The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-02 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. BIBLICAL ERRORS. TO SCRUTATOR. , • Slit,--"Although it be a deviation from my at tention to Mr. BELLANty's Translation of the Old Testament, to answer your arguments on C hristianity, which he has not touched upon, I according to ,my promise, trouble you with t he Perusal of this Letter, and to strew that your to nelutions on Philosophy and Christianity are Neither new nor tenable. To me they ate little t"re, though better expressed, that) the common theme of all the Tabernacles in the kingdom. Fr obably - you know it, not to say that like a par rot or a cuckoo you area mere repeater of sounds, b ut a true believer of what you write. This en titles you to respect ; but as error misleads man, I l eave you to your enjoyment of it, and only re- Ply to what it has misled you to say of me. 1 . You ask why, in defence of Mr. BELLAMY, I in discriminately abuse his opponents answer, and deny the - fact; unless their repre hension for undoubted abuse can he called so. £hey threw the glove, and are answerable for the con sequences. Abuse I despise ! 2 ' Whether the sacrifice of ABRAHAM'S son were commanded or not; I leave to Mr. BELLAMY. His 4 4 "W er with me is decisive, l e tti ng a l one P AUL l V JAMES, who might both be innocently mis tat, ken ; but this has nought to do with religion, I. °l ' any thing of mine. The words '' because thou 2 .281 not withheld thy only son," do not imply .ninand. The offering was rather free, and for Trace. 3 . I am indeed content with my general praise 14 t I Mr. BELLAMY, not having time or inclination ti o speak or hi s wor k i n minutice, nor gifted ttiith 'bee di s p atch of his critics, who condemn it in ern qo, and as an abortion its birth. lam also t ' t "tetit with general censure, while I hear they 11 " g in u n i son t h e i r swan lik e d y i ng notes. The i r Zg'ilneot s I think !utile. They smell of a TA . rnacle mote than of our Established Chur c h, an d si lence is their due. As a mor a l phil oso ph er 1 14 " thern like an unsavoury fume. 4 . Yon say I call you a h a lf- w itt e d follower of (i l\le thodist Preacher, but upon my honour, Sir, nut, My words are, " You seem to know 1„, l ittle of the true spirit of Christianity as if you 5 . I d e fy you to prove, b eyon d your own ima " a ,: 44ti °n, that there is any one ung e n t l e m an ly , - b i , t , e in my l etters . Th e l anguage o f reproo f t h e W Q llents of Mr. BELLAMY have brought on them by their rudeness and licentiousness. • e • You s a y p hil osop h y h as not hi ng to d o w i t h 111?,',• I,gi°ll• If ycii mean your own it is nothing to t o y ; but it yo u sa y it f or o t h ers , y ou requ i re , t u e informed, that true religion is all philo -P"Y• It is a binding principle between God :11 conscience. Philosophy is a love of wisdom, s t s i w i isdom is of virtue, and virtue is a strength of that enables us to overcome the force of illthediate temptation to evil. BONER says • Never, never wicked man was wise. . 1-11 i l You a dd , or seem to add, that Chr i st i an i ty kl inculcates moral obligation. 110 you not t hat moral obligation w a s k nown an d prac tss-,'', lung before Christianity, and that it is in c onsc i ence , w hi c h i s t h e . vo i ce o f 4; 4t l ' nd results f rom phil osop hy, not as you on tre-hatlil it, h ut as i t i s i n i tse lf ? Atheism is the pl e , ei t of folly, not w i s d om, an d none are per ar" its_mazes, but mechanics in faith, whose ko`).lv "' n ents ag a i n st phil oso phy, o f w hi c h t h ey 7nothing, are really absurd. ta nr , Ph il osophy, you say, has made Atheists, but f t ,,.;" [flake Chri s tia ns . I k now not hi ng o f t h e kr -r Part of thi s assume d assert i on , b ut t hi s I • t e that true Christianity, as out of the mouth t re , l Anthor, who wrote nothing, and on the a, ) ~ lt t 0 1 . his Evangelical Historians, is all philo • Y' all m o r a l o bli gat i on , a ll re li g i on , an d siiir ! he to bear the contrary front any of our th eir a) ranters, he would quit them, and say Linctrine was not his doctrine. 