The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-22 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW.

The CLAIMS of 'the ESTABLISHED CHURCH; con-
sidered as an Apostolical Institution, and as an Autho-'
'sized Interpreter of Holy Scripture. By a LnYMN.N.—
RtvtNol•oNs, St. Paul's Church-yard; and GtusEaTs:St.
aolas-square,Clerkenwell.

We have signified, in the course of our critical
aoitnAdvet sinus, that we shall not confine ourselves
to Works that have recently issued from the P,kess,
but direct our attention to productions of promi-
nent merit, if they have been some time before
the Public. On this principle we are induced to
notice the pi esent Tract, which is so laudable in its
views, comprehends such 'sound I-loco hies, and it
81611141 rd by so pure a spirit of piety and genuine
patriotism; that tve rejoice. to see it come forward
in a new Edition. We noticed it on its first ap-

pearance, and we are 1-tally confirmed in our opinion
that it is a very vahuble work. It is divided in►tco
nine thapter4, as stated in the Ta,ble of Contents,
and every Chapter treats on subjects of the to.
most importance to our Religious Establishment.
It appea't•rs to be the main object of the Author to
inculcate the doctrine that the ancient and true
Constitution of the Chi istian Ghurcl► is Episcopal,
and that by Episcopal 01dination alonecar► llolyOr•
tiers be conferred, or any ot'►e he invested with the
Character• of a Christian Minister. Ail who have

not,receired such ordination, he contends, are
mere Laymen, though they may assume the Gown
and •Cassock. The Work, we find, is received on
the list of books published by the Society for pro-
moting Christian Knowledge, which we conceive
to be the highest enlogium that could be paid to
its merit, considering the scrutiny which every
IVork must undergo previonS to such reception.—
It is, indeed, a very excellent production, and
the more- interesting because it is the acknow-
ledged-production of a LAvmAti, who displays so
much learning, judgment, and knowledge, as
would doubtless render him conspicuous among
the Clerical Order, it he were one of its authorized
Members. We have reason to believe that the
World is indebted to this, Author for many other
valuable Works on Political as well as Religious
subjects, and that he has been a powerful and
eloquent supporter of the Altar and the Throne in
productions which would do honour to his
name, if he had not modestly withheld it, as on the
present occasion. As the lamented loss of our be-
loved PaiNcEss has led to the intention of build-
ing New CHURCHES, a measure of essential im-
portance' in every point of view, and as we. mean
to resume our observEo ion of this excellent Pamph-
let, we shall content ourselves, at resew, with
extracting the following-Note' nu this • subject
from the Sixth Chapter, and we particularly re-
commend it to the attention of the Society to
which the erection of those sacred Edifices is es-
pecially intrusted, as very applicable to the object

in view :

" That the provision made for public worship
in the Established Church is grossly inadequate to
the population of this country, is a truth which,
it must be allowed,' often affords a plea fur sepa-
ration, the force of which it seems 'impossible to
repel. In many, polishes, chiefly in or near the
metropolis, the places of worship, under the esta•
,bliShment, are ca,pable of containing only a small
portion—often not a fifth, sometimes not a tenth
—of the inhabitants. lo numerous provincial
patishes, the churches, though not • deficient in
pont of number or size, are often close shut up
at the regular times of Divine Service; insomuch,
that it only on alternate Sundays, and then but
on one pat t of the day, that an opportunity is af-
forded to the parishioners of attending puhlicwor.
ship ;, who, in many cases, having no resident Mi-
nister, are left, during the week, as sheep Without
a shepherd. So Scanty a provision for the spiri-
•tual watts of the people, might almost induce a
stranger to doubt the existence of an Established
Church in this country. The fault however rests,
not with the Establishment, but with the Stale,
which, in professing to establish a Church for the
public worship of God, solemnly undertakes to
afford opportunities of regularly attending that
worship to all the inhabitants of the country.—
In direct and palpable breach of this engagement,
a large portion of the population, in the very heart
of the kingdom, is actually excluded, for want of
room, from the churches of the Establishment,
whilst, in many other parts, the provision made
for the Clergy is so inadequate, that it is often
found necessary -to allot the service of several
churches to the same Minister,. in order to. insure
him the necessaries of life ; in consequence of
tvhich distribution it unavoidably happens, that
the labours of a Minister, the whole-of which are
due to a single parish, are divided, perhaps, among
three or four parkhes, only one of which can en-
joy his pastoral care as a resident Minister. After
all, in numerous instances, the income on which
a Clergyman has to depend for the subsistence of
a large family does not exceed that of a clay la-
bourer. These are evils of the greatest magni-
tude, and fraught with the most direful chit-se-
quences. They call for the prompt and serious
attention of the Legislature, in which alone re-
sides the power of applying a remedy. The na-
ture of the remedy which ought to he applied, it
cannot he difficult to discover. New Churches
must be built, with full
.accommodation fur all
classes, wherever they are wanted, and the Esta-
blishment must he enabled, by adequate endow-
ments, to flank!' Ministers for the, regular per-
formance of Divine Service in every pact of the
kingdom, and to provide for those Ministers suit-

THE QUEEN.

