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THE LONDON JOURNALS. VETRACTS FROM THE rfrAiLy MORNING PAPERS, December 27, 1822. [MO RNI N G POST. We received last night, by xpress, French Papers to the 25th inst. The question of war has ceased to form their chief subject of discussion, and the stormy interest which it excited for a few weeks seems gradually to subside, although the Funds have continued to decline Were not this the fact, it might be thought that the late triumph of M. tie Villele, and the wise part of the Ministry over the Ultra, had completely restored public confidence ; but as it is, the symptoms of growing indifference which begin to manifest them selves may perhaps be the result of that inconstant disposition with which the French, like the Athenians of old, have been frequently charged. The time which has elapsed since the French Government- informed the Cortes of- the discre tionary power with Which it had teen invested by the majority of the Congress, and of the con ditions on which the exercise of that power de pended, has been more than su-fficient to allow them to return an answer,- and to enable that answer to arrive. That one was sent and has been receivefl, little doubt can be entertained, though the fact has not been publicly mentioned, and the nature of the reply remains secret. It is evident, however, that the Cortes have lately adopted several measures calculated to conciliate Foreign Powers, and to remove some of the , grounds on which the Ultras themselves founded their arguments for the necessity of an armed interference in the concerns of the Peninsula.. [BR I TISII PR ISS.] Bayonne Papers up to the 20th represent the fugitives of the Faith As being utterly forlorn and hopeless, while the constittrtionl cause is every where triumphant. The effect produced by the assurance of peace is vividly stated, but by no means more vividly than might have been expected. It appears that the belief of a Com mercial Treaty between Spain and this Country is generally credited. Merino,. according to These papers, is the true ferocious: wealth and a facility of plunder seem to direct his executions. New TIMES The French R'entes had faller, at Paris on Tuesday evening to 87f. 30c. for Account. We can attribuee this depression to nothing but a mere stock-jobbing speculation. Certainly no political reason for it has occurred. It is hardly necessary to argue that the prospect of a permanent peace is that which should make funded property every where rise, and the prospect of a long war should make it fall.— Now, assuredly the present state of affairs in clines rather to the former than to the latter alternative. The French Government has not, and we are inclined to think, will not, soon with draw its Ambassador from Madrid ; and on the other hand, the furious Jacobins seem rather to be losing ground in that capital; whence two ar three of their Leaders have already been exiled. [TIIE TIMES.] The Paris Papers of Thursday contain' ac counts from the frontiers of Spain, which, though really of little importance,, appear to have ac quired, according to the medium through which they may have passed, a more or less exaggerated colouring. The Ultra Journalists are evidently blessed with a facility of belief, which is very be coming in the historians of the Army of the Faith. The assaults made on the fortress of Urgel had mot, according to the last account,, been success ful. That this should be the case in the siege of a place which can only be approached by a smalls number of troops at a time, and which is defended by desperate men, is not at all surpris ing; but what, except a spirit of wilful misre presentation, con iduce any person to hold out the repulse of an attacking party on such a place as a defeat of Mina's army ? There are still some insurgent bands in the frontier provinces ; but let them once be completely cut off from all ex pectation of foreign assistance, and they will cease to exist. It is probable the lingering hope of aid by an armed intervention on the part of France will soon completely expire; for the most fanatical of the French Papers are gra dually dropping their warlike anticipations, and state various facts which tend to diminish the suspicion of a hostile intention on the part of the Government. Thus, in the Journal de Toulouse of the 18th, it is announced that the idea of esta blishing a park of artillery in that city had been abandoned, Rad that the works for a bridge of boats, which was to have been prepared, were ordered to be suspended. [MORNING HERALD.] Accounts from Paris of the 424th arrived yes terday. The depression of the French Funds still continued, and there appears no change in the aspect of affairs which could remove any por tion of the uncertainty hitherto existing. The com plaints of those interested in the funds particu larly, and of the mercantile interest in general, appear to be warmly expressed against the French Government for its mysterious reserve—it is evi dent through the Journals. But we suspect the French Government can hardly helpit. A divided Cabinet, acted upon, at the same time, by power ful and conflicting foreign influences, cannot easily come to a final resolution upon a question of vital importance. Perhaps it may be said that the first question to be solved is not that of peace or war—but which of two parties in the Councils of the King of France shall maintain possessson of the helm of Administration. As to the du ration of this contest, or its issue, it were as idle to consult the Paris Journals as to cast the nati vities and consult the horoscopes of the contend ing parties. There is one thing worth attention —it is, that even if M. de Villele should be forced out, yet the Chamber of Deputies may theck the warlike ardour of the triumphant party. It is true, the late elections .