The Sun. — London, England, 1821-01-12 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.; • [Morning Post.] The Spanish Revolution appears to be pursuing the course 'whrch, we fear, will be that followed by all Revolutions, till the gra:,.l example of 1789 shall be, forgotten. 't he party raised to power by what they professed to think " the voice of the people," are pressed upon by the -same means, and by the Pame pietelices, with which they pressed upon others. The revolutionary wheel, which might have advantageously •topped at a certain point, is mot to cease its motion because its fist impeller's have been satisfied-there are yet thou- 4nccessions of thousands, who can talk as loudly as they di.: ;--a new Ministry is their .present ostensible,ob ject, instead of that elevateil by themselves a few months s;nce; ar►d the demand is expected to prevail. How many weeks will elapse before something more revolutionary will be cslled far than this second class of Revolutionists? The Span- Constitution, it is now pretty certain, is incapable of sta hi:ity. it would hut effect wrong and then he torpid—if it would but transfer property from its owners, to adventurers, and then becoine sedate—there would, we know, be a pretence f,tr praising it, and the consciences of the abettors of such con vulsions might be easily induced to describe it as another" stu pendous monument of human wisdom." But happily for hu man nature it is so ordered, that there is no tenacity in evil confederacies, no permanence in their acquisitions. The over throwers are'overthrown, the plunderers are plundered, be cause their own system cannot be stopped, where they please ; their own arts are zt easy to others as to themselves; the wheel, which they put in motion, is impelled by successions of political agitators from the same extensive school : it is not to bestayed, though the first may be at the top; the cry "'fire Revolution is at end" becomes treason in itself; the Revo lution is never at an end, while there remain any unsatisfied Revolutionists. • Another string of resolutions in favour of.that paragon of - virtue . gnd female delicacy; the gentle Caroline, was yesterday moved by Mr. Farell and adopted by the Court of Common Council. On. these a petition is framed, and is to be pre sented to Parliament, calling for the insertion of her Majes ty's name in the Liturgy, and the restoration of. all her rights as Queen. Consort. The subject is so exhausted that we should be little tempted to enlarge on it were' it in able bands, hut when decided upon by such men as Mr. Emil, Mr. Vaithwan, and their ignorant followers, in t:ie Court of Common Council, it is too much for gravity; and we would rather their arguments should pass for unan swerable, than take upon ourselves.the toil of seeking for lierir to give them our answer. 'Ere character of the Fac tiurt that predominates there is so well known that the Reso lutons adopted can do little mischief. On the present occa sion, however, we could wish that some attention shout , / be paid to them by Parliament. We are certainly riot very de sirous of seeing her Majesty's name inserted in the Liturgy; and are only anxious that she may in the strict and just sense -of the word, he put in possesswn of her " rigbts.”—(lbid.) [Morning Chronicle.] The present is the a ,, e of Ministerial stratagem.—Finding the artifice of ultra-Loyalist Addresses defeated by the good sense and independent feeling of the country, an appeal is made to another (wafter; and we shall not be Surprised, if this day or to-morrow shan►d produce a most satisfactory de claration in favour of things as they are, by the monied in terest (as it is called) in the City—that is, by the money jut:hers who have flourished under, and who are the sup porters of the Pitt-system! This class of men, who are not snore hostile to the true interests of . the Land-owners and. Farmers, than to the Manufacturers and Mer chants •of the Kingdom (since their well-being de pends on that which cramps and fetters all the produc tive orders of society), may loirdly declare that they are satisfied with ,the amount of public expenditure and its consequences, excessive taxation, sinking Lund, and financial jobbing. They thrive on the distresses of the country. "They toil not, neit !er do they spin," and yet they are the only de scription of persons who profit front misgovernment.. What constitutes - the market -of a money jobber?