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FOR THE SUN. HOLY ORDERS.—[No. IXI PREDESTINATION. -CHAP. VI. MR. EDITOR—Once more it may he necessary to Address you upon this very difficult topic, as it is the train doctrine of those with whom we are contending, the con sunipation of all their devout wishes, so natural, of abso . :lute Election for themselves, and not quite so natural, of absolute reprobation to them who are nut of the same per . suasion. And what I woitld address to you relates chiefly to one passage *to Scripture. .to which I have before aljuded, taken front the Epistle to Lie Romans, which is•regFaded by the Supralapsarians so sovereign in authority, as to be calf d the golden chain of Predestination; like that which was fabled of old in the hand of Jupiter, upon which the fate both of na tions and individuals was suspended. And surely if only one single passage can be found in the whole of Scripture to support a doctrine so palpably, by their own admission, in opposition to the common cruse and ap prehension of snail,. we might be ready to suppose their might be some error in the interpretation of the passage ; or if •riglitly interpreted, its capacity of a double sense might justi fy that interpretation, which is not only toot e coniistent with reason, but with. the rest of Scripture.• Now when we would fairly interpret an obscure passage in • any writings, we refer to the occasion on which it was Writ ten ; for unless we tool; back to the interests in agitation at She time, we should lye involved in contradictions not to be reconciled but by the light of history. On those subjects which more immediately concern the people, as in matters - of practice, the Scriptures speak in tan gl oiee n l,i i ;i•, ! ! forcible : but in, points of doctrine, it is ne• cessary for them to refer to the opinions of those who hart enjoyed more leisure and. talent to look into the history o times. In this passage therefore we will refer to that history; am. one fact welt aSeertained . will ,he enou g h to untavel- the 4nosi 'subtle and complex chain of reasoning whicit has no fonoda, Jim' to - support it. Now it is a well-knoVen 'fact that-malty of thefirst Christians were JudaizingClo isfiwes, called so h z.cause t hey had only been converted in part to Christianity. Some errors still remain- • cd, and soperstitiMis attachment and partialities to their owl) nation, as pre-eminently favoured from the first brgi ning, and still destined to enjoy that pre-eminence to the very end. . Thousands of them are recorded in the Acts, - upon Whose conscience the light of ' evidence flashed conviction, so that • they could not but believe in its general doctrines ; but they could. not SO far purge their national prejudice, as to maintain the in its genuine purity; more especially in that part of it which seemed to offend their pride, the adoption of the Gentile- into the same rights and privilegrs.with this highly favoured. People. NO full, indeed, were many 44 this pride-that they disdain- I ! fully stood out with the same envy and prejudice as the elder ' 'son, who anticipates their character in the Parable. and will not stoop to partake with his younger Brother; standing upon his birth-right and his high prerogative. How eatural then is it for the Apostle to endeavour to bring them again into the Father's house by every argument in his power ; and what could be a stionger argument than that which here afers for the benevolent purpose, that their whole nation was originally chosen to enter the first into that house, and to be the first-horn of many brethren ; nut so Much for their own sakes as their Prophets had so often told them, or for their own ranscendant Merit in the Father's sight, as - from the benign purpose of his will supreme; who dispenses his favours to onc.more than another, and to theirs more freely, according to the secret counsel which was in his bosom from all eternity—and which could be then more and :more developed as that counsel was coining to maturity— and bis reflation was to be more universal and better under- - stood. • All this would be more clearly seen, if we had the space ,to entet into the argument of the following Chapter of this Epistle, which is far too lung for us at present, and indeed, cannot be necessary, as it has been so frequently put in the same light by ninny eminent writers of the Church, both in the present and former ages, who have most indisputably proved, that the whole scope of this Epistle relates not so notch to individuals as to nations,. enur e particularly the jewish ; the converts of whom called for all the labour anti zeal of him, who was by