The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-07 00:00:00

VIZ NATIONAL. MOISTER.

" Oh, scenes surpauing fable—and yet true,
Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who cau see,
Tttotiv,ll but in distant prospcm,and not feel
Ho soul refresn'd with fiat:este ol the joy !
One songettiplopi all nations; and all cry,
Worthy the Lvinh, fur he W. 15 slain fit Us r
The dwelleis in the ►ales and on the rocks
Shout to each other, and the mountain tops
From distant umuntaito catch toe flying joy ,
'Till nation after nation taught the strain,
Earth rolls the rapturous Ut/14/111ah tumid."
Cow Pea.

Mr.. Alder an RorHavaLL robe and mobcd, 111.1 i the
Report now read he wetted and printed at the tAtintwe
or the Committee. .

Sir T. BELL VCOlideti the Resolution.
The Rev. Nlr.t..hvest said, lie was appointed to pre-
sent for the consideration of the Alerting, a Reso-
lution which lie then held in his hand. It was as
fol lows : .

Resolved, That the wicked Anil blasphemoue 'midi. 1
cations now mtblushingly diffused through the natimi,
form, is the op mini of this Meetitif„ an additional
reason for supporting the British and kureign Bible So-
ciety,.for its simple and exclusive abject the widest iris-
slide eilculation of the Holy Scripture 4, is precisely
adapted to repel, in the most efficient and adequate
manner, such impious attempts, by:giving a distinct
honour and prominence to the inspired volume, by en-
circling it with the affection and marked reverence of
Christians of every name, and by thus contributing to ;
pledge the nit: ion to that Holy Bonk, which Infidelity is
daring to revile, but on which all the principles of moral
and religious order and subordination, and therefore the
very foundations of public tranquillity and private virtue
and happiness, ultimately rest.
The Resolution was theisiont and carried.
The following Resolution was then mewed—
Resolved—That the sincere acknowledgments of this
Nleeting are due to the Right lion. the Lord Mayor
(kir the patronage which. t has aflOrded to the Insiiiii-
holt as President, and for the handsome manlier in
which lie granted the use of the Egyptian Hall fur the
Anniversary Meeting.
The Rev. JAL CUNNINGHAM then came forward
and pronounced a high compliment on the couduch
of his Lordship, as connected with the Institution..
Mr. CheieftLes PlitLties, of toe Irish bar, rose and
spoke neatly as follows :
" Although I base not hail the honour either of pro-
posing or seconding any of your. Resolutions, still as a
native of that country SO ppletedity alluded to iu your
Report, I hope Inlay be indulged in a few obaervations.
The crisis in which we are play ed is, I hope, a sufficient
apology in itself for any intrusion ;but I find such apology
is rendered 1111/le than iiiiii ecessaty by the courtesy of this
reception. Indeed, my Lord,. vs lieu see see the omens
every day at icing—when we see blasphemy openly avowed
—when we see the See iptearee audaciously ridiculed-
-hen in this eh a Monarchy the den of die republican
and the deist yawns for the unwary in your must public
thronglifares—when marts are ustenistiously opened,where
the mural poison may be puteliased, whose subtly venom
eaters the very soul—w lieu billet' lily has become an article
of,costinierce, and man's perdition may beicheatiened at the
stall of every pedlar—no ft lend of society should tominne
silent—it is no longer a questiou of political privilege—uf
sectarian controversy— ut theological discussion ; —it is
become a question, whether Chtistianity itself shall stand,
or whether we shall let go the firm anchor' Mum faith, and
drift without chart, or helm, or compass, into the standees
ocean of impiety and blood ! I despise as touch as any
man, the whiue of bigot ry —I will go as far as any Mall fur
rational liberty, hut I will not depose my Gott to drily Ilia
infidel, or tear to pieces the charter of the State, and
pope tor a constitution amongst the murky pigeon-holes
of every creedless, lawless, infatuated regicide. V. hest 1
I saw the other day, my Lind, the chief bacchanal of their
orgies—the man with whom the Apostles were cheats,
and the Prophets liars, and Jesus an impostor, on his me-
morable trial, withering hour utter hour with the most
horrid blasphemies—surrounded by the votaries of every
sect and the heads of every faith—theChiistiarrArelabiallup
the Jewish Rabin—the men most eminent fur their piety
and their learning,. wlsuw lie. had purposely collected to
hear his infidel ridienle of all they reverenced—when I
