The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-02 00:00:00

TO SCRUTATOR. ,

•
Slit,--"Although it be a deviation from my at-
tention to Mr. BELLANty's Translation of the
Old Testament, to answer your arguments on
Christianity, which he has not touched upon, I
according to
,my promise, trouble you with
the Perusal of this Letter, and to strew that your
tonelutions on Philosophy and Christianity are
Neither new nor tenable. To me they ate little
t"re, though better expressed, that) the common
theme of all the Tabernacles in the kingdom.
Frobably-you know it, not to say that like a par-
rot or a cuckoo you area mere repeater of sounds,
but a true believer of what you write. This en-
titles you to respect ; but as error misleads man,
I leave you to your enjoyment of it, and only re-
Ply to what it has misled you to say of me.
1. You ask why, in defence of Mr. BELLAMY,
I indiscriminately abuse his opponents
answer, and deny the-fact; unless their repre-
hension for undoubted abuse can he called so.
£hey threw the glove, and are answerable for the
consequences. Abuse I despise !
2' Whether the sacrifice of ABRAHAM'S son were
commanded or not; I leave to Mr. BELLAMY. His
44"Wer with me is decisive, letting alone PAUL
lV JAMES, who might both be innocently mis-
tat, ken ; but this has nought to do with religion,
I.°l' any thing of mine. The words '' because thou
2.281 not withheld thy only son," do not imply
.ninand. The offering was rather free, and for
Trace.

3. I am indeed content with my general praise
14tI Mr. BELLAMY, not having time or inclination
tio speak or his work in minutice, nor gifted ttiith
'bee dispatch of his critics, who condemn it in ern-
qo, and as an abortion its birth. lam also
t't"tetit with general censure, while I hear they
11" g in unison their swanlike dying notes. Their
Zg'ilneots I think !utile. They smell of a TA-
. rnacle mote than of our Established Church, and
silence is their due. As a moral philosopher 1
14" thern like an unsavoury fume.
4. Yon say I call you a half-witted follower of
(il\lethodist Preacher, but upon my honour, Sir,
nut, My words are, " You seem to know
1„, little of the true spirit of Christianity as if you

5. I defy you to prove, beyond your own ima-
"
a,:44ti°n, that there is any one ungentlemanly
,-bi,t,e in my letters. The language of reproof the
WQllents of Mr. BELLAMY have brought on them-
by their rudeness and licentiousness. •
e • You say philosophy has nothing to do with
111?,',•
I,gi°ll• If ycii mean your own it is nothing to
toy ; but it you say it for others, you require
,tue informed, that true religion is all philo-
-P"Y• It is a binding principle between God
:11 conscience. Philosophy is a love of wisdom,
stsiwiisdom is of virtue, and virtue is a strength of
that enables us to overcome the force of
illthediate temptation to evil. BONER says
• Never, never wicked man was wise. .
1-11
il You add, or seem to add, that Christianity
kl inculcates moral obligation. 110 you not
that moral obligation was known and prac-
tss-,'', lung before Christianity, and that it is
in conscience, which is the.voice of
4;4tl' nd results from philosophy, not as you on-
tre-hatlil it, hut as it is in itself ? Atheism is the
ple,eit of folly, not wisdom, and none are per-
ar" its_mazes, but mechanics in faith, whose
ko`).lv "'nents against philosophy, of which they
7nothing, are really absurd.
tanr, Philosophy, you say, has made Atheists, but
ft,,.;" [flake Christians. I know nothing of the
kr -r Part of this assumed assertion, but this I
• te
that true Christianity, as out of the mouth
tre,l Anthor, who wrote nothing, and on the
a,)~ltt 01. his Evangelical Historians, is all philo-
• Y' all moral obligation, all religion, and
siiir! he to bear the contrary front any of our
their a) ranters, he would quit them, and say
Linctrine was not his doctrine.
11:where you are only hypothetical I leave you
),Y,,4111.0wn solution ; 'having no more to do with
h, taith than you have with mine. Yours may
dish es
what passes all tinderstanding, in inipossi-
14„e. mysteries, miracles, which may have
ande in the mind when reason has fled front it,
Likin,4ke the unhappy sufferer an nhject of Saint
1 and this, Sir, I know has happened, but
Athe'i`v not that sound philosophy ever made an
reciast' A Deist it has, but of this I have al-
'
. AsPll(loken.
botll, Pray, Sir, who made SOCRATES and did
are 'e same power make CHRIST, though as you
as li,"Ot to believe, in a different way ? Bold
(11,1,7 comparison is, it is just. Boils suffered in
caose. Beyond morality a belief in the
thatleAnthor of all nature, all worlds, and all
eiluthertin is, with a belief in his Providence,
religion. You may call it what yOu will,
latiniv,t has it to do with Mr. BE LLAM Y Trans-
, io' the Old Testament ?
tat „ ," Impeiteet (I have said) as it may be in
k4t-rlßiril Hebrew, of which none can judl.'e,"
thei3xPeeting you could doubt my meaning, which
Ihspire:l-71\ione can judge whether Moss and the
14re None
wrote down the exact words that
11. .licaled to them.
Ivh A decline your reference to BiEunpumus,
"let it'lltattds too much with mechanical common-
-eligionists, and is an enemy to improve-
Mr. llELLamte.
thilatlllteintinn the word ignora ne.e, not recollect-
n,.
"liiut !rutighout the world it is the mother of
rti
.11141.-' Sir, 1 think I have answered your letter
..°4toil
my 11 r'
is unnecessary, and I will not go
toay f Wr'sers, let their good or
Thsllgperhius tempt ath"Cin tolwrite what it may, but
telt (kttpttn4eed •
y subject, without further in-
or digression.

