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i 1 • ..Z... . . Ito .-,.y.A1 7 .4." -- ,--AY , . - . •\4411 . /I . .. ' ' • , - - ' Clif; IP: 0 v zrjtl .• ‘*,' ' t - ' la s_•4 ,r. -0, . , • . _ . • ......„, . , ~, ;,,. S IT N. f .. *.:'.. m &° • . i 4 , ti r/Y - ' 4 , 4" .' il 4/ --- e- i 4" --- it.e. - . ii• '\\ ' ... . 4 . NUMBER 9497. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1823. P.i.t . T . ct .. 5g:V.,NP.4.., ! .. - o ARGYLE ROOMS. r N THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 6th, Mr. PUTNAM'S READINGS! and RECITA. • Admission—pFireAillings. The Doors will be opened. at 1-1411. past Seven, and the . 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At ill.altovt/Astaplishßentpuperior tine fl avoured Coffee is sold on `the faine UM% "erre'dtitV - 671151red extra In each poitut'and .half a, pound in e very, six pOutid34; which is an advantage not' to be equalled at any other ' House in London.—To prevent impositions, . the public will particularly observe, that. this: , EstabliSlintent does not employ any` small Agents to sell their "Peas • they are only to be had at the NORFOLK and SUF FOLK TEA WAREHOUSE, No. 23, LITTLE BELL .ALLEY, where no common-ordinary Teas are kept. • Fine strong Souchong Tea, 6s. to 63. Bd, ' • superior fine Breakfast Souchong,• 7s. ;. ditto, Bs. to 10•3. ; 'remarkably fine Green Tea, Hyson kink Bs. to 9s. ; real Ilyson, very fine, 10i. ; best Ilyson, 12s. ; Gunpowder Tea, 13s. ; fine Coffee, 3s. ; very fine 3s. 4d. ; best - Turkey Coffee, 4s. Finch and Co.'s Superfine thirham Mustard, preferred by most of the Nobility and Gentry, at only 20d. per pound, in Lead for the Country. FOR MONEY •ONLY. Orders from all parts of the World, by . letter, poet paid, or by Coachmen, with remittances, will be strictly attended to. Raw. And Loaf Sugar kept for the public accommodation. All Teas &c. from this Establishment are warranted Ge mine, and wrapped in China Tea Paper, with the Proprietor's B Address—A. WA MOLL, 23, Little ell-alley, up Token house-yard, at the back of the Bank of England. OBSERVE, No. 23. In x few nays will he Qubiished, In Two Volumes, Bvo Avitll.Partraity 28S, 111 R I VAT E LIFE OF MARIE AN- A TOINIFXTE,.CWEEN of FRANCE. By MMM)AME CANIPAN, First Lady of the Bed•Chainher to the Queen. " We bare seldom perused so entertaining a Work*it is as a mirror of the most splendid Court in Europe, at a time when monarchy had not been shorn of any , of its' beams, that it is particularly worthy of our attention." :,• , • (Morning Chronicle.) The same.Worls in French, vats. st4s. . Printed for Henry Coinurri and Co. Conduit-street: and BOSS:Mgt! and Co. Great Mariboroneb-street: this Day W ,t 4 published. rri - IIE NEW. MONTHLY MAGAZINE, fur FEBRUARY, heing,the Second Number of a New Volume, containing the following Original Papers I. Sketches of the Irish liar, N 0.4, Mr. Saurin. 11. British Galleries of Art, No. 2, the Marquis of Staf ford's Gallery. • 111. The Physician, Nu. 3, on the Art of attaining Lone Life. IV. A Christmas in the Country. V. Dinner Company to let. VI. Musical Wives. VII. Harry Halter, the Highwayman.. VIII. Peter Pindsrics s—the Poet and the Alchemist—the Astroriorniciii Aldermen. IX. On Projects and Projectors. X. The Tanner's Widow: XI. On Vampirism. Xll. Antiquity and Posterity. XIII. The Bard** Song to his Daughter. • XIV. An Invocation. XV. Lines on Koseiusco. XVI. Miss Hebe Hoggin's Account of a Literary Society in Houndsditch. XVII. Nouvelles Messeniennes. XVIII. The White Rose, or the Lament of the Year 1746. XIX. Letters on a Tour in Swisser land, No. 7. XX. On the Abuse of Wotds. XXI. Exchange no Robbery. XXII. The Hour Glass. XXIII. Lines on Morelli. XXIV. On the Works Of Canova. XXV. Revit•ws of Moore's Lutes of the Angels—Lord Rus sell's Don Carlos—and other Works, English and Foreign. Besides the usual Varieties in general Literature, the Fine and Useful Arts, Music. the Drama, Politics, Commerce, &c. London : Printed for Henry Colhurn and Co.; Bell LAW Bradfute, Edinburgh ' • and John Cumming, Dublin. Of whom may be had, The preceding Numbers of this Work, from its Commence ment in 19$I. Touiti-Acutti; ANt, Emt.ActiE. lIERRY'S ESSENCE has received the sans. tiun and support of the most DiititigUislied Prrsoa. ages in the kingdom, together with the united Testimony of the first Phzsicians in Europe,.and numerous favourable cow ments in highly respectable Medical Journals, where it has been declared to he the " Best thing ever discovered for the Tooth-ache and Ear-ache,"--lt instantaneously relieves the most excruciating Pain, preserves the Teeth sound and firm, , preventr further Decay, effectually cures the scurvy in the Gums, fastens loose Teeth, and r en d ers t h em Fi rm and Ser viceable to the latest period, and effectually 'Prevents the Tuoth-ache. Sold in Bottles, at Is. lfd. and is. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, and ilia- Regent-street, (near the Argyle Rooms), London; Waterloo-place, Edinburgh; 34, Sackville-street, Dublin ; and by the principal Perfumers and Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom. T HE following un a d orne d ta l e o f d eep d istress will, it is hoped, eiccite the compassionate aid of those whom God has blessed with the means to relieve the miseries of their fellow-creatures, when arising neither from indis cretion nos want of foresight. The Petitioner is the `Vi low of a respectable loung Man, who gained a decent livelihood by reporting for the Public Papers ; but for near twelve months preceding his death, which took place on New Year's Day, he was confined to his room, in a deep decline, and in. capable of earning a shilling. At the expir a tio n o f t h e third month .of his confinement their distress was considerably en. Lanced by the death of their then only child, the expences of Whose funeral deprived them of their last shilling, and their future means of subsistence arose solely from pledging, or the side of their clothes, and such other little comforts as in. dustry, when in health, had enabled them to procure. In this distressing state, she was in November last put to bed with another child, which, added to the funeral expences of her husband ten days ago, left her not only destitute, but cosiderably enthralled. Here she thought she had reached the climaxof woe; but Providence has since thought fit to take from her her infant, which, but for the kind contributions of some of lies littnable neighbours, she should have been totally incapable of interring. She is now therefore truly alone, in debt, and al most destitute of raiment, having parted with her bed, bedding, and nearly all h er littl e furniture. From this abyss of misery site h ' ! ,ll no hope of extrication, but by a id of a kind and generous who she humbly hopes will not suffer a widow to pe f"", who is desirous tO struggle against calamity, and exert her industry for her future Support. To enable her to do which, the rnaest donation will be most gratefolly received at Mr. 'e,‘ , K l e, Grocer, 175, Strand, near Norfolk-street ; and at ' ll6, and at the Offiees of the different )ally Morning Pa- Pers. She.returns her most grateful thanks to the Proprietors of the Daily Morning Papers, and the Weekly Dispatch, ht ch bad the goodness to insert her advertisement grattti tt9usly, and ackno w l e d ge the receipt of the following Contrib u. ions, with her blessing on the donors i Cornpositore at the Public Ledger, 16s. fd. ; Mr. Roden, Xorning Herald, 2s. 61 ; Mrs. D. left at the Morning Post, by Or. Vernon, New Times,. 2s. Gd. ; left at the New 'Times, ti Ptibertaon, 11.—Thi following were left at Mr. Peck's, rac er I?d, Strand t Mr. Thomas Kerr, 174, ; a Friend A r thr Distressed, 2s. 6d.; J. K. /I. 1/. Is. ; J. L. S. 2s. ; 4.. 1 * t tt , 1 0a. 6d.; A. It. I/. Is.; Airs. M. 2s. ; Mrs. S. O. CUtting, 101. a Stringer, 103. ; U. C. 6s. ; Strang Coombs, 6, Phillip.lane, Aldermanbory, 2s. ; ILAny future tioiktions will be acknowledged. REDUCED FARES, and UNEQUALLED TRAVELLING. TO DOVER. DEAL, RAMSGATE, MARGATE, AND CANTERBURY. FOUR INSIDE COACHEi, AND•KEEP GOOD TIME, By S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNER-STREET, SNOW HILL, LONDON. T HE following LIGHT POST-COACHES, Scc. set out from the above Inn:— The "Telegraph," DOVER, Deal, Ramsgate, Margate,' 13roadstairs, Canterbury, Feversbam, and Sandwich. flew' Post-Coach—every Morning at a quarter past Seven o'Clock., In consequence of the decided preference given to the above Coach, the Proprietors are determined no expence shall be spared to render it the first conveyance on the Kent Toad. BROMPTON, Chatham, 'Rochester, Gravesend, Stroud, Sittingbourne, Rainbam, and Ospringe, Morning, Quarter past 7, at Reduced Fares. The " Royal Eclipse," FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodmin, Penryn, Ashburton, -Totness, Weymouth, Dorchester, Dartmouth, and Salisbury, every morning at Seven ; through Honitnn, Axminster, Bridport, Blandford, Stockbridge, Suttee, Basingstoke, Hartford, 404 gr. Black-, water, and Bagsbot. The- only Day Coach to WEYMOUTH, (driven through with Two Coachmen only).