The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-29 00:00:00

AUGUST-2

PUBLICANS AND PEWTER POTS.

EDITOR,—As the public at large seem much disposeel
censure the Publicans for the new regulation about to take pLr
with respect to Pots, I beg to say for myself, as one of them, (:w
I am sure I speak the sense of the great body) that I am r►r fro
thinking the measure will-prove conducive to their interest,.
This proposed revival of an obsolete Act of Parliament, will,
think, and most of the Vietnallers with whom I am accinaint(
think so too, only have the effect of gladding the hearts of t
Small Beer Brewers. Instead of occasionally losing a Pot, v
shall lose the sale of many a butt of Porter. Table Beer Viii !
the order of the day, as this will be preferrtd to Porter, das!i
through two or three vessels in succession.

But it' the Act in question will relieve the Pablicau from the ;
eessity Of sending out I'ots, why, 1 pray, was it not resoited to I.
tine? Why have those most active in the business been srpianderi
large sums of money year after year in endeavouring t' gain a lit
Act ? Why was this done if the former were sufficient ? Surely th
ought to have been ascertained in the first instance. If it will
plover their purpose, it will prove their conduct was as absurd in
tempting to get a new enactment, as I am confident it will 5C('
in thus bringing forward a dead letter on the Statute Book.
My object in stating this, is merely to assure you, that the Publi-
cans arc not generally in favour of this plan. The majority of them
are dragged into it, and I have reason believe, the measure is
principally supported by a party of Speculators, who have jot
established a Small-Beer Brewery, and ivhose names 1 will shortly
make public.

Red Leon.

I am, your Inunble servant,
JOHN BLUNT.

THE PRINCE REGENT ANT) THE EMPEROR. OF RUSSIA.

It is not generally known, that His Royal Highness the
Prince Regent and the Emperor of Russia, to whom the
former has lately sent the insignia of the most noble Order
of the Garter, arc related to each other in the fintrth de,,,Yrce
of consanguinity. Their respective pedigrees stand thus
ilhelinina Carolina, daughter of John Frederick, son at'
Albert, Margrave of Brandenberg, married George 11.
greatgrandfather of his Royal highness the Prince Regent;
and on the other side, Sophia, mother of Alexander, the
Emperor of Russia, was daughter to Eugene, Duke of Wir-
temberg, grandson of Eleonora Juliana, daughter of the
said Albeit, Margrave of Brandenburgh.

ALBERT.

John► Frederick.

.Eleutions Jaiiana.

1 I
Willichnina Clip. Alexander,
Carolina. . D. of Wirtemberg.
1
Tied Leuis, Eugene,'
1) of Wirt '
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I'. of Wilt. I
i Sophia.
Gt orr•be 111. i
I Alexander,
The P. Regent. Lily. of Russia.

The Gatterian Mission arrived :it Gittenburgh on the 15th inst. tirul
left that town to proceed. over land, to Ystad, were they will embark fir
Stralsund.—Yieir passuge front Yarmouth to Gottenburgh was he,„
formed in tl4 hours.

Mr. WALTER SCOTT, it is said, is to be the new .Poct
Laureat.

Avet-ATTR !TIM/ .—The Wakefield Stage Waggon, from Messrs.
Deacons, Luadon-wall, has been three times from London to Wake-
field, in Yorkshire, and back (a distance of more than eleven hun-
dred miles), with only one Priming of the Patent Composition to
the Asletrees ; anti Major Williams, one of his Majesty's Commis
si,mers for Hackney Coaches, who resides in Upper Berkeley-street,
Portman-square, has a Chariot that has travelled upwards of sixteen
hundred miles, without any thing being applied to the Axletrees,
mere than the third part of a halt-Crowu Box of the Comrsitioa?,
whiek is .sold Lit No. Charing-cross., near the Adn*atty, •