—The unsettled, fine, llating and temporising system of a Finance Minister. That whiCh paralyses all the prodUctive hands of the kingdom—that which.defeatsall rational calculation of . benefit to skill and en terprise, either in agriculture or trade, is auspicious to the nioneyjobber. A new Finance trick by the Chancel:or of t he Ex chequer (suggested to hint perhaps by these very speculators,) deprives Farmer. Manufacturer, and Merchant of the fruits of their exertions for the year. To- these 'men the interests of the whole cooornunity have been sacrificed for. years. Upon theta have Mittist ers solely relied—and to them they now look as their last shift on the failure_ of their appeal to the Country at large. The Right Honourable C. IL Bathurst has entered upon office as President of the Board uf Controul. Whether he is also to retain his sinecure of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, we hilow nut ; hut the two salaried Cutumissioneis, dependents on Mr. Canning, continue to act wider Mr. Bathurst. The Chairman and Deputy Chairnnan of the India Company yesterday paid their personal congratulations to the Right Bon. Gentlenian on his appointment.--(flad) [Morning Herald.] There continues some agitation in the Spanish Peninsula. it has, however, no other effect than that of-displaying that the popular spirit is Constitutional,—that the Government is firm and moderate,—and that there are still some ill-affected orfanatic desperadoes infatnated to light the torch of:discord fior-a moniunt among the peasantry of a district ; an ocCur rent, of this kind se:rens to have taken place on the coofines Portugal, hut it is of no moment. The tumultuous scene fa t he debating club at Madrid has more orapparent than real importance. The systematic and calm exorcise of political rights cannot he expected in the infancy of freedom. The ex ercise of freedom of speech is the most intoxicating of all, and —, the more so to Spaniards front its newness., It appears that the public authorities interfered merely in consequence of an thformality,which was soon rectified. It is curious that the -Address of the Common Council of London to his Majesty figured at this club. It was read by one of the orators, and a similar address moved and carried, to he presented to King Ferdinand. We cannot help observing that ther e is in this silly spirit of imitation something strongly indicative of insigni- - licorice in the patriotic club. It is a proof of the real strength of the Government that these meetings are tolerated. The Spanish Ministers gain the popular confidence by allowing effervescences, and:they know that it Is compression only that gives strength to vapour. [The Public Ledger.] • to the 29th ult.—Frotn Madril Papers arrived last nigh t the extracts given under a distinct head, it will he seen, that •flee (.4veroinent has tiepin to 'enforce the law for the sup pression of Debating Societies. At one of them, on the 27th es!, after receiving notice from the Authorities to • disperse, an Address to Ferdinand VII. for the dismissal of Aces Nlinisters, was agreed to. That recently presented by the • :Common Conned of London to the British Sovereign was ap , • •pvaloi to upon this occasion as a precedent. General Atara: . • hidileclined the embassy to Paris, on the ground of ill health. General itt'rgo had left Madrid, to assume the command in A rragon. Several of the parties concerned in the late dis turbances inkiahicia had Bern apprehended on the frontier of kortugul. It is stated, in advices leaniTadit, that the Em peror tit „Nloro.:cu bad lowered the export - deities, and pirmit : fled; the exportation of coral and oil. • • • Arex Times.] It. may . ' b e remembered, that.the Brandkihorgli Gazette a ilays.:agit strongly recommended wliat it called the seri f l'file'Plani of .petitioning the tlooae of Conti:lens to restore ::11re!Clueesi t s name to ; the Liturgy. We, tide time, susptcted, not4lile scirtme did not originally ernariate fri'm ]'rintink-ttouse,lane, bUt was the result of deliberations ap pritaching closely to Absolute Wisdom ; nod acei :''Allt;nt has throwiti in our way x docurnerit, which seems tq, sliew the Shill eniployed in rnOting the secret inachinery of the ftithiwing Circwhir was•rt-ceised by a. town alioveloo miles distant trout' London, 4);!5} paid• --ff.- " POIVATE ANO CONFtDENTIAL " _ " London, January G. 1821 . " It is the decided opinion of the Qneen's Friertds Oat much benefit wnuld be derived to ber Majesty's cause, if the persons who addressed her Majesty and others, were to' present petitions to the House of Commons, raking for the restoration of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy, and the; restoration of all her other rights and dignities; and that the .petitions should be sent to the 111emberg of the town frotii which they proceed, or if there he no Members, then to the . Members of the county in which the town is situated, even if such Members should be considered hostile to the prayer of the petition. Of course, the petitions should be ready at the opening of the Session." And in the envelope-- '• With Alderman Wood's compliments." Such are the contents of the letter lying before us, with its envtlope. Now, if the worthy Alderman will come