The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-05-16 00:00:00

NEW SURREY THEATRF.

;This Evening. MONDAY. May 18, and Five following Evenings, a
new Mehi-Hearne. called
THE FATAL PRFCFPT ; or, THE ASSASSIN OF SILESIA.
The favourite Ballet of
VAMOUR BN CORSET; or, THE D %NOY IN DISTRESS.
An Irish Comic Song by Mr. Bryant.
The favourite Piece called
MURDER AND MADNESS; or, A TRAVELLER'S
The Evening's Entertainments to conelude with the or
Mirdeal Piece of
THE COLONEL'S CONE; or, LA FEMME SOLDAT.
Being positively the Laic Week they will be Perfortned.
On Whit-Monday, a new Musical Pled,', a new Melo-Drame, end a new
Harlequin Pantomime.
Tie Batson Paess commenced oubliatung on Saturday morning
at five o'clock.

TA .E•

LONDON, MONDAY. MAY 18, 1813.

The Paris Papers of Friday contain no domestic intell--
deuce, ezeept the details we give from the Non;:eur, of the
presentation of the Duke of Noarnt.•AlasnLA\n. The
terms of personal friendship in which the Sovereigns speak
of each other will be read with great satisfaction. The
King of Seat sr will be represented at the coronation by his
present Ambassador, the Count de la PUEBLA. The Duke
de l'lsrasrano has declined the honour of the mission.

The Courrier Francais publishes the pastoral letter of
the Archbishop of T•InAGONA, instituting the tribunal
to supply the place of the Inquisition. It begins with a
long declamation on the disastrous times during which
Spain has been inundated with impious and heretical
works. It then laments that " the holy office which used
so well to assist the Bishops in performing their duties, no
longer eskts," and by way of remedy it finally invests
tee Dominican Friars with ali the powers formerly pos-
4essed by the inquisitors.
The news from Greece is of the most gratifying nature.
The defeat of the Egyptian troops near Navarino is con-
firmed. The loss of the Turks is stated at 2,000 killed
and 500 prisoner.% By other %.ecounts we learn that Patras
a, closely blockaded by land and sea. The Greek fleets
de:idedly. have the ascendancy. S•crolitits, with 35
was pursuing JUaagmu PACIJA on his return to
Candia ; and MIAULIS, with 45 vessels, W2B gone in search
of Ole Tuaish fleet at Constantinople..
[From the Afonit •Nr of Friday.
FAitts. MAY 11
TnAse After Mass, his Excellency the Duke of Northember.
laud, An:hammier Extraordinary from 'his Brirnn:ic Majesty, to he
present at the Kin* Coronation, was kreseetcti to his Majesty and
ths Kar g*
l Family in a public audience.
a Unite of itigusa, Ilajor.4ence.il of th,! Rtl7l) Guard, whom
illaiesti had Appoioted to accompany 'Lc. Ambassador Baum

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La Live, and M. de Viviens, having repaired to his Excelling's
hotel, conducted him to the Tuileries in the Royal carriages.
The Marquis Dreux Breve. Grand Master of the Ceremonies of
France, Marquis de Rochemore, Master of the Ceremonies, and
Baron Saint Felix and Viscount de Clean, received the Ambassa-
dor at the toot of the grand staircase, and accompanied him to the
audience.
The 3larquis de Riviere, Captain of the Gerdes du Corps,
received his Excellency at the door of the apartment of the Gerdes,
who were under arms.
The King was on his throne and the Dauphin on his right band,
and on his left the Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Bourbon,
Prince of Conde, and surrounded by the great officers of the
Crown.

...
At the entrance of the Ambassador the King rose, anal his Excel-
lency having been presented to the King by Baron La Live, compli-
mented his Majesty in these terms :
"Sir.-1 have the honour to appear before your Majesty, charged
with felicitations from the King my master on the approach of
your Majesty's Coronation.
" In expressing the moat ardent wishes for the prosperity of your
cajesty, the King my muter is equally induced by his generous
principles, and by the cherished remembrance of a private friend.
have also the orders of my King to express to your Majesty
_ wish which he constantly feels for the maintenance of the good
understanding which exists between the two nations, and which is
n essential to their mutual interests as to the general happiness of
'-iind."
ter his compliment the Ambassador presented his credentials
King, who pre them to Baron de Dimas, Minister of Fo-
Affairs.
King replied:—
It Ambassador,—l receive with the more pleasure the ex.
.ton of the sentiments which you address to me in the name of
Britannic Majesty, as they are perfectly in unison with my
~ I shall always remember with gratitude the proofs of friend.
which he gave me in times of misfortune. I hope that no eh.-
•ance—no event, will ever trouble the union which ought to
between two nations made to esteem and to lore each
audiences of the King and the Royal Family being finished,
Acellency was conducted back to the saloon of the Arobasen-
T _As and thence to his Hotel, with the lame ceremonies as were
illeinehi in conducting him to the audience.
TM hereditary Prince of Schwartzenbiug Sondushauseu was
psseenssd to the King and Royal Family in a private audience.
At two o'clock the King gave a public audience to Sidi Mall-
lleud, Envoy of the Bey of Tunis, who complimented hie
Majesty on hts accession, and delivered his credentials. The same
y the British Ambassador Extraordinary dined in the apartmenta
the Dauphin, at a table of 45 converts.
(From the Etoik, dated Saturday, May 14.1
The Marquis de Caranian arrived at Milan on the 29th ; the
Prince de Hasfeld the same day ; on the 2d of May M. de Tanis.
cheff and Sir H. Wellesley. The Ministers of Denmark and
Sweden, and in general all the persons holding diplomatic situa-
tions at Vienna, are arrived or expected every moment, as well as
the Duc de Blares, who was at Florence a few days ago. The
Emperor will be at Monies on the Bth, and make Ills entry into
Milan on the 10th. Workmen are employed night and day in deco-
rating the principal streets through which his Majesty will pass.
On the 13th the Emperor and his household will go to meet the
King of Naples.
The companies of lifeguards of the Archduke Viceroy, the noble
guard of Lombardy, consisting of sixty men, a corn plete regiment
of lancers and hussars, two of grenadiers and two of foot, about
10,000 men, form the escort. The city will be illuminated, as well
as all the theatres.
On his arrival the Emperor will proceed to the cathcdral,when the
Archbishop will channt Te De um.
[From the Courricr Francois of Friday, May 13.1
A private letter from Zante, dated the 16th of April, contains the
following details :
" The army landed between blodon and Caron, by Ibrahim
Pasha. was 12.000 strong, who immediately after their debark.
anion directed their course to Navarino. Five hundred Greeks shut
sm In that place sustained the first attack of the Turks, directed by-
Europesn officers. Tmi thousand Alainotes marched up to the
relief of the besieged, and (headed by their General, Illurtsins)
obliged the Turks to draw back upon Alodon and Citron. At the
same time 35 Greek vessels, under the conduct of the Vice-Ad-
mire!, Sactouris, set out in search of Ibrahim Pacha, who withdrew
with his fleet towards Candle, to which place the Greeks have pur-
sued hint.
" At the first reports of the landing of the Turks, the President
Conduriottis sent Anaguostara. with 4,500 men, to t •
of the most advantageous positions. Conduriottis marched
from Tripoli= with 7,500 Greeks. Anaguostara hied the
Mainotes and then fought the Turks near Narampo. 2,000 Turks
were slain on the field of battle, and 500 prissimi have been sent to
Napoli de Romania. Conduriottis soon aftgeertuda came up with
Mk troops, and joining the other Greeks, they p*sed the Turks,
who took refuge in the defiles of Garottni; hut as# later events are
unknown. The land of Nestor man smiles on the conquering
Greeks. On the Ist of April, the Admiral bltaulis sailed from the
pert of Hydra with 45 vessels, in order to meet the fleet from Con-
sten tinople.
FRISCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Mas 13.--Five per Cents. opened
at 101 f. 55c.—closed 101 f. 75c. Three pm Cents. 75f. 10c. Rank
Stock 21f. 86c. Neopolitan, Five per Cents. 91f. 13c. Spanish
Five per Cents. 18f. New Spanish Loan, 57 11. Exchange oo
London :—One month, 25 ; three moot* 94 85.—Coors AutAess.
ague, May 13, 1825.

