The Sun. — London, England, 1819-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN. tOBIIETI"s UNNION OF PAINE. bee to ,ohmit h the Sopportess of CAnt.rLp. and Admiiers ni i'Attsitt, tiro following character or the I,tter gia,Dhemer. It was ‘Nrittell in May, 1796, when , COBBSTT wa:, or seemed to be, 14 believer in 0.-.-itianity aivi t triend tit Monarchy. That tit Ci t .,. s - erl Libel, 'hi .:Ali;e of Ri6son, for which . CAto.n.P. ii now gwaitinz his (I trust, sufficient) plini•liinent, is tie subject ,ot Mr. Cos- BK - rr's " As to the work itself, it cannot be better ilecribett than by saying that it is as stupid and as despicable as its a►►Otor. The wretch bas all his life bee►► employed in iebiding fools aStIAV fr,on their dt>te ; and, as nothing is more easy; he has often succeeded. His rehgiou k exactly Of A idece W;11) hiS pOilliell; one inenleates the tight o f revolting against Government, and the other, .111.41 of revolting against Goi. liccee.!ed against the Li rd's anoin:ed, (1 mean, big mid our ci-devarti friend, the Most Christian King,) be to - riled his impious arms against- the Loud himself. This process is het featly natural, us has been exemplified in the conduct of others, AS %cell as !hat of NINE." [CoBBETT then proceeds with a sketch of this miscreant's lite, which I shall offer you for a fu ture number ; and relates, that be composed " The Age of Reason" just at the time when the French Radicals disowned Christianity, and set up the worship of " The Goddess of Reason — to propitiate their blood thirsty Atheism and save himself from the Guillotine.] " I would by no means be understood as be. iievinz that PAINE'S book was a desertion of his principles ; for, as before observed, he had been corrupted years before. It is the disgraceful mo tive for publishing his creed that I am exposing. That it was done to make his court to the tyrants of the day, cannot be doubted ; for in all his for. mer works, if he has occasion to speak of the Christian Religion, he does it in decent, if not in respectful language. In his Rights of Man', for instance, he. extols toleration ; and observes, that all religions are good ; but, as soon as he had got into his new-fashioned study—a dungeon—he discovered that they were all bad ; or at least the Christian Religion ; and it was of the divers deno minations-of that Religion that he before pretended fo speak. When he said that all religions were good *, be was an abominable hypocrite ; or he is one now, when he tells us that the Christian Religion is a very bad one." " It will be said by Tones deistical friends, that the Second Part of the Age of Reason was written after his releasement, and at a time when he was in no danger. Very true ; but the die was cast ; the First Part was out, and there was no recalling it. He had openly attacked both Heaven and Earth ; he could do no more. One essay at blas phemy was as good as a thousand for establish ing his new pretensions to infamy ; but THOM S bad now something else to attend to besides his reputation;--I mean, his belly.'' " Tom's fate in France was nearly what it had been in America. When it was no longer neces sary to employ him, he sunk into neglect. Happy, if he could have ceased eating, when his insurrec tion talents became useless : but as he could not, be must continue to write; and, as he was in a country where be was permitted to revile none hut the ALMIGHTY, the ALMIGHTY be reviled. The present of poison which he sent to his of America, is not therefore so much the work of choice, but of necessity. The So-coact l'ait of the Age of Reason he wrote for a lip i~ra, a ml the First Part he wrote for h i s life. " Those who prefer a few years of life to every thing else, may fiood au excuse for this degraded man: it is impossible for any of us to say bow we 9110,iid act at the foot of the guillotine. But, what shall be said to those who, pressed by nei• tlier clanger nor Want, make uncommon exertions to spread his infamous Ferformance among the ig norant part of their countrymen, and thereby sow the seeds of