The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-30 00:00:00

TICE NATIONAL REGISTER.

t!APTIIIti:OF THE CONGRESS All ERICAN FRIGATP..
NV e copy the folltming from the Jamaica Gittette, of the

I 4 th Drceitlller :

"Ti e Emulous brig, 16 guns, Cnpt. Citolfrt.v, arrived on
Tuesd:oy. Ot c. 14, at Kingston, from St John's. N. B. and Bat bodoes.
She s.tiltd trona the former place on the t Nt October: with eleven titer-
chantinett under ce► t? ty for tl, • %Vest Indies, but they separated from
fitter lea% iii port, t \cluing the brigsiatie,WAllD, for Bar-
barities, and F.li2a, Ti . for this pout. They anchored in Carlisle
roe on the"..:Ht It
ult. and the Yc.ung Emulous proceeded on the 21 inst.
with iht• iid for this solotid.
1. NVe It tee much plcastite iitamionntina to nur rearkrs the gratify•
iii, infortnatien eef t fte capt tire of the Conoress American frigate, drt ived
fr::in the C;lltcerS of the Young r.riii.h.re; !nig. It appears that Le Rhin
rind La Pique iri,odes, of :;c; etihs each, Cold. G. Malcolm and the
Hon. A. NI aittatiti, wh : h had twill sent. to cruse on the coast of the
11 &A•, for the !impose ot Mit reepting the Congress, had returned to
Barbatl,tes on the Intl& ult. and communicated the following partkulars
at her ci.vt,re ligpte touched at the island of Fointlidex Noron
ha to w:tters where she learnt that. about a month pierious. the Con-
gress had anchored there leir sapplics, iu company with a British sloop
warothich ske had captured, stipposed to be the Satellite, belonging
to the Wind•vatd I-land station, and remained ten days, when they pro-
recited on a cruise, und that en the folloo ing day the Indefatigable
frigate, of 'lt) junt, Cavt tit ire, also and, on receiving in-
telheente the saihnf.,, of the (7ortgress, immediately slipped het cables.
3 mid went in quest of the eoeiny. On the 2,1 ult. La Pique anchored iu
tlto harbot;r of Perriatabiteco, where •lie tt as informed their an Anieti
can ftigafr, said to he the Convess, hod I:erii captured eft' that port b
aB-itish one, in bight ot the shore. it short time previous, and that th y
had both proceeded for England."
The following notice, announcing an embargo in the
American ports, was em ednesday hosted at Lio3d's:—
" Bermuda, Dee. eJti. six o'clock p. in.

We have this moment received a Halif.t:; Paper of the 13th in
stint. An Act. for laying; au Enabat•go in the United State 3 had
pa-41CongreAs by a Large majoiity."
The french Minister, General Turreau, lately addressed
a most insolent and peremptof y letter to the President :\ladi-
SCM. This letter appeared in the American Papers, in which

it vasfreely commented upon, not excepting the official
.I)per the Nu,' ional cc r. following is the sub-
.stance of it, as given in some of the down:lts which have
been received
'l'utreatt, Miniiter of Trance, ' in the mune of lik
nni‘ter, the Emiwror anti king Napoli alit! • tot. tie w.hole cot. I
eof Primer,' declares our (;•)vernineut 11111'S to nothing in its
treaties, lad in :he initrests qt. il.d
.forria n t'lPntlnt)Te, and by contra-
dis tirignisliing it from the unieer.:aftyjnil. eitiflrged,and IN- re' policy
lof Franee, unt quivocally eliarce, otn (ioveinment with iaj,lst
Oggardid sefishncgt, cramped kuneance, and illil,era'll o 1k informs
the Secretary, that francs trizrts nu IV aly corcree' with 1:‘,
Irtd, th:it it we *ant one; :we nth.t p;..y. for :•nr!i unmerib.d contle-
• tiOhl in palitArtli that is, by joining Napoleon in his
continental wins azainst England and her Allies. The American
people-are depicted as a blind rabble, wantint h9nnor, honrqu, and
.fm 4g-la, who in their mad insole: re, eiwoordt,ed by the intioittt
liberty of spi.ahing, writing, and printing, duet, to speak, write, and
'Feint audtainals thlngs agaixst France, her institutions, c,zrd the sacred
p6rxon Fur ongust Pyr•:Ayntinire, Finp:rt:).
Ttte rest et* ;be litter is a partial iittin,t recital of 4 ntlenees' lie
undotains France has rt:ceived of the Clow:rim:vitr and the vecple of
the United States."