forward, and publicly disavow all knowledge of any :inch document, we shall with pleasure give insertion to that disavowal, which we are perfectly sure he will not make, unless he can do so fairly and conscientiously. But if he cannot deny, that such letters have been sent from " the Queen's friends 'here" to the Queen's friends there, than the nation will he ;title exactly to appreciate the whole value of the petitions for restoring her Majesty's name to the Liturgy:. [The Times.] Yesterday gave rise to another meeting, though of a mote private nature• than that at Guildhall. It was held by several merchants, bankers, traders, and others, at the City of Lon don Tavern ; and considering the haste with which it was got yip (some - ot those who were present at the Tavern not having been apprized of it the hour• before) —considering, we say, this evidence of suspicious baste in the concoction, we are stir pased somewhat, though we greatly rejoice to see, that no harm whatever was intended, but that ,on the contrary, much positive good has been achieved by this select though rather diffident body of merchants, bankers, &c. From cer tain passages iu the declaration,of which having perhaps read them 'store attentively titan the others, we have been more fortunate in ascertaining the drift, there appears to us no sa tisfactory reason for those who signed it haring met in a room, and wit hoot notice, rather titan boldly in the face of day. The sentiments it avows are any thing but minis terial. In spite of some ttifling obscurities in the sense, this well•meant declaration might have been pro used on full 'Change, at the crowded hour of four-o'clock; we do not say without any man being the wiser for it, but undoubtedly with out any roan of liberal politics being roused to, anger against those who introduced it. The declaration very in.rtittently accosts the Ministers of having, " while no foreign enemy assails as," disturbed the nation in its enjoyment of donor's• tic peace—at having attempted, by new and ri4orOus laws, to " alter" our venerable Constitution—of having outraged re ligion, we suppose, by their unholy conspiracy against, the sanctity of the. marriage rite; and, finally, of having fail ed to enforce the laws against factious and " blasphem ous prticeedings" (blasphemy, we fear, applies to words, not actions), in order, we presume, that there should always remain afloat in the country (to use a mercan tile idiots)) a certain amount of this blasphemous and dis loyal paper—on w Weft Minitters nia,y at any time raise a fictitions .ervtlit—and• draw - upon public apprehension. and credulity fur the means of perpetuating their semi power. It is mit-every day that we are treated with such prodoctions as this front Mtn who are too modest to discuss theta at an epen meeting of their fellow-citizens. Ministers must now be con vinced that they are in safety no where. If Within the walls of the City of London Tavern every intelligible sentence that drops from the pen of their most tried adherents be a direct though involuntary charge upon them of gross incapacity ur of wilful crime', .the fate which over hangs them is too awful to be Combated, and would admonish' any men in their• right senses. of the coorse• Which it 1111 w behoves them to follow. On Mr.BRO UGHAM's EDUCATION BILLS. LETTER to R MEMBER. of PARLIAMENT, on the SE RIOUS and DANGEROUS DEFECTS of the BRITISH and FOREIGN SCHOOL, and of Mr. BROUGHAM'S BILL for the general EDUCATION of the POOR.—By the Res. RIO-LARD LLOYD, A. M. (Concluded from our Paper of Yesterday.) We might,. agreeably to the Scriptures, ineule"ate motives of a secular character,—such as relate to the temporal wel fare of individuals and of civil communities, but such mo tives, however valnalde in their relative place, are not suf ficient to renovate the corrupt nature of man, to subdue his stormy passions, and to expand his soul with that charity which sublimes and purifies all its powers, directing them, with a !icily simplicity, to their legitimate objects, and thus maintaining the mild dominion of truth in the inner Hiall, and from thence diffusing its celestial radiance over th e whole life. It becomes a duty, therefore, of pre-eminent ob ligation to enforce, dot so much those motives and princi ples, which are common to all of systems aif religion, and which have proved irfsall ages so inefficient to a radical re formation,---but those •which ate characteristic of Christi anity, arising out of the stupendous work of redemption, and a grateful sense of our reconciliation to God resulting from it. These are the doctrines which are the mighty and spirit ual weapons of the Christiants warfare; these ore the prin ciples which have proved so efficacious, .after. the long and fruitless efforts of human philosophy. in touting men front error and sin to the knowledge