vice, inquietude, and du spit. ?, Again-: Deists may find some apology for doing this ; but who will dare to become the apologist of those J3ooKsew.cits t, who, professors of the Christian faith, ►hrow out this bait of blasphemy to catch unwary comers, and, s►niiing at ►heir simplicity, pocket the dirty pence ? Such men (and they are but too numerous) are like the Hollander on the coast of Japan ; who, to outstrip others in trade • P'ue Irma viri—this is a dilemma which COBBETT has made for himself. I should like to see how the OLD TIMES, too, will get out'of it. t CARLI I.E is not in this scrape, as he utterlyabjures Chris , tiantty. But he turned infidel, perhaps, for the sake of his shop ; ire like poor Apothecary WxrsoN, he could not get the GO Vri n en tto support him. I see no difference be tween tie two Blasphemers, PAINE and CARLILE, except that the f,.rmer wrote his impieties in a dungeon, and that the latter got into a dungeon by publishing them. Long may he remain there! with the natives, tramples on the cross of his Si- rionr." The -following is CoirsETT's own Note, which I leave hint to settle with CAIMILE upon his le tns-n, even as he " I know a printer and bookseller, who has taken for his sign the picture of the blasphemer PA! e. This undoubtedly is to inform the ama teurs of insurrection and infidelity, that they may be supplied within. It is nu more than fair, to ityptite this intention to him who hangs out such a sign. When KATTERFELTa placed the pic ture of the Devil over his door, it was to in form people, that HELL WAS TO BE SEEN - IN His UOU SE." FLINT. DR. BARROW against the BLASPHEMERS. We have been rigiosted by persons of high n 'revel-able charac,er to give insertion to the following . extract liom a Sermon of that great and good Divine, Dr. ISAAC BARROW " There hash been a race of mit (and would to God that rac.e were not till now continued), con cerning whom the Psalmist said (Pajxxiii.S ) "they • speak loftily, they set their mouth against the Ilea vetis;" who, the-proud SeOnacherib," litt up their eyes, and exalt their 'voiceagainst the liolV One of Israeli — (Is xxxvii. 23. 2chron. xxxii. 19.) who, with the profane Ant ioehms, " speak mar vellous things against the God of GOda." (Dan. xi. 36.) Now he that cloth thus, either believeth the ex'stence of God anti the limb of religion, or he dist, usts them. It he cloth believe them, what a desperate madness is it in him advisedly to, invite certain mischief to his home, and poll dorm heaviest vengeance on his own• bead, by opposing die irresistible power, and provoking the inflexible justice of God ! What an abomi 7 liable villainy and baseness is it, thus to abuse God's immense goodness and mercy, offering such despight to the Author of his being, and free Donor of all the good he enjoys ! Il'hat a nron trouts conspiracy is it of stupidity and pet verarness in him, thus wilfully to day his own weitate, to tot feit all capacity of happiness, to !;lunge himself into a doohle hell,.that ot hitter remorse here i r that of endless pails hereafter ! Bor if he that reproach ear Got and religious be supposed, distrust fol of heir being aod reality, neither so is be excusable from like deetees of folly and praeity; for, be sides the wild evravagance of such disbelief, against legions of cogent arguments sod pregnant testimonies, against all the voice of ',attire aud faith of history, against tire settled judgmeot of oiae and aober persons, who have coon(' and considered the point, against the, current tradi tion of all ages, and general consent of mankind (ail which to withstand no less dentonstratedt high indiscretion than arrogance), besides all the palpa ble silliness which he displays io causelessly draw ing upon himself the anger and hatred of till into who are concerned for the interests of their veil giott, thrusting himself into great dangers and misehiefs thence nt to hint both from pri• vase zeal and public law ; besides (I say)•l hese evident follies, there is an instifferable insolence arid horrible malice app eclat in this practice ; for it is no less than the height of insolence thutto af front mankind in matters of highest consideration and deepest resentment with it ; not only thwart ing its common notions, but vilifying the chief objects of its highest respect and affection ; of its main care and concernment ; so making the fie, cest invasion that'ean be on its credit and charging it with the greatest fondness. Who can endure that lie, whom he apprehends to be his grand Parent, Lis best Friend and Be nefactor, his great Patron and Sovereign, should in downright terms be defamed or disparaged ? Woo can patiently bear that, wherein lie placed, his utmost hopes and supreme to be expressly slighted or sent ned ? Who can take the offering to do this otherwise than for a most injurious reflection upon his judg ment and his practice ? If he cannot believe in God, lie may let them alone who do ; —if he will not practice Religion, he may forbear to persecute it. He cannot pretend any zeal ; it is, therefore, only p' jute that moves him to dis turb us. So may every man, with all the reason in the world, complain against the prolittie talker. Seeing also it is roost evident that hearty reverence of God, and a conscientious regard to Religion, do produce great benefits to mankind (being in deed the main supports of common honesty sod sobriety, the sole curbs effectually restraining men from fraud and violence, from hrmish lusts and passions), since (as Cicero with good reason judged), piety, being removed, it is probable that justice itself could not subsist, no faith could be secured, no society could be preserved among men ; it being manifestly vain to fancy that without religious conscience any one will be a good subject, a trite friend, or an honest man ; or that any other consideration can induce men to prefer duty to their Pilate, the prosperity of :heir country,fidelity toward their friends or neigh bours, before their own present interests and plea sure ; since, I say, the coedit of Religions is so very beneficial •and useful to mankind, it is plain that be must be exceedingly spiteful and malicious, who shall by profane discourse endeavour to sup plant or shake it. He that disparages religion, doth certainly take his aim against virtue, and would not have it practised in the world ; hi. meaning, plainly is to effect, if he can, that met) should live beasts in foul impurities, or like fiends its mischievous iniquities. Such an one, there fore, is not to be taken as a simple embracer of error, but as a spiteful designer against common good." GROUSE SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.-This sea son, Mr. Thomas Craig, gamekeeper to the Go vernors and Commissioners of Greenwich Hos pital in Alston Moor, has killed 41 birds in 17 & but s , viz. 13 bhots brought down 26 birds, three shots nine more, and the 17th shot lay down no less than six, making in all 41 ; and only the Otilla day. he !gilled 12 plovers iu four s h ots , v iz. twice two and tviice four. T 1 - 1 E A T IC .\L REGISTER. Performed Last Night. T H EATRE ROYAL, DR" LANE.—King. Richard the Third : Itiellaid, Mr. iican ; QueeN Elizanetti, Mrs.Gluver. After which, No Song, No Supper. TidEATHE ROYAL, COVE , l'-(.3t1 HDEN.—King' iliellardi t Itichard, Mr. MacreAdy; Queen Elizatteth, Faucit. After which, Loduiska. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A FMEND TO TIE CONSTIrUTioN, and other Articles, To- Nlorrow: LORD MAYOR'S DAY —A Holiday at the Dank, East India, and South Se - a Houses. Arratvtn—l Dublin, I Waterford, I France. Dub--1 Guernsey and Jersey, I Holland, 1 Gotlenburgli, I Lisbon, 1 Hantburgh. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. NloriiitiK, U miwites after 8. Evet,;ng,2 , l twilutes after 8. TIIE SUN. 110 LEM QUIS DiCEHE; VA E.Stlll AIIDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1819. • 11 7 •reCeived this morning Ihe Park Pipers Friday and Saturday last. Tfie following are extracts : " I'Agis, Nov. G.