The Sun. — London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, OCT. 27.—The 'King gave yesterday a private audience to Sir Charles Stuart, the Eng lish Ambassador. It is reported that a courier arrived yesterday from Hanover, with despatches to the English Ambassador, announcing that the journey of the King of England to Paris had been deferred. Last night an express was sent by the French Cabinet to St. Petersburgh. We learn from Bayonne, under date the 20th instant, that private letters from 'Madrid, of the 15th, state, that official intelligence had arrived of the appearance of the contagious fever at Murcia and Alicant, and that all the gates, but one, of Valencia had been closed, by way of pre caution. The greatest desolation reigned in this province, the most populous in Spain ; and the inhabitants look forward to winter as the only hope for the extinction of the infection. A letter from Malaga of the 10th says, it was reported that some persons in that town had been taken ill with the fever. One of the most deplorable and disastrous consequences of the contagious malady at Barce lona, is the death of 1500 young men, who had been enrolled in the National Guard, to form the sanitary cordon. f. 80 c. 1592 f. 50 c. BERLIN, Om 20.—The Prussian State Ga zette of the 18th contains the following article, which may be considered as an official Declara tion, caused' by the report that Russia had de clined the mediation of the Allied Courts, in the affairs of Turkey :-- " An impudent falsehood, which the malice of a journalist has invented, and the ignorance of others repeated, requires correction ; and we un dertake the task with the more pleasure, as it gives us an opportunity of shewing the modern European policy in the fair light in which it will appear to impartial posterity.—The statement says—' The Emperor of Russia has declined all intervention of his High Allies in his affairs with the Porte, and declared that he would have free liberty to proceed with the Turks, as he left it to Austria in Italy.' Each of these words con- Lair's a falsehood. To begin with the fast sen tence, it is well known, that when Austria un tlertook the pacification of Italy with her own army, this enterprise, and all the steps accom panying it, were undertaken in the most intimate understanding with Russia and the other Allies. When his Majesty the Emperor of Russia after wards received at Layhach the first news of the mad attempt of the Moldavians and Wallachians, (Greeks in religion, but not by descent or lan gua;e), his acute understanding was immediately sensible of a truth, which has since been proved by incontrovertible facts, viz. that the insurrec tion in Turkey was the work of the same fac tion ; the enemies of all order and tranquillity, who, after they had indeed overthrown or shaken several States of Europe by their doctrines of disobedience and wickedness, and had failed in their plan of dividing the Holy AM - mice of the - Monarchs by the revolutions in Naples and riedmont, now assumed the mask of religion to lead to an event, by which the political inte rest of all must be endangered. But the Mo narchs recognised the hand which had prepared this event 'for ,them, and their union was still further confirmed. They mutually engaged, that the insurrection in Greece, to whatever measures it might in the sequel compel them, should not disunite them. Henceforward there prevailed on this subject the greatest, and cer tainly an unparalleled, openness and coincidence between the Cabinets. Not a step was taken ou the part of the Russian Cabinet without being arranged with its Allies—without being approv ed of by them. All have openly done justice to the principles of integrity, humanity, and mag nanimity, which the Russian Monarch has pro fessed and followed, without in the least depart ing from his dignity. All have given him the tribute of their admiration and their gratitude. Every step of the Russian Cabinet has been most energetically supported by the ,Ministers of the other great Powers at Constantinople. The ex ertions of these Ambassadors had not the form of a mediation. The mediator endeavours to abate the exaggerated demands of two hostile Powers with whom he is on terms of amity, and to pro duce by reciprocal concessions a happy reconci liation. This could not be the case at Constanti nople. The demands brought forward by Russia were recognised by all the Powers as founded on treaties, justice, equity, and magnanimity. As such they were brought forward consequently as postulata, which could not be in the smallest de= gree departed from, and on the acceptance or re jection of which peace or war must depend ; and if there was any mediation on the part of the Ambassadors, it was only so far as they made use of the personal esteem which they enjoyed with