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TEIRA 1( EVISW. - .• (OCT) OLb TIMES; or, POOR MAN'S HlS 'l'oitY of'EN from the Ettrliest'Peribil dowh t to the l'reStirt Ti11W"..: 4 -APPLrYA AsPIONTE,&c.isx.Ve. are rimy come 'that-part of ibis excellent Work which brings'ns - neareuto the present Ewa ment„ind when the 'stAteinents and niiiniati cif he learned and ingenious 1 / 4 Vtiter aredonsenuent. iy snore luppiicatlie and tnore intcei sting. need tint reheat one encOrnindis Of a Work which so kireibly speaks for itself, and sO fully tngnifests 'its own ibtrinsic-inerits. g , (COntindedirOm our Papei of yesterday.) " James, and his Popish counsellors old his Popish priocirples, were for ever separated front the lirnish 'Constitution.: the Church of Eng land, as it now stands, was united With the Con stdotion by such strong and indissoluble ties, that they must stand or tall together. The Glo tients Revolution, to Which our pretended patriots are fur cver - referring, was effected, not only to esclode the Papists, but all Dissenters from the national church, from power;---not from any waoton".disposition to . oppress, but because men who had once betrayed their country, and still professed principles of hostility against it, were deemed to he mint and dlogetons agents in its service.---1 his is mere common prudencewhich would guide the humblest individual among you, my Friends, in the choice of a person to guard Lis stores, or keep watch in his shop. " Our liberal Patriots, who, for the Most part, have no principles at all, and certainly no reli gious principles to stand in the way of their pro-, ceediogs, ate for abolishing all distinctions ; and thi3 is perfectly natural, because, hating no pre -Icrence, ail are the same in their eyes ! But we, who have seen, as we have now seen, that, for a long series of years, civil war, bloOdshed, rapine ; fled chains, were inflicted upon our I , telathers, and these-miseries were the consequence of de serting the Naimoli Establishments; when we know, from the record of our History, that the Papists would sacrifice our Constitution to the first tyrant they could set up; and that the Puri tans, Mummers, and Calvinists, would sweep it from the face of the earth, to set up themselves as Protectors, and praying Colonels and Usurpers; we must be mad and foolish indeed if we part with the bond of our inheritance, or rashly takedown those harriers which are the only remaining safe guard to the Constitution in Church and State ! " The Prince . of 01)-toge, son-io-law to Kitig James, was placed on the vacant throne, tinder the title of William 111., and-from this period we arc to date the commencement of that Constitu tion which is the honest boast of every true Bri ton !—And why is it so ? Because wi,e and able Politicians and Statesmen saw the errors which their forefathers had committed, and benefited by the expericilee; because they saw that too witch Ookv e r its either of the three estates, that is, either in the in the Nubility, or in the House of Commons, was the cause of all the evils, perse ention, rniserie, and bloodshed, which had de luged the country, at cettain intervals, for seven hundred years ; because they erected barriers mold the Constitution, to secure it front outward attack, and balanced it within, to guard it from perpetual change; becanSe, they excluded all the ' foolish fancies and schemes of hot-headed Re- . formers, who Meddle only to destroy; because they consulted -with honest hearts, arid acted with out any vain display of popular professions.; be cause they did not new model, but only rejecvid from the old what Was radically bad ; and had therefore the groundwork of authority fOr practi-. cal good, whilst they cleared the :foundations of all the rubbish which had for ages accumulated round ! These were the efforts - nue Pa: triotisn, and these the ,causes of the prosperity and glory which have ever since accompanied it: The b4stard patriotism of our days was quick and