The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-10 00:00:00

Air. BREWSTER admitted that he had attended the di

ner, but requeAal to have it ex:Aaine.l what the Court
meant by acting as chaplain, an 1 was answered that it was
asking a blessing, or returning thanks.
The third question, as to the letter, was next. pnt to Mr.
BreWster from the Chair ; but he declined answering it, fur
the same reasons.
He then moved, that the law by which he miwi.t. be held
contumacious for declining the que,,tions be read."
Mr. 'Al‘}i'Eu . seconded the motion.
Mr. APPARLANE wished to explain to the elders, that
there'was no specific law, further than the ordination vows,
which.bound them to submit to the authority of the preshy-
tory,. or church courts. Mr. M'Farlane then read an ex-
tract from the ordination vows, and concluded by moving
an amendment to Mr. Brewster's motion.
Mr. BIIMSTER said an amendm,na could not be made
now; when. the vote had been put.
The motion was then put with the amendment, and the
amendment of Mr. M'Farlane was then carried,
Mr.BnEwsTut. protested and took instruments against
the decision of the Court.
Dr. -BuaNs said it was now a subject of consideration
for the Court, if they would sist procedure after the pro-
tests that had been taken by Mr. Brewster. If he had ad-
mitted the whole of the charges, or if he had denied the
wholO)f ttem, it would then have been a subject of consi-
deration what they'sltuuld do, but as Mr. Brewster had ad-
mitted the first part, and refused answering the second and
third, though it did not enable them to take all the steps
they intended, be was prepared to move that the opinion
of the•preSbytery be taken on the conduct of one of their
members.• . He (Dr. B.) regretted exceedingly that one
of their members should have done what had been admitted
by Mr: Brewster,--that one of their number should have
gone to a public dinner with such a character as O'Connell.

He did not object to Mr. Brewster asking a blessing at a
dinner in Glasgow—he did not object to his ridit; • n
coach ; that was not the ground of his-objection, but ft:
cream of his objection was, that he had gone to din.: u -
liely with such a character as O'Connell. As a Pro e, ait
Minter he 'regretted that Mr. Brewster should Ia :c
countenanced O'Connell, the advca:ate for the abel :ioa of
the House of Lords, an occurrence that could only en 1
in revolution, and the establishment of democracy
the country. He looked on the cause of O'Conta
as the cause cnly
:of a birc.l agent of the Ceithol
party, chase measures were calculated to end in the cs.
tablishment of Catholic ascendancy. O'Connell was be-
sides linked with a party in the nous() of Commona
against whom that Presbytery had -lately peCtioned.
arguments went to 'abolish the House of Lints, and to
establish Catholic ascendancy. He did not charge Mt.
Brewster with having attended his harangues on tho streets,
nor on the Green of Glasgow what he blamed Mr, Brew.
ster for, wa3 his countenancing Mr, O'Conadi in tth
triumphal procedure fi. such purpo4o3 throu44l
land, and he looked on suet tt (alum; as compronlisia,ff
his principles :is 1 Protestant minister. He referred to
Mr, O'Connell's letter to Mr. Buchan, which i e styled a
hypocritical effusion, and would refer to the injunctions of
the Church, so far back as the 16th century, against thwat,
keeping company with Inalignants. These malignants ',ere
not so hal as the ,Papists ; they were merelyEpiscoratian; ;
and if their fathers bad forbidden the communication wi:lt
Episcopalians, how much more were they ba'amd to refrain
from c )tninunication with Papists ? that Popery
was ca'culated not only to put liberty in their own
country, hilt over Europe,
nance such parties we "..a those who could counte-
r:, w'orthy of disapprobation ; and
so convinaed Iyas
alone, b
..wc'a tae of 'this, that though he should stand.
'io -Move the disapprobation of that Court
agamst
441-: Brewster. He would not at present go
tf a "proof that Mr. Brewster had been in the Old Low
Chuich with O'Connell, that he had applauded him there,
or that he had joined with the Committees in eapressing his
approbatioa of the procedure ; such a course would stultify
the proceedings of the Presbytery. He Mould confine him-
self to a simple Motion, merely that they should express their
disapprobation of the conduct of Mr. Brewster, in going to
Glasgow to dine with O'Connell, and tLt o:.her matters
should lie over for further consideration.
Mr. M.FaaaaNE, at some length, seconded t':e motion
of Dr. Burge.