I am, Sir,
Your very humble Servant,
STACKIIOLISE.

POETRY.

On a recent Charge brought against Hot Tea Drinkers, and

the Recommendation of a Native Substitute.

Quidnunc against Tea Gossips rails,
Because they drink it hot ;
But if the China Tea Trade fails,
Our May must go to Pot.'
QUI SI.

REGISTER OF FASHION.

Attitrvar,s.—Earl Stanhope, from his scat in Kent; the
EarL of Westmeath, from .Hatfield ; Sir Gilbert Heatheote,
from his seat, Normanton Park, Lincolnshire; Lord and
Lady F. G. Osborne, from a tour; the Countess of Egremont,
at lit r new resideoce. in Waterloo-place, from her scat at
Putney; Lady Georgina Lennox, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Bathurst, at Lime Grove, Putney ; Sir George
Nlrarrender, Mr. Manners Sutton, Mr. Croker, and Mr.
Peele, from a shooting party, at the Marquis of; Hertfoi d's
seat, Sudburn Hall, Suffolk; Baron Wolfe, from the Isle of
Wight.

BATH ARRIVALS, J. 1.-Lord Bishop of St. David and
family, Lady E. Fane, Hon. Miss Burnet, Hon. J. Coventry,
Sir F. Burdett, Sir F. Ford, Sir G. Paul—Dr. Doncaster,
Dr. Pope—Gen. Sir J. Hamilton,"General Kersternani Major-
General Mahon, Colonel Morris, Colonel Pine Collin, Major
Briscoe, Major Peppy-, Captain, and Mrs, Page, Captain Ays-
cough, Captain Bowen, Captain Forrest, Captain A. Hamil-
ton, Captain Inglis, Captain Johnson, Captain W. Jones,
Captain Meredith, Captain White.

UNIVERSITY INTELLibtNCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 1.

PHErERRED.—The Rev. John Davison to the Rectory of
IVashington, in the diocese of Durham ; patron, the Bishop.
The Rev. William Elliott, formerly Chapl'ain of the Royal
Oak, to one of the Livings of Siumnbourn, Northumberland,
in reward of past services.at sea.
PREACHERS AT ST. MARY'S.—Rev. Mr. Bishop, of Oriel
College, Sunday morning.—Rev. Mr. Bardgett, of Merton
College, afternoon.—Rev. J. Hal I ward, of Worcester College'
the Epiphany.

WINDSOR, DRc. 31.--Tuesday morning the
Duchess of GLoucEsTga, accompanied by her
Royal Sister, the iucess AUGUSTA, went in her
carriage-and-four from the Castle to her residence
in Bagshot-park, to view the repairs, alterations,
and improvements which had been going on for
some time past. Their Royal Highnesses return-
ed to the Castle to dinner.

Yesterday forenoon, his Royal Highness the
Duke of YORK, lift York House, St. James's, for
Windsor, to visit his Royal Sisters, as well as to
congratulate them on the entrance of the New
Year. In the evening, his Royal Highness took
leave of his Royal Sisters, and proceeded to Oat-
lands, to dine with her Royal Highness the
Duchess of YORK, and a select party of friends.
His Royal Highness will return to town again on
Monday, to supet intend the affairs of his office.

RETORT COURTROVS.—ATTERRURY, 'Bishop of
Rochester, when a certain Bill was brought into
the Honse of Lords, said, among other things,
" that be prophesied last winter this Bill would be
attempted in the present Session ; and he was
sorry, to find that he had proved a true prophet."
My Lord Coningsby,who stoke after the Bishop,
and always spoke in a passion, desired the House
to remark, " that one of the Right Reverends had
set himself forth as a prophet ; but, for his part,
he slid not know what prophet to liken him to,
unless that htrions prophet Balsam, who was re-
proved by his own ass." The Bishop, in a reply,
with great wit and calmness, exposed this rude at-
tack, concluding thus :—" Since the Noble Lurd
bath discovered in our manners such a simili-
tude, I am well content to be compared to the
Prophet Balaam ; but my Lords, I am at a-loss
how to make out the other part of the parallel ; I
am sure that I have been reproved by nobody but
his Lordship."
MATCH-MAKING.--Thb great match between
Randall and Martin was ratified on Thursday
night, at Burn's, in Windmill-street, over a good
dinner. A Noble Lord, the Patron of Randall,
made gond 751. for his adopted phenomenon,
against 501., made good by, Martin's friends, as
the battle will be 1501. to 1001., and not within
20 miles of London. All previous betting was
Off, from an alteration in the day of fighting. The
match %vas originally made for the fight to take
place the last Tuesday in April next ; but as that
day occurs in the Craven Meeting at Newmarket,
the backers of each consented to defer the match
another week, and new articles were drawn up for
Tuesday the 4th of May, on which day the fight
will take place. There was much betting made
after the articles were read at an average of 13 to
8 upon Randall, whose backer supported his no-
tions of his prototype's prowess by betting the
extremity of the odds.