Alive in their days but tPe People saw with the eyes of their great Statesmen, and spurned with contempt 'their etiot Is to spoil the Work. " It is the duty of Englishmen to follow this Aright example : to take for their guides, not Wretches who have barely escaped the gallows .for their iniquities ; not adventure's, who trade in politics, because they are bankrupt in all other re sources : [At thoie men Who, by the light of ex perience, heive ascertained the principles of the Constitution, and from their pursuits and educe tidn'are -fitted-tOdirect others ! Should we trust the Om in a fore-mast man when we have ,a Pilot on' linird ? I and should we especially be guilty of . such stark-staring madness in 'a stormy -sea ? Anfl,yef, my good niends, it is only amidst political Minus and ; hurricanes that these 10b... PatriotF,,:these pettifoggers ref 'faction, are so - forward in the offer of their services ! When -any reverse of fortune, any struggle of national 'feeling arises, they labour to work it up, to en large upon the danger,—cry out Ruin and Pe.; scruction ? and then call upon you to hang your Pilots, and trust the ship to thent ! This is a plain tact, obvious and „intelligible to every Man who bares not shut his eyes •and ears to the (nail ! and what mist tie the in •evitable consequence ? Why that the ship must go to pieces ; and those who ildve,secured a plank, 'to make their own escape upon, trust to the plun der and spoil which their' ship Wrecked crew may leave behind theft ! Look up, my Friends, from • the dung-hill of - Sedition'in which this mushroom spawn is generated, to the glorious fabric raised by your ancestors, not in the Good Old Ti mes ' of turbulence, usurpation, and b!ood, nut in the brilliant era of British Glory, the year 1688 ! See, try,estimate the value of the thing to be risked, and never let it he said, that, with such a prize in the hands of Englishmen, they let go their hold in order to grasp a shadow, or, « h at is worse, the offstourings, the refuse of the G00d.014 from which the fathers at the Revolution purged and cleansed the Constitution, at that memorable period ! " It would not be possible, nor Indeed would it answer any purpose, to proceed through the four reigns which liaeloilowed, the Revolution up to the , present period ; it will, be . quite sufficient, by a slight reference to some of the.ltading - events in . . . tsieb,to allew,.thal, even 'after an that was done at that period, many improvements have since been introduced, which the regularity and order of hliliC tiffsirr, then i first established, have en- Mite - nl5 s ( - do . with effect ; think, in the 'short 'rentilitting part of this work, I shall be able to prove to yOir, not Only what I Maintain 1 have al renity .prayed, that the • Good Old Times' of English History We're times of confusion, anarchy, and, by far the greater (cart, of slavery, as tar as the . People were concerned ; but that, at tit pe riod of our History, dating from the establis!4- ruck of the tonstiattion at the Revolution, has 'there -istbli to hutch liberty, so much purity, or so ifitteb public integri , y, as in the present day.— As an instance of the first : Till the Revolu tion, '(says our Historian) the Liberty of the "Press was very imperfectly enjoyed in• England, and for a very short period. The Star-Chamber, while that Court snbtisted., put effectual restraints upon printing. OH the suppression of that Tri bunal in PS4I, the long Parliament, (the Glo rious Rump !) after their rupture with the King, assumed the same power with regard to licensing books, nod this authority was continued (luring all the period of the Republic and Protectorship ! ! Two years after the Restoration, an Act was passed, reviving the Republican Ordinances. The Act expired in 1679, but Was revived in the first of King James. The Liberty of the Pt ess did not even commence with the Revolution. ' It was not till 1694 (six years afterwards) that the restraints were taken off, to