The Sun. — London, England, 1821-01-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EXTRACTS FRONI TI-4E MORNING PAPERS.] • ['Morning Herald.] The near appecacli of the meeting:of Parliament is matter of public satisfaction, and still greater public benefit. When people's minds are a good deal excited and divided by noun''- , cal• feeling, whilst the Parliament" at the"same'fins.e is non. existent, the cotnntunity is thrown into a state of tinconcen trated and chaotic - activity. Counties, cities;'Parishes, and • villages, are at pres , nt agitated by contests fur rival ad dress.s—, acts party contends for victory—a defeat here is set off tioirist a victory there. Titles, wealth„rcspectithility, are shown aeainst each ittlier, and the accounts that reaCh the capital through the-Provincial 3ottrnals a.:rl pr;va'e let ttrs, girt., in too n any in•tances,, such cantroliiti , ty pie ' tures of the .ectie,•that they can be equalled by no thing but the hinnourous double aspect; outlet which the author of Waverly re esents the , Baron of Brattwardine performing the cere•ocny of pulling off tte Pretender's boot. " There is, in fact, all the disorganization and usteer lointy of a general.clect ion. lint, when Parliament meets, it will become the great cent re of political movemeut-Lit will v.-evice and return the current of public opinion', and keep .the Public pulse in a state Itf t-all:dill, vigorous activity. Its the•next place, it is only within the walls of St. Stephen's that the state of pubile opinion can at in esfilt be estimated with atty tolerable approach to precision and certainty. No mud in his senses, at the present slay, or indeed at any other ~day, with alt deference to . Major . eartivright be -it spidsen, wotild contend for immaculate purity - in the House -if Cone 'coons: But still we think that 'in doilbtful cases; where the 'right oft petition hiss been 'exercised strider sorb 'circuit, .statters as the present, it is tire best and surest erne! ion, and for two reasons.—ln the frrit place, publiC opinion is the Ivialour upon which the Comisions, the genet:lll , y at 'feast, c acorns into Parliament, and thcrefitre, as 'a matt, r of 'personal . interest, they must swirri with the stream. In the next phaee, (CCU supposiog, with the most rigid purists of Reform, tt:At • a great proportion is returned witlibut regard to the 'tine elective principle, still even that proportion. would feel the' nrcessitY of bowing iii the genes al homage to opinion, ,which, none a late occa-ion, and on the admission of all parties, y ace ?signal proot-of stsprenincy, by unnerving the hand tit 4 Minister to the dropping a bill which was backed by a Parlia:- utenlary majority. What course !Hogs will take in Violin ...mem remains t o he sects. This' will .be one of the. Mint ins-. pa:taut Sessions far many years. Independently es any ills. ,cussiuns that- tray wise out of rectut proceedi - ngt, there is every probability that matters of domestic andfort'ign 'of the greatest moment, insist come under considetation. • [The- Timet.] We announced on Tuesday the death of .his Highness the Augusttis of Brunswick, the brother of her Niajesty Queen Caroline: and , could not have" believed that some fitlicialnotied of a circonisranee in which hrr Nia . it esty was s J;epRIV mid deoly concerned .would not have been sent to Ttran:ienhtirtt- house, had we not known similar instances of &net othisSion-, on the part of GOrcrninvuttowards the saute jllustrions persent,-*e.— The'.first,intiniation which the Queen received of her tiro; het's death was given yn tiestioy night by a gentleman, is sought for an audience of her Mijesty, to ascertain whether .this event would not,cause softie post ponernent •in the reception ,of addresses intended to' he p7c sewed next Monday. NO future day is yet fixed by her Ma j,:sty fir receiving those addresses; and the will ovr teive hat the grans!-concert at. the Mansion-ltotise, which the Qtwen patronises.. and had graciously promised to attend in pers o n, on Wednesday next, is likewise postponed on the saute mournful- act.wirnt. [Morning Post.] Nothing eertainly can be• more painful or abhorrent to the liberal and enlightened mind. than to see men of rank and property in the country encouraging by their pr e se tier and elartiple, meeting's of the poorest and least educated classes. It is a mockery-on common arose to call such meetings delilie -rat•ire;-and it would be cruel irony on the persons whoFtritilrose them, to sav that they arethe organs - of sound opinion. . If experience has any weight, - we are justified in maint'ainiug that they have , no .other tendency than to prevent legitimate discussion. History also teaches .that such meetings. are the. usual suns of the decliiie of good political institution.; the prectirsors of anarchy, and •at• last of mi`itary - They are entirely foreign to the doeient eririt on-1 practice of the Constitution; and cannot he reconciled v.ith any •princtl•le of puht.i•orilt r or of jtVsl• i‘uliortlittation . • • Be s id" , they have the eiiect,.of, -nose - fling the ideas of ttiq labt,uring 6;as:es, of mak..n.4 them .diicontented with their cOtidltion, and of unnveess / ,lywit l idrawintethen; from their humble anti u s eful .avOcations.