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London, England, 1840-09-23 00:00:00

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JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

PRICE sd.

ON PUSEYISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WILTSHIRE INDEPENDENT.
Sir,---The voice of schism in Devizes Church is
hushed ; the curate is gone ; and the rector may now
preach the doctrines of Puseyism and Popery, without
the mortification of finding an honest and faithful Pro-
testant in his own pulpit. At present I have nothing
more to do with rector or curate, but return to the
subject of my letter.
Puscyism, it has been already stated, is a religion of
externals. Its Christianity consists essentially in cer-
tain ceremonies duly performed, by certain duly ap-
pointed performers ; whence result, as v e are told,
effects the most marvellous and the most bencfical.
All thinking men, whose powers of perception are not
totally blunted by interest or prejudice, will see that such
a religion is not very accordant with the dictates of reason,
nor with the obvious language and spirit of the Ne w Tes-
tament. They will feel therefore very little surprise, when
they find that the great objects of aversion with Pusey-
ites and Papists are—The Bible,—and the free exercise of
human reason. The Puseyites take no pains to conceal
their dislike of the Bible. Their system is unscriptu-
ral ; and, therefore, very naturully they aim to deprive
the Scripture of authority, or of its plain, obvious, in-
telligible meaning. Those who doubt the accuracy of
this statement are requested to read throughout No.
85 of the " Tracts for the Times," from which I can
only cite here a very few sentences.
Near the commencement the writer says :—" All
those who try to go by Scripture only, fall from the
Church, and her doctrines, to one or other sect or
party ; as if showing, that whatever is or is not scriptu-
ral, at least Me Church, by consent of all men, is not so."
" There is not," says he, " a single text in the
Bible enjoining infant baptism ; not a single text telling
us to keep holy the first day of the week, and that in-
stead of the seventh." " Scarcely a text enjoining going
to church for joint worship." " The doctrine of original
sin rests on one or two texts only. The doctrine of
justification by faith only is no where declared in Scrip-
ture." See pages 9, 10, 11.
Inquirers, " serious, earnest, and possessed of due at-
tainments, will be forced to allow," what ? gentle reader,
" that there is no system, no creed, no doctrine at all
lucidly and explicitly set forth in Scripture." Such are
the words of this champion of Puseyism. See page 16.
Are these men in very deed the defenders of Chris-
tianity ? Where are the defenders of infidelity ? Why
do not the ghosts of Celsus, Porphyry, Hierocles, of
Bolingbroke, Gibbon, Paine, suddenly start up to greet
most lovingly their new allies in the University of Oxford.
But there is one particular in which the Puseyites
differ widely from their infidel associates; they cannot
tolerate the exercise of human reason. Poor erring
mortals must consent to be deprived at once of their
Bible and of their power to understand it, that they may
meekly submit to be led blindfold by their priests alone.
No longer shall man seek to be enlightened by God in
his works, or in the pages of a written revelation. Oh,
no. Puseyism points its votaries to a stream of heavenly
truth issuing from a far purer source, and conveyed in
a far more lucid channel. This truth, at once so pure
and infallible, is to be found only by pursuing the dim
and shadowy vestiges of the opinions held in
the early church ; by a long study of ancient documents
of doubtful authenticity, and much defaced by
errors of transcribers, corruptions, and inter-
polations; by sifting records which are utterly defective
as to the period most important (that which immediately
followed the Apostles), and which, even at best, are
fragmentary and one-sided ; by toiling to elicit clearness
and consistency from opinions which are themselves
crude, undefined, discordant, consisting chiefly of still
remaining prejudices from the old religion and half-
formed conceptions of the new, blended with supersti-
tions grossly puerile, and more or less tinctured with the
sophistries and extravagancies of the age, cabalistic, the.
urgic, gnostic, manichtean.
Such, according to the Puseyites, is the source of di-
vine truth. The channel through which alone this truth
has been conveyed, is the tortuous, intricate, mazy laby-
rinth of apostolical succession—that apostolical succes-
sion which the Apostles themselves have failed to men-
tion, and which tradition attempts its vain to trace—
that apostolical succession which has pursued its unsul-
lied course without interruption through a long series of
perfidious, intriguing, usurping, and adulterous popes,
and a selfish, sensual, sanguinary priesthood, with hearts
full of rage against the true followers of Christ, and
hands reeking with the blood of the saints.
These, according to the Puseyite, were the sacred
depositories of heavenly light and grace—the dispensers
of pardon, peace, and celestial happiness. Here, too,
resided, and hence has been transmitted from age to age,
in the same apostolical succession up to this very hour,
the gift to work miracles on the human mind—to
regenerate, spiritualise mankind—to metamor-
phose burnun souls, the unconscious—the unborn—the
halt-born—nay, the half-dead! by a feat of holy leger-
demain ; and thus confer a clear and indisputable title
to eternal salvation.
Priests of Buddha, of Brahma, of Juggernaut keep
silence! Magicians of Egypt, Jugglers of India, cease
your marvels. Hide, ye men of Ephesus, hide /or
ever that sacred and wondcr•working image which fell
down from Jupiter, and join to bow before the far
greater miracles of Oxford. And ye, lovers of the
marvellous, the absurd, and the impossible, disappointed
followers of Johanna Southcote, or of the unknown
tongues, good pious souls, wander no farther. Here
you may indulge your craving appetite to satiety. Dis-
miss your reason, 'tis a pernicious gift ;—close your
Bible, 'tis a book without meaning ;—and then in humble
prostration of the understanding, open your dilatable
throats to swallow the sublime mysteries of Puseyism.
I am, Sir, your's,
Devizes, Sept. 16, 1840. Z.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS
AND THEIR LORD HIGH COMMISSONER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As many persons may be acquainted with the
Count Valsamachi, who married the widow of Bishop
Heber, the following new instance of Sir H. Douglas's
arbitrariness, may not be uninteresting. When the
Count, who was a Member of the Sixth Assembly,
so abruptly dissolved, arrived lately in the lonian
Islands, on his return from England, where, of course,
he had not been silent as to his opinion of Sir Howard's
conduct in those Islands, he was visited and congratu-
lated, according to the custom of the country, by all the
persons of his acquaintance. Amongst lus visitors were
Mr. Spiridion Funs, President of a Court of Law in
Corfu, and lately in Cephalonia, of which he has been
a Judge for twenty years, and 'Mr. Zanni Melissino,
also a Judge of twenty years' standing in the different
Islands. For this visit, these two gentlemen
were the next day dismissed, without ceremony, from
their offices ! Sixteen more gentlemen of Cephalonia,
who were their accomplices in the crime of calling on
a friend, who happened to be under the displeasure of
Sir H. Douglas, are waiting with anxiety the result
of an official transmission of their names to his Excel-
lency, by Captain Donellan, the Resident of the Island,
which, it is feared, will terminate in their banishment.
After this, is the recall of Sir H. Douglas, by Lord
J. Russell, to be wondered at ? or the Cavaliere
Mustoxidcs to be " reprobated" for complaining of
the High Commissioner's arbitrary and tyrannical pro-
ceedings?
I find this news in the Athenian newspapers, and I
have no doubt Sir H. Douglis affords much amuse-
merit to our friends in the East, where, whenever
English liberty is mentioned, they point significantly to
the people under his jurisdiction.
Colonial Club, Sept. 17.

