Star.
London, England, 1808-07-07 00:00:00

.41MER1C4.

Nr%T.YOAK, JUNE 1.

The English packet Queen Charlotte, was to sail
England on the 7th of Jnnt.
It appears that tie Chamber of Commerce at Phi-
ladelphia loaded tun ships with provisions to succour
the suffering inhabitants of Trinidad, when the Pre.
edent refused to permit their sailing, commending
the humane intention, and assigning reasons why he
aid not judge proper to comply with the request.
American vessels in England arc employed by Eng-
ligs merchants to make voyages to Russia and Spain
If Portugal. To Russia, the freight is nine guineas
nu ton, so that a vessel of 300 tons, clears 2700 ',W-
igs, or 12,600 dollars by a voyage, which lasts from
ix to ten weeks. Now is it to be supposed the mer-
chant would venture his property unless he had by
some means obtained the Emperor's licence ? Thus
Ng American merchants who happen to have vessels
ilload find employment enough, and advance their
fortunes in a foreign country; while their unfortunate
neghbours, whose ships have once entered their own
ports, are obliged to pay a dollar per day to some
pod democrat wharfingor, in whom a democratic
corporation have confidence, for the privilege of rotting
in the slips. Excellent Government !—Now-York
fuming Part.
STARVATION OR SrarerssroN.—The people of Mas.
sachusetts must all turn democrats ; they must gain
the confidence of Governor Sullivan, or have..no
bread ; they must submit to kiss the feet of a minion
of the President, or starve. We have heard of hunger
breaking through a stone wall—the Administration
ought to have thought of this before they attempted
to enforce such a regulation. They ought to know
that hunger knows no law, and that /reclamation,
end circular letter: are more easily broken down than
stone walls. _ _

FATAL Drzt.—On Tuesday, the 12th' April inst.
the remains of. John D. Burk* were con►igned to the
gave. He had particularly desired in his will, that
his body should not be interred in a churchyard, and
r.quested- tooth t the usual religious formalities, on
funeral occasions. might to dispensed with. His
cape was therefore conveyed to Cedar Grove, the
seat of General Jnr.es, in the suburbsof this town, and
buried with military honours. The Volunteer coin.
yanies of Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry, attended
the funeral, as well as a numerous concourse of citi-
tens. The following are the circumstances which led
to his death :

" Saturday. April *.

" Burk, dining at a public tavern, with his friends around
him, expressed his sentiments, with regard to the French Coeur..
pent, in the following manner:
" What will the cavillers againo the Administration now say
What will they Ety to the letter of Mr. Armstrong, in answer to
the arrogant note.of Mr- Champagny t I am in hopes, when they
lead the honest, manly, and luminous remarks of an American
citizen, in refutation tithe pretensions of the French rascals, they
will bare honesty and modesty enough to withdraw their accusa-
tions, and be silent ; for the French are all a pack of rascals."
Mr. Coqubert..." Did you mean to apply those observations
tamer
Burk..." Sir, I do not knew who you are—What'YOU
VC 1 did not know there was sack a being in existence. W'ho
arc you, Sir I What are you T Ido not so much u know your
seamy, or even sour name."
kir.C..-" I ask, if you mean to insult me Sir r
mg. a-- Seeing, Sir, that you have no right to intrude upon
nyteteranor converse ion, you must even take it as you please."
Mr. C.—" Very well, Sir."
The observations of Mr. C. were ettered at the public table in
$ tamed defiance, which precluded any thing like gentlemanly or
wanly explanation.
Sunday morning Mr. Burke received the following

vette I—
" have been so long In the place that yne could not help
krowtrg that lam a Frenchman. I sat so nearly opposite to ycu
et dinner, that ••nn could not avoid seeing me. What you said
mild not fail to hurt my feetiega—l do not pretend to conirou'
the cnnvetNation of any ratan, in as much as it does not relate to
Ine—tv't I cannot overlook what is said in my very face, let it be
said directly or indirectly.
" tf (alluding to politics) you did not mean to insult me, and
had not observed that a Frenchman %vac within the reach of your
yards, I suppose you have no objection to ease those feelings by
.am acknowledgment of it in as formal a manner as that I take to
address you.
" Sunday, leth !Ire

