The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-02 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

According to the intelligence from Madrid, the
political relations of Spain, not only with the
United States, but with some of the European
Powers, nre on the best possible footing. Portu-
gal, there can be no doubt, is one of these Euro-
pean Powers, but which are the others ? France,
Austria, Russia, and Prussia ? This we should
hardly think, but one Power, at all events, is
now confidently pointed out, a Power, too, of
which' the friendship is of more importance to
Spain than the enmity of any or all of the others.
What .makes this the more credible is, the con-
sideration that it never can be the interest of
England to see Spain converted into a field of
desolation to humour three or four Despots,
who, not content with the degradation of theilb
own abject serfs, wish to reduce the people every
where to the same condition. They owe chiefly
to the means furnished by England in the hour of
their need their present ascendancy, but it is
time they should be taught to feel that England
did not raise them in order to depress herself.=

It would have been better for us if our Ministers
bad ere now been impressed with the importance
of this truth ; it will be something, however,
towards an atonement for former impolicy if these
Ministers now show themselves sensible of former

errors.

MORNING POST :71

Much alarm was excited on Tuesday night, in
the Castle of -the Tuileries, by a load explosion
which took place about twelve o'clock, beneath
the windows of the middle pavilion. The guard
immediately rushed out and found that it pro-
ceeded from the musket of a (sentinel, which had
gone off accidentally. The ball entered the
ceiling of one of the rooms in the Palace
without doing any other damage, and the
soldier escaped unhurt. Such is the account
published by the Journal des DAals : had it
been given by the Quolidienne, some attempt
would probably have been made to connect this
accident with some new plot against the lives of
the Royal Family. This Journal indeed contains
a statement, which, if correct, shows that dag-
gers are really used in some parts of France,
but for the attainment of private revenge,' not
the committing of Regicide. It announces,
on 'the authority of letters from Saumar,-
," that in the night between the 26th and
27th of October, Lieutenant Wolfe!, who
arrested General Berton, was stabbed as he was
returning home after having gone his rounds.
As he had a great coat over his coat, the violence
of the blow was diminished, and the "dagger pe-
netrated only a few lines into his breast. The
wound, though inflicted'on the side of the heart,
was not considered mortal. Lieut. Wolfel im-
mediately received all the assistance required,
and active search was madt.* after the assassins,
who, there are many reasons to suppose, are
connected with the infernal sect 'of the -Car-
bonari." ---umasam—

[MORNIG HEam.n.l
In the French Papers it is not unworthy of
observation, that the _ Ultra Royal party has
thrown off all disguise, and attacked the con-
duct of the Government of this country. The
attack is in a Journal called The Quotidiennc,
and is equally splenetic and disingenuous. This
party is incorrigible. It is unteachable by expe-
rience and adversity. Its pretensions are in-
capable of being satisfied, after all that Europe,
and England in particular, has done for it.
These men have been the victim of a revolu-
tion, which owed much of its ferocity, to being
stirred up, like caged wild beasts, by foreign
bayonets; and now they woald have the same

SHOCKING MURDER.-The daughter of the
late Swedish Field Marshal ADLEILCREUTZ has
been murdered by her female attendant, a
woman 69 years old, at the seat of her mother,
near Stockholm. The unhappy mother had gone
to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the Princess,
at Tullgarn. The attendant, who slept in the
same room with the young lady, seized the child
by the hair in the night, and cut her throat.—
This had scarcely passed when the governess en-
tered the chamber, on which the murderess gave
herself several stabs in the neck, none of which
were mortal. The motives for her horrid deed
have not been discovered.

FOR TILE SUN.

DEFENCE OF BISHOP BURNET AND THE BISHOP

OF WINCHESTER.
(Continued from THE Str.l4r of October 22.)

