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London, England, 1826-07-13 00:00:00

SIR T. STAMFORD RAFFLES.

The Papers have recently announced the death of Sir
Stamford Raffles. He was not of the order of men to he
dismissed with a brief notice. Few men, at his time of
life, have descended to the grave who have done their
conntrtso much service, and with so little ostentation.
The most essential benefit conferred upon society was to
him merely an act in the ordinary course of his duty. It
is little more than twenty years since the British Govern-
ment proposed to form a regular establishment at Pulo
Penang, alias Prince of Wales's Island, in the eastern sea.
The plan was carried into effect under the immediate au-
spices of the late Lord Melville, then Mr. Dundas. Sir
Stamford Raffles was at that period a mere youth, ajunior
clerk in the East India House in Leadenhall-street. The
place of Secretary, which, by the arrangement, was the third
in rank in the new establishment in Prince of
Island, was one to which great importance was attached.
Various gentle Men, iecommended from the highest guarters, were proposed-to fill it. Mr. Dundas himself, and
our late gracious Queen Charlotte, had friends;, but amidst
all this powerful competition Mr. Raffles, a mere youth,
without any claims but, his talents and good conduct in
the office, was appointed to the situation. It is unneces-
sary to say how high he must have stood in the estima-
tion
of the Directors, to whose good will he was indebted
for the appointment. The prospect of every adventurer,
who shapes his course to the east, derives a brilliancy from
the splendid luminary that meets his eye.. To an ardent'
youthful mind, deeply imbued with a love of science, of
an enterprising spirit, and lively imagination like that of
Sir Stamford Rallies, the prospect must have proved
dazzling and enchanting. A short residence in Prince of
Wales's island, however, dispersed the dream. 'Writing
to a friend, he says,--" When leaving England, I promised
to send you some of the valuable curiosities of this place.
Alas ! it offers nothing but a bag of pepper; and
my health, I am sorry to say, is far from good." In
some short time after he relinquished the situation, and re-
paired to the Continent of India for thebenefit of his health,
and his friends not having heard regularly from him, a re-
port of his death generally prevailed. The cloud, however,'
soon dispersed, and accounts from India exhibited him to
the eyes of his admiring friends in England in the high of-
fice of Lieut.-Governor of Java. It appears that on his ar-
rival on the Continent, he applied himself to learning the
language of the country, and had so strongly recommended
himself to Lord Minto, by his amiable manners, intern-
gence, and activity, that that Nobleman availed himself of ,
his talents in the reduction ofJava, and appointed him to
the important office of Lieut.-General of the island, as
a reward of his services. How well he conducted himself
in that station history will record in its brightest pages.
It did:credit- to his country, honour to himself, and con-
ferred happiness upon the people committed to his care.
Had`.Sir StaMford Raffles been one of those men who go
to India to amass a fortune, here he had a glorious golden
opportunity. There 'was a rich harvest; the accumulation
of many years' growth, at his hand, to be gathered 'is ;
but his romantic, ardent, generous, and aspiring mind
soared above succi grovelling considerations. He thought
only of remedying the ablLses Of his sordid predecessors;
the Dutch Governors of Java, and Of extending the bless-
ings of civilization, and 9f a mild and paternal administra-
tion of its affairs, through that superb island. 'Such was
the state of Java, improving in prosperity every day, when
the treaty of peace with the Dutch came, and abandoned
the island to its old masters. The tears and lamentations
of the people on the departure of Sir Stamford Raffles,
while they show their gratitude, attest. the *iadom and
kindness of his government.
The Dutch, with the re-occupatids of the island, re-
sumed their old rapacious habits; and if British commerce
is not now excluded, from the Indian Archipelago,
England is indebted to the sagacity, intelligence,
and activity of Sir Stamford. Raffles, who defeated their
schemes of monopoly by the establishment of the port
of Sincapore. On his return from Java to England,
he married an interesting young lady, who afterwards
accompanied him to Sumatra, in 'which he was
appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Fort-Marlborough, with
a net salary of 4,000/. a-year • and after exploring all the
natural riches of that island, he sailed with his family, and
all the stores of his scientific research, for England, in the
Fame, a country ship, but had scarcely lost sight of land
when the vessel caught fire, and was, with all his pro-
peity, totally deitroyed. About eighteen months since
he landed with his family in England, with a broken
constitution and disappointed expectations; and about
this time twelve months, when walking in Saint
James's-street, he experienced an attack of apoplexy,
the effect of which made a great inroad upon his already
impaired health. On Tuesday morning he arose early at
his residence, at Highwood-hill, and was soon after found
in a state of insensibility et the bottom of the stairs by
Lady' Raffles. Medical aid was promptly procured, and
every moans resorted to,. to restore animation, but the
vital spark had fled. The body was opened, under the
direction of Sir Everaid HoMe, the same day, who pro-
nounced his death to have been caused by apoplexy. It
was likewise apparent that the sufferings of the deceased
must for some time past have been most intense, brought on
by his long residence in India, and in the anxious and
zealmis discharged the important duties to which 11.3 life
was devoted.