" F. COQUEBERT."

hurk.".
To the- foregoing note, Mr. Richard N. Thweatt,
the friend of Mr. Burk, delivered the answer as fol-
lows :----

friend, Mr. Thwevt, who w.s privy to the on-
set-ration you complain of. will arrange with your friend any thing
necessary to dinassion, or tattle, if it shall be so determined on.
I nope you will mute the inaccuracy of not replying to your po-.
lie note by a written answer.
" Senday Morning. April 10."
" Mr. Coquebert."
After the preceding notes passed, nn further com-
munication took place between the parties, except Mr.
Thweatt being called upon to name the time and
plant for battle.
A challenge was sent by Mr. C. which was accept-
en. and, early on 4londay morning, the parties. with
th r seconds, met ia a field adjoining town. On the
first fire, Mr. C.'s pistol snapped, sad the contents of
Mr. B.'s were discharged ineffectually. The second
fire proved decisive. Mr. C.'s ball passed through the
heart of his antagonist, who expired without a ward
tr a groan. Such is the relation which we have hail
of this unfortunate affair.—Pcterdursk 120.
Mr. Bark was an insiunap, and fornwey s student of Tri-
nity Callrge, Dublin.

On Monday morning, a Frenchman of the flame
of Destouches, who was lately, we understand, sent
out of the Kingdom under. his Majesty's order, was
take►t into custody at a public-house at Newington,
knAwn by the sign of the Green Man, where he had
s'oreted himself. This foreigner had been embarked
at Gravesend on board a vessel, the Captain of which
had engaged to convey him to a neutral Nit. When
the vessel arrived of Yarmouth, he succeeded, by in-
Lmidatiug the Captain, in making his escape. Des-
touches has been committed to prison, and if the ii-
gour of the law is put in force, may be transported
for life. The publican, in whose house he v. as lodged,
is liable to pay a penalty of 101, for not having called
upon him to produce his licence, authorising his resi-
dence in this country. It is a circumstance perhaps
not very generally known, that all persons receiving
ahem into their houses, for the purpose of lodging
.or
residing for morn than 24 hours, ought to req►ure
them to produce a licence of this desortption, and to
'66' a copy of the same to the Justice of. Elevens 01
constable, residing in or near thei► parish, &c. Every
Person neglecting so to do, is liable TO pay the above
penalty, upon information before a Magistrate ; one
• half of which goes to the informer, and the other to
te pour of the parish,

TO THE EDIrOR OF THE STAR.

ON TN's PROPHECIES.
No. XII. .

