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a I will receive the cup of salvation, and cell spout the same
of the Loid. 1 wit pay my vow• now in the presence of
■ll his people, in she courts of the Lord's house: even i■
the midst of thee, 0 Jerusalem, praise Site Lord."
It is a practice sanctioned by the highest religious ■utho.
►hies, and peculiarly consonant to the liturgy of the Church
eat obi:died is this country, to retort', in the presence of the
et/ogre-K.oi )))) of our fellow-Christman, piddle tlutuks for,
and arkuowledameota of, any signal deliverance from dais.
ger, pain, or calamity; and it would appear natural, ac-
cording to the magnitude of that deliverance, and the im-
portance of the person and cietionataners connected there-
with, to mark the same with a proportiouste degree of re.
gard and honour.
Must unquestionably " the heart knoweth its own bitter-
ness, and a stranger (huh not internirddle with its joy :"
but, in r °oxides ing the secondary means employed by lie..
veo for the purposes of grace and mercy, we are naturally
led to show, iu the manner of our gratitude., some recollec-
tion of the human instruments thereof, amid iu the actions
of the creature to remember the Creator.
And if it were these considerations alone which have led to
the assembly ■t this days wordop, a moderately attentive
survey of circumstances might seem not only to justify, but
to demand, the present solemnity
A few of these circumstanced it is my intention here to
touch, as tenderly as I can, consistently with what is due to
the subject: but I will end to avoid every expression
which can any where he offensive, and every feeling which
am irritate ; while from the religious propriety itself of
maintaining., in its purest action, that form and principle of
government under which we were born, I shall hint at what
appear to ha the peculiar connexious of individual with
public interest and safety in the occasion which assem-
bles us.

The general law of moral and social order, whereby men
are bound to bear patiently even the ills they have, rather
than Hy to others which they know not of, and the expe-
diency as well as duty awaiting the course of events, tooter
the direction of Hata who causes all things to work together
for good with them that fear bon—this general law wean to
be clearly derived from natural and from revealed religion;
but the peculiar form of government under which inert live,
is, or ought to be, traced to no original compact, either ex-
pre►aed or implied, with that society Or which our bl is
east, and in conformity with the progress of intelleet,
and mural and social improvement, resoltiug from ex-
perience and natural combinations of event.. And
herein lies the right merit peculiar to the British Cost-
stitntion : not that it may not he in some parts practi-
cally inconsivent wills its proh ssed ends; not that it is free
from infirmity anal imperfection inseparable from all human
things, sod especially where sufficient disposition toward re-
pair has nut been constantly evinced ; but that, if suffered to
operate without undue restriction, and even with coo Wearier
at some excesses, it establialies a enertetive for any inistakeu
principle or diseased action iu the conduct of power, which
ought ever be directed with a regard to the general good, and
Die sound and holiest feelings of mankind. And this cur-
reetive consists in the legitimate influence of public opinion,
righting the teasel of state, as it were, is the very moment
of imminent dang‘ r, and, under the favouring aid of Divine
Pros trireme, ptomains bulb passeugers and vessel from vac
!amity.
And thankful iudeed, not only ought the high individual
to be, bet all who hear me, and all too who cannot bear me,
if, under the agency of Providence, this influence of public
1.1141i4111 i► enusidered out only to hare afforded a pause for
further consideration, but to bare saved that exalted prom-
from ruin ounierthil iu the opinion of so many millicios;
and with her safety also to have preserved the original Coln.
pact of a free government from ■t least an apparent viola.
tiara, and svelte(' a precedent which certainly, if drawn into
rule, might Imve changed* government of hithertoknowu law
auto a complex despotism, wherein the Suvereigu himself
would have torn old) one amidst a host of masters; iu name
indeed paramount, but av ictim ever after to the intrigues of
bodies of men.o puss whom sliame,as ill an i idu. I despot,
could out operate; Mail who would necessarily have hero
led to make perpetual sacrifices of pullie interest+ to the
collision of t►e passions and interests of each other. A mul-
titude without rule and order, although in itself more drier-
lists, yet may he ruled by awe, generally, of one sound and
sage adviser; but fictions alternately secesilant, consuli-
(lmmo all the power of human government, both legoilatiee,
judicial, and executive, in themselves, and which, where they
could su COSlSOlitialt power, must be frill of uncoutrollable
Circe and unlimited violence, would be the greatest calamity
iu which a free government could ever fermi wale.