Mr. PUNCAN M'Fi said the reaLe.ning they bad heard
was all good enough in pointing out the et rors of Popery;
but he wanted to know what that had to do In reference to
the conduct of Mr. Brewster ? Ile (Mr. M'F'ee) would
refer just as pointedly- to the Cheech o • Eng:and as they
had done to the Catholics. IL considered them nearly
alike, and now, when there were so many attempts to in-
troduCe episcopacy amongst them, they should recollect that
their forefathers had lent themselves as zealously to oppose
Episcoricy.,as they had done to orreose Popery. It was
against Episeopley that. their forefatl.ers bed drawn their
swords. Ile could not account fur the Lenduet of some
members, who seemed hte:inecl to truckle so much to the
Church or Englan !, and who seemed s , desirous to iii
a victim of Mr. Brewster, for having gone to a dinnee. to
Mr.- O'Connell, betecuse he was a Catholic. They were
taught to love their enemies, and he di .1 not see why they
should shun their company. If they were wrong, they
might convert them by their presence and their countenance.
Mr. YOUNG, elder, opposed the nv:tion.
Mr. BIIEWSTER replied. He admitted bovine. receiv
a letter froel Dr. Barns previously co his (iqr 1 ,rewszte's}
going to the O'Connell dinner, cakes' e I an I sznv, , not
to bin s if, but to his colleague, which letter be eaddre•
card in no other light than a, an : 6gravatioono-
&
courteous and irregular treatment cd. which. he el mlain?d,
If Dr. Burns, upon finding that his threat bad not the,
etrect intended, formed the resolution of br:n,ging the
matter be ore the Presbytery, it was ineuenl.,rit upon
him to give M. B. ne:.iee of his intention, according to
the rules .of the church, by calling- personally upon bin).
self. The chargeaagainst, bhn, s ► far as he could causer
it from the -speechei of the mover and secandee.
Berne and Mr. M'Farlane, was, that. by atteedine the
O'Connell • dinner in Glasgow he had encouraged awl
countenanced one who was not only a Roman Catholic:
hut was " banded" with his Catholic countrymen for
the subversittn of the Irish Church, and who was, more-
over, an avowed Voluntary. There was no evitlete:c wnat-
ever that Mr. O'Connlell contemplated the desteuctooo of
the Church of Ireland. There had been nienty of asset than,
but no proof. But although there had been proof t teat
effect, Mr. Brewster was not to be. held n s,onaibie
for the entertainment of such sicws, or the prosecution of
such objects on the part of Mr. O'Connell. In order to
show the character of' that Establishment, v. Melt his brethren

seemed so caper to sudport, he woull take the liberty
reading to them something regord;ng the pr:sent state of
the Episcopal Chnrch of lyeland. Mr. Prewsi.cr then
read from the October number of " Chambers's Histori-
cal Newspaper," an authentic account or the pregentslita
/if the IrisTilThurt,h Mtablishment. Would i h people of
Scotland (asked Mr. Brewster) have submitted to a it thing
like this ? No ! there was a charaLter and spirit in his
countrymen which would have resisted—which actually and
successfully had resisted—the imposition upon them of s telt
an establishment. The r,uor Catholic of Ireland had h.:en

fur ages trodden to the, (lust by his releatless r ppressors..,
And what had been the great crime of Mr. O'Connell, oa
account of which be had been inade the object
.so
abuse ? Why, that he had devoted his powerM't dents to
deliverhis countrymen from the sufferings and her da ;e under
which they bad so long g.ronned. Ile had made no attempt.,
however, to subvert t!:e Church (11. l.relani. If, by such
an attempt, he hail violated, as had been alleged, the (Ai.'
gations of. his parliamentary oath, there was a numerous and.
Argus7ryed faction ever watching over him, and al.:•.sys.
ready to call him to account. But Mr. O'Connell das
only a subverter of the Irish Church, but lie aho a vo-
luntary ; and this is made another ground charge agaito:.t
me, said Mr. Brewster, that I have give., countenance to O.
voluntary. Well might Mr. O'Connell be a - vo7untarv.
with such an ostahlisbm'nt as that or Irclarrl before his
eyes. But whether lie was a voluntary car not. Mr. Brewster
said he was not bound to I.lquiro, that havng aothing to Jo
with the declared object of the dinner given to Arr.
O'Connell, which was to do lmn honour, not as a Ca-