a n d service of the living and true God. Christianity is a religion of motives, as well as of duties, .acd these motives constitute the powerful springs of Christian obedience. Let it then be remembered, that the characteristic peculiarity of our holy religion consists not in the transcendent perspicuity and sanctity of its precepts, but in the Sublime articles of its faith, anti ntore especially in that " great mystery of godliness,•God manifest in the flesh ;" and in what lie did and suffered -under that mysteri ous assumption of our nature. I readily grant, that the end of doctrinal knowledge is practice, and that the end is always more excellent than the means, and far more ornamental in the; life of man. Unless we discharge the duties enjoined in the precepts, our theological tenets become a barren specu lation, nothing better than " sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." But we still repeat, that the powerful and evan gelical motives by which these precepts are enforced, aid which lead, in harmony with the Divine attributes and the laws of our nature,—to that supreme lore of God, and bene volence towards man, which are the ultimate end and perfec tion of all religion,—constitute that peculiar feature in Chris- tianity, 'by whip!' it is pre•erainently distinguished. To exclude these from our holy religion, you exclude the light, the lily, and the glory of it. To give them, only a secondary and subordinate place in your Creed, you invert its order, yon cloud anti deform its gracious complexion ; you virtually and circuitously subvert its constitution. It becomes us also to bear in mind, that every article in the Christian Cr:erd involves many appropriate correspondent dirties. Tire mediatorial offices ;vine' h Christ sustains, and the consetrent relations in which He stands towards us, imply Correlative obligations, and the performance of them is as much a moral duty, as any duty required in the Decalogtte in reference to our neighbour. Indeed there can be no Christian morality without Christian belief, for how can its genuine fruits of righteousness be produced, when the radical prin ciple, frbar which they can only proceed, has never been im planted in the mind ? It - is as contrary to sound philosophy, as to sound piety, to expect an effect without an adequate cause. It follows then, that faith, considered either in itself, or in its effects, is a moral duty: for all duty emanates frinn the authority of God, and if the divine• Legislator has exercised his sovereign right in pruclai.ining doctrines, as well as precepts, the duty, in both 'eases, to obey, is indispensable, and' dors nut admit, like the relation from ' which it proteeds, of any limitation. To study the Di vine Will, however revealed, acciirding to our respective talents and advantages, —to exercise ;a •faith, and obe dience co-extensive with its light arid directions, cannot 'but be obligatory upon all intelligent brings. And whilst faith is a duty of great importance in itself, and a necessary condition of our salvation, it is, moreover, the source of all pure aria acceptable obedience. If the fundamental and cha ractelistic 'doctrines of Christianity be not brought forward, ind the obligations inseparably connected with. thein,—many duties of primary importance cannot but be neglected through • ignorance, and many others must be performed upon motives and considerations which will not only circumscribe their ex teot,.lnit disrobe them of that Holy and Christian character, which renders them acceptahle to Hith, who looks to - motives :is well as to actions. Actions materially good, i. e. good in their outward character,--conducive to the interests of so ciety;arici ever' ornamental-in the Wes of those who perform thi?m, do not nece, , sarily argue a virtuous prim:4.le, but May proceed from a mind at enmity with God,.anil all the sublime 'doctrines of his Hot,- Religion. The Atheist may perform them, as'well as the Christian. That obedience, which is the offspring of' Christian faith, is always marked by a practical recognition of the authority of God,' as the true ground of it, and is, consequently. without partiality,— w i t h out h ypocr i sy . 'The principle, in its integrity, is maintained in the lif e of , the sinCere•Belieter, 'though its transforming influence does not acquire that •eintiplete and absolute ascendancy to which it tends, iwing,to the remains of human corruption, and tlie irtSiietice t,f exti rind temptations. • We fully admit, that those. dispositions and actions which are'founded only in a sense of plOpriety, i n a b enevo l en t disposition towards tethers, - arid whiell • thi'd a'ben.ign influ ence upon society, as : well as a lustre upon , lndiridoal characters, ought' not to be confounded with the vices or obliquities of our nature, or be merged (as they often are) into the general' mass of human curuption.