The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-10 00:00:00

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1616.

verted ! Blessed be Gal, we now have arrived at a p.-
riod when the experience of pan ages has improved the
Canners of the cross, and taught its vineries that univer-
sd conciliation and peace are to overeomb the sword !
Our blessed Lord has lett us the 'wage of his divine ex-
amok ; and thus, if we would be his disciples, and hope
to be acknowledged as such by hitn a. the last dread
day of account, it is indispensably mteessary, without any
reservation or palliative, that our o•,vn cooduct should be
conformable to that 'divine precept which he conunanded
to be our daily pursuit.—" 13e ye followersofme, us dear
children. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy: blersed are the peace makers, for they shall be
called the :hildren of God.—WVio is angry with his
brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judg-
ment :—first be reconciled to thy brother; then come
and offer thy gift. Love your enemies.—Judge not,
that ye he not judged:—,and, with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again."
The tenor of his life and doctrine, and the instruction
which lie gave to his apostles, have left us no room to
doubt of that liberal judgment which we are bound to
form of one another—that we should love as brethren,
and especially those that are of the household of faith ;
that we should esteem ourselves as one tinnily, united by
the santo filial love to the same divine parent, instructed
by t lie samehol v teacher—redeemed by the same Saviour—
and trarellingby the height of his truth to the same ever-
lasting bliss: it' we should be careless of this love, and
" 1411 out by the way," we shall not be fit to come into
his sacred presence ; if we should withhold our mutual
confidence to each other, we should be very unsocial com-
panions for our journey, and thr our eternal abode ; if we
should thus deny the master we profess to serve, he will
probably deny us before the throne of Grace, and reject
our final suit! Then shall we begin, when too late, to de-
spise the shadows of things on which we disputed and
quarrelled : and while despair takes hold upon us, we
shall call on the mountains to overwhelm us !

(t Cur.
The frailty of human judgment, and the imperfection
of huie.an morals, will always furnish sufficient warnings
to any L•onsiderate mind how little any of us can assume
a claim of condemning those who differ from
aions of Divine truths ; and it should be
remembered, that truth remains intrinsically the same,
notwithstanding the many steps we take to discover it,
or the mire numerous channels of interpretation by which
we are all inclined to take possession of it, anal to in-
sist on that possession as exclusively our own ! I will
soppuse, for a moment, that none of us, in any awe or
country, ever took any religious dogma for granted, hut
well examined it before we adopted it as part of our
Creed ; and that every one deemed it his best in-
terest anal duty to use this pr,:zious mimination,
because his eternal felicity depended upon it ; and
I will not dare suggest that any part of our Christie,
Brethren could be either so blind or so much misled, as
to suppose that they could be• satisfied to be called Chris-
tians withoht it. Then they will find how flr their eon-
s iction differs from that of others, equally well disposed
34 themselves, equally inclined to promote their prospe- We have received the Barbadoes Mercury of the
city, and equally to be relied upon for virtue, veracity, 30th of April, and various letters, which contain accounts
and a conscientious discharge of every moral obligation. of a lamentable insurrection which has agitated that
If, as soon as they discover any differenee in opinion on island. The plot broke out on Easter Sunday ; hot the-
sacred subjects, that should be ground of strife and envy, most prompt measures were taken for its suppression. So
the result must be the entire ruin of that pence by which early us two o'clock on the thllowing morning the island
society, civil and religious, is held and
on, toga- was placed under martial law. The militia and troops
from the garrison instantly marched against the slaves,
they : for, as members of the same union, one member
cannot say to the other, " I have no need of thee." The who, in larg.e bodies, were plundering and burning the
plantations in the interior. The latter were soon (lis-
some unjust condemnation which is exercised by the one,
is the fair right of the other; and us it is impossible in persed, many killed on the spot, and still greater numbers
the commonest Alirs of life that almost any two should tried and executed, in virtue of orders issued by the Pre-
think exactly alike on the same plan or mzesure, or see
to Gen. Sir J. Leith at Guadeloupe, who instantly em-
the same prospect in directly the same point of view : so
barked in a French schooner of war, and reached Kir-
in the cause of religion the shades and ramifications of
badoes on the Oath of April, and on the Vith issued an
Bar-
each man's interpretation of the same truth afford no
cause for censure ; but, on the contrary, they rather tend address of exhortation to the disaffected, and of encou-
isesement to the faithful part of the slave population.—
to elicit improvement, and to ratify the leading princi-
T
plo of our Divine Religion. he result of all these measures was, that on the 30th
of April Sir James was enabled to issue another Prods-
It is one of the manifestations of the goodness of God,
motion declaring the insurrection at an end. No less
that, in the essentials of religion, nil are agreed by one
than O 0 estates in one parish had sustained an almost
impression,—the God and father of all is adored by all
entire destruction of houses and cane-fields: and the
nations, from the pnlare and the university, to the cottage
number of negroes killed and executed has beer calcu-
and the shed. Life is received as Ids gitt, and death is
lated at little short of 1000. A very large proportion
the common lot : the modes of adoration and worship, and
of the slaves, however, rallied round their masters, and
the study of the revealed word, have afforded to many
contributed their efforts to reduce their misguided coun-
the blessings of this confirmation, which arc not yet ex•
to men.
tended to every part of this sublunary sphere :—but many
that are yet ignorant of the truths of the Gospel, are, by We have received Jamaica Papers to the 11th of April.
nature, prepared t 4 its instruction in the light of eternal The Slave Trade Registry Bill lately before Parliament
life ; they have, as the ancients had before them, a she- attracts great attention in the Wog Indies. The Houses
dew of good things to come, which the tLispel brought to of Assembly in the different islands have appointed Com-
light,ant secured. The present diffusion of the Scrip- minces to report on the tendency of the Bill. The Re-
tures through every nation the !dope will have the ef- ports arc worded in the strongest manner. That of Do-
feet of civilizing the eievage, and enlightening the igno- minim protests against the right the British Parliament
rant ; and the basis on which those Scriptures are written, assume of legislating internally for the colonies.—They
is the general love of ene another. by which all men may contend, no such right ever existed over any colony
know that we are the disciples of the s.,nie divine master ; which enjoys an independent Legislature ; that if it ever
did exist, it was solemnly renounced by his Majesty, with
and although it will necessarily be that there be some of
Cephas, mind some of Paul, yet, it' every one is well per- the consent of Parliament, in the year 1778. The Re-
sunded in his own mind of the troth which he has cm- ports attribute the agitation of the measure to the wild
braced, it is cl that tins very truth will lead him to and enthusiastic sectaries, who are totally unacquainted
embrace null as brethren of the great household of faith, with the subject ,on which they would wish to enact
and to che-i4h the obligations, by which he will become laws ; and that the assumptions of the Africans Institu-
instrumental in the bruving on of everlasting righteous- Lion arc vague, coutoulictory, and untrue.
ness. If different bodies of Christians were to ind,:hze a Moscow, the sacred city, has risen with so much splen-
contentioo against each other, and persecution MRS to des- dour from its ruins, that on Palm Sunday, it it computed,
grace the church of Christ, to what immeasurable length there were more than 800 equiptu.tes on the promenade.
would the party spirit of the world extend, and to what phat a train of important reflections are associated, with
dire destruction would the peace of the gospel be con- the conflagration of 4 that 2 city!
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IMPERIAL P.IRLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSD4r, JUNE O.