—The King did not go ont either ou yesterday or 'firritsday. Eliy M.ijesty 'transacted business yesterday with the Marquess 'lle3-Bolles. " Preparations were commenred yeste;day for .the Aleeting of the Chamber of Devofies. It i 3 said, in one of the Jonrua!s, that as the health of Eris Majesty will not permit him to wi ont, the opening of the Silting on the 15th instant will take place in the Gallery of Diana. " It is . said that the Princess of Wiles has quitted Lyons, for the pitrpme of tettnniog to Italy. " Letters from Spain state, that the propaga tion of the Yellow Fever is owing, in an especial degree, to the soldiers wtoi were disbanded, and who spread themselves through the Southern parts of the Peninsula. It is said, that one of these soldiers having arrived at Barcelona, was immediately shot. The precautions taken on the frontiers of France, pm event any cause of dis quietude. " By an order of the Emperor of Ansttia of the 7th ult, Lithographic presses, either for print lug or engraving, are prohibited, unless used with the special-authority of Government. The pu nishment for contravening this order to he the same as for having a clandestine printing press. rive eats CENTS. Thursday .. , - 0 f. 65 c. Friday DEFER!IED ST. , CK. Thursday. Friday. Of the 22d March, 1817....9- f. 70 c 92f. 50 c. 22(1 Sept. 1317.... 90f. 70 90 f. 50 c. 22d March,}Bl9. ... 86 f. 70 c..... 88 f. 50 c. 22d Sept. 1918. ... 86 f. 70 f. 50 c. 22d Ala rch, 1919 84 f. 70 c..... 84 f. 50 c. 22d Sept. 1819 82 f. 60 c..... 82 f. 70 c. MADRID, OCT. 26.—The yellow fever ‘v•Eich desolnies Andalusia continues its ravages, and makes every day new progress. At Seville, where it was hoped it was concentrated in the quarter of Santa Cruz, it has become necessary to cut off all communication with several houses si!usted in other parts of the city, on account of their be ing infected. The developemeht of the conta gion beyond the first sanitary line, has ren dered it necessary for the Captain-General of Estramadora to establish a new cordon on - the frontiers of that Province on the side next Seville. Measures have been taken to cut off all commu nication, and Lazarettos of Observation are to be established at Badajoz. " The last reports from Cadiz were : Deaths. Sick. The 15th instant. 16th 17th .. ISO 99 12,465 AT PORT ST. MARY. Deaths. Sirk. The 14th instant 15th l7 16th l4 17th lB AT SAN FERNANDO (ISLA DE LEON.) Deaths. Sirk. The 18th instant l7 14th l2 15th l3 " FRANKFORT ON THE ODER, OCT. 23.—Let ters from Warsaw contradict the report of rein forcements baying been sent to the 'rimy of the South in Russia. " The most profound tranquillity prevails on the frontiers of Turkey. " FRANKFORT(ON THE MAIN) Nov. 2.—The Central Commission of Mayence is on the point of commencing its operations." Boston Papers arrived this morning to the 15th of October. (From a Baltimore Paper, Oct. 14) NEW-YORK, OCT. 11.--A letter from New Or leans, of the lltk ult. says, " New Orleans can at this-time be compared to nothing less thau a house or liritc;ion and mourning, I h lye heArd tile ° were 54 burials yesterday ; they have been avo: aged at more than 25 for some days past, tho'►h'' it is believed the White population remaining ilt the city does not exceed 8000 souls." FROM THE MAINE. Sr. THOMAS'S, SEPT. I3.—Since your dePa" tore, there are no at rivals from Margaretta; an d we are apprehensive that place is still blockaded' part of the Spanish - Fleet having left Porta Cabello for that purpose yesterday. We had eft arrival front Santa Martha, which confirms a previous account of BoLIVAR'S success; he has taken Santa F 4, and was well received by the in habitants. SA MANTA escaped with only two fola lowers. Our victorious General, following up the blow he had already struck, has since taken Par guir and Mourbox, and no doubt ere this he 1 " 9 hoisted his flag of liberty on the walls of Ser i Martha. The old English Admiral returned from, Laguira on Saturday last with the Spanish, schooner Josefe : it is said they have betwee n them one hundred thousand dollars. It is re" ported that General PAszbas been at ivoi k again, and that he had fallen in ' with a division of Mottit.t.o's troops, about. 