THR THIRD TRUMPRT.-PART I.
§ n. Of whcm tie primitive Chrittion ilreettebrut were
compote', and how the Member: were admitted into fel-
lowthit.
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The very circumstance of salvation proclaimed
through a crucified Saviour, implies that mankind
have departed from Goo and merited his wrath ; for
to talk of restoring a man to health who has no ma-
lady, of giving sight to him who already sees, or of
redeeming one who is not a captive, but a free-man,
would not In more absurd than.to call the righteous to
(repentance. The scriptures of truth have declared, that
there is none righteous, no not one; there is none that
understandeth, there is none that seeketh after Gov"—all
the world is guilty before him (Rom. iii.) The same
scriptures declare also glad tidings—that the MESSIAH,
promised by JEHOVAH, to finish transgression, male
an end of sin, and bring in everlasting righteousness—
(Dan. it. 24.) came into the world at the time ap-
pointed, abolished death, and brought life and immortality
is light (2 Tine. i. 10.)--4, that Cnatsr died for cur
situ ; that he was buried, and that he rose again, the third
day, according to the scriptures" (1 Cor. xv. 3.4.) ; and
that men are saved by receiving or crediting this good news,
and keeping it in memory (ver. 1. 2.) ; for the word of
faith preached by the Apostles was very simple :
r The word it nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart—iv
THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH TIIY MOUTH THE LORD
YEWS, AND SHALT RELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT
GOD MATH RAISED hIM FROM THE DEAD, THOU
SHALT NE SAVED." (Rom. x. 8. 9.) -
These good tidings the Apostles-proclaimed to
men, guilty and vile as they found them ; and those
who gladly reeeived them were, on confessing the
Loan Jaws with their mouth, immediately baptized
and added to the church, without any previous qua-
lification whatever, or,any other proof of the sincerity
of their conversion either required or expected.—
That the profession of faith required from the con-
verts was short and simple, is proved by the case of
the Eunuch, (Acts. viii.) When Pilate jt ined him
he was reading in ISAIAH this passage, " He was led
at a sheep to the alarghter ; and like a lamb dumb before his
shearer, so oluned he not hit mouth."—PHILIP began at
the same scripture aod preached unto him Jaws. And
as they went on their way, " see here is water," said
:he Eunuch, " what doth hinder me to be baptized ?"
Naar replied, " if thou believest with all thine heart
!Amt ',gayest:" and he answered, " I believe that dk sus
CHRIST is rat JON 07 GOD"....—ard PHILIP baptized him.
That this was not a singular instance of a convert in-
stantly baptized on professing the faith, but the ge-
neral and common practice, is plain from the preach-
ing of PETER, recorded in the second chapter of the
Acts of the Apostles, and the consequences that fol.
lowed. He charge; his audience with having tekt•fr,
and by wicked hands crucified and slain that sanicL,lesui
whom GOD hash constituted both LORD and MESSIAH ;
and yet we are informed, that those who gladly reeeived'
the word of salvation were baptized, and '4 THE SAME
DAY there nacre added about thr:e thousand souls" to the
number that " continued stedfastly in the Apostle: doc-
trine and fellowship, Seed in breaking of bread and in
Arayers,"—that is, on professing their faith in JESUS
they were baptized, and by that act admitted mem-
taers of the church at Jerusalem. To enumerate in-
stances is not necessary, only it may be proper to add,
that both men and women were admitted in the same
manner (Acts viii. 12.) and also their households
(Act. xvi. 15, 33) ; and when admitted they were
taught and required to manifest the sincerity of their
profession dy observing all the things commanded by him
who dial, the just for the unjust, and by abstaining from
even the aft/ earance of evil
§ 111. Of Government—Of the Office-bearers in the
Church ; and, first, of Bishops or Prabyters.
Having ascertained of whom the primitive Chris.
tiara congregations were composed, and how the
members were admitted into fellowship, it is necessary
that we shz-uld understand how they were governed ;
cr, in other words, what laws %ere instituted for pre-
serving them in their purity, and insuring a due. ob.
servance of " all things" commanded by him who is
tie head of his body, the Church : for, without a knov.•
ledge of this, we than never understand in what that
defection consisted, which made them become like
filthy stagnant water, impregnated with gall and worm.
wood, when they lost their primitive character, com-
'pared in this trumpet to Rivers and fountains of water--
i that is to-living water, opposed to that which is dead
I and stagnant.
No society whatever can exist without some kind
of Government, nor can any Government ;be admi_
nistered without Office bearers. That nothing might
be wanting for the maintenance of the most perfect
order in the kingdom of the /gasman, a regular code
of laws was given by him to his subjects, every one
of whom was appointed guardian of these laws ; and
regular Office-bearers were instituted for their better
maintenance, and to see them duly executed. Indeed
the appointment of these office-bearers, and the duties
,to be observed by them, are a part of the laws ; and
I without them the body becomes defective in its orga-
nization.
In every state the enacting of laws belongs to the
lawgiver. Every subject is bound to obey them.—
Neglect. or a breach of the laws on the pan of the
subject~renders him 1434 e to the penalties denounced

by them—And he who takes upon bin' to set mil:,
any of the laws, or to enact oew ones by his
, own
authority, usurps the place of thefiovereign----tha
is, he becomes a rebel.
It will not be denied by any person, who calls
'himself a Christian, that the hlksitiAzi remains eter•
nally the supreme head of his church, and that th
laws of his kingdom are declared in the New Testa-
ment. There we find Bishops and Dramas spoken of
as office-bearers in the churches of Cnalsr. How
were they appointed ? What were the duties enjoined
them ? Were any other offices appointed by CHRIST ?
These are important questions ; but we must take
our answers not from any man or set of men, but
from the testimony of the " FAITHFUL AND TRUE
WITNE.ss" himself.
ELDERS [7yErt3:irspoz,-Pre.tiyitrs], or Btsnors [str.o.-
xoTtra, Overseers], were appointed, not in one congre-
gation to rule over many, but in every congregation
(Acts xiv. 23), and Consequently in every, city where
there was one (Tit. i. 5). Every man who filled
this office was required to be"l.lanul.•rs,thehusbando
one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospi-
tality, apt to teach ;. not given to sine, no striker, not greedy
of filthy lucre; but patient, not a bravder, not eovetetu,one
that ruled well his own house, having hit ciildren in :J.
jection, with all gravity; not a now.convat, lest being ela•
ed with pride he should fall into the condemnae.on of the
de-
vil:" (1 Tim. iii)—not :elf-willed, a lover ofgood men,
just, holy, holding fast the faithful word a: taught by the
Apostles (Titus i).
That elder and bishop mean one and the came office
is so plain in the New Testament, that no common
degree of effronnry and artifice was required to hide
it from the eyes of the people. One or two examples
taken from our English version will serve to •
the one and illustrate the other.—ln the history of
PAUL'S travels to propagate the 'Gospel we are told;
(Acts ax. 17) that " from ltfiletus he strt to Ephesus,
and THE ELDERS OP THE CHURCH" [rperEarrposs
rgs txxasoicti] and said to them (v. 23) " Tole heed
unto yourselves, and to all the fork ov:r which- tire HOLI
SPIRIT hash made
.you bishops" reIriPXO77IVSJ---in our
English version " bath made yu ovoseers." Here the
elders and bishops are the same persons, and of course
these appellations mean one and the same office ; but
if (pi:copes means overseer, how comes it that in no part
of the New Testament have our translators so rendered
that word excepting in this solitary instance? It is true in.
deed-that in another place (1 Pet.v.2.) they have ren
dered silriss-ourtsi by the words tallow the oversight,"
but there also the persons addresied are the xrcrilia-
rspoui (o.- 1.) who are exhorted to feed and oversee the
or filthy kale, neither' as king Loam
..over th,
heritag?4 •In justice, however, to our translators, I
must here mention another passage, of which they
have given an honest version, to far is it • does not
conceal that the elders and Bishops there spoken of;
art the same persons and fill the same offices. I mean
tesiustructions given by PAUL to Trrus (ch. I.):
1t! left thee in Crete that thou shoulders ordain ELDERS in
every eity.....if any be blameless :.....fora 11$1101' must is
blameless :"—but the sense would have been more ob-
vious had they given the latter part of these word-
thttr.--" for an overseert must be blameless."
From the passages of the last reference, it appears,
not only that the Primitive Churches had Presbyters
or Bishop', the same office being understood by both
of these terms, but that each particular congregation
was so furnished—nay more—that every perfectly or-
ganised church had a plurality of overseers or ciders.—
Agreeably to this we find PAUL, after preaching the
Gospel at different places, " ordained them ya.PF.lts
every congregation"—and when he writes to the
ing Philippians, (I. L.) he addresses his epistile re
all the Saints, with the OvensEttis and DEACONS. 111
iwould be however begging more than the premises
wil warrant to infer from this, that no assembly c 1
Christians could properly be called a church, where
there was not a plurality ef elders. Such an asser-
tion would be a contradiction in terms. It would be
asserting in the same breath and with the same words,
that people congregated or asseml lel together, are
not congregated er assembled. In the very nature
qf things there can be no Overseer till there be a
flock to be looked after, and to affirm the con-
trary would imply another contradiction as palpable
as the former. Is point of fact, we know that the
first Christian assemblies were formed before the
office-bearers were appointed. The Very business of
appointing elders in every church, which was per.
• Tarn sorry I cannot give unqualified praise to the whn:e of
their version of this passage. Why was isarapriar,i no.
tiered by Os DAIN, in preference to appoint, or eetabt ? roam,
the old Eecle:l,2itital ucrdr" were olderctl " to be Ate. in theft
translation. For the same reason, we read in Atte :Iv, 23,
Where they hod 01DAINTD them elders ap Ai" earn,41....g.•
they commended them to the Lose)." If th• word Xeifn-.•••••
is here properly rendered Is seata;ft, why did they disregard Jehavie•
injunction, and prefer another version of the same word In S Car-
viii. 19 ? In the tatter passage we read : .rigre hat,' seat with Air'
the brother vim was CHOSEN tithe chucks to treed with ta." iq
the first of these three passages, Tiros only is named; in t: • se-
cond, Mg suppose the sed:wstion to be made by PAVL and BAR
NA in s. exclusive of the churches; but in the third, the ,
-riot; was by the Church—and a n honest version might have
shewn that every Christian Congregation has acme therein or-
daining its own °dicers.
Had the word (pimps been uniformly rendered *wrier, in
our common version, it would have been more inte.ligible to the
English reader, for whose benefit the translating: was professed to-
be made. Whether it was from Inattention or design, it Is most
singular, that It has been rendered 44.1 p wherever It occurs ;
rientieg only in those places where it woeld have beet' obvious
to owe reader, that that *Sae, and the oast of elder bone and
sh• NOW

