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as they are denominated, ought to look on these 1
small minorities with some concern. We have
long witnessed a great indifference in the Douse
to the simple) real) and practicable means of
serving the public) viz. by retrenchment ; and the
long-continued exertions of Messrs. Hume, Ben-
net, Davies, and a few others, supported by such
trifling minorities, have given proof of the
most marked kind. But, we ask, where are
the County Members—those who complain so
loudly of distress, which they admit to be owing
to the heavy taxation, and yet take no measures
to reduce the expenditure, and to check the
extravagance of the different establishments ? If
there is'a question about turning out the Minis-
ters, every one of them is at his post; but if a
vote for the relief of the public, by reduction of
the number of the army, and of the expenses, is
required, these Members disappear. We are
satisfied that real relief cannot be expected, until

the Members of the House of Commons show that
attention to the money votes which the state of
the country requires; and the time is fast ap-
proaching when the general loss of rents will, we
think effect a chancre.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

We are glad to find that we are not singular in
our opinions respecting the attacks on our Eccle-
siastical Establishment which have appeared in
The Morning Chronicle, and the tendency of
which must alarm every friend to the Constitu-
tion in Church and State. The following obser-
va.tions on this subject are taken from the Leeds
Intelligence!. of. Monday last, a Paper distinguish-
ed for loyalty, sound constitutional principles,
and ability in support of them :
" We find that the Cortes of Portugal are following. the ex-
ample of the French National Assembly, and the Spanish Cor-
tes, in resorting to property of the church, as a ready means for
defraying the exigencies of the state. " This," says the MoRN-
ING CHRONICLE, "is going to work the right way. No
funds can with more propriety be made available to the relief
of a people from taxation, than those of an overgrown Church
Establishment." The 11LonsING CIIRONICLE has frequently
more than hinted, that our own is an " overgrown Church Es-
tablishment and, as that paper is confessed to be the official
organ of the Whigs, we presume we are doing no injustice to
that party, when we venture to suppose, that if they had the
power, they do not want the will to commit the same spolia-
tions upon the revenues of our Clergy, as have been committed
upon those of the Priests of France and Spain, and are con-
templated to be committed in Portugal. We would, how-
ever, venture to suggest to the enemies of the Church—to
those who look with a greedy and envious eye upon the pos-
sessions which the piety of our forefathers, and the wisdom of
our Government, have set apart for the maintenance of the
ministers of religion—that we frequently hear from the dis-
contented, complaints of " overgrown landholders," as well
as of an " overgrown Clergy." We would remind them, that
in France, the pfoperty of the landed proprietor followed the
fate of that of the Church ; and we would call to their recollec-
tion, that a diVision of the estates of some of our largest land-
holders, has been contemplated by the very men, from whom
the Whigs must receive the chief of their support, should they
ever attain to power. It is, therefore, their interest, to restrain
their journalist from thus encouraging the idea of a public
robbery, as a remedy for public difficulties ; for, depend upon it,
that should the principle of property be once violated in the per-
sons of the Clergy, the violation will soon be followed up by an
agrarian. law, or some other mode of making the estates of our
rich Nobles and Gentlemen available, not to the necessities of
the state, but to the wants of the revolutionary partizans of re-
form, whose object is plunder, and whose hope is to revel in the
spoils of their opulent and distinguished superiors. We do not
deem it requisite to follow the subject up any further at pre-
sent • but, we shall always be ready to resist any attempt to de-
spoil, either the clergy, the landholder, or the fundholder, of
their just possessions."

LAW.—Sittings appointed in Middlesex and
London, before the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT DALLAS,
Knt., Lord Chief Justice of his Majety's Court of Common
Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Easter Term, 1321 :
Ix TERM.

Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
Tuesday

LONDON.

- May 10
- —l7
- —24
_ -29

Friday - . May 11
Friday - - -13
Friday - - -25
Wednesday - -30
TERM.
Wednesday - June 6

AFTER
- June 5

Tuesday

DISEASES OF TUE EYE.—Yesterday the foun-
dation-stone of the London Infirmary, for curing
the Diseases of the Eye, was deposited byWIL-
LIAM MELLisn, Esq. in presence of a numerous
and most respectable assemblao-e of both sexes,
near the Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields.
The ceremony took place between the hours of
two and three. Afterwards the President and
Committee had the pleasure of dining with the
other friends of the Institution, at the London
Tavern.

PUBLIC OFFICE, BOW-STREET.—Yesterday a
person who styled himself a Half-pay Officer,
and whose name, it has been since ascertained, is
Horner, was brought before the Sitting Magis-
trate, G. It. MINSHULL, Esq., from Covent-
Garden Watch-house, charged upon the oath of
Mr. Wm. Maynard, the Check-taker of the box
lobby of Covent-Garden Theatre, who stated,
that the prisoner, about ten o'clock on Tues-
day evening, presented himself to the wit-
ness for admission without any check or
order, and upon his refusing, the prisoner
made no hesitation in forcing his way, and
he had got as far as the first circle before
the persons connected with the Theatre could
stop him. It was found absolutely necessary to
send for some officers before they could succeed
in turning him out of the house. About an hour
afterwards he again made his appearance, stat-
ing, that he had come in search of a Lady.—
The check taker, not caring to let him pass
so quietly as he did at first, shut too the
little iron wicket gate. The prisoner not
minding bars and bolts, as he said, as he had
come in search of so divine an object, was in the
act of getting over the gate, and in doing so, he
laid old of a pedestal statue just by, which is
connected with the main cock of the gas pipes,
and by some unlucky slip, he fell down, bringing
the statue along with him, which weighs upwards
of two hundred weight. The lobby was instantly
filled with gas, and if •it had not been for the
active exertions of some persons present, it might
have caused the house to be in, flames. Mr.
Brandon stated, that 'the damage done to
the pedestal and iron work, was in his estima-
tion three pounds. The worthy Magistrate asked
the Prisoner to account for his conduct, who re.
plied, that he went there in search of the Queen
of the Magic Spell ; and that he was authorized
by her to do any thing any where, and every
where. The whole of the unfortnnate man's
conduct convinced every person present that he
was in a complete state of derangement. He was
ordered to pay the damage done, which he did ;
and also to find bail for assaulting the officers.