the great displeasure of the King (the popular King, William), and his Ministers, (the Whi g s of the Revolution !) who, seeing no where, hi any Go vernment (luring present or past ages, any exam ple of such unlimited freedom, doubted much of its salutary tlfeets, and probably thought that no books or writings would ever so much improve the understanding of men as to, render it sate to intrust them with an indulgence so easily abused.' (Vol. viii, p. 332.) • " Whether they tho'nglit right, or whether this liberty has been abused or to - it, I leave you to de- Eide—This has nothing to do with the question— The Liberty ut the Press was not even establish ed at the Revolution ; and when you look round you, and see the extent to which it is carried in our days, you will, readily admit that in this one particular (the first I have brought forward) we have gained a one of no little import ance, however it may be abused, and is abused, by miscreants, who apply a glorio4s weapon of defence, as assassins would a victor's sword, to strike and stab—and murder in the (lark ! " But we have to glory in the use, and not the abuse, of this liberty ;—and it stands in proof of what I shall -still further corroborate, that far from degenerating, or (killing off from the example forefathers,we, we Britons, who have, in our duty, eclipsed all that our ancestovs.have elone in the held of glory —we who have elevated the fame of our country upon ,the highest pinnicle it ever before attained I .—who have, by tile valour and discipline of our fleets an:: armies, made the world tremble at our frowns ; we, who have pos sessed ourselves of terriloiles and empires in the utmost extremities of the earth, which the imagi nation of our fathers could never have dreamt of ;—we, I say, Who stand thus exalted among surrounding nations, have added even to the sta bility and purity of our national lnstituri;mS, and improved, in our advance, upon the models of Li herty and free Government supplied us by the vet y bi.st and most glut ions periods of 4 "rliE GOOD OLD TIMES." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, OC:T 2-I.—Lord John Thvnne, son of the Marquis of limit, and the Hon. Edward George Moore, son - of the Earl of Mount Cashell, are admitted of St. .John'; College. Tire lion. George Spencer, son of Earl Spencer, and the Hon. Mr. netting, brother to the Earl of Denbigh, are admitted of Trinity College. The admissions of St. John's College thii year arc exactly 100, being a greater number than in auy former year. The admissions at mo,t of the Colkges are also mote numerous than ever re membered. In the list of the Caput, inserted last week, for Rev. John Kaye; D. D. Christ College, read Rev. Francis Barnes, D. D. St. Peter's College, Di vinity. ' The Rev. Philip Abbott, of Clitheroe, has been appointed by the Rev. 'l'. D. Whittaker, LL.D., Vicar of Whalley, to the perpetual curacy of Cottle, Lincolnshire. On Saturday last the Rev. George Day Clerk, A. B. was instituted to the consolidated Rectories of Barton St.-Mary and All Saints, in the co mity of Norfolk, "on the presentation of Sir John Ber ney, Bart. OXFORD, OCT. 24.—0 n Wednesday last the following were initnitted to Degrees : The Rec. John Stonard, M.A. of Brasenose College ' and i:ector of Aldingharn, in the County of !Am:aster, and Dio cese of Chester, was admitted Bachelor and Doctor of Divi nlty, Grand Compounder. • DOCTOR IN MEDICINE. John Scott, M.A. of Brasenosc College. Bachelor ; and Licensed to practice in Medicine. William Montgomery Boyton, of St. Alban Hall. BACIIELOII IN CIVIL LAW. Joint Poulter, of New College. MASTERS pF ARTS. Mr. James Yonge, of Exeter College. Rev. Edwurd - Robert Butcher, of University College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Thomas ••teplien Hodges, Esq. of _University College, Grand Compounder. David Howell. Esq. of Ch. Ch. Grand Compounder. - Mr. Stephen Reay, of St..Alban • Mr. Mat thew Munday,' of •Ex-eter College. Mr. James Bulhick, of Worcester College. Arthur Johnson, of %Vail ham College. Henry Biddulph, Esq. of Magdalen'Cunege: :On Monday last was committed to Ely Gaol, by . Sir 11. B. DUDLEY, *Bart: William Easy, chargH on the oath'ot Alice Utfitutell, with vio lently'asSaulting.her, and,_ aided by nine or ten others at present unknown, forcibly taking her from her husbani, as they were returning-twine in - the ptirish of Haddenhitm, on the night of the 15th instant. 