The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-08 00:00:00

CHANGES.

The Earl and Countess of Coventry, for Croome, Worces-
tershire; Lord Foley, for Witley-court, in Worcestershire;
Earl Spencer; from Wimbledon, for Herts ; the Earl of Rock-
savage, for Grimsthorpe Castle, on his way to Cholmonduley
Castle, Cheshire; the Marquis of ()monde, from the Cla-
rendon Hotel, for his seat in Kent ; Sir Charles Brown, Bart.
arrived yesterday in town from France; the Duke and Du-
chess of Bedford are expected to-morrow at their seat, Wo-
burn Abbey, from Scotland ; Sir George and Lady Warrender
have left German Spa for Aix.la-Chapelle; the Hon. B.
Craven has left town for his brother's, the Earl of Craven's
seat, Ashdown Park, Berks.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, SEPT 7.

ST LEGER.
3 to 1 and S to 2 against Reveller, by Comfit.
8 to 1 against I). of Leeds f. Octaviana.
lit to 1 - Masker, by Comus.
It to 1 -- Mr. Cradock's cii. c. by ColnUs.
19 to 1 - Mr. Watts's Beggar Girl.
15 to 1 - Sister to William.
17 to 1 - Mr. Watts's Tambourine colt.

The race for the Mahlon Lees Plate, on Saturday, a subscrip-
tion of 101. each, was run for by hunters, as follow :
Mr. Yorn's Gib . I 2 3 1
Mr. Piper's Pilot • 5 4 4 2
Mr. James's Santander . . 3 I 2 3
Mr. Holt's Escape . 2 3 1 dr.
Mr. Holdsworth's Chance . 4 5 5 dr.
Mr. Jones's Mary . . 6 dr.
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Mr. Horn's Start . . dis.

MIDDLESEX SEssloNs.—This morning, at an
early hour, the Court was crowded to an excess
by persons of the highest respectability, a great
interest having been excited by the following
case :—Mr. W. Deacon, the master of an eminent
academy at the west end of the town, was placed
at the bar, charged with cruelly assaulting one of
his scholars. The prosecution was conducted by
Mr. AGAR, and Mr. ALLEY appeared for the de-
fendant, when, after a long investigation, in
which Lady Afflick and several others were exa-
mined, the CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence in
a speech replete with learning and impartiality,
and the Jury found the defendant Not Guilty,
which was received with much satisfaction.

ELOPEMENT.—A young couple, on their return
from Gretna Green, a few days ago, arrived at
George Inn, Penrith, at the very moment the
bride's mother and brother, in pursuit of the fu-
gitives, stopped there to change horses. An in-
terview took place, which was not followed by a
reconciliation, and the parties arrived in London
by different routes. The young Lady is said to
be in possession of a handsome fortune, and the
bridegroom is connected with a house of some
eminence in the cotton trade.

For the satisfaction of the Subaltern Officers of
Militia, it is necessary to state, application is
making for them to receive the allowance quar-
terly, instead of half-yearly ; indeed it is even
said they will soon be placed on the same footing
with respect to pay as Half-pay Officers of
the Line are, it would be very desirable that the
half-pay should be the same in every instance ; for
some Ensigns to have 3s. per day, and others
only Is. 10d. appears to require some explanation.
JOHN MteNe, Esq. the Coroner, having sum-
moned a most respectable Jury, proceeded on
Friday to investigate the cause of the death of
Thomas Brookes, the spinner, aged 22, who died
in the Infirmary on Thursday morning, in conse-
quence of the wounds he received in the attack
made on Mr. Gray's factory about noon on the
Wednesday. It appeared in the course of the evi-
dence that he was a most active assailant on that
occasion ; and the Jury, after a patient investiga-
tion of eight hours, during which many witnesses
were examined who were spectators of the whole
transaction, returned a verdict of Justifiable
Homicide on the part of the defenders of the Mill.
(Leeds Intelligeneer, Sept. 7.)
For some days past, the take of herrings has
been very great in the channel nearly opposite to
Portpatrick. On the morning of Wednesday se'n-
night, a great number of boats went into that
port deeply laden, and sold their fish at from
3s. Gd. to 4s. Gd. per hundred. The total va-
:He amounted to about 10001. for one night's fish-
ing. The herrings were purchased for the Dublin
and Belfast markets, some in barrels, but mostly
in bulk, slightly salted.—(Edinburgh Courant,
Sept. 5.)
CAUTION TO TAVERN-KEEPERS.—On Saturday
afternoon, a well-dressed man, about 5 feet 8 or
9 inches in height, with sandy whiskers, called at
the Fountain Tavern, in Catherine-street,and re-
quested to look at the Newspaper ; he was shewn
into a room ; after remaining a few minutes, he
came out and lett the Paper at the bar. Upon
the waiter going into the room, he discovered he
had stolen four French window-curtains, and must
have wrapped thew round his body.

