The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-09 00:00:00

COURT OF KING's BENCH, MAY 8.

GARRO`N moved for a criminal information
against Hedor Campbell, for what he described as
being a very gross misbehaviour to the Learned
Body of the College of Physicians. By their chdr-
tin- no person can practice medicine as a Physician
without being either a Licentiate, a Candtdate, or a
Member of the College. In case any one is prac-
ticing without authority, they cite him before them,
and having examined him, either agree to licence
him or admonish him not, to practice, any longer.
In this case Mr. C. was cited before the College,
and when in'the inner room, he exclaimed so loudly
As to beheard by persons in the outer room, address-
ing himself to the heads of the College, " I know
Sou to be a parcel of mercenary 'fellows." " You,"'
naming two of the most eminent physicians, " got
into the College by bribing Dr. Saunders -,--you are
all a paclc 'of qui tam scoundrels." Not content
with this abuse, after sleeping upon his anger, he
wrote, the next morning, a letter, addressed to every
Member of the College, and to Sir L. Pepys
amongst the rest, as follows :—" HaAor Campbell's
respects to Sir 1,. P. trusts he slept well after having
theiatisfitaion of treating a stranger ill. Should Sir
L. and, his colleagues choose to bring a our TAM
a&ion, he beg 4 they will begin as soon as posFible.
If you send your JANITOR, 'or mr-stitl (meaning the
officer who serves the summonses) to St. Peter's.
Hill (where Campbell resides), you must send him
with better manners, or else his ears will be cropped
or lengthened,. just as you shalt give, the preference."
The Beadle swore,, tnat_ wben he had served the first
summons, 'he 'IAA only behaved -Without
imperti-
nence, but was complimented by Campbell for hi's
civility. After thiS, Campbell 'being served with' a
written admonition from the College, not to praaice,
tore it, applied it to a very dirty purpose, and sent it,
in a most filthy'state, to the Register of the Colley,
Rule Nisi granted.

DONCASTER.—On Saturday evening the inhabi-
tants of Silkstone, near Penistone, were visited by
one of the most alarming phenomena ever remem-
bered. The clouds had portended rain, but none
had then fallen there, when suddenly a torrent of
water, appearing from four to six feet in diameter,
deluged the town, which is situated in a valley, and
several ' persons were unfortunately :drowned. In
one house a woman and her four children were
seated together, when the flOod rushed in, and ri,ing
rapidly,so it was with the greatest difficulty she
saved herself and three of the. children by running
up stairs ; the fourth-, a girl, seven years of age, as-
cended the sink-stone to save herself, but perished.
In an adjoining house a woman and two of her
grand children were also drowned. • Two horses in
a neighbouring mill lost their lives, and three
others, saved themselves by raising the floor, which
was coustrutied of thin slabs laid on joists, and.
suspending themselves by the fore-legs. A shoe_
maker's shop and all its contents were also de-
stroyed..
The greatest transition from cold to heat ever re-
membered had been observed in the last week in
April, and the above inundation was occasioned by.
a mass of clouds, during the thunder-storm that
evening, bursting in a field in the township of
Bradfield, taking their course down the Rivelin and
Loxley, thence into the Dun, which became sud-
denly swollen. Near Doncaster it is said to have
risen nine feet in the space of an hour and a half;
A Vessel belonging to Mr. Too-ree, of _this town,
. loaded with coals; was driven from het moorings
and much damaged. Hay, timber, sheep, pigs, &c.
were also violently precipitated dev‘m the current.
A great number of windows were broken at
Hickleton.during a severe bail-storm the same even-
-ing.- - .Pieces of ice, in au-along-form, exceedini,
two inches, were picked up.

COPY OF A-LETTER PROM THE RIGHT HOll. T LORI,

GRENVILLE.-TO THE SECRETARY OV Tip; SOCIETY
I'OR PROMOTINGCIIRISTIAS KNOWLSDGE.