— Their fault lies in defect, and we should avail ourselves of their good tendency—for they indicate a moral consti tution,—relics of our primeval grandeur, and should be used, as admirable materials-, for the re-edification of our fallen nature. We ought nut to neglect to exercise thoie we6pons, which, not only tile 'Christian religion; bolke laws and instincts of our moral constitution supply, for the benefit of our fellow-matures. It is no pai t of Christian philosophy to do so. Such false zeal is founded in an ignorance of man, as such, and justly incurs the displeaSure of the most reflect , ing part of mankind. Such displeasure is not prejudice : it is grounded in the truth of things ; it is human nature re pelling, with a becoming indignation, a gross libel upon itself. Though I deprecate such crude statements, as injurious to the sacred cause of Christianity, and the best interests of man, and feel disposed to render every just feeling, and legi timate, though inferior, principle of action, ministerial to his welfare,--I must, however, strongly solicit you to remem ber, that the mysterious doctrines of Chriotialiity (which are revealed as the subjects of 'pure faith, and which faith may be equally exercised by the poor and ignorant, as well as by the learned) exist,—not only in beautiful alliance with each other, and with the dutieS arising out of them,—but are also designed, agreeably to their tendency, to produce that po verty of spirit, that docility of disposition, that happy con formation and rectitude of mind, which are congenial to ‘. the truth, as it is in Jesus," and consequently generate a moral aptitude to receive and to cultivate it in all its bear ings. For what is holiness„ but a bright reflection of truth? It is troth embodied, clothed with a tangible form, reduced to practice in' its various ramifications. When the Deity is enthronedln the heart under a just and scriptural view of all his attributes, as displayed, more especially, in the great work of Redemption, fallen mati no longer exalts hims e lf, but. sinks into his relative place, exhibits dispositions corres-. pondent thereto, and thus moves in accordance with that Di vine will, Which is the law of the - Universe, and the harmony of the world. Under the influence of this statement, what shall we say to the sad and deplorable defects of the British and Foreign School education, or of that proposed by Mr. Broughaaes Bill now pending in Parliament ? I confidently affirm of both, (on the improbable assumption that a Chris tian Legislature should sanction the latter), that their deice- tive characters will soon appear in the deformity of the life.. in an infidel Creed, and a licentious practice ;—as no streams .can rise above the fountain from which they issue ; as no fruit can he superior in quality to the tree which produces it. These eventful 'times imperiously demand an attention to principles. We are still at war, in the language of Burke, with "an armed duct, ire." The rebellion of modern dema gogues is, fur the most part, founded in professed Prism, and in practical Atheism. They who speak evil of dignities have heen long since characterised by the highest authority as those, who " deny the Lord that bought them." But this frightful, though natural union of infidelity and seditieu ne ver before presented, in the annals of our country, so fero cious an aspect, so sanguinary a spirit, or manifested itself in words • of such tremendous blasphemy. The mind of man, ere it be debased by the most impious sophistry, instinctively recedes from such terrific spectacles. It stands apalled iii silent and awful expectation of the judgment of Heaven. That Christians, under the foil light of revelation, should entomb themselves in the darkness of infidelity, and, With a monstrous obliquity of the mind, extract materials front their unparalleled merci e s fur assailing the Throne of Heaven, as well as that of their earthly Sovereign, exhibits such a su perlative degree of impiety as calls aloud for national humi liation and repentance. These are deep and deadly wounds, beyond what any hostile weapon can inflict ; they are the sure precursors (unless repentance interpose) of public degrada tion and ruin. No sooner had the late Bills, in contraven tion of seditious meetings, which menaced the revolution of the Country, passed so triUmphantly through both Houses of Parliament, and we begat, to experience that tranquillity which arises front a full confidence its the wisdom and vigour of the Legislature, and to anticipate,with grateful exultation, the splendid period of the King's eoronation,a period illustrated by a light reflected from a succession of brilliant victories,and front a glorious termination of a war, arduous and protracted beyond all former precedent, than the unfortunate