The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-25 00:00:00

" I/11)0:SE I►F BARCELONA.

" An extraordinary and continual vigilance ooiy can enable us
to disconcert and defeat the designs and plots of the Constitution-
alists; and the Government cannot confide this duty 'with more
erect than to the resident Ministers of the Church. It Is true
they cannot du much of themselves, but they know well where
to lind zealous parishioners, of whom they can avail themselves.
to arrive at ■ knowledge of what is passing. With the assist-
ance of this information, they will be in • condition to send
the most certain and correct counnunications to those who are
in authority, in order that they may be perfectly aware of what
is taking place. Fur this purpose I charge you, under the strictest
responsibility, mortising you at the same dine inviolable secrecy,
to make known to me ittoneiliately the names of the persons mid.
ing in your parish who are markeal as enemies of the King our
Master and his legitimate Government, also the individuals guilty
of offet.ers not included in the Royal Decree of Amnesty, dated the
Ist of May in the present year—those who are charged with irre-
ligion—those who insult the Ecclesiastics and the loyal Spaniards
known for their attachment to Royalty—those who attend suspected
assemblies---and generally all those whom you consider fit to be
particularly watched. You will inform me of the parade Sall par.
held's, reasons on which yout suspicions are built. You will tell
use, with the greatest care, it you remark iu your parish the signs
or trams of any plan, tending to form or facilitate any conspiracy, oe
excite tumult or disorder among the public, whatever may be the
intruded results of these designs. You will state with all possible
detail the objects of these proceedings, and the names of the persons
eanneetol with them, as well as of those who, not belonging to the
Church, shall introduce themselves to its communion to dis-
turb the minds of the faithful, and raise public disorder•
As noon as you Shan haat ICCCilell this order, and made
yourself acquainted with its contents, you will inform incur the fact,
I give you notice at the same time that I will .hew no indulgence
to any Curate who shall neglect to send me the intOrtnation I hereby
require; fur in SI • italic, so seriously important, no shelter should be
given to any one, and it is impossible, if the resident Priests act
with the vigilance which ought to characterise their', that they can
be ignorant of what they are hereby enjoined to communicate to
me. May God preserve you many years.
(Signed) " l'EDliO JOSE A BELLA.
" Barcelona, August 27, 1821."

We give in another part of our Paper a report of the
proceedings of the I'nitetl Synod of Scotland, on the case
of the Rev. At ICSANDI a Fre: Ten' a, Minister of the Al-
bion Chapel, Loiuh'n. It will be remembered that, some
time since, an action was tried in the Court of King's
Bench, in which Mr. Psi 'ft lira was defendant, for a
breach of promise of marriage. The proceedings that
took place on that occasion protium() divisions in the con-
grtgation of the 11ev. :entlonan, and irregularities in the
government of his Church. The case was ultimately re-
ferred to the Synod, who summoned Ilse accused Minister
before diem. This aunnuons, however, lie did not obey
and the result has been, a suspension from the exercise
of his 'Ake, and f the fellowship of his Church,
until the next meeting of she Synod, at which he is re-
quired to appear, in order to defend his conduct, and receive
the final sentence of the Court. The Synod, in giving their
decision for Mr. Fi.r.TCII t 164 suspension, declare that " he
has been guilty of the breach of promise of marriage, ag-
gravated by the duplicity of his conduct, and by assertions
of innocence, which, iu direct opposition to his confession,
he bus frequently repeated, and by the cal ttttt Mous charges
he has preferred against the family of which the lady is a
meinheT, and against others who took a most friendly in-
terest in this business ; and that in dispensing the Lord's
Supper in opposition to the deed of the Session, he has
lewd in a manner sohversire of the order of the Pre3by-
teflon Church ; and that his (Millis: its this ease is aggra-
vated by the charges which lie preferred against the
Members of his Session."

We have copied from • Morning Paper a long article
relating to Mr. Fauntleroy. " Every circumstance," as
that article truly states, " connected with this unfortunate
man's na►ne, excites the most intiame interest throughout the
metropolis," and therefore we have judged it to be part of
our duty to give this elaborate apology for the misdeeds of
that unhappy prison, exactly lIII'Ke found it in the columns
front whence we have taken it, without attetnpting to se-
parate the farts from the unseemly remarks a►xd obeerva-
tions with► which they are mixed up. We now how well
it sound* generally in the ears of the public to commiserate
the perpetrator of every great act of delinquency ; and we
have observed with pain, for many years a tendency in the
politic journals to ho:.1 up every criminal as a special and
peculiar object of public compassion. Twelve months have
not elapsed, since the perpetrator of the most atrocious
murder that ever stained the annals of our country was
lauded for talents and virtues le, never possessed, because
he was found not to want that brutal indifference to death
which is the essential characteristic of all criminals of Ids
stamp. If h•• had been a highly-giftel, accomplished,
and benevolent man, the whole current of whose exist-
enee hail been pure, with the sin; /e exception of some
rash deed, which, by the severe but just decree of the
law, forfeited his life, he eouhl Lot have been treated
with more tenderness. Vet Ite was a rude, lase•, stupid,
heartless, imp; ma milieu, without one good quality to
redeem► the internals nest of vices that harboured in his
heart. The vulgar and florid harangue which he hail
the audacity to de liver on his trial was, we remember with
regret, given in the daily rape's with every attend tttt to
ett:et ; and the thoughtless and dissipated were taught to
look up with► astonishment at the intellectual capacity of an
illiterate fellow, whose sole merit was the daring wiek.al-
lbelli which supported him in appealing falsely to the
1.11/ an. MIN.:, while he repeated, parrot-like, the
words which were rut into hit mouth, and which
he had been spelling over, • month together. in his
cell. In the tattle spirit the article to which we al-
lude seems to be written. iVe know not whether the
facts laid to the account of the wretched Banker be true
or nut ; but we have no hesitation in affirming, that if the
sketch be correct in its material parts, epithets much less mild
that► those which are applied to him ought to have been
used. Why shall the error% of the. good be confounded
with the st stematic and confirmed depravity of the had ?
Ile who, to supply tl►; means for his boundless dissipation,
and the indulgence of every vice, will not scruple to violate
every tie of honour, every bond of confidence, every prin.