saw hint raise the Holy Bible in outs hand and the Age of
iteasou fu the other, as it were confronting the Almighty
with u rebel worm,, till the pious Judge grew pale, aim
the patietirJury interposed, end the self-convicted ws etc Is
himself, after having saved away all his original impiety,
• was mimed into a mere machete, for the te-production
of the id:aid blasphemy of others—l could nut help
exclannieg, " infatuated mast—if all your impractical
madness could be tealized, what would you give US in
exchange for our establishments e What would you sub-
stitute for that augast tributml—for whom %s as: you dis-
place that independent Judge and that eillpal tial Jury e—
or could you really but is the Gaye' and eiase the atatutrs,
f. r the di ratchet equivalent of the crucifix and guithathe!"
Indeed if I was asked fur a practical panegyric um our
constilutiou, I would adduce the very trial of that criminal
—and if the legal sonata of any country upon. earth Int,
nishiscran hammier, nut inertly of such justice, but of such
!PAW nce, such terbearatice, such almost culpable tutlut-
gehce, I would concede to him die triumph. I hope, too,
in what I say, I shall nut be considered as forsaking that
illustrious example-1 hope lam above an Metall on any
Wall in Ids sttuation—perhaps, had I, the power, I would
follow the example tits titer thee I unglit—perhaps I would
corn humble Mill 11110 an evideuce of the very spirit he
spurned—and as our creed was reviled in Isis person, mud
vnaticatcd hi his conviction, so I would give it its noblest
triumph in his mature, and merely consign hint to the
puuistiment olds mercy. But iudeetlony Lord, the fateor mis hall radio; martyr matters vet y little
to the thousands he has cuilupteil. He has literalty
ectuinal est a mural plague, against which the nation's qua-
rantine can seance avail us. It lugs poisoned the (resit
blood of infancy—it has disheartened the last hope ut
age—if his owl) eccuunt of its circulation be correct,
hundreds of 111011Sollida must be at this Instant taunted
with the inkctious venom, whose sting dies FM with
the dranuctiou of the budy. Imagine nut because
the pestilence smiles clot at once tit I. Gs fatality is
the less certain—imaaine not because the lower orders
are the earliest victitui, that the wore elevated will not
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suffer in their turn ; the most utoetal citiltues beenis at
the extremities, alio you may depend 11p4111 it nothing
but mite and spa y are %amine inchange this healthful
laud into a thane i-nouse, while murder,. snatchy, anti
prostitution, and the whole hell blood of infidelity, will.
quaff the heart's blood of the consecrated and the tioble.
Aly Lord, I am the more indignatit at thew designs he-
cause they are sought to be concealed itsst.iiiiiekdvi..sgbtoitusenotyf
liberty. It is the duty of every real friend to liberty to
ear lie r mask front this hem' who has usurped it. No,
no, this io not our island goddess, bearing the mountain
Ireshuess on her cheek,and scattering
from, her It a nt,
akeo
tuvrii virtuesthetibthat ltigltitasotehnadt
herald her fair
presence, the ilx her path, soil
the long blaze of glory that lingers in her train—it is a
demon, speaking fair indeed--tempting our faith with
airy hopes and visionary realms, but even within the
foldings of its mantle huling the bloody symbol of it::
purpose. Dear tot ith sophistry; guard' your child
it;ajtanul draw round your homes the consecrated
witch it dare not enter. You will (hid all amulet in
lie rt ut your country—it is the great mound raised
by the Almighty for the protection of huniautty—it
sands .betweett you and the Fara of human paw:anis;
and, oh! believe me, ifiyou wait tamely by while it is
basely undermined, the fiery &lilac wall Halloo, before
whiten all that you hold dear, or venerable, or sacred,
will wither into ashes. Bebe% eno one who tells you
that the frietiths of freedom are now, or ever were, the
enemies of religion—they know too wed that rebellion
against God cannot prove the basis of government for
man, and that the loftiest structure impiety can raise is
but the Babel monument of its impotence, and its pride,.
mocking the budder, with a moment's strength, and
then covering them with inevitable confection. Do you
want au example? only look to France. The micros-
copic vision of your rabble blasphemers has not sight
enough to contemplate the mighty miwla which com-
menced that revolution. The wit—the sage—the orator
