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ing invitation, " Ho that cometh to me I will in nowise
cat out ?" Let us, then, show ourselves to be Chris•
ti ens, not in name only, but in principle.
If the Jews could only be brought to believe that
He, who by the Prophet said to Moab, as the repre-
atative of all Gentile nations, " Be thou to them a
overt," and who used to show himself in human form
to Moses and the Fathers, was the Lord Jesus Christ;
since whom we consider as God manifest in the flesh,
awl as the Me,siali vi horn they profess to look for,
they would at once acknowledge him as such ; but the:i•
never must expect that they will be permitted to return
to their native land under any error respecting Him ;
for this was the cause why God expelled them thence.
So then they may calculate that as they begin, and
continue, to investigate and believe the New Testament
Scriptures, so soon will the time of their return begin.
And though the present generation may never expect tt;
enjoy it, yet they wit, like those of old, have to view the
prom se, though afar of, and rest in hope of its fulfilment.
For I feel assured God will never restore them until
they si.e eye to eye with him, and then it will be found
that the true worship of God in all ages has been the
same, and that this New Testament. Scriptures are the
revelations that will be made by God to man, be-
they were made by God himself, personally ma-
n' est in th! flash.

Under these considerations let all British Christians
unite in the endeavour to procure for them their It&
privileges as British subjects ; that so we may lay a
stepping-stone for them to ascend to d higher and more
permanent security.

I am, Sir, respectfully yours,
A LOVLR OF TRUE LIBERTY.
Plymouth, Jan. 10, 1841.

THE LATE CAPTAIN HEWETT,
OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FAIRY.

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE 71IAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH.'
" Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1841.
" Sir,—l have been requested to solicit the advantage
of your columns, to circulate a knowledge of the dis•
tressing case of the widow of the late C.tptain Hewett,
who was lost in the Fairy, surveying vessel, in the great
gale of the 13th of November last ; and I feel confident
that the friendly feeling that you bear to the service.
will prompt you to render your powerful aid in so good
a cause.
" Were the case an ordinary one, Y might-have hesi-
tated to intrude it upon the public attention, however
deeply I might have been interested in the parties ; for
I hold that appeals of this nature should never be made
on light grounds. Unhappily there is nothing uncom-
mon in the widow of a gallant and highly meritorious
naval officer being left with eight children almost entirely
unprovided for ; but it is seldom that an instance
occurs, which has such strong claims on c public
favour as the present.
" That an officer who has devoted his whole life to
the execution of his professional duties, and has at last
perished in their actual performance, is well entitled
to our respect, no one will deny, nor that his destitute
widow and orphans are objects of our compassion.
Still, unless he shall have performed either some bril-
liant or some useful public service, his family ca❑
claim little more than our sympathy, and must be left
to the care of those who are nearest and dearest, aided
by the casual assistance of others whose generous na-
tures judge of such matters by their own intrinsic dis-
tress.

" The case of Mrs. Hewett, however, and her eight
delicate children (three of whom are at this trying mo-
ment very ill), stands on such very different grounds,
that I cannot doubt, when the services of her late hus-
band become generally known, she will be promptly and
effectually relieved by the public.
" When an officer distinguishes himself in battle, the
country is never slow to acknowledge their sense of ob-
ligation to him and to reward him for augmenting the
national renown ; or if he should fall in action, sound
policy inclines them to provide for his family. But
there arc other services fully as beneficial to the coun-

