The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-29 00:00:00

JOHN THOROGOOD.

To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and
Ireland, in Parliament assembled,
The Petition of John Thorogood, of Chelmsford, in the
county of Essex, shoemaker,
Showetli,—That your petitioner dissents from the doe-
trines and ritual of the Church of England as by law
established, and holds it incompatible with Christian
liberty, that the expenses of a religious service to which
he is unable to conform should be levied upon him.
That your petitioner, following his conscientious convic-
tions, feels it his imperative duty to entreat your Honour-
able House not to grant to ecclesiastics any of the public
money, so as to enable them to extend the means of their
persecuting power—a power so contrary to the Christian
religion, and of which they ought to be deprived by an
immediate separation of the Church from th© State --a
power which has been exercised towards your petitioner in
a most unrighteous and tyrannical manner, by imprisoning
him for life for refusing to pay five shillings and sixpence
towards the repair of a Church to which he does not belong.
That your petitioner respectfully trusts your Honourable
House will act like an assembly of honourable men, and
not treat his incarceration and sutforin,gs of sixteen
months' continuance, in a damp and unhealthy prison, with
unfeeling levity and derision, such conduct ill becoming an
Assembly of Legislators—Legislators, some of whose ar-
eestors suffered on the scaffold rather than sacrifice their
religious principles.
Your petitioner uses this plainness of speech towards
your Honourable House, hoping you will seriously deli-
berate and prevent oppression and persecution like his
being ever again inflicted on any of her Mjesty's faithful
subjects.
Chelmsford, May, 1840.

The June Number of " Colburn's New Monthly
Magazine and Humorist," edited by Theodore Hook, Esq., will
contain the following interesting articles :—Fathers and Sims,
by the Editor, illustrated by Phiz.—Maxims and Maxim-Mon-
r,,ers.—The Left-handed Marriage, by the lion. Mrs. Erskine
Norton.—Piron ; or the Small Mistake.—Sketches from the
Note Book of a Physician.—A Chapter on Gastronomy.—A
West Country Crusade, by George Raymond, Esq.—The Wi-
dow Married, by Mrs. trollope, concluded._The Life and
Times of Peter Priggins.—The Progress of Secret Poisoning.
—Literature of the Month, fcc.
Charles Kean has returned to England in excel-
lent health. He makes his first appearance as Hamlet, (at Mon-
day, at the Haymarket.
PRINCE'S TIIEA TR E.—A Night in Granada
was played last evening, and Fidelid postponed until to-night
in consequence of her Majesty, who wishes to see Kreutzsr's
opera, honouring the theatre with her presence.
FISHING IN LOCH FI N E.—l record this
evening's fishing, because it will, I doubt not, be long remem-
bered by the worthy hostess of Cairndow :-22 cod-fish, of ,
frAn 6 to 361bs. each ; Id haddock, fair size ; 25 conger eels,
of all si.'es; 30 whiting; It) bream ; turbot;. 7 skate 'en
hake. This was a clay's fishing of two persons, in
boat, in a narrow arm of Loeh Fyne—unattended,a,e'-'s:nctcrita:irYaat
lad to assist in the baiting—yet it will apper
Itto
the inn of Cairndow, there was not a fish
r be I=ad
bauiltetsheelfl)l g hacl o;ffearne((li ifa ntyh k
sum fur a yti,:ftr3acr:;:(koi nut iitvhet
been I,mocurcd. Sportviian Irclund and Scotland.