The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-05 00:00:00

TILE LATE MURDER.

• The following reflections are from notes taken of a Sermon
preached on Sunday evening at St. Sepulchre'a Chuich,•by the
Reverend. Dr. RtmciE, in allusion to this atrocious murder;
and as they contain good :Kielce on the vice of Gaming to
which which it leads, we hope they will be found useful
" If thou, 0 young man ! hast hitherto walked in the-vanity
of thy mind, and given indulgence to thy passions-if than bast
sipped the cup of forbidden pleasure, and hest eaten the forbid.
den fruit of unrighteousnetis—if thou hest gone to that place, of
which it is truly said that its chambers lead to the portals of the
grave, and of hell, bid thee pause—l beseech thee eman.
cipate thyself from the logs and. fetters of thy sins, to rid thee
of their weight and pressure, and to follow the poor and imp.:
tent cripple at Bethesda into the Temple, where Christ shall
find thee, and where, if thou bitterly bewailest thy tranfigres.:
sions, and promisest faithfully to sin no more," all' thy
backsliding shall be no more remembered, •the stains of thy
sins shall be washed out, and all thy impieties be forgiven !
'Sin no more, lest a relaPite should cause worse things to fall
upon thee, lest thou shcultiest be cast into that place, where are
weeping, and gnashing of teeth—where the tire ever burned),
and the flame is never quenched ! And here of all the pas.
siors, from which I would warn thee, most earnestly do I be.:
seech all to avoid the destructive one of gambling. Of the
woeful lengths. to which it leads we have now one, most melan4
choly instance, added to the list of the many who have fallen
a sacrifice to the indulgence of this desolating vice : for to what
but to the gratification of this murderous propensity, is to be
Ascribed that atrocious and. cold-blooded crime, which is now
SO froth in the recollection, so agonizing to the feelings, and
so lowering and deepading to the character of Englishmen ?
The answer cannot but be, that the murderer's hands were
steeped in the blood of a brother, by the murderer's heart hav-
ing first become leavened with the malignant qualities of this
Atrocious and self.destructive passion If its indulgence ba
permitted it will inevitably lead thee into bail company and
criminal associations„ and render thee bankrupt in property,
lost .in character, and ruined soul ; and as vice is not sta.
tionsry, but the little leaven of iniquity leaveneth the whole
lump, and propels from crime to crime, so will it hurry thee
from the commission of one viii to the perpetration of another,
,and at last madden thee on to imbrue thy hands either in thine
own blood, or the blood of some Victim of thy vengeance, or
song; partner of thy crimes! With the Apostle then', whose
words you have heard this night from the desk, I would Con-
clude and advise you, with respect to thia.pasaion,.at you would
value the moral • death and purity of your souls, touch not.—
taste not—handle not.

Rom Potrrttiuss.—The father of the
M pre-
sent' Lord AUGDON, who was remarkable for
the stateliness of his maw"
rs, one day riding
through a village in the vicinity of Oxford, met
a lad dragging a calf along the road : who, when
his Lordship came up to him, made a stop, and
stared him full in the face. Ms Lordship asked
the boy if he knew him, He replied, " Ees."
" What is my name ?—" Why Lord ABINGPON,"
answered the lad. 44 Then why don't you take
off your hat ?" 44 1, I will sur," said the boy,
" if ye'll hold the calf."