The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-03 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER.

of the 25th January from Washington, states'
that the United States Frigates, John Adams,
had been directed to be put in readiness to receive
on board dispatches for the Courts of Great Britain
and France, which were to be conveyed by diplo.
matic agents, to be immediately appointed for that
purpose. By an article, dated New York, Jan. 25,
it appears that Mr. Bnociator,s LIVINGSTON was
about to proceed in the. United States' brig Nauti-
lus, as Minister Extraordinary to the French Court.'
The following are extracts from the American
Papers received on Friday :

" New York, Jan. 28.
44 We have it from good authority, that our Government has
received dispatches from Mr. PINK N ET, our Minister at Lon-
don, dated the Nth and 2.lth of November. Mr. PINKNEY
conveys an assurance from Lord Wx nnIESLEY, that the first holi-
ness done after the appointment of a Regency, or after the reco-
very of the KING, would be relative to the rescinding the Orders
in Council.

" January 29.
" In corroboration of the article in yesterday's Gazette, is the
following, from the Ba.lintore Ferlera4 Gazette:—
" It is understood that the Secretary of State has received
dispatches from 'WILLIAM PINKNEY, dated the last of Novem-
ber, in which Mr. PINKNEY says the British Ministry have
agreed to rescind the Orders in Council; and Send Minister
here ; and waited only the appointment of a Regency, which
was expected to take place in a day or two at farthermost. This
was the credited report at the house this evening."

The Report of CIIAMPAGNY to BUONAPARTE,
dated the Bth Dec. last, in which he says, that ti as
long as England shall persist in her Orders in
Council, your MAJESTY will persist in your Decres,"
has produced a considerable effect in America.

CHANGE IN THE NORTH.
The latest advices from the North inform us
that in the month of February a meeting was to
take place'at Koningsburgh, between the Emperor
ALEXANDER and the King of humbled PRUSSIA,
It is said that one of the objects of this meeting
relates to the proposal of a marriage between the
King of PRUSSIA and a sister of ALEXANDER.
1 t is now generally understood that the deposed
King of SWEDEN, now a resident in this country,
is about to depart for Petersburgh; but we are told
that his views are' not cg personal."

On Friday night a Select Committee was ap-
pointed in the House of Commons, on the motion
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to inquire into
the cause of th:, decline Qf Commercial Credit.
lie WAS induced to propose hav;ng an inquiry
instituted into the grounds of its decline, from re-
presentations which were made to him from various
parts of the country, but abstained from any further
observations on the !subject, until the cirumstances
underwent investigation in the Coniinittee.
Mr. W. Port: is arrived in town from Ireland
He was in the Hotu;e of Commons on Friday
night ; but nothing was said illustrative of those
motives ii,hich led to the enforcement of the Con-
vention Act.

By an arrival from Cadiz, a Calalonio Gaza le,
.E.-thwordin ry has been received, containing an ac-
count of the defeat of tlx enemy on the 15th ult. in
the vicinity of Valls, to the army under the Marquis
Campo Vel de. The troops lie was engaged with
appear to haTe been the advance of the division
under Macdonald, and were most probably on their
march to cominc;ice the sky of Tarragona.

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THE NA'

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co pulpit.

No. XXXIV.
••••••••••
44 Willing as we are to bow to superior judgment and saga-
city, it is a persuasion entwined about our intellectual fibres,
that no certain cure f,pr this disorder (Separation from its Com-
munion) now reniairft but eulted. Piety—christian Union—and
fervid zeal, among the sineefe friends to the Establishment.
At any rate, insulting arrogance and provoking contempt are
never likely to conciliate or recover a largebody of people asso-
ciated in any cause. It will always be deemed persecution.
We are all fond of quoting the judicious Hooker : and is not he,
who says--' `fhere will come a time when three words uttered
with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed re-
ward, than three thousand volumes written with disdainful
sharpness of wit,' There are loads of this irritating trash now
afloat; and we have observed their unhappy operation ! It
creates no love—no veneration—no deference—no esteem.—
( Sec the Notes to the ational Jubilee, celebratiue of the Fiftieth
etinni:ersctry of the Reign of George the lc. ,S:c.)

REV. HENRY BUDD, B. A.
CHAPLAIN OF BRIDEWELL PRECINCT.