EXTRACTS FROM
PAPERS RELATING TO THE ISLAND

OF SIIAPOOREE.

Letters from the Governor General in 03uncil at Fort William
in Bengal, to the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany, dated 23d December, 1525.

11. Previously to concluding this despatch, we cannot resist
expressing our confident persuasion, that the various repots
which have hec„ submitted to the secret Committee relative to
the origin, early events, and true causes of the present war, will
have satisfied your- Honourable Court, that the Government of
Ava was determined, sooner or later, to prosecute its extravagant
pretensions to the possession of our eastern districts, at the known
hazard of a rupture with the British power, and that under the
combination of circumstances and position of affairs which arose
nut of the Burmese aggressions and hostile demonstrations in
1828-24, on the side both of Chittagong and ;Sylliet, recourse to
arms could not have been avoided on our part, without exposing
our honour, our interests, and the lives anti propeztiea of our
subjects, to the most serious, perhaps irreparable, injury.
12. The proceedings of the Burmese in Asaarn had materially
altered the relative position of the two powers, and placed the
former, its they well knew and often boasted, in a situation the
most favourable for making a sudden descent into our territories
along the Beiliampooter. 'The establishment of their authority in
that country had been in the beginning received with just alarm
by the Civil Cornmiasinnee;'.Mr. 1). Scott (one of the most
upright and intelligent of your servants), who, well aware of the
grasping, restless, and ambitious spirit which actuated the Bur-
mese Councils, distinctly foresaw and pointed out the danger
threatening the whole line of our Eastern frontier, from time
stag
change of masters,
-which the principality of Assam had exne-
rienmd. It is worthy of remark) that in the early e of our
disputes, the Burmese Chiefs in Assam declared, that in 1822,
Ilfengee Melia Silva, at the head of an army of 20,000 men,
deliberately meditated the plunder of Gowalparch and the adja-
cent country, where no British fore: could ever be assembled
adequate to check his progress: and they made it matter of re-
proach against the English, that, notwithstanding the forbear-

ante shown by them on that occasion, we were assembling troops
to oppose their designs upon Cacha and Jyntia.
13. On the side of Chittagong the Burmese were acting syste-
matically upon a plan of slow and gradual encroachment in pro-
secution of their favourite object of acquiring a footing in Bengal,
after they had conquered all the intervening petty states, fully
prepared to come to issue with us wheneier we should make a
stand to repel their advances. The seizure and detention of the
commissariat elephant hunters during the two successive years,
whilst engaged in the prosecution of a most important branch of
the public duties of that department, near Ramoo and Gurgun-
nes ; and the insolent bearing and language assumed on those, as
on many former occasions, by the Arracan Authorities, in their
communications with the local British officers, formed in them-
selves no light grievance. With respect to Shapooree, lying, as it
does, indisputably and undisputed, on the British side of the main
channel of the Ntuif, that island,. independent of the written
evidence forthcoming on the public records, was prima facie,
from its position, a portion of the Honourable Company's terri-
tory ; and it behoved the Burmese, under such circumstances, to
prove their title to the place by some testimony more valid and
convincing than mere assertion. We were in possession of the
ground on which a part of our Sipahees had been posted ; it had
always been considered by us, and by the Mugs, to form a por-
tion of our dominions, at least since 1790, A.D. We possessed
written and recorded testimony on our aide of a conclusive nature,
and further, we invited investigation, and we were ever ready to
enter into fair and amicable discussion. The Burmese, on the
contrary, never offered or pretended to produce an atom of proof,
and it is worthy of remark, that they rested their claim to the
island of Shapooree mainly on the same ground that they asserted
a title to Ramoo, Chittagong, Dacca, and the eastern districts of
Bengal, viz. That the whole once belonged to the Mug Raja of
Arracan, "whose pagodas and chowkees were there." It is true,
that the Raja Tooroo Wyn deputed, a messenger to the Presi-
dency in August, 1828, with a letter to the Governor General,
demanding, in peremptory and menacing language, the removal
of the British guard from Shapooree ; but, without waiting even
to. learn the result of his remonstrance, he proceeded, in less than
a month afterwards, to carry his threats of applying force into
execution, under the express orders, as was carefully promul-
gated, of his sovereign, the King of Ava.