Th;

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.— . 'is
work is written by a lady of considerable learning,
indefatigabb- industry, and careful judgment —• Agnes
Strickland. All these qualifications for a biographer and
an historian she has brought to hear upon the subject of
her volumes, r.nd from them has resulted narrative
inte-
resting to all, and more particularly interesting to tat
part of the community to whom the more refined researches
of literature afford pleasure and instruction. The work
has already reached three volumes, bringing the narrative
down to the times of the unfortunate Anne of Warwick,
the wife of Richard 111. The whole work should be read,
and no doubt will be read by all who are anxious for in-
formation. It is a lucid arrangement of facts, derived
from authentic sources, exhibiting a combination of indus-
isr.—cu7ttlaireCts.sprey,
try, learning, judgment, and impartiality not
often met
with in the biographers of erowne.dnhethaed
PRESERVATION OF LIFE.—On Friday, 1
milesi off Orkney,
ring a very severe storm, Lord Alford, Colonel b'un(claus,
and Mr. Lumley, oa returning i
intigg
beento
Lerwick, in
tnhe coast, and
from Norway, picked up, about sixty
fishermen,ustionb,elhoanvgia state of
eextremeleven
exh
been at sea without provisions since the
day morning. Mr. Payne, the captain of the
Wedues-
the
these poor fellows at the risk of his o yacht, saved
them received serious injury, and wereown
life.
Two of
gentlemen, on their arrival at Aberdeen conveyed by these
morn-
ing, to the infirmary. Lord Alford and on Sunday
tlernen contribpted largely to the and the other gen-
sufferers, and reported their case personal comfort of the
ewe, as honorary agent for tit, to son Humphrey, advo-
and Mariners' Benevolent Society,'Shipwrecked Fishermen
with beard and lodging, and intended who provided them
by the steamer of Friday, being
sending them home
conveyance to Lerwicky, the earliest and only
Standard. whicb could be found.— Scottish

