The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

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sectmg the Articles of The. Church, as explained,.
by her own divines, understood by her consti-
tuter) authorities, and. by her general "congrega-
tion, they affix to them their own interpretation,
and call themselves, exclusively, the Established
Church: Accordingly, they consider the great
body of the 'clergy, nobility, and gentry of the
United Kingdom, as downright heathens e talk
of them -quite familiarly; as 6 outcasts anti aliens
Irma the catemmonwealth of Israel. ;' and, in'the
'''private assemnlies of the faithfuls' pray 'for thri.4
conversion with the bitterest aievotion., Arrogat-
ing to themselves every venerable epithet, which
can, give authority to.iatiusion, or the appearance
of sanctity to religious extravagance, they style
themselves ' evangelical ministers, gospel preach-
ers, servants of : Jehovah, sons of God.' By fre-e
spent conferences, or when these are inspracticae
hie, by a regular epistolarY correapoimaence, they
preserve an unity of sentiment awl' eoneact.—
Hence, though scirtered over every part of the
SPECIAL COMMISSION,---MANSLA-UGHTER.
empire, and indeed of the world, their movy,
mu& Harvey Brown was indicted
arid
silents are aiways simulta neons, 'systematical, SPECIAL
Sa
feloaionSly 'assaulting Thomas" Platte, on
' -uniforms 'To one great leader they seem to. I'M.
be under strict sabo the -13th ;lily ,last, off the coast of Labrador, 'in
t-di n:16011.-11 eghlarly org-aa North-Ainerlea, with a certain knife, and for in-
nized, each member 'performs. the. part assigned ilieting certain woundi upon:" the said.Thoinas
him, he advances or retreats, he maskS ' his •Pieree, Of which he then and there did die.
movements, or - ostentatiously, displeys them.—
Henry Gillard was, on 13th last July, at Dump-
As 'ataimportant- part of their discipline, they line Island, off the coast of Labrador, and was
learn to disguise their sentiments, to-sottee down -empleye•s in splitting fish, by Mr. Beird, the psis
an ohnexions doctrine,- to deny it in part, to ab- sorter, John Bouastard,• Edward Headley,
jute it in the whole, and .afferwards to re-assert
amid ThomnaS Pierce. Brown called Pierce
it, as time and place require. The 1-Tinicl" of. a great' eatere andT Pierce caught him by the
OR Bistior they adopt in "his presTnce, with
see collar,,and gave him a shove, saying, "If you do
seeming cheerfalness, and reject in his abseace, not give rip calling rue names, I Will give you a
with unfeigned abhorrence. Doetlimmes which
m hidng." ( Pierce gaited Browa's collar, and then
may startle the .meek and gentle convert, th''Y carefully suppress.;brown called him a great eater- again. Pierce
and to the chosen few alone!
are revealed the i
teen took up *a stick the size•of a' man's finger,
higher mysteries of Calvinism. and 'gave 'Brown' three or four blows across his
In ,the pulpit they are incessantly descantin gon shoulders. Brown said, " If you do that again
the persecution, which, from tl'e- beginning of e e.sa run you through:, Pierce took up the
the world,. the !children of God' have seffeeed in
various shapes from the ' children of the.de stick and.strack himagain, nd B
again, a then rn oW took
vi,l,' the. knife which he had been using ,in 'split:lag
:and ' continue to endure at the present day, fish, amid which was lying on the table, and struck
and in the very Country we live in.' In the pal- it into 'Pierce's. left breast. Pierce cried out
pit, also, nothing is so much .the nhject.of a sneer' " Cut away ! cat away ! he has stabbed' me !"
as 6 your moral mail,' whom they- pronounce, , to be as These were the last words he said, and lie in)-
derer or the adulterer.' IV;adions in ,the sight of God, as the ma-. . Immediately tell upon-his back. In about twenty
b b them every man „en„,„ he died.
who is not a Calvin i ist s' an enemy to. the S-8-, Edward Headley and John Bounstard deposed
viour,' his religion is ' outward show,' and his. to ,
morality ' selt-rightepusness.' Abandoned to Ththe same effect. e
prisoner being called upon for his defence,
a
thiS ' "self-righteousness, to lip-service,mud pha- gave in a written paper, 'which
-declared that the
risaical pride,' ire is-an abomioation in the sight act had been committed not without the greatest
of Hint, Who came to save the chief of sinners,
' pro Vocation from the deceased. The latter part
the open and undisguised profligate.' '
-ro of thtedefence related the hardships whiclethe psi-,
prelacy and prelates they harbour a rooted aver- ssoner. lead -smiffered since the conmasSion of the act.
slot, Which they seldom fail to impart to thelm• •
lite paper`stated, that he had. been chained to the
converts ; and, by
hasty inVeetive against their coffin of the.deceased for a whole clay and night,
diocesan in private, they atoue for tie homage,
~and that, he-afterwards was heavily ironed, and
which, with apparent cheerfulness, anti real hbr- Gikeit to an iinitthabited iSitincl, and there chained
rot, they pay hint in public."
• to a leaky boat, whicle was drawn upon the shore,
REVIEW. . ' haVing only raw -a
beef to eat,-and that in very scanty
" But the Consultation Of the Bible -Society— quaatieies. Here he should !mite starved•had be
as well as its operations and language—is objet- not beet assisted by a female negro, who broke
tionahle on, grounds both of piety and .piudence.- his,chains,.and.enabled him to get food by gathers
To the view of the honest and indignant church- iase'the herbs on time island.- On one occasion he
man, it resents -a. motley and portentous 'confe- got :some' live cod fish, -which he greedily de-
devacy of 14ishopi), soeinians, Deans, Deists., vOured raw. The sailors on board the ship,
Archdeacons, Ministers of State, Jumpers, Whigs, lying off the island, however, were sent on
TradesMe», Twies, Methodists,.. Lords ' Gospel shore, and the, prisoner was again. ironed and
Ministers,' Ranters, Magistrate's, and Antipe- handcuffed by them. He asked for tooth, as be
dobaptists.—lf the Ecelesiaetical Folielionaries of should otherwise starve hut they only latighed at
other times—if time 13isimops and inferior: Clergy, him. In this. state he crawled upon his hands
who adorned the English and Irish Churches in r and knees about the island, anti gathered berries
the reigns of William, Anne, and the two first for his subsistence,_ until the' snow covered "the
Georges, were now permitted 'to visit the scenes ground. He bad nothing tp drink but ice apd,
of their'pastoral laboursa-a-vvould they, not- gaze , snow, Sonme Men were afterwards sent froth the.
at this moral phenomenon with route astonishment sh.ip to fetch, him,' but front weakness' he was flo-
ated ititense apprehension ? when informed that able to get along, and he fell down in the snow,
tl!e.ob_joct of this ornnigenuous combination` of and !Tillable(' there bnried for an hour. He' was,
character's So contrasted;of opinions so discordant, however, carried on beayd the ship, and durieg
of feelings so repulsive, is to cii•eulate the Bible tire whole voyage of 24 days he was allowesi bui-
universally among the peasantry, 'withholding from a Biscuit a- day. Ile had no clothes but a dirt y them at time same time, the means of.understaud- `shirt upon his hack-, and the vermin had actually
ing it, which alone could give value to. the•gift-;—' eaten tanks in his flesh. Y
would they not suppose that the laity, and, still I •
file J'ary foanif-the prisoner Guilty; but Mr.
more, the Cleyg,ye.of the Established Church, are Justice Nev., utter the sentence wit's pronounced,
Labouring nutlet some epidemic frenzy—some pre-I
told the prisoner that the punishment he would
ternatural obliquity of intellect ? What !-e--associate
with the' i receivewould bb m!ld,• not -because he was ac.-
enenties of the church, to putthe Whole 1)
tuated by the dreadful story which had been read
Bible, front Genesis to Revelation, deep, intricate, ha his disfence,•but on account of the long impria
and voluMiuous as it is, into the hand§ of labour- sonment he had already rnduted. He should, liow-
ing peasants, who, at best, 0,„ nothing to edu— ever, reconsinend that an inquiry should be insti-
cation but the mere technical operation of read- tined into the case, and Ife_bended Ole paper con-
ing ! 6 Tell me your ("Oilman?, atid I'll tell you (dialog a statememit of the fact ol;er to the Attor-
whir you are,' an homely, bureadiciaus at'age= ney-General, that the proper steps might be taken
is less inapplicable on the present occasion, than upon the case.
tray seem at first sight. Tie general meetings of The Special Conimissioo was.-then adjourned
the society—so 'favourable to the most familiar until fire o'clock, and at that houralme prisoner
intercourse-s-are held, it is true, but once a year. was, again brought to the bar, and the -Recorthe
But the members of the Committees,•who iepre- passed the sentence of--" One Month's lunpr'
sent not only the persons, but the principles of e6einesese.
their constituents, hold freqUent meetings, and
maintain a familiar and unbroken intercourse with
each other. So that the clergy andlaity of the
Bible Societies, with the prelates and peers at
their head, associate freely and- familiarly, ' by
proxy' at least, with the rest of the pal ty-co.:
loured community. Also, :n the list.of subscribers
and benefactors, ostentatiously anuexed- to the
annual reports, the names of four stcretaries and
polished dignitaries are ranged together, without
any other precedence than what alphabetical or-
der confers. ' This sobanteleague and covenant,'
=this liberty and equality of -the moral and reli-
gious world, fill tire Wino of the unbiassed ob-
server of passing events with .gloomy apprehen-
sions of danger, welch time only can reveal, in
tall maturity and distinot proportions."'