The INFLUENCE of RELIGION on the STATE.

FOR THE SUN.

The interest of true religion should never sub..
mit to the interest of policv• It should rather
unite them in one. Christianity, as it teaches
universal benevolence, requires that all hat ions
should have the best political lams ; because they
afford the greatest good that mankind Can possibly
enjoy. In the history of civilization, religion in
all Countries has been the foundation of Govern-
ment, and they have been ancillary to each
other ; one to teach us obedience to the whole-
some laws of policy, under qualified liberty ; the
other to cotrect our judgments and amen,' our
hearts ; both combining to improve oar happi-
ness, awaken hope and deadLn despair ; to inspire
love and dispel fear.
As good laws are a restraint on actions, so Pound
religion is a restraint on thought, having for their
end peace and good-will to all, with an abhor-
rence of iniquity in any. This is real liberty,
which is to do not!ling in human affairs, but what
we ought to will. Not to touch on the evils pro-
duced by pretended religion, or its name, the ad-
vantages of the TRUE con,titute a large balance
in the scale of virtue. He who loves religion
may be compared to a lion, who stoops to the
hood that strokes him ; as he who hates it may
to a savage, who growls, and bites the Chain that
confines him from tnischiet ; b it he who has none
is a ferocious animal, who knows nothing of li-
berty, except when he commits destruction.

The Christian religion has nothing despotic in
its doctrines. It is mild, and averse to rage, ani-
mosity, and cruelty. Christian Princes arc libe-
ral and humane ; sensible that they cannot do
what they please, unless what they please be for
the general good, which creates a mutual confi-
dence between them and their subjects. Ilaiing
in view happiness in another hie, it continues
the happiness of the present. In government we
owe to it our political laws, and in war the law
of nations ; benefits we never can sufficiently ac-
knowledge, as it humanizes our manners, and
increases our charity. This is more material than
to contend polemically that any religion in parti-
cular is the only true one. None should 1w pre-
scribed by conquerors, kings, or magistrates. All
should be free, and none should spe.,k by the
sword. Peter fought with one civil, and another
clerical, which were afterwards claimed by his
Papal successors ; yet he soon after renounced
his master, and died. It should be formed to
the government of particular states. When di-
vided into Catholic and Protestant, the people of
the north chose the latter, and of the south the
former ; because those of the north had, and ever
will have, a spirit of liberty and Milt-petlance,
which those of the south never can. Hence it is
that a religion which has no visible heart is more
favoured by a free people than that ,t hick has
one. Wherever the Protestant religion was esta-
blished, the changes were made according to the
genius of the peculiar government. Luther in
Germany was countenanced by powerful Princes,
or they would not have favoured any church
authority that had no exterior pre-eminence
Calvin, on the contrary, engaged the attention of
people in the republican states of Geneva, and of
obscure subjects in monarchies, but avoided, as
of course, the establishment of honors and pre-
ferments. Each was believed to be the most per-
fect. The Calvinist thought his tw,de the most
conformable to what the great Master had said:
the Lutheran to what the Apostles had prac-
tised.

Christian Citizens being enlightened in the
duties of life, and zealous in their discharge,
maintain the rights of ►►atural defence, against
the opinion of those who assert that they cannot
form a government of any duration. The tnore
they are indebted to religion, the more they think
is due to their Country. Having it in their
hearts, more than their mouths. it is more power-
ful than the tinselled honour of Monarchies. the
presumptive virtue of Republics, or the slavish
fear of. Despotism.

