The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

LIST OF THE. CLANS OF SCOTLAND)
WITH BADGES OF DISTINCTION USED B-1( THEFT.

List of Clans. Bader of DisiTnetion used by
, then.

Ga zlk Name of Badge of Bvtdi ,N` a;`'
Distinction. TZVirtinttton,

BuChanin
Cameron Oak - Daiach
Campbell
ChithOlea ' Alder Fearna
- Betulk
Colquhoun Haiel Calltaina
Cumming Comthon Sallow
Drummond. Holly
Farquharson Purple Fox Gloie
taA s
Ferguson ..... ......... Poplar Criothann
Forbes
Fraser Yew An t-iudhar
Gordon ' Ivy
Grahafn Laurel lEtoidhearaobh .
Grant Cranberry Heath
Gunn
Lamont
INl‘Alister
Al`Donald Bell ilea+ Froach Dearg . Erica Tetralix
Maelonell - Fraoch Gorm
M‘Dougall Min ichd .
'Cypress
M'Farlane Cbud &Try BuSh
ill`Gregor , Pine
Al' Intosh
Mackay Bulrush Luachair
M'Kenlie
111'‘Elinti04.1
111` Lachlan Mountain Ash
M' bean
M'lRod Red NVlturtle Berries
Al' Nab
DP:Neil Sea Ware - Fucus .
.11,14Pherson Variegated Boxwood Aighban Ghall . Levetus
ill acquarrie - Prunus
M 'Rae
Menzies
Illunto Eagle Feathers
Murray Juniper -
Ogilvie Hawthorn
Olipha"t The Great Maple • Plintrinu .
Robertson
Rose ... .. Brier Rose Fear Dhris..
Ras s
Sinclair Cloy= Seainar, - Snmrag
Trifolium
Stewart
Sutherland Cat'stail Grass Feidhe Chat
The. Chief of Clans to have two Eagle Feathers, with the Badge of their Clan, in their Bonnets ; and the Chief of the Mentos
to have the Pinion Feathers, with four of the Tail Feathers.
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[FROg " JOHN BULL" OF YESTERDAY.]

religious and. political reform are now connected ; nor can the
avidity with which works of " a modern philosophical" nature,
or those which abound in licentiousness, are circulated, have
escaped the most cursory observer.
Here it is that the attack upon LAWRENCE galls the Re-
formers. Through the medium of lectures—of works not pro-
mising,. not holding forth political principles, or religious
scepticisms, which might shock and deter a reader from open-
ing
,the contagious VOlinne—the abominable doctrines were to
be Insinuated into the minds of the pupils of a particular
branch of science; and it was hoped, by proving Itilax to be
the creature of nature, and ,not of GOD, to shake the faith of
a whole race of persons, whose subsequent influence over their
fellow-creatures would, perhaps, be greater than that of the
members of any other profession. . . .
But this is not all. While these graver and better organised
attacks are made upon the MEr4 of the risiog generation, let
us turn to the insidious arts with which our WOMEN are at-
tacked.
Every body knows that the progress of the French Revolu-
tion was facilitated by the association- of the other sex, and
that the activity of the Boudoirs was soon found to be an over-
match for the vigilance of the Bureata e so here, while the
fathers of families ate lending' their voices to strengthen the
clamours for Reforin, and pledging diemselves upon the
hustings to improve upon the institutions of their ancestors,
we have only to enter the drawing-rooms or dressing-rooms of
their wives and daughters to discover the progress of regenera-
tio4 under another form, but covering and embracing the self-
same principle of se?f-destruction. . .
'Lortl.Btnixei is to the higher orders what HONE and CAR -
LILE are to the groundhogs : his principles are only
.distin-
guished from those of his fellow-labourers by being more
circuitously laboured under the obscurities of poetry. Lord
BYRON'S works, like Mr. LAwnetxcE's, have been refused
the protection of the law. •We have occasionally pointed out
the indecencies of the wanton lyrist, MooRE, but they ore
merely immoral in a worldly sense, and too flimsy to be mis-
chievous, even if they aimed at worse and greater things. But
the more serious arnilgamation of love and heroism with the
principles and practice of outcasts and prostitutes ; the artful
combination of splendid attributes and awakening interests
with the most abandoned dereliction of all. sociel ties, open to
our view a fehetne of universal subversion, that none but a
Dtmoer can- contemplate without honor; and -none but a
DEMON could Suggest with premeditation.
When it is known, at this moment, or certainly within e-
very short space of time, two adventurers, distingutshed only
as libellers of their God and thkir fellow-creatures, are et-
prestly summoned by this Lord to form .4 league to embody
a system more effectually to undermine the peace and morals
of the world, it is time to sneak out, and to warn our country-
men and countrywomen of' what is intended against them.—
Let every father of a family, not yet infected with the popular
frenzy; ask himself what is really meant by REFORM in the
political, and REGENERATION in the moral, sense of the
terms. Let them go farther' and inquire into the policy of
supporting a pauper Peer inhis.degradirrg pursuits, by suffer-
ing his wife and daughters to purchase prinf.iiges for his profit
which strike at the root of happiness in this world, and ex--
elude every hope of it in another ! .
BYRON, as a poet, would be as ephemeral as a BitristmEr.
or a VELOCIPEDE, but. the, novelty of broaching blasphemy
and, amatory. licentiousness, and cone them, through the
medium of an hitherto moat respectable bookseller, in all the
pomp of wove-paper arid hotpress, has, insinuated theminto
quarters' where our mothers would' have deemed themselves
insulted by the imputation of ever havinghealdthem named.
We have alluded to BYnoN's as being a parallel case with
LAWRENCE'S ; but hewever much we May admire certain
flasheS•of talent in the poet, we must admit that the lecturer, on
the score of ability, has greatly the advantage of him ;. and in
so far, we are of opinion that Mr. REI,ieuELL.' the present ob-
ject of. Radical attack, deserves well indeed of his country for
having so ably taken the dangerous adversary of our happiness
at his onus weapons, and tiniS armed, and thits.onlp:—dtiven him
froM the field. - • . .