11:where y ou are on l y hypothetical I leave you ), Y ,, 4111.0 wn solution ; 'having no more to do with h, taith than you have with mine. Yours may dish es w hat pass es a ll tinderstanding, in inipossi 14„e. mysteries, m i rac l es , which may have an d e i n the mind when r e as on h as fl e d front it, L i k in , 4 ke the unhappy sufferer an nhject of Saint 1 and this, Sir, I k now h as h appene d, b ut Athe'i`v not that s o u n d phil oso ph y ever ma d e an recia st ' A Deist it has, b u t o f t hi s I h ave al ' . AsPll(loken. bot l l, Pray, Sir, who made SOCR ATES and did ar e 'e same power make CHRIST, though as you as li, " Ot to beli e v e , i n a diff erent way ? B o ld (11,1,7 comparison is, it is just. Boils suffered in caose. Bey on d mora li ty a b e li e f i n t h e tha t le Anth or of all nature, all worlds, and all eilu t herti n is, with a belief in his Providence, re ligion. You may call it what yOu will, lati ni v ,t has it to do with Mr. BE LLAM Y Trans , io' the Old Testament ? ta t „ ," Imp e iteet (I have said) as it may be in k4t-rlßiril Hebrew , o f which none can judl.'e," th e i 3 x P e eting you could doubt my meaning, which Ih spi re : l - 7 1 \ione can judge whether Moss and the 14re None wrote down the exact words that 11 . . li caled to them. I vh A decline your reference to BiEunpumus, "le t it'l ltattds too muc h w i th mechanical common -eligionists, an d i s an enemy to i mprove- Mr. llELLamte. th il at lll t e i n tinn the word ignora ne . e, not recollect n,. " li i ut ! r utighout th e w or ld it is the mother of r t i .111 41 .- ' Si r, 1 thi n k I h ave answere d your l etter ..°4toil my 11 r ' is unnecessary , and I will not go t oay f Wr'sers, let their good or Thsllgperhius tempt a th " Cin to l write what it may, but tel t ( k ttpttn4 eed • y subject, without further in or digression. I am, Sir, Your very humble Servant, STACKIIOLISE. POETRY. On a recent Charge brought against Hot Tea Drinkers, and the Recommendation of a Native Substitute. Quidnunc against Tea Gossips rails, Because they drink it hot ; But if the China Tea Trade fails, Our May must go to Pot.' QUI SI. REGISTER OF FASHION. Attitrvar,s.—Earl Stanhope, from his scat in Kent; the EarL of Westmeath, from .Hatfield ; Sir Gilbert Heatheote, from his seat, Normanton Park, Lincolnshire; Lord and Lady F. G. Osborne, from a tour; the Countess of Egremont, at lit r new resideoce . in Waterloo-place, from her scat at Putney; Lady Georgina Lennox, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Bathurst, at Lime Grove, Putney ; Sir George Nlrarrender, Mr. Manners Sutton, Mr. Croker, and Mr. Peele, from a shooting party, at the Marquis of ; Hertfoi d's seat, Sudburn Hall, Suffolk; Baron Wolfe, from the Isle of Wight. BATH ARRIVALS, J. 1.-Lord Bishop of St. David and family, Lady E. Fane, Hon. Miss Burnet, Hon. J. Coventry, Sir F. Burdett, Sir F. Ford, Sir G. Paul—Dr. Doncaster, Dr. Pope—Gen. Sir J. Hamilton,"General Kersternani Major- General Mahon, Colonel Morris, Colonel Pine Collin, Major Briscoe, Major Peppy-, Captain, and Mrs, Page, Captain Ays cough, Captain Bowen, Captain Forrest, Captain A. Hamil ton, Captain Inglis, Captain Johnson, Captain W. Jones, Captain Meredith, Captain White. UNIVERSITY INTELLibtNCE. OXFORD, JAN. 1. PHErERRED.—The Rev. John Davison to the Rectory of IVashington, in the diocese of Durham ; patron, the Bishop. The Rev. William Elliott, formerly Chapl'ain of the Royal Oak, to one of the Livings of Siumnbourn, Northumberland, in reward of past services.at sea. PREACHERS AT ST. MARY'S.—Rev. Mr. Bishop, of Oriel College, Sunday morning. —Rev. Mr. Bardgett, of Merton College, afternoon.—Rev. J. Hal I ward, of Worcester College' the Epiphany. WINDSOR, DRc. 31.--Tuesday morning the Duchess of GLoucEsTga, accompanied by her Royal Sister, the iucess AUGUSTA, went in her carriage-and-four from the Castle to her residence in Bagshot-park, to view the repairs, alterations, and improvements which had been going on for some time past. Their Royal Highnesses return ed to the Castle to dinner. Yesterday forenoon, his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, lift York House, St. James's, for Windsor, to visit his Royal Sisters, as well as to congratulate them on the entrance of the New Year. In the evening, his Royal Highness took leave of his Royal Sisters, and proceeded to Oat lands, to dine with her Royal Highness the Duchess of YORK, and a select party of friends. His Royal Highness will return to town again on Monday, to supet intend the affairs of his office. RETORT COURTROVS.—ATTERRURY, 'Bishop of Rochester, when a certain Bill was brought into the Honse of Lords, said, among other things, " that be prophesied last winter this Bill would be attempted in the present Session ; and he was sorry, to find that he had proved a true prophet." My Lord Coningsby,who stoke after the Bishop, and always spoke in a passion, desired the House to remark, " that one of the Right Reverends had set himself forth as a prophet ; but, for his part, he slid not know what prophet to liken him to, unless that htrions prophet Balsam, who was re proved by his own ass." The Bishop, in a reply, with great wit and calmness, exposed this rude at tack, concluding thus :—" Since the Noble Lurd bath discovered in our manners such a simili tude, I am well content to be compared to the Prophet Balaam ; but my Lords, I am at a - loss how to make out the other part of the parallel ; I am sure that I have been reproved by nobody but his Lordship." MATCH-MAKING.