The Sun. — London, England, 1823-11-08 00:00:00

THE LONDON, JOURNNLS. DAILY Ts 4 l:tracts from the Morning Papers, November 8. [MORNING CHRONICLE4I The French Morning and Eeening Papers of 'Wednesday have been received. Ferdinand has issued a Decree, dated Cordova, October 26, in which, after a preamble concerning his affec lion for all those " who base the happiness to be born in his vast doMains, and his regard for that justice which ought to reign in the hearts of those who are called by the" inscrutable de crees of Providence" (inscrutable, indeed)-to rule over nations, he directs that all persons presented to him for honours, and all sorts of appointments and offices, shall be of certain knowledge per sons attached to his person and throne, and that ceivis poibus those shall be preferred who have suffered for these 44 virtues." He adds, how. over, consiaerately, that the merits he has named shall be held to dispense - vith the pos session of the special qualificat►ons which va rious cmployfnents may require.—An article, in the ntoile, from Madrid, of October 31, says the Duke of Angouleme was to arrive there in the course of the day, and to reach Bayonne oil November 2,5. (Tut: t EL) We yesterday dwelt upon the absolute rteces , city of resistance, on the part of this Govern. ment, to any armed expeditions prepared by France, though in • the name of Ferdinand, against the free Slates of South America. Some documents, us our readers will perceive, of an encouraging nature, have since reached us with regard to these Republican States. The Gazelas tie ° tplombia of the 27th of July, and of August I.7th, have come to hand, the former containing a treaty, of alliance and confederation between the Republic of Colombia and Peru, concluded in the Ciudad de los Libras de. Lima, on the 6th of July, by Don Joaquin Mosquera, on the ept of Colombia, and D. Berne rdo M onteu g ude,on that of Peru, which was ratified at Bogota on the I.gth of the same' month, by the Colombian Vice. .President Santander. The general purpose of this treaty is declared by its title—a perpetual Vonfederation for mutual defence. It contains a clause expressly providing that all the other •states of America, formerly Spanish, shall he invited and urged by the contracting parties " to “ enter into the present compac t of, union, bond, " and confederation." A similar treaty has been signed between Colombia and Chile. [NEW mutes.. We have had letters and papers from Paris to Wednesday night, with the Etoile of Thursday morning. An idea seems generally to prevail in Paris that the Spaniards will attempt to reconquer their South AttleriCall Cl3lOlllOO, and that they %vill he supported in so doing by the Continental Powers. We perceive that The Courier' of last night has one of its alarming articles, on the sub ject, much in the style of its famous article on the retreat of the French to the Khro. Now 4ie : tp : ust say that we feel no alarm ou the subject at all. To talk of the King of Spain t,:unquering South America is utterly allord, Wiltqk he will with the utmost difficulty be able to raise a revenue equal to more than hal( of, his internal expenditure ; and we hardly think that the Allied Powers will for his' sake burthen themselves with' an interminable debt, an 4, the great probability 'of a long and hopeless war. It Is highly desirable that the democratic factionfihould not take the lead in South Ame riot ; but the questions of independence and Democracy are totally distioct ; and though it is so business of ours to promote the independence of these Colonies,yet if they achieve it them. alleent, It nay eventually prove beneficial atit 'only to us, but to all the European Powers. — ()Mob) were languid yesterday. They closed at #',, luting - probably somewhat affected by the 4epression of the Itentes in Paris, which left off oreVednestlay at 88f. 950. ;' and thin decline is ptobably to be attributed to the intenaed disso littler' of the Chamber of Deputies. It is ima• glued. that" the new Chamber will pass a Septen ,* 1,,,,ueg., to assimilate. their- Parliament still mom 'nearly to our own; which would , doubtless be a wise measure. LMORN ING POST .1 The contents of private letters from Paris,'re ceive# yesterday, are of considerable, importance. *sans the agitation produced in that capital by the reported intention of the Ministers to dissolve the:Phamber, and the dread that they might hive iniscalculated their strength, anti that the result might lead to the extension instead of the repress tiO# ',Of Ultra, in(luence, much interest had been excited by intelligence that the French Porn mander at Cadiz had been compelled to turn oat of that place the Goiernor appointed by King Ferdinand , . It appears, according to these ac counts, that the restored Despot acts with