(of a fifth only of the Chamber) were decidedly in favour of the Ultra influence; but though many of these gentlemen may be ready enough to vote for arbitrary invasions of the Charter and of the ge neral principles of freedom, it is not at all so cer tain that they would be equally ready to support a war, which would impose upon their estates a heavy burden. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Ultra Papers of Paris rave as furiously as ever ; the French Funds are on the decline ; and the English Courier is nearly as warlike in its tone as any of its French allies. The Courier states, that" nothing was decisively settled when the Duke of Wellington left Paris ; not that there was any difference of opinion with re spect to the interference in the affairs of Spain, but with respect to the mode and time." Now, what is meant by mode and time of interference ? To demand that the person of the King shall be respected, is a mode of in terference ; but that is not a mode of interference likely to lead to a war. The Spaniards neither intend now nor did they ever intend to attempt any thing against the King or any of the Royal Family. Indeed they could not possibly obtain a King more suitable to their wants at this time than Ferdinand, by whom it is not likely that they will ever be deceived. A successor might obtain from them more confidence without being more deserving of it. Does The Courier mean to say that by the mode of interference he means that war is to be the result of a refusal on the part of the Spaniards to modify their Constitution ? As we know very well that the Spanish constitution alists would feel that they dishonoured the Spa- I nish name, if they altered their Constitution in the slightest particular, in obedience to the demands of any foreigners, the irresistible conclusion would be that war was inevitable. What a figure in that case he would make his Majesty's Ministers cut l Ile would have us believe that all this , bustling, all this negotiating with France, was without rational object. Any man of common sa gacity must have known the answer which Spain would make to any demand of this sort; and to ne gociate for a peace dependent on the compliance with such a demand, was to employ the time very foolishly indeed. But it will be said, per l- 2aps, that a higher ground was taken—that France was admonished not to interfere at all with Spain, and that she treated the admonition with con tempt. The Courier, then, would have us be lieve either that Ministers entered on a very ab surd negotiation, or that the French have set them at defiance. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. ( From the Ear!, Gazette of Dec. 25. ) The firm, consistent, and honourable line of conduct, pursued by our Government, in regard to its foreign relations, and the unsophisticated rectitude of the British coun sels, as opposed to the crooked policy and clashing interests of continental diplomatic intriguers, have at length wrung, even from the most determined opposers of his Majesty's Minister, a comprehensive but reluctant approval. The great organ of the faction* has owned, and truly " the zeal, firmness, and temperance," which distinguished our representation in the congregated councils of nations—has been compelled to admit that the fears so loudly expressed and so widely promulgated, that the honour of our country would be tarnished by a coali tion with unrestricted rulers, were vague and unfounded — that the justice, wisdom, and honour, of Britain are ma. nifest to the world; and her immense importance in the scale of nations acknowledged by all the powers of Europe; since her single d4ennination is found of sufficient force to restrain, at least for a time, the will of those who fear the freedom of mankind ; and to sway effectually the concentra ted governments of half the civilized world. The truth of all this has long been felt by a vast majority of the thinking part of the people of England ; but it has never before been avowed by the oracle of the right or wrong opponents of administration. Their praise or blame, it is true, is but of little value, and as we have invariably treated the latter with measures less con tempt, we will not be silly enough to exult in the former; but we will avow an honest pride in the conviction that the prin ciples to which we are devotedly attached—that the measures which, for the sake of