The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

MONDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1819.

'VIC/V.ll, LI Yr OFFIOE., September 3,18 N.

COMM ISSIO NElt S firr V 1C7'17,11, LING
His ..ILI.IBS7'Y'Af 217.11.7 Y do hereby
.R-ire Nidice, that
on Taesday, the 4th ofJanifary next, they will be ready to
receive Tenders in writing (reeled,up), and treat with each
Persome as mill undertake to supply (on separate Contracts)
all such quantities of SEATROVISIONS and FRESH BEEF
as may be required for the use of his Majesty's Ships and
Peeeels at Jammita and New Providence, during the space
of 7'welec Months certaia, jrcint the 4th day of March next,
and further antil six illowifq' warning shall be given for the
termination of the Contracts, the Conditions of which may be
s•ern at the Ser;retcry's'Oilice. •
Na regard will be bud to any Tender in which thc Price
chat! not be inserted in words at leagM,
.or that shall
Pot be delivered to the Board before One o'Cloch on the
said Tuesday, the 4th of January next ; npar miles; the Per-
son who makes the 7en,:ter;2ll2- sonic Person on his ahall,
ofrepils' to answer when calledlovl--Itrar`ltrie rtn;/ Tender for
the Sea Provisions Contract that contains extravagant Prices
upon some ~4rticles, and Prices much inferior to the real
value trpon others, be considered as proper to be admitted,
Each Tender mus•t also be accompanied by a Letter signed
by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with
the Party tenderiaz,,, in the 'Penal Sum of 15,000.1. Ar the
due performance of the Contract for. Sea Provisions', and of
the Fresh Bey' Contract.

"PROFANATION.

We have already noticed tl►e ►iudxc'ions"
tnnckery
with which a /set of Birminghatn Radicals insulted
God's Temple, by making it the. rendetvotts and
the exhibition of. their Military array. The
Clergyman, before whom they insolently paraded,
took the opportunity of addressing tiled' in the
following eloyient expostulation.; which ha's, very
properly„ been published And circulated.
He spoke as the faithful servant of God, fear-
ing not man's violence —o4r only wonder is,
th,ft some one of the Atheistical Ittidicals, who
never attended Divine Worship for any.good pur-
pose, did not murder him in the pulpit.