Two splendid eartiaaes were shipped last week
for Leghorn, for Count Demidoff, who was lately united
at Florence to Mdlle. dc Montfort, daughter of Jerome
Bonaparte. They are painted a rich green, lined with
orange brocade, and furnished with superb lace. The
Count and his bride Dave loft Florence for Piss.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
venture to address to your independent
Journal the result of my observa,ions during a long real-
! donee in France, and amongst the French, because I
have noticed that throughout the discussions which
have arisen out of the Treaty of the 15th of
July, you, of the British Press, have the most
boldly grappled with the difficulties of the case,
and have ever kept in view the necessity of
preserving peace, if peace could be safely and honour..
ably maintained. You have not been shackled by the
official reserve imposed upon those Journals which arc
supposed to be directly connected with Government.
You have not been compelled, like the opposition Jour-
nals, to pander to the petty spite of those who, not being
Palmerstor,
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personalities.ord
The first blow against the Paella of Egypt has been
struck. The Four Powers have proved their deter-
mination not to leave the treaty a dead letter. France
must shortly declare how far she will permit the Powels
j to go without declaring war, if she mean war at all.
l The assertions so vehemently repeated by the semi-
! official organs of Monsieur Thiers, that France had
been tricked and insulted by England, and expellee.
from the alliance with ignominy and without notice,
have been clearly disproved by the publication of the
Notes and Memorandums addressed to the French
Ambassador and the French Ministry.
The publication of the Treaty itself proves
that it has been framed with the view of
preserving the integrity of the Ottoman Empire,
without affording a chance of the undue preponderance
of any one of the contracting Powers.
To the preservation of the integrity of the Ottoman
Empire France was solemnly pledged by the Note ad-
dressed to the Sultan and signed by Admiral Roussin,
the representative of France at Constantinople. Con-
sequently all the declamatioe of the French Press which
inflamed the people of France up to war fever, ought
at once to cease and be contradicted.
But it is not so ; and, although the Four Powers aro
fortunately not so feeble as the lamb, France still
maintains an attitude mightily resembling the wolf in
the fable, determined not to be appeased.
This being the case, and all the conciliatory overtures
on our part having been, up to this hour, rejected, and
treated with the utmost scorn, it is now, a fit-
ting time to ascertain the cause of this excessive
sympathy on the part of the French press for Egyptian
interests. With this view I give the following extract
from an article which appeared a few weeks since in La
France, a Carlist journal, not on Me Eastern question,
but on the occasion of Marshal Bourmont being de-
prived of his rights as a French citizen, because he bad
served in the army of Don Miguel. The Journalist,
after having enumerated the Frenchmen serving under
foreign Princes, comes to Egypt and Mehemet Ali, and
I literally translate the passage—
" Frenchmen drill his conscripts, command his regi-
ments, build his ships, erect hospitals, found cannon
for him at Cairo and Alexandria. A ei-devant director
of the Italian Opera at Paris is Secretary-General to
the Minister at War ; a ci-devant captain of a French
frigate receives 100,000 francs a-year as Director of the
Naval Marine ; a French engineer, who had nothing to
do in France, is Director of the Arsenal at Alexandria,
with the title of Bey and a large salary. The immense
fortune of Mons. Clot, now Clot Bey, is well known.
M. Berthaut is Secretary to the President of the
Council. Linaut Bey, Crcisy Bey, Chilam, Hamond,
Haugarel, Jumel, Vernier, &c., all in high office. la
it necessaty to mention Soliman Pitch% Coloeel Selves,
the right hand of Ibrahim."

