The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-25 00:00:00

ledge, that there vciere thous ends anti tens c,f Cott-
sands, at t his,molocut, groaning under the
yoke of an invader,. but so impressed with a, cunis.
ousness of what thev,owed to British benevolence, as
to utter a prayer for their beriefacteirs, while they are
constrained by the necessiti-s of war to driiw their
swords against them, and, that the wish nearest to
their tte<irts was, that th:s hippy country might ne-
ver share in the awful calamities of war,but long
stand as the asylum of liberty,
.firm and unshaken,
like a rock in the 'midst of the tempestuous waves
of the surroundingoceam
Mr. Hughes, in an able and. most intelliget,t ad-
dress, dwelt on th.e•advantl2,es arising. from the cw,..
stitntion of the Socit.-ty, tmd happy telideney to bring.
together into co-operation those whose difflences
of opinion may long have alienated them from each
other. That the asperities win, It tin forronallly ex-
isle(' between Christians or ditfereorTseals and de-
nominations were hereby weakened, •and a spiria
more congenial with the principles of true religion
substituted in their place. exotiated on the
agreeable task t hat devolved on those who were cm-
plOyed in inquiring into the moral wants of the poor
---Who could read ? Who were destitute of the
Scriptures? They endeavoured to promote a. thirst
fr)r those pleasant, w holt:some, refreshing waters cif
life; •aul having excited the thirst, they bring the
cup of salvation, and sett, " Herr', take this cup,
and call upon the name of the Lord.'' The giver
and receiver were alike blessed. He next 'aclircned
to the increasing popularity of the institution, the
expenditure of which had .been aumented. tram
7001. per annum to 28,0001, t er, althorn, all ( xpend.
ed on one article, and that the best out of Herve 9.
He enumerated. the benefits accruing to Auxiiiary
Societies from their unlon .with the patent inslith-
tion; enabling them to purchase Bibles at twenty -fi,e
per cent. cheaper than the usual prices, and bore
testimony to the zeal, activity, and benevolence of.
the British.and Foreign Bible Satiety, whiCh exalted
the charatier of England, and made her a praise
among the nations, and the friend and benelattress
of the whole human race. '

The'Rev. Lee Richmood,
,Reetof of Tin vey, se-
conded the resoluton.3, observing, that at • length a
cefficht was happily discovered, by means of which
all the living stojieS of the Spiritual Temple- of God
were firmly united ts,gei her iR one common cause,.
without t he
.least'sOrrete!et of cryteieieut kids c-iymtst-.:.
ency on the part of any one. 'Dili cemt:it was the.
Word of God dist rtunied t, home and abroad, wit h•
out [totem contownt ; or rather, it v.tis the found-
a; ion on w hich they, all stood, firmly built and coin.-
pa,.:ted ingertn r. In whaie%er relation be stood con-
tic::ted with-mortality, he could not but tejoice in
the properity of the British and Voreign Bible So..
del), ; whether as an indiVidual of the whole
man race; as a 113 the ofthis highly hymned
country; asa Minister of the Established:,Church of
there realths, or as an, inhabitant of this' particular
county, he saw in it every around for unequiocal
satislattim He expressed a hope that' the. time
would not be long distant tefore every minister 'in
the land, whether i i 0r,.001 •of` the Establishment,
would ore and fed- that the best interest. of religion
I large, as well as of the Church in particular, wore
clo•tely comietted. With the suppott and welfare of
present institution. He sAid, hw/rever; that his
grtateSt pleasure in appearing on this occasion was,
that he stood there nor met ely in his own individu-
al capacity,- asa cordial well-wisher to Ihe universal
eircelat:on of the Holy Scriptures, but as the accre-
dited representative and amba,sador from a large
number of parishioners, Whose contributions 'be
brought, and of whose -tumultuous sentiments in be-
half of this great cause he was the willing messen-
ger. Not only had the rich and those of the middle
ranksof his:neighbours commis iietted him lo declare
by their gifts, an approbation of t he °bird, and con-
stitution of he Society, but tho pOor likewise had
begged permis,ion to add their lesser donations in
support of a society like this,. Nay, the little
ren of the poor tin oughout the whole palish anxi-
ously_
cried out, " And.may not we too give a pen-
ny to buy a Bible for those that have none
conellided"by observilig, that as a Briton, 'a Christi
an, and a' Clergyman, .he equally felt the imperious
duty of aiding. and .supporting this,4,whieh' now
ranks as the itgemost of institutions tor promoting
the preJen( and future happiness of mankind.