Last night we received the Amsterdam Papers of Friday.
Their contents relate principally to the approaching nup-
tials between the Princess Louts♦ of Prussia and Prince
FREDERICK of the Netherlands. The Minister fur Fo-
reign Affairs, Count VAN REEDE, has departed for Berlin
to demand the Princess's hand in form. A steam-boat, to
be navigated between Amsterdam and Ilamburgh, is build-
ing for the Netherlands Steam-Boat Company. The vessel
is to be ready for service next Spring, and is intended to
perform the voyage regularly in 30 hours. Two other steam
boats for this Company will be launched in the course of
this Month.

A MSTFROAM, 11&r 13.—E:change on London, 39 7: two
months, 39 3.

A Morning Paper, which has not latterly given much I
attention to Greek news, broke its silence on Saturday,
with a long and melancholy article on the probable fate of
Greece. Patras had been relieved—the Greek fleet had
disappeared—and the army had mutinied in favour of
COLOCOTRONI. Not only was ODYSSEUS a traitor, but he
had induced our countryman, 'l' reetawx ev, to abandon
the cause of independence, and ally himself with the
Turks. The Egyptian troops landed at Motion were, at
the lowest estimate, 10,000 in number, and, with French
officers and a park of artillery, they had laid siege to Na-
varino. This alarming intelligence was received in letters
from Zante, of the 9th instant; and its accuracy was such,
the Journalist declared, " that both the friends and ene-
mies of the cause, -in the principal facts agree in their
statements." Under these circumstances, the triumph of
the Turks could not be doubtful or remote. All that re-
mained apparently for the Greeks was to prepare, like
CAESAR, to fall with dignity. In the course of Saturday,
no means were neglected to give effect to this article, and the
subsequent arrival of a file of the Orienfal Spectator, con-
taining some more news of the same stamp, moved the nerves
of a few timid scripholders, and frightened them out of the
market ; and if the stories by which they were intimidated
bad been true—if, indeed, any single fact bad been true—
they could hardly, as mere speculators, have been blamed
in ahandoniog a cause so utterly hopeless. But the whole
of these " ativices from Zante" was as groundless as the
wildest tale that fiction herself ever fabricated. Not a par-
ticle of' truth was there in any part of the " accurate in-
telligence" in which it was positively stated, " both the
friends and enemies of the cause agrerd as to the prin-
cipal facts." In the very Paper in which this assertion
was published, appeared also the official despatch from
CoNDURIOTTIa, announcing the defeat of the invaders of
the Morea on the '27th of Mardi, and the destruction of a
body of 3,000 Egyptians, near Navarieo. It is strange
how so absolute, and we bad almost said, so profligate, a
disregard of common decency,
,soald have been manifested
as that of sending forth in the same page two statements
an completely subversive of each other. The despatch of
CONDL racer its was alone decisive of the falsehood of these
" advices from Zante ;" but to leave no shadow of doubt re-
maining, the Greek Deputies have actually received letters
from Zante, to the 16th of April, seven days later than the
pretended advices, and in these letters no mention whatever
is made of any circumstance which is reconcileable with the
disastrous news trumpeted forth with so much parade.
If, however, any canfirmation was necessary to the
official despatches and commuuicatiens of the Greek

THE

ITISIi PRESS.

Deputies, we have it in the contents of the Austrian
Observer, which arrived yesterday. That PArer is
well known for its constant and avowed hostility to
the Greeks, and it never omits to publish any infor-
mation it may receive calculated to represent the con-
dition of the " insurgents" is tha most unfavourable point
of view. Its means of obtaining intelligence would enable
it to give the earliest account of any mischief that might
beial the Greeks. By the extracts in another place, it will
be seen that the Austrian Observer admits that the re-
potted success of the Egyptians in obtaining possession of
Navarino was not confirmed, and that so far from the in-
vaders having attempted to advance into the Mores, they
had contented themselves with entrenching themselves in a
position between Coron and Motion, where we suppose they
will be remain till they are overwhelmed by the Greeks.
The mutiny in favour of Cococorao xi rests on the
authority of " some accounts" which the Austrian Observer
does not pretend to be worthy of belief. At the opening of
every campaign, the enemies of Greece have predicted her
subjugation. The expeditions of the Turks have been
magnified to an irresisible force, but the campaign has in-
variably ended by the entire overthrow of the barbariane.
So we have no fear will this, and in•that feeling of con-
fidence we look forward to the approaching struggle.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
This morning Mr. Rippon, from the Rank of England, made an
important communication to the members of the stock Exchange,
to the effect, that the holders of the stock created in 1797, called the
Loyalty Loan, will have the option of taking Consols for the amount
of their stock at 75 ; or if they do not accept of this boon, Govern-
ment will pay off the amount at par, on or before the 3d of July
next. This would give the holders 4 per cent. for the money ad-
vanced. It will be recollected this stock amounted in 1797 to
eighteen millions and a half, at five per cent. interest. In 1302
sixteen millions were pain oft or rather exchanged for other de-
scriptions of stock ; subsequently further arrangements were made,
leasing about 6190,9040. to be paid off now, or exchanged fur Con-
sols, as we have before stated. The Government, at the time of
the creation of this stock, reserved the power of paying it off three
years after the Navy Five per Cents. were paid' off or reduced, or
after a peace of two years' continuance.
The business in Consols to-day was extensive, but the prices re.
mained the satne as yesterday, 91i 1 for money, and 911 for the
Account.