arrival of the Queen rekindled that insurgent spirit which had nearly sub sided, and she was made, at once, the unhappy medium through which every species of blasphemy and sedition have vented their rage against the constituted authorities of the realm. The constitutional Head of the Government has been, and is, insulted, reviled, caricatured. He is held forth, in our public 'prints and windows, under all the forms of ridicule and contempt that the most diabolical malice and ingenuity can devise. What will other nations think of Eng lish liberty, when they behold 'our King thus contumeliously treated by his - own subjects ? A Monarch so beloved in the private circle of his family on account of his amiabl e and rela tive qualities ; su admired as the ornament of his court, no less by foreigners than by his own subjects, owing to his re fined manners and splendid accomplishments; a Monorai, moreover, who has, by a patriotic e nd eavo u r t o concen t ra t e the best talents of t hel country in its defence, and by the sig nal triumphs of his Regency, exalted and aggrat:dized the Thr o n e of his ancestors ; and whose illustrious reign will, doubtless, descend to posterity, and shine in the page of history when the. factious and clamorous invectives and all the foul conspiracies of his enemies shall, with their names, have long sunk into perfect The grand enemy wt bare now to encounter, is far more formidable than the deposed tyrant of France ever was ; we are its conflict with ourselves,—with his deSpotic and revolu tionary principles in the form and exorbitant power of an tooprincipled and licentious press. It concentrates and em bodies the very sedition it excites. It aims to govern the Country, to overawe the Legislature, to arraign arid to de nounce whatever obstructs its bold and nefarious purposes.— In short, iris indefatigable in sowing the seeds of discord, in promoting the wild domination of the multitude, by an auda cious and tremendous latitude of means, that sets at defiance the laws both of God and of man. Notwithstanding the Divine authority of our Religion, the transcendent purity of its nature ; its sal u tary influence in ameliorating the man ners, and in expanding the charities of life, and the able ad ministration of it by its accredited Ministers,—how awfully, and with what virulent malice, is it daily assailed, thougis it forms a constituent part of the law of the land, •and is the basis of our national security? Nor does the acknowledged equity of our courts of justice, nor the high judicial charac ters of those Who so impartially dispense it, shield and pro tect them from the foulesraspersions. The liberty of the times is no longer despotism in disguise. •,It announces, in the language of defiance, its revolutionary views, its insatiable thirst for power; for with all its vauntings about freedom, it allows no other freedom, than that of speaking and of acting in conformity to its own magisterial decrees. Whatever other sentiments are avowed upon public occasions, by the friends olgovernment and order, are at once silenced by the yoeifer ations of the most vulgar and pet sonalitbuse. Such manly independence highly offends the majesty of the people, i. e. of a mob infuriated, not only by revolutionary projectors, but by men of a higher order, who are inflamed by disap pointed ambition, and too often by th e i r b ro k en fortunes, and do not scruple to render the blind rage of the populace, and even the return of a deluded Queen, subsidiary -to their inordinate lust of wealth and of dominion. Our country is convulsed and torn to pieces by faction. The mob and its turbulent leaders would soon sink into their native insignificance, were they not countenanced by charac ters, from whose stations and talents better things might hare been expected. If sound patriotism have lost its ascen dancy in the minds of those who all themselves the constitn -IVhigs of the country, acid who have so disgracefully identified themselves with its radical reformers, let them, at least, remember, that in their bold attempt to "ride in the whirlwind, and direct the storm," they may counteract their own selfish schemes - of aggrandizement, and find an unex pected grave in the ruins of their country, What lover of his country due's not mourn over fallen ma jesty, and feel indignant in cootemplating, her as the dupe and victim of a vile faction,—as a royal pedestal upon which blasphemy and rebellion raise their brazen fronts, and menace to overthrow the empire,!