--Thb great match between Randall and Martin was ratified on Thursday night, at Burn's, in Windmill -street, over a good dinner. A Noble Lord, the Patron of Randall, made gond 751. for his adopted phenomenon, against 501., made good by, Martin's friends, as the battle will be 1501. to 1001., and not within 20 miles of London. All previous betting was Off, from an alteration in the day of fighting. The match %vas originally made for the fight to take place the last Tuesday in April next ; but as that day occurs in the Craven Meeting at Newmarket, the backers of each consented to defer the match another week, and new articles were drawn up for Tuesday the 4th of May, on which day the fight will take place. There was much betting made after the articles were read at an average of 13 to 8 upon Randall, whose backer supported his no tions of his prototype's prowess by betting the extremity of the odds. MARRIEn. On the 49th inst. at Middleton-Tyag, Yorkshire, Captain W. I'. Coital, of the Royal Navy, to Elizahetheehlest elati4titer of the late Rev. Thomas Wilson Morley, of Easby-house, in that county. DIED. Ott the 23d ult. at Liverpool, the Right Hon. Lady Crewe. The remains were interred on Tuesday last, in the ideally vault at Barthiuley, near Crewe Hall, Cheshire. On Tuesday last, Ann, the wife of Isaac Robinson, Pud ding-lane. On Thurdav last, Ann, fifth daughter of the late Colonel Wyndham, of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. Lately, in Pulteney•street, Bath, the Lady of Joseph Sawle Sawle, of Penrice, Cornwall, of a daughter. On Christmas Eve, the Lady of the Rev. J. Bulwer, of a daughter. HARRIED. Lately, at Marcham, Oxfordshire, Mr. 'r. Pinnock, of Stand lake, to Miss Mercy Stone, ut the former place. Lately, at Cuddesdun, Oxfordshire, Mr. Juhn Callawry, to Miss Field, both of the same place. In ED. On Saturday last, at Jesus College, Oxford, in a fit of apo plexy, Mr. John Pierce Jones, Scholar of that Society. Lately, at Cowley, near Oxford, Martha, youngest daughter of the late James Mathews, Esq. of New Inn-lane. . On Saturday last, Mr. James Wick - ens, sen. of the Corn market, Oxford. On Sunday last, Charles Cameron, M.D. for more than forty years Physician to the Worcester lufirmary, SHIP NEWS. Coax, Dsc. 24.-4rrived the Defence trans port, with troops, front Portsmouth. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Came in, his Majety's ship Spartan, from a ci uize. PeNZANCE, Dec. 30.—The French brig L'Eu genie, by putting a spar deck into her, was got off last night's tide, and brought into thil Pier, with her keel and stern-post gone, and bottoin much damaged. Two of the Indiamen, as re ported yesterday to be off here, are gone into Scilly. Prince LEOPOLD left Cobourg on the 3d ult. for Saxe Weimar, to meet the Emperor ofRVSSEA. DEATH OF THE HON. GENERAL MATHEW.--..Let-. ters were received in town yesterday from Ire land, annotincing-the demise of the Hthi..lllON‘.- TAGUE MATHEW, the brother of the Edit of LLANDAFP, and M.P. for Tipperary. The deceased had been long declining in health, althotigh only in his 44th year. Last season he was attacked by a paralysis—he was carried off by an apoplectic fit, to the great regret of his friends, who were always highly amused by his gOod nature and so cial qualities. MR, LEACH.—We have to record the sudden death of Thomas Leacn, Esq. who had filled the situation•ot Police Magistrate of the Hatton Garden Office between 19 and 20 years, and was also Chairman at the County Court of Requests in Fn lwood's-rents, Holborn ; he was in the 72d year of his age, and never married ; he was in an ill state of health for some years. The latter end of November last he sent in his resignation of Police Magistrate to the Secretary of State; his resignation was accepted, and a successor was appointed to act at the conclusion of the year. Wednesday laq Mr. Leach presided as Sit ting Magistrate at Hatton Garden ; he appeared to be more cheerful, and in better health and shore even temper, than for some months before. At half-past two o'clock he left the office, and en tered his carriage, accompanied by a young lady his niece, on his return home to his seat at Mus well-bill ; on entering Kentish -town, Charles Virgin, who had been formerly messenger at the Police Office, Hatton Garden, but who now fills another situation, rode up to the carriage to speak to his old master, but receiving no answer, and seeing Mr. Leach leaning back in his carriage, thought he was asleep, and was on the point of riding away, when the young lady called out to him, " For God's