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SPORTING,

911 L) BE LET. front Midsummer tie t, the
PRIVILEGE of SPORTING and FIsHING ()VC!' several
extensive Manors in the Counties of Dorset and Somerset.
The:fenant may have the ehoicu of tenting two Houses use.
fnrnished t. one a large old Mansion, and the other a small
House, with a Coach-house,Sto. and son►c Laud, in and near
a equntry !own in the centre of the largest of tlr►• Alanors.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Castleman, iVeutbortivi
Do► set.

IVr EVER KNOWN LlEFOltE.—instan:atieoli.
Relief for the IIEAD-ACHE.—DARWINN
LIC'AII.AO.II4; DROPS, to be had of the l'Eviprietoria
solo Agent, W. Kent, N0.:17, Itathbotie-place,Oxford-Street,
price 4s, per bottle, stamped, and by his fut titer appointment,
of all respectable Nletheine Venders.----These e.fliericiutts
Drops are found peculiarly eleArable front the simple and eon*
venient mode of applying them, and because they do nut it•
quire confinement or restraint of Dia.—Orderi. from alai
part of Town or L:ountry, post paid, immediately attended. la.

TilE SUN REVIEW.

(No. CXXIV.)

MORE THOUGHTi,• occasioned toy ttet, publications which
the Authors call " An Exposure of some of the numerous
Mis-statements and Misteprescntations contained in a
Pamphlet, commonly linown by-tha name of Mr. Slarryat's
Pamphlet, entitled Ttionghts, ac." and "A Defence of tb,
Bill for theltegistration of +laves." By Joscrit MANolviei,
Esq. M. P.—gro. pp. 143. 45.--Richardson,
and Ridgeway, Piccadilly.

Suck is the long title of a very able and amus-
ing Pamphlet. The Author is distinguished by
the shrewdness, ability, and good sense, with
which he has opposed himself in the House of
Comm Ons, and in preceding publications, to the
ulterior proceedings of that political Party which
has obtained great influence among us, midis
known by the familiar appellation of Tice Saints...
It is not par duty, neither do we feel afl) in-
clination to take a side in the hot controversy
which is waged between the West India Colo-
nies and Mr. MABIIYAT, on the
,one part, and
the aforesaid Saints, and Mr.Wtt.Bauroaca on the
other. As is perhaps the case-in all contentious,
the several combatants carry their hostilities a little
too far, but we are free to acknowtedgelhat we
consider those of the most pacific name to he by
much the greatest aggressors in this respect:—
And not only so, bat the most dangerous in every
other point of view. If Mr; MARHYAT and his
Party are wrung, all the evil that can result
from their error is the postponement of the
solution of a political problem, doubtless very in-
ieresting
.to humatisitY, but not involving the des-
tinies of our native country. But if, on the con-
trary, Mr. Wmaattroace and It's partizans .are
carrying tire rage for experiment to extremes, if
they are'littrgetting what is practicable, and
tlis-
sentinating unripe opinions to unhinge the frame
of Society in our populous colonies before
it is possible. to realize the expectations they ex-
cite, their labtsors, however honest and well-
meant they may be, are of the most perilous ten-
dency.* ,

Such was our fear before the late accounts

* The following statement chews how mueb the Negro
population is disturbed by the new ligAte thrown in uputt
them:---
" Letters front Jamaica bring alarming actsounts of the
rebellious state of mind among the negroes in that island
chiefly excited by M. Wfmarouce's projected Registry
Bill, which these debuted people conceive is to emancipate
them. In. the parish of St. Elliabeth, nocturnal meetings
have been discovered among the negrues, where they Were
singing the following song b+-
" My good friend Wilberforce and good Gott Almighty,
" Give &hue negro free, U God Almighty tbauk ye,
" 0 God Almighty thank ye.
" 13► rt Ducltra in this country wont make we take. it,
" What must negro do what roust negro do?
" Apst take hest by force-0 to be sure,
•

" to be *urn.

" negro was discovered at one of these meetings singing
the above sung ei a leader, dressed in black and white, With
a turinin and the- negro styled lahustif King of
the libees;"

reached us from the We3t Inttles, atol it is the

appalling aspect of alidirs in that quarter which
these accounts force us to draw, that induces us

thus early to direct the public atteution to the

able Pamphlet under review.

