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London, England, 1809-11-16 00:00:00

While the laws of anger coatianed lobe regarded, " •
the fear of being thus separated and ceasing di We mrommOWN.....
lite, as members of his body, had a powerful effect in Matrannt-inottsa.—Yesterday, W. Prier was fay.
producing circumspection and a diligent seal in per- committed, charged by Mr. Wrench, of Thanes.
forming the different christian duties.. Even after the, street, with stealing ten Russia malts. Mr. W,
root of bitterness (Heb. xii. 15), alluded to under the stated, that the prisoner had lived as a porter in-their
third trumpet, had sprung up in the churches, when, house, and had stolen the matt: from
'their ware-
in truth, the real disciples ought to have separated house, with three seed bags. J. Potters, a porter •in
themselves from them, and formed a new fellowship the same warehouse, confirmed Mr. W.'s statement.
to observe the laws of their MASTER, such was the ; J. Brown was charged by Mr. T. Streatfield, a
dread of being exposed to this death, that even pious leather factor, from Leadenhall Market, with steal-
men were induced to . submit to the various abuses ing some leather, which was found in -his possession.
and new practices that were gradually introduced, , The prisoner solicited that he might. be suffered to
bearing with every encroachment, lest they should de-1 enter into the navy, to which the LORD Maims con-
stroy the unity of Christ': body. I shall not here repeat I sented.
what has already been advanced, in treating of the r The Inquest Jury of Aldgate brought before the
third trumpei, but content myself with observing, LORD MAYOR three quartern and six three-penny
that this became a most powerful engine •in the I loaves, deficient in weight, found at a chandler's
hands of the locusts and their king, to compel men to sub- ! shop in that ward. The baker pleaclei the bread be-
mit to their authority and extortions, till at length the ing overbaked, particularly the small loaves: This
evils with which it was accompanied became such a being the first time, his Lordship convicted him in.
torment, that many men, had it -been in their power, ; the mitigated penalty of Is. each ounce
would willingly have shaken off the yoke, regardless GUILDHALL.—J. M. Fernon, in the employment of
of the anathemas of the tyrants by whom they were 1 Mr. Thomas, furrier, in Wood-street, preferred a
oppressed : they sought death—they desired that they ! complaint against W. Eldridge, one of the city con-
might not be considered members of the body, but , stables, for illegally detaining him upwards of two
they could not obtain this favour : they desired to die— hours. It appeared that he was passing along Long-
attempted to separate themselves, but death fled from lane, on Friday afternoon, with a bag containing
them ; for Me locust: had power given to th:m—the secu- some skins, which he had just brought from his mas-
lar arm at their back, to compel men to continue ter's : Eldridge and two other persons demanded
members of their community and to sulsnais to their ; what he had gat ? he told them, but Eldridge insist-
authority, on pain of the most dreadful punishments !ed on taking him to a public-house and searching
that diabolical ingenuity could invent and inflict. him. Although the plaintiff desired to be taken to
Nor were the men symbolized by the locusts ever' his master's, they forced him into a public-house
troubled with any of the common compunctions of and there detained him; and on his pressing them to
humanity. While massacre and carnage were dis- 4go to his master's. they desired him to be quiet or
pensed in every quarter by their infernal policy, with they would take him to the Compter ; they after-
the most shameless effrontery, they affected to lament wards took him to another public-house, and it was
' the depravity and obstinacy which thus brought down not till near seven that they arrived at his master's,'
the vengeance of the civil power on their devoted vic- when he was liberated. The officer in his defence,
tims ; for though to them it was given that they should said, he had an order to stop all suspicious persons
not THEmsio.ves be the butchers, nevertheless 46 they had carrying parcels who had not bills of parcel to spew.
power to cause that a: many as would not worship THE Mr. Thomas gave 'his servant an excellent character;
.IMAGE OF THE BEAST [that is, the kingdom of the he had been employed by him upwards of '2O years ;!
ousts, as shall be shewn hereafter,] should be billed" from the place where he was stopped, by the Officer,!
(Rev. xiii. 15.) by the secular arm. to Wood-street, was so short a distance, that the Of-'
It requires no sagacity to discover the motive that ficer might have taken him there in a quarter of an
induced the locusts to be thus solicitous that men hour, instead of which he had been detained upwards
should be compelled valve as members of their king- of two hours. Alderman DosiviLLE considered the
dom. They had, before this period, assumed to them- Officer as having overstept his authority ; he could,
selves the right of collecting tithes from their flocks, however, give the plaintiff 110 relief, but he might
and were in the receipt of constant liberal donations prosecute the Officer at the Set sions. Mr. Thomas!
from their blind folloNers. They lived and faredsump- declared his determination to support his servant in
tuously, wallowing in every luxury, and vying with , the prosecution, and the Officer was discharged.
the princes of the earth in the splendour of their es- WoRSHIP-STRzET.—Yesterdav, Isabella Spencer,
tablishments. Without clock they could not eat of M, professor of the occult science, was committed under
milk; and as they took the charge foriflthy lucre, in di. 'he Vagrant Act, for extorting money from several
recto pposition t the injunctions of the Apostle (1 silly females, under pretence of telling their fortunes.
Pet. v. 9.), nothing could he more natural than that
UNION-tiara' .—Yesterday, Henry vii was charged