These advocates of the Church, and many of
its illustrious members, are most unjustly ac-
cused of the Socinian creed, which is composed
of those articles only that are level to the un-
derstanding. From this arrogant and presump-
tuous doctrine they as widely differ as from the
romantic and chivalrous faith, that boasts to be-
lieve in a proposition because it is impossible.—
'We neither enter into the conceit of the one,
who would fall down before the Majesty of Rea-
son, nor into the extravagant zeal, without know-
ledge of the other—when religion consists in our
continued sacrifice of reason at the altar of reve-
lation. We believe, when God condescends to
reveal himself to us, that he has a right to some
condescension in return, a temper of docility, and
a just deference to his authority—as authority
only. The same nature which bids us believe
in Him, and trust to Him, with full confidence
in a revelation of his will, teaches us to look for
many things contained in it hard to be under-
stood, and the more there are of such doctrines
the more easily to believe that,they came from
Him, who is described as residing in clouds and
darkness, his pavilion round about him. They
are the spots in the sun that the more loudly
proclaim his presence—but then they are not to
cover the whole disk of the sun itself—the light
of the firmament is not to be put out, for which
he from the beginning sent forth his mandate—
let there be light, and it sprang from the .bosom
of life to enlighten all that dwell upon the earth.
The same spirit that now pours forth its blessed
influence in our hearts moved at the first creation
upon the face of the waters, and does not in this
new creation descend upon us to mutilate or
destroy its own handy work. The Son of God, by
whom we were made, and by whose Spirit we
are born again, himself declares, that he came
not to destroy but to fulfil the law—that law
which he, from the first, had written in the
heart, but which being defaced, he came to cor-
rect the impression, and to establish the autho-
rity of reason, as when man was made in the
image of God supreme.
If they have been with justice accused of being
bewildered in the mazes of metaphysics in Na-
tural Religion, and instigated by the affec-
tation of pre-eminent knowledge, who have
fallen down and worshipped Reason as their only,
God, or at least would at once reject any revela-
tion from heaven as authentic, that did not come
within the sphere of its comprehension ; surely,
they may be said to be equally bewildered in the
mazes of a fanatical zeal, and instigated by a
spirit which could never come from heaven, who
would make ignorance the mother of devotion,
and believe that the further they recede from the
light of Nature, the nearer they approach to the
sanctuary, of truth. And yet so fond have some
been of mystery, and scrupulously attached as it
were to what surpasses comprehension, in order
to suit, perhaps, an ignorant convert, who are
said to be the more delighted and even edified,
the less they understand, that when objections
have been taken against their doctrine, which
makes a mystery where no mystery is, and a na-
tural explanation has been offered to prove their
was nothing at all mysterious, nothing but what
might fairly be reconciled by the powers of rea-
son only, they have been known to answer, that
it cannot be the truth, because, if it is, " God
ceases to be incomprehensible," as he is repre-
sented in revelation, with the clouds and dark-
ness round about him. That considering that
in all the truth more immediately necessary for
salvation, He himself declares, that he has con-
descended to the infirmity of man, who may very
well understand what is his duty to do and to
believe, and can penetrate far enough, even here
through the clouds and darkness that surround
his throne, by the help of his spirit to discern
righteousness and judgment the habitation of his
seat.

There is one part, however, even of the sermon
which I had not intended to touch, as it has been
already so fully answered in the Letter to which
I Lave alluded above, but as it runs so much in
the declamatory stile of the fraternity, who under
the mask of friendship to the church, would direct
the whole of its hostility to the atheist and infi-
del. I cannot refrain from a' few remarks upon
the lame and impotent conclusion. " We are
often told, that our Established Church is in
danger, I love our Church too well to hear
this complaint unmoved; and it is my firm con-
viction she can never fall but by her own
hand ; he who established her will still continue
to sustain her, while she is answering the purpose
of her establishment. It is by intestine divisions
among ourselves, and by branding as enthusiasts
those who promote holiness by preaching the doc-
trines of grace ; by esteeming laborious Mini.
sters as righteous overmuch ; by forsaking the
plain letter of our articles as doctrines of grace,
and by a lax, indifferent, and perfunctory ministra-
tion of our high charge, as the clergy of the church,
that the affections of the people can be alienated
from her, or her invaluable blessings be endan-
gered. This is not a day when the church can
afford to diminish her influence by any coolness
of her ministers among themselves; it is a day of
rebuke and blasphemy, of infidelity and profane-
ness, and demands our utmost energy, collective
as individuals, to repress the incursions of evil.—
Now this is all that ever has been, or I suppose
ever can be said or seen, to charm away the
forces which are pointed again Calvinism, to
the haunts of Atheism, and to direct the eccle-
siastic- cannon, which is aiming at the heretic,
against the sceptic only, and the infidel. But we
are still of opinion that the church artillery can-
not be better pointed than where it is, and that
our defence should be where our greatest danger
is, from some of our own household, or those who
would, by a pretence of simplicity and affection
for the church, gladly creep into its bosom, and
when once there, would sting her to the heart. We,
are as firmly convinced as the Calvinists can be,
that if the church ever fall, it will be by her own
hand, by Sectarians who, in disguise, have been
able to insinuate themselves into the- ministry,
and not by Socinians, or other infidels; whose