try, and as essential to the advancement of its true
glory, as those which figure in the Gazelle, and which,
t beretore, are no less justly entitled to public favour.
Of these the silent, unseen, protracted, often perilous,
and always ardous labours, of the maritime surveyor,
arc entitled, on many grounds, to a high place in our
esteem. There are perhaps no exertions of any of her
Majesty's servants, which produce snore decided prac-
tical benefits to the community—none of which
the good is more substantial at the moment, or
snore permanently useful in its character—none of which
the results are more readily available in practice—nor
any labours which require, at every stage of their pro-
gress, more skill, knowledge, patience, perseverance,
and above all, good faith and genuine public spirit,
than the works of the bydrographer. This a ill be un-
derstood when it is recollected that in the course of
almost every other branch of the public service occa-
sional inaccuracies or neglects may occur without essen-
tially vitiating the result. " Success," said Lord Nel-
son, speaking of war, " hides a multitude of blunders."
But this will not apply to surveying ; for no eventual
gloss or pretension, no elegance of execution of the snaps,
will make up for the smallest antecedent blunder in the
details. Accordingly, a conscientious surveyor, like
Hewett, makes it a sacred duty to superintend every
east of the lead, to verify every compass bearing by his
own eye, to regulate and employ his chronometers with
his own hands, and to observe the celestial bodies with
instruments the merits of which he has himself proved.
Finally, out of an immense mass of carefully accumu-
lated materials scientifically reduced, be has to lay down
his charts, that is, to adapt his work to the common use,
not only of his own trading countrymen, but of the ma-
ritime world at large,
" it will scarcely be asked, what is the use of all this
minute care? or in what way are the public concerned
in it? or why should they owe so large a measure of
gratitude to this particular officer, as to be called upon
to assist his widow and orphans ? I shall, however,
now show what has been the extent and the nature of
his public services, of which their very great utility de-
pends upon the zeal and fidelity with which they were
carried on. The character of the surveyor, inceed, is
the only guarantee we can have for the correctness of
such a work, and it is upon this well-established repute-
jtiaonneilpass
,i e
thatroany3hu
r claims of his family can rest.
no
av
mer Captain Hewett's surveys of Rio do
co, and other distant places, because,
though admirable in their way, and very useful to those
who trade with those nations, they are less calcu-
lated to make an impression on your readers, and,
in point of fact, are less extensively useful than his
labours nearer home. In all the wide circuit of waters
navigated by British ships, there is, I believe, no
region more sailed over than what is called the North
Sea, lying between the east coast of Great Britain and
the Continent, nor any with which it is more important
to the mariner to he well acquainted. It is thickly
strewed over with dangerous shoals, many of them out
of sight of land ; some lying directly in the fair way of
navigation, and others far to the right and left of it,
but not the less dangerous on that account to vessels
driven out of their course by stress of weather.
" In 1818, Captain Hewett commenced the gigantic
task of surveying this immense network of shoals, and
he followed it up with a minuteness anti an exact.
ness heretofore unequalled in this or any other country
In the process of this most useful undertaking numerous
dangerous banks were for the first time examined, and
their places correctly ascertained ; others, which had
no existence but in the fears of fishermen and traders,
were swept off our charts. All the passages among
the shoals were carefully sounded and rendered avail-
able by means of intelligible sailing directions—innu-
merable buoys were laid down, and lighthouses erected
along the coast, to guide the mariner by day and by
night and I have just learnes's!hat the Tsinity-house
have borne honourable and substantial testimony to
the value of Captain Hewett's suggestions on these
points, and to the singular clearness and seamanlike
precision of all his operations,--by awarding 2001. to his
widow.

"In the midst of this career of public usefulness Cap-
tain 'Jewett was suddenly cut off, and the great work
which he had almost completed most unfortunately in-
terrupted. And here it may be interesting to pause a
moment to consider how different the positions are in
which an officer in command of a ship may be placed.
There is not in the world a more glorious situation, or
one upon which the country at large looks with greater
admiration, than that of a captain leading his ship into
all his
action, it may be to death, it must be to honour. On
the other band, what stretch of. imagination can roach
or sympathy embrace the anguish and horror of a com-
manding officer in the situation, of Captain Hewett
in
the gale when the poor Fairy four:idered? All the skill
and fortitude which had availed him so often in rescuing
his crew from perils he now sees to be utterly useless ;
;finally, dthwe washing
gped vessel completely over-
wave after wave beats over the devoted ship, tearing
gallant companions
overboardtthe
masts
w helmed, sinks under his feet.
" May we not well suppose that along with his last
mortal agonies, and the deep sorrow at being thus
wrenched away from the world in the prime of life, he
might yet feel supported by the reflection, that, as he
had always done his duty by . his country, and contri-
butedos tears, it might still make
4 1
her ,
materially, by his individual exertion, to its inte-
rests,
his country would not now desert those whom
he could no longer assist ; ,and that, though no human
band
heart
could t 0
drysi
slug fhis trdworjo,Y, by rendering the office of ' a
a father to the fatherless.
" As, however, it forms, comparatively, an inconsider-
able part of my present object to work on the feelings
of your readers, I shall not pursue this subject further,
nor intrude unnecessarily on the sacred privacy of the
desolate widow's grief, except to state, that her eldest
n
midshipman, and
and her brother, the master of the
sohip,, a
with her husband in the Fairy.
'
spemriisdhsehdi
ie
hope, for me to state in conclusion,
which best authority, that her means, even
' It t
Ii s
do enough
upon
the
with the highest pension that the rules of the State allow,
must prove totally inadequate to maintain her in the po-
sition which, as an officers wife, she has hitherto been ac-
customed to enjoy. Neither can Mrs. Hewitt, unless as-
sisted by the pollie, hope to bring up her children as they
would have been brought up had their father's life been

