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London, England, 1807-05-09 00:00:00

my Lord, he took a far.clifierent line of-con du....ct--
he retired; as he thought it his duty, from the
Cabinet, maintaining to his Royal Master a de-
: meaner of the. roost-dntieutand affeEtiohate respe& ;
and having retired still supported his Government.
in .Parliainetit he:maintnined a cons(fientious and
Constitutional reserve on his. Sovereign's conduct ;
knowing, that the measure, in which lie had been en-
gaged could never be carried into beneficial etfeet,
unless it was cordially supported by the King, and
- acquiesced in by the Nation ; and seeing tie new
prospect of such a coujonaere, he could not" bring
- himself•to keep the Country in perpetual disquiet and,
irritation on so dangerous a subjeaa but, according,
to the suggestion of his manly, nntid,, be gave an as-
surance to his SoVereiL,n, and an.. intimation to the
Catholics, that he would never revive the question..
Your Lordship, with the, utmost haughtiness of
tone, assumes that the policy of your, measure is so.
'unquestionable as utterly to preclude discnssion : no
common-subjea is to vetitute-a doubt on the princi-
ple, and even a Statesman is merely allowed to ques-
tion its expediepcy. To callyour.measures hostile
to the Eitablishment, and dangerous to the Oonstitu-
tion,-is, in your. ,Lordship's,temperate language, to 'Li-
. berboth the ThTone and the Parliament, to calumniate
the. existing laws, and to insult both- the living and
the dead, •
One would think, Inv Lord, upon reading this
denunciation, that you had lost your understanding
with yoUr office, and doubled your pride. and -aro-
gance.
I beg leave, 'My Lord, to protest against that-des,
potiim which usurps a claim to infallibility, that will
suffer no onetbut a' Statesman, 'forsooth', to discuss;
the' repeal of the Test Laws, and lays every man
W•lto dares oppose innovation under ,a.ban of inter
diet. I twill be bold, .my Lord, to assert,- that the
Vatican, in Lhe-heightof its power, never fulminated
a more insolent-anathema.
What, my Lord .if I. dare represent .your Lord-'
ship's measure according to.the'diaates of-my judg-
,
Mem and conscience, am Ito be held up to the na-.
tic:in as it libaler of My Sovereign, a libeller of the
Parliame;ii, a libeller of the laws,. and a calumniator
of the :liVing and-the-dead? This is really out-herod-
ing Herod My LordiPeter, in the Tale of a Tub,
is quite tame in comparison : But I suppose this is
'the style?of:yonr Cabinet. minutes ; this is the way
in which you treat your Sovereign : •How then can
GASKlN,expett a milder language ? He, howt
ever, gond man, and our Society; will .console our
is se:Nes, that ‘,o are not .worse used by you than your
Royal Master : You dragged him before the Tribn-
;nal of the'Natiou, and yoU have dragged us lac):
you tried ,to pass a vote of censure on. your-King,
and you cover us with ,the foulest "reproaches. .We
must be content to suffer with our; SoVereign in one
temnion cause, and to kiss the rod with patience,
When laid on by your tender and Ibrbearing, hand.
Is it, my Lord, by such conduit as this that you
hope to-retrieve your lost' popularity ? Is it by:such
language as your letter contains; that yoti hope to
make=au impression on the Electors of Great Bri-
tain Be assured, my -Lord, -if the people of Eng-
land detest any charabter, it is that of supercilious
and despotic
,hauglniness,. Which admits neither of
contradiction nor dissent,.and which endeavours not
to conciliate or persuade, but to three its measures by
Ministerial menace and Aristocratic•corribination:
J might admit, my. Lord, that it the Soci-ety to
which, we belong had published. a cotntnent yonr
• political measures; if we had published e censure on
your sending t 360..voverans upon a wild, mad, and
romantic expedition against Spanish America elf we
bad issued a censure upon your diSgraceful and des-.
picable propel of conquering the Ottoman Empire
with seven sail of the line, the former wasting our
force,, and the latter disgracing it, there might-have
been some ground. for the severity of your re-
proaches ; but when a Lay Lord isshes a prohibition
against Clergymen being vigilant for the Church ;
when a discarded Statesman forbids the examina-
tion of the measure for which,he was dismisstd'; .arid
when he insists that those who are most.concerned
to maintain the. Test Laws, have no right to defend
them, or to publish their honest opinions, I must
expose tho arrogance of such an attempt, If made in
a serious hour ; or I must pity it, if diaated by dis-
appointment and rage.
A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING
CIIRISTIAN KNOWLtDGE.

A mere trifle of money in the offset of life.has
been frequently known today a foundation from as-
siduous
.industry for.aceunaulating, a large-fortune.
Equally true is it; that the risk of a. mere trifle of
money in an advenrure haft ;been • suddenly prodc-.
tire, without toil or trouble, of muchtwealth. This
will aanally happen'on "I;kiesday next, from thve-
ry lint-drawn number alone from the Lottery,
Wheel; and: when, also, numerous other. indivi-
duals will probably participate of some of the many
Floating Capitals which,are yet undrawn.

We are concerned to :state, that Sir T. T.. WIN-
' NINGTON, Bart. met with a serious accident on Tues-:
day last, by fdling from his horse, near Bromyard,
while aecomnanyirn, colonel FOLEY to canvass the
Cohnty of Heread,. whereby his leg was unfor-
tnnaiely broken. He is in a.fair'way of.doing well.
The astonishingly large Durham o.7c.was killed a
few days since at 9xtord ; each quarter weighed up-
wards of 3 i stone.

PJILSTON, •LANCASHIRE, MAY b.—Yesterday we
had a .4torni or bail, rain, and thunder and light-
uing, supposed •to be the most severe ever e4lse-
tienced in this part of . tie country. .At ifs coon
mencement it was compared to the setting iu of the
rainy season on the.. coast :of AfriezFr—the most
vid lightning—almost out(continued flash, accOM-
panied with. peals of thunder without inter-
mission; in a 'short titne,the rain :began and
poured.down in. torrents, succeeded y hail in such
quantities, and of such magnitude, as to break
windows and skylights innumerable: scarce a house
in the town, with an aspe& towards the south east,
bUt .have some broken. Some of the hail stones
which were measured were upwards of three inches
and a half in circumference !—The damage done to
the fruit trees must be very considerable. The storm
began about five o'clock, and. continued about 'an ,
hour.—Preston Journal.

;Ind published WILLIANI AR MIGEft SCRIPPS, of South Mot
'fgt th rape , t jicri. fur the .Edltur, &c. (post-pad), I

:911- street, C rosvenor-Stp are ;
crust be adthessed.

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