(To be Continued.)

MAYNARD.

THUNDER STORM.—The parish of Kirkcowan,
in the county of Wigtown, was visited with an
awful thunder-storm cri the evening of the 18th
of July last. David Irani, a poor labourer, was
struck with the lightning, and killed upon the
spot, as he was returning from a meadow field,
within about 200 yards of his own door. His wife,
who had awaited his return with the tit most anxiety,
at last ventured in the midst of the storm, accom-
panied by a female beggar who had taken shelter in
her cot, and was the first to discover her husband,
who lay dead on the brink of a small rivulet There
appeared no particular marks on the body, but part
of a stepping-stone on which the deceased lay, had
been struck and carried away. It des, rves to be

mentioned, that the humane neigh bouts who at-
tended the funeral subscribed 41., for the benefit
of his widow, and six helpless children.
DRATH BY A SPRING GUN.--Yesterday morn-
ing died CHARLHS GRANT, Esq. an eminent Russia
broker, of Grove-road, Mile-end. On Sunday
se'tinight, about ten at night, he took his usual
walk round his,grounds. Not being aware of the
servant's having set the spring gun, he trod on the
wire, and received its contents, consisting of five
slugs, in the back part of his thigh. Sir Wst;
BLlzzatto extracted the sings, but a mortification
ensued, and terminated his existence. He hag
left a widow anti two children.

DRATH BY PIGEON-SHoOTlNG.—Yesterday an
Inquest was held at the Rochester Castle, Stoke
Newington, on the body of Mr. Joins IVottKmAti,
aged twenty-one. The father of the young man
deposed, that he and his son were looking at some
men who were pigeon-shooting in a field near the
road to Hornsey, when his son was shot in the
thigh. Another witness said, that the gun, by
which the deceased was shot, was held horizontally
by one of tile pigeon shooters, and it went off by
accident. Verdict—Accidental Death.

The heather covering on a part of the Derby.
shire Moors, belonging, as we are informed, to
the Duke of DavoNsittae, has been set fire to
and burnt to a considerable extent, the uncom-
mon dryness of the eeasQu having favourcci th
infamous purpose.