the Sublime Porte, to overcome the prejudices of HS Ministers, and to draw their attention to the situation of the Ottoman Empire, which had the unanimous. sentiments of the five Great Powers against it, and no other Allies for it, than the above mentioned party and some visionaries in Germany. In fact the voice of reason has suc ceeded in dispelling the error in which the Divan for some time' acted. Authentic accounts from Constantinople state ? that the Porte, even before the arrival of the Russian . Ultimatum, lately ad dressed to it, had accepted individually all the demands contained in it, so that it might be, said the affair was entirely settled, were there not still some unimportant accessary circumstances respecting which the consent of Russia and of the other Courts could not yet be obtain ed. How, then, should the Emperor Alexander have refused a mediation which *as never offered him, and could not be offered him ?—Howr. - slyuld he have declared that he would settle the-boi ness himself, while, on _the contrary', be has caused his last step to be taken through the me dium of the Allied Powers?—The enemies of tranquillity in Europe may, therefore,• renounce the hope which the article that we have refuted FRENCII FUNDS. Oct. 26, Five per Cen i ts.. Bank Stock. had excited in them. The wretches who, with wicked intentions, have put arms into the hands of the Greeks, and made themselves answerable for the blood which has flowed in the East since March, will have been guilty in vain of so many crimes." AUCSBURG, OCT. 21.—The suite of the Prince de Metternich which accompanied him to Hanover, was not very numerous. The Austrian Government, according to its usual system of circumspection, spoke of the Prince's journey with great reserve. BANKS OF THE DANUBE, OCT. 11.—We have received news of the officers who have gone to Greece. Some disembarked in the Morea, but a great many Europeans coming from Spain, Italy, France, and Russia, are in Etolia, where they have formed an European corps, which was about to march directly for Livadia. Several ar tillery officers have been called out of Etolia to the Morea, where there is a want of them. Vessels, under Spanish and American flags, have landed a great deal of artillery and ammunition in Etolia. It is asserted that these vessels are French or English, and that they changed their flag from prudence. The city of Missolongi is the head quarters of the Greeks of Etolia ; and as the coast is free, they continually send warlike stores from Missolongi to the Morea; and at length all the artillery officers have been brought to the peninsula, by the exertions of Prince Demetrius Ypsilanti. All the armourers and carpenters aie likewise Tone. The .European military men who resorted to Venice and other Austrian ports are not per mitted to proceed for any port in the occupation of the Greeks. The orders of the Austrian Ca .binet are very severe on this head, and admit no exception, not even in favour of those who have regular passports. The Central Committee of Calamata, which bears the name of Senate, has consolidated its power, and is employing its means in reducing the strong places occupied by the Turks. The reduction of Novorino is a great point for the Greeks, that place having strong fortifications, constructed in the middle of the last century by French engineers. Prince Demetrius attached so much importance to the capture of this place, that he carried on the siege in person for a long time, and was present at the capitulation, which took place towards the end of August. Patras still holds out, and it is not likely that it 1011 soon yield. ° Lepanto is besieged by a Greek corps from Etolia, in which are many Europeans. Its speedy reduction is expected. The arrival of a Turkish fleet at Coron is talked of, which was to raise the siege of that place. FRANKFORT, OCT. 1. —Tile Greek combined fleet, consisting of 135 sail, have been re-vic tualled and re-fitted in the ports of Spezzia, Ilydria, and Milo. Its different divisions are commanded by the navarques of Toumbasi ; Alexis, son-in-law of the celebrated itobelina of Spezzia ; Anargyrus, Nicolaus Apostolo, and Cozia. ANTWERP, OCT. 21.--[Extract of a Private Letter.Y—Letters from a respectable source state, that Ali Pacha still keeps possession of Janina, and that he is in free communication with the neighbourhood. The Suliotes had made several :attempts to get possession of Pre vesa, and after their last repulse they were rein forced by the corps marching to join Ali, and have again appeared suddenly before Prevesa, which they are resolved on taking. TURIN, OCT. 18.—The King and Queen made their solemn entry into this capital yesterday, at four o'clock in the afternoon. A salute of 200 pieces of cannon from the citadel announced their arrival. MADRID, OCT. 15.