- .They morrover.present an' inviting field -to turbulent and atrintious uteri; for. if; there wcre,wi po 7 litical mohs, there would be -no eneottrageriient for dema gog:ties; and levellers. - •But 7 the greales'i 'mistfilet ,- is theii strong tendency to hriug, into disrepute, the wise and shill-. Jary printii►les of the Vonstitution ; thq being as fatal to sound liberty as they• are to a mild e,zercisc of authority. They prodoce 'another alarming rei4 . that Of 'weakening the . bond of giro,t offices between the poor and -the rich. , between the servant and his master ; and of substituting hatred urn one side;and.deep distrust ma the other. . • . [British, Press.] • • One is,:tmazed irc : looking over the Gazette to see several of its cottinins occupied f,r Ministerial Addresses, proceeding 'avowedly horn Nohility, , .Gentry, and Inhabitants of various' Consities.and Towns -,Khere.ito .ineetines have been held to. e7llect fairly and honestly the sentiments of the Public. We . CRP vanity imagine the surprise of many of these good people., it of the • vdrioui r places sir distimonslieti , in the Gazette, when they are -6i st • informed that Addresses, pur porting to emanate. from them_, have been already transmitted to the Secretary Of' Stale suntritted *by-the Secretary to his and that-his Majesty was vaciocisly pleased to . re ceive I herd with expressions of signal .satisfrictimi. True it is, that, generally spealiing, the Addressei p rofess to conic front ,ittctors, .-Clcurchtvardens, and the' " princi pal inhabitants" of . any giver, Ariare, which words are happily very indefinite, and may be. Construed to mean any sZt of persons whom the framers of We addresses miry think proper to select ; nut still the peat hotly iff the inhabitants Of the place so natued..have a right .to complain that some three or four individuals should .presume to frame th e t itl e of their private address in such a 'mariner as - is calculated to ex cite the idea that the address coniftinsl he sentiments of the majority. of their body collectively. There -is a fraud lima. tined upon the Sovreeipi and the community, the sole object of which is to support it feeble Administration, that is already tottering before the impulse of public: opinion. DMorning' Cltronicle4 . An adjriurned Alerting was held at the Corn .F,xcliange Tavern, Dublin, on Thursday last, to reeeire the Report of the Committee .appointed .to .consult as.to.the roost e.postito tional mode of demanding redress for the outrage at ham. The Committee recommended an. Ad-dross to the Irish Government, co mplaioing . .itlhe 'elinditcf of the High Sheriff, and ,demanding redress, and another Address of the same Purport to the two [looses Of Parliament, The Alerting passed two Resolittions, the last of •wilch - bore,'", , rtrat the conductor the High Sheriff, of the.Coonty of ifregtriar metho4 of conduCting the business—his onprdsoltert harshness 'to the Frrrholders—his threatening the Meeting with the military--his asserting an Address to he earned, haVing.put. the negative proposition on 111 e nnestion;, and, fi ß alty, his dispersing the Freeholders by the . milit a ry (tbe ciril•power bring present in great forc'e, and no violence of tomtit requiring sitch interference), are gross and flagrant violations of the rights of the Freeholders, and of the sub jects of these realms in griteral,L-derogatory front tlie free dun) Of public opinion.and farming . a dangerous and. ominous p'recedent;! The Addresses recommended by . the Committee. were next voted; and the Meeting, after exptessing to Mr. O'Connell "..their admiration of the splendid example mfiliis patriotic •eloquence. on the present occasion, not yielding to • the best.samples of powerful. oratory transmitted to us.front antiquity,!' adjuortied to Thursday, the'llth, (this day). •• • [New Times.] . . . . .Haipy 3s tbe British Empire, winch besides the • many thousands. whose Loyal Addresses appear every weep in The a 0 „ . . 14e, posse sses another distinguished class of persons, 'witi;ni - The' elatinicle and Times designate ti.e truly loyal. At • Casio say's The Times, the ' truly loyal": supported p:,,y e 11,.-and, a line or two lower dossn it states, that one ~cif their Resolntions 'was seconded by_Mr. - Lemaitre ! Now,. we'”,gatiniic doubt. Mr. Lewaitre's loyalty, tspecially as it is a relied for 'by• so .a pi int as The Times ;• nor indeed, . 'doZwe cxactl' know what Mr. Lemaitre it is that is spoken o f; : We presume it ia not the loyal f4elitleman - who was taken _ up: and , confined so. .11:atiy. years , on , sospioion of . emu:et : Red in a plot to assassinate his late Ma-. • jesty. .Howerer, if it be, this will not much alter the iinst(er; for that .I..etrialtre is und3nlitedly , one of the " trnly, local." The lteading Assernblage .