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

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are leas likely to Iv led away by their assertions.
The pamphlet we allude to abounds in tire grossest
indecency, the grossest calumny, the grossest igno.
ranee, the most absurd nonsense, and yet a second
edition is now announced to the public, We do
not make this charge lightly, as perhaps our readers
will allow, with regard to indeney ut least, when
we quote the following sentence from several others
of the same complexion. "Of older time, when
Jove bad 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 publica-
tion we shall instance, only from a private letter
sent by Mr. Coke's steward 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 hondmen of
Egypt", am! 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 sufficiently
determined by the simple fact, that though quoting
the history of llame over and over again, and his
essays also, he belic.vcs and proclaims that historian
to be a Whig, ignorant that he wrote his history to
defend the Stuarts, ignorant of the character Hume
drew of Sir Robert NVal pole, ignorant that the ccle.

prated dialogues of Bishop Huad.were written as
an answer to his Tory principles, and with respect
to antieq history, ignorant whether Sparta was a
monarehy trc,a republic. Ifis nonsense we shall
leave to be judgbd by the inconsistencies and contra•

dictions every where apparent, as we shall leave the
private chnracter of such a writer to the report of
his own patishioncrs. All we complain of is that
whilst Government is thus buried in legislating,
and calling upon what they denotaina,e 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 rarthagota, where he had encamped on an
elevated spot, with a fince of no more than about
100 men. General Latorre was with 250 men,
that remain of the five IPgiments of Navarre, at
Cucuta ; while General Nloriilo was stationed with
about .600 men, at St. Carlos, about 100 piles west
of the Caraccas, where he appeared to be waiting
the arrival of reinthrectuents.

Sir Henry 'Wellesley, aocordiug to report, has
eagerly pressed the Spanish Government for u free
trade in favour of British vessels with the colonies
of South America.

ANECDOTE.—I.nrd Lyttleton, and Ilk friend the cele...
bra:e4hen West, both men of acknowledged talents,
had imbibed the prinesples of infidelity from
fit ial view of the Scriptures. Fully pets,
B We was an imposture, they were deterut
the cheat. Mr. Heat chose the Remy:m.li
and Lord Lyttleion the Conversion of St.
sot ict of hostile crtticisai. Both sat
reepeetive tasks, lull of prejudice and
Christianity. The results of their squiate
truly ex.raindinary. They were both
their attempts to oventitow the truth ut
('hey came together, not a. 5 they expected,
an imposture, exposed to ridicule, but to
folly, and to congratulne each inner on
victims, that the Bible is the Word of
enquires hate furnished two most valuable urea tads its
Latour of Revelation, one cotitled.--o otisenatio„, ou
the Conversion of St. Paul," and the other, " Obsertab
volts on the Resurrection of '

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