• The Amerif:an Papers state, that in place of resentinu
tbl3 atrocious outrage, Madison Implored Turreati to with-
draw the letter, which, after much chtrtaty, was corullied with.
In some :Madrid Par.!-s received this week, is a letter from
Lord Wellington to his brother, the British Mini,trr tb the
.Spani•h GovvrniLent, recalling. the British troops from Cadi4
• and Catrthagena, and containing some pointed anitnadver-
s:bbs upon the infatnotts whteh are Circulated in Split)
against this country, The continuance of our troops is
those tWo places has been represented as an indication on the
part of our Covernment to retain their po,session. This
r.harge is rejected by Lord Welhng!,,n with becoming indig-
nation; and he justly complains of the indifference of the
Pranish tiovernment.to the circulation of such vile attacks.

JAN. 50.

PEACE WITH DENMARK. . •
Tuesday, Mr. 11. Addington, Seeretaly of Legation to the
Crown Prince of Sweden, arrived with dispatches from ,11.•
Thornton, containing a Tfeaty of Peace and of Al' • •
signed by him on the 14th, between his Maks. .1 the
king of Denmark. The Park and Totter guns WEi C fled in
the afternoon, in honour of the above important event, and
the following bullttln was also issued :•"••-
co FOREIG ONFICE, 31,N. 25.

" Ntr. Thornton the I)antsit Plenipotentiocy, on the
I ttii iii•tittit, a I)etinitive 'fieiity of Peace :nut Ailianes.
his Majey•ty and Denmark —Ail &lowest* to be-iestorett, eNc:pt
iteligobaid.--Pri•olicri of war tri th sides to 1,,e
mark to join the ...4111i.s %with :0.1100 men, it England %it: zi ye it
subsidy ut 400,0001, in the year Int .1,-I'ooweanio to he re by
S%teden to I)tintuark in licit of Nortvay.—Strahoind sin: to rut:
a depot for English Inothtee.-I)e.iiitiark to do all in iier u.:;‘.:•1 to
Slave Tratle.—Etiglatid to mediate itetn ten DeLlniat k
and the other

it is stated that the only son of the Crown Prince ex-
pected to be immediately holunned with the title of Privet:
of Norway, and that eve, v whet' flatter iii attention to the
Norwegians, which policy call suveq, %rill be dircct, a 16
ioneilia c the good-gill of that people. The 10..)"0 Diltw;
tra.w Itendsburv, are to It:, itorredimelY uni.ed e
army of the North of (urniany, uhdcr the Crown !),!nc,
ithich will f-rta a total of 120,1t00 men. of tIoN
8.),000 *ill be immediately put in mach for the Rhine, the
Crown Prince belts; eXtremelv anxious to join the res• of the
Allies within the French frontier. General Beniti4sen
.30,000 men, is to he left to form the sieges 4tot
boo° of thf. Onssian (*;,..1-nrin Legion to blockade Illrburgh.
Inez •iim with the Allics will not. we Pteuti;(', :'e
svolk of great length or diilicultv. Mr. Thornton and 13,,J0tt
Wet!er:edt were about to set oft for rtank fort with this gteal..
object when the ad% ices came away.
An Extraordinary Ga-....et!c• Nvas published on Tuesday n
containing di.:patelles front Lord Cathcart, Sir C. St,wart,
and Nlr. Thou uton, brought to Enghold by Mr. Addint;too.
Their contents wiil he found to be of the most satisfoctory
nature. Chalons. the point were a stand i% expected to be
made by Iluonaparte, is only 9 mile,. e•ist of Paris.