(faceti:ously,called the 13eri,shire Nlteting), wass - composed of the " truly loyal," abbe: Sir Francis Bnrdett's ele.itns to that itesiznation are too obvious to be questioned: Mr. Hallett, lketter known as " the frieid"of CObbett," belongs to thie , salitella4, and these two are a fair specimen of the loyalty.of the whole meeting. But let us look 'a little closely at the " true loyalty" of the Papers themselves, on whose authdritylthe t►tle of these new Loyalists rests. Of The T hitt S it is quite needless for us to speak: but we shall enter op 'the more dubious case of The Horning Chronicle. In the first place, ~ s'e obServe 'that the loyalty of the worthy Editbris , of a roost exclusive kind. Some.hundreds of Loyal Declarations and Addresses to the King hare lately been subscrihed,some of them by several thousand names.-=- It 11 - admitted by The Chronicle itself, that the' majority of the Freeholders of Scotland Lave already addressed his Ma jesty; but let the worthy Editor is not satisfied :• all these Freeholders, all the Traders and Manufacturers, •all the Agriculturists, the Gentlemen, Clergymen, Magistrates, N tblenten, ; who . have signtd these .Addresses are (we quote his words) " impudent and hypocritical pretend ers to loyalty'." As to'llie Clergy, in particular, they,. Ins says, are ;" in the first rank" of men " who have set a r example of immorality,. of insincerity, of treason to their King, and to the institutions or their country"!!—Nor is this toisciu:duct of recent -date : 'it seems they have behaved so in all periods of our Alas !" says the Editor very 'pathetical*, ".when did the Sovereigns of England ever re eeive wholesome advice from their Clergy?"—lt is clear, therefore, tnat the " truly loyal" must wish to get tid of the Clergy altogetln r. [Ti'e Public Led,9,•er.l A Cori espondenee has taken Plane between thn Rev. R. Jo',cs, Ittco , r a It othtrhithe, and the Churchwardens . of that parish, on the placing of a fiag•iti the large-room of,the Work house, which was used in the proeession which carrier} up the A t :dr e < r s t o betQueen.---The GOltkinati takes leave ro say, that he will not. perfor m : LYivine Service in the said Workhouse until the before-mentioned hann-er is removed - f-tctrs so unsuitable a place." The Churchwardens, in reply, areastoitilied at ;his t;restyitptimi they declare that the banner Will remain in the: Corumittee-roam, -where the,. have it thee.eonclude, saving—'fr We tak,:itive to that we are-.ni nploion your tittle would .have herir much n:ore suitably employed. in the .cullivation'of. the Christian graces of meekness and charity, and iii the polio nal and 'con , . scientions dischar ge of the various duties appertaining. to _your Clerical: charact, r, .rather' than - is making; a•volulitary and unprovoked attack upon a respectable hody of men,- who have merely exercised a constitutional and indisputable right, in common with a Lrgc majority of their felZow liarishioncrs.7. ' LAW IA TEL Lit; ENCE. COURT OF KIN6SLIENCH, JAN. to siTriNcs AT GUILDHALL. The Cnitt , JustieF, presided in this Court, and proceeded to hoar the remainder of thoso cases which stood for trial. at the Sittings after last Term. There was, however, no -case of the slightest public interest ; and the only cause which eYcite..d any portion of public attention, Was that in which a person of the name of Muxeter was plaintiff, and Mr. Robins, a sug,„ar baker, defendant. The -plaintiff's.. case, which Mr. CAMPBELL . conducted with considerable ability, "was this :—lle had. beep discharged from the Alefend'ant's service, having filled . for sothe month:; the situation of 'principal sugar boiler, and as he had received no notice previously to his dismissal, he sought to recover a month's wages as the ; , invariable custom of the trade in such cases.- It was shewn however, by Mr, GURNEY, from the plaintiff's own witnesses, that this prat= tice always originated in a previous specific con tract, and the plaintiff submitted to be nonsuited. Sittings appointed in.iklitifUesex and London, before the LORD CHIFT-JL►STILE in the Court of Klng'i Bench, in and after Hilary Term, 1821 . • IN TERM. I,2II:I3LESEX: ' • 1..7 , :n0re. Saturday, January 27. 4 Tuesday, January Sit at 12 o'cloc.l4. - Friday, February 2. I . blonda►y, FebruAry Thursday, — 8. Sattiniay,-. 10. AFTER TERM. • Tuesday, February 13. 1 - Wednesday, Feb. 14. Sit at half-ratit 9 o'elli•etr. • OLD BAILEY. The Sessions commenced yesterdly before Chief garon RtcFfinns and, Mt. .Justice ROYD. The calendar is unusually light in. num ber, and no case of a particularly aggravated na ture 'appears upon the list. Joseph Wollen and Bullock, stood indicted far as : saulting John Hall, on the King% highway, and taking from his person: a watch, &c. This was one of the numerous street robberies which are so continually occurring,. The circumstances of the robbery, as detailedby the Prosecutor, were that in passing the Cotner of Charles-street, Drury-lane, he was Violently assaulted 1) three persons running against him, and in the scuffle lust bis watch,. An alibi sva , attempted to be proved,- but the persons who appe4reo for i bat purpose were all very bad characters, The Jury. with little hesitation found the prisriners Death.