distinction, the Apostle of the Gen tiles, to conciliate their treated notions of .high favour and prerogation, with the dispensation of that light, no longer to shine only on one people, .but to all people in whatever clime, that will not shut their eyes against it. • But not only is this Epistle addressed to the Jewish convert, to enlarge his contracted million; of a peculiar adoption, and expand his feelings to his fellow converts of other nations, but at the same time to console those other nations as well as 'the former converts under the arduous trials which they were .obliged,,inthese early ages of persecution, to endure. This will appear to he the real design of the Apostle, to any who will not confine them selves, as the manner of some is, to a single passage,-but will take the pains to teal the wtjule of the Epistle front beginning to end. • All of an impartial spirit will soon be convinced that this address Was not to contract the heart, already too contracted, of the Jewish convert, by suggesting high sentiments of fa• vouritism, which they were of themselves too apt to encour age, much less to confine any particular part of other nations, ail of whom were before excluded from the Church, within the narrow rule of their own persuasion, as if they alone were • predestined to salvation, and all the rear of Mankind to ever • lasting death ;" but to console- 'both converts under all their • fiery trials, when appearances were so stiongly against them, more especially as they bad been so recently converted, anti many at that time entertained some superstition about suc • rest being the criterion of truth, and therefore might impute . their preseot calamities, which bore so hard upon them, to the badness of their cause, and the imposture of that Master who called them -to support it. Hence he expects them, so fat from desponding. torejoiee in tribulation;-e" if we sutler with him, we may also be glorified together; we may Ite led like him through suffering to glory, the former of which is. not to be compared with the latter, that shall be revealed in us ;" and after along expos tulation in the same strain, he subjoins the celebrated pas ' sage so mach insisted - on, and indeed, the only passage in the whole scripture, that can bear the possibility of such construction, in favour of absolute and unconditional Predes tination.' White this passage, properly taken with the context, as be fore uhterved, is . clearly but a continuation of his Encourage , merit to the Converts of Route, whether Jews ur Gentiles, un der all the pressure of their trials, to 'persevere unto the end as the Elect of God in his secret Counsel. front flee first, now •• revealed in the Gospel to which they are called. For after this Preface, the spirit helpeth our infirmities and maketh intercession with groanings. "We know that all things work together for good tothern who love God—to them who are called according to his purpose," which has been be fore explained ; for whom he did foreknow to be so Called and • qualified fur the Kingdoin of God, be did predestinate, to be confirmed to the image of his Sons moreover, whom he did . .predystitiate, or. whoa". he foteksiew was to enjoy thr King slum, them he has now called, now that the fulness of time is cote, and those whom he bias thus called, he has justified, . and them be also glorified ; by the first of which expressions, he is said to remit their past sins, and by tbe last, to pour out his spirit upon them, tpe pledge, if they will hold it fast, of their future glory. All this. then, can never. be intefpieted but by the strong est prejudice in favour of the "doctrine upon which absolute '• Predestination is founded—that the foreknowledee of God is established upon his absolute ,discret forit distinctly says, whom he did foreknow he also did ptedestinate, plainly in • tit:sating that his decree was established upon his foreknow . ledge ; and what follows is in the same strain, as we before observed : indeed, to behold it in any other light is to make it contradict the whole tenor of the Scripture, which declares so generally in favour of Universal 'Redemption. Whenever there is any appearance to the contrary, it is only for want of attention to the peculiar circumstances of the application, as in this'atill other parts of Saint Paul's Epistles. The Jews are addressed as a chosen people in former times, not as chosen for them Selves, but for a good and important purpose in the Counsel of s lehovah, to keep his name sacred from the pollutions of surronudiug Nations. Christians in general are in very different circumstances ; even as a body, • .they can only know that they are called, but except the Apostles and a very few extraordinary Ministers of his will . where the choice was justified by the greatness of the occa . .sion, then-can mime he at all assured with any thing that approaches to assurance, that they are in reality chosen. Expressions, therefore, that apply to the ,ertuilehody of the Jews, as a peculiar people before the: light of the Gospel; or only th the great and leading instrument. of God's dispensation, in these early ages, ought oriel - to be applied to any in sire ceesting ages, unless there appears to be an ciedasion worthy of 1 a di clime interposition. . 