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London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

)12ILDHAL1., THURSDAY, APAIL 6.
'no • g these Sessions commenced. About
•r before eleven o'clock the Court was
with the usual proclamation. When the
ry had been called and sworn the Chair-
ohert Baker, Esq. read the Proclamation
•ticounigement of piety and virtue, and the
me and punishing of vice and immorality;
flicer of the Court the Riot Act.
Isamu AN then delivered his charge to the
in a written paper. They had heard the
Is ion against vice and immorality read, and
duty to tell them, then, at the ram-
id of a new reign, that it was not to be
ml as a mere formal document, but
-tannin', of his Majesty's will and inten-
t the precepts it contained should be
ihserved and diligently carried into exerts.
the encouragement and promotion of reli-
I virtue, and the discountenancing and re-
infidelity, profaneness, and wickedness.
solemn duty incumbent on the Gentlemen
'try to apply themselves sincerely and si-
lo the effecuating of his Majesty's gra-
Ind benevolent views. It was particularly
at a time when desperate and diabo-
qt were using every art and straining
•rve to introduce disorder and anarchy
country. to overturn the faith of the
is their Redeemer, to shake their allo-
Ao their Sovereign, and weaken and do-
heir obedience to the laws and attach.
meet to the Constitution—when open attempts
were made to uproot all good and moral principles,
to nifuse a spirit of discontent and sedition, and to
14.01 C to the commission of such malignant and
airocions crimes as all true Englishmen viewed with
siludifering mitt horror. To guard against the mo-
chinations of such profligate characters was what,
Ni such a crisis, was imperiously required of all
writ-meaning persons, in whatever station of life, in
f.roportion to their respective means and opportuni-
ties ; and it behoved the Gentlemen he addressed, in
portico ler, as Grand Jurors, industriously to inquire
into, and as far as their proper functions conferred
• the power, rigorously to subdue the first risings of
Auntie; as Magistrates to enforce a due submission
• ttplie laws ; and as parents and masters, carefully
to instil into the minds of their children early prin-
' ciplus of piety, morality, good order, and obedience
to the laws and constituted authorities, which would
preserve them uttitifected by the coutagion (devil ex-
ample,and render t hem honest Imo and good subjects.
These were the precautions which would defeat all
the deiigtis of the malicious and ill-designing; for
as lung as the Legislature watched with care over
the summers and habits of the people—as long as
the niferiot Magistrates exerted themselves in au
waive and vigorous discharge of their duties—as
juries exercised their functions with zeal
• and-integrity, uniufluented by favour or affection
can the Sue hand, or by malice and hatred on the
other—so long would the operation of the present
laws counteract all designs hostile to the general
we:J, and protect and preserve our noble Consti-
to lion with all its attendant advantages.
The Chairman then proceeded to make a few re-
marks out the business which was to come before the
Jury, in the course of which he observed that the
coat in in and about the metropolis during the
ifellsplection haul swelled the list of tnisde-
mousses :ond minor offences; and that the useless
cerimiony of chiming the Members for Wesimin.
site' *glitch was to take place that day, would,
act coding to all likelihood. allure many a youth.
tilt mind, by the temptations for theft and depreda-
tion it sffordrd, to commence the career of iniquity,
• nod cause many a pang to the hearts of parents for
p awl° come.
the chair had been concluded, the Jury
• stashed. ...,,. •, . • .
• msa
• '•• /I f :1, ewe
hen, eu issued frogs the DOW, M
-Ilse Lump: i‘Nanalblitt.Atill, the Beam a Green
• ('bus, the MARTRIL of the Item, lbe.&c. ter make
all the liverwort prepamliems for the Coronation,
whirls the Kira has commanded to pike place this
t ummer.—(Ereoing Paper.) • •