The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-13 00:00:00

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are less likely to be led away by their assertions.
The pamphlet we allude to abounds in tire grossest
indecency, the grossest calumny, the grossest igno-
rance, the most absurd nonsense, and yet u second
edition is now announced to the public, We db
not make this charge lightly, as perhaps our readers
will allow, with► regard to intlency at least, when
we quote the following sentence from several others
of the same complexion. "Of older time, when
Jove had no other game in view than to amuse him-
self with impregnating the sir." How does this
Reverend Gentleman, a wag might ask, amuse him-
self in similar moments? Thecalumnyof the public::•
' tion we shall instance, only from a private letter
sent by Mr. Cole's ►teward to his tenants on she
subject of their leases, which this infamous libeller
has procured from some quarter or other, printed
in his task of scurrility, with the comment in one
page that it was fit only " for the honduaen of
Egypt", and yet in the next, as if stung by con.
science, subjoined in a note " that it does not appear
to him so very tyrannical." His ignorance as well
as the value of his politics may perhaps be suffitiently
determined by the simple fact, that though quoting
the history of Hume over and over again, and his
essays also, he believes and proclaims that historian
to be a Whig, ignorant that Le wrote his history to
.defend the Stuarts, ignorant of the character Hume
drew of Sir Robert Walpole, ignorant that the cele.
brated dialogues of Bishop Hurd were written as
an answer to his Tory principles, and with respect
to ancient history, ignorant whether Sparta was a
monarchy or a republic. His nonsense we shall
leave to be judged by the inconsi►tencies and contra-
dictions every where apparent, as we shall leave the
private chnracter of such a miter to the report of
his own parishioners. All we complain of is that
whilst Government is thus buried iu
and calling upon what they deuominate the loyal
and peaceable part of the community to put down
two-penny essays upon politics, which we neither
approve nor defend, five shilling productions quite
equally infamous are tolerated and praised. We
shall notice the other Bills hereafter.

By accounts from the Island of St. Thomas, it
appears that the Viceroy of New Granada, after his
expulsion from Santa Fe, had escaped to the vici-
nity of Carthagena, where he bud encamped on nn
elevated spot, with a flrce of no more than about
100 men. General Latorre was with 250 men, all
that remain of the five regiments of Navarre, at
Cucuta while General Nlorillo was stationed with
about 600 men, at St. Carlon, about 100 .mites weft
of the taraecas, where he appeared to be waiting
the arrival of reintOrcements.

Sir Henry Wellealey, awording to report, has
eagerly pressed the Spanish Government fur a free
trade in favour of British vessels with the colonies
of South America.

ANBCDOT6.—Lord Lynleton, and his friend the cele-
ltieed Gilbert Vest both inen of acknowledged talents,
liad int:Utter! the principles of infidelity from a super-
ficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the
B.ble was an imposture, they were determined to expose
the chrai. Mr. Test chose the Itesurrection of Chris*,
and Lird 1-vitletim the Conversion of St. Paul, rut the
sup j •ct of fictstile criticism. Both sat clown to their/
respective tasks, full of prejudice and contentpt fry
Christianity. Toe results at their separate attempts were
truly t xtraottliiiary. They were both ctitiverted by
their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity..
kitty came together, not ac they expected, to exult rues'
an imp,,,t,ire, exposed to ridicule, but to lament their
lolly, and to cow4iattila:e each other on their joint coo.
v whim, that the Bible is the. Word of Gail. Ana
enquiries base forim.hed .wit must valuable tree- ices nt
favour of it lat lute eontled,—" Observations rut
the Cotiver,ion of St. Paul." and the other, "Observ4-
tions oil :he ittsurrtcttuu in Christ."