—[Eitract of a Primate Lefler.]—Whilst we are enjoying here tolerable tranquillity, Andalusia is much molested by the bands of Roa and Zaldivar, which occasion more alarm than the famous Merino. The proceedings against General Grimarest have been annulled, on account of the incompe tency of the tribunal which tried him. He will be again tried by the Judge of the First Instance at Xeres, because the offence was committed within his jurisdiction. It is reported that General Elio has escaped from prison with the captain of the guard. .... The news from Catalonia is more and more afflicting ; for to the scourge of the contagion is added that of famine. The state of health at Malaga and at Cadiz continues satisfactory. TURKEY AND TII I, ARCHIPELAGO. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 25.—A. firman was is sued a few days ago by the Divan, calling on all the Mussultnan population of this city to conti nue to carry arms ; and k is observed that since its promulgation, a much greater number of the inhabitants than formerly appear armed with mus kets. This measure, however, is not to be as cribed to any fears of a Russian invasion, but to a danger nearer home, and of an aspect scarcely less threatening. It has long been known that disaf fection to,a very alarming extent exists among the Janissaries. They perceive with the utmost jealou sy, that the number of Asiatic troops in the service of the Government continues to increase, and that the new military system, of which they have ever been obstinate opponents, is gaining ground. They now openly avow, with little reserve, their intention to impede its progress. The Grand Seignor, on the other hand, who possesses great decision of character, is inflexible in-his deter mination to establish this most essential reform, and to disband or put to death, on the first ap pearance of insubordination, those Janissaries who may prove refractory. That which most surprises those who view what is going on here is, that so dangerout a step should be taken at a time when a contest is carrying on with the Greeks, `and the fears on the side of Russia, though sup posed to be set at rest for the present, not wholly appeased in regard to a future, and perhaps a not very distant period. The firmness of the Grand Seignor has, however, amply manifested itself. Witness the proceedings at Bucharest, where one thousand Albanian Turks, of the corps of Janissaries, were put to death by the order of their own Government ; and the same told spirit, it is said, is hereafter to, be applied to the maintenance of discipline and subordination in the Turkish army. All the Turkish troops in Wallachia and Moldavia, it is understood, are to be immediately withdrawn from thence. Those provinces will then revert to the previous form of government—of boyars, appointed by the Porte, subject to the approbation of Russia. This mea sure will no doubt be satisfactory to that power, and tend to facilitate the adjustment of the dif ferences, if any still remain, between her and Turkey. The number of Asiatic troops in the neighbourhood of this city is very considerable. One corps is estimated at 15,000, and another at 25,000 men. At present Constantinople is per fectly tranquil, and we have similar accounts from Smyrna. 'the Pacha there appears to be better supported than heretofore. He is conse quently more prompt and firm in his measures to repress disorder, and is more respected by the people—a good omen for the continuance of tran quillity. The Greeks have gained some advantages in the Morea, but their success, like that of the Turks, has been attended with cruelty. The fortresses of Navarin and Malvoisia were lost for want of provisions. They defended themselves to the last, and surrendered on the faith of a ca pitulation. At Nayarit), the surrender had no sooner been completed, than the Greeks put all their prisoners to death. At Malvoisia, the ca pitulation was at first adhered to, and a portion of the Turkish garrison, as stipulated, was sent off to Scala Nuova ; but on the departure of Prince Cantacuzene, the Greeks fell upon the remaining prisoners and murdered them. Their progress in the Morea will be impeded by the arrival of the Turkish fleet, which was last seen off Cerigo on the 3d inst., and which would not fail to throw supplies into Patras and the other fortified places on the coast. In regard to the Greek fleet, a letter from Smyrna, written by one of the Consuls, says that it is in a state of disunion, and that many of the ships have in consequence given up their share in the contest, and returned to the islands where they were first fitted out. Some of those vessels, which remain cruizing in the Archipelago, seem to have fixed on the sea, for a time at least, as their home, having placed on board their wives, families, and property