" " Dpwnilig,ioreet, May 2,1807
" The Society- for promoting Christian Know-
ledge., of which I ani aiMerober, has t !roil-gill fit to
"Gen. ral Ele6l-ion, a Resolution,
declaran'in of its opinion respeaing a Political Mea-
sure recently submitted to Parliatoent.
That Measure, broUght Thrward• for purposes of
peace, &IMO, and public security, by men who yield-
to none of their fellow-subjects in- loyalty to their
Sovereign, and attachment to the civil and religious
Constitution of their Country, is there stigmatized
as irostile so the Established Chureh and Ecclesias-
tical Constitutioo of the Realm, and as .subversive
of those principles which placed His Majesty's
Family on the British Thlone.
" It is natural for those whose charaaers are, thus
" aspersed, to inquire by what -right any persons have
taken, upon themselves, 'in the name of such a,So-
defy, to give countenance and currency to an inju-
rious and groondless .calumny,. fabricated for the
watch-word of a Party, and calculated only to ex-
cite and toupold popular clamour ?
The Society- wasinstituted, as its annual publi-
cations declare, for the increase of the knowledge
and practice of our Holy Religion, by the support of
'charity schools, and by the distribution of bibles,
prayer-books, .and religious tracts.'. Those who
have directed the present proceeding can best explain.
in what manner Christian Knowledge, or Christian'
Praaice, will, be increased by promoting religious
animosities and civil discord; by stirring up the blind
prejudices and ungovernable passions of the. igno-
rant ; and by circulating ainongss our fellow-subjeas,
instead of the. word of truth and charity, the -libel-
lous and inflarrimalJory calumnies of eleCtiOneeriog
contests. and party violence.
"' As_a Member Of the Society,.sclicitous. for the
promotion of its genuine objects, I, desire to enter
Illy dissent to a Resolution purporting to express. its
unanimous 'opinion object to the propriety of its
taking part at all in the pcslitical divisions of the
Country :—I object to its labouring to extend and
prolong those divisions with respea to a measure
publicly withdraWn, :and of which there is conse-
quently no longer any question :,-4.13-11t, most of all,
object to the truth, and, may I not add) to the
decency, of a censure, Which, if it were founded
either in justice or in reason, would apply almost •to
every description"-of public men; and would even
implicate all those authorities which are the most
entitled to our respea.and reverence:
" It,to permit ..the Kin's SUbjetts of all persua-
sions to serve him m his.artuy 'be " an unconstitu-
tional innovation,"—with whom, and when did it
originate.?—lt was /first made the law in Ireland
fOurteen years ago, at the express recommendation
Of the Crown, delivered from the Throne by
,one of
His Majesty's present Ministers, then Lord Lieute-
. nant-Of that Kingdom.
"If the adoption of a similar-law inGreat-Britain
would be " an ail- of hostility
.to the Established
Cliurch,". to whom shall that hostility be ascribed
To those who now proposed, or to those who long
ago engaged for that concession ?—To the Framers of
Lord HowICK'S Bill,/ur to those Members and Sup-
porters of the present Government,, who,in the year
12.0, gave and authorised that promise to the Ca-
tholics of Ireland,?
If the employment of Catholic Sailors and Ca-
tholic Sbldiers in the general service of, the Empire;
if lhe permitting them to. hold and exercise, at his
111,2jcsty's discretion, all military commissions, the
tank and.statien of General not excepted.; if there-,.
lieving them from all Penalties and disabilities on ac-
count
,of their religious persuasions ; if these things
be matter of just alarm " to the Ecclesiastical Con-
stitution of thiScountry," When was the moment for
this alarm ? iii the year.lBo4, all this, and more than
this,, waqipue in an .A6l proposed by Mr. PITT, With
the concurrence of his Colleagues now in .Admini-
stration, passed by the British Parliament, and sanc-
tioned by his , Majesty's. Royal Assent. That Act
legalized a long list of military commissions, antece-
dently granted by his Najesty, with the advice of the
same ; and It enabled his Majesty prospe'c-
.ti‘ely to grant; at his discretion, all 'Military. com-
missions whatever to Catholics.--not. indeed to British
.orT Irish Catholics ; but to fereign Catholics—to men
who owe his Majesty no allegiance, and who are -not
even required to, disclaim,the tenets which all our
'tellow-subjeas of that persuasion haVe solemnly ab-
Jureil:' ,
.
" What ground of difFerende will then remain to
justify those outrageous calumnies'. against the. late
proposal I' is it that men were permitted, to aspire
to the rewards and honours ot• a' profession, to the
toils and dangers: of which the Legislature.of their
• country had long since -invited them ? Is it that the
same indulgences which had been promised and
granted to Catholics and -others were not with-
held by us horn :Protestant Dissenters ? Or is it,
lastly, • that judged our own countrymen and
fellow-subjeas entitled, under his.-Majesty's discre-
'tian, to the same confidenceand tavourwhich Parlia
ment'had so recently extended to Foreignertf.of all
nations and all, descriptions ?
" And let me further ask---if - those concessions
-all orally of.thetn,: are subversive of the principles
".wbichsplaced his Majesty's illustrious House upon
the Throne".-..-what is to be said of the fir mote ex-.
n nsiye indulgences proposed in 1804, by that great
iiii's4er, now no more, whose name I have already

inPntioned ;Were his principles also subversiveOf
the Ls.iablishearChurch,•and of the Civil Conslitu-
--tfon ot the.Colatitryil .And it too illuNt be involved
in this indiscriminating. and injurious censure, what
ecindenonation not those-men deserve who,
in the very moment of: pretended danger, have-ad.
vised his Majestrto „Call to his present Councils-the
Authurs, the• Partisans, and the Supporters ot Mr.
piltss plan including all.that has. been now
proposed, and ;oi-tending, very-far beyond our men-
-. sure.?: • • • ,

" On the expediency of these measures Statesmen
• 'ltlay deer. To .stigaiatise theta: as ;hostile to our
e.,t;iblishments, or dangerous to our Constitution, is
to libel both iiie-Throne and the Parliament—to' ca-

"!,Itunniatelbe: existing laivs—.-and tor- impute to :the
••:illost considerable Public Chara&ers of our age; both
rk-; living and the dead, principles and purposes dis-
- •ctairned by themselves, and contracliEted by'the whole