our country—for the sake of mankind, we hope to see triumphant over domestic malice and foreign envy—evince in the hour of trial such simple purity and native strength as to extort, even from their most determined adver saries, an unwilling homage—the homage which faction's-self cannot withhold from integrity, wisdom, and fortitude. To this country, the abode of so much radical discontent and mis chievous machination, the dwelling, the home, of more of God's blessings than all the world beside can boast or hope for, to this favoured land mankind stand indebted for deliverance from the curse of anarchy and atheism ; and to her alone will the grati tude of posterity be due, that ignorance, superstition, and sla very, are not again permitted to enthral and fetter the march of the human mind. Alike opposed to tyranny and treason, she stands the dignified and honoured mediatress between the dangerous extremes of national error, and labours to reconcile and harmonise the evils and discords which afflict mankind. Whate'er her faults, whate'er her giddy factions, never let her sons forget that all the revolutions which convulse society, and destroy the peace and happiness of other nations would cease and be as nothing, were those countries ruled by just such a government, just such laws, just such a constitution, as Eng land is at this moment in full and perfect possession of. The approaching meeting of all sorts and conditions of men, in the county of Norfolk, to " take into consideration the dis tresses of Agriculture, antf the best means of relieving them," it is said will be conducted upon a new principle, as it is intend ed to confine the business of the meeting to the subject for which it is convened. We put but little faith in the report. For, however sincere the promoters of the requisition may by in their wish to exclude any extraneous or irrelevant propositions ; we so well know the disposition of the turbulent advocates of what they call reform, that we do not believe they will permit the day to pass without obtruding their contemptible crudities ; nor suffer a matter of real importance to be calmly de bated. They will spout forth their fool-hardy fantisies and unconstitutional quackeries. To desire a county meet ing free from such debasement, argues wisdom ; and if the wish be accompanied by firmness on the part of • If at the time we felt dismayed at the result of the Verona Congress, and, in common with our countrymen, deplored con sequences which could, not fail to involve us, and tarnish. our national honour, in the same degree do we now feel elated at the change that has taken place, which bids fair to render the Paris negociation the _most successful of the kind in which we have yet been engaged in the course of the present eventful century. The result has been a triumph on the Fart of principle and good faith, over deep-laid machinations covered with an alluring garb, and managed with all the craft and finesse of which a refined diplomacy is capable.—( Morning Chronicle.) those really interested, one step towards a reform will be gained ; a reform in the conduct of county meetings which may probably rescue the valuable privilege of meeting to deliberate on evils, and petition for their redress, from th e detestable denomination of landless brawlers, and many-acred demagogues, and afford men of all parties an equal opportunity of enjoying a common right : an indulgence which the lovers of liberty have hitherto carefully excluded every man from a participation in, who did not happen to be entirely of their way of thinking. Devoted friends to the constitutional liberty of the the subject, and foes to tyranny in every form, we execrate and abhor the shameful practice which has too long prevailed of branding with opprobium, men, who never knew dishonor ; and stigmatizing as tools of corrupton, all who disdain to make tools of the mob. If the meeting at Norwich would redeem itself from this reproach instead of hooting and railing and reviling; let it hear and rea son and if it can refute. If any of those who will still be prating forget good manners in their talk, let the general voice of indig nation convince the slanderers and bullies that the people of Nor folk are assembled, on this occasion at least, not to hear their neigh bours traduced, but to concert measures for the effectual redress of a general grievance, not to defy the Legislature, but to in form it, not to insult and rebuke the Government, but man fully to state the ills under which they labour, and respectfully to offer the result of their practical knowledge which may enable them to point out means of relief. If they act otherwise, their meeting is worse than useless ; they may be numerous, they may be wealthy, they may be sincere, but unless they be tem perate and impartial, they cannot be respectable. The busi ness which calls them together is no party question, and if they suffer the meeting to degenerate into an election intrigue, they betray their county to disgrace. SUSSEX WINTER ASSIZES. LEWES, DEC. 24. George Cord and George Smith were indicted for felo niously assaulting John