. H. out of acknowledged respect fur public opinion, we have
bre% preserved from such a smolt, this is ample cause for
tatting on the public to unite au thankfiskoess *owned, Hes.
ee • for iii.CA who guides the hearts of the people, as well
as the conduct of rulers, though scone, hues for his own graci-
ous purposes in app iretaly dale:scut directions, not to make
the people think themselves superior to the goverianeut,
but to link the government, in the issue of extraordinary
masters, Maar and then, more closely with the Mt... Moss of
the people, and to remind either, alternately, of their rest.
primal obligations to each other; sliewisog govern's,r that
they are but area aMOSIC mankind; mod the people, that
patience and steady, but peaceful, perseverance lit honest
(marathons, may 'ter operate in the end every ressionable
purpose desired ; trod that tier working of free spirits to-
gether, Herder a wholesome though not arbitrary coatrol,
will finally heal into...hoe divisions, without suy or those
evils which the history sit the woad too atm has proved
lit follow ill-regulated oppositions to established rule. Co-
smorama itself teams to bend discreetly to the probity mid
the feelings of • alrilfaila community; and it is Prelb,lhat
whatever lets or hisdrasees may fur • moment lower like
clouds, and cross the moorhineof our path; though mnuarchs,
like ourselves, may be deceived; yet "that the people are
no evil- Mars" (hi use the language of the book of Esther),
but they be the children of the must high and must mighty

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liv;ng God, silo bath Ordered lite kingdotn both unto us and
our progenitors is the most excellent manner." Heaven
grant the same may be the ultimate result—however for a
"aeon deferred—of the matters now agitating this lanA ;
that the spirit of order be softened by conviction into mild-
ness; and that soother Esther may alike be comforted !
Think not that in this allusion I would break in upon the
sanctuary, and especially in this sacred place, of that which,
if order is to be maintained, and respect to established
authority be preserved, must remain inviolable. Nu ! if we
deem the institutions of our culinary to have hems shaken,
it iv another and most just reason for thankfulness Ibis
day that the moment es guns by when the veil wa■
neeirrearily torn from that which, by the agreement of
mankind, has been su long held sacred. We, my boribreir„
in general, protested against this rude violence from
the Aral ; and, in common with our comitrymen, im-
plored a pause, before it was suffered to expoie all that
is dear to imagination and sacred in reason's eye to that
rude assault which we saw must be the conseei
0, my brethren! let us not lay bare the carcass of human
greatness ; let us wrap it up is reverence, even as Poly:ten'
is said to have gathered sip her nays in &sib, when sacrific-
ed to the phantumi of Achilles! bay what ere will, and think
what we will, in • monocle' of spleen, the decent and tem-
perate splendour of monarchy takes from the rough edge of
republican virtue, palieki s integrity, and gives a stability
and fitness to human things, which, on an extensive scale of
society, cannot from any utter funn of guirernnwet be deriv-
ed. It is mild in its true stature ; it is liberal in its princi-
ples, when no stoppage of its ear to the voice of the column-
oily is contrived ; it is suitable to our relations above, when
adaniesistered in purity; anti though liable to imperfections,
is •Ihed to the nobler and more amiable feelings of mor-
tality. And shall net we thank He 4111.11, 1111 t, by thin re-
cent deliverante, this image of an honor-eta and virtuous
idolatry, thong', rudely assaslieel, Ines nut been wholly dr.
faced ? A feeling of respect is esseatial la the existence of
unman by. Monarchy, under ,time decent euntrol of popular
rights, is far too estimable, in the good which it produces, to
be bartered fur an uncertainty; and fur the preservation of its
dignity by the mild influence of public opinion we ought to
be grateful, as for the preservation of ■ parent from a state
of dangerous indisposition : and do von think, If that parent
had wept, as he once did weep, at the decease of Site must
amiable of statesmen, though by power little reentered; an
11.flitliie indeed in wl there was no guile; the friend
too of these, who in a trying hoar have trodden in his poise,
and proved the wimod friends of monarchy, of jostice, and
their country—a parent, who I knew tom even refused to
rat his bread, at leant fur a short lessens, hum excessive,
though manly, affliction;—du you think, that when a
known courtesy and urbanity of manners, which can only
spring Guru a soul poss►ssed of inward principles of gr.at
benevolence, distinguishes that parent, whatever storms
avd tempests may interpose, whatever tides of opinion end
circumstances may have ebbed and floweel—du you 'husk it
tint fit to rejoice that this parent is restored Si. that %tali 111 l
and dignity wherein he can slime fully Viterfile the fame-
tiobs which are the pairposes of his political existence !
Many either topics mizlit he touched upon, which, though
introduced gem-rally, yet might revive painful mut ;
shall, therefore, leave them.