—the hero--the whole family of genius 'tarnished forth
their treasures, and gave them nobly to the nation's exi-
gence; they had great provocation—they had a glorious
cause—they had all that tunnels potency could give
them. Bla they relied too much upon this human po-
tency—they abjured their God, and, as a natural cota.e.
queuee, they murdered their King—they cullec4 their
polluted demist from the brothel, awl the hill of the idol
extinguirhed the flamed the altar. 'they crowned the
seatiold with all their country held dear of genius or of v 'a-
we, and when the peerage stud the prelacy were exhaust-
ed, the itiob-execistiotiet or to-clayb. came the ritolbwictutt
of to- morrow. No sex was spared—tin age respected—
no sullering pitied—and all this they did in the sacred
name of liberty, though to the deluge of human lewd,
they left not a mountain top for the ark of liberty ttirest
on. But Providence was neither • dead our sleeping.
It 'nattered not that fur a 1110111C111 their impiety fitelt.:A
to prosper—that victory panted alter their ensanguintd
banners—that as their insatiate eagle soared against the
sun he seemed but to replunie his wing and to renew
his vision—it was only for a moment, and you see at last
that in the very banquet of their iriemph the Almighty's
vengeance ' blazed upon the wall,' and their diadem
fell from the brow of the idolater. My Lord, l will nut
abjure the altar, the throne, acid the constitution, fur
the bloody tinsel of this revolutionary pun tuninie. 1
prefer my God, even to the impious democracy of their
Pantheon-1 will not desert my King, even for the la/-
lineal equality of their Pandemonium. I must rte
sonic better authority than the Fleet-entetTemple before
1 forego the principles which 1 imbibed in toy youth,
and to which I look forward as the cousolatiou of my
age; those all-protecting prisicieles which atotice guard,
consecrate, and sweeten the social intercourse-ease-inch
give life, happiness; and death, hope; which CO111111:01C
1111111's purity, his best protection, placing the iefaut's
cradle and the female's couch beneath the sacred shelter
of the national marality. Neither JJr. Paint., nor all the
venom-breathing brood, shall swindle we from the
book where I have learned thieve precepts—in despite of
all their scoff, sod scorn, and menacing, I say, of the
sacred volume they would obliterate, ibis a book of
facts as well authenticated 44 ally heathen history—a
book of miracles, iticomeatiLly at ouched—a hook of
prophecy, confirmed by past as well es present fulfilmeitt
—a book of poetry, pine and natural, and elevated even
to inspiration--a book of morals, such as human wis-
dom 'lever framed for the perfection of human haulms.
My Lord, I will abide by the precepts, admire the
beauty, revere the mysteries, and as far as its me lies
practise toe mandates of thus sacred volume ; and sheti'd
the ridicule of earth and Ilse blasphemy of hell assail
me, I shall console myself by the contemplation of
those blessed spirits who, in the tame holy cause, have
toilet', and shone, and :suffered. In the " goodly fel-
lowship of the saints"—in the •'noble army ut the
Martyrs"--iii the society of the great stud good, and
wise of every nation; if toy sialtilileas lie 1101 cleansed,
and my daricoras illmninated, at least my preterit ioniesa
submission may be excused :—if I err set it the lumina-
ries I have chosen for lily quirks, I confess myself cap-
tivated by tile henchmen of their aberrations. If they
err it is in an heavenly region—if they wander. it is in
fields of light—if they aspire, it is at all eve uts a Elorious
daring ; and rather 111111) sill with infidelity into the
•dust, I out content to cheat myself with their
salon of
eternity. It may indeed be nothing Lut delusion, bet
thee Lin' with the disciples of philosophy and of virtue
—with men who have drank deep at the fountain of
human knowledge, but who dissolved mot the pearl to
their salvation in the draught, 1 err with Bacon, the:
great confident of nature, fraught with all the learning
of the past, am' almost prescient of the 111101 C ; yet too
wise lilt to k maw his weakness, and too eladosnpitic not
I
to feel his ignorance. I err with n rising oan
auger w , hits, to Heaven, like the bird of morn, soaring
net of habit amid the music of his grateful piety. I err
wilts Locke, whose pure philosophy only taught him to
adore its 5011/CC; whose warm lot c tit genuine liberty %:d4
i never chilled 1010 rebellion whit its author. I. err with
i adman the
Newton, whose oar-likeshootaig

