The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-22 00:00:00

COLOMBIA.

The following is an extract from the Gazette
of Colombia, No. 38, Sunday, 7th July, 1822 :
" Francisco de Paula Santander; General of Division of the
Colombian A7mies, Vice-President of the Republic,
charged with the Executive Power, &c. &c.

" Whereas it has come to the knowledge of the Government
of this Republic of Colombia, that some individuals residing in
Europe actually denominate themselves Agents of said Re-
public, and under this character contract obligations in its name,
compromising in some degree the public honour and faith of the
State with those persons who are not informed of the want of
authority with which said agents negociate : Therefore, desirous
of preventing for the future these scandalous abuses, and to avoid
all subject of complaint on the part of those, who, without the
needful precautions, let themselves be entrapped to the preju-
dice of the interests of the Republic and their own, I have, after
hearing the Council of State, agreed to declare, and do declare
as follows :

" 1. No person, citizen of Colombia or Foreigner, is at pre-
sent authorised in Europe to draw up contracts to pledge or in
any way oblige the Colombian Government by any bond, agree-
ment, or obligation of whatsoever nature it may be.

" 2. The Honourable Francisco Antonio Zea, resident at
the Court of Paris, is authorised to negotiate solely in the Poh-
eal Affairs, which, agreeably to his instructions, have been en-
trusted to him.

3. No Contract, Agreement, or Obligation will be con-
sidered binding to the Colombian Government unless its autho-
risation precede or may have preceeded it, expressly for the
purpose.

4..1n. future notice shall be given in the Gazette of the Re-
public of those persons who may be invested with said authority.
" 5. The Secretary of State and Foreign Affairs is charged
with the execution of this declaration, which will be published
for the information of those it may concern.
" Given and signed by my hand, sealed with the Seal of the
Republic, and countersigned by the Secretary of State and Fo-
reign Affairs, at the palace of Bogota, on the Ist June, 1822.
(Signed) " FRANCISCO DE PAULA SANTANDER.
" For his Excellency the Vice-President of the Republic
charged with the Executive Power.
(Signed) " PEDRO DUAL."

SINGULAR DISCOVERY of a MURDER.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM NOVOGORC:`•—" What
I am now going to relate to you might almost pass ratherfor the
fiction of some idle brain, than for a real event, and yet the
truth of it is well-known, and attested by respectable autho-
rity.—A Nobleman in this province being out hunting with se-
veral other Noblemen, perceived in a forest a bear, with a muzzle
on, tied to a tree ; the animal appeared to be very tame, and
by his wailings indicated that something particular was the
matter with him. The Nobleman gave orders to untie him
from the ttee, on which the bear led by a countryman with a
rope, immediately ran to a neighbouring spot, and began very
eagerly to scratch up the ground • the creature only wanted
language to spew that something, which nearly concerned him,
was here buried. The possibility of this was evident to the no-
bleman, and he ordered his people to dig up the spot pointed
out by the hear, which consisted of very loose earth. To the
no little astonishment and horror of all present, they soon found
two dead bodies covered with blood, which appeared to have
been very recently interred, whose wounds the bear, with a la-
mentable howling, began to lick, making the persons who stood
around understand, by a very singular look, that they should
remove the bodies. They made a bier of young trees on which
they laid the bodies to convey them to the next village. The
bear, still led by a peasant, went first, and seemed to follow like
a dog, a scent that he had of the murderers of his masters. He
was suffered to take his own way ; and they soon reached a vil-
lage on the skirts of the forest, when he halted at the door of a
cottage, and his former wailing was changed to a dreadful roar-
ing. This induced the nobleman to call together the maleinha-
bitants, and place them in a certain order, thinking, perhaps, by
the help of the bear to discover the murderers, as of course all
denied any knowledge of the deed. The people belonging to the
hut, before which the bear stopped, also came rip from another
side, and scarcely had they, according to the Nobleman's de-
sire, placed themselves with the others, when the bear, with
a dreadful howl, rushed upon two tall fellows, whom only
the animal's muzzle saved from his fury. He was removed
from them by force, but the persons so singularly accused
were immediately subjected to a strict examination. They
confessed all ; the two bear leaders, who had money about
them, had been murdered by the: n in the forest, and hastily
buried ; the hunting horn of the party having made them fly
precipitately, 'leaving the bear tied to the tree, by which the
discovery of the murder was effected in a manner almost incre-
dible, and the criminals were delivered into the hands of jus-
tice, and will be brought to the punishment which they so
justly deserve."