tholie or 'a voluntary, but as a patriot and ro-
pist. Bero're concluding, he would advert tor a moment.
to the allusion made by Dr. Burns to the ex Imple
our Forefathers in denouncing maliguants. A/ .1 %vim did
Dr. Barns, think were those m .ignauts Why they
lvere. Epis!.opalianz, more hated even, awl at that time,

leservedly more itate,l, limp. the CP'..tioiies then,s(Aves ;
for the'pcople of Scotian.' haki Luffere inanitely more front

the one than from the other. Yes, the evunple of our
noble forefathers • was worthy of imitation, for it eonsiste,l
in casting away,from them the fotte.-s of and religions
bondage, and in resisting the attempts of Episcopalian ma-
lignants, to bring them again under a yoke not less hate-
ful than that from which they ha'? just CSe 2ped. It was
from a like oppression that iNir. O'Connell had, in part,
deliverA his suffering Hlow-conntrymen, rnd it was to
frustrate ins patriotic exertions to-A-m..ls the completion of
his triumph that the Orange faction in Ireland had se:,t
forth its crusading emissaries to form Protestant` Associa-
tions; and it was with such men, some of en;•ni the fitting_
reproseniativcs of the ancient malignants, that so mmy or
the ministers and members of our-own church were now

recklessly uniting themselves, end becomlng the tools of -
that 1)=0011 and tyrannical faction which had never
yielded one iota of improvement towards the amelioration of
of man, till it was wrung from it by the friends of liberty,
and by,thc progress and influence of human intelligence.
D.D+.lluntis replied at i'ame length. 1k considere•l
BrewAer's defence worse than his. offence. He had there

praised O'Connell to the skies. As regarded the objec-
tions of SOIII3 of the elders to the motion, he had no hesi-
tation'in saying that. if the conduct of O'Connell end his
colleagues v.-as not calculated to overturn the established
religion and constitu;:on of the Country, it. had a tenden9
to do so. lie s,iv; nu s;
.reason to alter the nature of la
motion, and would press It to a vote in its present fo-m.
The following, is the purport of Dr. :notion :

That the. Presbytery disapprove of the con.luct of Mr.
Brewster, one of their members, in bis attending a pub-
lic dinner given to Daniel O'Connell, M.P., because such,.
conduct was unseemly, disrespectful, and calculated to int-
jure the Church of Scotland; and the Presbytery defer
giving judgment for the present on the o:her questions
which he has declined to answer.
The motion being put, it was supported 1,1,, all the

members present, with the exceptir>n of M:. Brewster,
Mr. •M‘Pce, and. Mr. Young.—lt was a•L•curdir.2„ly carried..

LOSS OF A RIB.— On Satutday night, Miss
residing near Banbridge, eloped with a young man, to
whom, it is to b 3 presumed, she was fervently' Lttaehed, and
the happy pair set off without loss of time to the residence
of an ex-Reverend gentleman, within a few miles of• Rath-
friland, in order to have the matrimonial knot made fast,
his ex-aeverance having been for many years celebrated on
account of his performances in this line of business. The
father of the damsel, however, accompanied by his son, his,
son-in-law, and other relations, set out on a Lochinvar pur-
suit,• hut unhappily reached the matrimonial mart at too
late an hour to prevent the union of the fugitives, who,.
after plighting hurried vows, had already sot out for their
pla4ec,of nocturnal destination—the house of the eliarno,"4
St4plimi._!' here they were followed by their iovetcratri ati
pursuers} who, as the bridal party were sitting round
choicely furniShed table, suddenly burst into the , .10
overturnizv; the tables, spilling the viands in all t!trect,olls,
,;av
and cOllcluding the performance by giving the bridegroom
;,,,s,6l;t:rnele tohfra,,ei,iimistt c
well aT2.-!inrgittst.T.ay: his eala 4poin
l lie diseoinfitedl.
bridegroora has taken legal preeet>,!ingi for the recovery of
his better

