The National Register.
London, England, 1813-06-13 00:00:00

THE N%TIONAL RE(ISTFR.

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had not all the intetest which usually attaches to suet a
4ratement. Ile adverted to the fedliug off in the revenue of
4500,000/. lult observed it was satisfactory to trace it to its
cause, as in doing this it was found that there was a defalcation
on the Malt and rxcise duties to the amount of nelrly
3,030,0 W. This had arisen partly from the situation of our
manufactures, and partly from the scarcity of the season.
Ile hoped such an of was not likely to arise from either
of those causes in the present year, and therefore as there
appeared a deficiency of near 3,000,0001. on the Malt and
Excise duties, while the falling off in the revenue was but
1,500,0001. it was clear that the other brandses ,of the
revenue must continue to be unceasingly productive. Ile
calculated on a surplus on the Consolidated Fund this year
of 500,G001. over and those the sum requited to make up
the deficiency of last year. The vote of credit is to be for
6,n00m001. to enable 'Nlinisters to take advantage of any cir-
cumst4nces that may arise nut of the present interesting state
of things. The sum called for to meet the Army Extrior-
dinaries of the scar is 9,300,01)01.

Fresh disturbances have taken place in Holland. They
broke out at Leyden, mhere, on the 2d of last month, some
thousands of retuntry people, who had been drawn for the
conscription in that neighbourhood, assembled in the town.
took possesd:m of it, shut the gates, and declared they would
defend thcm,elves. (;en. Motrrott aesembled all the troops

in the netghbourbood, and issued a proclamation, that he
would burn the town if it did not surrender. In consc.
quence, some of the inhabitants drove the country people
from one of the gates, and let the French in. The Fiench,
then fired on.the people, killed many, and took some hun- •
dreds prisoners, of whom eighty were shot the neat day.
The Burghers who had joined the insurgents were disarmed.
Advices from Sicily of the Sth of April state a very ex-
traordinary circumstance, if fact, namely, the appearance
of a friendly rotnmercial arranlement between Lord W.
BENTINCK and the Ministers of MURAT at Naples, a veisa.,
tion of hostility having been previ9usly agreed upon'lse-
iween the parties. It will be curious if another French
Marshal has enrolled himself with the Allies against France.
It is probable that the arrival of the Viceroy of Italy,
i~~..,UitARNOF, at Milan, has been in consequence of the
defecti,:n cf MURAT.
A dinner was given on Thursday at the Freemasons' Ta-
vorn, in honour to the Catholic Delegates fumn If eland. .
After the cloth was removed, the (Mailman proposed " he
health of the PitiNc E REGENT;" not a word of applause
l‘llowed: and when the conirany expected, according to the
usual process, to he called upon to rise and di iek it with three
times three, it was quietly dropped ; and the next toas4
" The QUEEN and the Hord Family," was drunk with ac-
' elamations. An al'usion made by Mr. WHITBREAD was
received with an enthusiasm such as we never before wit-
isesed Ile was applauding the conduct of the two Royal
Dukes (KENT and Susstx) who supported the Chair, and
said, "if the feather which stood over their h, ads (the
PRINCE'S feathers are placed upon an organ at ae NT of
the room ,—if trifle were merely thrown into the scale,
the cause of the Catholics must preponderate." A raptu-
rous applause 01' five minutes followed at this flee and not
unhappy seinire of 1 Luc -1 eireninsiance to illustrate an at--
vnnent. The Duke of Suss' x alluded, in terms of strong
indignation 'to the Orange Club lately instituted- Ile said
it Wa• dangerous and treasonable, and in direct violation of
the Constitution.
The r<ycintnyr presented his Report to the PniNcr REGENT
Alter his Levi e on Weilne.iday, when Robert Kennett, for forgery,
a, was ordered for execution ot3 Wt3lnesditY ileXte

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•tiltat, coul ! no farther yet ? what, nc'cr commence
!hasler in bachelor of Sense! QUARLES.

REV. DAVID GARROTT; M. A.

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•UUAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO Tits ROYAL lIIGIINESS THE PRINCE

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Christian ministers seem daily relapsing into mere professional
characters. 'Warburton has declared that'. there is an epidemic
madness among us. To-day," adds this prelate," we burn with the
feverish heat of superstition; to-morrow, we stand tilt and frozen
in atheism." Superstition has, no doubt, an ascertained vagrancy
towards scepticism, then to deism, and le.rhaps even to atheism ;
whilst atheism, on the other hand, not narequently seeks for !phi-
Mate repose, after many weary struggles, in the arms
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Pernicious as are the effects of superstition, however, indifference is
nearly as bail in religion. When once the office of !Headier is
estimated chiefly in its professional point of view, by those who fil:
it, whether as to gentility, reputation, or emolument, it is either
astentationdy displayed or negligently discharged ; its just import-
ance is either misunder4ood or nudervalued ; and the interests of
religion are equally committed by the affected and the indulent
among her priests, the majotity of whom are but too readily suspect-
ed.of having only an interested attachment to divine truth.--

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Gods must have priests, or Priests no God will have !'
Formality in preaching, althongh otherwise harmless, approx-
imates to indifference. Itself' therefore an evil, of no trivial im-
port, respecting preachers, it should also 1w avoided on another
account. Pomposity universally accompanies formality. Magnify-
ing not their office, but themselves,—unmindful of that exalted hu-
mility which is the brightest ornament of the pulpit,--preachers are
rendered worse than nugatory. They not merely assist not, they really
prevent the truth. Exactly as the preacher aims to impress the'.
minds of others with an high estimate of his own rank, and with an
admiration of his worth, he will as certainly miss their good opi-
nion, and dekat the great purpose of his commission. Lowliness is
not int,re the duty, than it is the interest of preachers ; but then it
must also be cherished by them from upright views, unaffectedly
and unassnmedly, as those who are not authorised to be high-minded,
Lob% ever seemingly humble, but ho are commanded to be heavenly
minded, without the shadow of imposition or the lurking of °sten.
tation. Christian ministers must not only not deceive mankind,
Even in this affair, but, What seems infinitely more hard, they must
not deceive themselves. .

The Reverend Davin WILLIAM GARROW, M. A. is to be consi-
dered as still a probationer for that reputation to which the superior
mins of his father has long since attained in a very different sphere.
llz has, indeed, something of the teatural expression of that parent,
Sir William (;.mow ; bpi it is one thing to be a successful eonosel,
while it will be found quite another thing to become an eloquent
di Vine.

Dryden, in his warm commendation of Persins, says, that " what
he teaches might be taught from pulpits, with more profit to the
audience than all the nice speculations of divinity, and controver-
sies enneerniog faith ;" and he approves of Bishop Burnet having
proposed the writings of Persius, together with the tenth satire of
Juvenal, " to the serious perusal and practice of the Divines in his
diocese,—as the best common-places fin• their sermons, as the stol
houses and magazines of moral virtues, from whence they might-
draw out, as they had occasion, all wanner of assistance for the
sceumplishment of a virtuous life, Nvhich the Stoics have assigned for
the great end and perfection of mankind !" Whatever some antiqua-
ted theologians may think both of our poet's plai,es and the hishop's
advice, it would sell') that by modish divines, at least, the latter has
been most reverently acknowledged and adopted. These certainly
eaunot in justice be charged with unprofitably troubling their

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