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ii:simA by P.tva. and BAIMARAS at Derbe, at
tra, Icoaium, and Antioch, implies that at thess-
places covitegitions were alr:ady established. Indeed
we are expressly sold that PAUL and BanN,saas
prayed with thew, mod rester Add shin[ to Telt LORD, 0,1
whom they 6eliered (Acts xiv. ‘2l-2.5). But, though it
,cannot be questioned that. in the natural or :ler of
things, clnsrchcs must be formed before paAors can
be apptiated, it is equally clear that no songr.larien,
in the ecripture sense of the word, can be coasidered as
perfectly organised till it has Preelyterr. We learn,
from Paez's Epistle to TatY, that different congre-
gations in Crete were in this situation, and theret re
1:e speaks of them as still wanting part of their order,
and desires TITUS to id in order the things that were
wanting, and appoint elder: in every city. From this we
are bound to infer, that it was the duty of Christian
Congregations to perfect their carder, as soon as tit y
could find among then' persons qualified to' fill the
officestn overseers, cr elders and deacons, the only
offices appointed by the Apostles as necessary to their
perfect order. And it seems reasonable also to inftr
that, as congregations might and did exist before bi.
shops and deacOns, and might be ably, where the
number of members was but small, to find only one
person, instead of a plurality, endowed with the re•
quisite character for either of these offices, in such a
case it was their duty to appoint that one, as a step
towards their perfect organization—but, Wing only a
step towards perfect order, and not that perfect order
itself, that they would, as soon as they could find
others qualified for office, proceed to their appoint.
meat also, obeying the Apostolic injunction, " Let
all things be done decently and in order"—that is, agree-
ably to the order established in the churches which in
Judea were in CIIRIST JOU&

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1 i 'ls not essipidal that arlarge flambe! if believers
should be collected to establish a church. Where men
two, or three, are gathered together in the name of CIIRIsT,
there is he in the midst of than—there is a church
(Mat. Iviii. 20). This passage is commonly consi-
dered Merely as a promise, that wherever,p few Chris-
tians meet in the name of Otani-, for mutual edifi-
cation, he will be with them to bless them. Of this
no doubt: can exist. But, however true this proposi-
tion may be in itself, it is not the sense of the passage
—for the " tit:o on three gathered togetlur," or arrem-
bled Cerovybesscs—literally "synagognedl are the very
same mentioned three verses before (v. 17), and there
called " the church" [exxXiria]e. The duty incul.
cated in this places amounts then to this—that in no
plade were his disciples to neglect the mode of disci-
pline niketed,coUt by their MASTER, on the pretext
that they were not sufficiently numerous to consider
themselves as a church; for though their number
should not exceed two or there, if gathered together in
his name, or, ib other words, associated for the pur-
pose of observing his ordinances, the " cfl 'hire
commanded by hits, he who tvalieth its the midst of the
chunks (Rev. ii. 1), assures them he will be present
in their assembly. But if so small a _number con•
stitutes a church, it follows that a church may exist
without a plurality of Presbyters and Deacons, though
it is equally plain, from the scriptures, that where the
number of believers, and the gifts found among them,
actmir ;he regulation, they are bound to have such a
plurality.
In the next section 1 shall, as far as I have been
able to discover it, state what appears in the Set .
tures respecting the election of those office-bearers,
called Presbyters, or Bishops. EIBLIcus.
• The mere' English Reader should be informed that
Eitukr,crta and cru: aywyriv (synagogue) have precisely the same
signlEcation, r.amely, cenregatiss or asurnily. Thus, In Acts /di'.
42, we are told, that " when the Jews were gone out of the 'snit-
:Tar [Ctlvarcyr,c] the Candles begged that the same word'
might be preached to tin m the next Sabbath;" and (v. 43), that
I. when the oecregatint [stixxvotrf] was broken up, many at
the Jews and religious proselytes, followed Paul and Parnabas."
And the Apostle James (ii) speaking of meetings of -the Church.
•ays. " If there come into your duassibly [crtati*/ ter,t3
marl with a laid rieg," Zee. •

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MELANCITOLV EVENT AT LADY CAMPPVI.L'S.—f%
night, Lady CAMPBELL gave an'elegant ball, on Monday
IA
night, at her house in Wimpole-street. No pains or
i .
expcnce were spared to render the entertainment wor- I
thy of the numerous and distinguished persons who were
invited and attended. The dancing commenced at •
an early hour. An elegant supper followed. Har-
monyand pleasure prevailed, until an event hap.
pened in the ball room, which banisled all the. hap.
piness and comfort from the scene in, a moment—it
was no less than the sudden death of one of the clan.
cers, Mr. CALVER r, who ,actually dropped down
dead. Mr-Can-Err burst a blood vessel in going
down a reel. The utmost terror and distress were de-
picted in the countenance of every one of the guests ;
as for Lady CAMPBELL, she fainted from the fright.
This melancholy event broke up the assembly.—
Most of the company departed in tears. Mr. Caae
VT,RT was the son of --s— CALVILRT, Esq. of North.
Aulley.:trect.
A letter from Drogheda mentions an unfortunate
transaction which took place on Saturday se'nnight,
in Ardee,—Mr. lEtt.raTruca, excise.offieer, assisted
by a serjeant'a detachment of Queen's Bays, seized a
qua,uity of malt in the town and neighbourhood of
A r lee ; and havinprocured carts to convey the sei-
zure to Dundalk the party were attacked by a num-
ber of men, armed with muskets, near the town, who
fired on them, and on the first discharge the serjeant 1
i 1
w. is shot dead; the second wounded two men (one
dangerously) and a Besse. The party, wish Mr. 1.1
KILPATRIcKI then retired, and those misguided men I
took the malt off the carts, and threw it about the
road. An inquest was held on the day following is.,
and a verdict of " wilful m i
urder" was found against 1 '
v z inhabitants of the Krim, who were immediately i,
apprchended, and committal to Dundak pal.

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