of every kind, ready for whatever destination , fortune may 'guide them to. It is feared more than ever that they will devote themselves to the trade of piracy. Some cases have occurred lately where even English vessels have not been respected. The Richard and John was carried into Castel-Rosso, in Caramania,hy a Greek cruiser. from Miconi, and detain e d there some days. She made ter escape, but was boarded by another Greek vessel, which was com pelled, however, by the approach of the Turkish fleet, to abandon the capture. The Elizabeth and Mary was also carried into Calamon by a Greek cruiser, but the intelligence, luckily for the owners, havingreached the Com mander of his Britannic Majesty's ship Cam brian, she was rescued from the captors. Th e y , had landed the cargo at Calamon, which had been sold far beloW the current prices, and the captain had received half the amount. Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, however, demanded the remaining value from the islanders, and caused it to be deposited in the hands of the British Consul at Smyrna. He at the same time inti mated to these islanders, that any interference in future with the English flag, even the search for papers or for the nature of the cargo, would sub ject them all to be treated as pirates. Unfortu nately this threat, which is extremely becothing and proper in a British Commander to make, is likely, from the insufficiency of the naval force in that, quarter, to prove an empty denunciation, without the power of enforcement. Commercial men, both here and at Smyrna, are looking on with wonder at the supineness of the British Admiralty, and the vigour which cha racterises that of France. They form a perfect contrast with each other; and the effect is likely to be as injurious to England in its remote as in its immediate consequences. The conduct Of the French is extremely artful, and is no doubt planned with the view of regaining that supe riority in their trade with the Levant and the Archipelago, which they lost b the war.— They have protected, not only their owu sub jects, but those of every other country, Eng land included, in cases of extreme peril ; and the instances are numerous wherein the Eng lish Consuls have been compelled to take re fuge on board French ships of war, because none from their own country were at hand to suc cour them. The English commanders appear, too, to have had no definite instructions from home, if the statements circulated here are correct, as to the course tliey are to adopt towards the Turks and the Greeks. It has always been understood, whether the true policy or not is not material here, that the English, in consequence of their relations with Turkey, refused to recognise the Greeks as a belligerent Power ; yet, in a late in stance, which occurred at the island of Miconi, the principl e has been departed from ; at least, if tke Commander of the Larne is truly stated to have refused to take on board six Turks who were living under the p r ot e cti o n of the Engli s h Vi ce -C onsu l, on the ground that his instructions were to main tain strict neutrality between the Turks and the Greeks. The same Turks, with six others, being the whole of that nation on the island, were subsequently demanded by a French cor vette and brig, and delivered up to them, not withstanding some very strenuous opposition on the part of the Greeks at Miconi, which they overcame by threats. All the proceedings of the French shew that they seek to inaratiate them selves with the Turks, and indeed they openly avow such to be their intention. This was carried so far at Smyrna lately, that some Candiote Turks, who were permitted to embark in a French ship at Smyrna, obtained the additional security of a French man of war as convoy. 'The French also - seem to be studiously anxious to make their Consuls respected,--Ist. By the distinction conferred on them by conveying them to their destinations on board of ships of war, which an English Consul has been known to so licit for in vain; and by giving immediate at tention to all their applications for redres in cases which concern the safety or the property of French subjects. British Commanders, no doubt, feel equally zealous for the welfare of their countrymen; but the force at,their disposal is so inadequate to the protection of the space over which they are diffused, that the representations of their Consuls and their own threats have been rendered nugatory, while the French, who ._have their cruizers all over the Archipelago, can give immediate effect to both. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE AGENT TO LLOYD'S AT CONSTANTINOPLE, DATED SEPT. 25. " Captain G. 0. Payne, of the Richard and John, arrived from Alexandria, reports that he was taken by a Greek insurgent armed vessel, and carried into Castel Rosso, on the coast of Ca ramania, where he was detained some time ; that he made his escape whilst being conveyed to one of the Greek I s l an d s , an d was afterwards taken by another Greek, but was liberated on the Turkish fleet coming in sight; he represents their conduct whilst at Castel Rosso as violent. It is to be feared that the Archipelago will soon be overrun with pirates. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE AGENTS TO LLOYD'S AT SMYRNA, DATED SEPT. 17. " There is little news since our last of a public nature. The state of this town continues much the same, and allowing busi ness to proceed, though there has been partial infractions of order during Turkish holydays, and other temporary circum stances, without excitin farther uneasiness. The result con tinues in suspense of the . motions of the two hostile forces at sea in the Archipelago. European flags continue to navigate there without further molestation from either, as far as has transpired; nor does any English vessel appear to have sus tained the least injury beyond the temporary detention to which our former letters have alluded. An Austrian frigate has called off our port, and proceeded outside, it is understood, to demand reparation for the outrage committed at Scio on the two mer chant vessels of that nation, and to prevent a recurrence of the like nature. The Racehorse brig continues in port, and the only one of his - 31 aj es ty 's ships here." THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH. [JOHN BULL.] With our veneration for the Church of England, as by law established, our devotion to its tenets, and our respect for its ministers, it is impossible not to notice a coincidence, which, if it were not on so important a subject, would be ludicrous, and • being on so important a subject is lamentable. In the third column of the MORNING POST of Friday the 19th inst., amidst other Irish intelligence, there is an account of two visitations held by two Irish Archbishops, in which the one, the Archbishop of Armagh, expressed his disapprobation of the Bible Society, told the other, the Archbishop of Tuam, lamented that any . difficulty should be thrown in the way of that excellent association. There is some confusion in the, report of what passed at Ar magh ; a sermon is stated to have been preached by an ecclesi astic of the extraordinary name of Hinck ; and this Reverend Gentleman seems to have conducted a good argument in a rnan ner almost as extraordinary as his name ; and if we did not find him preaching at the visitation of the Lord Primate of Ire land, we should have thought him some crack-brained dissenter. But our business is not with Mr. Hinck. It seems doubtful indeed whether the reporter has not confounded 111 r. Hinek and his Grace, for we cannot discover where the sermon ends and the pastoral address begins ; but the following observation, at least, is unequivocally, (though, we suspect, erroneously) at tributed to the Archbishop :—" His Grace has no objection to the circulation of the Holy Scriptures--what Clergyman can have any ?—but he objects to their circulation without note or comment." We apprehend that this must have been the observation of the Gentleman with the absurd name, for his Grace cannot be unaware that the Scriptures ; published under the authority of the Church of England, are absolutely without note or com ment. His Grace could not have talked such nonsense: he, we have no doubt, insisted on the propriety of uniting with the distribution of the Scriptures the distribution of the Liturgy of out Church, that most admirable form of public prayer, the most comforting assistant in private devotion, and the most touching, as well as the most able commentary upon the Holy Scriptures that ever has proceeded from human pen, if indeed that, which is a selection from the very words of divine inspi ration, tan be tailed a human performance. - Our readers will see that we have not indulged in an idle hyper-critieism ; contrasted as the proceedings at Armagh ap pear to be with those which took place at Tuam, we cannot but suspect Mr. Hinck's nonsense, " Hine illae lachrymre," has been put into the mouth of the Archbishop with a view of depreciating at once his fitness for his exalted station, and his knowledge of the important subject under discussion. But the report proceeds with the account of the visitation at Tuam, where the Lord Archbishop, who seems to us to be a neophite of the sect that profanely and uncharitably designate themselves as Evangelical; appears, instead of delivering a charge, to have held some familiar chat with his clergy upon se veral important topics. " His Grace did not deliver any formal charge, but he made " several observations." And, as this remark follows immediately the statement, that " the Rev. Mr. Galbraith