Compared with yesterday, the South American Securities were lan-
guid without any apparent cause, and holders seemed disinclined to
continue in them : Colombian Bonds were done at 89, and 31exicati
Scrip at 13 discount. Greek Scrip was a shade worse than by our
last quotation ; it was 54 5, and the Bonds were 511 52. Spanish
Securities improved 4 per cent., with reference to yesterday's quo-
tations ; the Bonds of 1821 were St, and those of 1823, 18A 19.
Brazilian Scrip was rather worse ; it was done at 11 premium, and
Danish ditto at 3 21 discount.
The whole attention of the market is at present divided between
the Pasco-Peruvian, the General 31 ining, and the new Potosi
Company. The shares of the first were sold at 104 I, the second at
9 10, and the last at ai 5.

A new Brazilian Agricultural and Jewel Company came out in the
course of the morning, but scarcely any business has been as yet done
in it, owing perhaps to jobbers being engaged in making up their
accounts for Monday, which is settling day in the Foreign Market.
This Company has been sem: time forthcoming ; bat, probably
from the cause to which we have alluded, its appearance in the
market created leas sensation than was expected.

About ten o'c'ock on Saturday morning, as the Duke of
York was riding through Hill-street, Berkeley-square, his
horse stumbled, in consequence of putting his foot in a
hole, and his Royal Highness was thrown off. He was
immediately wave* to Iris own residence in South And-
ley-street, within a few yards of which the accident fiap-
pened, where he was attended by Sir James Macgregor. ,
We are happy to be able to state that his Royal Highness
did not receive any serious injury by the fall, and was able
to ride out in his cabriolet in the afternoon, when he paid
a visit to the King, at Carlton Palace, to relieve by his
presence the anxiety his Majesty felt for his Royal Highs
ness's safety. In the evening his Royal Highness had a
dinner party. Yesterday the Royal Duke was to dine with
Mr. Lambton, to meet the Duke of Devonshire and a dis-
tinguished party.
The Princess Augusta, the Princess Sophia, and the
Duchess of Gloucester, visited the King yesterday.
The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester
attended Divine Service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St.
James's Palace.

The Duchess of Gloucester visited the King on Sa-
turday.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Ritzebuttell on the
7th inst. on his tour to visit the districts on the Eibe that
suffered by the late inundations.
Prince Leopold honoured the Italian Opera House with
his presence on Saturday evening. is Royal Highness
was present at the Duke of Devonshire's party on Friday
evening, at his residence in Piccadilly.
Prince Leopold attended divine service yesterday at St.
Philip's Chapel, Regent-street.
Yesterday the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the
Princess Feedore, attended Divine Service at the Royal
German Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Doctor
Kuper.
Divine service was as usual_ performed yesterday at the
King's Palace in Pall-mall by the Rev. Dr. Blomberg.
Yesterday the Lord Chancellor had an audience of his
Majesty.
The Earl and Countess e parewood will have a dinner
party this evening, at Ilarewood House, Hanover-square.
The Earl of Clanricarde has given a donation of 100/.
and an acre of ground whereon to build a chapel, to the
Rev. Mr. Rush and the Catholic inabitants of Portumna.

The Dublin Evening Post of Thursday says—The Earls
of Roden, Enniskillen, and Courtown, are said to be con-
verts in favour of Emancipation.
Lord Normanby paired off with Sir A. Hope, in favour
of the third reading of the Catholic Bill.
The name of the lion. C. H. Hutchinson was omitted
among those who paired off on the Catholic Bill. lie was
prevented from personally attending by severe indisposition.
Mr. J. P. Gran{ voted for the third retling of the
Catholic Emancipation Bill.
A subscription is now on foot for erecting a statue of his
Majesty George IV. in the market-place of thi. town.—
Leeds Mercury.
Two criminal informations have been filed by Mr. Plun-
kett, the Attorney-General, against the proprietors of the
Cttran Herald.—Dublin. Evening Post.
The Blossom, Capt F. %V. Beechey, will sail shortly OR
her interesting voyage. She will proceed, in the first place,
to Rio Janeiro, and thence to the Pacific, where she will
be employed surveying the numerous groups of Islands, in
that quarter of the globe, and particularly in ascertaining
the ,existence of Gomez's Island, and the geopraphical
situation of Duck's artl Elizabeth's Islands ; she will ul-
timately repair to Behring's Straits, in the hope of falling
in with Captain Franklin's party, overland ; and should
she not succeed in the object during the next year, the
Blossom will remain in those seas till the year following.
Mr. Law goes nut in her as naturalist ; and, from the ex-
tensive field which presents itseif in those interesting
regions, a valuable boniest may be expected to be reaped, of
rare and curious specimens in natural history. It is calcu-
lated
that this most delightful voyage will occupy the'
Blossom at least three years.—Hampshire (Atonic*.
BIG A M Y.--A case of bigamy, in which the parties arc of
high respectability, is at present before the Police Nlagis-
! trates of this city ; but the proceedings arc not yet suffi-
ciently mature to meet the public eye. The Lothario was
married to his first wife in the year IRV, but owing to
great inequality of temper. three separations and re-unions
took place, the last about five years since ; notwithstand-
ing which the gentleman about six months ago had the
hardihood to celebrate the rites of Hymen with a lady who
had also been once led to the altar, but survived her wedded
love.—DuLtin Freeman's Journal.
Freemasonry seems rapidly to extend its influence over
Scotland. Under the sanction of the Grand Lodge of Scot-
' land a Lodge, has been formtil in the Royal Burgh of
North Berwick, named " St. Baldred's Lodge."

GERMAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, MAT 3.
TI e Austrian Observer has the ft llowing a Cele :
CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 11.
The second division of the Egyptian fleet of 50 ships, with about
5,000 men on board, sailed front Soda the 13. h of March, and, with.
out heirg molested on the voyage by Greek vessels, landed on the
16th between Caron and Motion. As soon as the troops were landed
the fleet sailed on the 20th for 31odon, and was on the 24th near the
island of Candia, where noon after a division of 95 Greek vessels
appeared to observe its motions. This is probably the same flotilla,
the sailing of which for Hydra, on the 17th March, was announced
in the Journal of that place on the Ifith. The entire naval force of
the insurgents, which at the latter end of March was ready to sail
in the ports of Hydra and Speztia, in stated by an eye.witness, who
lately arrived at Smyrna, to amount to 36 armed vessels, and II
fire ships.
The report spread here just before the departure of the last mail,
that Ibrahim Pacha, immediately after the first landing, had sent
a division of troops to Navarino, and taken possession of the
port and fortress, while another division had advanced against Ca-
!senate, is not confimed, but the Porte has on the contrary received
positive information that Ibrahim Pacha contents himself for the
present with entrenching himself in his position between Ceron and
Motion, and waiting for more troops, ammunition, and provisions,
meantime constantly exercising his troops, and preparing them fee
long and fatiguing marches. Except a few insignificant skirmishes,
in which a few prisoners were made on both sides, no action had
taken place, up to the 20th March, between the Egyptians and the
Greeks in the Morn.*
Nothing is certainly known here of the military arrangements
made by the Greeks to oppose the progress of Ibrahim Pacha.
,There is no doubt that Conduriotti is appointed Commander.in.
Chief by sea and land ; but some accounts say that the go-
vernment at Napoli, at the desire of the troops, had offered the
command of the (loops to Colncotroni, who had refused it. unless all
the other chiefs confined with him at Hyd.a were released, and the
Itumeliots under Genre sent out of the Peloponnesus, a demand
which, for evident reasons, was rejected by the ruling party.
We are equally without information as to the motions of the
Seraskier, Reachid Puha, and of the Pacha of Negropont, who it
is known has been joined by Odysseus. On the 27th February.
Thebes and Athens were alarmed at the approach of a corps of
000 Albanians, but it anon appeared that they were going from
Zeitocini by way of 3lola and Talents to Negropont, to strengthen
the garrison of that place. In general it seems that the ope:ations
will not begin with energy, and on a combined plan, till the Sents•
kier of Albania shall hare advanced as far as the Gulf of Lepanto,
which has hitherto been prevented by the long-continued severe
weather and the deep snow that has fall on those mountains.
The first division of the fleet equipped here sailed to the Har•
dandles on the sth of the month, under tile commard of Niala
Bey (Vice-Admiral) Tabu. Bei. Since then a corvette has been
launched, and while the works in the docks and the arsenal are
urged forward with all possible activity; sailors continue to be
pressed to man the vessels intended to join the feet.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 29.
Count Lowenhjelm and suite sets out this morning to attend the
Coronation of the King of France.
A French Paper says, Sweden recognised the independence of
the South American States three years ago. It has done more ; for
it declared its intention of recognising them already in 1811, when
the whole Continent was governed by Napoleon, and was acknow.
ledged King of the Indies by all the European Powers except
England. This is proved by the report made at the beginning of
1012 by the Crown Prince to till King, on the administration of
--eninent • • • illdsse, in ate the following

tranquillity, these
advantages which
Our relations with
destine wars desolate
stable government,
an extensive sale

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tice that the flags
Jitieb Swedish ships
;option in our ports.
desolated by intestine
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with them must

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EXCIIAVOES
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HANDURGII, MAY 10.-3 I; ; 359.
PETER3BVIICIII. APRIL 26.-105-10.
LEIPBIO, 31AY & —6 12.
BERLIN, MAY 7.—Three Months, 6 201.
VIENNA, APRIL 30.—Three Months, 9 30.—1/amber:lg
Paper:, May N.

• The Hydra Journal of the 18,h Of March, confirms this. We
may judge of the talc told by the Journal des Debate of 21st April,
under the head of Zante, Jilt March. stating that 4,000 Egyptians
had been cut to pieces on the 28th re'arnary.—Note of Austrian
Obserrer.

Th.? Emperor of Austria and the Archduke Francis
Charles arrived at Verona on the 27th ult. and were re-
ceived by the Archduke Viceroy. The Empress arrived
the next day with the Archduchess Sophia.
The Queen of the Netherlands with the Princess Mari-
anne and suite set out for Berlin on the 10th inst. in the
evening.
The grand saloon in the town hall, where in 1811 the
city of Brussels gave a splendid fete to Napoleon and the
Empres; Ma i t Lot its, is now fitud up for the fetes to be
given on the marrisg of Fresleric, OK second son of the
King of the Netherlands.
The Spanish cabinet messenger, who passed through this
i y some days ago on his way to Holland, returned yester-
day afternoon on his way back to Madrid, with despatches.
—Brussels Paper, May 4.
The States of Hanover, on the proposal of Ministers,
have consented that the sums required by the inhabitants
to repair the dikes, &c. shall be advunced by the treasury,
and the amount required borrowed on the credit of the
taxes. Sums of 100, 200, &c. at most 5,000 rix dollars,
will be received at Si per cent. interest.

A Jesuit from France, who arrived a short time ago in
the city of Brussels without a passport, was sent back to the
frontiers.

Letters from Switzerland state that deputations from
Some of the cantons will he sent to Milan to compliment
the Emperor and Empress of Austria, and that instruc-
tions will be given them to confer with Prince Metternich
on matters concerning Switzerland.
By the Sezostris, from Manilla, accounts have been re-
ceived to the 30th December. All was perfectly tranquil
there. The report of an insurrection against the Royal
authority in the Philippine Islands, must therefore be with-
out foundation.