lint it is not met ely the tender of grateful feelings to the
Almighty by which I conceive, and by which every well-
thotkiug •nd candid mind must he convinred, that this day
is intended to be made rnetwirable. Even in the expression
of thanks I would allow there might be bleudeil a spirit of
triumph inconsiatent with that tweeknesa and ream/amble.
nes% and deep humility, with which luau ought to approach
the throne of grace. No! not fur that worldly majesty it.
self, which is intapable of such a wish, would I utter any
thing, and especially here, which could degrade the authority
I am bound to support, by every means cunsisteitt wills the
principles upon which it is founded; and which, like our.
selves, has a right, in all our reflecting moments lickuow-
ledged, to a construction the moat charitable we can put
ni the exercise thereof: No! hut I wilt declare, in this
marred place, that, in the atiewlatice here of that which I be-
lieve to be • brunch of maj. sty insulted and iojured by re-
cent workings of mischief, I du not use any wish to prolong
those feeling% which, iu their duration, can only had to the
breach of public peace and private charity.
I see, in the presence of that high perwmage here, not only
a justifiable and reasonably to be expected gratitude, evinced
lu a generous notion for • discreet (itemise of their lawful
and constitutional influence in her behalf; hut I see a die.
position, the most earnest, to conciliate those who have lis-
tened to her deadliest maligners : and this, which I will now
speak fur her, is the language I seem to bear from that per-
sonage to the assembly of this day:—
"" 1 have afforded proof %efficient to convince of my
wrongs tile reasons of a vast portion of those who were most
impartially disposed to hear evil as well as good of and. For
those who were not satisfied, I have added my solemn &de-
ceits). before God and my country, before the tribunal of
my legislative judges. I have sanctified that declaratiow of
a consciesice void of offence toward God and matt, as to the
charges of my accusers, by partaking of those holy mysteries,
from which the must suspicious nature will hardly upped.

" Ask your awe hearts, is there any thing in rank or
power so fascinating, and at the evening of ■ trowbloa• and
a stormy life, that I should go to my grave, where 1 hope
Si. find repose, and to be joined again by the saint in heaven
which so untimely left me, with theidragscbain rif deliberate
perjury: Is any thing ita the applause of a muliituldr
which can recompeuse me fur the loss of the applause of
angels in heaven? Am I such a fool as to set time against
immeastsi-able circuity, and at the moment too when the
human life wanes? I not believe teem it, Christ as the
rock of any salvation, yet is there not a something after
death, a something adowa that stream which caritas us all
towards eternity, enough to appal the imagination, and ar.
rest the boldness of one who would defy Malikellly Ilse terrors
of the ignitible world ?

" Du you think that I would wake a nation a mockery for
taught which on this aide of the grave is left me ? If yule
think so, yin' would do it )uurarlf; and you partake out of
that charity which thiaketh uu evil, and which hurth all
thiap.
. . . .