sake, Charles, don't leave me thus ; 1 fear he is dying !" Virgin immediately opened the carriage 7 door, and took Mr. Leach by the hand, which he found as cold as • death ; be had life, but was speechless and in sensible. In this- alarming state he was carried into the Kentish-town Assembly Rooms, being the most cooTnient place near. Physicians and Surgeons were sent for ; Dr. Cooke, of Gower street, the family physician, and Surgeon Drew, shortly arrived. Mr. Leach was stripped and put• to bed ; he was bled in both arms and cupped, and every possible remedy was had recourse to, but without effect : he continued in this state of insensibility till the time of his death, which hap pened at 11 o'clock on Thursday night. Yester day was to have been his last day at Hatton Garden. FlRE.—About eleven o'clock last night, a dreadful fire broke out in Grosvenor Mews ; which consumed a considet able extent of stables, &c. together with the workshops of Mr. SERLK, book binder, Grosvenor-street. NVe are sorry to say, four valuable horses were burnt to death. Through the exertions of the firemen and a good supply of water the flames were got under, without extend ino•r' to more valuable premis es , w hi c h were otuch to be apprehended. We hear it originated through onf of the Ostlers going into the stables With a lighted candle, and which communicated to some loose hay. CORONER'S INQUEST.--OR Tuesday an Inquest was taken before Mr. STIRLING, at the New Inn, Tottenham-court-road, on the body of an elder ly woman, who was found dead in an uninhabited house, near Store-street. The house had been for some time under litigation, and it was not known that any one was in it ; however, some occasion being given, the house was entered, and the poor woman found.—There was not, how ever, any circumstance elicited to induce any. other verdict than " Died by the Visitation of God," which the• Jury, under the direetioo of the Coroner, recorded. - - VIOLENT ASSAULT AND BRUTAL ACT.—Yester day, at Bow street,. an atrocious wretch, named Joseph Thomas Wakeman,- a lighterman, was com mitted for a most savage assault on a fellow-wOrk man, named Cotton, whom, without any provo cation, he had seized by the throat, and nearly strangled; and having forced the longue not of the mouth, hit off the end of it. He was not con tent with this frightful cruelty, but proceeded to beat his almost insensible victim with his fists, and finally felled him to the ground. The Ma gistrate, Mr. 131RNIE, said he should require 48 hours not ice of bail. A fine nude child wa•fonnd at the door of Mrs. H ERICH ELI, in Pollet-street, on Wednesday even ing. The body was covered with a blanket and rug. The child appeared strone; and healthy, and about two months old. Mrs. IL gave the infant protection. Sunday night, during the absence of Mr. Purdy and his family from his house, Grove-lane, Horse monger-lane, some thieves broke into his house and stole a quantity of valuable plate, linen, and other property. The shop of Mr. Solomon Davies, tobacconist, in the Borough, was entered a few nights ago by a robber, who, unperceived, carried off a cask of snuff, value 201. Wednesday night the house of Mr. AcsoP, Bel 7 zopher-place, Bermondsey, was entered by break ing open a door with al, iron crow, and robbed of wearing apparel and a variety of : valuable property.i, HOLYHEAD PACKETS. The following' article, taken frern The Free man's Journal of Dublin, of the 2Gth inst., has been transmitted to us by a Correspondent. As ihe matter is interesting to the Commerce of the Sister Island, we insert it, and shall readily open our Columns to any arguments in support of the 'measure in question. We are perSuaded, how ever, that thevigilant, intelligent, and experienced Officer,. who Aso ably superintends the Post:office Department •in this Capital, must have been con. suited on the'subject, and that he never would have concurred ir4 any measure which did not evidently tend tn the benefit of both Countries. HOLYHEAD I , Aciurs. To the PROPRIETOR of The Frecntan's Journal. obServed in your Paper of the ISth iust.i- an at ticle f r rom a Correspondent, re. bating to a new regulation about to be made, its consequence of an order of.the Lords of the Trea sury, permitting the • Post, Office• Packets to carry goods between Holyhead-and -Dublin, I ant in duced to offer a few 'observations, with a request that you will let theM meet .the,public eye, which is best calculated to ex a mine th e me rit s o f the pro -1 posed plan: Your Correspondent must be 111 i - as to the present state•of the communi, cation between the ports of Holyhead and Dublin-, as he commences by declaring that there are no means of Obtaining any article irom London in a shorter space of time than three