The French Government has just made its Commercial
Profession of Faith through the Director of the Customs,
Monsieur de St. Cricq. The system now adopted by Eng-
land he admits to be admirable, because her liberality en-
dangers none of her manufacture*. " And we," he adds,
" when we are as forward as England, we will be as libe-
ral ; but till then we must stand fast by our prohibitory
system." He allows that they have small chance in con-
tending for a share of the export trade against such formi-
dable rivals ; but then their home consumption is increas-
ing: 280,000 bales of cotton were manufactured last year
into goods valued at about fourteen millions of pounds
sterling.-37,000 looms at Lyons, and 9,000 at Nismes are
employed in the silk trade, and the population of St.
Etienne, in the nesghhourhood of Lyons, bas increased in
ten years from 12 to 45,000.
Advice* from China to the end of hicember state that
the Edict promulgated by the Chinese Government, for the
importation of rice into China, duty free, was in force to
the beginning of November. The quantity of that article
sufficient to exempt a ship from duty, was 4,030 pckuls.
The recent embassy from the Burmese to the Chinese
Emperor had excited considerable attention at Canton.
The Court of Pekin, however, was decidedly hostile to that
of Ave. The principal objection urged by the Govern-
ment of Cochin China, in answer to a late application
from•the Burmese for aid, was the apprehension of giving
umbrage to the Court of Pekin.
It is expected that the Rev. Mr. Stunner will be Dean of
Worcester.

A FAIT/ULM SSIVANT.—A few days ago, a gentleman
of the Society of Friends, residing at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, had
just returned home to disner, and the joint, which was a tine leg of
mutton, was already on the table; before he had seated himself,
however, to peruke of it, a lar„e dog entered the room, and seising
the mutton, dragged it from the table. and deliberately walked with
it homeward. The worthy Friend, not approving of the uncererno=
nious manner in which the dog had helped himself, resolved to fol-
low him ; and the faithful creature led the way to the house of his
master, Mr. If of the profession of the law, to whom the emu-
, plainant submitted the following question :—" Friend, thou art a
gentlemsn,therefore I think thou wilt give meet candid answerto this
question—Supposs thou halst sent thy servant to buy a leg of mat.
ton, and, when it was on the table, a dog were to come and take it
away, who wouldst thou expect to pay for it, thyself or the owner
of the dag ?" The professional gentleman replied--" The owner
of the dog." " Then," said the (beaker, " Thy dog has run away
with my leg of mutton, and I shall expect thee to pay for it Is. eld.
The gentleman paid him the Is. 91 and addressed him as follows :
—" Sir, I know you are a gentleman, therefore you will not, of
course, object to pay me for the professional advice which you re-
quired, nod which I have given." The Quaker, somewhat
astonished, salmi the amount of his cha,ge : Ps. lid. was the reply ;
the money was paid, and the latter gentleman was consequently
that amount minus by the affair.