14. It is now well known from the European residents at
Rangoon, as well as from the, later despatches of Sir Archibald
Campbell, that at an early period of our discussions with the
local Burmese officers, a powerful party at the Court of Um-
merapoora, headed by the Maha Bandoola, seized that opportu-
nity of strongly urging the King to assemble an army for the
purpose Of enforcing his visionary claims on the eastern district of
Bengal, and that the most extensive preparations were making its
Ava for a war of Conquest and aggression during some months
previous to the actual rupture between the two States. The for-
midable Burman army, which afterwards invaded Chittagong,
was assembled to' overrun the southern districts; whilst the com-
bined forces from Assam and Munnipore, after establishing them-
, selves securely Cacher and Jynta, were prepared to lay waste
the districts of Sylhet and Tipperah, Threatened as we were
simultaneously at so many and such vulnerable points, by the
hostile demonstration and arrogant pretensions of a Government
proverbial for its ignorance, barbarism, and untractableness, which
had refused to listen to our petitions, as it insolently termed the
soleMn remonstrances of the Governor-General in Conned, and
referred us to its victorious Generals for an answer, an appeal to
arms on our side would, we are persuaded, have been inevitable
and fully justifiable from the necessity of the case, even had our
right to the island of Shapooree been far less clear and substantial
than is undoubtedly the fact. Had we revolved to pursue tempo-
rising policy under such circumstances, we must, most unwisely,
and with serious loss of reputation in the eyes of all India, have
tamely submitted.to aggression and
.insult, thus augmenting the
insolence and audacity of the Burman nation ; and we should as:
suredly have been compelled to appeal to terms in the end, and at
a time when we might have been engaged in other quarters, and
the plans and measures of our opponent would at all events have
been more matured. „
15. It is well worth while to consider a little in detail the im-
mediate and direct sacrifices which we must have made to pur-
chase a temporary and precarious peace, after the conduct pur-
sued by the Burmahs in 1825-24.
al. In the first place, we must have relinquished our claim to
the forest land at the.back .1 Ramon and Gurgunnen, which the
Company's elephant hunters had frequented for years, as a part
of the British territory, otherwise the opposition made by the
Burmese, and the repeated seizure and imprisonment of the ser-
vants belonging to one of our public establishments, must neces.
sarily have induced frequent angry and irritating remonstranees on
our part, quite incompatible with the permanent maintenance of
friendly relations.
Secondly, We must tamely have abandoned our right to an
island which, however inconsiderable in size and actually unpro-
ductive, had nevertheless been often the subject of notice on the
publics proceedings, and stood recorded as a portion of the British
territory.
Thirdly, We, must have patiently endured the insult and wrong
offered to us in the attack and slaughter of a party of the Com-
pany's troops, stationed nn Shapooree, no less to preserve that
which we considered, and had declared to be our undoubted
right, than to protect our peaceable subjects, in the vicinity, from
murder and plunder.
Fourthly, We must have witnessed, in passive silence, the pas-
sage of the Burmese across the natural mountain harrier, which
so distinctly separates the two empires, and their intrusion into
the plains of Bengal ; their subjugation of Cachar, a country, in
its population, language, institutions, and geographical position,
essentially a part of Bengal, and the legitimate Rajah of which
then actually resided under our protection; and also the establish-
ment of their authority in Jynthia, another petty chiefship, which
had long been intimately connected with, and was essentially a,
dependent of, the British Government.
Finally, we must have tolerated, without the slightest resist-
ance, their occupation of a position which placed the richest part
of the district of Sylhet and the Sudder station itself completely at
their mercy, in the then state of our military force, which gave.
them the command of the Somme, as well as of the Berhampooref
rivers ; and which, whatever number of troops we might have
collected for our defence, would infallibly have led to heavy loss
of revenue, the serious interruption of cultivation, and the per-
manent flight of many of our Ryots, from their homes, through the
dread universally inspired by the proximity of that sanguinary,
barbarous, and unpitying race. Is it to be believed, when the
peculiar .character of the government and the people of Ava,
and the nature of their pretensions on our eastern districts, are
duly weighed, that in such a state of irritating, and to our sub.,
jests alarming contact, or rather collision, we could have much
longer delayed to draw the sword in self-defence, whatever ex-
tent of petty outrage and encroachment we might have resolved
to tolerate, in the vain hope of avoiding the necessity of war ?
And it; by the intrusion of this arrogant and untractable race be-
yond the limits which yelature had placed between us, we were
forced into a relative position, which rendered any long maintes
name of peaceful nations not only precarious, but in truth ins-
practicable, was there any thing at the time in the political aspect
of affairs in India, or the condition of our power and reaeureee,
which could have required or justified our overlooking a succession
of positive, though perhaps, separately considered, trifling acts of
insult and aggression, in the idle speculation that, by recourse to
ight
cetoonlisittul,ite
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ttehirnepaeteranreyd us,)e daluseonitise; weor latern a‘v%e'ert confidently eenvtlily inevitablythat
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6,3 e, netwithstandieg all the embarrassment and suffering which
aboutlbl aa ::eaebkoAivnneg"obyft:enniac:t'tleweraenfiddeeliberately and conscientiously sf.
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have been produced by, the war, anti to which none can be more
painfully alive than ourselves, that we ahould have unworthily as
crificed the high interests committed to our charge, if we had
liti77.4,apiinsestpetl:ieossltasteeleoeftedAvefir the declaration of war, and the
whaevehttl:elneanivemitio
edtianond
measure longer d deferred
sendingth e declarationalielp
hadb
received previous to the
she theme of frequent (vulture, as if in reality any option had
us
trouble eefirty r ienllcoot hninEuir arelciepheeCichtsotir%tveNOVintil
he
in Arracan ; and we judged,
cinhgaracter of the people, that there
month of March, 1824, had distinctly apprised us that a power:.
Imiwtiaairnenlititillner:sechfranoarnr:teWtohtw.etasioihleirtic°nalletcet relinquishing their designs on the Catcher
side, although in the first instance repulsed, At the same time
we knew too well how utterly vain and futile would be any plaii
vtotig°aheßfnereoavinpsgrooleilminlikcition
of