—Aged 19 and 22. Michael tsarley was tapilall}• indicted for a highway robbery upon Hugh. Nlachay, in the pitish of St. Martin in the Fields, on the ittb of December last. • • The Prosecutor. statetd, that he was standing near Northum berland Rouse, on the day in question; at the time that s ome processions were passing "on the way to Hammersmith, - when be was suddenly- hemmed -in •Ity crowd, and the prisoner (whom he bad seen- before) putting' his arm in between two other men; snatched• his watch -front his fah. The prisoner denied tlle , charge. and celled several wit nesses, who swore that he was in a coffee-shop in Swan-yard at the time that the roPbery was committed. Mr. Justice HoLfturn summed up the evidener; and the . Jury fOund the prisoner cifiltv—Death. Aged 20: The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy on - ac- Count of.hi9 youth. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Assaut.T.—Yesterday Robert Jeffries the elder, and Hector Jeffries the younger, were• indicted for assaulting •13eniatnin Sefiolfield, one •of the street keeperS of the paristy.of St, Mary lelmne, andTvAth ,several others, - attempting to rescue ragiatit he had in his custody. They were found guilty Tile jodgment of the . Court -was, that Robert Jeffries pay a. fine of . 201. to the • King,. and be imptisoned till the fine by paid, and that Hector Jeffries pay fis. qd. and be discharged. - FIRES.--An alarming fire broke out soon after eleven.O'clocfC'ofr Tues'day evening, at the cabi net manufactory: orMr. Dow,biggen, in Adam's Mews, Mary-le-bone, which threatened much destruction. The parish engine and those of the County'and Sun arrived in;the infancy of the: 'flames, and with a good supply of water the con gagration was confined -to the grouud floor, and the workshops of the first floor, which were de stroyed, and the flames were then subdued. — Another fire, 'more extensive in its devastation, broke out early on Tuesday evening, at the Villa of Montague Barnes Storey, Esq. Basinghill, Oxon: It was .occasioned by some pitch and turpentine boiling over on the kitchen fire, which was heating for some repairs in the stables. The wood-work of the kitchen immediately caught the flames, and there was no chance of extinguishing them. In less than ten minutes the house, which was only one story high, was in .ono blaze, and, in less, than half an . hour was a heap of ruins.- •It wa.4 recently enlarged, and was. chiefly, built of wood. The inmates had a difficulty in making their escape. • - 11(4 .vestige of furniture was saved; nor had the water, which_was plentiful, any effect upon it. On .iiir.l3llo telij'AM'; F, ,f)I-5 CAT .10 N BILLS. A' LETTER to a MEMBER-oe- PARLIAMENT; on the SE - RIOUS and DANG.k.;ROGS 31,4iFEcTS: o f _the Bill IsU and FOREIGN •SCHOOL; and of Mr. IiItOUGH L AM'S BILL for the general EDUCATION of the POOR. - -By the Rev. RICHARD LLOYD, A. M. ' • (Continued from our Paper of Monday last.) It may, and has, indeed, been virtually objected, Is not truthatinnipotent? Is it not founded upon such luminous and incontrovertible evidence as blight to tranquillize all gloomy fears concerning its progress? Do trot its . advocates continually assert, that it shines. with a meridian salietidoor which no sophistry can obscure ? And if this he:th e fact, enee those apprehensions about its interests, those multi plied guards and fences against the encroachments of error; that jealousy and anxious care to - pre-occupy the minds of children with religions creeds. and catechisms?. Do not such precautions betray 'secret misgivings, add deity in pi actice what is cOnfidently•ativaneed in words ? -If the way to heaven be so clear, let the children be taught to rearlaind to write, and,. with this acquired ability, leave th e m with confidence to the independent operations of . their ownininds.; Do not insult' the Moral dignity of - their nature by an illiberal at tempt to enchain , their understandings and." to shackle" 'their free Stich liigiurY:is no init letion upon the inherent right of human nature, and is fit only for the night of atiperstitionrit cannot be tolerated•tinder the empire of reason and philosophy. This objection presents an imposing aspect, and would cat ry coriviCtion with' it. upon the double asstrinpi inn, tinti Man -is not a fallen; corrupt - ereantre; and that the truth shines with such 'a convincing splendour as to compel the assent'. of the mind: and. to preclude CV" the, pos - sibility of doubt. But as these 'n4 . stiiiiptitinS ate 1101 tenable, as -both -Scripture - and expei ienee 'proclaim aloud the tall of 1015)1, it appears that his conviction of the troth does. WA necessarily depend upon the • bright= tress of its evidence. There must by iiii. honest,ser l ints. spirit of inquiry, a docility -of temper., anti a con sequent apt it vide to receive it dependent npou the 'aural state of the bract ; othetWise,l he. light May shine in darkness, and the darkness comprehend ii new. Weitnow npon what ant ho y it has been declared, that. " is ennie into the world, and men lined darkness rather than light, liecauso their deeds were evil." Here lies the latent and pregnant Solllce of infidelity. Ever since ;,.the. Fall, man's nature, owing to his innate cort•uption,. is inclined to evil His understand ing, as well as heart, is exposed to continual temptations in a world where error, in. various seductive forms and t ions, prevails, as well as vice, in its Minim Crabl4 allurements. —Helier his security is in prevention more than in erne; the latter is precarious when inveterate ,prejudices and habits have been contracted and bare obtained ail unhappy dominion over hint. Hence the necessity of an. early acquaintance with the great.. and - fundamental, principles 'of •Cliristianityt— Hence the ooligation of putting on the Christian armour betimes, and ni-ne especially the sword of which is the wand .'t Gtt ; and of teaching children how• to tinder, stand anti apply it for their personal benefit and seem ity ; for wit bout such instruction, they will not he able to handle this mighty weapon WI heir spiritual warfare in their own defence. Some skill is necessary. How easy is it for a mere Tyro to propound diflicultirs which wily profound learniinecan solve, aad to ask questions in the great science of •J'hencogy, which no Divine, however welt farriiislied, ran answer..• Nitti these questions often relate to the dark ortinrevealed side of those Christian Doctrine's which ate essential to salvation,—but which are-held forth -in Scripture-tor our faitliOn the bright ,fstidicettsho;:a):teyulpitoi. possible b i l u n e n t d r t e t re r i i a r t t i t i u n te i y , o n' t t e ; t n i t ' o d o e r s 01 . e sublime xist t a n7e d ,• nor in reunite cOiwriiities . or ultimate eMiserpteiteei which. are known only to God,. and in the kmrwledge of which out future happiness may, in some nteasure.consist,—and in tlre ignorance of.which, part of our present intelleetnal discipline does consiSt , for the pride Of the understanding' mtist be linhjugateit•to the itsavell as the corrupt propensities or as, heart. And even of these facts,' and the duties . . :raising out of. them, some clear arrangement is expedient,and - even neeessiry,---:sonie Comprehensive, thought simple, sunimary, as a seettrity against damnable heresies, and as guards against partial views. and statements of the trtith,---against a `‘ zeal nofaccording to knowledge," and which does-not deny the irtith; but•distorts and perverts it, and thus - , engenders many art - ions errors di rectly repugnant to the spirit and genius of our hoty, and to the purity Of its Morals; Error is nianif9M and vari ous, and iS Must subtfa and , tfarizerous when Satan . , assumes the character of an aligellOf light, and becomes, - as of late, a bold expounder of scripture. 'Hence ti t le wide road to de struction not seldom lies'tbroug,ll the sacred territories of Christianity, and the professed .saint, under . .his , delstsinns . , aid gura s .a nd d e tases the ~ruatt, exhibiting him to ait the lounty severity of superstitimi, or in ail the licentionsness rr Atifitionrianisni. And yet. under all - these circtsinstances of danger front, within and. svithotit,Jrtini the treachery of a Wicked heart, and the temptation& of Is wieitett vvorld, these ,a t e t r , i t t e , t it i , t c m usr , ii t y m , v t l g e a r i n o s t-t 4 r present s, c cil ~ine d o s n o s f t d i e .: ptiiiiic tt ' t s t, / r ie d ru nit es rs tion, in doctrine, but leave the rising generation almost destitute of that linowledgb of the Christian- Religion which. affords an internal strength to the - mind, anti the only sure refuge againstimpenditig. evils. And 4111 s reprehensible . plan is' e .when the enemy is, with rualiguant.craft use ti d 'of those very children. who:are - tanght: to read and - to 'Ptd''il t, e( f idn t s' l lt i ti : Y. :;n:v i cu p? ' s i ;Tie =t i t r a c i u ni seditious tfar a tr .l a ) u rt i f d. t e i r ma nualstlte write .tiv the public benevolence.. it our Madras System of Education, which more than Combines all the Mechanical ad van . taGei of •lie Lancastria n , with the.addition.of •wholestime and daily-instruction in. Christian faith amtprirctice„ -as ad.' Inn - ably set forth in our Church Catechism, and other appro .-. hi . , a . ios :hi al pi. Sze.