Hawkins, on. the 17th of October, and taking from his person two sovereigns, and other money, at Itother field- The prosecutor, a labotfring man,. was at a public house in Lewes, on the evening of the 17th of October. There he met the two prisoners, and after drinking together for some time, they asked him which way he was going. He answered, to Tunbridge Wcllq They said they were going to the same place, and they might as well go in company together. The prosecutor accepted their offer, and they accordingly set out. — When they had arrived near Uckfield, they met a man named Bunker with a returned post chaise. One of the prisoners proposed that they should ride.. This was agreed to, and they got into the chaise. They had ridden three or four miles when the two prisoners desired the postilion to stop, as they wanted to go out for a short time. Their desire was complied with.— When they had been absent about two minutes, they returned to the chaise door, and insisted upon having the prosecutor's money. Ile replied, he had got none. Smith said, "If we do not have your money, we will have your life;" and imme diately presented a pistol to his breast. Hawkins finding it was useless to resist, delivered all the money lie had to them. Just as the prisoner was shutting the door, the prosecutor finding himself thus left pennyless, asked the prisoners for some money to carry him home. Smith then gave him two shillings, and the chaise proceeded. The prosecutor gave information of his loss to . some police-officers in the next town, and a pursuit was commenced. By information which they received on the road, they were enabled to trace them to the town of Hatfield. There they found them drinking together in a public-house. They were immediately taken into custody and searched. In the pocket of Smith they found a pistol loaded with powder only, without any priming, and two farthings, which were amongst the money taken from the prosecutor. On Cord they found two pistol flints. The prisoners, in their defence, merely stated that they were innocent of the crime, and that the prosecutor had wished them to go and steal fowls, and he would sell them, and allow them a certain sum for themselves. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty—Death. William. Watson and John Piggott were indicted for bur glariouslg breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Lydia Geer, on the 6th of November, and stealing different articles of linen-drapery, at Firle. On the night of the sth of November, the prosecutrix, who keeps a linen-draper's shop at Firle, retired to bed about half past 12 o'clock, leaving the house perfectly safe. In the morning it was discovered that a hole had been made through the wall of the shop, and a great quantity of different articles removed. Inquiries were immediately made in every direc tion, and after a considerable time had elapsed, she was in formed that the two prisoners had gone to a public-house, called the Royal Oak, in Kent-street Newington. on the 13th of No vember, with two large bags. Two police-officers, suspecting from their appearance that the property in the bags was stolen, determined to watch them. They soon after took them into custody, and on examining the bags discovered several pieces of cotton, and other articles . of that description in them. When they searched the prisoners, they found a pair of gaiters in the hat of one, and a handkerchief in the pocket of the other. Mrs. Geer was then informed of this discovery, and when the pro perty was shown to her, she immediately recognized it all to be her own. When the prisoners were called upon for their defence, they said they had set out in company for Portsmouth some days before they were apprehended, and met a man on the road with a very large bundle on his back. He proposed to them that, as the night was approaching, they should retire to a lane which lie knew for the purpose of sleeping. The next morning the two prisoners divided the bundle between them to assist the stranger. When they had proceded some distance further, the latter made a present of the gaiters to the one prisoner, and the handkerchief to the other, by way of compensation for the trouble they had taken on his account. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty—Death. Before the Hon. Mr. Baron GRAHAM. Moses Chandler and James Crossingham were indicted for stealing, on the 26th of November, a mare and a gelding, the property of William Barnes and Charles Snoad, at Frant. Mr. Snoad, a grazier at Brookland, had, on the evening of the 25th of November, turned the two animals into a close near the house. About seven o'clock the next morning, having oc casion for the mare, he went to the close, and found to his sur prise that the gate had been opened, and both the horses stolen. Inquiries were immediately made as to the probable road the robber had taken. By this means it was discovered that the two prisoners had gone to the Gun public-house at Eridge-green, which is 30 miles from Brookland, on the morning of the 26th, about seven o'clock, with a mare and a gelding. When they had put the