for protecting Chittagong, Tipperah, and Sylhet, diming the ap-
proaching hot weather and rains, by any amount of force which
we could have ventured to station in their noxious and pestilen-
tial swamps and jungles. We felt convinced, therefore, that our
only prospect of drawing off the Burmese from the project of in-
vasion, which we believed them to meditate at that particular
season, as the fittest for their purpose, and compelling them to
direct their attention to the defence of their own territory,
was the equipment of a powerful expedition to seize and hold,
temporarily, their principal sea-port, the second town of their
empire, whence, at the same time, we might hope to teach at►
impressive and salutary lesson of our power and resources.
Our success in the first of the 'above objects, if not complete,
was at least very considerable, so much so, that we conscien-
tiously believe the Rangoon expedition to have saved the China-
gone district from premeditated devastation and ruin, it' indeed
it did not ward off still more extensive and alarming mischiefs.
We are firmly and deeply persuaded, that the invasion of Chit-
tagong *as no consequence of our proclamation of war, the
efflcial promulgation of which, in all probability, was utterly
unknown to the Burmahs. A large force had been for months
Concentrating in Arracan, by the different routes leading from
AVa, under the Naha Runde*, fully bent on invading the Bri-
tish territory, with the views and motives already explained in
precang paragraphs.—Scarcely had the Bundoola crossed the
Naef, when the first reports reached himself of the appearance
of a British armament in the Irawodili, and at the moment when
the. small and inadequate force, injudiciously left without support
at Ramos, was overpowered and destroyed, the fall of Rangoon
became fully known in the Burman camp. The above news was
rapidly followed by accounts of our conquest of Cheduba and
Negrais. It was this intelligence that paralyzed the movements
of the Bundoola's really formidable army, which induced him to
remain at Rambo°, until he should learn the pleasure of his
master the King of Ava (into whose imagination and calculations
it had never previously entered for a moment, that we should dare
to attack a principal town of his dominions), and which finally
caused his precipitate retreat to Ava, when the repeated successes
of the British arms in the vicinity of Rangoon began to give to
the Burmese a juster notion of the character of their foe. The
force of the enemy in Cachar would, we are fully satisfied, have
been similarly withdrawn, had not the state of the country ten-
dered their retreat physically impossible earlier than the month
of October.

19. With respect to the second abject, although the results
have failed to equal our anxious and not unremovable hopes, we
must ever maintain that the formation of an armament against
Rangoon, and the coasts of Arracan and Tenamerim, was in fact
the only measure which could have been adopted, calculated to
make an early and decided impression on our enemy, and to in-
spire him with a just sense of our power and resources. It wall
'fair also to speculate, as we did, that such a measure, combined
with the liberal and moderate terms of accommodation wind' we
simultaneously offered to the Court of Ava, would have brought
that Government to reason, and induced it to terminate a con-
test, which, it would then see, could not be Prolonged without
infinite cost, and suffering to the Burmese nation at all events,
howeVer their invaders might fare.