Tn E Pittscr.ss Cti A ItLoTTE...—TIIe marriage of the
Princess Charlotte with the Hereditary Pt ince of Orange is
now considered so (ertain, that even the conditions of the
treaty are mentioned. A settlement of the :-;overeigntv of
Holland upOn the younger branch of the istue of the union.
mentlnntd as one of the leading conditions. The object
of this article Is to remove the jealousy which might be
created by the idea of preference or partiality on the part of
the Sovereign, in the minds of the British or Dutch people,
if both should he under the same Nuler ; and also to guard
against the apprehensions that Other States may conceive
fl OM the junction of the ()obi.' maritime power with the
already preponderating ear d influence of 111 itam. The ge-
neral arrangements for important union will, it is under-
stood, be submitted to Pa, liament, soon after its meeting :
they will comprehend provisions, placing the Princess under
the restraints usually applying to Heirs Apparent, not allow-
ing thtm to go out of the kinzdom without the consent of
the King and Council, making the person sacred, &c.

The Leeds Guard who so succesively dragged the bags
aeross fields forty miles, has been engaged to go down be•
low Exeter to bring up the Falmouth mails so long suite
due, in which undertaking we doubt nut he will succeed!
The celebrated Mr. Sadler, the aeronaut, we hear, has hvl
several i,atenivws 'with the Pest-'Master-General !

JAN. 30.

ebe puiptt.
10.

Shoot up the bosom shafts of thy desire,
Foather'd with faith, and ilonbit-fork'd with fire,
And thus they'll hit : fear not, where Heay'il bids eointl)
Heaven's never drat=—but where luau's heart is dumb!
QUARLES.

)EV. IIbBERT CROSBY, A. %?.
CHAPLAIN TO THE ItErUGE THE DESTITUTE.

STEF r.r has an intelligible allusion to the state of metro-
politan preaching in bis .days. A Hippocrates being sent for,"
says be, .4 to a patient in the city, Mid liaVing felt his pulse,
enquired into the symptoms of his distemper; and finding
that it proceeded, in ereat measure, Mini want of sleep, ad-
vi,ed his patient, with an air of gravity, to be cartled to
church to hear a sermon, not doubting but that it Would dis-
pose him for the rest he wanted." Nkiw ;hit representation
was not more sarcastieal than just. Burnet, we know, al-
though himself an anglican prelate, when referring to about
the same period, in the history of his life and times, describes
the body of the clergy as dead and lifeless, and, instead of aui
mating one another, as seeming to lay one another asleep!
Matters w•ere not much Mended, even so late as the age of
Churchill; who, indeed, has himself remitted the melancholy
fact of the sluggishness with which he perrormed the import-
ant duties of the
.pulpit, and the consiquent apathy with
which be infected his iteartrs.—
Oldrited, alas ! to ki ep, Wrong!! need nqt choice,
'nose shvep which never bend their Plavphlerti's voice,
Whilst, sacred deness ever in his view,
Sleep, at his bidding, crept from pew to pew!

Seeing the general indifierence that thus appeared to per-
Vale the clet gy at the national elm; eh, it was at least ill-
jud Yed to ceuswe Bishop Burnet for endeavouring to give
addi!ional energy tt preaching. Was it not laudable in him,
who had " limented, dot ing his whole lire, that he saw to
little true zeal among out Clergy," to exhibit in his own preach •
ing an example of that zeal? 6' Mentor," however, being the
name by which this prelate is understood to bb shadowed forth
b' The Tatler,' though allowed by his critic to be ade di.
vine of the first order," and 44 otherwisb a great man," was
adimmisheda that, " as harsh and irregu!ar sound is not har-
mony, so neither is banging a cushion, oratory ;" and inform-
cd, at the same time, that " his sermons won'd be more per-
suasive. if he gave his auditory less disturbante."
The REY ROBERT ertosny, A. M. is at present in nodan-
ger of being involved in the critical remarks that his vontem-
pora! ies adminis•ered to the di.qingnished prelate we have
just adverted to; andwhose pulpit labkurs were; in some re-
spects, ab.,ve all praise Whatever of reproof he may incur
on the score of harshness or irreeulat ity of sound, the pre-
sew preacher has not subjected himself to the accusations of
batwing the cushion, being " loud and noisy," and having
" some design in his vociferations." It may be presumed;
indeed, that no eplstonahan clergyman will hereafter have to
plead guilty to the offence of banging his cushion, by even
inadvertently relapsing into the vice of that reprobated era—
When pulpit, dratir ecclesiastic,
Wa, beat with fist, instead of a stick.
Popularity is still the wish of preacher.;. It is evident
that the pulpit, to use the report...d language of an advocate
eminent at the bar, bnt who is finally seared on the bench, is
in many points regarded as " the stepping-store of ambition ;"
and as the ,a-a.y riot only to honor, or fame, but also to wealth.
Viewing things in this light; it is no disparagement to the