It would be inconsistent with our plan, and
Inexpedient with our limits) to enter much at
length into Ole various important topics which it
discusses. To a Work so much within the reach

. .
of every one, we refer for the exposure of what
appear to be some very disingenuous manceuvres of
Writers on the opposite side, and some curious

facts relate to Sierra Leone, Berbice, &c. &c.
We stibjoits an extraet, however, as a specimen
ot the summer ialvitielt Air. MA Rl' AT has treate4l

the question. It is writren to demonstrate the
existence of the f.inatieal and revolutionary spirit

which he imputes to his antagonists.
" The first objection to the Register Bill which
Mr. Stephen examines, is, that the measure is
brought forward in-a fanatical, uncl►aritable, and,
revolutionary spirit and lie maintains, that
during the last eight years, our fanatical, jaco-
binical, and n►isehievous labours, fur the Abolition
of the Slave Trade, have been the subject of pane-

gyric by all patties, their own not excepted.'—
The Abolition of the Slave Trade has no relation
whatever to, or connected with, the Emancipa-
tion of the Slaves,—which is now the avowed
ititention of Mr. Stephen and his friends ; nor
with the proposed Registry. of Slaves by an Act

of the thitisli Parliament,—uniess he cnn prove

(what Lie cannot prove) that such a measure is
necets:►ry to put a stop to the illicit importation

of Slaves from Africa, into the British West In-

a Islands.

" That fanatical, jacobinical, mischievous la-
bours have been, and still are, operating, and

that they have not been the subject of panegyric
by all parties, but on the contrary reprobated by
the highest authority among us, is easily proved.
The dangers arising. from the interference of clubs,
Societies, associations, institutions, and other self-
coustitnted bodies of men, with the political tuoc-
lions of 'the Executive Government, were hotly
animadverted upon_ in the.llonse of Commons by
Lord Castlereagh, With great force and justice.--
n this country, we are happily free fruits that spirit.
of military jacobioisur, as his Lordship termed it,.
which has lately been so predominant in France ;
but we have much to fear front two other spirits,
equally dangerous; which have gone forthainong
us;.--ihe spirit of jacobinical philosophy, and the
spirit of wild fanaticism. The danger too is the.
greater, from their having coalesced, and acting
iu conceit. Indeed, notwithstanding the appa-
-rent' discrepanco of their nature, there is a strong
bond of union between them ; for although the
fanatic's are not philosophers, the philosophers are
great fanatics. •
"- Every philosopher would move heaven and
earth, were it possible, to establish his favourite
hypothesis. ' As Mr. Burke' has' observed, ' no-
thing is so hard as the heart of a thorough-paced
met physician. It is like that of the principle of
evil himself. incorporeal, pure, mixed, unmixed,
dephlegmated, defecated evil. They never See the
way to their projected good, but through the road
of some evil. Their imagination is not fatigued
with the contemplation of human, sufferings,
through the wild waste of centuries,' added to
centuries of misery and desolation. Their lin-,
'wont y is at the horizOn; and, like the horizon,
it always flies before them. These'philosophers
consider men, in their experiments, no more
titan they do mice 'in an air-pump, or in a re-
cipient of mephitie gas. They are carried On
with such a headlong- 'rage towards their despe-
rate trials, that they would sacrifice the whole
human race to the slightest of their experi-
ments.'
HOw,dreadfully were these truths confirmed
in the French Revolutioo, that practical Illustra-
tion of the theory of liberty,- equality, and the
rights of man ; a fascinating theory which turned
the heeds of halt Europe. The tree was goodly
to the eye, but bitter were its fruits ; anarchy',
con&scation, and massacres. These philosophers
oversee the altar and the throne ; set up a drunken
strumpet ,as the goddess of reason ; and While they
were prating about the pet fectihilitv of human
nature, they and their followers were committing
every ahomination by Which human nature could
possibly he degraded. Those who vainly imagined
they could ride in the whirlwind and direct the
storm, perished in the tempest they had raised`;
and those whit inflamed the minds of the people,
fell victims to the violent passions which they had
set in motion. Notwithstandiog this winning
vaicc, some of our thetaphylicians still think fa-
s:citirea'
bly of the experiment ;• for ()vie of them, nth
longer ago than ill the late clebate'in the House of
Commons on the Treaties, described the -French
Revolution as noble and virtuous struggle, on
the part of the people, to reform the abuses of a
bad Government 1.1
" With respect to the fanatics, the history of all
ages histishewn the tendency of religious zeal,
when it fails of accomplishing its objects of per-
suasion., to resort to persecution and violence
This truth has been repeatedly exemplified, not
only in our own days, but in our own country.
"pi the year 1780, under the cry of no popery,

rPRICr, SEVENPF,Nen;

