The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE N/1710NAL, REGISTER.

SlR.—Koowiug the extensive circulation of your Register,
I have taken the liberty of sending you the following short
enquiry, concerning one ot the most sacred duties of a Chris-
tian.—How do we employ our time on the Sabbath?
That the commandment of Go l is known to all, I doubt not.
But do we " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy r"
We do certainly remember to have the shops shut on that day;
at least the mote respectable ones; and places of public
amusements closed. Business is also suspended at all public
others. Ss far we may be said to observe it. But let us ex-
amine a little closer, and view the internal arrangements of
even what are termed " regular people." The morning is
ushered in with the assembling together of the family to break.
fast, the conversation consists of any thing but Religion. The
1 decorations of the body " in taste" take up so hug. 'tis utter.
ly impossible to get to church time enough for the commence-
ment ut the service ; it' by the first or second lesson 'tis very
well, but alas! how often later: I will not here snake any
mention of a set el beings called "Sermon Hunters," whose
folly (to say no more of it) speaks for itself. When the service
is over, the next amusement must be, to promenade the Park
the Lounge, an excursion on the water, or in fact any thing
that can contribute to make them forget that this is the Lord's
day ; and that he bath 'blessed it and hallowed it. Thus is
the afternoon spent ; evening comes at last, and the day is
finished in a way, as bad, oftentimes worse, than it is began
Some meet to celebrate the Sabbath of their Lord sod in the
walks of the green Park, or to speak more correctly, they
meet to obliterate all impressions of Religion which they may
have received in the former part of the day, in that pla^e of
noise and bustle, of irregularity and I mnst add, of obscenity.
Others freqnent the Taverns, Tea-Gardens, or Public-houses,
for the :cline good purposes. Night closes in upon them and
they retire to rest, fatigued with the follies of the day, or
languid and tired of a Sunday's
Is this a Sabbath unto the Lord ?—are these the religious
exercises of the day ?—is this the manner in which we improve
oursilves in the knowledge of the Lo►d ? But hold vain man;
nor let thy mad career, as an impettiouir stream, drive thee
headlong down the dark abyss; but stay whilst yet thou canst,
and returning, back to light and life, lay hold on the first great
load to Christian happiness, and " remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy." To do which, (and nothing can be plea.
santer) let us, in the bosom of our own families, begin the day
with holy devotion, and with a mind intent on good works.—
Let us assemble in the 'temple of God betimes, and with fer-
vour, perform our devotions therein; and let us not enter
that sacred place fur the purpose of gazing about us. What
we hear there, let it be our endeavour to understand; let us
make it the subject of our conversation ; for thereby we gain
knowledge. In our circles of family and friends, let us read
the Bible with a determined resolution to mark, learn, and
inwardly digest it ; and with the close of the day, we shall fed
that we arc better Christians, happier men, and more at peace
with God and with ourselves. R. H.

JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.
[FROM TUE NEW ENGLAND PALLADD,M.]
Three gentlemen who (saute in the brig Telegraph, from
Charleston, have just called to request me to give the follow.
ing extraordinary facts, for the purpose of having them com-
municated to the public, that every man in the community
may unite with the officers of justice in hunting up a Humb-
ler, too savage to be tolerated in society :
A French lady, remarkable for her great beauty of connte.
mince and relined manners, took passage in the same vessel,
in Search of her husband, understood to he in New York. Oa
the voyage her manners charmed every one, and created an
uncommon interest in her fate. The next day after their ar-
rival, having learned that she was at a French boarding house
in the. upper part of the city, the gentlemen called to inquire
after her. Indigent* their distress and astonishment, to find her
very ill of a horrible wound, which had deprived her face of
one of its pi inviple features.
They learnt that her husband who k an Italian, by time name
of Atige Pienovi, being scut for on her arrival, c•amc to the
house, but after she had retired to her room, to take a little
repose after her fatigue•. when, being admitted to her apart-
ment, lie seized the occasion of her tieing asleep to roveuge an
old jealousy: Sew at her, and nillt his teeth bit her nose en-
tirely oil. lie then IV ft the house, immediately tied, and has
hitherto eluded the officers of justice, Mho have been in pur-
suit of him since v seunight. It is hoped all per
will aid in ferreting this 4 ti-oeious ruffian out of his coureal.
went.
This iv revenge without a parallel, except the ea,e mention-
ed by Littleton, where an Italian carried aqint-Int tis in a sy-
riuge for six months together, which, at length, he squirted
into the eyes of his supposed rival, and deprived him of sighs
for ever,

