The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

MANSION HOUSE.

Totory Burgun, an inhabitant of the parish. of
St. Benet's Sherehog, 'was summoned for h:tving re-
fused to pay 51. 25., the amount of Church-rate. .Mr.
Burgon, who is a Baptist, had objected to pay the
Church-rate of last year, but at last yielded. The case
was heard before his Lordship and Alderman Piric.
_ _

The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant whether he
had brought his summons with him

Mr. IfUrgon—No, my Lord, I have placed the sum-
mons, as a testimonial of the piety of the 19th century,
upon the blank leaf between the Old and New Testa-
ment.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—We can go on without it. Let
us hear the evidence.

Mr. Lyons, vestry clerk of the parish, stated that
the Church-rate due from Mr. Burgon, amounted to
51. 25., and that it had been duly applied for, but was
refused by the defendant upon principle.
Mr. Burton said that he objected to the authority
upon which° the claim was made. He denied that in
a case of the kind the law of the land could contravene
the law of Scripture, in whose pages there appeared
no authority to demand payment of any rate of the
kind Fortunately he was a believer, and he objected to
pay, the rate upon principle.
The Loan MAYOR—If" you are a believer you can
have no rational objection to pay what is a legal
demand.

Mr. Burgon—lf more were to do,as I do, there would
be more Christianity in the world, for I consider that
it is beyond all doubt that by the Established Church
of England and the Church of Rome, the cause of in
fidelity is chiefly promoted.
The LORD MAYois—l think, Mr. Bur; on, you had
better not pursue this courw.
Mr. Burgon—My Lord, I address you as part and
parcel of the head of the Church of England. You
hold your office by the authority of the Queen, and it is
better to discuss the matter here. The law upon which
I am called upon to pay this rate is founded in error.
Baptismal regeneration has no fotmdation in the
Bible. A person who does not believe in Christianity
is not a Christian, and an infant who does not under-
stand, cannot be said to believe in, Christianity.
Alderman PZRIE said that he perfectly well knew the
defendant's respectability, and that he did not refuse to
pay the rate on account of the expense. Mr. Burgon
must know, however, that the Magistrates can do no
less than order the rate to be paid.
The LORD MAYOR---I hope he will pay.the rate to
prevent the disagreeable alternative of the seizure of his
goods.
Mr. Burgon thought if the matter were made pubic
good would result. If he did not consider that it was his
duty to refuse to parhe would never have thought of
refusing. The people were generally acting under a
delusion ; they thought that because they went to
church the/ were religious. No delusion could be more
gross.

Alderman PIRIE said that it was not very charitable
in Mr. Burgon to impugn the sincerity of those who
were members of the Established Church. He (Mr.
Burgon) was a Baptist, and it was rather unfair to say
that than who were of a different way of thinking were
labouring under a delusion.

Mr. Burgon said that he believed there were many
sincere and excellent persons who believed in the tenets
of the Established Church, but he begged leave to say,
that he ought not to be called upon to pay for the in-
struction of others in those things which he did not
himself believe.

Alderman PIRIE—We arc obliged, by the law of the
land, to call upon you to pay the rate.
Mr. Burgon—The Church is an endowed Church,
and there are many in the parish who pay neither
Church-rate nor Poor-rate. There is money enough
to pay for the repairs of the Church, and the Minis-
ters' surplices and the elements, and we who have nc-
thing to do with the Church ought not to be asked for a
farthing. I object for more reasons than one, but I
know that the ecclesiastical law is watching for objec-
tors to pounce upon them for penalties, and prefer
the expense of a few pounds to the expense of hundreds.
Mr. Lyon said that Mr. Burgon in speaking of the
endowed Church, meant the Church of St. Stephen
Walbrook, to which large sums of money had been left
for its support, but those bequests had nothing to do
with the Church of St. Benet Sherehog.
Mr. Burgon—The parishes are united.
Mr. Lyon repeated that the parishes were quite
distinct, as to the payment of rates.
The LORD MAYOR—AII we can do Mr. Burgon,
to issue an order for the payment of the rate.
Mr. Burgon—l am very sorry to see you, my Lord,
in such a situation. You will be obliged to seize my
goods.
The LORD MAYOR—I hope not. You will surely
pay this rate as you paid the last year's.
Mr. Burgon—No, my Lord, I certainly shall not pay
it. Ido a good deal of business in flints, end it may be
Nell to seize them, as they may be' made to assist in en-
forcing the payment of Church-rates upon others.
Alderman Pima—l am sure Mr. Burgon that you
will pay the rate. Whatever our scruples of con-
.icienec may be, it is the law of the land, and we arc all
compellable.