20. Regarding the season of the year, at which the expedition
was equipped, besides the reasons above advanced for despatching
it as early as possible after it become evident that hostilities, and
that the exposure of our territories to hoetile invasion, could not
be avoided nor otherwise provided against, we beg to observe,
that we had received no information which could lead us to be-
lieve the 'climate of Rangoon at all peculiarly unhealthy during
the rains ; and we now feel ourselves fully instilled in asserting,
after the experience of the season of 1825, that it is really not so.
The very extensive and melancholy sickness which prevailed in
Sir Archibald Campbell's army, from July to November 1524,
had its first origin in an epidemic fever, of a casual, not local
character, which visited Rangoon in the month of June, as it did
Calcutta. We may remark incidentally, that precisely the same
fever has this season raged in Upper India. The effects of site
above epidemic, of course, impaired the health of the men gene-
rally, and rendered hundreds, who would otherwise have escaped,
wholly unable to stand the severe service and privations which
ensued. The want of fresh meet and other wholesome food, in
itself sufficient to have produced extensive sickness, infinitely ag-
gravated the evil, an►d tl►is was to be ascribed mainly to the entire
desertion of the place by its inhabitants, an event which could not
have been anticipated. Under a happier combination of circum.
stances, equally beyond our controul or calculation, we have no
hesitation in saying, that the expedition to Rangoon would have
not only produced, as it actually has done, much of the good
we anticipated, but would have been unattended with any of thns.
painful and melancholy Names in the situation of the army,
which cut so deep a gloom over the early stages and operations
of the war.

21. It would lead to too great detail, if we proceed to point
out all the other considerations which induced us to fit out the
expedition during the south-west monsoon. The main part of
the force was, of necessity, to be collected on the coast, where,
during the first two months of the favourable season, vie. from
15th October to 15th December, ships cannot, with safety) ply.
Any great delay in despatching the armament would have .ggiveil
the enemy time to prepare for defence, and obstruct the passage
of the river, whilst we should thereby have sacrificed the object
contemplated, of making an
,early move upon the capital, and
should, in effect, have had to contend with the whole Burmese
force, at a much later period of the year. Thus, the first cold
season would have passed away without our being enabled to ad-
vance to PoOnie, and the ensuing season of the hot weather and
rains would still have overtaken our army at. Rangoon, and have
entailed all those hardships to which we are accused of wantonly
exposing our gallant troops, by despatching the expedition in
April and May.

22. Your Honourable Court will, we trust, pardon the digres-
sion we have fallen into, in submitting the above general ()Ner-
vations, on this the first occasion of our addressing you relative to
the Burnish war; and should we happily succeed thereby in placing
before you, in their real and just light, any of those
.points
which have been so studiously assailed and misrepresented in the
periodical publications of England, the object of which we pro-
posed to ourselves in entering upon them will be most fully and
satisfactorily answered.

23. It may be proper to add, that such of the members of the
present government as were not parties to the transactions above
related to, will not, of course, by their signatures to this letter,
bwiehithche hoaovveerbezt.
be understood to express their personal knowledge of ail the facts
therein mentioned, or their original concurrence in Measures
which, at the time of their adoption, were not made known to
them. But they have no hesitation in recording their unquali-
sfitaedtedac,Ptivieit7.l7tre sainnctitlieongeonfertahlevßiiewlght4Holturacy
General, in this &vetch.

We have the honour to be, with the greatest respect,
Honourable Sirs,
Your most faithful humble Servants,
AMHERST.
J. H. HARINGTON.
W. B. BAYLEY.

Fort William,
December 23, 1026

(From the Bury Gazette.)---Our 4owrisnutu, Mr.
Hancock, who requested permission, some months
ago, to present to his Majesty a beautiful cabinet of
his own manufacture, made from an elm tree of b'uf-
folk growth, has been munificently rewarded. Mr.
Hancock has received a letter which we have pennis-
sion to transcribe:—

_ - -
.Carlton Ilouse, 10th July, 1026
Sir—l am commanded to acquaint you, that the King has
been graciously pleased to comply with your desire, MO, to accept
the Ctibillots prepared by You and forwarded to Carbon 'louse
for the purpose of being presented to his biotet.Y.'
His Majesty is gratified with your dot-dill Attention') and has
further commanded me to transmit to you a draft (which t en.
dose) for one hundred guineas,"its a twat of his Majesty's gra,
ciouis approbation.
I have rho houour to be, sir,
Your very obedient Servant,
THOMAS MARRABLE.
To Mr. ii con', BarY SL DlUMlld's.

Tann : a Nom..

LITERATURE.

By, the Author of NoZYIwo." S vols.
London, 1826.