as struch dileyalty and ingratitnde to wards his Allies awl I)oliverers, as lit did towards his Spanish Defenders in 1813 (with the exception of downright persecution, which is not in his newer), and that he conceives them not to be inure tenacious of their honour than he is of his own. Regardless of the terms which they liiittlianted by a solemn COOVlnitioll to the gar. ..ibion and Constitutionalists of. Cadiz, he is said hirre given octet orders to the new Governor, Odo Carlos &Avail, to violate thena, by ar rasting',General Latre, and the Duke del Pa'ique, to Whom that Convention had 'secured their lives, liberty, and property.. Forte. oetely, however, tieneral fiourmont, whose toopS•occopy the place, is a man of spirit. He sentlor Don Carlos, and on his refusing to pro. duce his orders, or to desist from making the wrists he had commenced, commanded him to quit.. - Meeting with at second re fuit,sii. be allowed him a few houri to consider Anuld do, and at their termination si ! ut forty grenadiers to his Palace, who carried him ontskli the gates of the town, and then left him at liberty Co neturo to his master, and kltrt"ittat ' the .French wore determined tty ke - ip thcir votirti l howeyfr ,he aught be disposed to kruak his. This wont is said to have caused extreme joy at. Cadiz, the people of which shouted, 44 Long live the Duke of Augou leme !" " Long live the French Army !"—Such are the statements which had reached Paris, where they had obtained a considerable degree of credit. Sincerely do we hope that they are founded on facts ; for though it.be now too late to anticipate any very advantageous results to the cause of Spanish liberty from the differences which may arise between the Royalists and the French yet it seems a just retaliation on the latter, that they should , be derided in their turn by the Power which they have rendered abso lute, and should be forced, in defence of justice, as well of their own honour, to fetter that un principled and unbridled violence, which they have made war upon the Spanish nation, for having restrained. PRESS.I A Imost undivided attention is now directed to South America :. the eyes of Europe are. fixed again on the New , World. The Continental despots wish to fetter the councils and .policy of this country, by congresses and protracted diplo macy ; and to enslave, by a combination of force and menace, the freedom and pursuits of the emancipated colonies of Spain. Why, under such circumstances, should this country he sitate en instant to acknowledge their indepen , deuce? What are the plans of the. Holy Alliance, and of France to us? How can we benefit by the tyrant of Spain again throWing a net of iron over these -fine countries, and annihilating their rising resources and the trade of this country together. It is clear that the French Cabinet has long had an anxious and a jaundiced eye fixed on the coun tries of Montezuma:and Ataliba ; nor. can there now be a doubt that nothing but apprehended opposition from Great Britain prevents the imme diate dispatch of a large French force to these shores. But the, announced expedition of aship of war and two frigates, with nominally Spanish troops, will be, in fact, French ; Ferdinand, and the Monk who now governs Spain, have not, of themselves the means to fit out a gun-boat. Their ships were rotting, dismantled, in Cadiz. The tyrant has hilt Et - piastre, even for his travelling expellees. The common funds of his journey were supplied by a collection froni the priests at Seville. It is ridiculous, therefore, to talk of this announced expeditiOn as Spanish ; the funds, the 'arms, the plan, and the benefits arising from it, if it succeed, will be all French ; and shall we he blinded by so thin a veil? Will our Cabinet be the open dupes of the wily Villele, and sutler the trade of our merchants and the, Unbounded pros pects of this' country, to be destroyed by a perfidious plan of this sort ? 'The Cabinet ought to act' with the. ' . 'decision that be comes the, country.-- , The great Lord Chatham, when he had decided on War,' • immediately seized on the Spanish vessels . , and crippled' the resences' of the enemy : why should not Ministers act With the same - energy, anti do, at once, what they must ultiniatelY be driven to ? We can gain nothing but disgrate by an alliance with Spain, under its present. Government. All the feelings of France are hostile to us. Great Britain (AO instantly to acknowledge the in. dependencry of South America, and. send a powerful fleet into these seas, to protect their shores from threatened hostility. In place Of Consuls, regular Envoys should be sent, at least to Mexico and Colombia. The stake we have to, play for in the New World is too' great to be trifled with, and we therefore should act at once. This