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.ec,bess,;.„,z anti remonstt ate with.
Ctois.e tt remove those glievances which are
i 1 •es breoining insopportable." Pr, parictory to
the no eting's taking place, a sort of temporary
has!ingß, of vet y frail materials, was erected
withioa few yards of the door of Westminster
Hall. It eva'S composed' of poles and boards
lashed together with ropes. From a leo- kuey
coach which drew up to the spot, a chair was
taken lot the consenience of the Chairman. •
Sono after twelve o'clock a cart arrived, hear-
ing flour ioserilitiiies, exhibited in loor different
directions, with the voids " Come to the Public
yieeting i Palace eat(' thisday at twelve o'clock."
i\hoot half p•ist twelke, Elnnt, the Chairman,
arrived in a catria;;e, accompanied by his sou,
lirother, ;tad 1)r. Watson. They were received
with partial cheers. The persons zit this time
assembled did nOt exceed three or foor hutidted,
but the crowd afterwards loci-eased. Mr. Hunt
nod his hiends immediately moonted the litt•tiogs,
and after some consultation wiih Dr. Watson and
other, who were assembled, Mr. 11. addressed
the Meeting.
He commented by stating the circumstances
which had hal to his taking the chair,—which
'have already been described in the correspondence
between him and Ni r•. Blandford. lie observed,
'that their object on the piesent occasion was not
to petition Parliament, hut to remonstrate with
the Prince Beget 1, told to call upon him to assist
them in obtaining their light of voting for Mem-
„ hers to represent thetti in the Honse of Commons.
Although he had nothing to do .6 Ii calling this
Aleetiog, be by no means wished to shrink from
any responsibility which might attach to those
'Nebo had called it, inasmuch as he was fully
• aware of every thing which was to he clone. Pe-
titions signed by a million and a half of the sub-
jeers of this realm had beet, sent to ,the late
House of Commons, but their petitions were
'treated with neglect. lo this state of things, it
' was their detetruinatiou not to petition the New
House of Commons, hot to appeal boldly, man-
fully, and in a diguitied tone to the ['duce Re-
gent himself; to restore to them those rights
which they were entitled to enjoy before they
were called upon to tight the natiles,of their
country, to pay the taxes, or to support the Go-
vernment. i\l r. limo concluded by calling upon,
the Meeting so conduct themselves peaceably and
with good order, and not to suffer themselves to
be led away by the suggestions of those who
Might he inclined to encourage riot and confusion.
•A Declaration and'llesolutioos would be read to
them, whielet they might reject or approve as they
thonght proper: If there was any person disposed
to offer objections to the sentiments contained in
that Declaration and those Iteso!ut loos, lie hoped
he would besheard with patience. 'flick- minds
Were open to-conviction, and they would not de-
cide 'aS ily or itnprodently.
Dr. lVATsots complained, that some person who
had pledged himself to come and deliver his senti-
ments upon this occasion had not beet manly
'enough- to show, his face. :Re had not himself
ben in the habit, until lately, of addressing a
'public liSSelOhlagc; hut for more Ina!► thitry years,
the had paid no little attention to the promises of,
public men,to the measures of some of our greatest
`orators and statesineo, and he had heard promise
'after promise that the day was not far off when
thceSe liberties, for which our forefathers fought
'and bled, which had lieen torts front its, should be
'restored to ns. But alas! faction had joined with
the despots (if Europe, not for the purpose, as
they 'pretended, of giving happiness •and liberty
to Europe, lost to further enslave them. He
Wished•the great body of boroughmongers were
present, that.thee might hear some important
truths ; and he (Dr. Watson) would fearle4sly
mouut any place to &liver those•truths to them.
It was not alone the loss of money that had been
sustained by the-Operations of the BoroOghtnoll-
- factiOn, nor wits it money that would make
recompense or retribitfinn ; but there were those
'who had lost Wives-fatherS---,motlcers—ehildren,
'and almost every-kinirred iie, by the ope'rations
'of a spendthrift Mioistry. Every domestic com-
fort had beeoi,Vvaded ; wives had famished front
want ; children had died from disease, and others
lad been visited by famine ; asst a son or •brn..
titer' had been taken from a death-bed by the ef-
fects of 'the law ; and an almost geiteral•depti.
vutioll of all. human happiness 'had been 'effeet7
ed by the ojir..itiorii of ' the law ; indeed,
there seemed to be a conspiracy regal:lst the.
Happiness of Englishmen. 'What - recompense
could those have whom he had described -? That
'corrupt boroughmongering faction onght.to con-
fider the situation in which the people of England
Stood,L—ineans the most effectual to alleviate the
distresses of their fellow;-countrymen ought ins-
tnediately to he adopted, else it was probable the
. people maythe driven to that state which may lit-
duee them to seek that relief, which•the Govern-
ment and its corrupt • factions had refused
then. He had heard a great: :trod learned
man -say, • that the,ir hearts ought •to be strong;
Ire wondered all .'-the hearts' of the faction
did not tremble at their conduct, when
they reflected upon the state to which they
bad reduced, the people of Englund. lie had
seen the miseries of his fellow-countrymen in their;
darkest colours. He had seen the miSeries of the
indostrions Nit of the community. 11e brid,alo
visited manufacturing part of the communi.ty,i
and :•iiseries were indescribable, all ocea- •
sioned ley •:he Boroughmongers. In some of
those ;''aces they worked from four in the morn.
ing t,, eight at night : he had seen sights the most
miset.:•.ble and loathsome—sights that would appal
toman nature---•childrem of the tenderest ages had
been drivitufrom their hovels to their work, whim-
veri,ig and trembling tinder the want of food; The
people of this country were now, it ever, to speak
iii ',owl:l;4e of wen. Too long had they been trifled
wits) by Nlitosters and their profligate agehlS, Who
deliehied in misrepresenting the sentiments anti
wits of te,,,,e for whose set-vice they were politi-
cally crc_!.ted, it was now fur the people to say