EXTRACT from A SERMON,. Preached at CHRIST
BIRMINGHAM, on sunttaF Nur. 21, 1119,
by JOHN HUME SPRY, M.A. Minister of Christ (Aita.
Published at the Rgynest of !lie society for tbelle4,l4l4ltiOn-.
Attd Supkessicak Iltaserfreirs'Y'and Sedition.
The Union Society of this town having thought
proper. to attend Divine Service at Christ Church,
for the second time, on Sundae, Nov. 2E, with
the same parade and procession which distinguish.
ed them from, the missal congregation, on Sunday,
Nov. 21 , at the conclusion of the Sermon, the
Minister addressed them as follows :
" And now, had I merely Readdress those who
are accustomed regularly to frequent this holy
place, • I might well conclude. But, as I see
around rpe, now for the second time, persons of
a .vety different description, persons of whom I
fear it cannot with truth be said; that they are in
the habit of attending the public worship of their
God, I may, perhaps, be not unprofitably employ-
ed, if I address myself fora few moments particu-
larly onto them. •
" Upon some of these, indeed, I may have but
little influence; for sonic are too well prepared to
shoot out the lip, and shake the head in ridicule,
at any thing which may be said to them front this
place ; and the same perverse spirit which has
brought them with the step end aspect of defiance
even before the Altar of God, will doubtless be
prepared to despise and mock his Ministers.
"To such, however, I would say in the worth
of an Apostle,—to me it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of you, or of man's
judgment. He that judgeth me is the Lord,*
whose toioisi.er I an), and to whom I most here-
after give an account, not only of my ministry
generally, but of the manner in which I have
used this opportuni!y of setting forth his truth
and promoting his glory.
" But to ail of you 1 say, I am placed here as
the Ambassador for Christ ; and in his awful}
name, Abet Willte before
.which tie devils tremble
arid are silent, and even the Augets Ito Heaven
bow the knee in adoratiou ; in his name, 1 Churge
yin& to !islet' to his message. It 'nay have seemed
to you a light and trifling thing to come into this
House of God ; and yoo may have approached it
wilt careless and irreverent, if not with proud
and insolent feelings. But now that you are Isere
—here in the immediate presence of your Saviour,
who, though invisible, at this momentTsees you,
and knows the most secret thought of your hearts
—does not this place, so dreadful to a sinner, in-
spire different sensations ? Will ye now refuse to
listen to him that speaketh through me, when his
message is full of affectionate invitation, and of
tremendous warning.
" Repeat ye then, and turn from your evil way.
Quit the compel)), of these deceivers, and trust
yourselves no more with them, lest ye be con-
Stinted in '!heir tins.
" For be ye well assured of this, that God w;11
not suffer his Holy Name to be set at nought, his
Religion despised, or his Churches profaneel with
impunity. And, although the simper umiy do. evil
an hundred times, and an hundred' times may
escape punishment, yet for all these things God
will bring him to judgment ; and a day is coining,
when all those who have thus dared to defy their
Saviour, shall meet him face to face, and receive
their sentence before his dread tribunal. The
same impious deceivers who brave led you into
the presence of God, thus unsanCtiliiid and unpre-
pared to meet Him, have also too& you to rise
in bold defiance against the lawful • authority of
BUM Nor is it to be wondered, that those who
would urge you 19 defy your Maker, should alsO
teach you to rebel against yortr King.
" I have already taken occasion fully to explain_
to you, the sinfu/IICSS amid danger of stick conduct :
and now again I warn you, that for all these
things judgment and punishment ate reserved.
My duty therefore is discharged ; and ye, whe-
ther ye will hear or whether ye will lorhear, are
at least instructed in yours. If ye now sin, ye
sin wilfully, after ye have come to the knowledge
of the crank ; and He alone who is infinite in jus-
tice as well as in mercy; can tell what punishment
may he reserved for such a situ.
" I trust, however, that there are many, very
many among you, who may yet see the error and
wickedness of such courses, and may he induced
to forsake those who will lead them only to de-
struction.

" Once more then let me warn you to come
out from these Met), and separate yourselves from
them. Return to your peaceful homes and quiet
occupations ; and let k he your first cote to fall
down on your knees before God, and earnestly in-
treat that the thought of your hearts and the wick-
edness of your intentions may he forgiven you.
And forget not to praise Him for having mer-
cifully suffered the word of truth to come unto
you, that you may bear it•and do it : and, above
all, beware ,how you now despise H m that
speaketh, even Christ your Saviourl for if they
escaped not who refused him that drake on raid!,
much more shall not ye escape it ye turn a %•kry
from Host that speaketh from Heaven, fur our
God is a enlisllmiti fire fo,
1 cur. iv. Bo 4.

t Htb. xii. 25, 29.

PRTCE SEVtNPENC F.

FOR•THE SUN.

Ara. Ettri'ott—When I was intinc.!(!, by the
ill-natured and unchrivrian attack-made by TENAX,
on the persons who have shewn such a !amiable
concern 'for the snnply of religious instruction to
the 'sailors on the River Thames, 11-oxpected to
meet with a snarl in retort), but alas a bark-
ing dog, not.k.d.untb one; Welch, blood is warm,
but this is boiling ; fever heat ; frenzy in
.every
line; venom in tine sting.forionsly dorted,lorth in
every word.. Burl am told
,hy ajety•c4cellent
Physician that Oil is an antidote to tire hiter'ilf,l. a

serpent. Do,you think it would cure the hirer ?