The fashion of writing what are called Religious
Novels, has of late become unusually .ptsvislent. It
is to be presumed, therefore, that they find no incon-
siderable'number of admiring readers. Whether the
work before us is to be classed. among the number is
to us a matter of some doubt : if that title is to be
given in consequence of nine-tenths of the letter-press
being occupied with discussions on religious topics,
without reference to the tendency of such discussion,
the present work may certainly claim such a title ; but
a novel it can hardly be called—the story is barely a
connected- series of events ; there is no plot—no
mystery—no family-secrets, and the heroine does
nothing, and comes to nothing. At the same time
many parts of the work possess a considerable degree
of interest ; and this arises from the able delineation
of die characters, and the powerfig touches, whether
(J£ graver or lighter description, with which they are
pourtrayed. Thus far we can give unqualified praise.
rite writer possesses an evident cleverness in this depart-
ment ; but in some more important parts of what he has
undertaken, he has unfortunately evinced not only a
total want of the most essential qualifications, a know-
ledge of religious subjects, and the faculty of reason-
ing upon them, but, we are sorry to say, a most insi-
dious hostility against Christianity.
We will, however, proceed to a brief sketch of his de-
sign. A. Scottish con n try gentleman of large property has
been linked in wedlock to a most un congenial spouse. The
husband is a generous liberal-minded high-spirited
man, of a Jacobite family and Episcopalian principles ;
but, as we think, not overburthened, either with prac-
tical discretien or powers of reasoning, and having but
a very slight knowledge of the religious faith he Iwo-
fesses. The wife is a' sour, illiberal, bigotted Pres-
byterian, of the straitest sect, of the Calvinistic school,
and most firmly persuaded of her husband's entire re-
probation. Under these circumstances a daughter is
born unto them. The mother, aided by a puritanical
nursery-maid and governess, frightens the poor. child
almost to death with the horrors of predestination. 'ne
father asserts his authority, and emancipates her from
this tyranny, to educate her on a plan .61 his own.
She is encouraged from the earliest age to form her
own opinions, and judge entirely for herself in reli-
gious matters, without the least reference to her com-
petency to do so ; and, above all, never, on any ac-
count, to conceal her sentiments. She accordingly, on
all ocrsasions, with a disgusting nnivet6 broaches all
her, childish objections and difficulties on religious
subjects, with an air of the most profound wisdom.
From the way in which she has been brought up,
Christianity and Calvinism are to her mind synoni-
rnous ; and dins, at first, a very plausible ground is af-
forded for her objections. With these her father: at-
tempts to argue, but seldom gets further than some
very general and evasive reply, and a postponement of
the debate. From the tenets of Calvinism, the young
lady's objections speedily extend themselves to
the peculiar doctrines of Christianity in general,
and by degrees the truth .of revelation altogether seems
to her involved in insuperable difficulty. These dis-
cussions are carried on through the main part of the
woes.; and as the father never produces any thing like
a satisfactory reply, the objections of the daughter are
of course left to take their full hold upon the mind of
every reflecting and reasoning young lady or gentle-
man who may take up the volume ; and will doubtless
be supposed unanswerable.
To any one tolerably versed in the subject, and ca-
pable of reasoning at all upon it, the arguments will not
fail to appear as they really are, most absurd and illogical
conclusions from most partial and mistaken premises ;
but we are inclined to fear that to too many youthful
minds, who may take up the work for amusement, a
'subtile and insidious poison may be conveyed before
they are aware of it. Ile young lady is held up as a
model of bold and original thinking ; and to exem-
plify it, she rakes up all the often-repeated and as of-
ten-refuted objections, which all the host of deistical
and semi-deistical scribblers for the last century have
brought against 4tripture.
,The facts upon which she
reasons are (we believe we can say), without excep-
mieetxted ; and this in a way which could be oc-
casioned, by nothing but the most absolute inattention
to th real scope and design of the sacred writings.—
Tke language too :in which she states her objections,
-;.S of the most arrogant and revolting description : nor
is her determined positiveness in maintaining her con-
:call, as most irrefragable, certainly less remarkable,
than the curious perversions of the New Testament,
which are held up as genuine Christianity, and made
the subjects of attack. The arguments (if such they
may be called), are all of one kind, viz. reasoning upon
the divine attributes, as if they were human moral
qualities ; measuring infinity by the standard of our
conceptions, and rejecting every thing which does not
square with our vain notions.
In short, if our columns were a proper arena for
theological-discussion, we could easily point out in-
numerable instances as well of the, fallacy and absur-
dity of our anthor's unanswered .objections, as of the
insidious and most reprehensible way which they
are left to take their hold upon the mind of the un-
wary reader. We shall conclude by earnestly intreat-
ing that no head of a family' will suffer this work to
find admission into his house : and we doubt not that
its innate dulness, and the tiresome prolixity of its
discussions, will effectually prevent its doing any ex-
tensive mischief.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

SALISBURY, Jinx I I.
CIVIL 51D8,..-IitIiPPARD v. GULLIVER

This was an action brought for the price of a horse,
SI. 10s., alleged to have been sold to the defendant in
June, 1821, Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, Si. 10s.