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GERMAN PAPERS

MCCUE DI CATTAIM, OCT. 9.—(1-ora a letter to the
Editor of the Aligeineine Your Journal lately
contained an article from Trieste cn tl.e events in Scutari,
in which it is stcted ineidcntally that the army of the Sultan
is probably destined likewise to re-establish tranquillity in
Bosnia and Monte Negro, and that the Montenegrins
etpccially had excited in a high degree the anger ci the
Porte, by their incessant incursions into the neighbouring
districts inhabited by Turks, especially by their late capture
of the fortress of Schabiak. We must do your correspon-
dent at Trieste entire justice with regard to the facts ; 'and
if he.so far manifests.partiality towards the Montenegrins,
by indicating Mew as the authors, without previously exa-
mining who has given occasion to this state of things, we
cannot he angry with liim, ra he has thereby afforded us an
OpPoriumty to. repel this, eharqzs, and to throw some light on
the POlAtiOnti between the fTiontaegrins anti their neigh.
Bourg. The Journal Akdoiti lint prepared the tv:ly for tf
by a short bet faithful account, In an admirable article in
Dec. 1834. It is there related how indefatigably the present.
Wiatlika, the spiritual and temporal head of the Monte,
megrins labours to maintain something like a state •of
peace with the neighbouring Turks, and an example
quoted Low private friendly conventions were broken by
the faithlcssnessof the Turks. With still greater reason
we ma''' now praise the !,acific efforts of Whulika, but the
more cans..o is there now to complain of the hostile disposi-
tions of the feighbours. Thus it has not yetlleen found
a state of peace with the -neighbour-
possible to estabhs.!'
in.- Turks in general, ;;0 it therefore remained, as hitherto,
for each tribe to make an a-,;•-e.c.zaent with its neighbours.
In this manner, the Moutenigrino had con-
cluded an amicable convention with nil"' Turks in the ad-
joining district of- Podgoritza. The usual '.Agsl4rances of
friendship had scarcely been exelwnged, when the -1449n.te4-
negrins, who, eOnfiiliOg in the convention just conclut.,,
had approached the Turkish frontier without sufficient prc-
tection, were suddenly surprised by the Turks. Several
thousand sheep were. taken, all the shepherds (twenty in
number) massacred, and their beads sent as trophies to
Scutari. • Among the Montenegrins, as in Albania, revenge
is considered as a most sacred duty, not only with respect to
hostile imams, but also among themselves, iwtween- families,
places, tribes, and districts. If a 'member of a family of a vil-
lage, &c. has been offended,it is the duty of all xlio belong to
him to avenge him. They first try to get at the perpetrator,
but if they do not succeed in this, they wreak their vengeance
on his family, his village, or his tribe, no matter which. Nay,
if the offender is an insignificant person, vengeance is often
purposely exercised on some distinguished individual of his
family, tribe, or district. So the Montenegrins proceed
towards their neighbours, and the latter towards them.
The offence committed by the Turks of Podgoritza
could not be suffered'. to go unpunished. But as nothing
could be effected against them because they are-numerous,
and protected by a fortified town, and bad besides prepared
means to resist a hostile attack, the vengeful eyes of the
Montenegrins sought for some place exposed to attack, and
fixed on the Schabiak, which was defended only by its own
inhabitants, who were but ill prepared, and did not appre-
hend any attack. The plan was carried into effect in the.
most secret manner, and without`the \Vladika himself being
able to suspect such a thing. The fortress was taken by
surprise in March this year, and by a dreadful massacre
and pillage, the perfidy 'of the Turks of Podgo-
ritza was revenged on those of Schabiak. Though
such barbarity must excite horror, the blame
of the first occasion for it cannot be laid on the Mon-
tenegrins, nor can they be reproached with treachery,
as your correspondent affirms. The Wladika, as soon as
he was informed of the affair, did his utmost to induce the
Montenegrins again to leave the fortress, and severely
blamed the whole enterprise. It is therefore certain, that
if a state of peace were. desired by the Turks with the
same earnestness, such scenes would not have taken place
again on the part of the Montenegrins. A proof of this
is the undissembled wish of the Montenegrins that the
Porte may be victorious in Albania, and by introducing a
regular state of things in those provinces, ensure their fu-
ture tranquillity. If they were conscious of guilt, and did
t. 11- fear any thing for the independence which they in fact
enjoy, tt ' probably have adopted another policy,
and wool y not have failed to afford the Albanian
insurgents't ie'aisistance they asked, and for which they
made the most splendid promises. But supposing that the
Porte thought of establishing its authority in Montenegro,
this is certainly not a favourable opportunity for exe-
cuting such a plan ; all prudential considerations dis-
suade from it. It would require an army of 30,000
Men, at least, to attack the Montenegrins in .their natural
fortresses, for the purpose of subduing theM, and what
would be the result of so sanguinary and costly an enter-
prise ? Montenegro is, perhaps, the POOreSt- country in
Europe, unable to pay a salary even to its own Chief,
and some -Judges. Breeding a few cattle and fishing are