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BANKRUPTS.

10v.13, J. Townsend,l44l—eitiiit,

the darkness of the sphere, too soon rc•ascended the
home of his nativity. 1 err with Franklin, the patriot
of the world. the playmate of the heinous!". the philo-
sopher of liberty. whose electric tituelt thrilled through
the hemisphere. With tuen like these. my Lord,
I shall ever remain in error, nor shall I desert those
errors feedfor the drunken death bed of a Pattie.
or the delirious war-hoop of the surriris•ing fiends,
who would erect his altar on the ruins of society. In
my opinion it is difficult to say, whether their tenets are
more ludicmus or moredetestable. They will not obey
the King or the Prince, or the Parliament or Constitu-
tion, but they will obey anarchy. They will not believe
in the Prophets—in Moses—in Mahomet—in Christ—
but they believe Tom Paine I With no Government
but contusion, and no Creed but scepticism. 1 believe,
in my soul, they would abjure the one, if it because le-
gitimate, and rebel against the other, if it was once
-established. Holding, my Lord, such opinions as these
I should consider myself culpable, if, at such a crisis,
I did not declare them. A loirdr of auy country, I yet
• draw a line isetween patriotism and rebellion. A warns
friend to liberty of conscience. I will not cottiound
tuletation with infidelity. With all its ambiguity, I
shall die its the doctrines of the Christian taint ; anal
with all its errors, 1 am contented to live under
the glorious safeguards of the British Constitution."
During the course of this speech, Mr. Phillips was
frequently interrupted by the loud and enthusiastic ap-
platise of the Meeting.
His Lordship came forward, and took the occasion
of expressing its high terms the powerful effect of Mr.
Phillips's eloquence—the Bible Society, and, indeed,
Christianity. were indebted to the exertions oi that
Gentleman.

Mr. Alderman BRIDGES, the Lord Mayor Elect,
staid, that after the blaze of eloquence which had de-
lightid the Meeting, he would not trespass for any
length of time upon their attention. He agreed with
his •Lordship, on the propriety of using every means to
check the progress of works of infidelity.
The Rev. Daum. Wicauss next addresseil the
Meeting at 'considerable length, and with vita'
effect. _ _

The Rev. Mr.STEINKOPET, a German Missionary,
stated, that in his own country there were 700 Bible
Societies; so great, indeed, was the dissentinati.4l of
*he word of God that three Roman Catholic Priests in
germany were known to have distributed three hundred
ousand Bibles.—( Hear, hear !)
The Rev. JOSEPH HUGHES and Mr. Alderman
IjIRCH spoke at considerable length.
The following Resolution was then put and carried
unanimously :
Resolvev—That the warmest thanks .of this Meeting
be given to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, (or his
willow attention to the business of the Meeting, and
fur his able and judicious conduct in the Chair, 4his
day. . . .

I he Lonst MASOII returned thanks.—He said it was
gratifying to him to receive so flattering a mark of ap-
probation, trawl 40 respectable a meeting.
.After hiseLordship concluded, the Meeting separated.

'Ram TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

This day the Count de Hyland. Chamberlain of his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands, had a private audience of the
Prince Regent, to deliver a letter, notifying to his Royal Iligh-
rims the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess Dowager of
Brunswick.
In consequence of the .Karl of March, late member for the
city oft:hid-tester, having become a Peer of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and to whom a writ of summons
bath been issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to
simmain him to Parliament, the Speaker has issued his warrant
to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing
ofn member to serve for the said city.
In consequence of the Hon. Thomas Brand, late member fat
tie county of Hera, having become a Peer of the United King.
door of Great Britain and Ireland, and to whom is writ of sum-
mons bath been issued under the Great Seal of di. United
Kingdom to summon him to Parliament, the Speaker has issued
his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for
the electing of a member to serve tot the said county of Herts.
In consequence of the death of the lion. Frederick Sylvester
North Douglas, late member for the borough of Banbury, the
Speaker has Issued hie warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to
ciake out a new writ for electing of a member to servo for the
Fetid borough,