CROWN SIDE—Rosa/ay BY A YORTLINE-TZLI YR,
Ann Hill, a respectable-looking %valour'' aged
sed in the decayed finery of a century and it half bark Ire
, was
put. to the bar, charged with having feloniously taken from
the person of Mary Arm Body, 3s. and sundry articles of
wearing apparel.
By 'the testimony of Mary'Ann 'Body, 'an exeeedingly
pretty girl of IS years of age, it appeared that the prisoner
had seduced her to part with various sums of money, and
almost the whole of her stock of wearing apparel, under
the pretence of getting a rich and handsome partner for
life. At length, wearied by the frequent denuurds of the
sybil, without any appearance of an issue to her love-suit,'
the girl declined making any further advances. Upon this
she was threatened with having the power of motion and
speech taken from her, and a reversal of the promises
already made. The witness had often, upon occasions of
this kind, taken otf her flannel petticoat to meet, the insa-
tiate demands of the fortune-teller. Witness, at this time,
was living as nursery-maid to Mr. Chubb, of Malmesbury.
The constable of Westport, at which plaCe the prisoner
dwelt, produced a complete wardrobe of the clothes of
the witness, found in the possession of Ann Hill, or of
others to whom she had sold them.
Amongst the arts employed by the prisoner to impose
upm% the imagination of her dupe was the following letter,

which had been 'written 'under her dictation by a woman
of the name of Tooth, letter-writer in ordinary to the vile
Ise community to which she belonged, at the moderate
inarge of twopence halfpenny per letter, love-letters being
at a premium of one halfpenny over and above the common

11.111
"Dear Marx 'Ain);-4 tae' the earliest opportunity of writing
this feiv lint% in hopesltit find you in good health, as I am but
vcrY poorly at present, and I am uneasy in my mind to think I
was, disappointed in not seeing you on Sunday last. Dear Mary,
I hope 1 shall imbrace the opertunity of seeing you, or is your
heart changed, dear Mary, to another: be.-Ati, Nary, my irea4 is
not changed away !Vora aii, and I hope yourn is the SaMn; for,
Md tot hp, you will nor ever be out of my thoughts'. o, aear
ary, 'I shall be glad to know if you do.intend to give w#tiling;
for in my mind I have no rest when I think of you. Dear Mary
I was very glad to hoax of you, as I herd from word of mouth
that you was Midi ; and, dear Mary, I :hope when you do send
to seed ty word of mouth by the bearer of this. My master in a
Very particler man, and I must try to please him, and I hope
you will try and do you best endevor fbr to see Mei or to send.—
Do nothiarne the bearer of this, as it. is not her &night in ,meing
'of me when I was there on Sunday last, and thought in my hart
I nerd you pass, which MI my hart with pleashourt Ctlidd I
lint once imbrace the opertunity of seeing you dear Mary, I
would never let you fly from my harms, and that I had wings
I that I could fly to the harms of my dear Mary. Dear Mary;
you will never want for nothing wilst I am living, and if I had
new that you hail the regard for me as you have, I should not
been away so long ; but I have seen your sister, and I wish to
know whether you intend to be mine or not, as I have bought
many valuable things for you ; so no more at present till I see or
here front you. From your affectionate lover till death,

" WILLIAM PAGE."
Addressed.—=" Dear Mary Ann this comes by hearer Ann Hill."
this bpistle was represented as the genuine effusion of
an ardent admirer, who was about to present himself, and
make the anxious girl his bride.
The charge being clearly established against the pri-
soner, she was called on for her defence. She contented
lierself with simply denying the offence, saying—" My
'Lord, it is all false swearing, and is false charges got up
against me by the two liars (lawyers) and the girl—liar
Chubb and another liar."

The Jury, after a very short consultation, brought in a
verdict of Guilty.

Mr. Justice GASELEE then addressed himself to the Tni-
soner. He said he would abstain for the present from
passing the sentence of the law upon her, in order that he
might take time to consider whether there was any thing
in her case to enable him to recommend her to mercy.
Had she not been, from her age, upon the very brink of
the grave, there was very little doubt she would never
have been allowed to see this country again. Her offence
was of a very grave nature; and he was most anxious that
it should be publicly known, as a warning to labile who
were engaged in a similar system of plunder, by working
on the credulity and fears of weak girls, that the offence
was nothing less than a capital felony.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar, imploring
mercy from his Lordship.
There were other charges of a similar nature against her,
but they were not gone into.