'arrows, on the contrary, may pass unheeded by,
r like a bird in the air, which leaves not a track
behind. ' For what is the doctrine of the Soci-
nian ? Perhaps the most dangerous of all the in-
fidels, and if we are to believe their own annals,
the most far-spreading in this country. He hears
so many what are called Evangelical Preachers,
excommunicating reason from any part or office in
religion, as if the faculty which distinguishes them
from the brute creation were to disqualify them
for their duty to God who conferred the great
distinction upon them, and the faculty of think-
ing itself were an injury to religious sentiment,—
to attempt to reason, a profanation of the sanc-
tuary. He is therefore alarmed at the unnatural
tenet, and disgusted with the superstition of the
bigotry and hostility to common sense and rea-
son, he hastens to the other extreme, to erect its
throne on the ruins of revelation, and proclaims
this self-conceited axiom that men should be
called upon to believe what they cannot under.
stand, or that whatever is above reason must be
contrary to reason ; this is the head and front of
his offending ; and as far as he succeeds would
tend to destroy all but natural religion within us,
but what is that to the destruction and havoc of
the other, who, not to mention that they have
been the cause, however innocent, of this in-
'fidelity, fond of raising every thing natural or
supernatural into a mystery, casting such a cloud
over revelation as to mystify some of its plainest
and most useful doctrines, and weakening all
their salutary impressions in favour of morality,
which Socinians by the light of nature only can
make upon the heart. While he allows chiefly
of the law that is written therein, or of those
doctrines only which are conformable to it, and
will not stir a step in revelation which advances
him above his reason, he is less liable to the va-
garies of imagination, at least to immorality and
fanaticism, than they who falling in with the
sympathies of the people are for ever preaching
to them upon mysteries, like the Papist Friars
of old, whom in other respects they resemble, and
whose favourite maxim was," Where reason ends,
religion begins." Surely such as these are far
more likely to be popular, who publish doctrines
which must fascinate the people with an air of
mystery, and more especially the interesting doc-
trine of personal election when the convert is
swoln with the vastity of his own important figure
in the sight of Heaven, and the greater sinner he
is, the more enraptured he must be in the very
thought of such election, independent of all his
bad principles indeed in spite of them.
I am aware, when these preachers descend from
the pulpit, and can be persuaded to reason with
men upon equal terms, they may be as ready to
deny all the consequences which the vulgar are
so apt to deduce from a doctrine both in its let-
ter and its spirit, so directly favourable to their
natural idleness, the root of all evil, and even to
their natural depravity. However, then, he may
be able to argue with himself in his
,chamber,
and cast the imputation of these consequences
from his own doctrine upon the bad passions of
mankind, which are not to be overcome by any
power, and however he may attempt to soften''
the tone of his preaching in his private conversa-
tions, the fact is most glaring, that there are
many of his congregation who merely by listen-
ing to his discourses with the most undivided at-
tention, and with all simplicity of heart, are still
flattering themselves, that they are now on the
highest pinnacle of the temple, where Satan
placed our blessed Lord and draw him into the
same snare, and are tempted to imagine- that
they are indeed the children of God, inaccess-
able to the snares of the Tempter, even while
he is succeeding in their hearts, and by inspiring
them with the confidence infallible of their own
salvation, as elect of God from all eternity, cast-
ing them down the steeper and more dreary pre-
cipice into surer perdition. So sensible have
some been even of them who are the most zeal-
ous advocates for election of its dangerous
consequences to the ignorant vulgar, that they
have scrupled to deliver it at all from the pulpit,
or with great qualification and reserve, and with
a careful and strict admonition not to trouble
their thoughts about the secrets which belong
into the Lord their God. And it is a pity the
zealous advocates of the same doctrine in the
present day, do not imitate in this as they are
so ready to admire in every other instance, their
illustrious example; but what then would be-
come of Diana of Ephesus, or in what would the
numerous votaries at the shrine of the tabernacle,
be distinguished from the humbler and more
temperate worshippers in our own temples.
Hence, the exclamation of the fanatical preacher—.
they who listen to my voice may soon leave off
their weak food—the sincere milk with which
babes only are fed, and almost instantaneously
enjoy the strong meat of the most highly spiri-
tual flavour, and my people wish to have it so—
and true it is, the common people whom they
harangue are too apt to be weary of mere sin-
cerity, which, therefore, is not much served up to
them by their pastors ; but rather by abstruse
and more complicated doctrines of the total occu-
pation of man by nature—his restoration without
any effort of his own by grace—the ohedience
and intercession of the same, instead of his own
obedience and his instantaneous regeneration by
an influence of the holy spirit which he can feel
in himself, distinct from the voice of his own
nature—and as distinctly pronouncing him to be
one of the elect. These are the strong doctrines
that have a constant relish with the multitude,
who never seem to feel a surfeit, and who are
amply supplied by a never-failing fund of words
at least, with which they keep ringing the
changes upon Faith and grace, and justification
and sanctification and salvation most infalliably
assured to them by an indefeasible right and title,
without measure and without end, till the poor in-
fatuated people are ready to fall down in extacy
and admiration of the delightful expounder, and as
he descends from the pulpit to kiss, in their rap-
tures, the very hem of his garment, and so these
men have their reward ; and because their suc-
cess is so triumphant, elated with prosperity,
they look down upon the sober and moderate
Preacher—nor own him as Evangelical that is
not constantly harping upon the same doctrinal
note, but ventures, as he has authority from the
Gospel; to intermix the principles of morality'.