Mr. Burgon—No, I certainly shall not pay the rate
under any circumstances.

GUILDHALL.

CAUTION TO NEWSPAPER PROPMETORS.-Mr. W.
S. Palcman was brought before Alderman Sir William
Heygate this morning, charged with forcibly taking
away four dozen of ointment from the premises of M.
Francois Julia, situated in Earl-street, Blackfriars.
On the case being stated, the proprietor of the
Greenwich Gazette stepped forvv_ard, and said that
he was the employer of the defendant, who had
acted by his direction, and he wished to state the facts
of the case, in order to expose a system by which the
newspaper proprietors throughout the kingdom were
victimized by the proprietors of quack medicines. A
person named Albinolo had advertized a quack ointment'
in defendant's paper, and had become indebted to him in
the amount of 121., when he was applied to for payment.
Albinolo said he bad no money, but that he might take
the amount out in ointment, and therefore he sent the
defendant, by way of experiment, to procure'some of this
ointment, which he intended to use for the purpose of
greasing his printing machines. It appeared now that
Albinolo was in prison, and M. Julia stated that he
had purchased the concern of Albinolo, and given up-
wards of 2,0001. for it.

Sir W. HEYGATE said he should certainly dismiss
the case, and leave the parties to their remedy by action.
M. Julia applied to. have the ointment given up to
him.

Sir HEYGATE would make no order on the
subject.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a servant, Anne Brawn., was placed at the
bar, charged with robbing Mr. Ilo!den, her master,
residing at 9, Bath-terruce, Camberwell New-road, of
a quantity of valuable jewellery and wearing apparel,
under the following circumstances :

William Luff, sTiopman to Mr. Burgess, pawnbroker,
124, Long-acre, stated that between 10 and 11 o'clock
the prisoner came into his master's shop, and offered a
gold chain, two brooches, and two gold rings to pledge,
and while he was examining the articles a constable
entered to give information that a robbery had been
committed. On comparing the jewellery produced with
the list which the officer handed to him he found that
it corresponded with it in every particular, and on
asking the prisoner whose property the articles were,
she said that one brooch, a ring, and the chain, belonged
to her husband, but that the others were her own.
Witness then handed her and the articles over to the
policeman.
Sergeant Pocock, 13 IT, searched the prisoner's In-dg.
ings at No. 7, Brewer's-court, Bedfordbury, which she
had taken only yesterday, where he found four gowns, a
silk shawl, ant other articles of apparel, which the pri-
soner subsequently acknowledged were belonging to her
mistress, and which, together with the other articles
produced, she had taken the opportunity to plunder the
house of during the time the family was at Church.
She also expressed a wish that witness would communi-
cate the circumstance t i her mistress before he should
take her to be examined before the Magistrate.
The prisoner wept bitterly during the examination,
and was taken from the bar in a state of insensibility.
Mr. JARDINE ordered her to be brought up again
this day, and in the mean time to give information
of her being in custody to the owners of the property.

QUEEN- S Q UA RE.
gave
Antonio Perocchi, a well-dressed Italian, who
brought
his address Royal Hotel, Leicester-square,
up in custody of Sergeant Otway, of
stolen a
and placed at the bar, charged with
hthivel marquis of
seal, value 200 guineas, the property.
of
ft
the Court of
Clanricarde, the British Ambassador
atrisoncr had re-
St. Petersburg, in whose service the P
cently been as courier.
al stolen was given to
the
A written description of the seal
as
described
in length, highly
being of
engraved
gold,
the Magistrate. It was
and thistle,
weighing five ounces, of
rnsirsock,
chased, with the rose,
shamrock was of topaz, and bore the
on the handle. The stamp
.y.
arms of the Clanricardatced ti
that, on the 13th of Novem-
ber Otway stated
duty at the headpolice
station,
ber last, he was oe
when
Viscount Canning came and
in Scotland-yard, ,_.
had received a letter from his brother-in-
stated that he
law, the Marquis of Clanricarde, informing him that a
man,
who had racentl y been employed by him as courier,
left him at Petcrsdorf, in
had Russia, and taken with
him a desk seal, value 200 guineas.
No evidence of couch importance was given on the
charge, and the prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next.

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On the 21st inst., from a second attack of epileyssN.
lotto, the affectionate wife of Mr. Key, surgeon, 13!1.1 :he East
On the 25th of August last, at Housingabad, 1"
the late Alexander Mundell, Esq., of Great George
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Westminster, aged 20.
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