'mu such an occasion arise we must be content to allow that. there might be circumstances peculiar to the Jews, as a body, or to - turtle of the converts of the early ages, which call. ed aloud for their election in the covenant of God, and yet that none of us • being in the same .covenant to presume upon the same election. The Jews were. chosen, not as individuals hut as a body, tu telopu• rat blessings and not to eternal - . What analogy then can there exist between us and them in this respect? no more than the promised Land.has with the Kingdom of Heaven. The whole of their pie-eminence was only.a barliiitger of the liglifthat,,is now come into the world ; and now that that-light is cothe, there is no aiore:paiticular-chuic, expressly•marked out, upon the beads of a select few, except as occasion might, • arise s and such selection promote the g rand purpose of Uni versal Redemption. Without such occasion it appears to be a most dangerous doctrine to believe in the election of a few, without an the least regard to . their good life and conduct; and t Ire -repenhation of the rest ; then indeed as (Quest. 7.),1 This cooelosiOn is most obvious and undeniable, however his adversary may-chnse to evade it. Once tidies ing that ‘otrr state in the nest world will not at all depend Upon our behaviour in 'this, we shall go forth un coot i (Jule(' in the indulgOrte of our passions, but by the fear of temporal punishment, which will be our only restraint upon those litsts;and appetites which infect the peace and harmony of ourselves and those amend us. It is said, that this is the " Creed of none but.the rankest A111;110[16 , 11; and to lake this for granted of the Predestin :unit's, is an artifice unworthy of the Bislison, as he most know their sentiments according' with Set ipture, that without holi ness no ; l i n o snail see , . the Lord, aird that the wicked shall he tweed into hell, and all,the people that forget God; and the e tore tl ey supply us with every reasonable hope anti fear, as if we coil put chase Heaven b y our own doings?' But, ho.,iver.honest and sincere the Predestinarian linty be in his intention, or however subtle in his reasoning, t h e consequences drawn by his Lordship are fair and unanswer , stile to all commoo apprehensions, however it may app e ar to th•.se chosen sew exalted spirits; the absolute elect ton of the ' I we, and the absolute reprobation of the other :rum all ch.- witlimit any the least refetence tti their conduct, must ever appeor the greatest of all encimrageitients to both, to go on pa) Ing uu regard to it; tneallNe, whatever they way 00, the one must be saved, and the othei condOuned everiast- • ingly. men of Such Persuasion refine as they will with all those trice evasions, of which tiny may tie such great masters, the leoole %stuts they instruct cannot, but draw by a direct i oference this. one,,,conclosion ; and then, nu ilia/ter whether " the former conleo that they are " Fleet Milo 'obedience, or that holiness must 'be tho e,,iiseqlience of election, yet if the last are toad Most expressly that they are elected with out regard to holiness, how natural is it hit them, more es pecially if their evil lusts predoininate, which follow from their original corrtiption, especially as depicted in the darl, cohirs, in which our adversary delights to depict theta, how natural I,say is it for them to listen with rapture to a doe, tri n e lik t this, so favourable to the indul4enc e of their bad propensities, and lease with Wing temerity, like must vie tons to their passions, all the consequences to shift for them- ..re therefore melt venture to preach, in this strain, ty should prove most satisfactorily, wit hunt; the shadow of a doubt to themselves, from a variety of plain and connected pasSaglis„almost beyond the possibility of controversy, a doc trine so pregnant with the elements of discord to the com munity at large, as well as con t racy to the general spirit of the Gospel, and yet such as their folhavers May naturally deduce without any force or - st rainiug, and