The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-29 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MOH ARISTIDRS enters upon the analysis of
uy Letter, he cannot (-wide himself to put ques-
•thms, or to require answers. I will, however,
tell him the benefit of the exclusively-established
Religion which 'I have recommended, it he does
pot already see in the general toleration of all
'dissent, the mischief which I have deprecated.
That benefit, had it been legitimated among us,
would have been—the utter itrtpossibiliry of any
deviation front the Religion or the State.; and,

consequently, of those horrible blasphemies which
have lately contaminated and blasted our eats.—
. If ARISTIDES thinks that this %could be " more
dre d fill than the utmost effort of Radicalism ;"
if be would rather suffer the abomination of in-
fidelity, than forego the luxury of Sectarism ;
/te and I can open no arnica's,le discussion.
Me slam of his argument IS this, the old bur-
-Olen of eirry•Sectary's sang, that all " light and
linowledge" are -cetoered in some :(I'know not
vihich) of the •hunrired thssenting•con4regations
which have sprung up and swarmed of nom Our
Church ; whilelter Establishment is so dark and

so ignorant as to ".leave the parr:. an easy prey
" to Radicals and-Blasphemers." If the " Brother
" Ringletub3," whom ARCSTIDESIOIIOAVS With so

much edification, can do nothing better against
the infidel enemy than did the irreverend Brother
INNYS, when be spoke with such vulgar handi-
craft indecency of our Great Saviour, I shall not
repent my ignorance of JEREMI4WS locubra-
tiouN. Neither, if they are in the dialect of
his Caledonian Proverb, shall I regret my in-
conversance with thelaugmage of that black bigot
JonN KNox,•the -Cameronians,The •Covenanters,
the Gospellers, et guotiis nomine gandent. It is
odd, that while commenting on Brother IMNYs
end 'his precious oratory, those fanatic Northerns
should-have rushed upon my mind with all their
nonsense. it is odd too, that Brother—or Sister
AVISTIDES (for perhaps he is his own " old wo-
man"') could not defend him without slipping into
his phraseology. •
" Forced prayers hae •nae pith." Oh, .no.—
Sectaries and Radicals have a 'sympathetic objec-
tion to'. force." These arc in religion what those
are in politics. The cry "of Church and King,"
is perhaps not less uncomfortable to them than the
cry of " HUNT for ever ;"
.and why not -?—since,
as ARISTIDES informs us, it is " founded ou a
" blind and ignorant enthuSiasm."
,Among the books which this Scoto-Athenian
recommends to my study, 4 have read the whole
of the first, and the advertisement of the last.—
Of the first, the New Testament, I remember

enough to shook the ee•t;gc.dert ....1.:01. I vent

about to give him for presuming my ignorance of
its lessons, and enough to satisfy me that their
observance is found and enforced in the Establish-
ed Church. Of the last, I remember only, that I
saw the " Anti-Catliedralist" very conspicuously
placarded on the pillars of some Dissenting-house,
God knows what ; and that it did in the most
virulent and illegal terms oppose the erection of
any New Churches. I could almost concur with
ARISTIDES, in his accusation—that the Establish-
ment " leaves the poor an easy prey to Radicals
" and Blasphemers," when I see that she possesses
not the resolution to defend herself against such
covert Radicals as the " Anti-Cathedralist."
In my turn, I will recommend to SAWNEY
APARISTIDES a book, which will make a very
handsome addition to his spiritual library.—lt is
entitled, " Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence ;"
and he will find in it many such choice flowers
as festoon the discourse of Brother INNys.—But
these, he will tell me, are the genuine garlands
of the Church, dipped in all the dews of devotion
and all the odours of sanctity. The more I see,
and the more I hear, the surer is' my conviction
of what I had. long suspected—that Popery is not
nearer allied to Paganism, than is .Presbyterian-
ism to Popery.
Nov. 22.

TENAX.

(From the Plyniouth Telegraph of Nov. 27.)

Extract of a Letter from Bermuda, dated Ireland Island, Oct.
6, received yesterday.

" The season has been so sickly at St. George's
that not less than 300 persons have died of the
fever. The sappers and miners have lost two-
thirds of their men ; the 15'n Regiment 70 pri-
vates besides women and children. Captain
C. Mercer, of the Engineers, and several others
of note, have fallen victims to this dreadful
malady. Some few instances of fever have also
occurred at Hamilton and Somerset. We have
not been allowed to send a boat to St. George's
for the last six weeks ; yet I am afraid the fever
has made its appearance in this inland ; one man
was sent to the hospital last Friday, and died in
24 hours after, and another is just now sent ►off
to the same place. Those who arrived last here
front your dock-yard are all well at present, and
I hope will continue so, for if the fever were to
break out among them, the consequences would
be dreadful. The approach of this fatal disease is
attended by head-acl► and pain in the back ; short-
ly afterwards sickness in the stomach commences,
and theu follows what is called the ' black vomit,'
and few, if any, recover from it. The medical
*men here have made every effort to stop its pro-
gress, by giving large doses of calomel, and lime
slaked in milk, but without success.''