The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-06-06 00:00:00

7.• '791F11." '"

ANNIrERSARY MEETING OF THE Guiltily
CHILDREN AT ST. PAL'L'S.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRA.
SIR,—If there is any one sight which more than any
other appeals to all the best and most benevolent ft•elings
•of our nature—if there is one which impresses the mind
more forcibly than any other, with pure and exalted senti-
ments of Christian charity, and of the good that tows from
it, it is the affecting sight afforded by " the Anniversary
Meeting of the Charity Children of St. Paul's." It was
therefore with'thc utmost disgust that I read, in a Morn-
ing Paper of Saturday, a description of this Meeting, given
in a strain so vulgarly e.arse and offensive as :o make it loath-
some, even to the lowest frequenters of a tap-room. Its whole
tenor shows that it comes from one of the Carlile gang;
it dir.plays all tl:at coarse contempt of every thing con-
nected with religion, which they openly avow, and that
deadly hatred to our Church Establishment, which it is
the aim of all their efforts to undermine and destroy. No
other newspaper than that in which these gross effusions
are poured forth would lend its pages to so despicable a
party, or so despicable a porta sc. The article I here more
particularly advert to, is put in the shape of a, letter; its
, first allusion, by way of parenthesis, is to Anniversary
of the S uf the Clergy.
" You w mi be surprised, my good friend, at hearing from me on
this oecapi in. pfier what I wro.e yon no the A inirersary of the
impoverished sons of our beggared, ruined, tottering, stsfacated
CIIURCIIESTABII4IIMINT .
The half-drunken infidel does not even understand the
use of his men language, as may be seen by the absurd
and incongruous epithets which he here jumbles togeth.s.
It is in keeping, no doubt, with the general trash of the
Journal in which it appears, but it is not on that account
the less contemptible. But let us proce_vi:—
" I saw the preparation', on that occasion for the great reess,these
of thday, and as 1 Invefrotr and fooleri, as gaackerY ilagaz
are my element, I joined in the ApriLday gang of gams.
',mulcted myeelf, by dint of effrontery and bribery, in vai anunttb
birth under the dome. • Uch I my dear friend (as 0•C•onnal ea.
elaime-h.) how shall I recount my riesatioer at the spectacle!' Sic
thuu•and children congregated.' tier upon tier, under the stately
hemisphere of • the Wren, the Wren, the king of all birds !' Blue,
green, yellow—Rage, streamers, banners,—rml-fieed schoolmio tete,
puffing *rea's, with pewter medals and blue tibbaiole,
powdered rm
pericraniums, and furrows stealing down their puma.
turned foreheads. Beadles, such as Wilkie never dreamed of
Vergers, Senraelials. • Friars of orders gray,' and constables of M.
dens graft, slim Carafes, alias • Jerusalem post-boys,' well-fed
Reeters—Bishops, Barons, and Aldermen— Ladies of ell degrees,
from the Countess to the milliner's apprentice. Och ! ray dear
Herald. the coup (Vail was dusling, overwhelming! I sweat at
the recollection."
It would be polluting your pages to make any further
extracts. It is the underhand object of all this brutal ri-
baldry which alone makes it worth notice. It behoves us
to be alive to its object, and to remark what part of the
Daily Press it is that co-operates with the views of that
party who are daily sapping the morals of the lower classes,
by ridiculing all that is sacred in religion or its institutions..
It is at least well that the Constitutional guardians of the
Establishment should have their attention drawn to wlat-
ever instrument they are making use of who meditate its
subversion.

I find, in the columns of the same Journal, a document
which, as it could only have been forwarded by the high-
priest of Atheism himself, sufficiently proclaims the con-
nection to which all the infidel malignity may be traced.
The document I refer to is " The Copy of a Letter sent to
the KINo, Windsor Castle," subscribed "RICHARD Cam-
Lti.t." And, lest any thing further may be wanting to
obtain notice to this revolutionary Atheist and his writings,
we have, in the very same page, an tatract " From CAL-
LI 'JCL Republican,' that a work so favourable to the pod
cause may, by being thus publicly noticed, be made more
extensively known.
A coalition of any, even the worst, of. the Daily Jour-
nals, with this party, is dangerous in the extreme ; but it
will go a great way towards defeating that danger, that we
should be on our guard against it.
• • •

HATMAItIiET TREATBE.

After the performance of the Merry Wires of Windsor,
on Saturday night, Master Burke (a boy not more than '1
six years of age) made his appearance as a dramatic and
musical performer, and acquitted himself in a manner to
excite the surprise and call forth the warmest applause of
crowded audience. He executed the air of " Robin Adair,"
with variations, on the violin, with extraordinary precision
and fidelity, and afterwards very skilfully led the orchestra
in the overture of lodoisica. The correctness and science
with which he played tho solo parts drew down the warm-
est commendations. He then appeared as Terry O'Roarke,
in the farce of the Irish Tutor, and threw a degree of hu-
mour into the character truly surprising in a boy of so
tender an age. His reception altogether was west cheer.
ing; and the farce was given out for repetition to-night.