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
W. Taylor, Durh.up Street. Strand, cotKe house keeper, from
NOT. 9 to Nov. 27. _ _

T. Carruthers, Lenge; wn. Cumberland, butter and bacon
factor. Solicitor, Mr. !taken. Cloak Lane.
W. Goddard, junior, Lowestoft, Suffolk, miller. Solt'. Messrs.
Swain, Stevens, 3laples, Pearce, and Hunt, Frederick's Place,
Old Jewry.
J. Elliott. Farnham. Surrey, common brewer. Soh. Messrs.
Dyne and Son, Lincoln's Inn Yields.
J. It. Brown and H. M. New, Poultry, .stationers. Sols.
l'ilessrs. Knight and Freeman, Basingball Street.
.1. I.onghurat, Egbain Ilythc. Surrey, builder. Sols. Means.
Wallinger and Browne, Crawtbnl Street, Portman Square.
T. Nicholson, Liverpool, timber merchant. Sol. 31r. Wheeler,
Caatk Street, Holborn.
H. Hunt and J. Sharp, Lombard Stows, brokers. Sol. Mr.
Le Blanc, New Bridge Street.
It. Terry, Holborn Bridge, haberdasher. Sol. Mr. Searle,
Fetter Lane. - .

R. Jetrerys. Street. potato dealer. Sol. Mr.
Templer, John Street. America Square.
G. Chartrer, Seymour Street, EuFton Square. con&•etioner.
cola. Nlc=rs. Taylor and Reeves, Great James Street. Redford
Row. .

.If. c'arker, lialliford, Middlescs, wine merchant. SoL Mr.
.liodgson, Castle Street, Ilolborn.
J. P. Itlarvey. Ipswich, linen draper. Sol.. Messrs. Cowmen
and Robir.son, Waibmok.
T• Marks, Rochford. Essex, wine merchant. Sol. Mr. West,
'red Lion Street, Wapping.
J. Ringer. Luca. Street, Commercial Road, baker, Sol. Mr.
Lewis, Crtitchtlirriars. _ _ _

W. Jennings, Aldersgste Sleet, butcher. Sols. 3lessre. Ro-
binson and Hine, Charts/limas! Square.
DIVIDENDS.

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TIIR NATIONAL REGISTER.

Davison, East India Chambers, Leadenhall Street, merchant-
-12, F. Pothonicr, Corporation now, Clerkenwell, distiller-13,
S. W hite, Turnham Groan, It. Wilson, Bow
Church-yard, merchant-23. J. P. Thompson, Great Newport
Street, engraver—t:3, J. Gibbs, Buxstead, Sussex, dealer in hops
—24, J. and R. Bradshaw. Lancaster, tallow chandlera-23, J.
Fouleeton, Upper Bedford Place, Blumnigury Square, merchant
—23. J. Loma., White Horse Inn, Fett,g Lane, tavern keeper-
-23, G. Howes, Itochoter, tavern keeper-93, It. Lrulkester,
Newington, Surrey, linen draper-23. IL Tipp; •r and L. Leadley,
Tower Street, brokers-23, G. Watkins and W. Cowper, Lin-
coln's Inn, money scriveners-23, W. Sherwood, Liverpool, soap
manufacturer-24, S. Norris, Sheffield, razor smith-23, 11.
Chaniberlayne and G. Rawlinson, Leicester, hosiers.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Nov. 23.
. . — .

A. Comber. Nlanchester, cotton spinner—T. Lowe, Dartford,
watchmaker—ll. Moule. Bath, baker—P. Holland, South Blyth,
Northumberland, whip builder—W. Enimott, Lawn nee Pount-
ney l.ane, oil merchant—W. Huddle, Drury Lane, carpenter and
builder—J. Cox, Liverpool, linen draper.

DREADFUL HURRICANE.