"By that charity which you would have ',hewn to von;
by that apprehension of sumo hiugafier death ; by Ilse rtrare►t
evideuce of Him who died fur our sins, aud, rather than
that our sins should be imputed to ourselves', suffered death
for ■s ; by every thing that is honourable, that is amiable in
humanity; on this 'oilmen, this awful occasion, in the mint
public manner which can be adopted, in the metropolitan
church of this country, 1 do appeal to Heaven in confirma-
tion of that which I have asserted before men; and 1 crave
the interpretation soul the judgment of that charity which
thnikeih net evil."

Sods, my brethren, do I conceive to he. Pennine Weenie-
lateens of this day's solemnity ; thus do I construe, and am
persuaded truly, the feeliugs of that tender and affectionate,
though courageous spirit, which claims our best of sym-
pathies.
May this olive branch be accepted ! May this pledge be re-
ceived May He, to whom all heads be open, ■II desires
known, and from whom nu secrets arc hid, see fit, in the gra-
cious dispensatiuns of his providence, to permit this thing to
du its perfect work. And let us put up our aspirations to
Heaven that it may be received as justice, as charity, as
the honour of minim Irby require!—that the day may speedily
deem, when, insteed of the yoke of remonstrance and
complaint, nothing may be beard hat that of confidence in
Oar rulers, and unmixed congratulation on pastime events :
when every man, consistently with his line of mingled
and ►aried duty, may quietly seek wholly to do his ono
business, reserving iuterfereate in politic affairs fur those
momentous intervals when it would be a hi.each of duty to
refrain therefrom. And if, unhappily, that season should
he fur a little while retarded, even then let us !met in that
Gud still, with a Malay nrhmiastoe to the imams that be,
with a manly confidence that God will raise ■p fresh stare
in the hemisphere, as he bath dime lately, whir shall light
and cheer us in use darkest paths Dud torus; that shall
its autumn's latest evening dart forth again the genial
inewesices of spring and this rays. of 'Noontide glory.—
And let us hope, that, as there is an abuudauee of counsel
and of eloquence, so there may be virtue enough, though
tardy, to •.fintl forward ,it the ranks of discreet and whole-
some freedom, of that right trausmitted so us by our an-
cestors from distant time, under the gracious providence*
of Him, who never will desert the virtuous, the cluiritetami
Ilse just, and who will came always all show finally to work
together for the good of them that lute him.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Daccusza •.
Sittings before Mr. Jerstice HOLROYD.

VIE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD V. SMITH and
ANOTHER.

The Sotictroit•GiotEliAL 'tater] the particillots
of this ante. It was an action brought by the Ilar-
qui, of Flertford egainst the Hundred of 0..0-
stun, of whirl. the Defendants are inhabitants, to
recov,..r compensation in damagts fur outrages coin.
milted Oil fill premises, hy a lioluus and tumilltlious
mob, on the night of the Sill, or
9th of duce last. The isetioil was brought itinftr
the 57th of the late c. 19. e. 18, which pro-
vides, that " all sisischief done to a house. form-
titre, or fixtures, by a mils rimmisly and tismultri.
oissle assembled, shall be reinsburreil by the hun-
dred or COUlltv in which such misi-his f shall bate
been effected." The attack, which led to the
present actime, took ',lace Oil the arrival of her Ma-
jesty iii this couotry ; Oil Whidil OCCUSIOn it will lie
recollected that I mot, paeided the streets at the
writ end of the town for several nights, calling
[lllOll the inhabitants to illuminate their houses—rod
in many instance., where this IlletOllllll was nut COOTS.
;died with, breaking the windows and cosurnittiog
other octo of outrage.
Sampson Osborne deposed that he is a watch.
man. On the morning of the 9th of Jae leak,
rhordy before one o'clock, while he was 00 his beet
in Spassish-place, Alaischester-square, by the skis
of the Marquis of Hertford's house, he saw a mots
of about two or three hundred persons, who were
coming along in a very riotous manlier. He spoke
to some of them, and told them to be peaceable,
when they said to bin, " if he would let them alone
they would let Into alone." Ile immediately
thought it prudent to retire, and withdrew from
them. They then went into the east gate of the
court-yard in boost of the Marquis of Hertford's
house, and with loud shouts commenced a buttering
upon the windows with brick bats and atones which
they brought with them. '[hey cominw.d this 1:1:a
for a quarter Of 6111 hour and then wired, proceed-
itig round time square calling out " lights !" and
when they got to the corner of Upper Bell {Wiry.
street, broke a few more squares of glaies in another
house.