horses into the stable, they went into the house, and asked for some refreshment. Mr. Brown, the keeper of the Gun, having heard that those two men had conic on horseback to the house, was rather suspicious that they had obtained the animals in an improper manner. He thereibre asked them what brought them out on the road at that early hour of the morning, as they certainly could not be riding for pleasure. Chandler answered, that they were taking them to a person named White, near Lewes. Mr. Brown af fected to be satisfied with this account ; but when they went to take the horses from the stable, he accompanied them. He then observed, that the horses were very dirty, in a strong perspira tion, and apparently very much fatigued. This confirmed his suspicions, and he told the prisoners he was very much afraid they had not given a true account of themselves. Chandler answered, " That he did not care for his suspicions." This conduct induced Mr. Brown to detain both the prisoners, and accordingly a constable was sent for, and they were taken into custody. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Snead, hearing of this oc currence at Eridge-green, Immediately proceeded to that place, and discovered the gelding and the mare found in the prisoners' u possession to be those he had lost from his own close. Further inquiries were made at Frant, and it appeared that the two pri soners had been seen together, near the prosecutor's house, on the evening of the 25th, the day before the robbery. The prisoner Chandler, in his defence, said that a Gentleman had desired him to take the horses to Lewes for him, and he was proceeding to fulfil that command, when he was detained at Eridge-green. The other prisoner said that lie had met Chandler on the road, and the latter had given him a ride on one of the horses. The Jury found both 'the prisoners Guilty—Death. On, Monday evening Mr. Justice BAYLEY passed sentence of death on the six following prisoners—Wm. West, James Johnson, Wm. Pipe, and Wm. Payne. for burglary ; John Dearing, for litep stealing ; and Wm. Leury, for horse steal ing. On Tuesday evening, he passed a similar sentence on nine others—James Brown, Thomas Sears, John Marks ' Ed ward Hedger, Wm. Watson, and John Piggott, for burglary ; Thomas Purser, for horsestealing; and George Cord and Geo. Smith, for highway robbery. On Tuesday evening the Court rose at half-past 7 o'clock, and sat again on Thursday morning at nine o'clock; Mr. Baron Graham, we understand, for the purpose of trying the rest of the prisoners. THE CLERGY. The trial of Mr. WILLIAMS for a Libel on THE CLERGY, at the Durham Assizes, and the speeches of the Counsel on both sides, excited much discussion at the time.—We received the following Letter at that period, but it was un luckily mislaid. It has since come to hand, and as the attacks upon THE CLERGY by the Party Writers continue with unabated rancour, we should condemn ourselves for a want of due zeal for the support of our venerable Ecclesiastical Establishment if we any longer withheld it from the Public. FOR THE SUN. Ma. EDITOII—It is painful to observe the per severing and systematic malignity with which the Established Church of England is assailed by a desperate Party. Disappointed ambition seems to have made some of them blind as well as mad, and happily their rancorous hostility is in a great measure rendered impotent by their intemper ance. We do not mean that this bad spirit is entirely of recent conception, but certainly it has assumed, more than at any former period, a fierce, and determined virulence. Look at the conduct of the Morning Chronicle, —the acknowledged, authorized, official, organ of the Whigs. Read especially what has appear ed in it during the last Session of Parliament.— Has any opportunity been omitted which it could in any way make available for jeering and vilify ing the Clergy, and for rendering the Establish ment of the Church odious to the people ? Has a week, nay even a day, passed without some invective against tithes, some intimation of the uselessness of Bishoprics, some recommendation of the propriety of applying their exorbitant re venues to a better purpose ? It is proper that the friends of the Established Church should fix their attention on this conduct of the modern Whigs, and be careful how they place power in the hands of men who entertain and avow such designs. As to power indeed, so long baffled, they seem to have abandoned all hope of gaining it, except by passing over the ruins of our most sacred institutions. It shall he our earnest endeavour, as it is the solemn duty of every friend to the Church of England, to assist in depriving them of this last hope. How different is this conduct from that of the truly great men whose name they have assumed and disgraced ! They, the wise framers of our Con , stitution, thought it expedient that the Church should rear its mitred front in the halls of our Nobles, and in the Palaces of our Kings. They were true friends of their Country, and as reli gious as any of their descendants; but it does not appear that they ever exerted their ingenuity