ABERDEEN, Ocr. 27:

On Saturday and Sunday last, we were visited
with one of the most tremendous gales which Lave
been experienced on this coast for many years. It
commenced on Saturday afternoon, and continued
during that night, and till late on Sunday night,
blowing from N. and N.N.W. in squalls of tmexam-
pled violence, accompanied with snow and sleet ;
and we regret to learn, has been productive of most
disastrous consequences to the shipping, but more
particularly along the coast. From the direction of
the storm, the shores of the Moray-tiith have chiefly
suffered ; the various creeks and harbours from
Buckie to Kinnaird's Head presenting one continued
scene of devastation ; among which, we are grieved
to mention, that the new harliours of Banff and
Macduff have sustained incalculable damage. The
works at Macduff, to which the noble and patriotic
proprietor had roatributedSo largely, are nearly de-
stroyed. At Retihyth, Cullen, Portknockie, Buckle,
and Rottensiough, great quantities of herrings and
other property buve been carried off, and many
fishing boats dashed to pieces. At the last mentioned
creek, the sloop Industry was put ashore, and has
become a wreck—crew and part of her materials
caved and at Portsoy the piers, which had stood
above 100 years, have been carried away, and about
10001. value of herrings lost. During the violence
of the. gale, public worship was entirely suspended,
the people being employed iu endeavouring to save
their property,.and secure their dwellings. A foreign
brig, loaded with flax and flu seed, is on shore in
Band: bay, and hei mate said to be drowned; and a
vessel, loaded with herrings, driven ashore at Port-
knockie, crew saved; but the cargo entirely lust.
At Peterhead, the sloop Aid, loading oil at the
South Quay, was driven from her moorings, and
totally wrecked on the west side of the bay; about
20 tons of oil have been saved, and 16 lost. We are
also sorry to learn, that the breakwater at the new
harbour received some considerable damage, but the
extent had not exactly been ascertained, owing to
the continued violence of the surf.

We subjoin the following from our correspondents
at Fruserburgh and Stonehaven: -
FRASERBIIIIGIi.

A shocking spectacle present itself this morning
on the north side of tinnaird's-bead lighthouse,
where during the night the brig Adonis, of Liver-
pool, had been driven on the rocks, and dashed to
pieces, and all on board perished ; the wreck of both
vessel and cargo strewed along the shore, exhibiting
an awful catastrophe, the cargo Consisting of hemp
and tallow. Several dead bodies were repeatedly
seen this forenoon, dashing against the face of the
rocks by the violence of the waves, one of whom had
thwappearunce of having been a passenger, as he
had on a long black cloak. Several articles of chil-
dren's clothes have been also washed ou shore. On
a small pert of the stern was " Adonis, Liverpool;"
and on a signboard, " Adonis, George Atkinson,
for Oporto."
S'fONEHAVES.

From the violence of the easterly-storm between
Saturday and Sunday, a run of the heaviest sea that
has been seen here for a long time back, rolled into
oar harbour, which is quite open to the storms from
that quarter, and is ut best but poor shelter for ves-
sels during the winter season. About one o'clock
on Sunday, a small sloop, belonging to Wm. Smart,
of this place, broke from her moorings, and was dri-
ven with such force upon the beach beyond the
harbour, that, in the course of a few minutes, she
was literally dashed to pieces—scarcely a plank or
deal in the whole hull but was broken into different
parts. She had on board 163 barrels of cured her-
rings, all of which. except S casks, are totally lost.
None of the crew were on board at the time she
broke loose, or they must undoubtedly have perished.
Mr. Alexander's sloop also broke from pert of her
moorings, but Mrtunittely her bead-rope stood firm
until she got re-fastened, or she must have shared
the same fate as the other; but unluckily the head-
ropes of Smart's vessel gave way first, when she
instantly swung round before both wind and water.
The greatest part of her standing rigging and sails
are saved.

The lute storm has been severely felt elm; the

North Devon coast. On Thursday a fishing•boat
belonging to Clove!ly, with seven men, was lost in
sight of that romantic village, one only being saved.
This melancholy accident is touch embittered by
the reflection, that the six unfortunate individuals
have all left behind them wives and families to the
extent altogether of 35 children! One of the men
was called Brent, and formerly attended Dock mar.
ket. Several other lie, ring boats were dispersed i:t
different directions, wine being driven on the oppu.
site coast. An American ship possed up channel on
Thursday, laden with cotton; she, had on board five
men, taken off the wreck of a brig laden with timber
in the Chops of the Channel. There men report
their vessel have been laid on her beam ends in a
gale of wind, but on her masts being cut away she
righted, when two of the crew fell overboard and
were drowned. The survivors remained on the
wreck, living on raw salt pork 14 dsys, when the
American vessel happily fill in with them.

