Henry Lo vell, and Edward Cassidy, for highway. zobberies at West Sad Fair, under circumstances of peculiar aggravation and atrocity. A few minutes before eight, the unfortunate men ascended theliatat plat fOrm. (attended by the Rev. Mr. Cotton-and two. other Clergymen); they conducted themselves with decency, and appeared resigned to their fate. A short tune h.tving been .spent mu prayer,. the:Aron fell, and they were launched into eternity.. Funsick wits u Portuguese Jew, and had been in this country near 33 years ; the other three were young., men, ,but had been lung known as old offenders. The crowd was immense.... 'Cite Swat tioni Ctiurktitg aeating wit 3 ewe to Bunter nosly attended, in consequence a its living postponed to the third week ; hunt altogether the spur was capital, particularly on 'in. slay and Fritl.i), nt %Vest:tore Fie'd. Bills were not so iiiiiii ertattudy att,•u'kd as last year, but •Ite eninpaity was Sery.cltcl, :11.1.11:8 , Wi14.111 were. Lord M eystard, Lord Rivers, Sir George, Lady:, and bliss Jettongliam, Lady and two Mouses Betlingbeld. l.onl and Lady Bridourt, Lord Botts, lion. Capt. Now., Mr. Mrs. and two 'Misses Own:trill, Mr. anu Mrs. num, two Mines Dixon, Miss flameout anti two Aliewes Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell and. Muss I,hater, Nle. and Mrs..E. Lator., Mr. and Albs St. John, Air. e,:al Miss. '!'much Barmy, Mr. and Mrs. Fountaine, Mr. and :.Irs. Folkes, Mr. altd Mrs. Ty.ssere. Mr. and Mrs. Obtaition, Mr and Mrs. E. Hussey, Mr..and two. Misses Aleason, Chan cellor and lour Alib.4:ll Yurige, Majors Wilson and Mason, Messrs. A..and Ilatuand and I'. Allix, Col. Affix, &c. Ball was opened by Mr. it. llameend anti Miss n o lin k o;,,W, and tiancing was kept up with stoat spirit till lout o'clock... • , spice• y the Co yea) • I 8 i9.—A geutle ntan of a SeOtUtillC habit, near horuliaiti .M al k et, on attiring of the poteerfa( elf tar tit the water hoot the TtietfOrd Spring, applied to a neighbour to ',meow hint !en gallons of this miraculous water. Ilia uciKhbour nut touch relishing such a rontoJ about way, pointed a shunter—lie took, tite.casK to Wells, and put m torte I parts of sea-water atul art en parts of Amu this done, lie. sealed IL WOO hits own Rai to loreVVilt )mid, and after waiting due time, took tills e.tskot Cha ir/rate W Ater to his friend, for w Melt he reeeiveil tine Tne 'cask was instantly tapped, alit' the Wu a lid discovered at the very lirat taste how superior it was to 1 any thing he ever tasted! Ilia kind friend frequently :squired after the health of the invalid,. and constimay Mood him in an improved slate, and by the time the cask of the Wells Citelylwate LSpriess . Wader was on the tilt, a perfect cure was vtfected I With a heart flowing with gratitude, the praise of she wonderful water was his , • constant theme; such a " universal good" he thought could out be too upiversally known, and finless the per. usal of these fats should cowiltrad it, lie is determined to becoineati :mut or dispensing this iusaluabk Anti. Scorbutic. PROSCCUTICV AGAINST SIR FRANCIS BURDIETT. - -Sir Francis Burdett has received ileum, that the Attorney-General has filed an ex-ryffcio information against him for his 'letter to the Electors of West. minster, on the subject of the..Manchmter outrages. —The Attorney-General had it at. his option to try Sir Francis either in the county of Leicester, or in the county of Nliddlesex, because the supposed of fence was committed in both those places ; but he prefers the former county, and the trial, with all its increased inconveniences and expense to all parties, cannot come on until the next assizes for Leicester. To try him in Middlesex might nut be conducive to the object of the prosecution. The following is a copy of the ex-officio information which has just been filed :-- " Leicestershire, to wit i•-.Birit 'reroenifiered, 'that Sir Robert Gifford, Ket. , Attorney-General of our potent ' Sovereign Lord the Knot, pioseentes in this behalf in his proper prison, comes here into the Court of our said Lord the Krog,.before the King himself, at Westminster, on Sae turday nest after the morrow of All Souls, in this same Term ) and for our said Lord the King, gives the Court here to understand and be informed, that Sir Franca. Bartlett, late of Westminster, in the county of Middlesex', • Baronet, being a arditionr, malicious, and ill disposed person, and unlawfully and maliciously