LINCOLN, TUXBDAY, JULY 11.
CIVIL RIDE..—.LIIIEL......IIIIAWBEY V. BA amt.
Mr. M‘DowEtt, opened the pleadings. It was an ac.
tion for libel. The declaration stated, that the defendant
had published a certain scandalous and defamatory libel
concerning the plaintiff, imputing to him the commission
of the most unnatural offences, and that the publication
was followed by certain slanderous words, conveying a
similar imputation upon the plaintiff's character. The
defendant had to the charge of libel pleaded the general
issue, and to the other parts of the declaration he had
justified. The plaintiff replied, that there was no truth
in these justifications, and upon this issue was joined.
Mr. DENMAN stated the case to the jury.
Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, with whom was Mr. CLARKE,
addressed the jury for the defendant. Verdict ,for the
plaintiff—Damages 2001.

CI-IP.LMSFORD, Wentisswor, Jul:lr 12.
fIAT.
This was an action for assault and battery. Plea, the
general issue.
The case went to the Jury, and, under the learned
Judge's directions, they found their verdict for the plain-
tiff—Damages, 301.

PAULL; lIX. V. SMITH.

This was an action for assaulting and battering the
plaintiff's wife.
The July, under the learned Judge's directions, found
their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 30s.

Tlia KlatO v 1101.11tXX AND OTIMII.
This was an information, filed by the Attorney-General,
for offering a bribe to two of the Smuggling Preventive
Service, to allow the defendants to land a quantity of un-
eustomed goods on the coast of Essex.
The only defendant who appeared to take his trial was
Bourne.
No substantial defence was offered, and the defendant
was found Guilty.

CHOWN SIDE.

George Wright, :Mums Wright, Naomi Wright, and
Mary Wright, were indicted for hurglariously 'breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of Joseph Morris on the
night of the 11th of April last, at Langley, and stealing
therein various articles of wearing-apparel, and a quantity
of gold and silver coin, exceeding the value of 504, his
property.
The prisoners denied their guilt. An attempt was
made to set up an alibi, which, however, failed.

The Learned Judge summed up the evidence with
great minuteness, and the Jury acquitted Mary Wright,
on the ground that she must be presumed to have acted
under the controul of her husband; and they found the
other prisoners Guilty.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM passed the awful
.sentence of the
law upon the convicted prisoners, and held out no hopes
of mercy to the male prisoners.
All the prisoners had been convicted of felony at the
late Assizes for Hertford.

YORK, TUESDAY, July 11.
mu. SIDE,-11112 ICING V. SOVTEA.

Mr. COL.TM4N stated this case to the jury. The pro-
secutor was a gentleman named Gleadow, who had been
.compelled to prefer the indictment against the Defendant
fora gross assault committed by the latter on the 2d of
January last. The parties had formerly been intimate,
and on the day in question the Defendant's wife drank tea
at the Prosecutor's house, in company with the Prosecu-
tor and his wife. At the close of the evening they ac-
companied her home, and on the road met her husband,
who immediately manifested a very quarrelsome disposi-
tion, and struck his wife for having been absent from
home. The Prosecutor having interfered to prevent her
from being ill-used, her husband became so enraged, that
he drew a pistol from his pocket, and presented it at the
Prosecutor's face, the pistol being at that time loaded with
shot. Fortunately for both parties, a third gentleman
happened to be present, and he knocked the pistol out of
the Defendant's hand, and prevented any of those danger-
ous consequences that might have ensued from the acci-
dental explosion of the pistol, or from any other cause, if
indeed the Defendant had intended any thing beyond
frightenint! the Prosecutor.
The Prosecutor, after detailing the case, said, that
" the pistol was loadecl--we have got it here."
Mr. Justice Park—" For God's sake ! what ! a loaded
pistol here r

Witness. Only with small shot."
Mr. Justice,Park.—" Go out of court and unload it;
but bring the contents in afterwards."—(great laughter.)
Mr. Park, for the Defendant, said, 4t My Lord, there
are only 6
41°L"—(renewed laughter.)
3
The Jury found the Defendant guilty; and his Lord-
ship, in order to obviate the necessity
London, suggested
of the Defendant's
taking a long and expensive journey
an arrangement, by which the. Prosecutor should abstain
to
from calling for the judgment of the Court of King's Bench,
on the Defendant's paying the costs of the prosecution,
cu

•
and giving a small sum to some charity in Null. Both the
parties agreed to the arrangement, and the sum named
was five pounds.

CROWN SIDE.
lifortin West yas' in4icted.for uttering a forged Bank of
ttig6fid iidte; ittityiyilig it t 4 be forged 4 41-le, .callad no
witnesses, and the Jury immediately found hiin
_Edward Moore and John Doyle were charged with
having committed a highway robbery upon the person of
Roger Pollett, near Dewsbury.
The Jury ttequitted the prisoners ; and on the applica-
tion of Doyle, Mr: Baron Hullock ordered that whatever
had begin taken &um them should be returned: