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a mans of fulf►lling his wish, " that names may
perish, but truth prosper." He adds, " that-if
any particular sect obtained the principal care in
a National System Of Education, that part would
soon be likely to possess the greatest power ►►ud
influence in the State." This is just what the
Church of England is, and the purpose for which
it was established, and Mr. LANCASTER fairly
publishes to the world •the end and object he
has in view, namely to overthrow this Church by
destroying its ,r►scendancy. He prepared the
way, and Lis followers have steadily pursued it,
by taxing the Church with bigotry and intoler7
slice—and by sowing, with the very seeds of edu-
cation, a hatted or contempt of its Ministers and its
Forms. Not satisfied with that tree and unbound-
ed toleration which is ungratefully employed to
seduce and draw off Members from the Establish-
ment, by new doctrines and incitements to weak
enthusias'ic minds, it is necessary, in order to
render the operation more effective, to poison
the very springs of Education, and to instil into
the minds of children, by a mechanical and skil-
fully applied process, a perfect contempt for the
Religion, and by a very easy transition to its natural
the Ciril Constitution of the Country. Hence
we are sore to find in the Anniversaries of these
Lancastrian Institutions (now denominated
" British and Foreign Schools," in order to dis-
guise as much as possible the principles upon
which they are founded) men of liberal principles,
stout Patriots, and Parliamentary Reformers, who,
by their occasional declamatioos against the Go-
vernment and all its branches in Church and State,
beim e the rising generation, keep alive d►e spirit
which might otherwise languish under the me-
chanism of the scheme, and at the same time lay
the balm of flattery to the souls of those gifted
Ministers, who leave t heir Conventicles to be tickled
by the eloquence of a BaouoHaM or a WILSON I
You will observe, Sir, the art with which the
whole scene was conducted at the late meeting.—
A Socinian Preacher, who took the lead among
the orators, moved, from the experience of the
utility of the hustiti►tion, that " the Clergymen
(that is, the Clergymen of the Establishment)
and Churchwardens of the District, should be
chosen Members of the Committee of MANAGE-
MENT !" '!'hat is, in plain Englisit, that those
who are supposed to have Influence in their re-
spective parishes should be flattered or cajoled
into die measure of sending the children, whom
it is their sworn and solemn duty to instruct in
the Religion of the State and that of their parents,
to this School of Liberality, where no Form of
Religion may be taught, in order that these chil-
dren may not be bigots—or, in other words, ad-
herents to the Church !

I shall hereafter pursue this subject, with your
permission, and endeavour. to prove, beyond the
possibility of a cavil or doubt, char the presence
of the discomfited Candidate for Westmoreland
was not accidental, but that it is connected,
intimately connected, with the Grand Scheme,
partly developed in the concluding Session of the
late Parliament—that by coupling the Clergy,
and identifying them as closely as possible with
the malrersation and corruption which have oc-
curred in the instances of many Public Charities,
" to carry the nation (to use the words of. Hume)
from a hatred of their persons to an opposition
against their office and character." Let any look
to the proceedings of this Gentleman (especially
after having tolerably ascertained his real priuci-
ples, front his known, thoagh anonymous, publi-
cations in the Edinburgh Review) at the head of a
Committee of the late House of Commons ! I
will venture to affil m, that so despotic an autho-
rity, a n d so little disguised-, exits not at this
moment in any Court of Europe, nor over did
exist, except in the Committees of Caom% ELI. and
his creatures, as that which the undefined, and
consequently arbitrary powers, vested in this Pat riot
of the New School, displayed before the astonished
and indignant individuals who became, against all
written law or precedent, amenable to it. But more
of this hereafter. I shall merely, for the present,
notice an assertion made by Mr. BROUGHAM in
the British and Foreign School Society, in which
the hundred times refitted charge of the system of
National Education under Dr. BELL being copied
Irons Mr. LANCASTER, is boldly repeated and coin-
mented upon. His words are, as reported in your
Journal---" IN FACT, it (the National Society) is
the child of this Institution," which is contained
in a comment upon the Royal Chairman's speech,
who had recommended indulgence to the preiu-.
dices of Churchmen, who, " with more confined
views (very justly said, whether seriously or
ironically), supported what were called National
Schools, in which instruction was only given to
children educated in the Principles of the Church
of England."—Those principles, Royal Sir, with
all respect be it spoken, without the prevalence
of which your Royal Highness would never have
been known to Englishmen, nor have bad the op-
portunity of taking the Chair, from which this
bitter taunt upon the Church of your Father was
thrown out against it. I will not, enter into- fur-
ther explanation to prove that his Royal High-
tiess the Duke of KENT is misinformed upon the
nature and constitution of National Schools,
when he is represented as stating, that its narrow
views are confined to the instruction and educa-
tion of the Children of Churchmen alone. Had
his Royal Highness condescended to bestow but
half the attention he has so liberally given to the
Institutions out of the pale of the Church, upon
those within it, he would have been aware. that
no such narrow exclusive views or regulations are
to be found upon the records of the National So-
ciety. With respect to Mr. BROUGHAM'S re-as-
sertion of a fact so unequivocally and so repeatedly
disproved, I will only quote Mr. LANCASTER'S
uwii words against his own pretensions :
" 1 ought not to close my account without ac-
knowledging the obligation 1 lie under to Dr.
BELL, of the Male Asylum at Madras, who so
nobly gave up his time and liberal salary, that he
might perfect that Institution, which flourished
greatly under his fostering care." "As a confirma-
tion of the goodness of Dr.BELL's Plan, I have suc-
ceeded with one nearly similar, in a school attend-
ed by almost three hundred children." These state-
ments are to holound in the first Edition of his
work. Subsequently, after he had been seized up-
on, contrary to his .expectation, by the Politico
Puritans, for the application of his machinery to
their
own purposes, this admission waS oPtated,