• • . Is not
' with the doctrines 'of religion, and pretenao
to be ever soaring with flight sublime to neave_e!
but while he enjoys the light from above, To
members that he has to teach his followers do,
walk upon the earth, where they have mail and
ties to perform and many lessons to learnt' ,°•..6r
where they must be ever tottering and stumohue7.
in the way immediately before them, 1 tanj
thoughts are everlastingly directed uPwar" eif
so fail at last in these duties which are so cies itt
pointed out to every one, by, the very station '
which his God has placed him. 't Ws.
We may learn from that and that only, I to
would please him, the duties which we °wend
ourselves and those around us : the fdai° and
sober teacher therefore is more inclined to ins°, to
us in those different relations, so far as they tet!alic,
make us useful toward men, and pleasing anti ea
ceptable to God, as they are clearly deliveron
and enforced in his Gospel—than to dwell "the
abstruse doctrines which never can enter in!°. an
heads of the people, and can have no other 004
an immoral influence as
weak and as the modern Saint o°,4e
inculcate them upon ,their
hearts. By so going beyond the m suscepti,u_i
oderatts
which the Christian is desired to observe in
el
things, not excepting religion itself, they -fat
become so intemperate in their Tea' .fet,
righteousness—as to be called c. righteous C",to
much." Resolved to devote their days and Otto
to the service of religion, they are fe°ll tell
faulter in that service which is more immeththel
required of them from the station which
t. 0
hold ; the just performance of which, as be
they are able, would tend to impart mere %0
to their religion than all their closest meit°tloD•
upon it—and their most painful and diligent
sect
servances. Just as well might a 64 soldier tiehoot
his post with the pretence to lie lurking awle,
his General's tent, lest he should lose bisrnere,
rence by losing sight of him—as we might car of
tend to neglect our active duties—that wet n•''
attend more closely to the duties of dev`liich
That doctrine can never come from GOCIf ",;005,
tends to make men idle or useless in their sta'ner
rows against them whom they
or which has rendered them morose and
i °their
fills them with spiritual pride and
imanine n°ta-n Kea
elect class ; and therefore the enemies of Pe-t of
conteloat
mankind—puts them out of humour with alio° t so
them, and in some. more melancholy in°lll`llar •
absorbs them in a sense of their own total ea' rots
tion"—as to overwhelm them in all the b°l*
ro•
of despair at ever being able to arise to &sew
mantic and impracticable heights—above 0 as
power of humanity—to which they °rholit
heroes 'of a sublimer spirit—and Saints Of - vof
a
this world is not worthy, and would ftif tbef
suade themselves and those around them te''
live only for another. th°'e
And after alloeither their famed saints,rMrd ea'
who have taught them, are found by aetil-viitli
perience to live in a purer atmosphere, lirnoebt
more fervent devotion to God in everYth"o-ors;
and action than their less pretending neitgum-belf '-'
cc but like some ungracious pastors, while they -west
us the steep and thorny way to Heaven,
theinsehrose
like a puft and reckless libertine, the fir.hpowo
path of dalliance tread, and reek not theirhargo