are kt; the coustant habit of deducing 'by the. simplest and most direct inference front their ono general repetition. What appears su entirely to militate against the plain duc t, ire and commandments of religion should at least be as plainly delivered as either those commandments or doctrines. Else, if we know au) , thing of the treachery of the heart, we may soon determine which way it will incline, whether to those doctrines and commandments which would thwart its evil lusts and affections, or to such as would almost by direct consequence encourage, and I may say consecrate - them, as belonging to the Family of the Elect, and therefore received into the Ark of Faith, to enjoy the promises .vouchsafed to he Faithful. These Preachers, with the best intentions, may " mean t y to deny all Claim in Man, and to shat out pride and . .righteousness, those odious and destructive vices, which tl.e cup'of salvation as we take it to our lips ;" but icy consider nit, that, denying all claim even in the re motest sense, they shot , out together with it, all Motives to Faith and Obedieuce, and wake the voluntary and involun tary agent, the just and the unjust, alike to drink of the cup of salvation. l'hey may contend, that the first " link in the Golden Chain of Pied. stination is Election, the second Grace, the third fifuliness, and the (math Salvation but if they also contend not only for this gradation, but that once elect ed, they never fall from grace, and therefore never from sal vation, h o w easy is it for the curious and carnal, lacking the sp u ta. of Christ, but boasting of his power, trout one of their mysterious impulses, which they never fail to imagine at the hearing of an extraordinary discourse, or. at one or other of their secret though sensible experieoces•which Wait upon the godly, all at once to rank themselves in the number of the Elect, and leave to cuter kith) Grace, from which they shall Beyer he recalled, and thence into Holiness and Salvation: though at she same time for this strange confidence they have no other authority froni the first to the last step of their spiritual progress, than thi extravagant phantom of their own presumptuons imagination, often excited and not sel dom confirmed in their wildest reveries, by the very voice that professes to instruct them in the plaits and sober truths of the Gospel. By such a belief (Q. 8.), the ruffian that goes forth upon the highway to transgress that law, may plead once believing this, that he is bound down to the transgression by the chain fixed from all eternity, of predestination; and that he is no more guilty titan the . brick or stone, which from the moul dering wall falls and wounds the unwary passenger. Such a doctrine as this, throws at once the reins over the nt ck of those passions that want the most controul, that t,reak our own peace and the peace of society ; and conse crates every impulse of Satan with the indelible sear of the Spirit, operating tmoin us by a blind fatality. Such men, so sealed, are now found, and have been in former times, whatever our adversary may say, who in fact plead this very doctrine in excuse for the grossest vices, and transgressions of the law ;, and some even of their most no torious Preachers, not %try long ago, have admitted that many have " wrested it to their own destruction." They have therefore been obliged to hold back And take good heed how they hasten to communicate to all, with Out distinction, a tenet so dangerous to the community, when unjustly inter preted', or put too liberally, in practice. • • . Happy would it he for such men if all would follow this example of forbearance and caution, if they would pause be fore they venture to commit a weapon of so keen a temper into bands as yet too lade and untaught to wield it. Armed with this weapon, the ignorant have gone forth in crowds, whatever this adversary may boast its its favour, and upon the strength of the divine Decree, the great rule of our doings, hare trampled upon the laws of nsan. as far inferior in the contemplation of the saints,and perfectly incompatible with divine election ! We all know what dreadful havoc . such self named saints have done formerly in the world, whenever they were let loose upon society to the wanton exercise of all their fierce passions, now tha' they are inspired, and no longer to be con trolled by the hand of the civil power. • Blessed be God, our Laws are as yet too powerful in them, selves, and too wisely administered, to be overthrown by men of the same stamp in the present times. rise strong arm of the State can as yet restraint the inundations of aupersti Com; but though it stay the mountain