" Is it not the peculiar distinction of Christianity," demands
the orthodox and intelligent writer from whom the above quota-
tion it tOten, " that it is a Religion of Grace? or a religion in
which the GRACE or GOD is the very line of life—its vital prin-
ciple ! Is it not by the secret influence and efficacious operation
of this Grace, that we are regenerated ? Are we not taught to
look to the Grace of God, for the forgiveness of our innume-
rable offences ? Is it not certain, that we are justified by Grace
—and sanctified by Grace—and saved' by Grace ? I know not
with what eyes we can have read the Bible, if we have not dis-
covered that all this is written therein as with a sun-beam.—
Say I these things as a man ? or, sail's not The Scripture the
same also?" Let us bear these truths in mind,
Whenever the sermons of the rising preacher whose talents I
am about to appreciate shall come before the tribunal of thea4o-
- criticism, it will not be alleged against him that he had
omitted to enlarge upon the Grace of God,—that, concerning
4 4 the God we worship," he did not know " one of his discrimi-
native titles" to be" The God of all grace ;" nor will his ser-
mons, therefore, be classed with the " many volumes of modern
elaitaitic in sethich this distinguishing feature of our inspired
religion . •not even notified—instead of bein," affirtrs the
writer just quoted," what I .humbly conceive it ought to be, in
all sacred theses, the prominent feature:*
The Reverend KENRI( Bvnp, B. A. now..Chapl.-..in of Bride-
well-Precinct, .Where hopreachea every Sunday Nlorning, is
also one of the Committee of the Socjety for promoting Missions
to Africa and the Eiist. At a teriad such as the one in avhich
we live, when, amidst the shaking dilations, there is at least as
much laxity of religious. faith as of tsoli*al truth,—at this awful
crisis °Ceilings, when an English Bishop, contrary to the historic
proofs of‘tlie Calvinism of the Church o England predesced by
Toislady,ithat Man of God !—At this tirneivzhen'oneof the dig-
itali,et_tsf, the establishment is, under the notion of reputing the
doctrines of Calvin, really sapping the foundations of the Church
of Englica ; at suds a time as this, it is moat gratifying to ob-
serve,ln Mr, Budd, a pious and grounded attachment to the high
characteristics of Christianity, and to find in him an able and,
Conscientious assertor of The faith originally delivered to the.
saints !--Oh, for more of those, who, in their own times, fight
the good fight and keep the good faith ! Already do such know;
and fee/, their lasf best recompence:. ,
Admirably is the diniinity.of Mesit's ;attainments calculated for
the nutlet), of tneti'a Capacities. Those who would refuse to
listen to tospel axioms, inculcated extentporaniously, can yet
imbibe theta &Qin 'the lips of the present preacher, because
written aid'preacked in a manner more suited to their taste.—
Hit sermons are: firialiy studied, elearti argued, elegantly corn-
pciteds occasion:3ly eloquently, and intcrest:r4,!y d,Yliverzd. )ivr

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does this form his chief praise, if one may call it his praise.—
Philosophical yet entirely at the same time scriptural, philosophy
is with him the helpmate of scriptarality. Hence, however,
the copiousness of his illustrations, and the intellectual efficacy
of his conclusion*.
His deportment, serious atfd-earnest, announces him. lie is
unquestionably bent on the salvation of the souls committed to:
him. Mild, yet firm, still—
• Meek as the chosen children of the Just,
Who o'er the earth with Heaven's glad tidings ram
Mildly he bears his delegated trust ;
The messenger of God, the friend of man!'
Young in years, but old in truth, he has done good, avid does
good. He will atchieve more good. He is a workman wise
needs not be ashamed of his work. Unknown while he is to me,
personally considered, still I must wish his welfare. This wig&
I put up for the sake of the Church.

O N i SI St US.

MISCELLANIES.

A late French paper states the following melancholy atom-
rence :—The wife of M. Lafosse, resident at Villeneuve d'Agene
imprudently playing with a fowling-piece in her husband's cham-
ber, let it fall oat of her hand, when it went off, and inflicted a
mortal wound. The husband, alarmed by the report, first en-
tered the chamber, and beholding his wife, to whom he had
not been united more than ten months, and who was far oJ-
vanced in pregnancy, in the agonies of death, etalibed himself
with a knife, and expired.
We are happy to be informed that there is a very general in-
tention to devote the Pulpit on the Fast Day to the furtherance
of the Subscription for the Relief of Vie 13r.tisli Prisoners MAW
suffering in France.
Sr. DAN', 111 -Friday the people of Wales celebrated the
anniversary of their titular Saint in tie accustomed manner. St:-
vice was performed in St. James's church, to which a number of
gentlemen went in their carriages in procession, together with
the charity children, preceded by the Pritice'e ilume, which .
also ornamented the bats of the noble yen and gentlemen wi.e.
attended full dre.e:teil. A great number of persons assembled in .
the street to see the procession. In the evening* there was n
granti dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, where a hanesenro
cuLlectbon Ixas made or the charity. The annualdonation or:
the Prince Regent was received with acclamation. The even-
ing was dis.inguished by hilarity and good humour. The ponrer
disciples 01.5 t. David enjoyed themselves in conviviality at Lew-
beth, anti kept -ap the festive .lance until the appearance of Phu,.
bus suggested the propriety of their retirement to their reelec-
five habitations.
The following paragraph, in the justice of which ell Tro.l`t
agree, as well ay it the propriety of tire application of the heae-
tiful and affecting I. assage from Shakespeare withwhich it closes,
is talc en from The arrerd Uniemity Them/dr—
Grettly as we deplore the affliction with which his I\l7,jesty
has been so severely visited, it besungttectionahly bet7l prod'uc.
thee of,e tu9st important consequencee-the estahlishineet ot
that confidence between the King and the Heir Apparent, which
the obliquity of Court policy has, in several sileeessiose reigns,
been so industriously exerted to destroy. The corcluct of the _
Prince of Wades has defeated the _machination of his enemies,
and silenced for ever the foul tongue of calumny. Tie ten'peeel
rate forbearance with which the Prince of ' has entered 09 :7!
the important trust delegated by the nation, forty's a contrast sk_
forcible with the eager avidity to enter on his father's functions '
insinuated by factious malignity that the Prince 'Regent has at
ode irrevecably se7ureci the confidence of hie-P.oyal Father. and
of the people of the United Empire. And when he shall he
called on tierosign the porter with which he has been vested, he
may, with his illustrious predecessor, Harry, Prince of Wales,
coDscientiously address his Royal Father :
There is your Crown ;
And he that wears the Crown immortally,
Long guard it yours ! If I affect it more,
Than as your honour, and as your renown,
I.et me no more from this obedience rise.
If it did infect my blood with joy,
• Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride;
if any rebel or vain spirit of mine
Did, with the least affection of a welcomes
1, •
Give entertainment to the might of it,
Let god for ever keep it from my head i
And make me as the poorest vassal is,
s 'sat doth wita awe and terror 'weal to it 1
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