The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-08 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES:]

" Supposing the decision of his Majesty's Go-
vernment to be, us it probably will be," says
7'he Courier, 44 to give the
,required aid to the
King of Portugal, HattoVerian troops would
doubtless be selected."—So, our worthy Cotem-
porary has found out that these said Ilanove-
Hans are likely to be sent to Portugal after all!
We congratulate him on his deep knowledge of
State secrets. The Courier is a very Clever well-
written Paper, but it. has a little too,much hum-
bug about it. The public are not to be taken in
by such stale pretensions to exclusive informa-
tion. The simple fact is,' that on Monday 'lnc
Courier did not know whit to make of the story
of the Hanoverians. On Tuesday it thought
to put down the New Times by an arrogant,
tone. and a bold contradiction.: and on Wedees.
day it. discovered, as it has often done before,
that it was wrong, and the New Times right.—
This is the plain unvarnished state of the facts,'
and all the quibbling about 64 forthwith" won't
alter the case. If the Hanoverians are to go at
all, they certainly are not to put off their de-
parture for a twelvemonth. Report indeed says,
that two transports are already taken up for this
service. This we ,do not vouch for. We only
know that two vessels have been engaged, the
Sovereign, of 398 tons, and the Earl St. Vincent,
of 423 tons, and that the contract is made for six
mouths certain. The Courier, perhaps, will tell
us what is their real destination.

[MORNING 'HERALD. j
MOtiday's•Paris Papers arrived last night. A
serious- and sudden depression of the' French
Funds has caused general consternation, and great
losses. is variously accounted for. One
cause assigned js.the crisis of speculations made'
upon the projected law for reducing the an-
nuities, which so unexpectedly failed in the
Muse of Peers. Others ascribe it to a more ex-
tensive and permanent cause—the universal pre-
valence of the loan system throughont Europe,
to such an amount that not only the repayment
of the capital begins to be deemed- impossible,
but that doubts are, entertained of the ability
to continue due payment of the interest. A
slight fall in the foreign lauds, at Paris, spread
alarm, and caused a still greater depression in
the other money, markets of Europe, and the re-.
action of the latter back upon the PitriS Market

produced the fall which had just taken place of I
nearly four per cent. During the day (Monday)
however, it appears from the last accounts that
the funds had recovered two per cent. The
Minister, M. de Villele, seems all powerful
in the Chamber of Deputies, but has to
encounter a strong opposition in the Cham-
ber of Peers. The general examination of
the public accounts of the year, and of the
expenditure of the Spanish campaign, are about
to be discussed in the Upper Chamber—and the
Government is stated to be very apprehensive of

being left in a minority. A defeat on questions
so important, following the failure of his great
financial project, would probably drive M. de
Villele from the administration. This would
only make room for Ultra-Royalists of a some-
what less calm and compromising character—so
that to foreign countries the difference would be
unimportant—whilst in France it is a party,
rather than a national or popular question. The
intelligence from Spain in these papers only
chews that that country is still in a disorganized
state. The Amnesty, as was expected, has pro-
duced confusion, rather than order or tranquillity.

King Ferdinand found himself so overpowered
by applications from persons whose coming within
its operation was disputed, that he has given all
such persons a public notice henceforth to apply
to the tribunals—not to him.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The appearance at the same time of the Pope's
Letter against Bible Societies, and of the Gene-
ral Order of his Royal Highness the Duke of
York against the, distribution of Bibles to the
Army, has given rise, we understand, to suspi-
cions which we are convinced are perfectly
groundless. His Royal Highness has not, as far
as we can understand, abeted one whit of his,
hostility to the claims of the Catholics. It does,
however, certainly seem odd that the Pope and
his most bitter enemy should be found travelling
the same road. One of the two must be on a
wrong scent ; but whether his Holiness or his
Royal Highness, we leave it for others to say. As
his Royal Highness is understood to pique himself
on the closeness with which he treads in the steps
of his Royal Father, who was so anxious that
every person in his dominions should have a
Bible and be able to read it, we own we were
rather astonished that he should have issued such
an order—We were the more astonished when
we remembered that about two years ago, a
General Order appeared for playing the different
regiments in communication with the Naval
and Military Bible Society. Fickleness has
seldom been imputed to his Royal Highness. But
how are we to account for the change? Ibis
Royal Highness does not surely think with the
Pope, that the circulation of the Holy Scriptures
has conduced to the detriment of religion—
Neither can he have been influenced by the motive
ascribed to him by some of the Dublin Papers ;
namely, that he has taken alarm at the fanaticism
of the army. However this may be, we under-
stand that a sort of compromise, since the issuing
of the General Order, has taken place, in conse-
quence of the representations of several distin-
guished Peers, who take a sleep interest in
the success of the Bible Societies. It was

