The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-05 00:00:00

'THE .COUNTRY

Tlie Cork Advcrtizer of the 25th tilt)
" •1u this Paper we have commenced the triSl
of Mne for a fflaspheinous and seditious ljhel.—
It will be tound'inbur last page its length pro-

hihits us from giving it entire in this post, but we
-shellsemitinue it nritii it is concluded. SOme
Tapers in Englinfl have. shrunk frnnt
lishing it, uumutliAted, in consequence of the

protaneneis which it contains ; hut We .thialt that

no Mind, however weak, could be now Corrupted
•
by such base and revolting trash, the stupidity of
which is as gross .as its malevolence.-- That such
writings,
.however, when • sedulously distributed
among the lower orders have been productive of
the very worst consequences, we need no other
prool.than the behaviour of the 'persons in Court
during their trials The indecent parodies Upon
the most sacred things, when read by the Attor-
ney-General, ins:ead of exciting disgust and
liorror, were received with peals of laughter : the
-insolence of the prisoner, which exceeded any
thing we ever remember in a Court of 'Justice,
was greeted by the applause of the bystanders ;
and the Attorney-Genend's speech was inter-
rupted by continual murmurs and expressions
of contempt. This is in reality an awful eircum-
•
stance. We see the religion of the country ri-
*fielded, and its law authorities insulted with
impunity ; and yet we find three London
Juries (for hone laas been a third time ac-
quitted) pronouncing tipontheir oaths that the
limn who has disseminated this poison, and gloried
in it with such barefaced assurance, is norguilty.
Ile shall never question the innocence of a man,
\VIM., when tried by the forms prescribed by the
laws of the land, has been declared gniitless ; but
with our opinion of the sanctity of an oath,
and our decided conviction of the tmdignant
and irreligious tendency of these composi-
Sinus, we would not change places with those
Jurors for all the gold that sedition has ever
earned. But-their verdict is no affair 'of ours;
between them and -their consciences be -it. We
t `roll Conclude by observing that the s:i'rit mani-
fested in this business is very like that which dis-
played itself about the commencement of the
French Revolution. The same contempt of re-
ligious establishments, the same defiance of ex-
. . isting laws, the same seditious affronts to high
author Hes, the same assumption of • this be-
ing an age of reason, abuse regarding any of
. the. institutions-of former times-; in short, all
• the chara-Cteristies• of 1790 apPear in 1817.
Our -rulers to look 'to this ; and.
though the attack in the present instance
seems to bear More, immediately on the Church
than on the State,. it should not therefore
be neglected.— With the Church the present
• State -establishment stands or falls ; and •if the
• existing' laws 4re not suffieierit to 'protect
• these glorious 'monuments of the wiSliom'of out.
• ancestors, others o'ught to be enacted. The next
• • 'Session of certainly should hot pass
• - wi.thont deciding whether all that we vene-
rate • shall be -left tindelended, to the abuse of
every profane scribbler, whci hies the wickedness
• - and insolence to attacli thetn.''' ' •

,FLINCRAL OF CUAI3LEi BURNEY, D. D.

On Saturday list the remains of this profound
scholar were deposited in his. !study-vault, St.
Paid's, Deptford, of which parish he was Rector.
The principal inhabitants of the place attended the
funeral, and having met afterwards in
.the Vestry-
room, agreed to erect in the church, at their 0:111
expellee, a monument to his memory.
The loss of so eminent and useful a man cannot
fail to be sincerely deplored, for, having created a
noble income by his industry and Learning, he dis-
- bnrsed it With the most princely liberality, in giving
largely to most of the public subscriptions, but
chiefly in contributing to whatever tended to pro-
mote literature and science. Amongst a multitude
of instances may be mentioned, that his veneration
for Dr.' Bentley induced I to print a splendid
edition of his letters, under the title of .Bentleii
Episiolae, which he enriched by his own erudite
annotations, and distributed every copy of the work
grand' otisly. lie purchased the famous Townfry lick-
mer,for which MS. he paid 6.50 guineas, and refused
-a thousand, that, it is said, were offered by the Uni
versity of Oxford for the precious relic, so anxious
Was he to, complete his Greek MSS. by an addi,
tion which renders them almost invaluable ; in,
'deed his library is altogether one of the most mag-
nificent private collecti-ons in Europe. This now
passes into the possession of his son, the Reverend
CHARLES PARR BURNEY, of Greenwich, and we
can:'ot help expressing a hope that he Will not
al-
low it tti be dispersed.; or, rather, that lie will
not suffer the rare things in it to be purchased for

the purpose of enriching foreign libraries.
Dr. Burney, is the second luminary, in that
bright constellation of learning formed by Porson,
Parr and himself, that has now disappeared from
bur view. His family have all been conspicuous ;
his father, the Historian of and friend of
Johnson, was one of the most elegant writers of
that age ; his brother, Captain Burney, of the
Navy, who accompanied Captain Cook in his two
last, lOng, enterprising, and perilous voyages, is
one of the first-geographers_thftt country-pos-
sesses ; a fact welLsupported.l?,y his
.vuluininotts
and elaborate History of the,VoyAges of Disco.
very ; and Mad. D'Arblav, equally
dist ingnished herself by her well-known writings.
Dr. Burney was a Fel,lpw of the Royal atntl An-
tiquarian Societies, Chaplain to 114 Majesty, Lec-
tor of Deptford, and of-.1-1(;oe, in Kent, andfalso
Prebendary of Lincoln cl_if,td-ral. " '

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New South Wales, ' -;;
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neighbourhood of Whose iiititedtges
amount 10,11,1 yea's,- the than b'eing 76, and' .kke'
woman

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