Star.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

A hEVEREND CALUMNIATOn.

The Bev. Mr. BLACOW, of libellous notoriety, has
i published a Sermon, which he recently delivered n
Sr. Mark's Church, Liverpool. It is replete with the
foulest calumnies upon her MAJESTY and her sup-
porters. We insert the following passage as a specimen:
" The latter, Indeed, it must he allowed, have one feature
about them, even more hideous and disgusting than the Jaco
bins themselves. They fell dcipm and worshipped the Goddess
of Reason—a most respectable and decent sort of being, com-
pared with that which the Radicals have set up as the idol of
their worship. They have elevated the Goddess of Lust on the
pedestal of Shame—an object of all others the most congenial
to their taste—the most deserving of their homage—the most
worthy of their adoration. After exhibiting her claims to their
favour in two distant quarters of the globe—after compassing
sea and land with her guilty paramours, to gratify to the full her
impure desires, and even polluting the Holy Sepulchre itself
with her presence, to wbich she was carried in mock-ma-
jesty, astride upon an ass, she returned to this hallowed soil,
so hardened in sin, so bronzed with infamy, so callous to every
feeling of decency or of shame, as to go on Sunday last, clothed
in the mantle of adultery, to kneel down at the altar of that Gon,
who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity; when she ought
rather to have stood barefoot in the aisle, covered with a sheet
as white as' unsunned snow,' doing penance for her sins ! Till
this had been done, I would never have defiled my hands by
placing the sacred symbol's in her's!"
After perusing this specimen, it will not surprise
our Readers to learn, that Mr. Blacow took the pre-
caution, before he ventured to outrage the feelings of
-his flock by the delivery of such an infamous produc-
don, to fill his Church with peace-officers. In the au-
dacious malignity of this man, we see the effects of
the ill-judged lenity of her Majesty's Law Advisers
towards the Ministerial Journalists, who daily pear
forth torrents of the most scurrilous invectives against
her Majzsty. Mr. Blacow, from the impunity which
those men have hitherto experienced, must have con-
ceived that there was one female in this country out
of the pale of the protection of the laws, and with re-
gat(' to whom he might exercise his propensity for
scurrility and libel, not only without any fear of
being brought to justice, but with a confident hope of
' reward, as a paragon of zealous loyalty. We have
I spoken of this Reverend Divine as a person of libel-
lous notoriety ; but as the transaction to which we al-
lude may not be distinctly within the recollection of
many of our Readers, it may be proper to state, that
some ten years ago this identical Divine was tried
and convicted for publishing a most atrocious libel
against the mother of a pupil intrusted to his instruc-
tion. On that occasion, the address of the Learned
Judge (Grose) was accurately descriptive of his iast,
and prophetic of his future conduct.
4, Richard Blacow," said he, you are brought
here to receive the sentence of the Court, upon an
indictment charging you with having composed and
written an offensive, scandalous, and malicious libel,
to sow discontent, and excite disaffection and discord
in a private family, between a husband and his wife,
neither of whom, as it appears, had done anything
to you to provoke such unneighbourly conduct on-
your part. Although this is not a public libel, yet
considered as a private libel, it bears the most cri-
minal complexion of any I have ever met with. It
is a libel of that domestic sort which carries with it
a degree of malignancy which .1 have never known pa-
ralleled! It is more declalatory of the infamous con-
duct of a libeller convict, than anything that has
fallen under my observation. The aggravations of
your offence are enormous. You are a Minister of
the Gospel ; and therefore, if you had Observed there
was any discord between this gentleman and his wife,
it was your peculra?'duty to have healed the wound,
and to restore that affection which should ever sub-
sist between the individuals of a family. It is diffi-
cult to conceive a more degrading offence in a person
in holy orders, than that you should, by an unfounded
suggestion of hit wife's incontinency, have planted,
like a base assassin, daggers in the heart of him who
had made you, I may say, a part of his family, and
who had intrusted you with the education of his child.
Had the suggestion been founded in fact, every hour
of delay in imparting it would have been base treason
to-him who admitted you as his confidential guest
and as the tutor of his son, and thereby put it into
your power to injure him in the tenderest part with
so much the more secrecy r

The Lady of the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor of
Oxford caused it to prove a merry Christmas, to a'
large portion of the poor of St. A ldate's, and its neigh-
bourhood, .by her usual distribution of flannels, bee,
soup, and bread.

I. VNIVERSITY INDELLIOExct
CAMBRIDGE, DECEMBER 29.
the number of Gentlemen Admitted to the degree a
during the last year was 180. It is rather singular eba,,4k,
folks= were the only Compounders :
d, Christ. Swann, Trin.
Milner, (Nth. Williams. doh.
kkhards„ TAM Prideauz, Sid

OXFORD, DECEMBER 30.
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The
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Si:bjeyectays, areviz. proposed for tke Chaff,
Prizes
For Latin Vence—" Nicosia."
For an Foglia, guar.' The Study of Modern Moore.
Fore Latin Fosay-.." De Auguriis et Auspiciis spud dotoi,jo.,/
The first of the above subjects is intended for those Getokuol
of the University who have not exceeded four years from*
time of their Matriculation ; and the other two for such as
exceeded four, but not completed seven years.
Sic Roc= NSWDICATeS Pear--For the best Compogitioik
English Verse, not containing either more or fewer that Fifty
Lines, by any Under-Graduate who has not exceeded fooryozi
from the time of his Matriculation.
Sunday, an Ordination was held in the Chapel of Ai sow
College, by the Bishop of this Diocese, when the follow*
denten were ordained :

DT.ACOICS.

William Brock Haling, Lincoln College, B.A. Cumin et - •
lingstorte Lovell.
et
John Walker, B.A. Queen's College, Chaplain New cCharles I)upuis, B.A. Scholar of Pembroke Came, 41
John Clough, Curate of Char!grove.
John Jones, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College.
Gipps, 11.4. Fellow of Worcester College.
Charles Henry Cox, BSA. Student of Grist Church.
John Williams, B.A. Scholar of Jesus College.
George Buckeridge, B.A. Scholar of Worcester Coil
Charles Litchfield Swanson, ILA. Fellow of St. Jut :'s co.
John Netherton Ilarward, M.A. Scholar of IVoreesta c.,44.
Edward Burton, M.A. Student of Christ Church. •
Charles Itanhen, M.A. ditto.
Henry Jenkync, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College.
Thomas Powell, 11. A. Scholar of NVorccster College.
PRIF:ITS.
Donald Cameron, B.A. Scholar of Wadba:n College,
Thomas Wyatt, IL .1. Trinity College, Curate of Mollirrc..„
Edward Henry Dawkins, LI:C.I. Fellow of .411 Souls. '
Josiah Torshalt, 11.1. Fellow of Exeter College.
Alfred Buller Clouzb, ILA. Fellow of Jesus COliege.
Charles Miller, M.A. Demy of Magdalen Colby... '
Wadham Harbin, ALA. Fellow of ‘Vadhans C...lege.
„Edward Pope, M.A. Fellow of Queen's Colleg:.
. William Lewis, 11. A: Curate of I lethe. 1
Henry Alitldleton, M.A. l.kmy of Magdalen College. •
Samuel Grover, B.A. Fellow of Exeter College. •
John Watts, M.A. Fellow of University College.
Charles Alcock, MA. Fellow of New College.
Robert Grant, S.C.L. ditto.
Richard Harvey, B.A. Fellow of St. John's College:
Sunday, the rah instant, the Bishop of Sarum admitted tie .
following Gentlemen to Holy Orders :
• DEACONS.
Henry Palmer, M.A. Christ Church. •• '
Richard Webb, B.A. Queen's College. .
Clement Robert Francis, M.A.aius College, Cambridgc -
want 1
Charles William KnyVett, B.A. Christ Church.
Edmund Winder, B.A. Bene't College, Cambridge. '
Roger Hitchcock, Queen's College, Cambridge. •
George Macness Johnson, St. Alban's Hall.
Dimes Hall, M.A. Wadham College. 1
Francis Lear, M.A. Magdalen College. •
John Morton Colson, B.A. Balliol College.
George Chisholm, M.M. Worcester College.
Henry Cockeram, /a.m. Exeter College.
At an Ordination, held on Sunday, In Gloucester Cathedral,
by the Bishop of that Diocese, the following Gentlemen west
admitted into Holy Orders :
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DItACOKS.
John Adams, B.A. Christ Church.
Hely Hutchinson Smith, B.A. Balliol College.
Robert Trail, R A. Cains College, Cambridge.
Richard Harmar, B.A. ditto.
Charles Ford, B.A. Barnet College.
William Jones, B.A. Pembroke College.
Samuel Emery Day, B.A. St. Edmund Hall.
Thomas Brown, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge.
Richard Jenkyns Stone, S.C.L. Jesus College, Cambridge:
Charles Allen, Student of St. Catherine Hal, Cambridge:
rams.
Thomas Arden, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge.
Thomas Commeline, St. Alban Hall.
Charles Davenport, B.A. Worcester College.
Charles Pleydeil Neale Wilton, St. John's Coll. Cambridge.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. John Muir, late Minister of Lecropt, has been
milted Minister of St. James's Church and Parish, in Glasgow.
The Rev. C. Bird, Rector of Hoyland, to the valuable Vi;
carage of Chollcrton, near Ilezham, Northumberland.
The Rev. Ebenezer Morris, to the Vicarage of lAanelle.
The Rev. Charles Wrottesley,t to the Rectory of East Knoft
Wiltshire.

