The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

JEWISH PERSECUTION AT DAMASCUS

TO THE EDITOR OF 4HE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Will you permit me to address a few lines to the
friends of Israel, and to the public in general, through the
medium of your excellent paper? In consequence of the
late awful persecution of our Jewish brethren at Damascus,
we, the lecturer and members of St. Simon's church in this
town, have felt it our duty to publish the following protest,
humbly trusting that it will be followed up by all who are
willing to walk in the footsteps of Him, who, according to
the flesh, is of the seed of Abraham, and God over all, blessed
for ever, Amen! Surely it is high time that something
should be done to 'alleviate the distress of God's ancient
people, the honie of Israel. The prOmise of Jehcvah is, " I
will bless them which bless thee" ; and it is evident, that all
who, even in this remote age of the world, are actuated by
sincere love and compassion towards them, have, under the
unchangeable covenant of God, an irrevocable right to a
share of the blessing. We must confess, that the recollec-
tion of such scenes of cruelty and persecution as they, the
poor Jews, have suffered, fills us with terror, and not merely
with feelings of sympathy and compassion for the sufferers,
but of alarm and apprehension for the persecutors ; for it is
the uniform denunciation of prophecy, that however God
may appear to abandon his people to their enemies, and to
avail himself of their hostility, to discipline and correct the
scattered nation Israel, yet that he would punish with the
utmost severity the malignity of their enemies. How for-
midable is this denunciation against the-Ammonites! " Be-
cause thou saidst, Aha,' against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned ' and against the land of Israel, when it was deso-
late; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity : Behold, therefore, 1 will deliver thee to the men
of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces
in thee," &c. &c. (Ezek. xxv. 3,4, 7 ; also Is. xlvii. 5,6,
11.) Can the oppressors of Israel in these days hope to be
exempt from this -punishment? Assuredly not ! However
our poor brethren may appear for a time to be abandoned by
their God and King, they, beyond all question, are the un-
ceasing objects of his regard, the peculiar and chosen instru-
ments of his most important dispensations to mankind.
Let us, sir, petition our government, that something may
be done in behalf of these suffering people, and done speed-
ily, before more innocent blood be shed. We, as brethren
according to the flesh, are determined to stand by them, and,
if requisite, to shed our blood for them, for our heart's de-
sire and prayer for them is, that they may be eternally saved.
We cannot forget that the Apostles of the Lord Jesus
were Jews—that the writers of the Old and New Testaments
were Jews—and that our blessed Redeemer. Jehovah Jesus,
as concerning the flesh, was of the tribe of Judah! May the
Lord hasten the time, when " the Redeemer shall come to
Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in J acob" ;
and they, the poor persecuted children of Israel, " shall re-
turn and seek the Lord their God, and David their King,
and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days !"
I remain, air, your very obliged servant,
H. S. JOSEPH,
Chaplain to the Liverpool Workhouse, and
Lecturer to the Jews.
26, Great Newton-street.

PROTEST

We, the undersigned, by nation, Jews, and having lived
to the years of maturity in the faith and practice of modern
Judaism, but now, by the grace of God, members of the
Church of Christ, do solemnly protest, that we have never,
directly or indirectly, heard of, much less known, of a prac-
tice existing amongst the Jews of killing Christians, or using
Christian blood; and that we believe this charge, so often
brought against them formerly, and now lately revived, to
be a foul and Satanic falsehood.
Signed, • H. S. JOSEPH,
Formerly Rabbi and Reader in the Jewish
Synagogue at Bedford.
George Lazarus, Simeon Franklin,
Hannah Lazarus, Julius Lazarus,
Adolphus 011endorff, Hannah Lazarus,
Cath. Amelia 011endorff, Abraham Nathan,
J. Burnsteine. Jos. Semi. Friedlander,
Hannah Herbert, Henry Myers,
Frances Marcus, Henry Levi,
Jane Marcus, Simon Wilson,
Moses Littaur, Philip Hyhams,
Samuel Herbert, Julia Joel,
Levi Gouldstone,, John Joel.

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BRANDY AND SALT.

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In your edition of the 26th inst.,,l saw a letter from
Mr. Lee of Leeds, in which are preferred against me the
charges of misrepresentation, and of making profit " by pub-
lishing what of right belonged to another." They are of so
grave a nature as imperatively to call for notice and refuta-
tion ; but ere I attempt this, allow me to remark, that in my
opinion, Mr. Lee would have acted more courteously had he
addressed through you a private communication to the au-
thor of the preface to his letter on brandy and salt, request-
ing my authority for the statement I made relative to the
inventor of the above medicine, and seeking information as
to other circumstances connected with the publication of the
pamphlet in question. Had he adopted this course, and I
had sent him no reply, or if my reply had failed to satisfy
him, he might then, with some degree of propriety, have pro-
ceeded publicly to assail and arraign me.
I said in my preface that I was " informed" that the com-
bination of brandy and salt as a medicine was the invention
of a French physician. If this statement was incorrect, why
did not Mr. Lee tell us in plain language that he was the in-
ventor of this medicine in such and such a year, and detail
the circumstances which led him to think of such a composi-
tion as a remedy ; instead of which, he says " it is not an
invention but a discovery ;" while in another part of his let-
ter he asserts that no one but himself had anything to do
"with its invention," &c. Here are conflicting statements.
He seems desirous of persuading the world that he is the first
person who ever thought of combining brandy and salt as a
medicine, but the fact is that he is no more the inventor or
originator of this remedy than I am. If he be the inventor,
let him prove it; for, until he does this, I shall leave the
statement in my preface remain as it is, excepting that part
of it respecting his being deputed to inspect the physician's
papers, because he positively says he never was commissioned
to do so. The foregoing I consider quite sufficient to dispose
of the charge ofany having been guilty of " misrepresenta-
tion."