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On Saturday the Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of the em
teatant Society for the Protection of Religious Eike._
raes"shaetCaintyeaorrlylA)honudro,nbyTaavenrnmat .rreshepoegrteaabtler°massevniabslatigilede of tlao"itesi
and gentlemen.
At eleven o'clock Joint SMITH. Earl. M.P. took the Chair
by invitation of the Committee. The lion. Getitleman w •
sass received
Chair-
with very warm and general applause.
The CHAIRMAN said that he ought to apologize to the A
sembly for taking the Chair on so Important an occasion, begot
that Chair had heretofore been filled by persons of the highest et„..—
sideration in the country. But, however inferior lie might be to
his predecear.ors in this respect, there was one particular in which
he would give way to no man • it was that of cordial and sinew,
attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty
had that day brought the Meeting together. In those prineptee
he was educated, to those principles he was attached, and he tutee
and hoped he should continue to be so to the latest moments of
existence. It was with the greatest satisfaction that he observed so
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large and so respectable an assembly before him—an assembly
to
which the principles they were gathered together to support
universally dear, because they were of the utmost importance—,
man, because they were the offspring of civilization, and because
they tended to preserve the happinees, the peace, and the welfare-
of society Those who felt as be did on this important Inbed
would rejoice with him that to support those principles so large
body of rational beings had assembled. At the present a
he would content himself with having made those few observation!
and would merely state that the first business of the Meeting w; ;
to hear the Report of the proceedings of the past year, to Which
he would entreat the silent and particular attention of his numerous
auhdlitro.nLPELLATT, one of the Secretaries, then read the Report
after which,
is aMvrer. ;la'arillizilionre",eandanydoustrillido—hTeaor
say, that I tremble in addressing you, and feel myself to be like s
rude Eolian harp that utters wild notes, but depends altogethee
upon favouring gales for power to breathe out any pleasing or any
spirit-stirring strain. I tremble because I know that of the multi.
tude before me there are many who will not teeters with a candid
ear, but I know that every word I utter will be liable to perversion,
and that what I mean as soothing and conciliating,
repre-
sented as most discordant and most harsh. I tremble because I
know I shall be described as net desirous of diffusing • spirit of
Christian charity, but as anxious to rouse and extend feelings of dia.
cord, and to excite those evil passions which I would for ever din.
pease. I)uring the past year the periodical publications of the day,
the object of which might to have been to improve and beautify as
that is sterile in life, have contained the grossest misstatements ••;
our object and our cause, and have directed their weapons againts
one who has so often appeared before you, the humble but the rase.
ous advocate of your Institution. Throughout the year As Cirri:-
flan Guardian, and other religious publications, have laboured. te
distort that which Is most lovely and most inviting, and the Qi.n'.
terly Perinw has stepped forward to abuse the power it possevo:
over the public mind, and to attack, through the medium of
anonymous publications, those who in public they would not ilars
to meet. In that publication we are sold that the general spirit
the Dissenter is "bitter and envious," and that of the" blunders-e
demagogue." In that publication it is said that "toleration ir
universal; it is virtually, conceded, though some obse'ete laws may
remain, and is practically enjoyed ; nor can any thing be more n.
diculous than the miserable grievances which the Secretary of what
we believe is called the Society for the Preservation of Religious Li.
I betty, with the utmost activity and zeal for misrepresentation, pro.
vides for the edification of Lord Holland at the annual dinner of
that worshipful board." I am proud, I ant happy to hare my
Dame connected in any war with the name of that grew man to
whom this Sjoarterly Reviewer has alluded, and I have just re-
ceived a letter from him, in which he speaks of our rause, not as
out cause alone, but his own. The observations of the Quar-
terly Review, however. are nothing when compared with
the assertions in the British Critic, the avowed publication
of the leaders of the Established Church. The article to
which I refer does not fairly belong to literature, for it is
a criticism on a Bill now before the House of Commons, and
in that criticism the Reviewer has thought proper to allude to
this Society. It may not excite much surprise in you, and it cer-
tainly gives me no pain, that I am held up an " a meddling At-
torney of the name of Wilke, by whom all the petitions are vire-
parM," and as one who could not have attained such a pitch of
Ingenious impudence, without repeated trials and long experience."
I advert to those circumstances to show you hew extreme is
the appetite for credulity on the part of those who think we
ought to be lulled into a stupor which is the presage of death,
and to suffer tamely to hear the Clanking of any chains that
may fetter the noble mind of man. But though I tremlas
I do not despair ; I am encourages) by the large assembly
b hold before me. I am delighted t 3 behold among my audi-
tors the loveliness of youth, and all that is venerable in age.
and to trust the same sentiments glow in the breast of each—
to see crowding aroulid me those who have scarcely commenced
their race of user:sine's, and those who with the experience of
years blend a -lore than youthful fervour. I am glad also to
see presiding over you the Gentleman who this day fills yeastchair. In that chair we have Fad a Prince who does honour tet3
Royal Family and a Royal name—we have had some of Brutal- 'a
greatest and best Statesmen—the nephew of the illustrious ['ox,
and a descendant of that Russell, the remembrance of whose
English worth will never be rooted out of English hearts—sail Ism
proud to see on the present occasion in that chair a &inch
merchant and a British senator. Though I honour illsetrials
birth—though I pay homage to elevated Tank, I confess I am
more pleased to see rising up from among ourselves all that is
great in worth and all that is devoted to the cause he has pledged
himself to support. When Spain was suffering, when the sighs
of her unfortunate and unhappy children reached the shores of
Britain, then, among the first to welcome the refugees who sought
those shores was my lion. Friend. AVlten from Italy the cry west
forth, and the sons of Italy were wandering through our metropolis
without their "daily bread," then my Hon. Friend stepped for-
ward to their aid ; and when the lyre of Greece seemed again to
awaken throughout the world the spirit that Ird slept the sleep
that appeared the sleep of death, then my Hon. Friend deter.
mined that, as far as British money and British advice could go,
' Greece should be again free. When Ireland, unhappy Ireland,
breathed as from a broken harp the complaints that remitted
England—when famine stalked through the land w hit gigentic stride',
then my Hon. Friend was the first to stay its progress, and to create
those feelings in the grateful Irish bosom which has done much to
cement the union of the two countrieS-.-the two countries that mast
together triumph or together expire. But en ties present occaaan
I am more cheered by principle, than even by his or by your sup-
port ; for feeling as I do that religious liberty is so necessary re tar
existence of men, though no colter voice were uttered, though I
stood as it were in a desert, stilt would I go on in this most glores:s
course, and still would I raise my voice, even though the raising a
that voice should lead to ignominy and to death. But the meet's
of this day must decide who the " meddlers" really ars; and
show you that the proceedings against us have been met Sr are wtot
a temper and a Charity which I almost fear you will condemn. I
a former occasion I reverted to the peculiar exactions which wit
especially oppressed dissenting congregations ; anti m
vert to them again. First, then, as to those conserved with I's
turnpike tolls. lieu are aware that a clause was introduced i: tr
the ilill upon this subject when it passed through Peahen:, rt.
which declared that " no toll ehoald be collected from any persss
or persons going to his, her, re their usual place of relieve,
worship tolerated by law, on Sunday. or on any day on while
divine service is by authority ordered to he celebrated." Tb •-:
words appeared to us to be distinctly intelligible; but it shoal.; :.....
recollected that the clausg referred only to " persona going to t:,,
usual places of worship, and not to those who visited cane ,?Ida
Oa:
as were it otherwise it walla lead to many abuses. Our frien,t,
Wales, who have frequently no regular places of worship. sine sr:
therethre forced to emigrate from one plate to another. bare j:11.1.
gined that the Act applies to them, but such is not the case, acid I
wish them distinctly to understand it, in order that they why be
saved much anxiety, and the Society much trouble in mplyieg to
their application.. There have been several instances, and genie of
them have occurred in this metropolis, in which persons who were
entitledhave
generally toer payathlleyefxoeutnnaptbnyknwhriativnegbtoeentkfeorle,eadte.tkoeerer ace u
etoll;s must
but I t
60
him how the law actually stood, such persons have fond ftdriss.
and have afterwards remising!! undisturbed. One case, however. he
felt it necessary to mention—it occurred at Honiton, in 0681mi:tar
of Devon. Mr. James Sims, a respectable minister of tar Baptist
persuasion, had been charged this toll on the Sunday while going
to officiate ; he summoned the gatekeeper before a alagistrats, Mr.
Tucker, of lioniton; but the Magistrate detailed against Rico, on
the ground that the Act only applied to his ern perish, rid the
minister was at the time out of it. lie then wrote a letter in m-.and I procured the opinion of the A ttorney-fleneral, wbkii 1
inclosed in a communication to alr. Tucker. who acqaidteed It
the opinion; the matter was amicably settled, and the tolls asillbei'
no longer collected. Does not this anecdote show that tire
is no disposition on the part of this Satiety to act tither
with vexation or unkindness P In all eases where preens have be,'
willing to give the explanation we mikes! for, we wet no farther.but if they persevered in their wrong doing, it was not
era. hr
themselves that they had to thank for the consequences.
Learned Gentleman then referred to several other cases, in
the toll was in a similar manner demanded, and the eases r
the exemption was allowed or refused, particularly those v.
°centred at Usk in Monmouthshire, at Shmpham in Norfolk.
Banbury, at laorngay. at NVoodnesborough, and at liockffe
The cases of assessed taxes come under the next head. In re‘et-
places assmed taxes have been demanded for meming.houses.
for ministers' houses. In some instances those demands ?tat- '
justified, and in others in which the nontrary was the cos,
obtained redress. The question of poor rates it is import:::
me to notice. I have wished that it might be laid :it rest for it.':
but it is one that is so constantly brought forward. al'd thatt
u.;
because it is the source of emolument, but tar the ;impose txll
mean and pitiful vexation. If the meeting-lumaes of the Dionne, s
be what the Qilorteslo Review calls them, " trdroos anti tinsigh!l
barns," at least money should not be demanded by the parr:
officers fur such editicer—maney which they are rot entitled t'
obtain, and which by extortion only they can obtain. De
subject however the most imi ortant case that has occurred is rb:g.
of Crayon Chapel, in this metropolis. In reverting to this tn;:,
I must pause to pay • just tribute of praise to time individail who
will be at least respected here, and who will be respected to the
of time by all those who value the blessings of religious libetts,i
that individual has done much to promote the moral feelings a
great metropolis, and with a liberality which Princes could wesrarly
conceive. If you walk to lloatom and from Iltivan to Peking-
ton, and from Paddington to Somers Town. you will perceive owl