torrent that. would carry all before it, tho re is still sufficient fisrce its the rasing waters to find their way into the vale V lite, and slit ead in their coot se a dreary desolation, and tiny thing but peace and comfort wucreeer this doctrine teaches, distinguishing its con ei rts by a ; 41oonty and austere countenance which evinent ly belies their own Faith ; for • a merry heart maketh a cherrtul countenance," ' and whose countenance then ought to be more cheerful than his who r e ally believes in his heart what hr professes with h i s mouth„ that he is most infallibly assured of his own salvation ? Some of those Knight- - Errants of this woeful countenance, it is a fact " obvious and indisputahle" to those who are ver sed in the Annals of their History, have often turned either " Rebels, Traitors, or Criminals" of other descriptions, who, if thy have been instigated to crime by any .Creed, have hero e instigated by this most hotrible Doctrine of absolute Predest inatioo. Every ball has its commission.; as it has driven the MalM fuetan, so has it driven very many that profess to be Chris tians, to meet the enemy in the held; for nothiag they can. do will either , accelerate or retard their fate. As the fol lower after his own evil lusts rushes into his ruin, thrust by spirit, and mistaking its impulse four the good, into the wretchlessness of unclean living, no less petilous than desperation; while the others distracted with the terrors of the Lurd are sinking under the influence of the same spirit, Tutu all the horrors - of despair ; " having conti nually before their eyes the sentence of predestination they are thrust by the. Devil into desperation'," resigning every faculty to this sine over-ruling principle of which they are to tally possessed ; and nothing but the grace of God, who has already declared most positively against theta, can ever dis possess them. Go to the gloomy ruansions of the unhappy Maniacs, and there behold bow many of the tenantsaiwe their wretched ness to this sad perversion of the wre;cbed Faith delivered to yrs .be saints to illuminate Reason, and speak peace and comfort :o the heart. What then have they to answer for, who, instead of allow ing that Faith to'speak for itself thii language so naturAl to the God of Mercy who bath spoken ity delight rather to go about with the evil spirit, seeking whom to devour„to annoy and distract with the terrors of the Lotd; as if they were the terrors of the Lord, and not the bitter fruits of their own de sponding imaginations. PRICE 0' THIS DAY AT T 3 per Cent. Red. .(i9 70 G 9 'ii per Cent. (Ants' • ' shut 4 per Cents ti per Ct. Navy Ann shut HIGH WATER AT LO` DC Morning, 3 minntrs after 5. STOCKS VELVE O'CLOCK. Bank LontrAnn. - 1 dis. par Omnium Cons. tor Opening 7ll 71 )N BRIDGt TO-MORROW• Erming, 20 mutates aiter. TIIE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM A UDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1820. We received at a lafe hour this day the Paris Papers of Wednesday last. Those of Tuesday arrived last night. The former contain the KING'S Speech on the opening of the Session of the Chambers as follows : " PA R I S, Dec: 40. —Yesterday, the King opened the Session of , the Chambers in the usual state. His Majesty having taken his seat upon the Throne, after the arrangements of ceremony had been completed, delivered the following CCGii .- f' Mrsst El:BS—Arrived at the termination of a year, mark ed at first by the most grievous events, but so fertile since consolation and hopes, we ought, before it closes, to tetur thanks to Divine Providence for all hi; mercies. " Mourning Vas in my house, but a son bas been granted to my ardent prayers. France, after mingling her tears with mine, has participated in my joy and nay gratitude, with transports which I have deeply felt.. " Tim Almighty has not limited his protection to this event: we owe to bins the continuation of peace, that source of all prosperity. Time has only. served to knit closer the alliance of which France forms a part. This alliance, at the same time that it does away the causes of war, lends to ensure us against those dangers, to which social order or the politicatequilihrium might otherwise be exposed. " Thrse dangers become every day more distant, as to us ; I.cannot, ; however, be silent in this solemn communication with niy people, respecting those serious circumstances, which in the course. of the year.liave afflicted my beast. But I am happy in being enabled to say, that if the State and myfamily have, beets menaced by a conspiracy, too soon fol lowing the preceding disorders, it has beets made manifest that the French nation is