—Oh my fair countrywomen, learn to ' estimate more highly the value of that modesty by which you have been always distinguished ; of those mild ,and re tiring qualities, so ornamental to your characters,—frem the affecting recollection of them in your late Queen, whose life was a living law to her sex,—whose domestic and unobtru sive virtues are embalmed in the affections of the Nation, and whose example still speaks front the silent tomb. May the warn ing voice be heard, and may not the standard of public, and more especially of female manners, he lowered, by the dis gusting and melancholy spectacles we daily witness, spec tacles which tend to divest sedition and adultery of their moral turpitude, and even to transform them into virtues ! These volcanoes, in the moral world, which throw up such Sulphur : coos and - combustible matter from one extremity of the kingdom to the other, will soon, I trust, expend their portentous and destructive fires, and With and virtue recover their wonted dominion. England's sun has oat yet gone down. It has only been obscured four •a short - season by yes tilential clouds, which already begin to disperse, and to, open • before us the prospect of better and brighter days. . .. You, Sir, are one of the constitutional. guardians of Church and State. Son have been elected to be. a representative, not of SOUr County only, • but of the whole Empire ; to le gislate not exclusively for local,- butforthe-natioi,al.intetest • Possessing, as you do, those enlightened and comprehensive views, which ought ever tx distiuguish a Member or Parlia ment, you will, - I Am. confident, exercise both your talents and induence; - nOt only in the promotionof What it good ? but in the -suppression' of -whatever tends to bring. religion • and Morality into disrepute. You will not connive at public de linquencies, or glaring violations of existing laws, • by which they are rendered a dead letter, but will endeavoUr- to re-ani mate them, and to recover that higher tone of .morals that has been lost through. supineness, and the storiny character of the times. It is something worse than a narrow system of policy, that seeks to swell the revenue of the Empire by mea sures which contribute to enersate, to debase, mid ultimate!y to destroy it. If these tempestuous days throw up.one lessem of instruction more than another, it is that, which the experience of all ages has confirmed, viz. that " Righteous ness exalteth a Nation ;" that iniquity is its disgrace arid ruin; and that the wicked are, consequently, (whatever vain pretensions they may wake to superior patriotism) tbe real parricides of their country., They undermine it in its veto foundations, and " if the foundations be destroyed, what cam the righteous do !" Whilst I entertain no Utopian ideas of reformation, which lead only to popular delusion and disappointment, by aggra vating the evils theymitu to eradicate,—and am fully sensible of the gigantic difficulties with which our excellent Goverra ment has to engage, and of the urgent necetsity of a loyal'. and zealoui co-operation in its support, I am still constrain ed, with reluctance, to observe, that many public crimes and abominations are continually perpetrated in this Christians land, which cry to Heaven for vengeance, and to this cry the. executive power is not duly attentive, though it possesses tbe authority to suppress them, or to remove the causal: front which many of them originate. We may !mild new Clititsbes„ enlarge old ones, institute national systems of • edttcatiota,ap.d circulate the Bible and various religious books and tracts, with a zeal highly creditable to ourselves, and beneficial to the country; but these great and inestimable advantages w ilt lose a great part of their salutary effects under the powerful, and seductive influence of those public enormities to which I have adverted, combined with that unbridled licentionaness, of, the press which' so grossly insults the moral sense of tlav nation, and endangers its very safety. You must permit me to say, Sir, that the terrific features of the times itulierionsly demand senators of sound, Christian principles, who arc firmly determined to uphold the union of Church and State, upon the ground, not merely of 'political expediency, but s divine obligation. The powers of light and - darkness are in tremendous conflict with each other. The devil is come down amongst us with great wrath, knowing that his time is short. He only be effectually resisted, repelled, and 'subdued - by spiritual. weapons. Civil authority, unless aided 'by that; religion which legislates to the heart, will be laughed to scorn. Con science, when enlightened and awakened by her sacred voice, strangles. at °nee, millions of crimes in their womb, an& powerfully, though silently, co-operates with the laws of Go:4 which enjoin, among other precepts, obedience to " the powers that be." I eannot, Sir, conclude this Letter, which I bare extended I much beyond my original intention, without allusioit to ano ther great evil, sadly predominant in these degenerate times.. I refer to the deplorable degree in which' the country is de- serted by those who were designed to be