The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-01 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

. . . .
, Mtt; EDITOR—I dare say your Correspond-
ent of Tuesday is very wise ; and so they
are,4 dare say. But as, perhaps, I,(19 not know.
much more than the ".Methodist Parson" .alluded
to, what is meant in the passage about the
.thief,
hell, and Paradise;
.possibly, if you, ask him,
he will tell me. And then again, when he is
about it, perhaps he will also tell me, only cau-
tiously, because I have tender eyes and ears, why
the name of Johanna has lately been
.so much
built.up in order to, be beaten down again ;
.and
why the apparently harmless Southcotians, must
be so ravaged and torn to pieces, instead of being
invited out of error, if in error, into truth. No
one, I think, reverences the Clergy of the Church
of England more than I do, regards them more
tenderly, nor esteems them more highly ; but still
I dare think there is no sufficient depth of earth,
even among them, for them to lay a claim to ge4•
nuine truth ; they must leave this to other hands,
and not grasp all the loaves and fishes to them-
selves, which, to
,say the least of it, would at
best be selfish. I think, indeed, with your Cot:-
. respondent, that it is not right to turn out the
unlearned and unskilful upon the Bible, as into
. an uncultivated waste and wilderness, not merely
without a commentary which is not enough, but
even not 'without a living guide ; lest perchance
they be placed in the. satne perilous situation
with-our Church, of being deluged by the torrent
of curses from the mouths of dragons and devils,
instead-of falling into the hands of good and kind
Shepherds ; but I do not think him authorized to
indulge his vein of satire, even on the Popes -of
Rome;- and still less so on the Methodists and
Soutlicotians. Let-us leave ridicule to the Vol-
takes, Chesterfields, and Rochesters; at least,
let ours be a careful irony, and not. strong enough
to poison where it cannot heal. When Thomas
Paine thotight he had cut the Bible to pieces, he
began, but too late, to find his error too truly ;
that it was not the Bible and the Priests, but
himself and his compeers, that his axe had hewed
down : and so I think it will be wise in your
Correspondents, if they must be severe, at least
to traduce very cautiously what they cannot un-
derstand, lest. the same judgment.fall upon them-
selves. For men to vent their indignation, even
upon the enemies of Christianity, is no proof of
themselves being Christians. We want no more
Crusades ; and the Ivauhoes and Richards of the
day had best learn caution--the virtue I most
want, and which therefore I conclude is most
wanted in the world, is humility. I was myself
obliged to be stammered at, as a child is, before
I could learn any thing of truth, and then
learned it slowly enough, Heaven knows ; and
what I now know, as they are verba rnagistri, I
will not boast of, as though my own. But if the
columns of your Paper, from which I have cer-
tainly derived information, though dangerously
given, at least to one so weak as myself, will ad-
mit this Letter, your Correspondent will be
asked openly for knowledge or wisdom, which,
if it be right for. him to give as well as myself to
receive, many, as well as myself, I think have
need of ; but I would rather be without it than
have it given wrongly, rudely, or incautiously ;
and if he or she answer me satisfactorily, per-
haps I may tell more about Maynooth College
than is engerally known or thought of.
.. Your's, &c.

INUNDATIONS IN GERMANY.

Extract from a Letter of the Secretary of the
Frankfort Association to the .Secretary' of the
London Committee :

" FRANKFORT, DEC. 17, in 4.

" By the direction of the Honourable Association of Clergy-
men and Merchants formed at this place. I have the honour
to answer your valuable letter of the 6th inst., and in their name
to express to you and the respectable London Committee .for
the Relief of the Distressed Inhabitants of the South of Ge r -
many, their sincerest thanks for the interest which, by word and
deed, they have excited and evinced in behalf of our unfortunate
brethren. The Higher Hand, from which this calamity came,
will reward those who spent a part of what they possessed in.
alleviating it.
" The London Committee may rest assured that the Associa-
tion established here is constituted in such a manner. as will
enable them to obtain authentic communications concerning-the
wants of the different districts, and particularly of those who
have suffered most, so that the allotment of every kind of :re-
lief will be made with full knowledge of the state of things,
with conscientious impartiality, and by persons of acknow-
ledged integrity. They have obtained a still more accurate
knowledge of the state of things in the most distressed districts
by one of their members, who has visited, and, with the assist-
ance of the Magistrates and the Clergymen, made minute. in-
quiries at most of the places. Extracts from his reports I
shall have the honour to communicate in a few days, to give a
general idea of .the great misery. But they. will only be words.
Eye-witnesses alone, who have beheld the unexampled de-
vastation, the manifold wants, and the distress of the unfor-
tunate, they are deprived of all means of supporting them-
selves, their losses in houses, fields, gardens, cattle, provi-
sions, and every kind of property, are able to judge of 'the
whole extent of this calamity. For three or four months this
distress will continue, during which time frost and cold will be
new enemies to be contended with. Many resources .are now
already found to be exhausted, a considerable part of the pro-
visions for the winter having been either swept away orspoiled.
Under all these circumstances, a continuation of the exertions
of the London Committee to make further collections, is highly
to be recommended.
" The Frankfort Association of Clergymen an&} others, will
not fail hereafter to render an accurate account of the applica.
tion of the sums entrusted to them."

quantity of lead pipes
EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF ROBBERY AT LORD)
SUFFIELD'S MANSION.—At Marlbabroyutghwo-sotrfetehteyßesotewr.daa:seeat
young man, named Henry King, in the employ of Messrs. B.
W. and C. Jearrard, the eminent builders, at No. 261, Oxford_
street, and Clerk of the works that are now extensively going on
at the mansion of Lord Suffield in Park-lane, was brought
on being struck by the harpoon,
patrol,before I ‘c Ira. rCg
charged
with, tiT,hathvein magistrate, lastogilsetnraatel,arge
and sheet lead; and Mary Ann King, his wife, was charged as
7the depth of 800 fathoms, at which depth the
an accessary. After an examination of Witnesses the prisoners
were remanded..
pressure on its body exceeds the weight of sixty of the largest
ships of the British navy, when manned, provisioned, and fitted
for a six months' cruise.—( Captain Scoresby.,