faithful to its King, and indignant at the mere idea of seeing itself torn from his paternal sceptre,' and of becoming the plaything of a perturned spirit, Which it utterly detests. " This spirit has thus not interrupted the movement which carries bads France to the days of her prosperity. In the interior a continually increasing success has crowned the efforts of that laborious activity which is equally applied to Agriculture, to the Arts, and to Industry. "The an►elioration of the Revenue of the State, the eco mousy which I have .prescribed, and tire solidity attached to. credit, allow of being proposed-to - you, evert in the present Session, a further diminution of the direct taxes. This alle viation will t►e so much the more efficacious as A will produce a more equal division of the public burdenst " Such a result renders more dear - to me the du'ics which Royalty imposes. " To render perfect the movements of the great politica, bodies created by the charter, to place the different parts of the administration in harmony with that fundamental. law,to inspire a gic;eiaT confidence in the stability of the Throne, and in the inflexibility of the laws, which protect the interests of all, such is the object of my efforts. To attain it, tWo conditions are necessary, time and repose. We ought not to expect from nascent institutions what can only be . looked fur front their entire developernent, and the habits which they are destined toform; hitherto we have distinctly recognized, that Co public affairs patience and moderation are decidedly powers, and those which, of all ethers, deceive the least. Let us not for g et that it would be impossible for Government to maintain order, that chief guarantee of liberty, unless armed with a force proportioned to the difficulties whiclrenviron it. " Every thing announces that the modifica''ons intro duced into our Electoral System will produce the advantages Which I promised myself ; whatever increases the strength and the independence of the Chambers, adds to the autho rity and the dignity of my Crown. This Session will, I hope, Complete the work happily commenced by the last S e ssion. In confirming the necessary relations between the Monarch and the Chambers, we shall succeed in forming that system of Government which in all times so vast a Monarchy has called for, and which is most imperiously required by the present state of France and of Euaopt. • " in order to accomplish these designs that I wish to see prolonged the years that may be still reserved fur me; it is also for the purpose of accomplishing them that we ought to rely, you Messieurs, on my firm and inviolable Will, and me on your loyal and constant support." • The newly elected Deputies took the oaths ; the Sessions was formally declated to be opened, and the King took his departure with the accustomed ceremonies. " PARIS Dec. t9.—Yesterday mass was celebrated at the Metropolitan Church, on the occasion of the opening of the Chambers this day. The service was attended by the Princes and ptincesses, the Ministers, the Marshals, the Foreign Am ,bassadors, Peers, Deputies, &c., The . King continues to s:njoy the best health. His Majesty transacted business with the Doke de Richelieu. " Letters flop) Vienna of the 9th instant say, ' No one can doubt the result of the propositions which have been made to the King of Naples ; it is the dominant party, and nut the Monarchs, who will reply. It is on this supposition) too proba ble that all, the military arrangements will he completed.' " Colonel of the Ex-Imperial Guard, has been ar rested atTroarn, iu the arrondissement of Caen. He was immediately conveyed to Paris, by virtue of a Mandat Of the Commission of the Court of Peers employed in the Instruction relative to the Conspiracy of the 19th August. He has since been liberated. •• " The remains of M. Naldi were interred on Sunday, in the self. Rois cethetry of r a re La Chaise, after a funeral service in the Church of St. koch. FIVE PER CENTS. 79 f. 15 c. id 1. 15 c. Monday - Tuesday DEFERRED STOCK. Monday: Of the 22d March; 1817.. 108 f. 30 c. 22d March, 18 20 22d Sept. 1820. f. 30 c. 91 f. 40 c. " NAPLES, Nov. 80...—The Parliament has declared itself 'competent with roference to the affair of General Church. " MADRID, Dec. 7.—The Provincial Deputation of Barce rna have addressed to the King a Representatibn, in which Tuesday. ey complain, witl► extreme violence, of tl►e impunity en— yed by the enemies of the Constitution- 6 deadly enemies," ley say, whose ambers increase every day, and who de— rive front the Clergy their means, and their excitement.' " A Royal Decree, in execution of that of the Cortes, bas rohihited all political meetings under the name of clubs, r societies, ete A courier arrived yesterday. evening from Burgos : be .4s, it is said, alarming news ; and it is apprehended that ,en war must take place with the enemies of the present (ler of things. It is, however, well linown who are the ithors and the instigators of these rebellions movemehts. " NAPLES, DEC. I.