country, after her lengthened and mighty eflorts,, has been too long passive, and must rouse herself. We should instantly declare that we will be fettered byno Congress the Despots of the Continent may assemble,' and that we are resolved to acknowledge and' protect the hide. cadence' of the emancipated colonies in the 'ew World. [mottNixo nettm.n.] It is singular that the presence of the las danger, and a common enemy, does not preven or controul the, factions which grow up in re.tiolu tiona• Most probably the animosities of the sects into which the Constitutional party was divided in Spain mainly caused its ruin. It is to thepar. tips in FratAe, however, that our attention has been called at present, by a recent occurrence at Paris. The sanguinary feuds of the different fac tions tinting the Republic have bad a disastrous publicity. 14 appears that the same spirit, when it could no longer ruge, in the Convention or the Councils, took refuge in the Imperial Court —aa virulent as ever, but kept quiet by the force, and concealed by the mystery of the. Im perial despotism. The Talleyrands, r o le Pouches, the Feltres, the Savory's, kept up a cross tire of deadly hate, which ended only with the lives of those of them who are dead—and has survived undiminished in the survivors, One of these, General Savary, Duke of Rovigo, has recently dragged his, antagonist, old Talleyrand, into the arena, and covered him with all the odium of the, death of the Duke d'Enghein. He has published what be calks an extract from his unpublished memoirs, the object of which is to exculpate himself, and throw the whole blame upon Talleyrand, whom he accuses of not only prompting Budna. parte Witte commission of this great and inexpi. able crime, but of having gone secretly to Murat, who' presided at the Court Martial, and hastened the execution of the Duke,.who in a short interval would have been saved. The arrival of General Real, whom iluonaparta had sent to Werra gate him, but an hour too late, would have pre vented the catastrophe.it is true General Savory makes out a case of strong suspicion against Talleyrand. But the only attack against self, which he refutea, is the charge o f having placed a lighted lantern upon the Prince's breast, as a mark ~to guide the muskets that dispatched hint. There is enough that is odious in the share that WI. Savory avows. He was or. dered, he says, to Vincennes with the Re. gintent of Gens.d'arme, of which he was Colonel, wholly innocent of all knowledge of the duty upon which, be was going.. Tbii may be. Bat what does he do Oen he ar. rives ? lle stands behind the President's chair, shocked at tho 4siassinatiou about to tato phlcet But how does he manifest his sympathy ? Why, he replies to the officer who comes to demand a piquet to execute the sentence, 'thus laconically—" take it." The officer again asks, " where the execution should take place ?" " any where," says M. Savary, " so that no one be hurt there." Hence, the choice, he says, of the fosse of Vincennes. Talleyrand has threatened to publish a counter-extract from his unpublished memoirs—which, however, has not yet appeared. The dispute tivill be an edifying one, and the dis putants may lacerate each other as tong - as they will, without exciting public sympathy even in France. The Liberals of Paris seem to lean rather to Talleyrand—but they defend him faintly.— There is but one person to whose credit the affair at all redounds—aud that is Buonparte. Ile ap pears really to have been almost the only person within the circle of the Imperial Court who had any pretensions to fair dealing and humanity. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. EXTRACT OF . A LETTER FROM A LADY, DATED HOBART Towii,•Juiti. 2, 1023. ' We arrived here a little more than a fortnight since. I believe we were all heartily glad to find our feet once mere press the earth. The town is infinitely larger than I ex pected to find it ; the streets are very broad, but the houses are separated from each other by gardens, and courts or yards. Those recently built and building are of brick. We are now in Macquarrie.street, and in a very good house. has a grant of 400 acres (what he asked for), and will be allowed two men front the Government stores, with rations for six months. Women servants are very scarce Isere ; I despair of finding a good one. Men are employed in houses 'instead of women ; your property is more secure with them, and they are not en. ticed away as the women are. The country is beautiful. It is now the rainy season, but quite mild..,The rigour of an English winter is here unknown. Snow rests on the hills, but does not stay in the valleys.. The summer must be delightful. Here are wood, coal, and lime. Coal is used in the interior ; wood is more generally burned in the