The Vigilant entter, Lieutenant Miller, on the Dartmouth
station, lately made a seizure off the Berry Head, of a huge
smuggling lugger, having on board t;tti kegs of contralotort
spirits, beside, chocolate, kc. and carried her into Dartmouth.
This is the largest seizure ever recollected to have arri‘ed
there; and makes the twelfth that Lieutenant Miller has made
in seven months. The cargo was attempted to he passe/ off
for oysters, a quantity of which concealed the real contents,
until a most rerutinons examination was made.

SArI:T LAM P.—Sir Humphrey Davy has made a further dis-
covery in regard to combustion. which will prove avery great imptove-
inent to his safety lamp. He thus des:ribes it in a let ter-to the Rever-
end J. Hodgson of Ileworth i--•` I have succeeded in producing
light perfectly safe and ta•onoinical, which is most brilliant in .tunos-
Owns in which the shame of the rafety lamp is extinguished, and
which burns, in every mixture or earburctted hydrogen gas that is re-
spirable. It consist.; of a slender, metallic tissue of plattinum, which
is hung in the top of the interior of the common lamp of wiregaure.
or in that of the twilled lamp. It costs from CA. to ts. ; anti is im-
perishable. This tissue, when the common lamp is introduced irto
an explosive atmosphere, becomes red hot, and continues to burn the
gas in contact with it as long as the air is respirable ; when the atmos-
phere again becomes explosive, the flame is re-lighted. 1 can now
burn any inflammable vapour either with or without flame at pleatmr•
and matte the wire consume it either with red or white he: t. I was
led to this result by discovering slow combustions without flame, and
at last I found a metal which made these bunnies combustions visi-
ble."
A melancholy accident took place on Tuesday, occasioned by the
practice of watering and washing post horses at night in the Severn.
Two chaise-drivers named Brayne and Oliver, belonging to the Lion
Inn, S%rews,hitry, on their return front Elles mcre, rode upon the bar
of a chaise (one. of the men having a pair of horses loose). and throve
it into the river at Bagley Bridge. where the depth and rapidity of the
stream carried the horses off their fete, and the result was, that dos
men, as well as the horses, were all drowned.

SEPT. S.

AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, &c.

From every manufacturing district in the kingdom, we learn, that
extensive sales and orders (both domestic and Amiga) have gladdened
the hearts of the working ciasses of society. The iron and the Wool-
trades are described as particularly douris:ting. Of the Cotton
trade, of which Manchester 1, the centre, we can ourselves speak in
the highest tone of gratification. Every hand which can be usefully
applied to 111411Utitatinilg, is employed. The transit ut' goods, both in
an utthnished state, as they are sent to undergo one process after an-
oth r, in es finished and packed state, give a diflCrent appearance
to oar streets from what they exhibited a few months ago, when care
and " hie: deferred," sallowest every face, in the listless crowd who
trailed their steps along. Now, borne by the quick step of profitable
business, almost every one exhibits.that satisfaction which the Phi-
lanthrophist loves to see seated on the faces of his Idler, men.—
(Maxcit esr en EXCHANGE HERALD.)
We cart state from undoubted authority, that the Leather trade,
particularly in heavy articles, the Soap and Candle, and other staple
trades, are in this city most rapidly increasing ; nor is it likely, while
the probability of such an abundant harvest continues, that this stir
and bustle in the commercial world will be but temporary. The re-
duction in provisions will enable the poor man to spend his wages
upon an ar::zle of dress as well as food ; and an increase of wages as
naturally follows upon an increase of trade, as that two and twe make
four—(Bßl3Tol, JOURNAL.)
Mr. Blakte, agricultural steward to Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, has
written a letter on the subject of Road-making, in which, after ably
discussing Bile merits of concave and convex rands, and strongly re-
eommending the inclined plain. in their flirmation, he maintains that
three lath of riddled gravel will he more efficacious in repairing mails
than six loads of unriddled, consequently half the carriage would be
saved by using the former.
The harvest in this county has now generally eninuienced, and a
great deal of corn has been housed. The late constant rains have
done somr injury in many situations, but a short period of tine wea-
ther will remedy every .inconvenience, and enable the farmer to secure
his crops in tine condition.—( HEREFORD JoultNAL.)
A large fanner at Box, in Somerset, stacked his whole crop of
wheat in the month of August, reaping in the rain, and carrying when
dry.
A considerable breadth of wheat in the vicinity of Canterbury was
carried, on Friday and Saturday se'nnight,by moonlight.
There is now flourishing in the gardea of G. Baker, Esq. Darland,
near Rochester, an elm tree, which measures in circumference 33 feet
at one foot from the trround: This venerable tree is perfectly hollow,
sufficiently spacious in the interior to contain eight or ten people.—
The branches are of aconsidertible size, and very luxuriant, although
entirely supported by the bark.