1, 1

a fanatical mob.oVersel all w
,and w•ti.-r, broke
open, the jailb, let loose; the felons, ievied eontri.
butions from street to street burnt anti pillaged
houses, set the metropolis on fire in various places,
and would have laid it completely in ashes, but for
the interference of the military„.. Those by whont
this cry was first setup,, probably ,meant no more

. . . .
than the dne maintenance of that Protestant ascen-
dancy, which forms au integral part of the British
Constitution ; but the consequences that ensued
furnish another lamentable proof, how much easier
it is
.to inflame', than allay, the passions of the

people.
" Thottgb the spirit of fanaticism then.received
a salutary check, it has greatly revived since its
onion with the spirit of false philosophy ; and
both have lately strewn themselves in increasing

strength.
'' In this spirit, pursuing the end regardless of
the means, and doing evil that grind may come,
the African Institution devised those instructions
to theO e
mmanding officers of his Majesty's nm-.
arty, sits) the Courts of Viro-Admirnity, which.
occasioned the capture and condemnation of tO
many foreign vessels, carrying t)11 the S,laveiratie
in perfect conformity to the laws of their owry
country; for which Great Britain has been obliged
to make coMpensation, as being contrary to the
taith of treaties, and the rights of n itions.
" In the same •spirit, sonic of them declared, in
the House of Commons, that they would rather
have continued the late war on the continent,
that have consented to make any peace that did
not stipulate for the immediate Abolition of the
Slave Trade by France. The good sense of the
House, however, over-ruled this extravagant pro.»
position,' which would have perpetrated the mi-
series that had so long desolated Europe, in the'
hope of obtaining an eventual and itnegnivalent
benefit for Africa. Such intemperate counsels
Would probably have deteated their own object,i
which has since been happily attained by the %els•
dons and moderation of his Majesty's Ministeri,
without either ex pence or bloodshed.
" In the Saute spirit, an attempt was made,
first by a pamphlet wiitten by one Director of the
African Institution, and- then by a IMILIOn matle
its the !louse of Commons by $lOOl her, to phaigis
this country into is war with Spain. Ttie.•torini:r
urging it onithe ground of • her having refused in
concede the immediate Abolition ut ttle Slave
Trade, On the coast of Atria tsi•irth of, the Line ;
and the lat,er on th.e plea of Ferdinand Vii. Inkv-
ing n std towinds his owu subjects, not on tilos&
principles of liberty which are happily established
in thi. country, hut oh those princioles of despo.
Ciotti which are exercised in Spans. _ _