FOR THE SUN.

DEFENCE of BISHOP BURNET and the BISHOP, of

WINCHESTER.
[Continued from TILE SUN of Saturday.]

Ala. EDITOR-It is objected to those great
advocates of our Church what has often by our
Church been an objection to the Socinian, as one
of his favourite axioms, and which he himself
lays down in so many terms that it is utterly im-
possible to believe what it is impossible to com-
prehend. When it pleases GOD to reveal, says
the Reverend Calvinist, a doctrine for my own
salvation, am I concerned to reconcile it ? ' Does
he call upon me to do so before I accept it ? Is
it a revalation to my faith or to my reason ? If
to reason I admit I am bound to understand it,
so far as my powers of reason extend ; but if it
be to faith what has my reason to do with it ;
but to judge of the authority from which the re-
velation is derived. No doubt, faith, when taken
in its full and comprehensive meaning—when
once erected upon a solid foundation, may not
demand the assistance of reason ; and we may
believe in many things hard to be understood ;
which may be above our reason though not con-
contrary to it ; but when we are enquiring what
is the doctrine of the Church, or rather when the
Church itself is forming articles of belief upon
the foundation of Scripture, we can never look
too carefully, and with all possible help of learn-
ing into that Scripture, to answer him that
asked' us the reason of the faith which is in us ;
and it is a notorious fact in evidence, that the
compilers of our articles did most diligently and
anxiously inquire into what was then revealed,
and sought for assistance to their learning even
from the learned abroad, that no pains might be
wanting to make that system purely scriptural
which they were to send forth to be the faith of
others. And though others subscribe to it, and are 1
so far bound to believe most implicitly in what they
assent to be the doctrine of the Church as found-
ed on Scripture, yet if at any future period they
should happen to think otherwise, they are
equally bound to resign their faith in the Church
for the sake of what is far more venerable, and
the highest of all authority, and that which the
Church professes to follow, the divine authority
of Revelation itself. It is true, when once per-
suaded, that thus saith the Lord, I have nothing
more to do than gratefully to receive the doc-
trine by faith, and to apply it to its gracious
purpose, but though I am now persuaded of
its truth, unless I suppose myself infallible, I
may be wrong, or indefectible. I may fail, and
if I, upon further enquiry, should discover my
infirmity or error, I am bound upon the same
principle with which I first held the doctrine,
upon its analogy with revelation, now to re-
nounce it, as in my present sentiment, being more
enlightened, I perceive or fancy that I perceive
its contradiction to that scripture, which is the
only genuine test of Christian doctrine. In this
conception of what to me appears an error, I may
be wrong, though not wrong in endeavouring to
be right ; and I cannot he right or use the facul-
ties which GOD has given me and as he has or-
dered, if I do not follow his dictates which he
has so plainly delivered in the law, which he has
written on the heart of every man, to consult in
every instance ; more especially in the instances
so important to his character and happiness,the in-
terest of everlasting life. An error on a point of this
infinite importance, may be fatal as long as I live,
therefore if I do not suppose myself completely
armed against error, but believe with the bulk
of mankind, who reason from their own experi-
ence and feeling as well as from scripture, that
there lurks yet an infection, even in the regene-
rate, who are still but the more humbled with a
sense of their infirmity—and with all their ad-
vantages of information, being taught of the spirit
itself, may yet fall from a state of grace. I can-
not but conclude, after all my inquiry, that I
may yet be mistaken, more particularly upon
such points as have been much agitated by the
learned in the church of every age, many of
whom have differed Upon them—who have far
surpassed my feeble understanding. For it is
one symptom of true wisdom to feel our ig-
norance, and not to presume with some, that
we are as yet wise unto salvation, but rather to
meditate upon the infirmity of our faith as well
as all our other virtues, which can never arise to
perfection here, than to puff ourselves up with
the most fatal of all vanity—that we have now
nothing to learn—that all is right within us—
and without any further labour or research—we
have only to look to the glorious prize of our high
calling in Christ Jesus. " Truth is the daughter of
of Time," as time advances it may be growing
on to maturity, but while the parent lives, let not
the child presume that it is beyond the reach of
instruction, or that it can ever be quite perfect
till time shall be no more—till it arrives at the
confines of eternity—when the truth shall shine
in its meridian splendour, and the children of
light shall know GOD even as they are known.
Under this • impression the advocates of the
Church proceed in the investigation and exposi-
tion of the truth—as far as they believe it to be
revealed in the word of Goo : not hesitating to
believe, merely because they cannot comprehend
the revelation, but chiefly anxious to determine its
" literal grammatical sense—in its plain and full
meaning." This they can never even attempt
without " consulting the scriptures"—which no
doubt they have done with " as earnest and fre-
quent prayer" as any that would condemn them
for their " dry treatises, didactic statements,
and controversial disputations," which may ap-
pear dry and uninteresting to such as boast of the
spirit within them, and can flatter themselves
that they are actually inspired with the living
principle of truth. But surely they must be in-
teresting to men in general, who wish to be led
into the truth—to " receive the sincere milk of
the word with meekness, that they may grow
thereby," not having yet arrived at the full sta-
ture of the grown up perfect man—babes as yet
of grace, and not able to bear the strong meat of
Calvanistic Puberty. Such children as these
may surely be supposed to be highly gratified
and improved by the instruction which they may
mutually destroy each other, of
.extensive speou-
so easily and so amply receive from their fathers
in the church—who are accused of faults which

lation upon the Scriptures and articles:--and of
heir close and exclusive exposition—but who in
fact expound all that.is necessary to be expound-
ed, and speculate no farther. upon the principles
of truth than may be useful for the edification of
those who are looking up to them for the elements
of their faith. But because they don't happen to
expound them in the spirit of some expounders,
as they have been called—their system is con-
demned as " exclusive and disputatious," and
they cannot be esteemed faithful interpreters of the
word, because they are anxious to lay the founda-
tion before they begin to build, and not to make
their pupils believe that they can be led as by
magic into all truth at once, without any labour
of their own, or that knowledge will dart upo►r
them instantaneously, and they have nothing to
do but to receive the inspiration, and enjoy what
they call the " vital experience of the Saints of
GoD."

Of these Expounders I am most heartily sick;
I feel as much antipathy to them as some feel
to a cat, which I should conceive to be a natural
antipathy if I were a believer in innate ideas, or
if I could not trace it to one of the grand prin-
ciples of all ideas, which I have expe-
rienced from my earlier days of one of these
reverend expounders, under whose vociferous har-
rangues I have suffered many a tedious hour—
while he, poor simple man, was fancying himself
rapt into the third heaven, and, I verily be-
lieve, carrying his admiring congregation along
with him. Though he has been gone many
years—and I hope to heaven (where one
of his Evangelical tribe, in a funeral sermon, de-
clared from the pulpit that he saw him in the
spirit) methinks I hear his voice still—l must
say, not like the voice of an angel from heaven,
which still sounded long after speaking in the
ears of Adam with delightful melody—but rather
ringing in my ears to make my heart sicken
at the sound, for it was nothing but sound
that I could understand, vox et prceterea nihil.
This will no doubt be ascribed to My want of
sympathy with the preacher, for most assuredly
I had no other than the natural compassion upon
any simpleton who chose to expose himself, or,
what he called, to expound in public, which he
did by the hour, at all seasons in the day and in
the night of the Sabbath, and even Wednesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I know not how
many more days were no sabbath or day of rest to
hirri nor to his congregation ; but when they
would accuse me of a want of sympathy, they
mean, in their spiritual slang, to accuse me of
a want of christian feeling or vital experience,
which must quite exclude any of his hearers from
even understanding what he said, or entering at
all into his feelings without understanding him,
which was the case of most part of his infatuated
audience. One of his hearers, however, was a
female of some observation and ingenuity, who
was therefore not very likely to partake of this
infatuation, and whose sympathies ran all the
other way with good feeling and common
sense. I shall never forget the remark this lady
once made as she was coming out of church,
piping hot with the inspiring fumes of one of his
expressions, that she was quite sure such was
the volubility of his tongue, so far outstripping
both his memory and his judgment, that long
before he could finish his sentence he had nothing
to say ; and if he had not a text in scripture at
command, lest his audience should be disen-
chanted of their admiration by the want of flu-
ency in their extempore expounder, he went on
still tuning his pipes in a string of sounds, which
by his help of gesticulation, and the high opinion
they had formed of the dear, good, and sweet
man, conveyed as much if not more sense to their
feeling hearts than his very words themselves.—
Indeed they seem to believe this effect to be one
of the proofs of inspiration both in the preacher
and in themselves. Any common preacher, with
a book before him, and all the words in order,
may make his congregation understand and '