4.0 r 500, and-not otte returned with tlfe information. (From the Boston Piper of Ike sth Oct.) Letters received in•Wasbington, dated on board the United States veisel oft'An4osturs, . 3 ingtist state, that the Patriot naval force consists of fo" r gnu-boats of one gun each, with a crew of 5° met:, under Commodore PaDottEv. At which Commodore PE..riRY and other Officers riot to the,Republican Vice-President, he acknovvi hedged the wretched_ and exhausted state of th e country, which he. obstrved was like a flyin 4 coach. - The -Europeans, who have entered the service of the Repoblicans, are stated_ to be dl 5 gusted with the service, the Officers having 01 ; 11 received 10 .dollars for a year's set viee.-11oLiva s is represented as being absolute in authority. We have received several Letters from Members of the Orthodox Church, in consequence of an al . ‘ tide recently inserted in this Paper, importing tb fle a negociation was said to be on foot for re into illicit% the Gn KNV LL ES into power, the stipulate(' condition required by that party being turth' r, concessions to the Roman Catholics. That the •Ciarsvut.us are incurably attached to what is at '; studly styled E MAN C IPATION , we h ave no d ou bt, 0 1 ''' that is the reason why the People at large, who' thank Heaven, are staunch Protestants, and as body untainted by licentious and blasnhentons 110 0 ‘, nines, are certainly hostile to their •resumpli aTTl of powerTbottire spirit which prevails among lb e Catholics in Ireland, their tit:Ceasing M e etiog / and Machinations to accomplish their purros e i, and the rumoured Coalition to which we a dvert' eel in tl.e article alluded to, have excited in alarm in otir Clergy, many of whom `` e ' , limber among the most valuable of ° tic Correspondents. lYe confess that we do n °C sympathize in this alarm, because we are sure that the PrttNcE ItuoENT, from filial reverence a., as a solemn sense of duty to the P eo pl e , will 151 rigidly adhere to the CORONATION OATH, (tie only basis of legitinprc authority in this ?or' ttstant Empire, and because, white we ha ve LivEnPoot., an ELDON, a BATHWAST, a S ll3. , MOUTH, and other Members of the present 0(1 ; vernment in power, we doubt not th e ir zril firmness in supporting the purity of our itdigi oll i which is vitally connected with the existenc e the Constitution. We are surprised that The British Press shoul d have gravely taken up a rumour invcilled by l' he ; (Old) Times,. and only to be found in that Pane' °- yesterday, importing that certain persons in tila City had conceived the idea of petitioning the II gislature to protract the issue of gold coin hey" e( the limited period. We treated the report will : - the contempt which it deserved, and The ( 014 ' Times is wisely silent on the subject this daY' ....4 The British Press ought to know better than VI E depend on any thing that has the mere authority that Paper. The whole, we are assured, is a "' erg ! fabrication; but if it were not ; wonld the inten ile° , of a few obscure individuals to obtrude themselve on the Legislature, upon a matter of the u tmost O r. portance to the Public at large, deserve such °.; tention as The British Press has bestow ed °n ' in a long article this day, when it might to I ' slo treated it with contempt and ridicule, as tive effort of a Paper perpetually shiftlogP a . cLe. anxious' to excite notice, ah)idst th e vcb l ui it has lately incurred by foul abuse and ve nom') prejudication. n CHURCHER'S COLLEGE.--`loch import ant re'• interesting information having been obta i " e` col• Specting the management of " Churche r's lege," PetcrFtield, an order has, we undeilt-ciors been obtained to amend the original Jntnrel3d iL tiled against the Trustees, that they ny'Y 141/ answer to the further inquiries, which "“ co ial cessary to the complete develupement Of 0)e • state td this excellent Institution. t h e abor; 1 ;V, 4114 X kid Fa L aved, 14th c IVew thA Mild Di r naica. *it', tl the AL Po n d ittrra Sailed Mint! 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