This morning the following Bulletin respecting
the QuEEN'o Health was issued :

s, Queen's Niue, May '2l, 1818, 11, A.M.

" The QUEEN was not quite so well yesterday
evening as Her MAJESTY bad been in the morn-
ing, but Her MAJEsTy has been refreshed by some
good sleep last night.

" FRANCIS MILMAN.
" HENRY MILFORD:"

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Tuesday last. They are extremely barren of
news. The following are extracts :
" PARIS, MAY. O.—There exists at the present
moment in the Arrondissement of Avallon, a
young girl whose mind is deranged, and who is
persuaded that she has communications with an
angel. After remaining thirty nights in the open
air, in the court-yard of her father's. house,
she imagined that she must go to sleep in the
cemetery oilier parish, and an the name- of her
angel, she ordered two of her neighbours to carry
thither the stone on which she Was to repose.—,
This extraordinary conduct has given 'rise to a
thousand absurd tales. It is asserted that this
girl has the gift of performing miracles ; that she
passes over a river with her feet quite dry ; that
she exists without eating ; and that the most
abundant rain would not wet her. Credulous
people have fancied they saw something miracu-
lous when there was nothing but madness. The
Administration and the Physicians are in come-

quence on the alert.
" Marshal the Duke of Dantzic has been ill

'or some days.

" From St. Peteisburgh, the 22a ult., it is
stated, that according to a narrative frolu Oona-
lashka, (one of the Aleutian Isles, near Kaq)s-
chatka), an Island which was observed to bc Aust

formed as 1814,. in comegtlenee of a volcanic
eruption, had, during 1815, acquired a consistence
and form very different from what it had in the
rreeeditig year. Its present extent is two wrests.
The name of flogorloW has been given to it. It
is remarkable that in 1814 this Island Was full of
sea lions,' and tfilk in 1815 nothing but their
bones were to be seen.

The Grand puke Michael quitted Case
the lOth instant, to proceed by way of Hanm•
burgh to Holland, and from thence to England.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Monday 6B f. 40 c.

DEFERRED STOCK.

Monday si f. 55c.

" VIENNA, MAY 6e—The Archduchess of Parma
is expected here very shortly.
" The Emperor and Empress of Austria were
expected to remain at Zara about a week, in
order to make excursions to the neighbowing
Isles,

" NUREMBERG, MAY 11.-From Berlin it is
stated, that the young men of the Laudwebr dis-
charged from active service, have been obliged to
assemble to go through, the military exerciie for
some weeks, and that disagreeable circumstances
have in consequence taken place. Some of the
young men -have committed serious offences against
subordinath,n, and ordrs have been issued to
bring them before a Council of War.

. " WARSAW, APRIL :A.—Previous-• to his de-
parture the Emperor of Russia 'reviewed a corps
of Polish tronps of 24,000 men.
" FRANKFORT, MAY I 4.—A report is in circu-
lation that the Court of Berlin, in order to round
the. Prussian Tel ritories, is in negociation with time
Government of the Netherlands for the exchange
of the" Territory of Cleves for that of Luxem-
burg."

We are much obliged to our Correspondent in
Paris, %%hose Letter we received, and have in-
serted, this day, for the pains which he has taken
to justify the removal of the Allied Forces from
France. We are not yet convinced by his argu-
ments, but we must defer our Remarks at present.

There was a strong report last night among the
higher Political Circles, that Parliament- will be
PROROGUED on the 6th of next month, and that
DISSOLUTION will speedily fallow;

A Petition, interesting to every class of the
Community, but particularly to the lower and
middling orders, was presented last night to the
House of Commons, from the Mayor and Corpo-
ration of Exeter. The purport of this Petition is,
to procure an equalization of the duty on Coals.
But we rejoice to find drat similar-applications
have been made to Parliament, and are every day
augmenting. The subject de►nan+is the utmost
attention of the Legislature. It is needless to
point out the universal benefits which must result
from the adoption of proper measures on this im-
portant subject. - We hope,:aS the subject of the
Monopoly by- the WATER COMPANIES seems to be
dropped by those who introduced it in Parliament
with -the apparent zeal of true public spirit, .that
that also will alnict the particular attention of
the Legislature, that two elements of essential
necessity may be rendered universally accessible,
and upon more easy terms.

ANOTHER INTENDED MEETING OF THE SPA

FIELDS GENTRY.

We were the first to announce to the Public
the intention of holding the late Meeting in the
Spa-Fields, and we are now informed from the same
source that another Meeting is in contemplation
in the Borough, probably of the disfranchised
Inhabitants of that chaste neighbourhood St.
George's Fields,-,--Mr. HUNT. having arrive:l in
town, and recovered himself from the fears that
induced him to be absent from the recent assem-
bly in Spa-Fields, it is said he will be invited to
take the Chair..