feel in proportion to the natural qualifications
of him and his people ; but to make men
understand and feel without the help of
words, by gestures only, and feel too with such
raptures as pass man's understanding, must be
the work of a miracle, at least in the preacher, if
not in both parties—the supernatural effect of
inspiration itself. It is a fact well authenti-
cated, and I don't know whether it is not even
recorded in one of their evangelical annals, that
some men, and many women (who are said to be
more susceptible of the spirit), have actually
fainted away at the melting voice from the pulpit,
though they were so far distant as only to hear
the sweet sounds, without one particle of the
sense, if any there were,—such was the force of
what they imagined sNinpath.y, sensible impulse,
and I know not what. But, after all, it might
only be the force of gesticulation upon an audience
prepossessed in favour, and willing beforehand
to catch the first impression. Many have I seen
take out their handkerchiefs, and begin to cry
before they are hurt, even without the help of an
onion—and who are so much in the habit of
sympathetic feeling, 'or, as others say, of selfish
interest,—" the labourer being worthy of his
hire,"—as to sigh and groan, and groan and sigh,
throughout the whole of the edifying exposition,
as if the very heart were bleeding, when it may
be only intent on the place, without bearing one
word of the discourse. However, it may be in
the pathetic as in tragedy : I have myself wit-
nessed similar scenes in comedy—when Parsons
of old, and Liston now, (Arcades ambo.) have
kept the house in a roar of laughter, merely
by the force of gesticulation, without uttering
one syllable, for at least five minutes time,—
I am here trespassing upon forbidden ground,
and shall no doubt be reminded by his Re-
verence, that it is not quite so decorous to slide
at once from the pulpit to the stage, which they
affect to hold in such abomination. But if lam
found tripping in this step, who is in fault but
these Reverend Expounders, who so naturally
call such names to mind by their very tones and
gestures : nothing so good and decent as genteel
comedy, nor even farce, when justly performed.
As far as performance goes, it would be doing
rather injustice to such celebrated actors, to
compare these mountebanks, who really appear
often to have no more qualifications to shine in
the pulpit, as South, I think, says, than he

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that made it ; and though theiml"popir
quently, I must acknowledge, higu'ibite
lar, carrying as many crowds with t* • it'
the church, as those actors to the theatrei
laritf
as far as I have heard. them, their P°Pli.og of
can chiefly be accounted for by a ',VI goil
r ILK.Es, who must have been a Prelt is°
judge of what popularity was made'
well-known story, when a friend of bus
sed
wondering why he, who was not a matirpoicio
highly gifted—certainly by his own o°11:0,
be
not so gifted as his wondering friend'l Grogoi
came to be able to draw such crowds 110
here d
so,
him : he took him to the window, w
were huzzaing to WILKEs and Liberty, 211.00
swered him in the Socratic mode by 3 Pertiooli
question—How many, think you, in all thatior
titude are men of sense ; and how Illanl°,,,erlf
sense ? And it is as well known, an aos-itop
a man of uncommon talent, not only for wr
but for observation of character, whell
asked his opinion of a brother in the olloriss
I have only one objection to him, he, tol
plbieoypivaialadfremjpreacher ; and when SWIFT via" 00
uaslte,bietel commendationnmaking
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course," I am sorry for him, sayrYsoftCh4aeltnv;i:ll.°ll;::ellf°l
I know him well, and had a good °Pinnt.s4lol
him ; and though both these eminent vi
libel
would allow with me some exceptions, 1e;.
are only sufficient to prove the gepe,,rnai se(11
which too often prevails, it must be e
in the church as well as the conventicle'

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