t preserved to them and to his country. Let it h
e re-
collected also, that although this appeal is madein p irt
to the generous sympathies of the public, it is not less
ihreeted to their sense of justice. For, if it be true,
as I pledge myself it is, that Captain Hewett has ren-
dered very important and permanently useful prof,s-
sional services to the nation, without his ever Navin;liavin
had either time or the means of laying up any pros islon
lo;- ills family, they ore certainly well entitled to protec-
tion, and to the heartiest assistance we can render them.
It is gratifying to be able to communicate, that two
4ilnleteen have already come forward to assist Mrs.
Hewitt, one with the offer of a cadetsip, the other
with a presentation to Christ's Hospital, for her sons.
" Subscriptions for Mrs. Hewett will be received by
Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer-office, Admiralty ;
by Captain Drew, of the Trinity-house ; Mr. Thomas
Lawrence, Post-office ; and by the London and West-
minster Bank, Waterloo-place, and Lothbury, London ;
aLo, by Lieutenant Cook, It N., Addiscombe ; and I
shall be happy to receive and transmit to the Commit-
tee of gentlemen acting on behalf of the widow, any
sohscriptiocs which may be forwarded to me at Potts-
mouth. I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
" BASIL HALL, Captain, R.N."
P.S. Jan 9.—1 copy the following paragraph from
a circular which has not been published :—` Subscrip-
tions will be thankfully received at the bank of
Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross ;of Messrs. Wil-
hams, Deacon, and Labouchere, Birchin lane ; of
Messrs. Martin, Stone. and Stone, No. 68, Lombard-
street ; also by Mr. Robert Miller, Blackheath-park ;
Mr. 'Thomas Lawrence, General Pcs -office ; Captain
Drew, Trinity-house ; Mr. John Walker, hydrogra-
pher, India-house ; Major Rob; R, E., Tower ; Mr.
Thomas Chapman, Lloyd's ; Mr. George Babb, Great
Grimsby, Lincolnshire ; Captain Basil Hall, R.N..
Portsmouth ; and Lieutenant Cook, R.N., of Addis-
combe College, or at No. 32. Sackville-street ; from
whom any further information may be obtained.
" 'lnc Earl of Galloway, Colonel Conolly, Comman-
der R. M., Woolwich, and Mr. Charles Brodrick,
have very kindly consented to their names being given
as trustees, for payment into the Bank of England, on
account of Mrs. Hewett, of such sums as shall 1.),t re-
ported to them by the above bankers, on or beforo the
Ist of May next, to be payable on her account. Re-
mittances before the Ist of May to the said bankers
should be made to the Trustees in behalf of the Widow
of the late Captain Hewett, RN.'"

FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP—AR in-
quest was held onTuesday morning before Mr. Baker, at the
Queen's Hrad, High-street, Poplar, relative to the death
of John Pringle, aged 19, a mariner, belonging to the
United Kingdom. It appeared in evidence that on Friday,
Jim. 1, the vessel was lying at anchor in the Margate
Roads, and the deceased was sent aloft to stow the mlzen.
topsail. The sail was furled, and he was fostering it with
a cord, which broke, and, losing his hold, he fell headfore-
most on the quarter-deck, a distance of forty feet. The
injuries were so severe that he died instantly. The body
..vas brought in the vessel to Poplar. Verdict, " Acci-
dental death."