1 .4 1:I - E.- S . F.;SSI Ort... ESTMIN`jrEfi. , • Yesterday .fames Mtker, a publican in Carzon street, Mayfair, was `indicted tar an assault on Joint Parsons, corporal i'et `the Ist 'regiment of Foot Guards. The SeeretAYY - :Of Slate hail, on &iky the Silt of .lane, the * be! or'e Vluratson's, issued orders f o r th e kOn-conitnit'sioned Officers of the various militayy Ycgimtflts In the metro polis to see %%heater all the. Men Wire at hoit'te that evening in proper time.. The kosecutor went in the discharge of this order to 'the piOican's 'muse, and was extremely ill used; thought he in quired civilly for a soldier named •garnei...., who lodged there. Some attempts were made to rv hut this evidence, but the Jury found him ti aailty. Robert Kitchen, aged 40, vt as indicted t6i steal ing a valuable picture troni a public-house in Long Act e, Drury lane. The evidence was con , elusive, and the prisoner, in extenuation, declared he haul done so through want, having been lately discharged from a medical situation in the army. The Chairmen, however, bad a strong recollec tion of having seen him before, and the priSOner acknowledged he •had two years ago been tried fir an offence of nearly a similar nature. lie was,. after a suitable admonition from the Chairman, senteficcti to seven years transportation. On hear ing the sentence, the prisoner^ fell down apparent ly in a fir, hot from his appearance the whole. was pretended. The Chairman said, he had seen fits. too often to he imposed upon by so wretched an actor. SURKEY. Yesterday John Williams was indicted for steal ing three deal hoards, the property of M r . Scott, a tirnber-merchant, in the Kent Road. It appear ed that on the morning of the day mentioned - in the indictment, the 3d of September, about five o'clock, one of the prosecutor's workmen, named I-I.a•ton, as he was going to work, SIM , the pri soner'near his master's yard, with. the three deals in question on leis shoulder ; suspecting they were stolen from his master's yard, be followed the pri. soner, and on a closer examination of the deals, be knew them to be some which be had previously cut for his master. He called the watchman, and gave the prisoner. into custody. In his defence be now said lie was employed by a person he did not know. The Jury found him guilty, and the Court sentenced him to six months' hard labour in the House of Correction. Robert Clwison was indicted for entering the dwelliog house of Mr. Young, of .Lambeth, and srealiug a valuable time-piece, his property, on the 3d inst. The Jury found him gniity.--:--Sen tenced to he trausported for seven yearS. William need, a buy apparently abotit thirteen years of ale, alas indicted for Stealing a great coat from the pren;ises•of 11r.Smurthwait, livery stable keeper, in Blackfriars-road, on Sunday -last. It appeared that Nip.. Smurth wait saw the prisoner come nut of the counting-house with something over his arm, and pursued him, when the prisoner threw away %that he was carrying, and on Mr. Smutthwait CO/Tlll4 iii, he found it was a great coat belonging to Mr. Owe n -, one of his coslomers. The jury found hitt) on ac count of his youth, to be kept to hard labour fo'r onemontb, and (luting that time to be duce pri, vately whippf•d. Margaret Bull was indicted for a misdemeanour, in uttering a counterfeit with intent to defraud Mr. Fleming, proprietor of the liquor shop in Figh-street, Borough, on the 5 , 11 It appeared from the evidence, that on charge be ing given of the prisoner, for tendering one shil ling. she was taken to the watch-house, when IS other shillings, all bad, were dropped by her whilst the constriles were searching her. The Jury found her guilty.