It is impossible to view the rapid and almost uninterrupted
progress of Infidel opinions, through every avenue of the pub-
Lc press, without the keenest apprehensions of their ultiinate
effects upon the human mind. We speak of Infidelity in the
literal, as well as more extended sense of the word ; embracing
not only apostacy from religious faith, but a scepticism upon
all points connected with moral restraint, and the higher obli-
gations of social life.
Let it not be supposed, that we are stepping out of our line,
or that we affect a philosophical tone, in order to speculate upon
remote or contingent results. We consider the subject as public
writers, anxious for the public welfare, and resting our hopes of
its durability upon those moral principles which have alone dis-
tinguished U 3 from all the other nations of Europe—which haVe
taught us to app:eeiate the blessings of a Censtitutton in Church
and State, which could never have existed, or been matured,
but under the direct influence of a high-toned morality, and a
just sense of what we owe to the mercies of Providence. It is
against these that the phili-mophists of the nineteenth century,
first covertly, but now in the face of day, array their indefati-
gable and combined efforts.
We are led to these reflections by the case of LAWRECE'S
Lectures, delivered at the COLLEdE of Suiyiroxs, decided a
few days since in Chancery.

Called as public attention has been to these lectures, we
cannot but feel considerable surprise and indignation at the
conduct of those, who have the controul and management of
the Institntion in question, who permitted their continuance
through a course.
A lecturer is in full pesseSsion of his audience., and whatever
he assumes and lays down is received without question or con-
tradiction; and. however strong and conclusive the opposing
arguments may be, they must, from the mode of their expres-
sion,. come too late to counteract the mischief which such tenets
as those of Mr. LAWRENCE cannotfail to do. .
Mr. RENNELL, the Vicar of IcENsfiedroN, in his capacity
of Christian Advocate in the University of CAseRRIDGE ably
attacked these very lectures; and his work upon the tendency
of the principles and doctrine's with which they abound, is,
indeed, a most powerful and masterly performance; but we
very much doubt whether the antidote ever reached, those npon
whoni the bane had been inevitably suffered to operate for a
certain space, of time. . . .
The young surgeon's reading naturally lies less amongst
books of Divinity than athougst works in his own line ; and,
therefore, the evil of these lectures is manifold ; for, by engraft-
ing upon the pupil's studies, ScepticisM, Atheism, and modern
Philosophy, he imbibes the poison With its professional know-
ledge, the farther and more intricate.
,pursuit of which, out of
the lecture-room, naturally turns him awav_Prom that style of
reading which alone • could modify or correct the mischief he
cannot fail to encounter whilst in it.
_ The iIIowNING CHRONICLE of Tuesday quotes from some
Sunday Paper (and thereby makes itself a party to) an attack
upon Mr. RENNELL (who is
_mistaken, by these blunderers
for his father, and celled Doctor,) for his admirable work, to
which we have just alluded, and which was written ex-officio,
in his capacity of Christian Advocate, upon the subject of Air.
LAWRENCE'S Lecture. * . .
The CH119141c1.F.,. or at least tlaq paragraph it quotes, terms
this Mr. LAWRENCR an accomplished physiologist and elec.
gant writer," and calls ". obvious, , the frantic wickedness of
" laying etcientifie researches under restraint for the sake of
" Christianity."
Have we lived to see this printed and published in one paper,
and quoted and repeated by another, whose circulation, though
confined, still exceds that of. the journal wherein the appalling
lines first appeared. Is CURT sTIANITY talked of as a thing
to be slighted ?—to be laid aside ?—to be brought. into disre-
pute in our public halls, in the 4chools.of our youth ?—h this
part of the system, by which every thing, worth possessing is
to be undermined ?—Can those who were before sceptical
longer doubt the generalitti of the abets to overturn the esta-
blishmentsof religion, and thence to effect the great end of po-
litiCal REVOLUTION ?
But the paper speaks.of Mr. RENNELL's "hue and cry,"
and the persecution of Mr..LAW4ENCE, as if Mr. 11.7cerHELL
had really been using thumb-screws or, hot pincers to the
lecturer. Mr. RxNtir.t.t. . persecuted Mr. LAwRENCE only
inasmuch as the great cause of truth and religion is superior
in force and power to the blasphemous ravings of Modern Phi-
losophy, and the irrational attempts to controvert the word of
Gon himself. . „
Those who read . of Mr. RENNELL'S persecution will be
surprised to tied that it consisted, only of a book, Written in
opposition to another-hook, composed of the same materials,
and circulated through the same envied Medium—a:free press.
This book is called a " senseless cry yet the, paper confesses,
that " it has obliged the modest author to discountenance the
" publication of his lectures.". ,
So that, after all, the
.persecution turns- ont,M be .a.n answer
and refutation by Mr. RENNELL of Mr. LAw.HENcris follies
and ignorances, so striking and conclusive as to haVecOrevineed
Mr. LAWRENCE himself of his faults, and to have induced
him to discountenancehis own work. . .
Some people might be surprised to fid. political papers
taking up this subject so warmly, but those who know how
actively, and with what sanguine, hopes of slice* the ex-.
tended. efforts at demoralization are carrying, on at ihis.rno-
meat, will not be astonished at the variety sif methods adopted.
for effecting it. it is impossible not to perceive how closely