—is even entlatigered - by these inlet nal t • macbiliatlons of abe deviloand tif inspirei.i.aoents ; how can We contemplate, without painful apprehension, those naked .scheines of education, .which offerno . elleetnal barrier against the-•itifictel• and • denoiralirinit doctrines 'lcf the times? The enemy of mankind, whose clement is sin, :and - whose good is evil, is alive to tbis strange and lamentable defect, rind neglects no opportunity to sow his • tares in it-' soil . so superficially exposed to t O o f jelii•sroir7ant's9di9tlnte.'hc"set fon'retlickaitli"o'n7aglltiTitisttitfets4aVacikes, is a sound knowledge land' belief of the truth. Unldeeirs pure and t ii, c o m inaring - liglit, all-those sc - eptical and politi&vi ar guments which tt tid to kindle-an insurgent andao in flame the passions against God and man, lose thew attiac theyfiltd-no predisposition' favourable to their recep tion in !Muds imbued with Christian princ,iplesi piined by its holy precepts. ..Hence :the auhtiety. of o u r spi ritual. adversary. is as. great as hiS iii his attempt to undermine the' vladrits tiystielit of:Education, by tither a sys e tematic exclusion of, or by it frigid .indifference to, all-rtS principles, •except suet) as are common to discortlant'sects and parties; and what these are, ;it will be ditlicultto aseer-, tain'in this age of innovation, when our numerous contro.yer sies about religion seem to be bringing, at length, religion • itself into. doutit.and controversy. Thin is, indeed, a species tif that Annuonian and univei sat philosophy which endea voured to harmonize. heterogeneons opinimis, and to _vedtict theta to a perfect agreement, and whickproved, in the primi tive times, so injurious to . the interests of Christianity, and mks- monsuav, nirder its new ininlifivatienysimilar We do not wonder that the modern - demagogue trinnwils io so generalizing a systern of 'instruction, or that a lax, desul tory sort of piety, that looks for conversions, not so much through the nteaiuneof early instruction and appointed - nit-ink. and-ordinances, as through sudden illapses of-the spirit, and irresistible. interpositions of Providence,—should counter natter public schemes of charity' which so strongly militate against the doctrines and discipline of our Ecelesiasticalllier, arcity. But it is a matter o f se t ions concer n -.and surpri s e, , to see sonic individuals, both of character and of talent, advocating - such jejune and Pagan plans of - education, Inc basis of Giber, wh i c h that .s t ' t . o twi de. on the i -c:11 u s e si.teutly with his ;!cots. ed principles, can .possibly.possibly t i npuu it. I can attribute it pm)? to -a want of due - consideration,' - or ter a morbid,- illegitimate 'candour, and. that febrile. ;thirst--for popula-: rity winch it excites; and in stone cases, ,perhaps, to air early prejudice in favour of the Lincastriiiit System, of which they are either not conscious, or have nut the magnanimity to' renounce. In the contemplation of the blasphemous and damnable heresies that have been lately broached, and have so astound-• ed the moral .sense - of the kingilont,----rintl , of the will fanati cism of Aspirtatious sects, which has sti.vitjated and defornitd: the Christian faith,—sonic . honourable arid worthy charac ters have. of late, been . led to look !Sack with - complacency,. and even with preference, to Mriner days of ignorance ar;th• comparative simplicity, and to regret their own laudable ex ei Lions, as well as the public Munificence that has beet, so splendidly displayed in the education of the rising generation. - We cannot bug bold in respect the moral feelings and con scientious conduct of such persons, when the frightful phe nomena of the times constrain us to admit, that knowledge, in itself, is no blessing. Its value consists in its proper rep plichtion and direction, hod not in the mere possession. It may be an,engine of vast and tremendous mischief, as well as of extensive good. The devil; who- was .o.nee an angel of light. still setains.his great intellectual powers for the exclu sive purpose of opposing the will of God, and of destroying_ the happiness of titan. Acrd tinder the influence of this awful tewark, it may be fairly asked, Does tlts instractioa_consnau nicaitd by the Britistr at toreign..S.Cliool, or he slight addi. lion lo it provided by Mr. kijongliaill'i , in their tratUre and degree, to what is properlyter,,,o_ a Christian etith . :atilin r ? Or, are they, i.ipinot he-just assinfiption of the fall of man, and the perilotts eircontstemees r ot the country*, preferable to , ignorance? are strung amt pungent •questions, which I do nut scruple lti tansy, r• in the negative. Knowledge is power. It tends, by the ant hot i s and influence it confers, to repalize distincteurts, mid the meellanism'of this new system of instinction is directly calcoi.ited to awaken into vigorous exercise till the latent faculties 01 youth, and to lead them to assert themselves, and to acknowiedge no Empire ' but what is founded in mental superiotity Not rt particle of their nature is permitted to slumber itridei its jea lons