--Sentenced to six months' imprisonment 'in the House of Correction. SOUTHWARK. These Sessions were yesterday held at the Town H a n, i n the I,4orough before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Sir John Hamer, and other Aldermen, Catherine Shaw, aged 12, and Noraif Lee, a child of about eight years. of age, were indicted for stealing a quantity - of tobacco from the ware hunse of Soloinon.Davis, .sq. High-street, in the lioron.gh. . , The prosecutor stated, that be carried on an extensive manufactory, and was daily subjected to losses of the most alarming kind. The two pt isoners were engaged by some of the men in big warehouse, and having been informed of the con cealment of some bags of tobacco by the elder prisoner, he bad her watched, and upon leaving the premises, searched her, when a large bag of tobacco was found concealed in her apron. Dur ing the search the younger prisoner contrived to escape to the privy, where she threw clown a quantil ot tobacco. This fact, however, could not be established. The RacoßDea, in addressing the Jury, lament ed the depravity manifested by such yonng_cha racters, encouraged, no doubt, by their parents, or some experienced thieves. The Jury acquitted Norah Lee, but found Ca therine Shasst A few other cases of assault and _misdemeanour were tried; after which the Sessions adjourned. POLICE INTELLICENCE. GUILDHALL. Pußuc-FlovsE.PpEAT;ciANs.—A man, named Spear, ‘ 0 10 •4a barber by trade, summoned a her son of respectable appearance for an assault• had, he said,, be ti beaten in : a public-room 4 the defendant, for no other : offence than that of say-. inghc.wisled : the English were all driven ont of France at the point of the bAyonet, by T whieh lie it meant, that the nation wr»ld be bee6 . tcd by the return of the wealthy En;::ish persons so long re sident in a country where they • spent all their money; and that be amongst the rest weld(' be serval by the return of froMe rniiit try etistomer , , who left England a considerable number .Of links in - hi 4 debt. . . The defendant said, the harper had not only used the words just repeated, and which were mentioned in a very .-aggravating way, but also applied epitriets to brim which were as severe a Personal 4114111( ity tl e 3:l:Cr3 Patin! 111 eOll - ltt v ‘VI4 ;hook tie balbt:.;, not strike It Allin'yrpe'rsons F. appearance firincd this- avd thwi t ...ll inirber s waS habit of accolom'o(!lting to the • of his tlifft:rerit clisti:lners, by titteri;l4 see Oitiotts s'entintents 1(1 so,ne, and 1:, , ,:11 to outteri, he oft eit got I,i(t) . seif bit() scrapes by his provoking totigue.--:-The ease tr,,S (!stnitsetl. EVOi:ti,:::r..s f~i E I'. AN6 ATTIF.;',IPTED :_itubtnr,—Yester day William Jon s, a %V•eit er kind shuttle-maker, residing in liethn , d-gr._ , eil, was clvirged by Samuel. Kemp, CilVer, aisinliting . tll4 ihreatvplifig his life. Mr. Kcnip stated, that on Thursday evening he Was sitting comfortabiy with hi, fancily, the prkoner came and tequested to spei.,k to him, Witness stood lip and %vent towards the door, when the prisoner accused him of liirbourifir, his wife; an altercation ensued, and the prisoner, tvho was on the outside oldie door, threw a stone, which was at least 51b. at him. The prisoner was secured and sent to the watch-house, when he swore he svould take the life of his wife as well as that of the witness. The wife canie•to the office in the evening to complain against Prisoner flew into a violent rage, and, with dreadful oaths, declared Mr. Kemp had seduced his wife, harboured her in his house, and for a considerable time past made her his bed-fellow, by which he ruined h s (prisoner's) family ; and not only his family, lint another tradesman's fa mily, whose ss ife he had also seduced, having pre;- vionsly turned away his own wife. Kennedy OR: Officer-1 saw you yesterday, soner, at a vnblic-house, diinking with your wife . Prisoner—Yes, I met her and Wonld forgive her and take her home, becanSe if know her limo- , cence,and that,she not aware of the injury dm ie to her family, or even that she is doing wrong but the villain prevented her going home, Mid sha went to him again.