Saturday week the Inconstant frigate, Sir J. Yeo,
arrived at Portsmouth, from her station on the coast of
Africa. The Inconstant, after leaving the African
toast, went to the West Indies, and to the coast of
America, leaving Jamaica on the 21st of July, the
Havannah on the 29th of July, and New York on the
10th of August. At Havannah she landed 200,000
dollars, and at New York 500,000. She brpught
home 1,100,000, consigned to British merchants.—
She took the whole on board at Port Royal. The
Inconstant had little communication with the shore at
New York, as she was placed under a sort of quaran-
tine by the Americans during her short stay at that
port. The troops and ships at Jamaica were very
healthy, and the Inconstant did not lose a man from
her leaving England to her return.
An article from Lausanne, Aug. 22, says—" Among
the foreigners lately arrived from Rome, is Mr. Wat-•
son, a Scotch Gentleman, who is on his way to Lon-
don. Mr. Watson is the proprietor of the archives of
the Stuart Family, which he discovered and bought of
M. Tassoni, the Pope's Auditor, and executor to the
will of the late Cardinal of York. These papers are ac-
tually on their way to England, the British Govern-
ment having sent two men of war to Civita Vecchia to
transport them thither. They are numerous, authen-
tic, and very valuable—being estimated at half a mil-
lion. They illustrate every thing obscure in the his-
tory of the last Stuarts, and throw new lights on the
literature, the history and the politics of the most in-
teresting period of modern times. In the literary part
is a corresixmdence between King James and Feuclon,
Swift, the Bishop of Rochester, Lord Bolingbroke,
Marshal Keith, and other equally celebrated personages.
In the political part there are above six thousand auto-
graphs of the Stuart Family ; as well as a great num-
ber of letters frum Charles XI I. Peter the Great, Louis
XIV. and almost all the Sovereigns of Europe."
We have already mentioned the case of an English
gentleman arrested near Boulogne, on a judgment
debt for 6001. contracted in England, a copy of thy pro-
cess on which in this country, duly authenticated, was
transmitted to France, and proceededupon in the French
Court. The defendant disputed the legality of the
proceeding in the French Court, and pleaded in
arrest of the judgment by default which had been ob-
tained against him. The case has been argued in the
Court below at Boulogne, and decided against the de-
fendant The Court in delivering its judgment, cited
many authorities, to show that the case had been
frequently decided in the same way, but admitted that
it could be only sustained upon a judgment, as in the
present case. This decision will give joy to all our
countrymen in France who have run away from their
tailors and tavern-keepers' bills. They cannot be ar-
rested on mcsne process —no action can originate there
against them. The simple contract debtors in France
are thereflire safe ; they ntav congratulate themselves
on the wisdom of .French laws, and their fortunate
escape from their own ; but the debwrs againq whom
judgment has beau obtained at home must look
sharp.
The number of' persons from England who have dis-
embarked at Calais, from the Ist of July to the 24th of
August, was 4,373; that of persons who embarked,
-2,791. Thus in 55 days 7,1.64 travellers have passed'
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