preached a most excellent sermon," it would seem (if the Report be correct) that his Grace's obser v-Itions were made parenthetically during the pauses of Mr. Galbraith's discourse, as if his Grace, whatever he might do with the Scriptures, could not venture to permit his Arch deacon's discourse to be uttered " without note or commen tary,' a prudential precaution which we wish his Grace of Ar magh had practised with Mr. llinck. His Grace of Tuam then proceeds to lament that the branches of the Bible Society (reprobated by the Primate) had not been more generally established in his diocese ; but his Grace hoped with the aid of the Clergy (we wonder, he omitted the formula, " and with the blessing of God,") to introduce that Associa tion into his diocese. After this, the Reporter tells us the upshot of the affair with a naiveté, which is almost ludicrous ; for, says he— "'We have very sincere pleasure in adding, that when the " Rev. Gentlemen, who attended there, met together at dinner, " they came to a resolution of course, one would expect, to consider the topics of his Grace's charge, and the means of patronizing the Bible So. ciety. No— to create a fund for the maintenance of Clergymen's " widows." These Irish visitations seem to be comical affairs ; in one the Archbishop will be obliged to disavow his preacher, and in the other the Clergy seem to have thrown over the Archbishop. Now; if we do not forget, his Grace the Archbishop of 'Plum is the learned Prelate who made such an unhappy hand of the Prophet Malachi, in the affair of her late Majesty the Queen, or, we should rather say, to wh om th e re p or t ers o f th e d ay at tributed some canting trash, that would have disgraced a Me thodist tub ; perhaps, it may account for his Grace's inter locutory interruptions with Mr. Galbraith, that this Reverend Gentleman was so indiscreet as to select the text of his sermon from, of all the books in the Bible, the Prophet Malachi afore said. If Mr. Galbraith be a wag, he perhaps imitated Swift 'and Sterne, who have ventured to excite 4 smile in the pulpit ; a dangerous practice at best, and one which we never could ap prove ; yet as the thing was to happen, we confess we should have liked to have seen his Grace's countenance, when the preacher announced the text from Malachi. But, seriously, and we say it in seriousness and sincerity, we do not think that we have ever seen, in any newspaper, half a column which gave us more pain than that which we have been noticing ; and the juxta-position of the opinions of two Heads of the Church, so absolmely contradictory to one another, and both of them disfigured by such clumsy circumstances, appears to us likely to do more . injury than can be counterbalanced by the personal exertions of their Graces, however exemplarily they may fulfil their diocesan duties. If Mr. Hinck and Mr. Galbraith choose to have it known, that, they preached most excellent Visitation sermons, let them say so, and sign it (as Dogberry says) " with their names ;" but let not the character of the Church, and the interests of re ligion, be mixed up with such vain trash, and above all, let not the scoffer, or the sectarian, already too powerful and too active, be encouraged by such violent discr e p a n c i es as th e c h arges o f these two Archbishops exhibit. Sr. JAMES'S PARK.--Yesterday morning twelve labourers in the employ of the Ordnance Depart ment at Woolwich arrived in town with their fore man, Mr. M' Do NA.Lo,and, according to orders, pro ceeded to remove the large cannon called the Regent's Bomb from opposite the Horse Guards to the spot which was occupied by a Waterloo carriage at the back of the Horn?. Office. Another cannon and carriage are on their way to town from ‘Voolwich, to take the place of the,Re gent's Bomb, and the Waterloo carriage will be removed nearer Spring-garden gate. FOR THE SUN. THE BISHOP OF MEATH Mn. EDITOR.-1 am sorry. that the Bishop of Meath's - Letter in your Paper, which I so constantly read, has so long escaped my notice ; so much do I admire its general spirit, and its particular application to the present crisis. You must know I have myself. some little of the Irish blood in me ; and if I have trot so much as to justify that strong prejudice which Ilea in favour of Ireland, yet perhaps quite enough to excuse any. blunders I may commit in the expression of my sentiments : for I do not fear any in my affection fOr this Prelate and the glorious cause which he so intrepidly maintains. That cause is the Established Church„of which he stands forth so distinguished a champion among his brothers on the bench ;—who think not that they are placed upon a hill, to hide their talents _under • ground, but to he the f4reat lights of the world; the prominent land-marks to warn their flock against the quicksands on their • way, and to pour final their rays in what portion, and in what season, or wherever they may judge to be expedient:—and where is the place, or when the time, that it could be _ judged more expedient than in the present distracted state of our. Sister country, where a set of fanatics arc gone forth under the very . orders of the church, " p ro f ess i ng to p reac h her Articles of Faith," and to defend her from the assaults of Popery, while they are only eager to gain proselytes to their own 'particular doctrines, " which they pretend t o d e d uce f rom t h e, art i c l es, which the pious. and learned compilers of them and'all their most distinguished successors have uniformly- condemned Indeed, so far have many of them wandered from their real spirit as to slide into the very same or worse errors' than those which these very articles were intended to oppose. That this was the spirit of old, is clearly proved by Bishop Lavington his comparison of the Papists and the Methodists ; and that it has made most rapid and formidable strides iii theie rater 'tithes' (considering the greater light that is shed abroad upon these subjects, more especially upon the principle of Toleration,) is evident from their rage of intolerance and persecution, in opi nion, which seems with these fanatics like Aaron's rod to swal low up all the rest ; as if the rod were the only eiablenf of - the schoolmaster that i,s to bring us unto Jesus, and as if the king dom of Heaven 'were to be taken by violence, and the violent alone were to enter it.—lle certainly once took up the rod,', but then, as has been observed, it was to drive thieves-out of the temple, not to force honest men into it. • • - " Hitt 'sister Superstitions, like the sister Graces, Righteous ness and Truth, will meet together; and if either of the twiner Sisters is to be preferred to the other, I do not know whether I should not prefer the Papist. It is true, his Religion in the ' abstract is no more to be compared with that of the Methodists than a body irrecoverably corrupted with one only slightly tainted. ' But if the latter suffers this taint to go on increaetng as rapidly, as it has of late, the body will soon become that deadly mass ot total corruption, which these men say is its natural state-- " Naturam expellas furett, tamen usque recurret." lam far from being an advocate for the Papists, but I can- '` not help thinking, notwithstanding all the alarm that they have raised in our Sister Country, they are, of the two Furies, the . least to be dreaded—They may both be compared, as Leaders Of the People, in their spirit of persecution, to conductors that invite the lightning from Heaven, not into the Earth, but to the buildings which they profess to guard ; and because they are laid only on the surface, and, for. want of depth and solidity/ what was an outward security proves 'an inward ruin._For rnerly there ,was a great, contz.st, which conductors were the • best for houses, the blunt or the pointed ; the Papist is tbot ' which is blunted by long use, that fatal rust to the hardest a nd • best wrought iron ; and the other, from the mere circumstance. of novelty, for which the world has such a taste, and from the popular spirit of innovation, is the - more - pointed, and therefore the more formidable weapon, and the more to be parried by those defensive weapons which the mildest Christians are al lowed to wield, and which the milder they are, the more dexte rous they are in wielding. Well; therefore, do they become the Prelates of our Church, and few with more grace than this dir tinguished Champion, who expects his Clerge to blunt the points of their adversaries' swords by an imitation of their activity commending their adversaries more than our blessed Lord did the unjust Stewards, but for their wisdom in this world efter their generation, for their zeal and assiduity worthy of a better 'rause. Nor is it his intention to encourage ins Clergy to blow the trumpet like them through Zion, and to judge the world in anger, and issue bulls and excommunications against all with out exception, even of the most m o ral a nd re li gious , th a t hap - , pen to differ the least shade from their own persuasion,, but rather like the angel on the List day, to judge the wolld with tear of pity upon the infirmities of the weaker brethren, and like their Father himself; in the midst of judgMent, still to think upon mercy. How delighted then was I when I saw this Prelate stand - .forth to display the true Christian. energy ; that zeal ftccordiry'- to knowledge, for want of which the different orders of the f-;s - tablished Church, especially the higher; have been.so u njust!): abused, particularly by sonic of these very men who have crel"' into her bosom, and fostered by her warmth, have attempted to inflict the deadlier