with they should be concerned about the number of their' carrying on a private still at Camherwell. An
contributors. Officer in August last went to some premises occupi-
Nor will it appear strange, if we consider of what
ad by the defendant in the Kent-road, which bad the
kind of characters the greater bulk of professing Chris-
appearance of a stable and hay-loft. On entering
tians were composed, when whole nations were compel'.
the
latter, he discovered a still set is brickwork, with
ed by law to profess the faith, and coerced by punish-
a flue communicating with the counting-house chim-
ment to submit to their spiritual rulers, that a great
ney adjoining, there was nothing in the still ; but a
majority should have acquiesced in the will of their
number of large casks, which had evidently very re-
masters. So grievous was the plague and torment
cent y contained molasses, and two casks strongly
with whic:i the rapacious rule of these dealer: in myste- impregnated with spirits, were standing in the stable
tier was Iccompanied, that multitudes, regardless of
—a quantity of salt of a description used only in dis-
the punishments denounced in a future state against
[illation, was also found on the premises. The de-
the contemners of:he sacred orders, would have braved fence was, that the defendant had let the premises at
that danger, could they have thus avoided the present Easter last to a man named Taylor, and at the time of
evils ; hut they se etc reduced to a very different al-
his letting them they were fitted up in every respect
ternative—submission, or loss of worldly substance,
as a stal le and hay-loft ; and that he was ignorant
with corporal punishment. It is easy to be seen
of the use to which they had been since applied.—
which of these would be preferred by the men who had i Tl: e defendant was fined 4.52, and the utensils were
not the seal of Con in their forehead:. They chose ra-
forfeited.
thcr to be Cii • ' • • t ['iv' while spiritually dead (Rev. iii.
I) than to suffer Me loss ff all thing: for CHRIST '( Philip. --
iii. 5). This very int was predicted in the scald Yesterday one of the Horse Guards, who were es.
h~ol:—" Such as do wicledly against the covenant SHALL sorting his Majesty, was thrown from his horse, at
Colnbr, ok, and very much hurt. The same horse
us; 11:SE TO DIaSEMBLE" (Dan. xi. 3); making them
threw a man, a few weeks since, on the same jour-
submit, hypocritically, to his authority, to avoid what
in their estimation was a greater evil. my, and he is still in the hospital. After they had
T!:e torment which men were thus made to endure.changed horses, one of the light horse ran away with
his rider, and rode furiously against one of his Majesty's
was not light and trivial—it was 66 at the torment of
a scorpion when he striketh a max,"—that is severe, of attendants, which knocked him and his horse dowd;
long continuance, unremitting, and often mortal. For the attendant sustained very little injury, and re•
m
an illustration of this we need only recollect the mounted his horse. The soldier's horse was stopped
unceasing wrangles and bloody contests in which the • by the party, which was forwarded, and the .man
locusts involved their followers—the different conten-
mounted him again, although his face was covered
ders for spiritual rule employing, as they chanced to with blood from the accident.
gain the car of the civil magistrate, the arms and ter. Hoffman White, who was convicted at a recent
tors of the State to extirpate their rivals ;and eadi, in Old Bailey Sessions, with another noted housebreaker,
their turn, having the same measure meted to them winch; for a burglary in the house of Mr. Sitwell, has es-
!kw had measured to others. ; caped from the hulk at 'Woolwich ; lie was there for
'FOTive month: these locust: were to be the tormentsrs 14 years, having received the Royal clemency.
of incriliind in matters connected with religion : not L. Fotherhy, of Kentish Town, who went to spend
that their torment was then to cease, for we know that the evening at Shadwell a few evenings ago, and was
they were to have pow to
er to carry on the same r- afterwards missing for four days, has been found
t
men ea
system for 1260 prophetic years ; but at the drowned in the Thames, near Rotherhithe; it is sup-
posed that he had lost his way returning home, and
expiration of five months, ?hat is five times 30 days,
or 130 years, their monopoly of the torture was to be had fell over some wharf.
invaded by another ; of which hereafter. At the adjournment of the Commission Court in'
Dublin, on Thursday, four men found guilty of a
riot and rescue of cattle distrained for non-payment
of rent, were sentenced to be imprisoned for six
months. After the Judges left the Court, one of
the men, with,great simplicity, applied to the Clerk
of the Crown, to know if their case was bailable;"
to which he replied, with great naivete, e‘ yes, at the
expiration of six months." •
ExECUTlON.—Yesterday morning, Charles Oed,len,
D. Fitzgerald, and C. Sullivan, the first for an unna-
tural crime, and the two last for a rape, were execut-
ed, opposite to the debtors' door of Newgate. A more
than usual degree of interest was excited in the public
mind by the execution of these unfortunate men, from
the unsuccessful attempt made by Sullivan, on Sun-
day last, to escape from Newgate, disguised in wo-
men's clothes ; and a vast concourse of spectators
were assembled in the Old Bailey at an early hour.—
Soon after eight o'lock, Sullivan and Fitzgerald ap-
peared on the platform, accompanied by a Catholic
Clergyman; 'and a short time after Oakden came
forward, attended by the Ordinary of Newgate.—
The prisoners severally passed a few minutes in prayer
and each of them appeared duly impressed with the
justice of his sentence, and contrition for the crime
he had been guilty of. About a quarter after eight
o'clock, 'the awful signal was given, and these unfor-
tunate men were launched into eternity, and appeared
to die almost without a struggle. After being sus-
pended the usual time, the bodies were cut down ;mid
delivered to their respective relatives.