SANGUINARY OUTRAGE' —A fresh in•
stance of brutal ferocity.occurredon Sunday
in Fox-lane-, Shad well ;—A young roan, named
Mellish, clerk to Messi's. Swain, and Stevens, soli-
citors, in the Old Jewry, %vas with the., ne-
phew of the landlord of the Three Foxes public-
house, in Fox-lane, in the pack-parlour,, .: when
suddenly they heard the watchinan'a rattle, and a
cry .of Stop the 'Mtuderers !" They immediately
cried out--" My G,4, there: is 'lnure • midt-r !
Both young men :armed themselves ‘viiha poker,
rlo cm into the'street,. and juniird in the pursuit of
the sespe6ted persons. :.Yoang sleihsh could not
ki:ep hp with his companion, hut followed him as
fast he could. _At the collier of the lower turning
I(l4ring-street, he met three. men running tWo.
of' Oath were remarkably tall, ill.looking fellows,
and the third a very st,o7t man. SuPposing they.
were the men against '; how lie hue and try h !LI
been raised, he said—" You are the villains, and
'me at you." He. instantly levelled a blo\,v
whit the poker, at the head of the little man, which,
however, :sad no other et-Kik than to stun him tor
a moment. The. villait% alnu.st immediately rec.°.
vered himself, and diachargeil a pistol in the face of
Mr. Mellish, the contents ,of which, being small
shot,-:distigured him in,a shocking manner. The.
miscreants all ran away, and nothing since has been
'Wird of them.

t
lie young man has completely h,st the use o his
s , and retrytins at the Three Foxes
very precarious slate.
Ye.ierday Ablahnin Levy, who was exlroined
some days since before the Coed IVlayor, charged
will defrauding a woman of t 5 pineas in gold, (as
formerly mentioned in 11114 paper), was: again put
to lire bar, when the wintrin. repeated her evidence,
of giving the pris!mer this gold, for which he was
inimediitely to give her 2.11. in -8,16 k of
notes ; instead of which, he ab raptly abo:ondr..d with
the money.--Toe Lord 'Mayor sold be thought it
was a felony,.and fully committed the pi owner to be
tried for the same.

The trdvet that %till ecjrnq out early in ih einu•-
ing month will, it is Said, iltelu.le the Alajors of t-805
and the Captains of 1802.

The Earl of CtuctinsTErt, having calculated on
the. probable consequences of the present exorbi-
tant price of flour, as it way aflea the tuiddling and
lower orders of society-, and being well aware of the
benetini that are to be deriied froin the adoption of
prUdcut economy in, large funilies, has put all his
servants on an allowance of bread, by lithitirig their
supply to a quarters loaf per Week fi.r each person
whereby his Lordship's consumption ot flour has
been eery considetanly dirniniShed, , without pro•
duci:ig the 'smallest trymptOrn ofdomestic dins Otis
faction.

EDINBURGH, Dec. —Tuesday a person of the
name of Wight, was brought before the J:idge at
Police, charged with endeavouring tq steal a deed
body hoot a house in north back of Catmongate. It
would appear that a • poor nrin having breathed his
last, ihr prisoner, who formerly_had betin acquaint-
ed with !he deceaseei, called upon the widow, 'and
Offered his setvices in ciEsclutting the funeral. Ile
accordingly brought a coffin to the house on Friday
evening last, ii to u Inch the bo wa..p..u, and th,-:
cover screwed down. He then prev4iled on the
widow to leave her own house, and accompany
with her family, to his house all nig:lt. naving
thus got possession of the hey of the..house,, he re-
up:tied at an early hour in the morning, aucompa-
pied by two other men, with a deal box tiled with
sand, and way in the act of ref-timing the corpse
from the coffin, in order to substitute the sand in
its place, when the neighbours ba%ing been alarm-
ed, h&wai. c ;ught in the ata, and secured. Wheo
caned upon by the Judge to account for his acing in
the house, the prisoner at once confessed his ma-
ik es, and that it was his intention- to.hate sold, the
'body to the surgeons, aiie4ing that, as the widow
was a poor` woman, and tuna ale so defray the ex-
yencei of the funeral., the sum he would have got
for the would have enabled her to du so. He
was committed for