in contriving the cheapest mode in which a Church can be established, and the lowest terms on which Ministers might be engaged to serve it. Yet these modern Whigs are mighty friends to Religion ;—we must not presume to question their zeal for Religion. Oh no ! it is only the rich en dowments of the Established Church which they dislike. They think, with Mr. Hume, that the Presbyterian form of worship is certainly cheaper, and in all other respects quite as good. Nay, if people please to have a place of public worship and a minister, let them pay for it themselves : why should the country be burdened with the expence of any establishment ? A religion that cannot stand by itself does not deserve to stand at all. However, in their guarded moments, these modern Whigs assume a more temperate tone, and profess that it is the abuse of the Establishment, not the Establishment itself, against which their virulence is directed ; it is a good church, but badly administered ; Bishoprics are good, but the Bishops bad ; as to the inferior Clergy, the Curates perhaps, who have an income just suffi cient to sustain life, are diligent and praiseworthy, but the rest, the Incumbents, Prebendaries, and Deans, are lazy, luxurious, worldly-minded ; no contemptuous epithet is too bad for them. Such is the more guarded and measured lan guage to which the organ of the Whig party sometimes restrains itself. To revile the Esta blished Church would be impolitic; any expres sions which may have escaped it, that might be so construed, must be ascribed to inadvertence : they revere the Church, and are only anxious that it should be pure and free from abuse ! Let the Morning Chronicle declare itself openly. We should be sorry to think ill of the Party of which it is the organ, without reason and from misapprehension ; and, therefore, beg that it will speak without ambiguity. What does it mean by the Establishment, as distinguished from the abuse of it? Are the several gradations of Bishops, Deans, Prebendaries, Incumbents, Curates, es sential according to its notion of the Establish. ment ? Are the revenues attached to these seve ral orders essential ? If they are, what does it mean by insisting, as it has often done lately, that these revenues may legally and ought pro perly to be diverted from their present applica tion, to meet the urgent exigencies of the State ? What does it mean by the invidious comparisons which it is perpetually drawing between the Church of England with its rich dignities, and the Presbyterian Church with its economy and equa lity ? No, no! this flimsy disguise cannot avail : the cloven foot is sufficiently visible. It is bet ter to be candid : we may have respect for an open enemy, but when a known foe approaches us with an hypocritical smile of friendship, all respect must give way to mixed feelings of indig nation and scorn. The Morning Chronicle loves the Establish ment, but hates the abuse of it. Yes, we under stand this modern Whig. Strip the Church of its revenues, annihilate Bishoprics, Deaneries, rich Livings, and his love for the Establishment becomes passionate. His kindness is unques tionable, but he must pardon us for declining the embrace of such an admirer.—A query was pro posed in Locke's time, whether a silk stocking might not be darned with worsted till not a par ticle of silk should be left, and yet remain the same identical stocking ? If this sapient friend of the Established Church had lived in the day's of Locke, he could have solved this knotty question. Again, to make the sentiments of this party still more manifest, let us consider a little the case presented to us in the trial at Durham. Perhaps this great body may disclaim so head strong and intemperate a representative as the Morning Chronicle; but there one of their great chiefs, offe r s himself to our notice. Let ' us bear in mind, that the point to be ascer tained is,whether the hostility of the Whigs is to the Established Church, or merely to some sup posed abuses of it. In the trial of John Am brose Williams, charged with libelling the Dur ham Clergy, what a fine opportunity was pre sented to the Counsel of settling this disputed point. Let us suppose that Lord Grey, Lamb ton, and their scribe Williams, are deeply attached to the Church of England. Then the argument of Williams and of his Learn ed Friend would naturally be, " we have no objection to the Bishopric of Durham, with its splendid endowment and patronage; quite the contrary ; we are proud of it as an essential part of the Established Church, to which we are sincerely attached ; but we complain of an abuse; the individuals who enjoy this patronage, the Clergy of Durham, have shamefully neglected their duty ; when the injured Caroline expired, they omitted to ring the Cathedral Bells." Well, for this gross neglect of duty, this abuse, what is the remonstrance made by this vigilant watchman Williams, and his Learned Cham pion ? He, poor -Williams, in his honest frenzy, without looking to the right or left, strikes straight forward at the individuals immediately before him ; it is not till he has given vent to his contempt and wrath against his clerical neigh bours, and relieved himself by applying to them the happy epithet of black beetles, that he finds time to prognosticate the fall of the church gene rally, as a punishment for harbouring these crawl ing monsters. But his learned Advocate takes post on a more extensive and a very different ground. He saw no doubt that this story about the Bells was ridiculous, and far from sufficient to justify the foul language into which Williams had been betrayed by his blind spite. He knew moreover, that if we are to have Bishops at all, it is impossible to have any more venerable, more pious, more eminent for every quality that can adorn this high and sacred station than the pre sent Bishop of Durham ;—if we are to have a Clergy, that we can never expect to be blessed with a body of men more distinguished for learn ing and ability, or more zealous in the discharge of their ministerial duties, than the very objects of his client's hatred, the Smilers, the Fabers, the Philpotts, on whom the Bishop of Durham has conferred his patronage. In short, he saw clearly, that this pretext about complaining merely of the abuse of the Establishment, could not in the present instance be laid hold of. It was plain that no abuse existed : Williams did not pretend to say, much less to prove, that the Durham Clergy, were drunkards, or in any respect immoral ; the sole charge against them for which this virtuous Patriot poured out the vials of his wrath, was, that they did not ring the Cathedral bells, when the said Patriot thinks they ought to have rung them. It is most important that the People of Eng land, and especially the friends of the Establish ed Church, should read the Counsel's speech, and ponder upon the principles which it discloses. It contains a complete exposition of his own feel ings and of the Party to which he belongs. lie does not attempt to charge the particular indivi duals, the plaintiffs, with any fault, unless, in.. deed, with hypocrisy,—a sort of charge that can neither be proved nor disproved; but he discharges a copious torrent of sneers and jibes against Episcopacy. In his usual sarcastic style; he con trasts its blessings with the poverty of the Pres byterian System, under which he himself was edu cated. " The Scotch, poor wretched creatures, must know nothing of the blessings of Episco pacy, nothing of rich Benefices, nothing of the bounty of Providence or the blessings of Tithes." A palatine Prince of Tithe, is the contemptuous expression by which he de signates the Bishop of Durham, " with an Es tablishment which he would call a most enor mous and overwhelming blessing." So he goes on, greeted with the noise and laughter and plaudits of the vulgar mob stationed at his back. What did he, or they, or Williams, care about the silence of the Cathedral bells ? But to scoff at Episcopacy, Benefices, and Titices,was an exquisite treat both to the mob and to the scorner himself. It is important for the people of England to mark these and similar disclosures of the temper and designs of the modern Whigs. But, confiding in the integrity and discernment of the enlight ened people of England, we prognosticate that they will never allow their most valued institu tions to be placed at the mercy of such men- For their own security, and for the maintea nance of the Institutions which they cherish and revere, they are resolved that this party must be kept down in the station which they at present hold ;—convinced that the very existence of these Institutions is incompatible with the rule of such men. X. X. BIRTHS. On the 24th inst. at Dulwich-hill, Camberwell, the Lady of Ralph Ricardo, Esq., of a son. On the 24th inst., the Lady of R. Stubbings, Esg., Goswel/- road, of a son and heir. At Stanground, Hunts, on the 21st inst. the Lady of tho Rev. H. Y. Smythies, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Thursday, the 26th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Thomas Arthur Stone, Esq., of Argyll-street, to Frances Maria, West daughter of the Rev. Robert Gream, of Richmond. On Saturday last, at Morcott, the Rev. W. Peach, M.A.I. Fellow of . St. John's College, to :Marian, youngest daughter o r the Rev. W. Pochin, Rector of Morcott, in the County o r Rutland. At Huntingdon, on Christmas Day, Mr. John Berridge, of St. Ives, to Miss Helen - Louth, of the latter place. DIED. On the lith instant, at Camberwell, in her 87th year, Lilia_ e g' wife of Mr. Alexander Williamson, of that place,. and lately 0 ) Sydenham, Kent. On the Bth of April, at Allahabad, Lawrence Kennawsi , Esq. of the East India Company's service, third. son of Su John Kennaway, Bart. of Escot, Devon. Yesterday, at his house in Brewer-street, Golden-square , Hendric, Esq. Mrs. Bedtbrd, wife !of a butcher, in Butcher-row, Exeter and on Sunday week, her husband, who.was struck speocAT s i, on seeing the coffin brought into the house, and died aim immediately afterward. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORX, at tbe S vr4. Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. 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