;1 • n same spirit, various stteirtieS of See",_
titries,- the self-titled proteetots of tiot -Protestant
religion, Inflamed the public mint ist+llooleßi*
of tie pCrSeCtaiool3- inflicted no the Ploteatanra
by the French Government. After having .eitrittstl
ferment throughout the nation, by publiiiiing
accounts, sOttic of which were groksly exaggerated.
and others wholly ittifoundeil,theysuppressed intor-
Illation addressed to themselves,whice they knew to
be official and authentic, end by which t hat ferment
might have been allayed. Had his Molest y's
. ters listened to the precipitate seggest ions of these
mistaken and :blind zealots, this country would
probably have been plunged into a teeth! Contest
with the Government of France.
" In the same spirit, with the view of scrolls-,
plishing the emancipation of the slaVes, they
urged Parliament to violate the legislative rights
of the West India Colonies, end enact 11C;19,
pains and penalties on offences altogether imagi.
-nary. They still persist in this itleasurC, nuts
withstanding the agitation they know it has ex,•
cited among the sieves,' and ike danger, of insing
both•property and life, to which it exposes their
masters.
Tints these zealots and theorists, would havet
us new model the Government of other countries,.
according to our. own fashion; and set out right-
ing' wrongs and redressing grievances, till like
Don Quixotic we had our teeth knocked downcant.`
throats,
the
liberated. by the galley-slaves whom we libetea•
prejudices of the Spanish nation appeat
to he so strong, in favour of that arbitrary sys-
tem in which they were born and bred, that -Fer-
dinand the Vllth: seems ,to have re-established
his popularity, .by the very measures which we ate
called upon to reprobate and prevent. In the in-
stance 'of the Ftwnett Protestants, -zed nod theory.
persisted In interfering on behalf of those by
whom their interference was deprecated, its not,
only unnecessary hut calamitous ; and they stdl
persist with respect to the West Indies, in defi-
ance of the warning given them, of the dangers
to which they ,are .exposing every Glass of th
West' Indian commnnity.
" Imituting“the cool indifferenceof an operator.
dissecting a living animal and viewing its agonies
with unconcern, while his own_ mind is intent
upon 'the solution of some new experiment, or the
discovery, of some. hidden phenomena, these, self-
constituted bodies still pursue their projects, are
continually urging 'the country into violent 'and
,extravAgant measures,attempttttgtolnterfetewith,
and enutroul, the lecular constituted authorities ;
and his Majesty's Ministers must either -mike a
stand against theite assumptions. nt power, 04
give up the reins of Government ultosettlier into
their hands.''
Mr. MARRYAT next gives a curious account of
a Saint, Black-mut White mixture, Meeting ;-it the
Freemasons' Tavern ,which we are sorry our limits
prevent,' us front copying, as it is a complete ex-
-
pose of the Coolish doctrines, which, it they 1110.04
any thing, must intend to: set up Free: Nresro
Empire, in opposition to tht V01041;10, by steads

AIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Tsuasn&v, JUNE 6.

LOlll BORINGDONT introduced by the Earls
of Shaftesbury and Dighy, as .Earl of Morley,
the usual ceremonies.
The Alien Bill, the Irish Inland Navigation
Bill, Grand Junction Canal Bill, and the Waterloo
'Bridge Bill, and others, wer brought up from the
'Commons, and read a first time.
COIN.
The tad of LAUIDEIITALE nurerd for several
Accounts relative to the Stare of the Coin tit pre-
sent itt circulation, with reference to the proposed
new :silver Coinage ; and the papers ‘vere ordered
accordingly. lie then gave notice, that he would
on Tuesday move fora Commi)tee to examine
into, the state, of the Coin ; and he did so on this
principle--that the new Coinage would produce
no goOd whatever, while it would impose a heavy
experi,ce on the public. On the very principles
laid down by the late Earl of Liverpool, it was
impossible that the new Coin could remain in cir-
culation with a depreciated paper currencY, lle
moved the Flonse be summoned for Tuesday,
which was ordered.

CATHOLICS.'
The Earl of IiMpUUMMORE gave notice, that
he would on present the Catholic pet i..
tious, which he ought perhaps to have presented
at an earlier period, of the session. He named
vinsday, because he wished to consult certain
Noble Lords as to the best course of proceeding
to be proposed upon, these petitions.
PILLOW!' ABOLITION.
The Earl of 'LAUDERDALE moved the second
reading of the Pillory Abolition Bill : the Bill
was accordingly rend a second tiMe, and ordered
' to be committed for Thursday.
AL/EN BILL.
Lord SIDMOUTH gave notice, that hi would
move the second reading of the Alien Bill on
Tuesday.
Lord Hot.LAND 'expressed his hope that the
Noble Lord would be prepared to show the ne-'
cessity of this measure, and while teas the object
of Ministers in recommending it. When they,
were depriving strangers, by this most impolitic,
unnecessary, unjust, and extraordinary bill, as he
conceived it to be, of those advantages which th,ey
bad for ages enjoyed, the least that could be cx-
peeled was, that the object of the measure should
be clearly stated, whether it was to introduce fo-
reign Ministers into the internal police of this
country, or to protect the . constitution of 'the:
country. It would be necessary, also, to know
who were or were not aliens, that their tnight
know with respect to'whom they were legislating
end some, questions on that point ought to be pat
to ttl'4; fudges; in case the Noble Lord should' be.
ahle to persuade the House to adopt the principle
Of this dill' at *
'I oe/Earl of CAli:11V0.11 moved for an artontit
of aliens residing in ',this. countrysiirec 1792 to
the present ante,, 'and the, umbel of • sent.
Out of the country durifig the :same period.--.
Ordered.