The Funds have remained in a state of depression
during the psi week, although the panic that ortifiu.
ally produced it does not appear to have spread into the
country, so as to have produced front thence, as had
ne n expectvd, any retnarkabe influx of orders for this
sale amuck. Toe prices are now as low a• litt-v were
at that memorable period, the eve of the negneiation lug
the 133 t loan, whets a sudden rise of 3 or 4 petaccina
produced euuaeyta•uces so disastrius to the itiftetalatora
for a fall. That similar results will 116W.CIISlie, is week!.

however, be hazardous to predict. The arguments on
which the advocwes for a further tall rely, are, the
altered state of the country, her distre sed commerce and
internal troubles; to which are added, an increasing
rail.. of extreme, combining, with the diminution of the
revenue, to induce a limber claim by the Goverment
on resources already exhausted, or taxed to the u st.
To these the other party oppose the assertion, founded
on exper.ence, that the very extent and activity of our
commerce -.expose us to these seasons of distress.; that a
re-action is tenth', and will bring with it prosperity to
.our cnnnterce, and imorovenictit to our finances, in
the same proportion that both have suflired ; that the
popular tumults, confined to a few districts, will shortly
be suppressed by the arm of power, and that their future
recurrence will be prevented by some wise and powerful
legislative enactments, that gloomy
.piessages are but ties
characteristic of the country, 'end that all classes -of pes-
so•.s engatcd iu the blvectilo ions of commerce, or of the
motley market, and who have despoi.ded of the Cowls
try, will eagerly turn their views, nu the least chanse a&
circumstances, in an opposite direction. At the'Siock.
exchange money has been extremely abundant, and
money stock so scarce as to produce little -difference iu
value between that and the purchases made for the
account.. The rate of continuation, in capital so em-
ployed, has not produced more thall4 or 3 per cent.—
The public, it is believed, have nut generally been sellers
of stock ; those who possess It hesitate at disposing. of it
at the present prices; though it does not appear, on .the
other hand, that those who had prev'ously sold are
inclined to reinstate themselves.; the majority, partaking
of the existing panic, hold .in the expectation of a
further depression. Standard gold is now at 78s. Gd•
the ounce, and would be still lustier, but the demand
for it is extremely limited.—

We are sorry to state, that the Rhine packet,
from Hamhurgh, which arrived at Leith on Thurs-
day, brought accounts that the Albion packet, from
Leith to Hamburgh, had run ashore on the coast of
Holism!. We learn that Captain Hosie, of the
Rhine, en his passage down the Elbe, spoke a
Blankuncse boat, who related the unfortunate
circumstance. NVith the exception of the sugar,
the greater part of the cargo is saved, and there are
also hopes the vessel may be got off. .
Thursday an expPriment took place at the Rot•ul
Arsenal Woolwich, of a new method of pla,ing
sights on the guns and carronales used on board
ships of war, thereby affording a grafter facility in
pointing those weapons. The invto.iion is that of
Gen. Sir William Congreve, and, it is said, is very
superior to any thing that has hitherto been pro-
duced. Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Sir E. Blackwood.
the Hon. Capt. Spencer, and several other distill-
guished Military and Naval Officers, were present.

Wednesday a brace of partridges lodged in the
burying-ground belonging to Mount Street work-
house. near Park-lane, which was observed by a
Gentleman whose windows overlooked the sane,
and shot one, but the other escaped.

SACRILEGE.—On Monday night last, the west porch
of Cambertvell-church was completely stripped of all
the lead, consisting .of several hundred weight.

The feelings . I the inhabitants of Bristol Inert,
within thew few days, been strongly owned by the dis.
cu‘ery of some individuals hating rcsot led to a iiractice
very generally adopted an London, to obtain ss hat are
called " subjects." for anatomists, and fur st loch pur-
pose, there is a regular class .if turn, " Ite,utrec-
thin tarn." On the night of Frida, early
Oa Saturday morning, the chit:ch-end of the parish of
St. Augustine was entered by some persons onknown,
who carried away the corps Al a female, nhich had
been interred on the preceding morkthig. 'al, vestry or
the parish have offered a 'maul of fitly guineas fur the
discovery and couvictiou of 4... e eilentiors.

IJRS• HANN:III .11011 E.