PARDON OF FROST.--If there is and• truth at
all in the statement of the Standard's Liverpool penny-e-
-ither, as we hope there may be, Sir John Franklin has,
" in the exercise of that heavenly prerogative, mercy,"
extended to Frost the indulgence of being employed in
keeping books, instead of working in a chain-gang ; and
then the whole pack of Tory newspapers on this side the
water set up a fearful howl, charging the Government with
encouraging treason, and declaring that Frost ought to
have been subjected to the most irksome and degrading la-
bour. Truly there is no satisfying these people.— Man.
cluster Guardian.

COFFEE SHOPS IN LONDON.—Several coffee-
shopkeepers gave evidence before the Committee on Im-
ports. Mr. Humphreys, a coffee-shopkeeper, said,
" About 25 years ago there was scarcely a house in Lon-
don where you could get any coffee under 6d. a cup, or
3d, a cup ; there are now coffee-houses open at from Id.
up to 3d. There are many houses where the charge is Id
where they serve from 700 to 800 persons in a day. There
is Mr. Pamphilon, who charges 1 id. a cup, and he has
from 1,500 to 1,600 persons a day." Some of these shops
arc open from four in the morning until elevea at night.
At one coffee-shop 43 London daily papers arc taken, and
an individual who pays lid. for a cup of coffee has the op-
portunity of reading any of them. In addition to these
daily papers, 7 country papers are taken, 6 foreign papers,
24 monthly magazines, 4 reviews, and 11 weekly periodi-
cals. Another coffee-shopkeeper stated that, prior to the
reduction of the newspaper duty, be paid 4001. a year for
newspapers and magazines, and for binding the yearly
volumes. Mr. Humphreys remarked that, since be had
been in business, a manifest improvement had taken place
in the taste for literature amongst the classes who frequent
his house. No intoxicating liquors are sold in the great
majority of the coffee-shops ; while, in the accommodation
which they afford, they are far superior to the public-
houses. At Mr. Letchford's coffee-shop, in High-street,
St. Giles, which is frequented daily by from 700 to 900
hard-working men, the charge for a cup of coffee in the
different rooms, is Id., lid., and 3d. " A man comes in
the morning at four o'clock, and has a cup of coffee and a
thin slice of bread and butter, and for that he pays I,}d.;
and then again at eight, for his breakfast, he has a cup of
coffee, a penny loaf, and a pennyworthy of butter, which
is 3d. ; and, at dinner-time, instead of going to a public-
house at one o'clock, he -cornea in again, and has his coffee
and his bread, and brings his own meat." Nine daily
papers arc taken at this house. The general practice
of the trade, when coffee is sold for I3d. a cup, is to
charge 2d for tea; and, at Mr. Letchford's the consump-
tion of coffee is two-thirds, and of tea one-third. Within
Oh. last few years, most of the keepers of coffee.shops
have been compelled, by the general demand of the per
sons frequenting them, to sell cooked meat. At Mr.
Humphreys' house, about three cwt. of ham and cold meat
are sold weekly, Temperance Societies and Friendly So-
cieties are getting into the habit of using coffee-shops for
their periodical meetings. Mr. Humphreys, in the course
of his evidence, said, " I have often asked myself the ques-
tion, where all the number of persons now frequenting my
house could possibly have got their refreshment prior to
its being opened. There were taverns in the neighbour-
hood ; but no coffee-houses, nor anything that afforded any
accommodation of the nature I now give them."—Corn-
ponion to Almanac for 1841.