After several other witnesses had hero
Mr. JUblier HOLROY D ►aid, the whole amount of
damage was 11.01. 19s. 541. ; and ton verdict to this
extent he considered the Plaintiff entitled, unless
the Jury aerie of opinion that the charges made by
the tradesmen were unreasonable. 11 the Jury
thought ony abatement ought to be made, it was
their province to make it. The Act of Parliament
under which tl►is action hail been brought, was a
most wholesome our, and waft introduced for the
purpose of checking inalicioua attacks of this
description. by stewing to the parties intliteoced to
commit such outrage*, that in '►mint of fact they
were doing no real mischief to the party against
whom their violence was directed.

The J.ary fisund • verdict for the Plaintiff—Da-
mages, 1.20/. 19•.511.—Cubis 40s.

SLANDER.
MARTINERE •. MACKAY •ND WIFE.

Mr. ADOLPHUS stated. that this action was
brought by the Plaintiff. u young autumn. 25 years
of age, against the Defendant., General Mackay
and Iris Lady, to recover • compensation id
damages for injurious words spoken by Mrs.
Mackay, for which the Geneva' wall answerable.
The experience the Jury must have had in Courts
of Justice, had sits doubt taught them that actions
fur shinier varied more or lea*, according to the
effact and tendency of the words spoken. There
was one class of words, which went to destroy
the estimation of character, and prevented per.
sous obtaiuiag confidence and employment. In
surd) cases lie had never found a Jury back-
ward iu redressing injuries by giving damages.
The rase he had to lay before them was of
the latter class. It was one in which the cha-
racter of • poor but hottest young woman
haul been destroyed by the rich and powerful.
The Plaintiff was sereatit to the person who uttered
the slander, and it was almost weessary to tell
the Jury that • young woman so treated by her
master and mistress would almost find it impossible
to got her bread in the world. The Plaintiff had
been in the sister kingdom in the service of a
Baronet. She there married the butler, but, um.
happily, discovered soon after that her husband was
married to another woman. She came to England
with her mother. and lied a child. She then went
to the service of Mrs. Mackay, and remained there
until the 19th of June, when she considered it ad-
visable to give a month's notice to quit. At that
time there had been some talk in the family about
property stolen, but nothing was said to the Plain-
tiff; she wile told her wages would net then be
paid ; she insist call again. On the Sunday fol.
lotting, when she went to get her wages and her
trunk, the was told she was accsesed as a thirf.
The family lied been rubbed at divers timer., and
she was the thief. Whets her truck was delivered
up Mrs. Mackay examined it, and said. " I have
110 doubt you have stolen a vast deal of property,
and here is a handkerchief I can almost swear lie-
lunge to to lady who visits me." She del/titled the
handkerchief. but sonic time after it wee delivered
up to the Attorney is. the cause, there being no
pretence for withholding it.
The Plaintiff was hired as servant by another
lady, Mrs. Levis. who having occurion to make
some communication to her, went a sit to Mrs.
Mackay to inquire where she was to he found. Mrs.
Mackay, on that occasion, told lire. Levie's servant
to tell her mistress Mary Martinrre could not go
into the service of Mrs. Lesie ; clue was a thief.
Mr.. Levee having received that cot iiiiinis.cat ass. re-
fused to take her. and theayoung woman was de-
prived of getting her bread. After the schwa wire
brought fur the slander. the Defiendanta dish trot
venture to justify, the words. but merely dewed
they haul said the words. The individual who ad-
dreased the Jury knew notliiiig of the parties. Mrs.
Adulphuri gave the Plaintiff a character, and how-
ever disagreeable it might be fur ladies to come into
• Court of Justice, he Itad considered it Isis duty
not to withhold them front doing that which justice
required. Mrs. Adolphus was au attendance, and
the Defendants were at liberty to call her nuo the
witness box. When the Jury had heard the facts