- through. Bagshut, Blackwater, Basingstoke. Overton, Whitchnrch, Andover, Woodyeats, Cashmore, Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester, at a Quar ter past Five o'Clock in the Morning, at reduced Fares. The " Union," SOUTHAMPTON, Lynringten, Lyndhurst. Winchester, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, and Bagsbot, New Four Inside Coach, every Morning at half-past Seven; arrives at the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by Five. This is a most delightful Conveyance to the Isle a Wight, Jersey', Guernsey, St. Makes, Havre de Grace, Cher bourgh, &c.—The Proprietors of the above Coach hone to receive a continuance of that support which has hitherto been experienced since the commencement or the. Union." The " Champion," a New light Day Coach to DOR CHESTER, in 13 hours only, through Bagsbot, Blackwa ter, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, Salis bury, Woodyerits, ,Cashmere, and Blandford, at a Quarter past Five o'clock in the morning. The Proprietors of the above Coach are determined no expense shad be spared to render it the first conveyance on the Western Road. BATH and BRISTOL Post-Coaches, through Chippen ham, Caine, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every Afternoon at one ; arrive at the GreyhoUnd Inn, - Bath, the London Tavern, Thomas-stre,et, and Swan, Bristol, early the next Morning.--Coaches to Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, and Plymouth, at reduced Fares.' The " Umpire," a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only one Night oretire Road, carrying- nue Inside, sets out Daily at One ; arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Five, through Wolnuti, Lathbury, Northampton, Welford, Lutterworth, Hinckley, Atherstone, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, E.nuts ford, Warrington, and Prescet. SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Shiffnal, Light Post- Coach, every Afternoon.—Guarded. The "Union,"IVEYMOUTH ; through Dorchester, Bland ford, Salisbury,. Andover, Overtm, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Mackwater, and Bagshot, new Putt Coach, After noon, at reduced Fares.--Packets from Weynniuth to Guern sey, jersey, Cherbourg, St. Maitre's, &c. every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, at Two o'Clock. BARNSTAPLE. and Southruolton New Light Post Coach, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, at Seven o'Clock. " Rockingham," LEEDS light Post Coach, sets out every Afternoon at Two • and passes through Baldock, Big gleswade, Eaton, Buclien, Stilton, Wansford, Stamford, Greetham, Grantham, Newark, Tuxford, Markham Moor, Rt tford, Bawl ry, Doncrister, arid Ferrybridge, to the Golden Lion Inn, Leeds, next Afternoon, at Reduced Fares.—Log gage and Packages only 2d per 14.—Nutwithstanding the uncomnion Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be the most agreeable and complete Puhlic Conveyance on the North Road, being unequalled by any other. HARROWGATE and Ripon new Light Post Coach, every Afternoon vt Two, and Eight in the Morning. GLASGOW, Longtov,.n, Gretna-green, Annan, Dumfries, Brownian, Thornhill, Satiquhar-Kiln, Canmock, Kings well, and all P arts o f S cot l an d , a Ti ght Four inside Post Coact, daily. The " Express," to YORK , Scarborough, Whitby, Shields, Sunderland, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, is 'Nest light noir, inside Post Coach, w ith a G uar d t h roug h out ; se t s out every Morntrig, hy way of Newark, Retitled, Doncaster, Ferry bridge, Tadcaster, D arlingt o n, 'Northallerton, Durham. Mot peth, and Berwick, and arrives at York the next Merit ing at Twelve o'Clock, tit reduced Fares. Passengers find ing themselves fatigued urn the journey, may rest what time they please, arid then proceed without any additional Fare. MARLBOROUGH and Swindon, four-inside Day Coach,' through Aldbourn, Reading, Lambotun, Prawn, Lytlington Pewscy, Wootton Basset, Rantsbury, Hungerford, New hary and Maidenhead. BRIDGENORTIL Walsal, Shrewsbury, Salop, and Holy head New Light Coach, every Afternoon, at reduced Fares. 