and incessant operations: By a constant- collision of tellect, and - the kindlisigs tit emUlation, they rapidly pass from dull, vegiOative, state 'of life, to an intellectual existence, and acqttite an early Maturity for it more extended sphere of action. No creature, tinder strong, exciting, eircuinStanees, is more inclined tai imitation or is more active than That same beitio . ,' whose; oscitancy,' in the form of a savage, iS routed only by the imperious deniands of hunger, beconlei most zealous awl instelatigable tinder the various stimuli of civilized life. \V hat an elastic spring and energy does he • display aniisiSt all the pressures and vicissitudes of the world ! %Vhat a curious 'and ardent irropensity to investigate the re condite causes of tiling', sstell as is iti no living creature he- • side himself l At one Hine you behold hint traversing the heavens, tracing the revolutions of `thee planets; at another time, exploring the deep caverns of the earth, cornhating the raging billoWs of the deep. I:e is ever impatient of rest, and of whateeer tends to rept oSs his spirit of enterprize, onto cir cumserilie the range of.. his desires. l'his view of • man, combined With his to ott tendency, as a fallen • ereatire, to depart from the great viol EA" his being, and tie hecunte his own! indepetidetit a: to., sorely b1)01)111 itiduce great care and:Vioilittice in the !whit, Anil principles of his edUcation.' ituchaiii his intent:et by an 'early cominiinica tie,' of. Itoowledge, • to excite, and itivi;ot ate his lOISSioII3, is surely perilous iii a world aneoridioo with sill and teriona, c oo's , un l e ss y o u el s ar ty o p en lo two- the way it; evbrelt ht . should walk, and constantly direct him to that Saviour, is he has promised him sifength to walk in it. The lion is not tie tie 'oozed, miles. lie be under ilisciplioe and r4.311,1i,.°• see that coninion people one, nillarnetilly the violent speecheS •of disappointed ambition ; and the seditious hat:town,. arirl appeals of noisy dear leooties, soon lisofio to ealcoir•te 0., tii4"l:- nittlieficalsttenigili,lfiot4,ttlik,e plans of reetilitt or , , and to Moir aloud their menaces all the ceostitutrot ant loonies of. • the rt.llllll. ni,siMe-s is cmpriat eil Iv ta...ibt: of lite se,, and Well it may, tor tier" litait of man is desperately wi,liesl,-airiC deceitful above' all. things," and of late evolved into ertmesad socii.gi,rie o e ma t zpit tid e , oositelt calm, studied. titril infernal marginiy, the wildest savage, and which 'could tint have been tevisediA• perpetrated, except in a state of light and civilization.. Light unimproved and perverted, great temporal anti spiritual •prie 'alitissol, deep; ;depravation of tarots , and a subtlety and - refine:tont its willtedness, unlinov,tt teethe earlier ;toes of ign o rance. This consideration renitorces thin wisdom and absolute' nectoosity of not arming. the great mass of the population with an augmented power of doitie orocntiet, you combine that power truth priocirdes which tray regulate its exercise, and direci it to its proper end. We riterieradi . ti , ' eates for igniirance. Under attluidlie apprehension of thoSii important issues which attach to all :;teat solijems, ere tin not • imagine, with a luau barons sort of•poltcy, that our security lies itt ignorance. Thai. man has a vulgar and illiberal Mind : he iS.destitute of all nobility of soul, who coulterviihrs to the•eapaleilities of the poor., or• refuses to int'est them air!) the faculties of improving their original siationii, awl of creel rising into spheres. atiove til'eino It twist be ollowed, in ti highty - civili'zed country like tbis,, where every Man is , i l l qualified Sun.', ,the itras*er ed• himself, the guardian' of his family, and endowed from his - birth with many civil oriii legeso that degree of lutelleetiral attaitia-ent ,:nif.; moral culture is highly expedient uniting the lower oidess• Ikiides; poi extensive teethe and numerous 111Orntantere (which constitute so gi , ot a' sourer of our national : health.) derpotol not only indtistritios, but: intelligent persons in the inferior depat topsoils of the community ; ,and a degree of in- , st ruction among this chess seems necessary Id the enjOy ment and presettalion elliberty itself. It 'serves to check the encroachments of:l:pryer, aird the lawlessoess of bar tsarist», and without it the goverontent would soon ultra generate into au abstiloie Moron:11y, or the svild domi nation of "the' Molt it ode. ' While I dins • freely toitice lc, that ignorance affords no soil congenial to the .ei t t o ee of 'humble life; h a s n i p io . tendency to controul the eii•leocii of men's' passintss;' their of restraint, or tit • tranquillize the swellings and itisnitectiorts of ptide, box • rasher serveA to renllitr 1101/r the more cosy elopes of impiety - srilitiOn, 'by concealing flout retiions •anet-trrosive-s-• vs - i•Trro.... • governinent,-.f still contend, that Literary