town. Settlers, after a time, make their own candles, soap, and beer if they choose. I have paid Is. fkl. for moulds, four . to the pound; some charge still higher. Colonial soap, 10d., and very good for whitening. Mutton is Oil. ltd. and 7d. People complain of a scarcity of wood this winter, and even meat at times is not to be procured front the butchers. I shall be un commonly happy to be in my own house once more. We must be satisfied with a rough concern at first, but we shall soon he able to build a better dwelling. Here is excellent ftee stone ; and the cedar wood from New South Wales is very similar to mahogany, and does admirably' for doors, shelves, windows, &c. without paint. It is much used. The lition , River has on its banks tine pine, which is in softness and beauty equal to deal. It will light at a candle, and makes a good torch for a short time. Building now is considered as the most secure speculation ; but tradesmen of every description do well. if they are industrious and steady. It will be his own fault if every shopkeeper, or as he is here termed storekeeper , does not make a fortune in a few years. Thii place is most rapidly improving. People are quite as smartly, dressed as in many parts of England. I have been told lice is exceedingly dear, English silks, ke. I think from the little I have heard, this is an uncomfortable residence.for a bachelor. Ser.. vent* are scarce ; and lodgings are not so convenient or comfort. able as in England; rooms arc not earpetted. Many of the luxu ries of life are wanting. If a person comes here lie must matte tip his mind • to find every thing in its infancy and'he will not be disappointed. In I the room I have now, burn wood, but I have no fire-irons found me ; I have no fender. nor hearth brush, nor carpet. If I choose these things I Must purchase them; they come here under the head of luxuries. I have not been out, except to change lodgings since I came. Milk, butter, anti cheese are uncoduninily dear ; very little of either is used. Sugar and tea are cheap. tiood • green at As. Sd. to fsa. Lump sugar is dear ; moist stigity very good, at Pd. or 741. Work people are very idle. Wages are high, so they earn euiScientAn three or four days to, support aim. the cc inainder of the week, which thPe tlieV,Pata , m idle enjoyment. Tortoise-shell iambs are not to be got readily and are enormous ly dear. Porter sells well ; so does good wine. I wish we hail brought 11 pipe or two out with us from Madeira and 'Eng land. Paper is dear, I am told ; for the tradoman is not willing to pack your paper—be wants you to send some convenience for it. goods in ( g overnment . will only give 4s. fur the dol lar, which has injured many people greatly ; but in trade you mostly say and receive, the d o l l a r at :is. Paper money abounds here. Tradesmen iss'ue notes payable in dollars at sis.; notes are fbr,2a. M. is., and thi. SATe look forward. to comfort and independence here ; and I think with reason. The soil is deep and,rich ; s heep produce lambs three times in the' two years ; cows are not g ood for the dairy ; horses are very dear ; Cattle equally. so ; ardent spurns are very high, and not well supplied to this town. • , • THE VAMPIRE OF THE OCEAN. Front the President of the Ma , York Lyceum of Nature, History, to the .11feyhter , i, dated New Yoik Septcenber 11 1823. " On the Oth day of September 1183 returtn..d from a cruise off Delavrare Bay, the fishing smack Mao.' She had sailed about.three weeks before from New 'York, for the express purpote of catching an enormous fish, which had been reported to frequent the ocean, a few leagues beyond_ Cape llenlopen. The adventurers in this bold enterprize have been successful. They have brought, for the enlargement of science and the gratification of curiosity,ean uncommon inhabitant of the deep, which has never been seen on the land before. The creature is one of the huge individuals of the family of Itoa ; or perhaps may be erected, from his novelty tend pe culiarity, into a now genus , between that , the Omni*, and the Acipeneer. Its strength wits such, that afteraha e body. had been penetrated by two' strong and well,formed gigs of elle beet tempered iron, the shank of one of them was broken off, and, the other singularly bent. The boat, containing the three in. trepid men, John Patchen, Theophilus Beebe, and William Porter, was connected, after the deadly . imminent had taken hold, with the wounded inhabitant of the deep by a strong warp or line. The celerity with which the fish swam could only b e compared to that of , thd harpooned whale, dragging the boat after it with such speed, as to cause a wave to rise on each side of the furrow in which he moved several feet higher than the boat theft'. " The weight of the fish after death was such, that three