1 The New Patent Mail, BOSTON arid Louth, through . Royston, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Stilton, Peterborough. beeping, Spalding, Spilshy, Alford, C4riroshy, and bull, Evening, at Half past Seven o'Clock, Sunday, at a Quarter before Seven. The " Express," a New Light Four-inside Post Coach to CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitelisven, goes with Four Horses, and a Guattl all the way, passes through Appleby, Brough, Bowes, Greta-bridge ' Richmond, Catterick, lie. roughbralge, Forrybridge, Doncaster, Newark, Bawtry, Grantham, Stamford, Greet ham, Stilton, Biggleswade, and Matlock. Sets out in the Morning, and performs the jour ney with the greatest facility; at reduced Fares. Passengers detained on this Itorui by business or pleasure, have the pe culiar advantage of their Seats being secured it; the next Coach.--The only direct Coach to Carlisle. Tire New Royal Patent Mail, CAMBRIDGE, through Ware, Buntingford, Buckland, and Royston, Evening, at. Half past Severs o'Cloch, Sunday, at a Quarter before Severs. KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-Lonsdale, Bolton, Chorley, Or tnslark, and Garstang Light Post Coaches, tarry Afternoon. The " Royal Express," New Light Four Inside Post Coach, to LIVERPOOL, its ste hours only, throueli Warrington, Prescot, Congleton, Lawton, Newcastle, Rtolgly, Knutsford, Stone, Stafterd, and Litchfield, (only One Night on the Road), every Afternoon ; arrives at the Saracen's Head Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool, next Evening, at ieven, at reduced Fares. WAKEFIELD Four inside Post-Coach, every Morning and Afternoon, ut reduced Fares. CHESTER, Newport, Whitechurch, Tarporley, Nampt wich, Nurthwich, and Middlewicli Light Post-Coach, every Afternoon. SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarns Light Post Coach, every Morning, to the George Inn, Sunderland, at reduced Fares. Mountaiii's " Express," to MANCHESTER, Winslow, Congleton, Newcastle, Walsai, Wolverhampton, sort Knots ford, new Emir Inside Post-Coach, every Atte' noon.--Only One Night on tint Road, at reduced Fares. SHEFFIELD arid Rotherham New Four inside PHA Coaches every 'Morning, called " The Express," amid al.o " The Rockingham," every Afternoon, at ;educed Fares. The " Royal Express, " New BIRMINGHANI Light Post Coach, sets out ev e ry ftertroon, carrying Fuer inside only ; passes through Warwick, Leamington, soot ham, Weeduts, Daventry, Stoney-Stratford, and Toweester, to the ...sett - awes Head, Bull-street, Birmingham, early the next. Morning, et reduced Fares.. Tine ~ vaprese," a New Light Post Coach, to HULL, Lin coln, Northeave, Bowden, and Doncaster, every Morning at Eight o'Clock, to the Cross Keys t Market-place.,, Huth ; and also the " Rockingham" in the Afternouti at Two o'Clock. HERTFORD, Ware, Hollesdon, and Chesbutit Correa, at reduced Fares. TOTTENHAM and Edmonton Coaches daily, at Eleven, Half-past 'lwo, Fire, and Eight. a„* At Reduced Fares to Ireas, York, and Doncaster, Luggage and Paaages at only id per pound. S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. respectfully aetinaint their Friends and the Public, that they will not be aceotintahle tot any Parcels, Passenget's Luggage, Writings, lore, of more than Five Poands Value ' its lost, stolen, or damages', unless entered as and the Insurance paid accord ingly, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Skinner.street, Snow-hitt, Lcr.don. PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, bearing date the Ad Day of. March, 1821. made in x CAUSE wkerrin THOMAI witimo.r end Others are the Plaintiffs, and RICH MW PENNY and An• other are the Defendants, - TilE CREDITORS of MART SUTTON, late of Hampstead, in the County of MittareeZ. the Testatrix in the said Decree' named, (who died on or shout the 16th of July, 1812), Widow of , Williatn Sutton, formerly of Hempstead aforesaid, Gentlenson, deceased, are, on or hefure the 2ith 'lay of February, 1823, to come in and PROVE their DEBTS before Sir JOHN siIMEON, Bart. one of the Masters of the said Cuust; at his Chambers, in South amptun Chancery-lane, London, or in default thereof they will he peremptorily exeluded"the benefit of the said Decree. FOR. THE SUN. ANCIENT MANIJSCRIPT,S. MR. EDITOR—The greatest literary acquisi tion of our times is the recover/ of the chief part of Cretno's famous treatise "'Dc re Pub. Ilea," which has been lost for many centuries. It is often referred to by himself in his other works, and was quoted by writers till the time of AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS ; that is, till the reign of THEODOSIUS, in the 4th century. It has at length been recovered from a rescript, or twice written manuscript ; the valuable book itelf having been cut up and washed, to place some paltry work of the dark ages upon its leaves. The first writing, however, is still legible, and has been traced throughout by the Abbe MAI, Librarian of the Vatican ; except where leaves have been lost, which happens, alas ! much too often. The chasms, therefore, are frequent ; generally of two pages only, but now and then of utauy more. Yet many pages together are still perfect, and, on the whole, it may Orhaps be said that nearly three-fourths of this valuable work are recovered. This is not the first discovery of the same na ture which the learned and sagacious Abbe has made. In the Ambrosian Library at Milan, where he was before, he traced out a large part of the works of Fronto, and Symrnachus, both famous orators, in a later age : of the first of whom we had nothing; of the hitter, only Epistles. lie found also some fragments of lost orations of Cicero. These discoveries occasioned his pro motion to be Librarian to the Pope, in whose service his labours have now been crowned Kith this extraordinary success. Why, then, should we not indulge the hope that some other M. S. may in time fill up the chasms occasioned by the mutilation of the first. This treatise De re Publieu, (not on a Repub lic, but on Government) like the other philoso phical works of the great Orator, is a Dialogue ; the Speakers in which are Scipio Africanus, the younger, La.lius, and several friends of those great men. It •is extended to six books, in which Scipio, the most learned and philosophical politician, as well as the greatest General, of his age, is made to deliver his sentiments at large upon the most desirable form of Government. — Like others, he distinguishes the three simple forms of Monarelw, Aristocracy, and Demo. vracy ; of which he greatly prefers the first, ex cept from its tendency to degenerate into ty ranny B. 1. ch. 45). But above all he ,prefers a fourth kind, tempered and made up by :a judi cious mixture of the f ormer t h ree. This more excellent form he illustrates by a regular history of the Ro m an Government, in which he finds an approach to this theoretical perfection.; but which, as we may perceive, is much more com pletely attained by the syst em ,of limited Mo narchy, established among ourselveS. Of the Roman kings, Scipio particularly ex tolls Servius Tullius, because, in settling the votes of the people, by centuries, he contrived that:the proponderance of power should be placed, not in number, but. in property. " Ut sufFragla non in multitudiniS, sed in lu " cupletium potentate essent : curavitque, !pod " sernper in republica tenendum est, ne pluri " mum laileant plurirni ;" Which I translate, that no one may be ignorant of so valuable a maxim. ale so di s p ose d t h em, " That the votes should not be in the power but in that of th e w ea lth y ; t i ooMkll ctUed o f that, whi c h s h o uld alway s b e u tt* l lit a i r • observed in a Government, THAT THE OR EAT EST " NUMBER SHOULD NUT NOSSES E GREATEST " POWER." I well know, Sir, that no maxim from human, or even inspired, wisdom, will correct the madness of those who run wild after their own theories ; but for our advocates of what they call a Reforrra of Parliament, here is a good sentence to revolve an d digost ; a sentence not proceeding from the slave of a tyrant, but from a free Roman, under the Republican State ; sanctioned both by his wisdom and that of the most accomplished phi losopher, under the same Republic, name ly, Tutuus Ctccao. VERBUM SAT. • *.* The preceding Letter came from an old and valuable Correspondent, w n os , „ 04 ,,, u „k„. lions cannot come\too often. L IT rftpooL; j 9.S.