—Yestettlay evening a lominoui globe was observed here, whias equalled the sun in apparent " VIZNNA, DEC. 9.—The two Emperors rot:1411:e still at T rig) p a , and it is again said they will remain there tilt arn answer is received from Naples. The Ministers of the great Powers continue their con- erence The Party Writers are amusing themselves with assertions and surmises, respecting the in- tentious" of Ministers, to instittite new proceed:- ings against THE QUEEN, now that their abuse of the late proceedings begins to lie too stalk', hackneyed and familiar to excite any thing but disgust in all rational men, whether favourable or adverse to HER MAJESTY. The Government of flanover is reviled by these Gentlemen by an- ticipation, and it is cautioned against lending it self to any measures which Ministers may here= after adopt on this painful business. We do not pretend to be in the confidence of Ministersi but from what We have heard, it is by no means probable that any measures which the lianove ria.n Government may adopt will at all re:ate to the grounds of the former proceedings against HER MAJ ESTY. It appears by letters rect4ved -this morning from the North, that the high Sheriff of NorC.-,- umberland has refused to call a County Meeting cc to take into consideration the recent Proceed ings in Parliament against the QUEEN, and t,) present an Address to hiss MAJ-EstY similar to that which was recently adopted in the County of_Durharn."—SirCuA IMES MONGK, Bart., weitcl on Mr. CLARK, the High Sheriff, on Wednesda 7 last, with the Requisition, when the latter imme diately informed him that he did not feel himself warranted in acceding to the wishes of the Gentle men who had signed the Requisition ; amongst whom, we understand, are- the Earls GREV, TANKERYILLE, and OsstiLsTos ; Sir J. SWIS BURN, Sir C. MONCK, Mr. LAMRTON, Mr. BeAumoNT, and about forty others.--Mr. CLAitK. will doubtlessly be attacked with all the vio lence and spleen of the Faction ; but the firm ness of his mind, and the high respectability of his character, will render him indifferent to Party clamour, from a consciousness of having fearlessly and uprightly discharged his duty to his Sove reign and to his Country. BVONAPARTE, &c.—The - letters from St He lena reach down to the recent date of the 7th of November, at which period BugN.k PARTE enjoyed good health, although it has been reported for several weeks (on the authorityladvices, bath direct and indirect) that he traseriously indis posed; heis,however,- frequently\wbject to fits of despondency, which - last for *lle days to gether, when he remains secluded as. well from his friends as from visitors. 'The circuit to which the Ex-Emperor was formerly limitod has re-. cently been extended., and he is permitted to ride and walk in a space of not less than fourteen miles. The advices add, that. several British Officers• bad been allowed interviews with him, aid particularly. General Doyy.-rox, who co►t . tinned' in the company of Buo-sAeAaTE for a long period. Ills 3lajesty's ships Glendower and Shearwater arrived at St. Helena on the 23d of October, and sailed again on the '2d of November for' the South American station. The Brazen sloop of war sailed on the same 'day for the Cape of Good hope. American merchant vessels fre-; quently arrived in the offing, and the masters o, them continued to manifest a considerable degree of dissatisfaction on bang ordered, by the Britisn Admiral on the station,.not to approach too neaf shore. 'Dueness or CIARENCI:.—\\ e are .happy to say, that the Duchess of CIAnENcE and the infant Princess are goi n g on so well, that Sir 11 , IlAt.roitn and Sir W. I'iNIGHTOti only occasion' ally call in on the Duchess, and the care of her Royal highness is mow left to Dr. HALLID.A.III her Royal Highness's regular Physician. The Royal Duchess has sat up for several days past, and is gaining - strength very rapidly. The Pant, Princess ELIZ 13F,T11, is improving daily. Thursday his IbL accompanied by the Duchess of GLOUCESTER and Princess AUGUSTM honoured the Earl and Countess of 11 .tn cotilt 1 with their company to dinner at St. Leonard 's .lull.• It That tot t 1 Pap - ; be r , l'elle faidi " Af th e TERN Polit 9-0 v( to dE 1-n Hilt faith 4iah( of h Pled Pale Is n Sell] SUbd 4 i} dal }►e