atited by witnesses, they weld n. dookt eisiwidte
it acsse for damages.
Miry Joues said, she was servant to Mr. Levi•,
who resides et West End. Ilampstend; she wits
lady's maid. She took • note le Mrs. 111sck:43'S
from her mistress. It was fire Mary Martinet,. s!ie
splted where Mary .wsi he fund ? Mrs. slicker
cud, " I do not think the prang woman wuwit
atilt your mistress ; I have missed different article*:
wow, cambric," &c. When the witness returned,
the told tier mistress wbat had passed. Mary was
not hireil.

:llrs. I.ecir, wife of a solicitor, said, she had
Nlary Nlsrimere. In September last she inquired
her character, and finding it sati+lsetory, eisgag-ti
her at 14 guineas a )ear. Iu cousetplitoce of what
Mary Jones told her. she did not take the Plaintiff.
She received the character from Moo. Adolphus.
She did not learn from Mrs. Adullsbas that ti:e
Plaintiff had gone by the name of Cutionnot,..;
that aloe Was a married outman and bad a c

Henry Martinere, brother to the Plaintiff, at; o.
with his foster to the house of Gesoeral Mackay on
the 4th of October. They went into tise parlour.
slts. Mackay said his sister was a notorious thief.
The words were—'s I have missed ten potions'
worth of things since she his born in toy servi:ce;
I have lost 5/. north of cambric. mid 31. worth of
ether things. 1 will call the man-servant, and
dare any they have boMe of my property 111 their
pockets."
Thema Jones, servant to Thomas Winter, Edo?,
34. St. iiinivs's.street. deposed. that he neat for
the Plaintiff's trunk. He saw it opened,
Mrs. Mackay took notice of a pair of silk stockings.
She said it was no wonder Mary had such ti..e
things. If *lie lobbed every person as she load
robbed her, she might get them.
The handkerchief was detained, as the property
of • Miss Heston.

The Plaintiff's Attorney stated, that the Ihsod-
kerchief was returned to him by the Defendants.
Mr. DENMAN addressed the Jury for the De-
fendants. The circumstance of the Plaintiff having;
'had a child was not communicated by those at:,
recommended her, and suspicion was rinturaliy
excited. No man wished snore than himself t.•
protect the poor ; but justice required that the
affluent also shou:if hate such protect .on ai the hr../
afforded. Confidence, with rcgaril to the eliarac..
terl of servants, was always iiecessary. lii th:s
instance Mis. Mackay was icd to slip, Mlle she
in her service a young unmarried woman, ai,si it
turited out that she war • site and • mother. It
would have been no more than fair if Mrs. Levie had.
waSied osi Mrs. Mackay to hear the cause of suspicion..
She would their have found, perhaps, that al:hough
Mrs. and General Mackay were nut able to justify-
their assertions, there were grounds of suspicion to
convince every honourable wind that the word*
were uttered under a conscientious feeling. The
Defendants were bound not to suffer a perst boux.
they suspected of dishonesty to enter the **thee of
aiiiithe without communicating those soispicion•.
The Learned Gentleman concluded by calling-
Miss Breton, who proved that she Plaintiff; in it•
conversation she had with Mr.. Mackay in the
kitchen, admitted that she received some tea, and
a bottle of wine, from another servant in the faintly
Named Anne. The wine was drank among the.
servants in the kitchen.

Mr. ADOLPHL`I replied with some asperity. and.
after the Learned Judge had ably chargedthr Jury ,
they returned a verdict for the Plaintiff, damages.
301.—Costs 40s.