—The CANNING Ctxa bad a Special Meeting last night, for the purpose of taking into consideration the desire expressed by Mr. CANNING to relinquish the representation or this town in Parliament, and to nominate some Gentleman for the ensuing election. A strong feeling of regret was expressed by all the :Members at thu necessity which there ap. peared for Mr. CANNING'S retiring from the re presentation, an d it was unanimously carried that Mr. Ho sitrssoN should be respectfully quested to allow himself to be put in noininatioa, The I.2th of Febrttary is the day twned for the election. THE ESTABLISHED CHUItCH. FOR THE SUN. ON THE LAST NUMBER 9F THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. ' Mn.' EDITOR—In these days of turbulence and contention, when the most impudent and standerous attacks are daily made on the established institu tions of the country, particularly on our venerable Church and the Clergy, and sentiments the most sordid and illiberal, uttered with shameless effrontery and arrogance, are bringing daily dis grace' on the very name of Englishman, it is de. lightful and most refreshing to the spirits to refer occasionally to the writings of some of our most celebrated authors, and to gather, as an antidote to such sickening venom, their ideas 00 The sante, or nearly similar, subjects. You, Sir, are probably acquainted with the writings of So Mr. lENYNS, and therefore need not to be told that among them is to be found a Treatise of inestimable value, entitled, a View of the internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. In that treatise occur the following passages, which no one can read with out being struck with the candour, the modera tion, the good sense, and the liberality which they evince :—" Many persons (says he) are inclined to " think that every deviation from its primitive " state (viz. that of Christianity) is a corruption. " Christianity was at first preached by the poor " and mean, in holes and caverns, under the iron is rod of persecution, and therefore many absurdly " conclude that any degree of wealth or power in' " its Ministers, or of magnificence in its worship, " are corruptions inconsistent with the genuine sim " plicity ofits original state, They are offended tha t " modern Bishops should possess titles, palaces, U revenues, and coaches, when it is notorious that 46 their predecessors, the Apostles, were despicable 64 wanderers, without houses or money, and " walked on foot. The Apostles, indeed, lived " in a state of poverty and persecution attendant " on their particular situation, and the work " which they had undertaken. This was their " misfortune, but no part of their religion ; and " therefore it can he no more incumbent on their " successors to imitate their poverty and mean " ness, than to be whipped, imprisoned, and put " to death, in compliance with their example. " These are all but the suggestions of enzly and cr malevolence, but no objections to these, fortu " nate alterations in Christianity and its profes s sors ; which, if not abused to the purposes of " tyranny and superstition, are, in fact, no more " than the 71CVCSSUIS and proper e . yects of its more " prosperous situation." Stleh,Sir, were the sentiments of that able and good man ; and I have drawn the attention of yourself and your Readers to them, because no charge can lie against their author of professional partiality or self-interest. lie was not a Clergy. man, but a Layman, and for several years a Member of Parliament. lie possessed a fine un derstanding and great natural talents, which he cultivated anti improved by study and constant literary pursuits. Ile was, as he says of himself, neither an Enthusiast nor a Methodist ; neither a beggar nor a madman : but, as his Biographer relates of him," strict in the performance of roll " giont duties in public, and a constant practiser " of them in private ; ever professing the greatest " veneration fur the Church of England and its " Government, as by law established, and hold " in g her Liturgy as the purest and most perfect " foftn of public worship in any established " church in Christendom," &c. &c. What a contrast between such sentiments as these and the animosity displayed against our Ecclasiastical Establishment by the Edinburgh Critics in the last number of the Jteview I Base, indeed, is the malignity, and scandalous the partiality, with which the writers in that Journal have advocated the cause of the convicted libeller of the Clergy of the Church of England ; pitiful, too, and paltry in the extreme, are the jealousy and envy of its privileges and endowments, which they r so evident l ye q ually i bettay. Hence, and from con sdeicontemptible, springs that i:tit t avidity with which they seize every opportunity of vilifying its sy.stem of instruction, and the sound principle on which it acts, of conducting natiotial