With regard- to the next accusation of my having made
profit by what of right belonged to another, Mr. Lee's rea-
soning is not at all conclusive. It is true that the pamphlets
were not given away by me, but were sold. Whether any
profit was made by the sale 1 cannot tell, for I have neither
heard nor enquired ; but this I know, that I had neither di-
rectly nor indirectly any concern in the profit or loss of the
publication under notice. My motive for writing the preface
was simply this : I had heard that it was intended to throw
into the form of a pamphlet Mr. Lee's letter, which ap-
peared in the Leeds intelligencer, and was expressly made a
present to the public; and ;AS I had found so much benefit in
my own case from the use of brandy and salt, and had wit-
nessed its efficacy in several other persons to whom I had
the pleasure of recommending it, and felt most anxious that
still more might be induced to give it a trial, I volunteered
to write a preface, conceiving that the assertions of Mr.
Lee's letter would be more readily credited if preceded by a
few prefatory remarks by a clergyman who could give per-
sonal as well as other evidence, as to the medicine so highly
recommended. In executing this undertaking I most gladly
availed myself of the information received only a few days
previously, relative to the medicine being the invention of a
professional man ; because I was convinced that such a state-
ment would have considerable weight with the public. I re-
ceived and I asked .no remuneration whatever for my
trouble ; and I have taken vast pains in recommending the
adoption of this remedy without any reward or hope of it.
But though it be supposed that I had written the preface and
tacked it on to Mr. Lee's letter from interested motives, I
should not have been making profit by that which of right
belonged to another; for I maintain that Mr. Lee has no
right nor title to that letter in the way of property. He
made it the property of the public, and as I am one of the
public, I should have been justified in seeking to make profit
by it. Now that he has given me the hint, I will not pro-
mise to be in future so disinterested as I have been hitherto.
The secret of Mr. Lee's present uneasiness appears to me
to arise from this circumstance—he now finds that something
is likely to be made by the belief that he is the inventor, and
the only one who can give proper directions for the applica-
tion of this medicine, and, ,therefore, he is anxious that no
one besides himself should write on the subject; but let him
not be sanguine ; for he must bring forward more convincing
proofs than he has hitherto adduced, of his being the author
of this remedy and the only one who knows how to use it,
before he will succeed in persuading the public to believe ac
cording to his wishes.
1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
THE AUTHOR OF THE PREFACE.
Liverpool, June 3011, 1840.

-.M.-

BOTANIC GARDENS.-DESECRATION OF THE

SABBATH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

" Answer a fool according to his folly."

Sir,—ln the Mercury's supplement of Friday last, there
was a precious production under the above title, by a " work-
ing man," which is one of the silliest affairs ever admitted
amongst the correspondence of that silly paper.
As the editor of the Mercury, in notices to correspondents
of a previous paper, gave the right hand of fellowship to this
" working man, and avowed his high gratification at the
manner in which he had treated his subject, we are to look
upon this bombastic, this magniloquent effusion, as contain-
ing the joint sentiments of these two worthies. If so, the
motto at the top must be put in the plural form—" Answer
fools according to their folly."

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This " working man" is either unacquainted with the real
question on which he has had the audacity to write, or, he
stands-chargeable With a wilful perversion of the truth, and
an attempt to mystify his readers by collecting a multiplicity
of words, without meaning, and an arrangement of sentences
without sense.

Thus he asks---" If by the observance of the Sabbath is
meant a suspension of those powers by which we contem-
plate all that is beautiful in creation ?" Beautiful! Sublime!
Does this " working man" know the difference bet Ween a
suspension of " powers," and the right use of them.
One of the " powers" by which we " contemplate all
that is beautiful in creation,'' he informs us " is sight," but
would not other " powers" have first to be used before
these ? Unless a " beautiful landscape lav before our door,"
or, " a garden of flowers" were attached to our dwellings,
legs and feet, those walking " powers" would have to be
used, ere we could "feast" ourselves with "all that is beau-
tiful in creation."

The other remarks which his letter contains, and which are
merely supplementary and explanatory, and which speak of
" nature being affected by paralysis," and " God withdraw-
ing his pervading energy, are alike destitute of meaning
with the former.

When a " working man " has learned to write sense, and
become somewhat acquainted with his theme, then, but not
till then, let him send a letter to occupy more than a column,
lest he again tire the patience and excite the contemptuous
indignation of those who deign to read his most miserable
effusions. F.

THE EISTEDDFOD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sin,---lt must be highly gratifying to every patriotic Welsh-
man to observe the progressive improvement which marks
our eisteddfodau in point of management and general ar-
rangements. These congresses begin now to be more gene-
rally known and appreciated, not only amongst the natives
of the principality, but also amongst their English neigh-
bours ; yea, their influence is fast spreading over all Europe.
It becomes us, therefore, to use every possible diligence and
care, that they be hereafter conducted in a manner worthy of
such a general attention, by introducing and adopting such
reforms as may conduce to their popularity and respectabi-
lity. I venture to suggest, as one of those improvements,
that the different orders of druids, bards, and ovates, should
appear in their respective costumes at every future eisteddfod.
It is a well known fact, that appearances have a mighty influ-
ence on the human passions. The same was amply exempli-
fied by the grand procession of the late eisteddfod in Liver-
pool, where the picturesque habits of the Society of Ancient
_Druids elicited the undivided admiration of the dense multi-
tudes of spectators that lined the streets. The adoption of
the bardic costume at the eisteddfod would be attended with
delightful consequences. Instead of the repugnant sight of
badly clad labourers and mechanics, who rank as bards and
minstrels, an antique group, dressed in long and loose robes
of white, blue, and green, would afford a most pleasing relief
to the eye, and would materially increase the respectability