pair of oxen, one horse, and 21 nien t etli , putting together, with the surge of the Atlantic wave to help, could not convey.it far to the dry beach. It was estimated from this and, probeble esti. inate, to equal four tons auti.a half, 'or perhaps five tons. The size was enormous for the distance from the extre niity of one wing or pectoral ; tin to the ether, expanded like the wing of an eagle, measures in feet ( over t he extremit y of the back, and on the right line of the belly, 16 feet the distance from the snout to the end of the tail, feet length of the ten, four feet; width of the mouth , 2 feet flinches. " The operation of combat and killing lasted nine hours. It was an heroic achievement, and was witnessed by crowds of citizens, on the 'shores of New Jersey and Delaware, and by the persons oil board the flotilla of vessels in the bay and offing. " During the scuffle, the wings, side flaps, Or vast elated fins of the monster, lashed the sea with such vehemence; that the spray rose teethe height of 30 feet, and rained round to the dis tance of 50 feet. It was a tremendous encounter. ' .0n shore, all was awe and expectation. " 111 r. Patchen„ whose taste and zeal in zoology are well known, has attended very inticheo the manners of the Vampire of the Ocean ; to the preservation of the skin and external parts; to the osseology and skeleton; the internal organizations; and, in short, to every circumstance that watt practicable during such a hazardous business, and the , t e mpestuous weather whicli dis tressed them almost' from the, b eg inning to the end of their ..I merely mention, before, I lay Voyage. down my pen, that this animal is viviparous, and of course connect s fishes with main. miferous animals ; and that the respiratory motion , gene r ative and sensitive organs, Present an extraordinary- amount of rare and interesting particulars. IncoMpreheneible its well as won derful are thy wotke, 0 Creator i inconeeinmate sagacity Them had executed them all ; "' This is but an outline : I intend to finish this sketch ; and prepare it as welriut I can for the Sobiars formal notice. While I express full approbation of our friends, ;whom neither'difficulty nor danger could cagey I: utter it fur. titer sentiment, that they .may 'be well pai b. their intended exhibition. bIiTCHELI 4 .; , PLURALITY OF WORLDS. With no less truth than eloquence, the Royal Prophet has asserted, that " the Heavens declare the glory of the Lord." No feeling Mind, can, indeed. gaze upon the starry hearens with Out mingled sentiments of delight and of admiration. Thousands of stars glitter in the firmament.; and the eye is enchanted with the glorious sight. But pleasure is not the only sentiment that so magnificent a scene awakens in the philosophic mind. Enlightened by science, it penetrates through the immensity of space, and discovers in the host of heaven, not mere glittering specks, but spheres of which the magnitude is far be yond its conception ; suns bestowing 4glit, beat, and fertility to innumerable planets and worlds ! Though analogy alone leads to this conclusion. Yet the idea is too pleasing„ too reasonitbte, too magnificent, to be rejected as improbable. In the pride of his nothingness, man may imagine himself, and perhaps' with. truth, the primary 0b... ject of his sublunary abode; but he is not tke only end of universal creation. In the incon ceivable plan of existence there must be other living,. other rational beings besides himself. . Organization, fruitfulness, and life are percepti ble around us; even a drop of water teems with! inhabitants; and shall- the vast masses of the planets he harren and deserted ? How vast, how sublime, is the idea of a plu rality of worlds I it,astounds our reason it elevates our mind, and 'gives us a better, though still a very inadequate, notion, of that Being whose mere fiat produced tie,uniVerse, and whose inconceivable wisdom watches over thepreserva- tion of this sturitindOut manifestation of his infi nite power. ThOttsandVof stars are perceived by the naked eye.; Millions are discovered' by the telescope ; millions of millions are placed far beyond the reach of our best instruments ; and round each of those stars planitery bodies circu late, inhabited by myriads of myriads of rational beings ! What.is the mind of man to cope with such infinity I Yet what is it not to be enabled to.arrive at such sublime conceptions ! The earth becomes a . speck in the, universe ; and vain haughty man a mere atom in the Scale of created beings. The idea of a plurality of worlds is at once so sublime and so rational, that it must have oc curred to the philosophic mind, as soon as the vast distances, and the probable masses, of the heavenly bodies, were more clearly understood. One of the first philosophers, however, who