--blare the prisoner became apparently frantic, and clenched his fist, 'meting the most dreadful oaths and threats to Mr. Kemp.) The prisoner's daughter, a girl about seventeen, said her mother was quite innocent. Magistrate—Mr. Jones, the only charge against you is for assaulting Mr. Kemp. 1 have nothing, to do here with what provoked you to do so ; therefore you must find hail for the assau!t. . The. prisoner became extremely outrageous, a►rc/ it required five of the officers to remove him from the bar into the strong.room,.•where they had no sooner turned their backs, than he pulled a knife from his pocket, and cut his throat dreritlftly. One of the officers happened to look back before the door Lad been closed, and seeing the blood flowing, gave the alarm, and sprung .upon him. Garten, the gaoler, then forced the knife from I,is grasp ; he was again overpowered, and taken into a room in the public-house, where a 'stikgeon teas• inimcdiately Sent for, who with great difficulty dressed the wound, and reported it not to be mortal. The unhappy titan still declaring be w0411:1 destroy himsdf, the I\.lazistrate ordered him, to be taken to Clei.kenw, 11 Infirmary. - QUEEN-SQUARE. CHAIIGEt OF COINING —Wifflan! Loive, of cer-st rear, Long-Acre, and his tsru sons, Josepli - nod Titoma, Lowe, cheirvl with cr . ,ining Ten . Cent. pieces, svere brought up for a turthe;- (Atnination. No fur' her evidence was hrouv,lit lot ward against the ptisonerf , , so that at present there is no proof of any thing more than tliat so p in ch foreign coin iieis been found in the f:itticr's possession. In answer to a question from the Magistrate, what past of the cottony he came from i he answered, that he was front Stafford 7 shire ; was born within a few miles of Mr. II , 1- ton's, Soho, and set yea his tune or apprentice ship at that manufactory. He declared he had no intent nor idea of harm in making the piee,s, but did it merely in the way of business.' William Lowe, the father, was remanded, and the two sons discharged.—Benjamin -P. Capper, Esq. of the Alien office, attended On the part of the prose cution. _ COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FRi DAY, OCT: 23. . _. Amsterdain Ditto, at Sight - , 37 4 .truster dam • ' ... 11 12 .C. F. Ditto, at Sight ll 9 Rotterdam ‘ ll 13 2 Us. ' Antwerp 11 1314;x.A1ogiey Hainhargh 34 .9 '2l 'Us. Altoua . . ••• . • • Paris, 3 Day's date Ditto flourdeaux, ditto Franhforton the Main Madrid Cadiz ..- 36t Effective • Seville . , 361 Bilhoa 97 Gibraltar . Leghorn Genoa... 46f , -.--Venice 27 Malta... • .47 --Naples ... 41 Palermo ..... .... l2Oll. per Oz.. Lisbon Oporto 5B _.. _ . Rio Janeiro Dni)1in......... 84. -- C0rk.... - . .131 per Cent. Agit, .of the Bank on Hoiland....• 2 per Cent. Vurtugal Gold, in Coin 1 .4 0 0 per Oz. Foreign.Gord, in Bars 4 0 0 New Doubloons ......... .... 3 19 i; N ~,.. Dollar 4' 0 5 CO.II. MARKET, Ocr. t•thir. Marl(ct. Ships sold. Pric.. 7 si. .... 445. Od. to 49. , . 6 L. 3 Sunderland DITITH, Yoste.rday, in hischlimbufgh•square, Mrs. F. Mvtaris, of a daughter. • • 114-11t1i1E1). On 'Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Qamberwell church, Henry Munk, Esq: ofApptedore, ticut, to Anna, eldest daughter of th, late William Warren, Esq. of ManCh&tcr, Tact chant. DI ED. On the O inst. al Fresbnd (I house, near rnth, in Hs M7th vear,Thoinas Joyce, Vsij. une of his :-I>tiesty'B Justices of for the Counries of Somerset and on,:ester. 23ci inst. in Isis Sist year, at Sniton-court-Iwu;t:, ‘:;ide!) , ,,tt barrister at law, wist of the Erik:heirs dl , the C lion. So vty of Cor•Al kid le LONDPN: I'rinti:4 by J. 8.. 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