Among the meritorio' a; individuals who ire fic-
tively employed in stemming the tide of blas-
phemy and impiety, is the celebrated Hannah
More. We understand the following prolne.ion,
whit-0i is widely circulated among the lower chases
of society, is from the pen of dui, most exemplary
Lady:—

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND DEATH
OF MR. THOMAS PAINE.

" The life of this unhappy man Ands a striking cat-
ample of the effect of such iitinciples as he professed
upon the moral coothret. Ile began his career in life
with defrauding a public office in London, in which tie
had been employed, end 1,0111 which he was aline.
epiently obliged to fit. It is no leis a fact, that his next
employer was MACS' the necessity of di ssss lasing him
from his house, fin loose and immoral conduct anti
his wife. Atler his escape front France, where lie
played a disgraceful and wicked part, he took tip his re-
sidence in Anarrior, where be is thin described by Mis.
Dean, with whom he lodged : • Ile new r failed to
feet drunk daily, aid men in his sober monteuts coo
statitly disturbed the peace. and deinnwed the comfort
of the family by his brutal violence and detestable fil-
thiness: On 'leaving her, he next engaged in a font,
hiring an old black woman to attend him, who lived
with hint, however, but three weeks. Like her master
she was every day drunk, and often would they lie pros-
trate union the saute flour, sweating and thrtatessing to
fight, 'though incapable, from eatrenie intoxication, of
approaching each other. Ills next sereant, a poor old
woman, was obliged to prosecute hunt fur the atattiout of
her wages.
" During the whole of the year preceiling his death,
he never faileit to get drunk twice a day. It appears
likewise by a reproachful letter which was sent to him
from a brother jacithiti and who had loaded hint
with favoura, which. he rlxiid witm the v dest
tittle, and who had lent him money, which he would
er repay at di, that he had seduced a French woman
away from her husband, and afterward'. refused to an-
suer the debt he had contracted for her hoard and
ldging, and exulted at having hero the rout of the man
vino vainly sued hiiii for it. The letter then proceeds
to describe the nauseous and disgusting si•oation from
which this friend had eelieyed in in, iti doing which,
scents ri'' such detestable filthiness are disclosed, as de-
cency forbids our exhibiting to public view. flow far
Paine maintaiited his infidel prowiples to the close of
his life, and the effect they produced upon hint at the
near approach of death,. we shall gather fmiii die fol-
lowing accontitgiven by Dr. Manley, who attended hint
in his last illness :

" During the Litter part of his life he would not allow
his cousin to be closed at any time, and when it tin-
ai isidably happened that he was left alone by slay or
by night, he world scream anti halloo till some person
sane to him. There was something remarkable in his
',mallet Munn this period (which comprises the fortnight
iiiinicd:aiely before his death), when we reflect that
Thomas Paine was aniline of stiacral books denying
oar Lord JC3414 Christ, awl deriding, every pare of re.
sealed religion. He would call out during his pa-
rimisnis of distress, without intennission, • 0 Lord help
toe! Grid help ! Jesus Chou help nu•!' &c. re-
peating the same expressions without die least variation,
tool in a toile of voice that would alarm the house.
Two or three days before his death, when he was coil.
'tautly reels' the woolir alnive-meniiimed, Dr.
NLaidey said to him. • What must we think of tour
present conduct ? \"hy do you call upon 'lista
Christ to help yogi? Da you believe that lie can help
you ? you believe in the divinity of Jews Christ ?
bite me an answer' as from the lip of a dying man r
Paine made no teplf lint to a Lady who constantly
visited And relieved tom on his death-bell, after asking
tier if she had reademe of his works, and living answered
that site thought it the most wicked book she had ever
seen, aual had therefore Minn. it, he replied, 'That lie
%stoked all wlin had read it had beeilvqually wise ;' ad-
ding, • if ever the D.vil had an agent upon eat th, L am
that man I'

Oil the nth of June. 1809, died this ntiscralde repro.
haw. ais-ed 72 year., who, it the close of the 18th cell-
endeavoured to persuade the common people of
:..ttglattat to think, that all T..% wrong in that Govern-
ment, and that %% kick their forefathers had
trAi,stnitted ill them. For the sake of England and hu-
t,' why, it is to lx wished that his impostures And his
Itlcato y may mt instq t.ter.