If I ;bought so, li.woultl mildly, tell him, tit' VE
meant nothing more than to sitencealhuse,..l6 crs.
vent Dissenters from having just cause to !,I;rge
Members of the Church with bigotry and a' per-
seeming spirit ; by way of apology for "the
Dissenters' undertaking a work which TENAX as
well,as I think mighi he done with better effect
by regularly ordained Clergymen, if the Canons
of our Church and they who put them in force,
would allow them so to do. And I again affirm
that there is no place on the Thames, nor any
near the ThaMes, in which a Clergyman meld
volunteer his services to instruct these men. With
respect to the ChUrches, they are declared insuffi-
cient to accommodate the resident Population, es-
pecially the Poor. I sincerely and not hypocri-
tically expressed my opinion, that if Clergymen ,
could, or might, undertake this work, the present
labourers would willingly retire from it. And in
saying this, I, had rather an eye to the Church
Authorities, than to TEsai, hoping it might be
a hint to make stone provision of this sort for
Merchant Seamen, as there is for convicted Felon:s
at Sheerness, and I believe, also on t'f)e Themes
near London Bridge and Waterloo Bridge for
Deserters. Bethel is found in our English Bibles,
it is naturalized, quite as much as I think, Tatrax
is, for that he is a Foreigner no one can doubt,
and I shpuld fear a very near relation to the
Pope, by the very furious Bull he has now issued
against me as a Churchman, as well as the poor
ignorant Dissenters. Hine illie Lacrynue, " be
wants, perhaps, my place," when he says the
Church can do without me. But stop ! this is
Diqegar, and not oil. I would not wish to lose my
,character as a Gentleman in breaking a Lance
with a Ranter. I pity •his mehncholy: condit ion
of mind. Do you know what is a ood terne.dy
fur the hydrophobia ? Cutting is dangerous on the
head, especially if the inside be not %veil lined,
for though the skull may be thick, perchance it
might increase fever and induce fury. But in
right earnest, Mr. EDITOR, I perceive_ TENAX.
supposes he has caught a Schismatic by the tail ;
but he has only cast a stone upon one of his own
Church, if be be not indeed a Roman catholic
after all.

PERTINAX.

HIGH TREASON.

COMMITTAL OF KNIGHT, ON A CHARGE OF HIGH
TRRAsoN.

.
11lin NciisTeß, Friday, 01le O'CIOCk.—N ADD: 119%
just left the Police• Office ina post-chaise and four
tor Lancaster Castle,. having in his custody John
Knight, heavily ironed,.nudeya full commitment
of high treason. It appears r hat on Wednesday
morning, Knight, and a man named William Wal-
ker, a resident of Manchester, were apprebern:ed
by the police, and kept separately and closely con-
fined until this morning, When they Were pri-
vStely'exarnined at the Poliee.;ofiiee, by Colonel
HARGR:EAVES, a Magistrate irorn Burnley, who
entered on the investigation ; and from what
have learnt, the charge against the prisoners
was, for (laving' taken a parr in the proceedings
at the Public meeting which took place at Burnley
on the 15th .of last. month. At tt.e close of the
examination Walker was discharged, and Knight,
as before mentioned, sent off to Lancaster. The
witnesses who were examined are named WIL-
LIAM IVILSON and RICHARD FLETCHER, who con-
curred in stating that they were at the meeting,
that Knight acted as Chairman, and that Many of
the people were- armed with pikes, pisto!s, and
sticks, that the stieAs were prepared with holes
to receive the pikes, and that several of thu
people fixed their pikes. That at one time there
was a false alarm of soldiers advancing, and se-
veral were running away, but their companions
stopped them, saying " We are able to stand
them." That the resolution expressed that it
Government proposed passing a suspension of the
Habeas Corrals Act, there should be a general
meeting throughout the country to oppose it.
One of these witnesses also said, that Knight in
his speech recommended the people to a general
rising if Government suspended the Habeas Cur-
pus Act, or adopted any other liarsh measure, and
said that Government ought to be thstroyed
NMI a new one modelled, and also spoke much
against the Corn Bill and the corruption of the
'louse of Commons.