' POLIO:, folk.

BIBLICCS.

• ft is not a little singular that churchmen should have had the
address to persuade mankind that they had a p•)wcr to consign
them to reprobation, should they rouse to subMit to their akthe-
rify. The denouncing of excommunication against separatists is
a singular absurdity, and implies a greater miracle than any of all
the well attested. wonders that have been performed by ecclesi-
astics. It is cutting cif from a body that which is already se-
parated from it—it is turning a man out of a house when he has
hinisdf left it voluntarily and sworn he will never again enter it .

Mkc LATHAM has put in bail to answer the indict-
ment fcr put jury found against her. Doctors POWELL
and howl ti were her sureties.

Saturday night the wife of a respectable shipwright,
belonging to Plymouth dock-yard, was detected in
shoplifting at two different linen-drapers shops in that
town ; one of which she stole a piece of Irish
linen, and from the other a valuable shawl. She
was apprehended with the property in her possession,
and committed to the town prison.

On Sunday morning, the sth instant, the counting-
house of Messrs. CROSBY and WHITE, clothiers, of
Westbury, Wiltshire, was broken open, and woollen
cloths to the amount of £7OO stolen therefrom. Sus-
picion having fallen on three men,who passed through
that place in a hawker's mil/ening cart, they were
traced to Exeter, and there apprehended, with the
property in their possession. One of them made his
escape ; the other two were secured, and sent to
'prison.