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Saturday last. The following are extracts :
" PARIS, Auo. B.—Tbe Sieur Gay Lussac is,
by a Royal Ordonnance, appointed a Member of
the Consulting Committee of the Direction Gene-
ral of Gunpowder and Saltpetre.
" Yesterday the Duke de Richelieu, President
of the Council of Ministers, went to the Thuil-
leries and transacted business with his Majesty.
The King afterwards went out, accompanied by
►he Dukes de Grammont, de le Chatre, and
d'Avaray.
The bookseller I'i-hillier was arrested yes-
terday morning, and conveyed to the Concier-
gerie, to undergo the imprisonment to which he
has been sentenced in the first case of l'Homme
Gris.

Madame Chapedelaine, the wife of one of the
Officers lately arrested, has instituted a suit for
calumny against the authors of Lettres Nor-
'wades.

Mr. Church, the American Consul at
L'Orient, has constructed a large steam vessel,
which will be launched in a few days at
L'Orient. A wheel of a new construction,
for which he has obtained a patent, is fixed
in this vessel (which is destined for the navigation
of the Garonne), and which gives facilities hi-
therto unknown for-working against the strongest
onrrents ; the safety-valves have been adapted to
prevent all accident:
" A conflagration took place at. Tarbes in the
night of the 15th ult., which destroyed some barns
and granaries, and which several persons worthy
of credit assert to have been caused by fire fall-
ing frOm a cloud.
The 27th June, the first stone of the new
German Lutheran Church was laid at Moscow.
The King and the Prince Rpyal of Prussia assist-
ed iv the ceremony.

" The Duke and Duchess of Clarence disem-
barked at Calais on the 4th inst. from the Royal
Sovereign yacht. Their Royal Highnesses set out
the next day for Germany.

" Letters from Pau of the 30th nit. say, 'since the
shock of an earthquake which was felt here on the
19th inst. we have had every day violent storms
and torrents of rain. The lightning has struck
down in different quarters, but without causing
any serious accident.'

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PETERSSURGH, JULY 14.—1 t • has already
been stated, that on the arrival of Madame de
Krudener in Russia, her suite, consisting of 18
or 20 persons, were sent back beyond the fron-
tiers. The Emperor, who was then travelling in
the southern provinces of his empire, was no
sooner informed of this circumstance, than he
gave orders to allow all the suite of Madame de
Krudener to return back into Russia, and to live
there in tranquillity and without molestation.
Madame de Icrodener is at present living on her
estate in Livonia ; all those who accompanied her
have joined her there, with the exceprion of M.
Kellner, who went from Memel into Holstein,
but who will n't delay to return to her.

" MANHEIM, Auo. 2.—The works of the forti-
fications of Coblentz are now advancing with the