the Government during his illdps, in which a
words :
When Spain and Portsfal are restored to trt
countries will the Swedistptrade all the ad
the perfection of 's iron ensures. Ou
South Ameri • t •rcepted ; intestin
those fine c 11 have a stal
the product ust meet with al
there."
It is now es the government,
system of n epentlence, gave notic
of the South tates in the ports of Wide
were well receiv , a ould have the same receptit
Now that these fine countries are no longer destol,
war, and have a stable government. we hope that
in possession of the advantages, which the trade

whin buildlnp wird b Ms munificence, and by him dedicated
to the serene of. the In the city of Westminster
that °MUMMY mipsaillal dams thousand pounds in bit I ling
Craven Mapi, sod rehesed so receive one shilling of interest for
the ma ea sapandail; end he was satisfied to receive back his
massy by slims of lifln cars Samar& Vet this chapel was to be
tarsi, wig ebb eattilmeme Ph. Wilma) was to be mesidered the
he
noneihdolumailift elf • ihmpnl hem which he never received one
farthing Jawl ea whim& hid 'spaded a ram of 11.0001.
lit dm pad& ma" sad Mess Ma mimpeakm ; little did
we roam ft atom Maya espimass•Jamism and Peers and Mem-
bers of Paelimemal, pre they rem *Mu mid there was Counsel 100 ;
but the empeed re mile puepasa, allhaash they argued for a king
time. It appeared that as mew heilareamal ; I shall not say what
the error was, as is is sot eallksly Hest It may occur again,—but
for that year it was dockied OM lir. Wilson was not to pay the
rate. It was eabsesseedy decided by the hairy that the chapel
was Mt ea bit nisi I apirmall aitaiwt priies of my subject.
Disclaim= hammers remetal-Aletwebesiess that are described
by the Qatrrevist ItiglNl aritellbasim adirimm At El.tesil. near
}Arnhem, in Semsy, maihr emeresmadeahm af Lord Middleton. a
prosecution was marmenl wines mead pantos for disturbing
a congregation • but awed tell you that there still exits a great
spirit of in mien:nee eiessiA, among the clergy, &moo g the gentry, and
among the hemenst mai aped I tell you how difficult it is for us
to obtain tilt iodise whisk if we were the aggressors, would flow
in abuodasse if Illstallibmanding the circumstances of the ease,
and the emeeranumlatisa slishe Noble Lord to whom I have alluded,
the Grand Juryy. dm bills of indictment, and the offenders
escaped wept ed. At Brieham in Devonshire, at Banstead
in Surrey, at lirentford in Middlesex. at Woodstock, • place
once celebrated for the most outrageous conduct, and at Swindon,
in Wlltshire, disturbances have still existed, but not to any such
vehement degree as to render it necessary to do anything but prose-
cute the Abodes+ at the Quarter Sessions, and thus to bring them
to reason. A cane however has occurred, of which I find
some difficulty in speaking, and which it would be difficult
to omit. It is • case of out-door preaching. The aggressor
on this *cession was, I regret to say it, a minister of that
religion whose every law is love. Mr CLAY& is a elseproan
with whom the Society has heretofore found it necessary to inter-
fere. He is a man of wealth, a Rector, a posmisor of three livings,
a Magistrate, sad a Lord of the Manor. Every one krows that
such a man possesses great influence, if be choose to exert that in-
Suence to beneficial purposes; but every one also knows that such
. a perso .if he exerts his power iu opposition to that which is wise
aadgood, its an antagonist wttb whom it is fearful to contend. He
had formerly refused to perform the burial service over the child of
a dissenter; we inter:teed, and compelled him to apologise for his
conduct. But the case to which lam about to refer is one of a
different nature—it occurred at Kenneridge, in Doesetshire. A
methodist preacher preached to a number of people one Sunday
afternoon. in the open air. Mr. Clavell approached this man ; a
respectable man, according to the testimony of many persons in
Dorsetsltire, and commanded him to desist. The preacher took
no notice of the command, and proceeded to read his text. The
clergyman then commanded his tithing man to stop him, but there
was something of the English character in this tithing man, and
he hesitated to attack a man who misdoing no harm, who wax sti-
mulating no one to disturbance, and whose words breathed nothing
but" peace and Road will ;" his habits of obedience, however, got
the better of his judgment, and he made a prisonerof this unhappy
ran. The man then asked what harm he was doing, and the
Clergyman and the 1110103 watt forgot the gentleman, and struck
this poor mon with a suck ; he was then locked up all night, and
remained in confinement until he found security to appear at the
Quarter Sessions. But Mr.Clavell was better advised than to appear
with such • cause in a Court of Justice. Be knew that the man
had not violated the laws, and that he had no right to apprehend
)10, or, having apprehended him, to use such blond force. Mr.
Claveli never appeared in a Court of Justice before a Jury of EnK-
lishmen ; lie dared not show his brow, and the man returned to his
home, with the sati.faction of having triumphed over his oppressor.
I feel it neceraary, however, on the subject of out-door preaching,
to remark, that nothing but necessity should warrant it, while
places of worship are so easily and so many are already' registered.
a man were indicted for stopping the highway by asaemling and
lumber of persons for the purpose of presetting to them, I have no
doubt he would be punished, and I think that in justice he might
be so; but it was never yet intended to declare that out-door
preaching, when not on the highway, was a breach of the peace.
Indeed, the very phrase denies it, for how could a breach of the
peace be committed by such persons, assembled for such a purr
one ? Where then is the harm, if, like our ancestors, we worship
Chid under the canopy of Heaven, ...lib no carpet but the green
carpet of nature, when the birds sing joyously around us, and the
harmony that pervades every thing is echoed by the joy of the
thankful and rhe grateful heart ? This case was once tried when
the fate of England hung as it were in a balance—when he, who win
the advocate of freedom, struggled against the tide of oppression
sad succesafelly stemmed it—a tide that was sufficiently strong to
have,borne away an' man of common mind. Penn, the immortal
Penn, was arrested and taken to the Old Bailey, and tried for such
a breach of the peace. It is a memorable circumstance, as it showed
how flagrantly Judges could then act, and it showed the courage
of an English jury—and long may English juries continue
to keep us safe in freedom, in piety, and in bliss. With
him the experiment was tried, with him who was afterwards