its safest guardians • and ornaments. Instead of extending-heir shade of prate thin, like the British oak, over those who need it, and byr their counsel and liberality ameliorating the condition of their tenants and of the poor Within their respective spheres, and thus kindling in them a love to their King and country; they • sadly desert their noble mansions, and by a selfish and ino dinate consolidation of their farms, consign the country over to a vulgar aristocracy, which is more inclined to oniresss. their humble dependents, than to improve their conditions,. or to give them a patriotic attachment to the soil sybichttivy cultivate. It is no wonder that our work-hmises and our poor-rates inercase, and tigng, as a millstone, round the neck of the nation. Government cannot grapple wills this enormous evil, which has been accumulating through 3 . long succession of years. lt can administer no eltectual cure. The remedy now lies only in improving the hiibits .of the poor, and in judicious parisp regulations. " Teach the poor," says Burke, .‘ patience, labour, frugality, and 'religion ;" ty. o e these qualities, which are the nerves and sinews of a country, cannot he expected togrow and to flourish - under .the antbu- rity of hard task-masters, of men devoid of education, and too often inflated by the rude insolence of wealth. OLD BAlLey.—Yesterday• the following pri soners were capitally convicted :—Joseph Palms mer• and James Palmer, for stewing in the dwel ling-house of Sam. Hart a desk, eight books, &c.; James Ryall, for burglarionsly breaking and en tering the dwelling-house of Jbhn Finch, and stealing a remnant of print; John Popkins, for stealing a watch, &c., the property of Mazgariet Tydeman, in tier dwelling-house ; John Murphti, alias Gale, for returning from transportation be fore the expiration of the term of his natural for which he had been ordered to be transported; and Thos. Elliott, for assaulting Anthony Games, on the King's highway, and taking from his per. son a watch, &c. CORONER'S INQUEST' —An Inquest, was held yesterday at the Rose and Crown-Inn, Putney, - by CHARLES JEMMETT, Esq. the Coroner for the County of Surrey, on the body of a child found un der the following circumstances : Pedder, beadle of the parish, dep9sed, that on the evenirpc of Saturday last, the pth inst, his little girl yVP 5 leaving his house, when she returned, saying Ant there was something, white on the step of, th e door, and he imm e di a t e ly found there a deal box, with the lid nailed down. With the assistance of a neighbour he opened ..it, and found a. dead child eneldsed in a ' .napkin. Mr. Slid lito, the surgeon, depOsed, that he was. "calla upon on the evening in question to 'examine the said body ; that "it prOved 'to be a female 'child, perfect in all respects, but prematurely: born : he discovered no marks of violence upo w it, but the na ve l- s t r i ng was ragged, and app.eareit to have been r o ug hl y torn asunder. T o som questions put to Mr. Shillito, he stated 'that the child had • certainly been alive, because the common notion of quickening was alto gether erroneous, and life exists from the moment of conception ; drat the child had been deadse veral days when he examined it, and was.at the time partiallyin a state of putrefa6tion',.. arid that . he had no satisfactor grounds-for alidpinion that the child had been, horn alive. The 'Jury then proceeded to a view of the body ; and upon the Coroner's recapitulating the evidence returned a verdict of " still born." IRTHS. On Thursday, th e 4th inst. in Merrion-square, Dublin, The Lady of Jerome Count de Sails, of a son. At Nottingham Place, Edinburgh on the 7th inst. the Lai! ! of Robert Hartshorn Barber, E sq . o f a son. Yesterday, at St. G e o re MARRIED. g 's, Bloomsbury, John R eid, MAX. of Grenville-street, Brunswick square, to Elizabytti Jeaser,.. second tlauglitgr of Willi am S turch, Esq. of 'Soutthamptva--- strect, Blooutsbury-squat's. lED. On Monday, th e Bth inst.D suddenly, at his lionise, in West:- square, Lainheth, Lieut.-C:1. Handheld, of the Loyal Engi neers, in the 43d year of his age. On the 29th ult., at his house, College-streel, Cameler;- town, Samuel Steven Uppom, Esq., aged 61, upvards of •elt , years surgeon and apinliecary to St. Pancras parith. On Wednesday morning early, Rosins, datiglitilr of Henri Curbould, Esq., Great Coram-street, in the <rally-eat:of her age. On the 9th inst. at Neasdon, in the house of W. T. Monet,, Esq., M. P., Mrs. Cunningham, wire of the Iter...J. W. (Ai ningliani, Vicar of Harrow. . - oriDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, ..f •N0..2:9„. Ote4 Ormond-street, Queen-square; and published hi VV. SCRIPPS, of No:7; South 111olton-street, at THe st•N Office, No. 114 , strand ; where .Adrettiscolects., Order. 4 Letters, &c. (post-rsai4) tunst-beathiressed.