The Rev. C.lClsampnis,to the Living of Ogbourne St. George,
near Marlborough, beim the fifth person of that name and fa-
mily that has held that )ferment.

MARRIED.
On Friday, at St. John's Church, Hackney, Ilichird ROW
corn, Esq. of Manchester, to Henrietta Anne, eldest daughter
of John Bradock, Esq. Clapton, Middlesex.
Lately, the Rev. H. Salmon, Rector of Colworth, North.mp
tonshire, to Miss Oakley, of Severn Stoke, Worcestershire.— '
The Rev. Bridegroom is in his 89th year, and the Lady consi.
derably less than one-third of that age.
Tuesday, the Rrx. George Carter, Minor Canon of the C.s-
thedral of Norwich, and Vicar of Trowse with Lakenbam,
Norfolk, to Ann Murray, daughter of Captain R. Browne, of
Norwich.

Wednesday, the Rev. Stephen Hyde Casson, Curate of
Frame, and Chaplain to the Earl of Caledon, to Fanny, daugh-
ter of the late Rev. William Ireland, Vicar of Frame.
The Rev. T. Clayton, of Redditch, Worcestershire, to fire,
Taplin, of Wootton, near Basingstoke.
The Rev. Henry Livius, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to
Roma, youngest daughter of the Rev. J. Grinfield, of Bristol
Saturday, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. Richard Smith, of
the Strand, to Hannah, widow of the late J. T. Laycock, Esq.

DIED.

At Betacit Castle, the Rev. Sir Joh% Thornton Rector of
Bottesford, and domestic Chaplain to Ids Grace the Duke of
Rutland, aged 62.
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In the 78th year of his age, the Rev. Samuel Beavan, Rector
of NewchurckMadnorshire, and Vicar of Burhill, Herefordshire.
Aged GI, the Rev. John Widditt. Vicar of Cockerham,, and
late Master of the Free Grammar School, and Minister of St 4
John's, in Lancaster.

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The Rev. William L. Wragge, perpetual Curate of Fulton!,
Staffordshire.

Dec. IS, very suddenly, as he was returning from Grantham
Fair, which he had attended in his usual good health, aged 11.5,
Mr. Win. Smith, for many years an auctioneer. He was seized
with apoplexy, and fell from his hone, within a mile oft!. home.
Lately, Thomas Jones. Esq. of Llandysilio Hall, near L it-
Denbighshire.—liaving no very near relation, it is, said,
that the Lords of the different Manors intend to take possession
of hie estates that are situated in their respective Manors. As
of
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00,000. personal property is supposed to amount to little short

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