lostroction, iris it he associated oit h the cull ivatioo of 'Religions prison!. pies, is 'pi eimaiit'tkji dan d er; anti alfureJs in an 41 , C 'A'l , c't impiety and rebellion, are reduced to a perfect science. and disseminated under such a vanity of popular. and captivating fortit;',. greater faciliries for ear, nig into effect the imicliioa tions of wicked arr• 4 designing men. It would be better to • descend front coarnonorlig station in the iilliations;*tinieto he c u rtailed of some of , ;tie hixitriesthrouo l the want of th o s e acquirements its the Jotterthan - Sir purchase-theist at the' expense of the politic, nihrals-o Brij:lto •• enlightened and . ChriStian station is driven to nit suet, aitertia7 It'does'not'Seeli. reft)ge ignoraitc•e, Which is neit!ter • the snotti e r. of devotion, nor Of palriotisio, but foutids its secto: , rity and aggrandizement in light and knowledge,—but it ii ilt a kitinviedge well principled and Well directed. The diffusion of such knots ledge •wail bring' its own reward ; it Will siien return with accontolated ititerest, in the antelioraterismatiOes of the etnomonit, Fur what is Christianity, but a Religion according to giolliness ?" Its: flint is • that• " righteim s otss which exatteth nations." The Christiati, as far as he- is such; is fallen notil in his renewed and best state. All his• potvers ore restored to . their ditelotereise; sited tlite.eled jt to the gi eat ni bis creatno Hello longer lives to inn,- self, hut t.l'Otu,t,ii!Y tilt.res harrntioy with the laws of les being; liaviiig the will of thi n who made him. As • wx.calinot, it we werett •dispose,d, Cochttin the tin' der z oondine, like a slave, io the gloomy dominions of thoo,o- , tisiti; as we cannot retrograde at this advanct•d period the - World', or even at rtiSt the march '(as it is called) Of' the lineour intellect, it heroes a duty of still logher moment than vet< and of the - roost intro huts obligation, to reguialeOs fair as its;bold Mid adventurous Operations. Whilst an infidel philbstothy,, French growth, which has, of hate years,' so awfully corruieed, debased, and brutaliFed nu small part •, of our British popillatioo, world teach us that we live in fatherless, 'deserted world,—that death' is an etettial sleep, and final extitict.icinrif•aor -being; and ,even seeks, mode l. ts• satanic ittspiratioo, to .oblit erate t hat moral, instinct; ter 'selise' of a 'first Cause, so indelitily iiirpressett open) the toe onto inind,'oold.to.erishi oust the world once more in starkness' and chaos, le us confront, with a bole determinati o n Awl Courage, their rriiinetrlons effojeniS of bliespbeiny ; let us. oispost^to ilium that shield of faith, which cull ;done repel the herr:slat is tut the devil, ttild cultivate• with redonlited zeal. • and diligeece, in 'ourselves and drliesonotts,. , sound chl o o,ort, piety, ev'er reirtertilieritio t hat religion' is t basis 6f,'ati'd the only security for, good inorals.—yo be cositinued.l - * - Theftilitalturgh' 'ltsiview, in its!disenssion and defente of Mr. liroughatu's Bill, remarks, hat .` reading, and accounts, teach . prOllble TO lb /ilk fur themselves."—And, 'again, the ‘• 'Mili al eri:Ct of the Sy . iitern IS, to increase, be yund the power ',in& euergy of the people ge-• tierally o and -especially to into tuts, in each intlitidual instance, rile ~ e ry antidote Most :1041/led to counteract any tendency, which the mode of tuition might base, unfriendly to perfect independence.''' lei ei 1 It, On the '2d inst. at LI)IJOSI, comity of -Inglesey, the Lady of W. H. .loioes, Esq. 0! 1..1,i0v t , &moil er . On Friday last, at No. Low Canon, Edinburgh, Meg. :1 4 yrie, an out I , itif.fot or Dr/rhmeher's I)l;perniary, and wife .of Mr. Tyrie, wal. - safely delivered of a son, being' , In.r, first in the forty-eiginn year of her age, awl, having hei,tr'nf:irlird '2l )eats. the loulLer and infant are doing D'A? RIEI). On Thursday -last, at Blsiogstohe,' by the Rey. 'Joines Vicar, I i Rey. Edward Williston; B.A. Minister of Upton Gray, to tlityglitel of the late Joshua 13rown , 41inVE,q: t , r liehr Andover, Hants.—Alsu, oil the Sa;kle day, the K.,. W . tVoi kiiian, A. , EteetOr of Est; op, and Master of Ito- 2 11(0y Gho,t Chapel and School, near Ba si.ogstolte, to El 4:lh.ei secooi tiaugbter of the late Jo• sliva Brownjobn,•Esq. of DIEII. , • . . . , 0a the I4th n!t. at Sidtmoutli, James Btichanan, Esq. of Brazen Nose Colrge,oo46, and tittident of Lincoln's Inn. On the 29th ult.,. at Ptttoir,A4eirdrenshire. in hisnd year, George ,}41.11, - ust,i), 'a.' .11 , of . PO lolif , orilc surviving brother of the tate Jamei 1. - tri;tisva,:tl:P. for that County. LONDON: Printed:by.). B. CARSTAIRS, uE •No. Gieat . Offorui-ssre e t, Queen-square:. at published by' W. ..-%• SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Alolton-street, ,st THE Surf Office, Ni,. 119, Strand ; 'where Ads'ertisenle its, 'Orderts Lrlicri, act. (posz-paid). must be addressed.. I , ►'.