* Rev. tl. L‘CEY, in the morning, at S titers' H ill, from Acts 13.
5 ; and the Itkil..llu. CotuvElt. the ..aine time, at Peckham,ll-4th'
lit Corinthians 13. 31 ; REv. DR. lAN DfIEY, alsO, id the 4ternoon,
at sabers- Hall, by special request, from Ist Corinthians 14. 1? ;
and the Subtlety morning after, the REv. J. EVANS, at Worship
atmet, from Acts 18, `1•1, 23.
$ See a masterly and most satisfactory Sermon on the Decease of
the Reverend Hugh Worthington, entitled Ustfulness the great
Object of the Christian Ministry;' preached at Worship sireet Meet-
ing, Sunday the 15th of An4ust, tai;;.—By the Rev. Jon 1 EVANS,
41. A.
Many of the detached sentences that are here denoted by inverted
to ;tae, together with the detail of Mr. Wortliinv t ir's funeral,

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character. He was like-
wise not only intelligent, but communicative. His informa-
tion was various, pleasing, elegant, practical. *He was con
versant with men, as well as books; and',. whether he con-
templated abstract truth,. or viewed the characters of men,
he was equally ready of comprehension." •
His friendships we. e becoming him. He valued his friends
much ; yet. he valued the peace and purity of his conscience'.
infinitely more.

.....
Ostentation had no
.part in his disposition. Ills whole
deportment was natural, unrestrained ; and while most can-
did in his judgment of .ushers, he was really modest in his
estimate of himself..
Ile was ardent in mind. He felt warmly and stron
and d:d nothinc, coldly or by halves. ‘. There was not,
singgish in his conceptions; and, when he had !nice deter-
mined upon any thing, nothing heitating in his conduct."
. Excelling in conversation, his society was earnestly sought.
and very generally enjoyed. lle thus instructed the old,
whi!e he delighted the vouilg. Persons of both kexcg, and
of all ages, repaired glad!), to his house, for many years.
nor ever quitted it without some feeling «if reluctance. it
was the abode of virtuous hospitality, and of innocent'hila-
ritv.

His praise was praise. Tic did not merely admire,
loved genius; and when he spoke of men of !-...;eitins, and
their works, he cxpiessed himself with an energy that attested
the sincerity of his soul.
With an ardent temper, however, be Mended a solid
judgment. " There was a perspicui,y in Ins understanding
that marked him ont above other men. Ile saw, with a
kind of intuitive percepti n, whatever eanie before bitu."
" But he not only possessed from natuie a quick and intel-
ligent mind—a judicious education it emiehed and
expanded it. lie was versed," dealt-es the Rev. Mr. Evans,
"in ancient and modern hist-ry ; ai•d had acquired a
respectaVe share of classical and mathematical learning.
Moial philf.sorby also kid occupied of hi attention.
and he discriminated even the shades which accompany the
virtues and vices of mankind

"But neither lang.viges, which put into his possession the
treasures of heathen antiquity—nor mathematics, %%ilk!'
teacbe, the legitimate rules • f evidence—nor history, anciciA
and model n, which proves (112 best substitute f,l- experience
—nor ',Hurd and mural phibhoph.,/, the one iNuitrating the
laws of nature, which evince the existence and pei fections of
the Supretne Being, and the other unfokUng the recesses of
the human mind—none of these branches of educmion,
however important, were." continues the Rev. Mr. Evans,
in his opinion, to he put in carol etition with a KNOWT.CDG

have been transcribed from M. Evans's Sermon, to which the
present writer with pleasure acknowledges his obligation this
occasion.
Besides Occupying at this time. in the perusal of the
Sacred Volume, 'Mr. Worthington occasionally repeated.losomite
otiuizas front Watts's Psalms and Hymns ; of which was—
There is a land of pure delight,
Where Saint-: immortal reign;
Infinite day exclude: the
And pleasures banish pain !
'4 This enviable frame of mind (adds the Rev. Mr. Evans) coati •
need the whole of the evening. He svas indeed approaching his
heavenly:ll°nm.; and the anticipation diffused over his mind an in-
describabie serenity. Two days only previous to his decease, he
wrote a letter to a faithful friend iii London--tlia),king him for the
easy- lie had taken in, providing supplies for his licio,,ett F
stating his own great weakness siceellis arrival, even the
liensinn of dissoluticqi at no remote period. linlcetl, he telopt
expression of the Apostle—ilia li.oc of "y departure is ut /laud

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