pub lished it to the world was the celebrated Huy gens,. in a book entitled, 46 Cointothoros." In this pleasing publication the author lies most in. geniously laboured to demonstrate that.. the idea of the planet being filled'irith rational inhabi tants, perfectly accorded with reason, and with the notion we should form of the wisdom of the Creator. The arguments adduced in favdur of his hypothesis, are at once strong and con vincing ; but the author may be blamed for carrying the resemblance between the plonc tarians and ourselves, to. an unwarrantable length. Little argumentation is required to prove that the planets are, in all probability, inhabited, and this first, position being granted, there can be no difficulty in allowing that their inhabitants Must lie rational beings, capable of - reflection and thought, and able to enjoy their existence, and to know and adore the wisdom which made theM. Thus far no one can reasonably controvert the conclusions of Huygens. But when he labours hard to convince us 'that the planetarians have senses, and consequently ideas; wants,and there roes. arts and sciences and 'Manufactures, speller to our own; unable to perceive the absolute ne. tessity of so perfect a rehemblance, wean only regret that our. author should have. strayed so far In the wide regions' of analogy: We must, no doubt, subscribe to his conclusions, could. we for an instant imagine, that God could not create heings capable of knowing and adoring him, Without endowing theM with wants and desires in every respect 'similar to thew his providence has allotted ,to the human race. But when we behold the immensitfot our sublunary creation, and discover that this immensity is replete with the most surprising diversity, we, reject his con. elusions, not perceiving the necessity of believing thateither the human form, Or the human mind, are types of. the-.utmost perfection. to which created.beingi Can possibly attain. It is, indeed, highlyprobable, that).the tendency to organize tion, which is remarked :upon our own planet, Is no less a general. lai:of nature than the principle of universal geavitation,.• and consequently that the effects'it produces are not WI varied. and In. finite. It seems, therefore, more philosophical to conclude, that the heavenly m ore are inhabited by beings whose nature,ideas,'life, &C. are suited to the peculiar O'rgiftization - of the planets they inhabit, and consequently widely different from those of terrestrial beings. 'This 'conclusion will be rendered more probable by considering bow much the planets differ from our globe, and frail` one another 'in their distance 'from the sun; the inclination of their axes, .The length of their revolutions, their magnitude's, &c. It' the analogy we diSeover betiveen the planets and our globe leads us to conclude that they re ils),i'eltayrnseentliausrstythieb)essd.,olioerks:os-sf semble it in - many respects, the . similarity be tween-our sun and the fixed stars must indure ns to believe that they also are suns, disp - e n ii ng , and tnfinito will convince us that i s f r ien i t h at ar w tti l l i tl i ti c tye h lu n on t u to p t o is n pi t z e o m ns ilg t il h i e t t u t d b e e , au at t l y d , t a h - e tn i o m m u z i e s s u ;r a t ( l i t :). -That they are were a in n , :l o u t t s created of, the fo h r ea ti v t e e n . u s s . e of man, or possibly ilet lances of the fixed stars, they yo were .nature, we has ever useful to us,,no one can wisdom ; exontining.. into the operations of readily perdeive that Divine but connected individual, advantaee A. univ ersal can embrace at one: glance m e mense chain utility t. an arrangc i lU de e a nt w . of causes and effects could olone establish. So t ti t h th e mind consonant is th is sound.pbilosophy, that even antiquity, 'Pythagoras, le greatest sages of Anaximander, and others p t citrus, .Anaximenes, a plurality.of worlds' - 'anci baPht the doctrine of • stars were the _ e !eyed that the fixed it of other. t p.anetary tistems. the priinnicnidpletshao: Reason alone led them to this conclusion, for they had not that more perfect notion of God, and of his attributes, which we have received from Revelation : but this remarkable accord between the dictates of simple reason, and the Conclusion to which we are led by the superior light of Revelation, is no trifling testimony ia favour of the opinion which has been here main tained. Itlidhurst. A. P. RICHARD MARTIN; ESQ. To the Right Hon. the . Lord - Mayor and the Worshipful the oW of Aldermen of the Corporation of London, TIM PETITION - OF RICHARD MARTIN', ESQ. Showeth,—That your Petitioner humbly begs leave to sub mit to your Honourable Board, that it willtontribute much to the prevention of the abuse of cattle of every kind in th kekmar_. t of Smithfield, if