read." lam far from laying this heavy e tees,
upon all these spiritual heroes and rigid dev°s theb
many of whom are no doubt as innocent °o
more sober and steady members of the C, m
she
who are content with the moderation which j •
ha 0 $
prescribes, and launch not beyond the —n i 0
ries of a sound discretion. But what I Tsaion,
observe is, where there is so much PN'entioat
and such extraordinary appearance of dev:ty or
discipline, whenever such happen
either to purity of doctrine, or to severflooad
to be e p 0.,
defaulters, they are not so likely to escape
0
a e 013°I,
tice, or pass by without the severer cens-r whir.-
their fall, in proportion to the height from,. e the
they fell—they had erected themselves 014:11 the
rest in their own imagination, and perhaPs loot
imagination of admiring crowds, who Ow Core
down upon them with contempt the morerester
temptuous as their admiration was the goon°
and more sincere. Though I have heard °tion in
most singular instances, where the infatua on•
favour of their darling preacher has been SO even
plete that they can be blind to all
to the most heinous offence, though he is e° • in'
1 n his
ed by his own subsequent conduct, voe-- d con'
famy has been brought to light, and carrieof his
victims to the minds of all but some fe'v,..,„o, roe
chosen friends and disciples. Far be it "-retro°
to contend that the members of the Churcillaleo vic'
from the same height to fall, and have fa
Tits
it
tims to their evil passions, which they Trts of
their duty to chase away from the bell their
others; but whenever they have failehZion
fall has not been graced by the appro.,- _ or,
their followers, and they have not fallen_s:their
his errersn, via.
because they never placed themselves oPuch o%'
impracticable height, or professed s° Moe, as
slaty travagant overwhelming zeal for anotherty .w.whent
may make them appear the more g ow
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FATAL ACCIDENT.-Yesterday a- , ~.treei
held at the Princess of Wales, G seri r
ch,r,eo - or,
Brompton, upon the bodies of • et' the
Thorns Brown, and Lewis,
death by suffocation in a vault.--Yeftlit.
cidentally suffocated."
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At Clapham, on the Ist inst., the Lady of T
Esq., of Calcutta, of a daughter Ed 130aestau
On Wednesday last, at her father's house,
Mrs. John Randolph of a daughter.
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On Thursday, the 31st ult., at St. Illichae.lstbetb, youngjii,
Donald Aird, of Hackney, to Caroline 1
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daughter of the late Mr. John George de Mery cot_
of the former place. . ~,Ari Chlach,t 40
On Thursday last, the 31st ult., at Kensinte-,,,0 ste'r °C
David Rae Newall, of the Hon. East surviving' 'in ogh
only
Scaleby Castle, to Charlotte Janetta,
the late James Falconer, Esq., of Bombay
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Oliver Smith, of the 17th Regiment Nadi?? A.'„n..,Ard!,...ftith
of now • 'in D'''artr
eldest son of the late John Smith, Esq., Annioo of .-- -
On the 30th ult., at Kensington, Hanso _wards
On the. 19th of April last, at Calcutta, tilttig:trve kfir:"
ap for ur
year; he was a parishioner of that Geo. .3P"ril'
years, much respected.
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