sting. ‘‘ bile some are striving with ail their little might to dethrone one Bishop in this couet!..): from his established right to examine , the candidates I °' orders by his own questions upon the articles th e mselves; others are endeavouring in a n o th er coun t r y t o d e throne th e . Church in general from all - their right to superinteod th e , course of education pursued in the Schools of late esta: . Wished. What was my astonishment when I c a me to this Pr of the Bishop's Letter :—." In some Schools, establishing o nl " el the sanction of theaCTINGMINISTER of this country, a nd fro; a PUIILiC FUND, not only the a ppoint men t o f th e Master, b ut all superintendence over the course of education he pursues , and tae principles he inculcates, are taken out of the hands 13 which the religious feelings, and the wisdom of .happier ( 1 0, 4 had placed them, to b e ves t e d exc l us i ve l y in L aymen g ran in ground for the building of Schools, and in Trustees. to be ar ' pointed by them ; and the interference th e mos t strong!). 13 terdicted is that of the Established Church." If the Bishop were a man who takes up charges at rande ll e'.l , I might hope there were some error in the report, but as I have no hope of that kind, I cannot b u t f ee l as t on i s h e d be - - , '„ measure, that a schismatic spirit should op era t e s o v iolently . ?_ 1 ; a Minister who is sent out to superintend the business of te_ . • State, so intimately connected as it is, especially in that wane. try, With the establishment of the Church. It is far from ! I ,Y , purpose to enter into a long disquisition about Bible Sociene or the Schools of Bell or of Lancaster.—Whatever inaY their comparative utility, they may all be useful in their w e t; • but surely that State Minister must be allowed by ' t h e , friends to travel out of Ins record, who meddles wita d . p g • ,;, Church at all: and since he must' meddle, instead of hol; h l ic a • e up the head of a Protestant above the waves of Popery, S!_ ven rise every where against it, from prejudice and passion, an c_ : • family affections, chuses to start fresh. obstacles, and tries_ persuade the people that they are not to trust the educatioilac their children to the Established Church, to whom our forefatheis thought fit to intrust it. • , be is, I am not acquainted with this Minister, but whoever • he must feel the justice, as well as severity of this 1 1 . rel ' rebuke, and • should endeavour, as the only . amends l e power, to rectify his emir instantly. Not one hour b e shoutu_ e i lost in stemming an opinion of this description, so pala o t:_ e z' to the populace 'of all countries, but more especially to combustible as Ireland, and which, if not immediately etopPliest like wildfire will rage and burn the w!iole land, making w was before the garden of Eden, a desolate wild.ernets. at I This impolitic interference has recalled to my mind 1, b ele) had wished to forget, the zealous am a z o n of that party, " ,‘ ,O displayed so much officious h ea t in th e same train, to pre' e a.. the:Minister of a parish in this country from the •superint e e r e e ance of a parish school ' ; but that officiousness • ever nent, but more especi a lly in th a t sex t o w hi c h the Gracc e of long, was soon and effectually over-ruled by the good se° 1 the Minister, and the conspiring zeal of his parishionell . p er trust that whenever such an opinion should p re v a il, in vili‘ e „ i i; corner of this country, the s a m e .g ood s e n se w ill e ver, pre',; e e for we are a sober, and often a th i nki ng p eo pl e , a t least ( Le o pared with the country wher e thi s " ac ti ng Mi n i s t e r" has 11 ; interfering with the Church. . or We do not so hastily and at once follow the' iinPoi se et al passion as they, who teem to leap , and look afterwards, r h i who, while John Bull is medit a ti ng a bl ow , or; whetbetelP should give a blow at all, would t a k e him ininualia o oa and without reflection, by the horns, and throw him, ` i9 ,; rl ce' as look at him, and all in good humour, into the L:trey yit let , • o r , .BERGAMI.—It is some time since several nals announced the death of th e famous 131 ' : ;, -- f GAMI, a few days after that of. the Que el/ t he ENGLAND. The .Journals of Belgium, on ao t authority of letters from. Italy, contradict i$ statement, and add, that the Chamberl i all : n ch living and in good health, at his Castle.—VA" Paper.) • lib 0 1 Lord PALMER STON h a s l a t e ly mv .do erti donation of Pine Plant s t o th e H am pshire 11 % $ , cultural Experiment a l G ar d en ; G. Jr Esq. our County Memb er , h as contributed • to this favourite Institution. ° °Ll . A vast number of high bred horses - r ar e mares are about to lea ve this country ; t r bel f or purchased by an agent o f th e King of " BERG.