The Ertel of DONOLIMMURE gave notice, that he wolfs! os
Tuesday present the Catholic petitions.
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The I:a.rl of Liven POOL moved the second reading of dig
Civil List Bill. His Lordship stated the principal le tines o►
the measure, and contended, that an the principle of :I I.,ed
revenue for the Crown had been adopted since the revointion,
it ens desirable that the articles of thictitatia4 espe;aliti ee
►hould he separated from it; and (hare conl•I he no objection
to bring all the articles of fluctuating expi nilitore annually
before Parliament. To obviate certain prejudices respecting
the supposed enormous expenres of the royal peisonal este.-
blishinent, his Lordship statett., that the total( xpenee was little
snore now than it was in 1700. In this arrangt meat no exprnee
was proposed which was not for the suppoi : of the proper dig-
nity of the Crown, and for the advantage of the pantie..

The Marquis of LANsnowN a agreed in the propriety of
fixing the revenue of the Civil Lim, and giving the fluidic the
benefit of the surplus hereditary revenue of the Crown; but
when called on to make an additional sacrifice of 2.54.0001. it
became the duty of Parliament to look into the variable reve-
nue.s of the Crown, such as the droits of Admiralty, which he .
thought Should be surrendered to Parliament, in lieu of the
present fixed revenue proposed to be granted to the Crown.
Lord HOLLAND could not agree to the. Bill, because by it
tiler. was still left in the power of the Crown n fluctuating
revenue of the most dangerous tendency to this country. His
meant the droits of Admiralty, whirl* were a bans. for the
Crown to go to war with other countries without the, previous
issuing of any declaration of war. He would undertake to
prove, that the increase of the Civil List revenue to the Crown
had been three times what was contemplated by Parliament at
the beginning of this reign.
The Earl of LIVERNIOL said, it was a fact which perhaps
would excite surprise, that the expences for defraying tine civil
government of the United States was nearly equal to our own
Civil List expenditure. Of course, in this estimate was in.
chided the charge of the provincial as well as the general go-
vernment.. The sum was stated at about 100,0001. or 800,0001.
annually.—The Bill was then read a second time.—Adjourned.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7.
Sir William Abtly's Divorce Bill went through a Committee,
with an allowance to Lally Abily of 4001. a year for life.
The Earl of Lat.: Drana re moved that the clause prohibiting
the intermarriage of the parties should he omitted.
Lord Kenyon opposed the motion, on the ground that it
would encourage adultery and inimorality.
The Skimp of Cu EsTUR opposed the omission of the clause
on the same ground as Lord Kenyon.
The Earl of CARNARVON supported the motion. Such a de-
cree as making the adulterer marry the adult ress, would have,
in the licentious Court of Louis XV. put an end to all gallantry;
whereas a decree to prevent the offending parties from inter-
marrying, would, in that Court, have been treated with derision.
The Lord CHANCILLOkt supported the introduction of this
clause, because he believed that the great temptation was, the
hoe of the woman that she should be married to the adulterer.
Lord KEVYOt4 said, that on the third reading he should move
the introduction of the clause for prohibiting the unending par
ties from int.rmarrying.
The Bill was then reported, and ordered to be taken into
eousidelation on Monday.—Adjourned.