At the meeting of the Hertfordshire Ma2-istrates
in Quarter Sessions, at Hertford, on Monday, scene of
a rather singular character took place, and frPin the vio-
lence and excitement that were exhibited " the lower
orders of the town, who had crowded the Hall, it was
feared at one time that a serious dunce would have
taken place. The Court, it appeared, were about to take
into consideration a report of Mr. Russell, the inspector
of prisons, in reference to two cells that have been made at
the bottom of the Town Hall for the reception of male and
female prisoners chile awaiting their trials at the Assizes
And Quarter Sessions. The report of Mr. Russell was to
the effect that he had examined the cells, and he consi-
dered that they were fit for the reception of prisoners.
The moment this was said, a tremendous volley of groans
and yells issued from all parts of the Town Hall, amid
such cries as " Shame on you for attempting to put men
into such dens"—" They are not fit for dogs"—.." He ought to
be kept in one himself," &c. An almost indescribable scene
of confusion and uproar ensued, and the business of the Court
was completely suspended. Lord Dacre, the Chairman;
at length addressed the people in the gallery and the body
of the Court, and told them their conduct was most dis-
graceful, and could not do them any service, and be begged
them to be quiet and to allow the business to proceed. The
uproar still continued, and at length the Marquis of Solis.
bury suggested that some of the parties who were disturb.
ing the Court should be t *ken into custody. Lord Dacre
said he was unwilling to act with severity, but he would
not sit there as Chairman and see the Court insulted.
The uproar and confusion still continuing, the police were
called upon to interfere, and one of those who was most
active in making the disturbance was taken into custody
and lodged in the station.houco of the Hertford police.
The question was then put, and the Chairman, amid a
volley of hisses and yells, declared that it was the opinion
of the Court that the cells should be used fur the recep-
tion of prisoners as was proposed.

During the past year, notwithstanding a decrease
in the aggregate customs of the kingdom, the receipts
at Liverpool have exceeded those of the year preceding
by 373,0001. The total return for 1840 is 4.600,0004,
nearly the whole of which is remitted to the Exchequer,
the expenditure, including drawbacks and repayments, as
well as the expenses of management, being only 130,000/.
We believe there is no port in the kingdom that is so sys-
tematically and cheaply worked, or that gives the Govern-
ment so little trouble, as Liverpool. The progressive in-
crease in the Customs duties is a gratifying proof of the
rising importance of the port, and •f the sound and im-
proving state of its commerce. Connected as Liverpool is
with so largo a portion of .the empire, her interest is not
that of her own population merely, but that of millions
besides; and the advancement of her trade, and the aug-
mentation of her revenue, are causes of proportionate con-
gratulation. These improvements, we have no doubt, are
destined still to go on, in an increasing ratio. Rapid as
the growth of Liverpool has been in commercial greatness,
there is yet, to all appearances, a career of prosperity be-
fore her compared with which her present achievements
will seem but as a beginning. The opening of new
branches of trade, and additional facilities for business,
are already producing their beneficial effects, and as they
come more and more into operation, will be still more sen-
sibly felt. At the same time, whatever may be said in
favour of further alterations of management, with regard
especially to the proposal for dock warehouses, the facts
above stated certainly afford no remarkable evidence that
such alterations are called for to sustain the falling trade or
revenues of the port.—Liverpool Courier.

THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—The great
orators: never speak according to their turn on the
President's list. M. Berryer has never spoken on the day
for which his name has been inscribed. If you would
make sure of a Minister or Deputy whom you wish to hear
ascending the tribune to-day, inquire whether the Minis-
ter's IA ife, or the lady whose dinners, balls, or soirees the
said Deputy most frequently attends, has received tickets.
It is never the order of the day that brings on those lively
and animated incidents which the public so eagerly seek ;
it is such and such a Member. Ascertain from him whe-
ther he will speak before you apply for tickets.---Paris
paper.
EVASION.—It happened in the south-west of
the county (Cork), with which the part before us is occu-
pied. One of its squires, somewhat inordinately addicted
to the jolly god, swore that he would not taste, to the day
of his death, whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, or any other
liquor whatever, distilled on the face of the earth. Soon
finding wine drinking rather inconvenient to his purse, and
sorely tempted to return to the tumblers, he discovered an
effectual manner of evading his oath, by fitting up a neat
little private still on board one of his vessels to smuggling
vessel, by the by), and, of course, felt no scruple of
conscience in drinking poteen distilled upon the facto of
the waters.