PA R ()CHIA ATC IL —The 'horrible murders
which have recently been committed, though shock-
ing in the emreme to every feeling of nature and
every impulse of humanity,, will not, however, be
unproductive of ultimate benefit if they shall only
draw the attention of the public tot he: vt-ry de-
figiive or grosily negletted state of the naturrial
Poi-,:e of this great metgopoliS.—Scmcely a night
now passe; without the perpetration of some atro-
: 6.itts murder,: or tie execution of soru, aggra-
‘.vated burglary. Either the.. whole System or the
'noctin nal watch is inefficient, ror the whole body
of watchnp.N) is, corrupt and criminal. The
has atisen to such a • height, that no man. can
retire to rest secure against the murderous designs
of the assassins, or the plundering rapacity or,
the robber. The next step .of the
be, the perpetration of their horrid and bloody pur
poses in open day. locked, they do ail bin that at
present. Friday, about eleven o'clock, a gang
Of miscreants at tvinpted to break into the house (fa
Mr. Bader, in Gray's Inn•l'me, hoi.ise had
been n:bbed some time since, and the shock so al=
teded the occupier, that his health was impaired,
and lie is now absent (torn home for its recovery.
Ir is probably the sante gang that attempted to rob
t he 4Hernises last. night, which they would have done,
had they not brut discoveted in lime and disturbed.
Not a watchman,. however, could be found Within
any reasonable time, and The robbers consequently
escaped. Is this as 'it should be) How long will
the inhabitants of this
.metropolis intrust their lives
and properties to such negligent and insufficient 'pro-
tett ion ?

The inhabitants of Portsmouth have held a meet-,
ing on the subject of the atroeionS massacre; in %v-
-elure-highway and New Gravel-lane. In or,der. to
a,i.st in the Oect ion of the Muydererti, they have
fist warded to the Magistrates of Shadwell Office,
a copy of their re:iointions, together 'with the amount
of the additional reward offeted'hy them, viz. 501.
fhtthe apprehen-ion; and convidiOn of any one of
the timidereis of Mr. Matr and family, and the
like sum for the discovery of any .of the perpe-
Iratora of the murder" of Mr. Williamson and fa-
mily. The total .sum already advertiied - amounts
to 15331.

Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday Morn-
ing; a ball was shot through the window of Mr.
Ilika's, hatter,9s, Whitechapel, nearly two ounces
in t eight. • Foitnnately:no further damage was
done than a pane of glass broken.

A few even'ngs, ago, some villains attempted,
while tr:e sert ants were at tea, to break into the
house of Mr...lackcon, Portman-street; and actually
forced tkvo strong, iron bars. The maid-servant
,rang the alarm b,ll, .which occasioned them to make
a precipitate reticat..

The house of Mr. Crawford, the sign• of ihe
Duke of York, at Chelsea, was broken into by some
ihieves on Spotlay night, who forced the shutters.
'l.'ney took away the ill!, and abont eight shillings
in halfpence, •with which they made their .es-
cape. •

The premises of. Mr. Ward, ttilk-!mercer, of Sclat
street, Spitalliekla, were entered on Mbitday wort
-tog, about four o'city:k., and silk to the v.►lue of
mote than title htrn pounds taken tram thence:
There was a gu deal of other pioperty !tear to
that which was stolen, which was not toliched. A
htty; lighter's laldt-r astound oftott the prtinises,
tad a co ch was observed standing for sonic, time
near the place.

A
1)0114!e
.in Sinans-srioare was attempted to he
broke into y.esterd:y 'mining, but tim. wiliains being
heard by the tnau ,sivani, they retreated without
any -booty,

Thu shop of a silvers►nith ,and jeweller at Green-
wich wag broke open on Friday night, and rubbed
'of nearly the whole or it 4 valuable block.:
On Saturday night a house ‘l, as Lroke open, in
Jew's row, Chtls,a, and robbed of prGperty to 'a
considerable amount.

4 man, blind of an eye, bas been iaken up at
Letve4, pn euspipinn of being one of the murdetera
of Mr. MARA'S faintly.

. • ,
Number of Baskruptrie* in she State of New
York, from • September to, to September 17—onie
hundred and eighty-five ! - "Whole number sirup,
April last—sixtevn hundred and ntriety-nine! -, .