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present preacher, that he seems satisfied with his station in
society. and determined, if possible. to excel in the vocation

unto whic hhe ha- ht.en balled. There is something to bp.
respected in those who labour to obtain an eminent degree Gf
estimation ammcg " the excellent of the ealth," even tl
mu'Nh
they should appear to fail of secui ihg the object to which the: r
attention is directed. •

While such commendation is conceded to him, however,
truth will not permit the impartial observer to Ow
Rev. Mr. Crosby with the assurance of his acquiring that
clerical reputation which he evidently is ambitious to found.
Seripturality out of the question, he appears to be wanting in
some of the essential requisites towards any thing like perfec-
tion in the greatest act of his professing. It i 6 not difficult •
for regular-brcd ministers to acquit themselves ‘viih decent
credit in the pulpit; hut if such characters will aim to he
great, witlunt natural talents, they must inevitably fail
short.

Figure is in f.tk'our of Mr. Crosby.. With a manly form,
he has also a manly face: Altitude empowers him to give
effect to attitude; and his fcatutes are nut of that description
by which the speaker is sometimes disqualified fur cominu-,
nitating the impulses of the soul, through the expression of
the countenance.

Such is the pe'rsonability of the clergyman now in view.
That it essentially aids the impression of the preacher, no
person at all acquainteawith the nature of public speaking can
doulq. Were his voice more modulated, therefore< and his
delivery on the whole less theatricals Mr. Crosby might claim
the merit of being a ‘'ery respectable charity preache:.; es-
teemed as he is and deserves to bo, for the promptitude with
which he is ever found prepared to plead the eati,e of the
afflicted and distressed, of the diseased and the destitute.
After this admission in favour of the clergyman now be-
fore us, -the regard doe to critical justice calls for F owe.
specification of his defects; since defects he certainly has,
both in matter and manner, His voice, then, physically in=
harmonious, is rendered still mote unpleasing by being in-
judiciously strained ; while his de'ivery would in some in-
stances expose him to the suspicion of being theatricised,
his most.expressive gestures seeming the enct of art, instead
of being involuntat ily suggested, as all pulpit action should
lie, by the spontaneous impulses of nature. Ile seems as if
he were Al*ap ailing his utmost, and qu!te satisfied that he
has done it. Yet he ranks not high in the scale of mind.
He evinces no profundity of thought ; his style is meagre
and poor : and his reading, for his sermons arc read, is oc-
casionally deformed by lapses and repetitions,—lapses that
perplex, and repetitions that annoy, the attentive hearer, who
really aims to profit by the instruction of the preacher. These
defects are partly caused, however, by the preacher's own
anxiety for display, who cannot always eye his sermon and
reconnoitre his auditory, at the same moment.
The Rev. Mr. Crosby (fOrinerly Curate and Evening Lec-
turer of St. Magnus at London Bridge,) is now. Chaplain t 4,
the Refuge fur the Destitute, in Hackney Read ; Afternoon
Lecturer of St. Leopard's, Shot editch; and Evening Lec.
ertur of St. Lavirence Jcwry, Guildllall. Oikt est:nes.

His Royal Highness the Du fie of -...ttssrx, on his birth day, had prw•
posed to have acted as Chairman with tespeet to a pidelic rueetit
alleviate the Sufferings of the Distressed Inhabitants of Leipsic, &C
being prevented by sudden indisposition, he sent a purse of l
611.111e:is. 1 bk.' amiable riiiNce seems ti) have made the
it; vs his mod( I, heing ever laborious in good. We con: rat
the Vioprietms of tile MAL:a •sar Oil on the singular honour Collfe
upon that inestimable Dibeovery by the zealous PAT r of
Rov,i a, that of Ilex Itoval Highness Plwicit
WALE and his Semite iii3hriess tlic Du t 1: a Dltv:cost

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