education in consistencjr with the netion al religion. Neither do they stop here, but their object now seems to be, to hold up to cen sure and derision fie most venerable persons in our Ch urc h , in order that they may wound, through them, that establishment, of which they 4. are the brightest ornaments, and lessen,, far as they can, the itillnence and high chartketer which many of its most, distinguished Prelates have acquired by qualifications every waydnlited to their dignified stations. It appears that, Oa accomplishments,of learning, no Chilftian graces, no virtuous principles, can shield their POsiessor from the flippant sneers—the foul antl,o„l9*. nious insinuations of this•despicable junta of pre tended literary cOtic.s„ if he entertain toyufls the established institutions of his country ., an affection founded on a conviction of their excel lence, and a zeal warmed by the act ual experience of their beneficial effects, present as well as past,:, Such praiseworthy feelings as these are termed bigotry _and illiberality ; and aAina and consistent adherence to orthodox opinions,. sAnc tioned by time, and confirmed by the testimony of the wise and good in the best ages of our country and Church—is sufficient, to excite in the breasts of those shameless Itevieuers the bitterest animosity, In short, it is impossible that any person, however unprejudiced and candid, Call read their last publication without, indignation, and without attributing to them the most dii graceful motives. Their attacli. upon the pishop of London was called for neither by the .senti meats contained in his Lordship's charge, nor by the manner in which those sentiments were ex pressed. And, in order to , prove that his 'Lord ship has not disappointed the expectations.of his friends in particular, or of the Church in gene ral, and has not lost any, of his weli-earned re putation for abilities and schoJarship,--a safe appeal may be made to the universal respect and esteem in which he is held by all (of whatever party) who know him, or have any opportunity of witnessing his great and useful professional exertions, and his conscientious discharge of his Episcopal functions. I remain, Sir, yours &c. CLEUICUS. PORTUGUESE SUPERSTITION. We have extracted the folloiving remarkable account of great national superoition from Mr. SOUTHEY'S History of the Peninsular War. " The French, in the pride of their strength, - and their ig norance of the national character, despised this poor oppressed people too much to be in any fear of what despair might impel them to ;' and one remarkable effect of the general misery tend ed at once to increase their contempt and their security. Thera exists in Portugal a strange superstition concerning King Se bastian, whose re-appearance is as confidently expected by many of the Portuguese as the coining of the lelessieh by the Jews. The rise and progress of this belief forme a curious part of their history : it began in hope, when the return of that un happy prince was not only possible, but might have been Con sidered likely ; it was fostered by the policy of the Braganssn party after all reasonable hope had ceased ; and length of timie served only to ripen it into a confirmed and rooted superstition, which even the Intolerance of the Inquisition spared, for 'the sake of the loyal and patriotic feelings in which it had its birth. The Holy Office never interfered farther with the sect than to prohibit the publication of its numerous prophecie3, which were suffered to circulate in private. For many years the per ' sons who held this strange opinion had been content to enjoy their dream in private, shrinking from observation and from ridicule ; but, as the belief had begun in a t i me o f d ee p ta l e , 1 mity, .se now, when a heavier evil haft overwhelmed the king dom, it spread beyond all former example. Their 'prophecies were triumphantly brough to light, for oriTeeire the proMilett which were there held out could the Portuguese find onecone solution; and proselytes increased so rapidly, that half Lis bon became Sebastianists. The delusion was not confined' to the lower orders : it reached the educated classes : and Then who had graduated in theology became professors of a Fiftri and Universal Alonarchy. Sebastian was 'speedily to coma from the Secret Island ; the queen would resign the scones into his hands ; he would give Buonaparte battle near Evora on the