the father of religious freedom in America. Mid with him the cape.
rigtent failed. Surely we will not hand down our privileges to our
chili= awe impaled than they did to theirs in those perilous
times. Oh that a period would conic when I could stand up
belbee this Society, and say I have nothing to report. NYhen
Bishops and when clergymen would have ceased to leave their high
occupations to become oppressors of the week, I had honed that
Christian pastors at least would not have warred with the dead ; I
had hoped that the spirit of despiable aggression, even if it could'
not be laid, would not have shown itself in so more than despicable
a manner. But no ; it is the sail privilege of evil spirits, that they
cannot be restrained, that they forget their impotence in their
anxiety to do evil. Instances have again occurred in which clergy.
men of the Established Church have refused to bury the dead. In
one case the child of • poor man was refused interment, and the
father was obliged to carry it six miles before it could be laid at rest
in its mother earth. Oh ! what would be my feelings if I thought
that when existence was at an end, the mandate of some clergyman
should prevent me from sleeping where my fathers sleep—that my
home could not be where their ashes rest, and that the turf that lies
over them could never lie over MC ? IS it no grievance, [disk those
Quarterly Reviewers, is it no evil tobeliabie to such treatment ? Are
me Dissenter% men? have we not all the same flesh and blood?
"If they prick us, do we not bleed ? if they tickle us, do we
not laugh ? if they poison us, do we not die ?" When the child is
take for interment six miles from where his mother lies and his
father dwells, shall it be called a " little wrong ?" Oh, it is no
" little wrong," that which makes the tears flow down the father's
cheek and deeply wound and agonise a mothet's heart. At Cats-
held, I n Sussex, near Hastings, and in Hastings itself, such acts of
inftrag have been committed. Never again can I enter that town
with Me feelings I once entered it; never will its sea breeze fan
with such sweetness my heated brow, because I never can forget
the lanes that than took place—that there the Dissenters were
wounded where they felt most nearly. In these two places. Cats.
field and Hastings, Clergymen refused to Dissenters the rite* of
bnriaL And under what circumstances did such refusals take
lace.' Why, at the moment when the mourners had assembled
Lend the intended grave—when the bell had tolled—when all the
rand prep:au:one had been passed through, and the time was come
—the tearible tone to the hearts of the father and of the mother—
Es time when the earth was to fall heavily upon the being that
a:lee:ton had endeared, and when those who stood by needed all the
eeitsolatiens that religion could supply;--at this moment the (ler.
te:. inat eaters, but appears only to give pain to the mourners, and
agony to the mother, and to rouse indignation in the father's heart,
by tellirg them that he could not inter the child of a dissenter.
lie bide them go elsewhere, for here the child of a dissenter cannot
r st. At Cataticld. after this manner. a poor man was obliged to go
- l seek a home for his child at Hastings, eleven miles from the
I .iie of its birth. But in this instance the Clergyman next day
found he had acted wrong; he discovered that he hod no right to do
as he had done, hut by that time the father had been to II wings,
had prepared the gerund to inter his child, and had decided on the
ointi,e he was to pursue. But all that he said or did was to write
: . the Bishop of l•hicheater. stating the circumstance, and request-
re him to explain to all his Clergymen that the conduct adopted
by this particular one was neither consistent with Christianity, the
lefts Of the 'country, nor the true interests of the Established
Church. Such was the conduct pursued by the Rev. James
Caralet, towards the child of Thomas West, and such was the
conduct pursued by Thomas iVest emeriti the Rev. James Owlet.
At Slevagotsy, in the county of Cornwall, the Her. Ale. Ascot, the
Rector, did what, I believe, the Clergymen are entitled to do.
Ile refused to allow the corpse of a Dissenter to be brought within
be church, and therefore read the burial arty ice in the open ale,
but in consequence of which he read only a part of that set vice, and
oniiteil the most beautiful portion of it. I fear that such a power as
this does exit i , and I only deplore the spirit that has given it ex-
istence. It is not by persecution, it is not by such acts of wretched
aggression that the Ministers of the Church of England can either
strengthen their own rause, or put down that of those to whom they
are adverse. No, in England there is a feeling that turns against
the persecutor, that will not tamely permit the toot of a tyrant to
tread upon the neck. Would not many, on hearing of such acts,
r. won this--there is in them something not consistent with the
spirit of Christianity—with the dictates of the Neve Testament.—
and if such ho the conduct of the Church of England, I
Call turn and seek for quiet and fur happiness in other
homes. There are other Important circumstances that hear,
required the interference of the Society. Among the rest is 1
that which relates to the qualifications of Inssenten to serve on
Juries. Two cases of this nature have called fur our interference—
one occurred in Cornwall, the other iu the county of Carnation.
The Act declares, that no minister of any congregation shall be
liable to serve on Juries, unless, indeed, he tills some other situ.
anon ; an, then it is just that he should give the public a portion
of that time which is not fully occupied by his religious duties. In
one af those cases, the gentleman did not follow any other occu-
pation, and'therefore he WAS declared exempt; but in the other case.
the person did, and he was consequently entitled so to wive. An-
other subject is. that of the liability of Dissenting Clergymen to be
drawn for the militia. A gentleman of the name of Richard W•hit-
mire was employed by a Devonshire religious society, to officiate at
Broadham, and he was chosen for the militia. Mr. Terrell, • highly
yes, actable attorney, of Exeter, who 1.1111 frequently done much
service to our cause, wrote to me on the suhject, and i, in reply,
stated to hint how the law stood—that although this gentleman was
not the minister of any distinct congregation, he was, notwithstaud-
-Ine. exempt. This opinion was submitted to the bowl Lieutenant
of the County, who submitted it to the Secretary of War, who. in
vain, submitted it to the Privy Courcil, and the result was, that
Mr. %Vititmore was entitled to he exempted, and the exemption
was consequently allowed. Another case has oxurrtal, to which 1