devising and in tending to raise and excite disrontent, disaffection, and sedition, among the liege subjects of unr Lord the present King, a n d particularly oolong the soldiers of our said Lord the King, and to muse anti excite the liege subjects of one said Lind the King, to hatred and dislike of the Govern. mint of Ibis realm, and to insinuate and eanse it to be belie ed by the liege subjects of on, init1.1.4411. the King, _- Hist slivers of the liege subjects of our said bird the King had been inhumanly cot down, maimed, and killed, by certain troops of oar said Lord the King, heretofore. . tewit, on the g'2d. day of August, in the 59th year of the reign °four Sovertigu,Lord George the Third. to wit, at Longlibm (nigh, in the comity of Leicester, unlawfully • and maliciously did compose, write, and publish, and• cause to I.e composed, written, and publisli.d, 'a certain scuudalous,'snaliciorisointl 'edit hies libel, of end coneerning thedlosernient of this realm, sod of and comic, slang the troops of Ourself! Lord the King, according to the tenour and - effect fullowine„ that is to say—there the letter of Sir Francis to the Electors of Westminster, lately published in our paper, is act 104111. J-0 contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others, and against the peace of our said. Lord the King, his clown, and Ilign:ly„ " Second count, the same as the first, only saying, that r the libel contained, amongst other th.ngs, divers 'condo how, malicious, and seditious matter and things, of and • runeeining the Government of this ittalni v aud *land imiciernias the.siiiii troops. There ate fuer . other (somas, which, vary the manlier of charging the offence, and set out parts of the letter uniy, and thltreosecinfles: “Whereupon thesaid Attorney. General of our said Lord the K ng, who for our said Lord the King; in this behalf, 'moss cutest' fur our said Lord the - King, prayt ill for the consideration of the Court here its the premises, asset that dart process of law may be awarded against him the said Sir-Francis Burdett in this behalf, to make him auroras to oar said Lord ihe King touching-mat concerning time p elnibelt aforesaid." (FROM THE NORWICH COURIFR) MESSRS. CALVER Aoaax&T THE. OF NORWICH. Oit.the nimion on Serpraut lilosset on Friday ae'n not., ;lie Chun 11l 42.11 the time for opposing •t he rule to whew cause till this day (Sala/day). On Wednesday a meeting was held at the Hall, in the Markin, of toe o,Juni . ..cutters and persons concerned in the Wuul Trade iti this city, to take measures for co operating with wither ..manutacturing towns to procure • the repeal of the duty last year imposed upon foreign. John Harvey, Esq,•was called to the chair, who iii a very abteaddrew pointed out the general impolity of laying a riM•14•1111 any of those raw materials of fo reigu growth, which here hecaure sources of productive latiour and wea;th. Such a measineliad an immediate and necessary. tendency -to drive capital- and industry out of the kingdom, anti to excite a preference to manufac toclb iit other nations, which were n..t borthened with such heat.) , and impolitic duties —Mr. Sherill Taylor said, that a more tontist and unequal dtuy wag never iitil.OSed. it vas the saute on wool of three-peoce • per poivid and on that of seven shilim , gt. and it was there u• es Meat, most opera'e as 2-prohibition on those ma. intlactures (% hich constaine‘i ante inferior sorts of wool. . Such as) stein of p•ilicy was at all limes to be deprecated, . and nitwit mote when 'nano!' ictur...rs generatly welts suffering so alarming a depression. Ile believed Mitiis ters wety liner understood the question.; and that even with repro to the amount of lie duty. they would be very notch (keened. lie moved that a petition be pre. • seined tu4rarliatnent, praying kr the repeal of the duty. •NJr. Oxley *refolded the motion.—Nlr. John Webb stated, that recent acononts from the Leupsig Fair cost- Orwell the apprebetisions which had been entertained of the alarniM A etlectw of this duty on the foreign demand ;or our gtxxlv —.Several iesolutions were then moved by Mr. John Taylor, and carried unanimously. A petition. t o Parliament' was also agreed to, rind ordered to be pre. seined by the City Members. Tilt Address to the Prince Regent, voted at the Com+ Anon Hail on the 16th of September, was peesented yesterday at the Levee at Carlton noose by the Mayne and Members for the City.