field of Sertiorae, slay the tyrant, and become monarch of the world. These event' had long been predicted ; and it had long since been ahown,that the very year in which they , must occur Wee mystically prefigured in the areas ,ofrortugal.. Those arms had been miraculou s ly g i ven to the founder' of the Portuguese Me narchy ; and the five wounds were represented in the slit lel by as many round marks or ciphers, two on each side, and one in the middle. Bandana, the shoemaker, who was one of the greatest of their old prophets, had taught them the my etey therein. Place two U's one upon the other, said he, place another on the right hand, then make a second figure like the first, and you have the date given. The year being t h us clearly designated, the time of his appearance was fixed for the holy week : on Holy Thursday they .eflirtued the storm would gather, and front that time till the Sunday there would be the most tremendous din of battle that had ever been heard in the world ; for this April wag the month, of lightning which Bandarm had foretold. In pledge of all this, some of the bolder believers declared, that there would be a full moon on the 19th of March, when she was in the wane ! It was a prevalent opinion that the Encobereo, or the Hidden One, as they called Sebastian, was actually on board the Russian squadron ! " Those parts of the old prophecies which clearly pointedt.O the year It4o, when the event for which they were intended was accomplished, were omitted in the copies wl let were now circulated and sought with equal avidity.. Ottimpsets were easily fitted to the present circumstanceen A rhyme, inn porting that he of Braganza, would go out and lie of France would come in, which was written something the war of the succession, was now interpreted to point to the Priece of Brstil and letionaparte r . and the imperial eagle whirl' was . pre served in the Spanish banners after Cherie* the Fifth, and against which so many denunciations had been poured out, was the device of this new tyrant. The secret Island hati lately been seen from the coat of Algarve, and the quay dile tingtoshed from which Sebastian was to emberic, ,and , the fleet in which he wits to sail. The tongues of the dumb had been loused, and an infant of three months had die tinctly spoken in Lisbon, to announce his coming. One believer reed prophecies in the lines of those eee.shells upon whieel a resemblance to musical characters may be famed... This effect of this infatuation was, that in whetever happened the fiebastianists found something to confilm theit faith, and every fresh calamity was hailed be them as a fulfilinteit of what hal been foretold. The emigration of the Prince and the entrance of the French were both in the prophecies, and both, therefittre, were regarded with complacency by the believers. ' When the French flag was hoisted they cried Bravo ! these mire til lei T at the sight of which Bandana, one of th e grea t es t iota that ever existed shed tears ! During the tumult init then 1, their cry was, Let them fire ! let them kill ! ail this 1 in the prophecies ! Thia folly gave occasion to many impoeitidtutewhiat served less to expose the credulity of individuals,than to the prevalent delusion. One Sebastianist found a letter from King Sebastian in the belly of a fish. appointing himlettneet him at night vii a certain part of the shore. A more . sjtilful trick wee practieed'upon another with perfect succio: An egg witstpeo d u ced with thelettenV. D. S. R.P. di e tin ctly traced upon ete Atli ; the owner of the hen, in whine nest it ems deposited, fully Wier. ed that it had been laid in this state, end the lettere; we im rned lately interpreted to mom Vier Ann Viasilam Iter ctei':,: , .. t'w'it. The tidings spread over the city ;, end , crewils . tioeited to the b owie , Te e arm was sent roand en a 'silver ativorv,:the higher order of believers.- After it had been the great topic of conversation f or t h ree days, it was carried tie Juno - , LY eifedm it Will detained at worthy of I sting. placed in thi, Nowa bi t i. cieurn at Paris. Theae.thingi nattertellY exeletelethe e wretereent and - ridicule of the French; DevertWesst wheat ,1it1,.4,0.19 put out of remembrance the very names of the Hie*" I;trt ordered „the AAA *l' wore tiled ater thei Miley * Queen to be maw, me Porttigucte and the City at ' ' bOW ; r y 4 be tattled time Mat iethirSt- Sebastian also."