intended that the Chaplsins of regiments
should alone be the medium of religious
communication with the soldiers. The Officers
in command are, however, to be allowed to dis-

tribute Bibles to the men, independently of the
Chaplains. Before concluding this subject, we
may observe, that the manner in which his Holi-
ness characterises all the translations of the Bible

into the Vulgar tongues, us being, " instead of
the Gospel of Jesus
of
Christ, rdi
et,
D,.tluv, Gospel
does of
no
not say
or rather the Gospel
too much for his politeness. The Catholic Eng-
lish translations are of, course, included in the
censure. We indeed hesitated for some time as

to whether it would he safe for us to copy these
opprobrious terms applied to it version sanctioned
by the authority of the State.

Er.orEmENT.—A Mr. and Mrs. D--, 01(.1
latter a very fine woman, who but a short time since kept an
hotel and tavern in the city, have, since retiring from business,
resided in the above neighbourhood; within the last fortnight
suspicions have been entertained of a serious nature by the hus-
band. A male servant, whom Mr. 1). had taken into his
employ, it appeared, had gained his mistress's favour, and at
lenght it was reported to the husband that a criminal intercourse
was the consequence. Mr. D., however, notwithstanding his
vigilance, could perceive nothing improper. On Monday week
last Mrs. D. disappeared, leaving her husband and 3 children ;
and on the evening of the same day, to Mr. D.'s astonishment,
his servant disappeared. An inquiry was set on foot, and most
of the hamlets round town visited, hut nothing could be heard
of the fugitives ; and the lady, who is above forty years of age,
had taken with her, it was supposed, nearly 1001., from 'her
bureau, besides other property. On Tuesday last Mr. D. re-
ceived a letter, announcing to him that Mrs. D. and a young
man, formerly his servant, were living together at Portsmouth,
and visiting the principal places of amusement, as man and
wife. Mr. D. immediately prepared himself, loaded a brace
of pistols, and avowed lee would proceed to Portsmouth, and
lodge the contents in Mrs. D.'s body. Hitherto his friends
have by force restrained hint from the iterpetration of this vie.-
Latex, and we have heard he is now safely guarded for his own
preservation. The three children are well provided for, even
beyond what their paternal parent, who is a man of property,
can leave them ; 3,0001. have been dewed on each by a deceased
uncle.

—Yesterday morning as an old blind fiddler, ac-
companied by his faithful dog as his guide (who
is well known in the neighbourhood of Camber-
well, and'Peckham), wait Passing* by
Camberwell New Church, opposite to Which is a
deep ditch, the animal being
attracted by the ap-
pearance of a large water rat, made a sudden
spring towards the ditch, and the ground being
in a sloping direction, the poor fiddler lost his
balance, and was thus plunged over head and
ears, dragging the unconscious author of the ac-
cident after him. The dog in extricating himself
from his half-drowned master, ran to some la-
bourers who were at work in an adjoining field,who,
by his moans and lamentations, were induced to
follow him to the spot, where they fortunately
arrived just in time to preserve the itinerant mu-
sician from a watery grave. A gentleman of
known liberality, with the most charitable feel-
ing, gave the labourers three shillings for their
prompt exertions ,in the cause of humanity, and
made the son of Apollo a present of two: sove-
reigns to replace hiS instrument, which was com-
pletely destroyed. The charitable actions of this
individual, whose name we forbear to-mention--
his greatest pride being to ". do good by stealth,
and blushing to find it fame," have long been
the theme of admiration in that neighbourhood.

DR. JEREMY TAYLOR'S LIFE.

" No part, indeed, of the administration of Ire-
land by the English Crown has been more extra-
ordinary and,more unfortunate, than the system

pursued for the introduction 'of the Reformed

Religion. Instead of sending, in the first instance,
Missionaries well skilled in their native tongue,

o convince the inhabitants of the errors of their

ancient faith, and conciliate them to a reception
of the new, the Churches were filled with English
Preachers, whose nation made them unpopular,
and whose ignorance of the language which only
their parishioners could speak or understand

with readiness, prevented all extensive benefit
from their zeal, however warm, and their abili-
ties however considerable. It was not even

thought necessary to furnish them with a trans-

'talon either of the Liturgy or the Scriptures ;
though, by a refinement in absurdity, they were to
be compelled by a fine (which, indeed, was rarely
_ _ _