When we remember that Mehemet Ali is seventy-
two years old ; that his son Ibrahim is not consi-
dered a man of great political capacity ; and
that in the East the law of succession is
usually the law of the strongest ; when we read the
Capitole and the National reviving the words of Napo-
leon, " that the Mediterranean ought to be a French
lake ," when we look at the mass of ambitious educated
portionless youths to be found in France, to whoa
Egypt is the sole land of promise, is it surprising that
Monsieur Thiers finds himself supported by the mass
of the nation in his efforts to strengthen the power
and increase the territory of the aged Sovereign of
Egypt.
The Journal des Debats does not find fault with the
Treaty, but with what is concealed behind the Treaty.
May we not reply that we hold in as much horror as
the French the idea of Russia occupying Constan-
tinople, but that we fear the designs which France
conceals in the cloud of declamation against Russian
ambition ? But after making ample allowances for the
ultimately ambitious designs of France on Egypt, and
for the fellow-feeling of Frenchmen in the prosperity
and success of a Prince under whose banner so many
of their countrymen are enrolled, still the excitement
and cry to arms which at present rages in France could
not be maintained if there were not a powerful
party anxious for war with any nation, and for
any cause, and with that party a war with England
' would be especially popular. First in the war party we
may name Mons. Thiers, who, defeated in his diplomatic
intrigue to settle the Eastern Question single-handed,
would be glad to avenge himself by setting Europe in a
blaze, sure, from his talents as Minister, orator, and
journalist, to be an indispensable man under Xing Re•
public• or EaTeror.
Next comes the army—and we must not judge of the
I moral influence of the French army by our own. In
France every man is or has been a soldier, and every
French soldier thirsts for a European war, when the
Marshal's baton and the Duke's coronet might again be
found in the battle-field, and the breach and the defeat
of Waterloo, and the capture of Paris, might be
avenged.

Uniting in feeling with the arms', are the
extreme Radicals, Republicans, and Bonapartists,
who all contend for the boundary of the Rhine,
and the annexation of Belgium to their country;
and, moreover, each and all trust that a general war
would turn up something favourable to their respective
political views.
This party is especially dangerous, because it includes
a mass of ball-educated adventurers, unfit to work,
ashamed to beg, but very anxious to fight ; too honour-
able to pick a pocket, but quite ready to sack a city.
To these may be added a few Carlists, anxious to
avenge on England the downfal of their king ; and some
manufacturers, who trust that a war would restore them
that monopoly. which 25 years of peace, and ten years
of close alliance with England, have done much to
im-
pdr, and which a few more years' peace would surely
destroy.

By this enumeration I have shown that the war party
possesses numbers, education, and enthusiasm. ilappily
for the peace of Europe, the interest of the most power-
ful and influential body of men in France are opposed
to their bloodthirsty views.

The King heads the peace party, and Louis Philippe
is 'perfectly aware that a war, to be successful against
banded Europe, must be a war of Propagandist-11—
a powerful engine, but certain, whether successful
or defeated, to deprive him of his throne. Even now
France is but one step from a Republic in form of go-
vernment—a war only is required to form the Re-
publicans. Every French soldier :c a democrat !
The King is supported by the Doctrinaires—a not
numerous but wealthy body, and a host in talent. He is
supported by the heads of the Carlist party, who, hating
Louis Philippe much, dread a Republic more, and fear
for the safety of their despotic friends in Italy, Germany,
and Prussia. He is supported by the merchants of
Havro and Bourdeaux, who see in a war the inevitable
loss of their colonies, ruin of their commerce, and this
end to the schemes for forming (with the assistanee of
British capital) railroads, and for establishing a line of
steamers to America.

13.1 t. the most powerful advocates for peace are the
shopkeepers of Paris and the other large towns of
France. The men called in derision by the movement
party " les Bens epicier," they arc the men mast in-
fluential in the elections, the staunch friends of Louis
Yhillippe ; they have flourished in the long peace--
the English are their best customers. English is
spoken in every respectable shop in Paris ; on the
English they depend, and unless their national pride
be aroused they will never consent. to ruin them-
selves for the advantage of military and po-
litical adventurers by a war with England.
The parties are evenly balanced, a hair may
turn the scale. But as the British line of policy is
decided, it is well that my countrymen should not
deceive themselves as to the state of public opinion in
France.
I an), &c.,
19th Sept., 1840. S. S. S.

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