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. -19.
Nothirrg occurred in this Court to-day of gene-
ral or pubic interest•.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 19.

The Court Sat this day to he'ar arguments upon
new trials, =hut there was no case of the slightest
pnblic interes,t,

SERJEANT'S INN HALL, JAN, 19.

This day the Jndges•of the Court -Of King's
-Bench asseMbled in Sedeant's 11411,.purstiant
to adjournment front last 'Peru►, for the purpose
of disposin' of Rules Nisi for new trials, in cases
which had been decided on the Circuits.

Several cases were disposed of, but none of
them were of general interest.

OLD BAILEY.

I - FRANTIC CONDUCT OF A SOLDIER.—On Sun-
day, during the hours of divine service, the neigh-
bourhood of Westminster was thrown into the
greatest alarm and confusion, by a soldier of the,
Coldstream Girard', wlro was•running about the
streets in a state of madness, breaking' the win-
slows of the inhabitants, and committing other
acts of violence. In one band he carried his
bayonet,-and the lather a large knife, which he
kept brandishing to t he terror of the.inbalritants,
and defying' any person to take him.. his con-
duct at length became 'so outrageous, that the
neighbOurs, fearful it .would be attended with.fa.
tal consequences, sent inforniation of the circum-
stance to .the officers on duty at the Hotse Guards,
and.presently.after, a detachment of about ten or
twelve men, under the command of Sea jeant WIL-
SON, was sent, to secure the unfortunate maniac.
They found biro as described running.about in a
stale of madDess, and although he ref Used to sur-
render to any civil authority, yet he no sooner
saw the.suldiers than (as if recollecting his situa-
tion) he threw down the murderous instruments,
and rushing into a house, flew up stairs and threw
himself from the...third floor into the street, by
which he broke his thigh, and was otherwise
dreadfully Minted. The circumstance drew from
the spectators a momentary burst•of horror. The •
Serjeant and his' folloWers were the first- to ap-
proach the ,Unfortunate Man, whom they recog-
nised to ,be:. one of their companions in arrns;, •
tw3et! Barker„, He was so dreadfully hurt, that
it was .fotrod,npcessary to have him conveyed to
the Westminster infirmary, where he lies without
hope of recovery.

RISE .IN TIM VALUE OF LAND.---The abundance
of money in the country, from the hi:glt price, of
the funds; is grade ally finding its way to the real'
property ,of the country, which is rising in pro-
portion. The fine estate of Corsewall, in the
county of Wigton, which Zia; been offered to
sale for some years past, has, we nnderstand,
been sold here yesterday, after ar smart competi-
tion, at the priers. of .100,5501.—(Edinburgh (,'ou-
.
rant, Jan. i 54 •

HORRID MURDER.---James Clreesetorough, of
Grange, near York Shire, 'last ;week barbarously
murdered mother, and broke the arm and
fractured the sktill of his uncle : the horrid deeds'
were perpetr'ated aftera'dispute originatiug.,froin:
Iris mother's retiiSing him some tobacco.
borough is of weak Intellect, supposed:lo,in,
del anged.