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to express doubts which their clergy are, unablt to
remove in a satisfaClory manner ; they are beginning
to laugh at some of those things which they forinerly
were so benighted as to reverence : and priestcralt
is gradually becoming a favourite subjeel
or censure among them. For my part, the teligion
in which I was brought: up, and which I often
thought I never could forsake, has appeared to me,
since
,I came to consider it so closely, so absurd, in
some respect s; so heathenish in others ; so klavish.;
so inconsistent with the greatness and happiness of
• my native country ; so unlike true Christianity ;
and so far from the road to 'salvation ;
.and that al-
thotigh all my family profess it, I could 'never expe-
rience composure of mind ; never look ;:vithOny de-
gree of confidence to the enjoyment of eternal hap-
piness hereafter ; nor ever console myself with the
t hoUght of having done.:my duty, and merited the
, into reession of our Lord and Saviour Je.sus Cltrigf,
Until bad title; endeavoined to open ilie e; es of my
fellow „Christians to the alarming eiro-s which
have discovered ; and it .is my elr'teSt wish that they
play '-Search; the Scriptures, 'for in them they have
the words of eternatlife.'"
This is the first writer whom we have ever fOund
to maintrOi an opinion -Which we have. long • enter-
tained—that the greatness and happiness or Ireland
have tieen inipedtd, chiefly, by the prevalekwe nf
the C,i; holic tel in that country. It has A ari
appeared to us, that had the Reformation. extended
to Ireland, at the period when its beneficial ititlucnce,
was first 'Or in England, , the siimolu, which it
wona have given' to indos,ry, ,and the; impulse
which it would hive iMpar'red generally to the tea-
would have led to improvernents in
trade, and manufaelures; would have
given birth.' to a spirit of commercial enterprize,
and, by inspiring cOnfidence, would have led English
capitalists to settle 'there ; and, by (his combination
of advantages, would have drawn forth all the. natu-
ral sources of wealth and happiness, which Provi-
di em has so bountifully bestowed on that fertile
country. We are gratified at finding 1134 gpinion
confirmed
.by so intelligent an Irishman as Mr.
Crowley , who does not appear to be in thiltabit of •
corning to' any decision on light, trivial, or. insutlici7
eat grounds.

By a. ship of which arrived on Tuesday from
the Leeward Islands, Si..Thomas's 9.l2tteS to the
c.,,ii•of October have been received., -Their con-
tents cons:st chiefly of local i'nfOrtnation., Soule
'alarm having lately been excited re.peoting hicendi-
'aiies, and the place having frequently sulieied from
their operations, new regulations hayebeen adopted
to prevcnt the success 61 similar attempts. A night
guard has therehdre been established on an extensive
scale,to prevent corigigrations,as well as robberies,
and.oll kind' of tumultuous and dis'ordclly conduct.
Lt has been Ordered, that all white and tree 'Dhabi.
tants of col Our, from the age of sixteen to that of
`sixty,. Without distinctiOit or exception, shall be
bound to perform nightluards' duty, under the di-
rectiop of 'the commanders of the three grand divi-
sions of the town: Part of7the force thus raised is
to'be anniteci in the soperintendance of the public
fire•engines. No certificate from doctors, surgeons,
or physicians, are to be deemed a valid excuse for
non-attendance, till ratified by the I..,eutenant-Go-
yernor. • For the first and second neglect of duty, .a
fine of money is to be imposed'i after that, impri-
•
sonment.

We have intelligence from 'Copenhagen, that Mr.
El ving, Special Minister from the United .States at
that Court, has at length received an answer to his.
remonstrance against the condemitatten before the'
Trihunals tat Paris of Anieriean vesselS brought info
Danish ports. He is informed, that tie Danish,
Adtniralty Courts have no jurisdiction over the s.es-
sels in question, as they wire tripturd beyond the
limits 'ot the Danish wateri, or at the distance pl
mote than four Miles from the coast.
•.
Some advices of an interes.ing itattirehave been
received from Madrid. . A private Council `of the
Ministers had ,been held; .and another, composed of
JoScrti, JotraiiAN, anti netII.:TANNII. Theie mect-
iegS to-•k place in consequence of intelligence from
Ptladdialcirl, that D...t.14V4 MARTIN,` the Einpeci-
nado, was atSiguenza, and that he was matching
towards the city by the road of Torija .and
From the latter the garrison had beedWith-
dtawn to Guadalaaari, where it was strengthened by.
2:)0 men from Alcala. Precautions were taken to col.
lea the wheat and 'other movible property'which was
in the neighbourhood ofTarancon, the Guerilla, parties
approaching that place in great strength.. The Pre-
fed ot. Ttiledb had stated the deficiency of his. means
for the support Of his troops; and the ra-Jabot) of
-the 'force Was occasioned by the number -of sick in
the division of General'Foy.
On,the evening of Saturday; the 30th tilt. as a
Gentleman of the name of Minshull was returning
frern a' mat rimonial excursion -to Gretna; and passing
overslap
,Fell, a bat ren heat'lr to the north of Ken-
dal, 'with two young ladies in kearriage, they were
'suddenly alarmed by the cries of the postilion, and
bercire they could inquire the cause, the doors of the
earitag,e were burst open, and two"men- darted for-
*aid, art-ted With pistols, which they presented to
the breast of the Gentleman, and demanded his Mo.
.ney : he, perhaps, not thinking the. pistols were
loaded, made-some resistance, when one of the ruf-
fians immediately discharged the contents ot`• his
weapon into his breast, arid, with the assistance of.
liis comrade,-rifled his pockets, while he wits wel-
tering In his blood, of every thing valuable. They
then decamped With their booty witt)Q t moles:ing
the ladies, who became, insensible when they' made
thcir appearance. Upon their recovery, what a'a
their - horiorat the tight which •presented
itself !
One of them possessing more presence of mind than
the other, went irt search, of the postilion, whelp
she fount tied hand and toot upon thegrourid. They.
then pursued their melancholy journey tO,the,nearest
town, where, soon after theirnrrival, 'the unfortu-
nate man expired, He Was-a -young man of -very
promising abilities, and the -last Male descendant
from the-ancient Eails of, that name in Cheshire.
-On 'Wednesday morning, the 17th ult. the par-
sonage-houseof the Rev. William Cox, oftangton.
Herring, Wilts, 'was discovered to' be <in fire; tied
though the wind blew only a'gentte breeze, it being
thatched and very dry, thefite made rapid progress.
The roof-soon tell in, and communicated the Males
to the chambers, which 'were burnt.