enforced) toattendance on the church service which
was still more unintelligible to them than their
ancient mass book, without having the same
early associations to recommend it to them. Ac-
cordingly, while Wales, from an opposite line of
treatment, received the doctrines of the Refor-
mation with avidity, and, at an early period was
become almost exclusively' Protestant ;—while
the Norman Isles have ever since been amongst
the most faithful adherents of the Episcopal
Church, from the advantage of French preachers
and a French service book—lreland, with a
people above most others docile, and susceptible
of new impressions, has remained, through a
great majority of her population, in the profes-
don of a creed discountenanced by the State,
and under the dominion of prejudices, which even
to the present moment no effectual measures
have been taken to remove. A few uncon-
nected, though zealous, and, so far as they
went, successful efforts to remove this igno-
rance, were made by such men as Usher and
the excellent Bishop Bedell, and afterwards by
Mr. Boyle. But Government, which ought to
have given the first impulse, was bent on a nar-
row and illiberal policy of supplanting the Irish
by the English language, to which the present
moral and religious instruction of millions was to
give way ; and which, though it has in part suc-
ceeded, (through circumstances of which the
march was altogether independent of the mea-
sures taken to forward it), has left a division of
the national heart, far worse than that of the
tongue, and perpetuated prejudices, which might
at first have been easily removed or softened.—
Even now, though -the liturgy has been trans-
lated, and though there are team parishet where
'English is almost unknown, throughout Ire-
land, if I am rightly informed, no public prayers
are offered up in the ancient language; and
though a version of the Scriptures has long ex-
isted, it is only within the last few years that any
attempts have been made to circulate them among
the poor.
It was, certainly, the misfortune of Ireland,
and one which materially prevented the appli-
cation of any active means for the conversion of
her natives to a pure mode of faith and worship,
that among the English clergy, who were the
first heralds of Protestantism to her shores, a large
proportion were favourers of the peculiar system
of Calvin ; a system, of all others, the•least at-
tractive to the feelings of a Roman Catholic ; and
the professors of which, as they looked on their
brethren of the Church of England as themselves
little better than idolaters, have generally been
more inclined to spend their zeal in a distur-
bance of the internal peace of their own com-
munion, than in an energetic extension of the
general principles of Protestantism among those
who are without its pale. " The Roman
Religion," as Taylor himself observes, 44 is
here amongst us a faction, and a state party,
acid design to recover their old laws and
barbarous mode of living—a device to enable
them to dwell alone, and to be 64 populus unius
labii," a people of one language unmixed with
others. And if this be religion, it is such a one
us ought to be reproved by all the severities of
reason and true religion, lest the people perish,
and their souls be cheaply given away to them
that make merchandise of souls, which were the
purchase and price of Christ's blood !" If the
Roman Catholics, as he (Taylor) had previously
complained in this same preface (Preface to
" Dissuasive from Popery") were so studiously
kept back by their spiritual guides from acquir-
ing a knowledge of English, It was surety a very
obvious measure for the preachers- of the true
faith to inform themselves in the ancient Irish.
It was a course which Bedell had tried with suc-
cess, to introduce, as far as possible, the Scrip-
tures and the Liturgy in that language into the
Churches ; and to promote to the care of parishes,
in preference to all others, such Ministers as
were able to cope with the friars on their own
ground, and enable the peasants to hear the Gos-
" every man in his own tongue wherein he
was born."
46 Had such a system even then been adopted,
it is impossible to suppose much good might not
have been effected ; and this very discourse of
Taylor's, though too long and toolearned to pene-
trate among the mountains, and into cottages,
yet, as furnishing the agents in the work of con.
version with arguments adapted alike to the
ignorant and the learned, with zeal increased
in proportion to their own knowledge of the im-
portance of the truths which they conveyed,
and with that celestial armoury of spiritual wea-
pons which his admirable knowledge of Scrip-
ture has supplied—might have itself been a source
of light to thousands, a means, in God's hand, of
drying up the waters of bitterness, and removing
the greatest obstacle which has existed to the peace
and prosperity of the empire. What peculiar
hinderances they were to which he alludes, (and
it is but reasonable as well as charitable to believe
that some such intervened to prevent the adop-
tion of a plan so apparently obvious) whether
they were confined to Taylor's own diocese, or
arose from the general state of the country, and
the neglect or impolicy of its Government, it is
now by no means easy to determine. The resto.
ration of the Protestant Episcopal Church seems
to• have been a juncture peculiarly favourable for
such exertions as I have meutioned; and it is dif-

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