weeks, .whil e , it is known, that there has been for many years a re gular conveyance between ttrose ports, which does at present, and for a considerable time past l u reduced to a certainty the receiving packages from Holyhead in Dublin weekly.. This fact. is proVed by the Custom-House daily list of imports and exports, which skews, that on the IVednesday and Thursday in every week, there area considerable number of entries passed, and duty paid, to a very large amount, on the goods an it ing..by the Holy head weekly trader. " Your Correspondent also errs materially in his statement of the expence now attendant on the receipt of parcels from Holyhead,, and I am in• dined to believe they are not greater than might he expected, considering the, taxes laid on entries in the Custom Houses of Holyhead and Dublin, and the number of agents necessarily employed, when, packages are unaccompanied by their owners. It is therefore to be feared, that the re. duction held out .to the public is a matter tending rather to induce them to employ the conveyance for which lie seems interested, than as likely lo be carried into effect, as be states, that the carriage' trout London to Holyhead is to be but 3(1. per lb, weight, and the ex pence from Holyhead to the place of destination in Dublin-one-fourth of that sum but it must be recollected, that each , package is to undergo au examination in the two Custom Houses of Holyhead and Dublin, as well, as payment of duty and expellees of entry (which, appear altogether to. have esclped the notice of your Correspondent.) • " With respect to the advantage to be derived by this country, in consequence of the proposed new arrangements, it can as yet be but matter for speculation ; however, front its present ap pearance, it does not seen) likely to he so be neficial as anticipated by your Cot respondent..--- He justly admits that it will injure the hatters, milliners, shoemakers, tailors,' but these (with but very few additions) comprehend all the ma nufactures at present carried on in this country. " At the period of the Union it was found oe cetsary to protect the manufactures of Ireland from annihilation, by placing a duty on almost every article of import from England ; acd, to se cure the collection y that duty, packets and other passage vessels, not being subject to the restric tions of trading vessels, were prohibited from c arrying any goods, excepting only pussengrrs' l uggage, the consequence of which was, that im portation was carried on on fair principles, all importers being placed on an equality, and the protection granted by the Act of Union justly af forded. But if the Post-Office packeti-are permit ted to carry tite packages (which by the existing law is considered to be the business of traders only) it will be found that the chief facility af forded by the - change will be to a contraband trade, and consequently a vital injury to the King's Revenue as well as the fair trader ; it will also materially affect the eublic works, for the erection and preservation of which the Taxes on Jraditig vessels are laid, because Howth not be ing within the Port of Dublin, vessels discharging there, without duty, will not be liable to the im posts laid for the Light-horses, Quay Walls, Dooleary Pier, &c. ; and moreover the new regu lation cannot he supposed to apply exclusively to the Holyhead • packets, but must of equal right 'extend to all vessels employed as packets between the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, giving them the right to connect their privileges as packets with their employment as trading vessels.. " On every account it seems extraordinary, that as the Legislature found it absolutely necessary to the collection of the dwies, that ail vessels, not traders, should he prohibited by Act of Parliament front carryiug goods liable thereto, that sin u a regulation should be remiered void without %WO^ ther Act repealing it ; and also that as the com merce of Dublin appears certainly most likely to be, affected, that the measure should be disposed of, without any apparent reference to, ur inter ference of the City Members. " I tel assured, Sir, that had those ideas sug gested themselves to the Committee alluded to by your Correspondent, they would have hesitat ed to carry the measure to the extent proposed. " 1 am, Sir, " Your most obedient humble Servant, " Dublin, Dee, 21, 1818." " A TRADER. The house of Mr.. Marsh, Onion -street, Bo rough-road, was broke open on Tuesday night, anti a box was rifled of its contents, 'viz.--a Bank note for 1001. five smaller notes., and other valu able property. •It is _supposed that the 'robbers :were %yell acquainted mitt, the premises and the habits of the family. Every thing else remained untouched.