an 'additional number of constables be AP; pointed for the purpose of app re h e ndi ng a ll p ersons g uilty of such offences there. Your Petitioner also begs leave to recommend your Board to invite some of the respectable inhabitants of Smithfield, to lend their aid for the prevention of the abuses complained of. And in the last place, your Petitioner begs leave to submit to your Honourable Board, that it would be well if ail civil officers acting under the authority of the Corporation were in , structed to bring up all persons who may be detected by thou in any offence against the Act to 'prevent cruelty to cattle. Your petitioner has observed that horses and asses are nib. jected to very severe ill-treatment in the market of Smithfield. Your petitioner prays that your Honourable Board may be pleased to take the aforesaid suggestions and recommendations mto your consideration, and to do therein as to you shall seem meet; and your Petitioner will pray. RICHARD MARTIN- TUE STAGE,---4)n Sunday morning last, the Rev. THOMASIIEsT, 'Minister of St: James's Church, Shef field, preselect his annual maledictmy sermon against Thea trical Amusements. The Reverend . Gentleman warmly avowed that upon every succeeding inquiry into the nature of stage exhibitions, he felt a stronge r c onv i ct i on o f t h e i r b a neful tendency and worthless qualities. He - particularly' censured the pronouncing GoD's name for the purpose of making a momentary impression, and denounced the' offering of a delft cation to the DETTT as at all times impious and base.—dle considered the establishment of a playhouse as unlaufal, and • that it was supported alone at the expence of the peoPle 4 veinal and religious observances. He declared it to be a , ofte n produced by uc . e un seemly n a : place unfit for a decently disposed f ema l e to atten d, a nd. that indeed she could not frequent t h e t h eatre w i t h ou t being shocked by indecent language seemly and indecrous sights. He believed that 'the pro duction of vicious characters upon thestage desire in the spectator to imitate rather than to disel.rd their vices, because they were elicited in a manner calculated to ex cite the ailmiration of every heart that is prone to gaiety and pleasure. Mr. Best granted for the sake of arguinent that cnn( persons might even frequent the theatre, and sustain no harm from its exhibitions, but he contended that it was'the duty of every one to exclude himself from such places, if it were for no other end than than by discotintenancing them as the resort of the profligate and abandoned, he might eventually create a general disrespect for their amusements, and .be a mean. of discovering to the wicked the dangers which' siirrotinded. and threatened them. He discredited the boasted improve-, menu that it is affirmed may be observed Upon the stage, and felt convinced that no real amendment could ever take plikee with respec t to them : the annihilation of such esta blishments could . alone benefit mankind. j%lx, Best ob served that Scripture was . often quoted with levity in the, thCattre, and .that . Christians were . made brats at-which to cast the shafts of ridicule and reproach. He declared that, although his observations more particularly related to 'the playhouse, yet they might be applied with equal justice and force in the consideration' of • other amusements. t ie called upon his hearers to give his declarations an imperuas , consideration, as he had no doubt the result would be a strong Conviction of the Ipcompatibility of a profession of the Chris: 'flan religion with an attendance upon the. Theatre, and . ct the utter contrariety that exists betwixt our duty as true be Revers and our enjoyment of stage amusements. The 114v,•_ Gentleman preached-another sermon in the afternoon; whi ca ,, he more particularly direeted to the consideration of Ye t q l o people. • ATTEMPTED MOILDEn. By A YOUNG 1140.• Yesterday evening, between the hours O f --: ti and eight o'clock, considerei bin alarro an d collid7 sion was excited' in 'the Borough, by thie.folloWd ing circumstance :—A young gentleman, in 'the shop of Mr. Suntanie, a grocer, residing at No. 300, had for several years past paid his addresses to a young lady of considerable beauty and at" complishments, but who, of late, had deserted I t " for another female, Tbq young lady, not broo k. Ing tide ungenerous treatment, took the ra sh ac t , Of revenge, bv rushing into the shop of his ern• ployer, and presenting a pistol, loaded wit h small shot, fired and the greater part of the charge entered his cheek. ItoUrediateli, after this dreadful affair had - taken place Mr. Kenti ° ` the ilorough, was sent for, who pronounced the , wound not to be mortal. "he Yount; WY ) wh. 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