The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-24 00:00:00

TRIAL OF ANTHRACITE COAL.

We understand that, on Friday last, a trial was made on
the Liverpool and Manchester railway, of the applicability
of Anthracite coal, as a fuel for locomotive engines, under
the superintendence of Mr. Woods, the talented engineer of
that line, and with the approbation of the Board of Directors.
Mr. E. 0. Manby, an engineer connected with. the South
Wales Anthracite district, who bas devoted his attention
most successfully to the introduction ofthis fuel, was present,
and assisted in the trial.

The engine employed was the Vulcan, one of the smaller
engines, used for conveying goods. The general result of
the trial was highly satisfactory. In the first instance, the
engine ran' out without a load about six miles, and the coal
was found to do very good duty, without any difficulty being
experienced either with the- fillies or in gettieg up the fires.
It was noticed that the fuel burnt nearly without dust from
the chimney and entirely without smoke. The engine
brought hack a load, of coal waggons from the Huyton col-
liery, and acquired a speed, thus loaded, of twenty-one miles
an hour, which is about the duty of the Vulcan.
A wither trial was made in the evening, with the same en-
gine, for the whole distance to Manchester, taking five load-
ed waggons. The journey was performed in one hour and
twenty-nine minutes. The consumption of Anthracite was
only five and a half cwt., although a large portion was wasted
from the fire-bars being too wide apart for the economical
use of this fuel. The engine would have used upwards of
seven and a half cwt.. of coke for the same journey, with the
same load.

We regard the success of this trial as likely to prove, in its
result, a most important public benefit. The price of coke,
as the demand for it for use in locomotive engines, on rail-
ways, has extended, has increased, in some places, almost
fifty per cent.; and in districts which produce no coal this
enhanced cost of coke will be seriously prejudicial to the
success of railway undertakings. If Anthracite can be ge-
nerally applied in locomotive engines, we are given to under-
stand, that a saving of thirty to forty per cent., in cost and
quality, will be effected. We have no doubt, that the di-
rectors of our leading railways will instruct their engineers
to follow up these experiments, and introduce such modifi-
cations into the form and workings of the fire boxes as the
use of a new fuel may naturally be supposed to require.
The application of Anthracite to marine engines is the
next object most deserving the attention of practical men.
The journalists of the United States appear to claim for their
country almost the exclusive production of this invaluable
fuel, which is destined to play so great a part in the iron
manufacture, in railway locomotion, and in steam naviga-
tion; but the western part of the South Wales coal field,
with reference to which Liverpool is, geographically, so
favourably situated, contains stores of Anthracite of much
superior quality to those specimens from America which
we have seen, and cau produce it a much smaller cost.—
Albion.

This day will be launched, from the building-yard of John
Dawson and Co., Baffin-street, a beautiful tapy! brig, of 200
toes register, intended for the Oporto trade.

POLICE NTELLIGENCE.

ATTEMPTED BußGLAßy.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
policeman 170 stated, that after taking a boy into custody on
suspicion, for lurking about a warehouse, the lad informed
him that a robbery was going to be committed at a plasterer's
in Head-street. After he had taken the lad to Bridewell, he
proceeded to Head-street, and found the doors of a plasterer's
shop broken open. He roused up the inmates, and on search-
ing the house, the prisoner, a noted thief, named James, was
found under one of the beds. A young man, resident in the
house, stated that he was awoke by the policeman, and, on
searching the house, the prisoner was found. He had broken
two locks to get into the premises. The prisoner was sent
for three months to Kirkdale.
FLAMMING A POLlCEMAN.—Yesterday, at the Police-
office, a respectably dressed female, who looked heartily
ashamed of herself, named Mary Griffin, was placed at the
bar, charged by policeman 205, with having grievously de-
ceived him. -"
Yesterday morning," said the policeman,
with a very grave face, "I met this woman about six o'clock,
and she said she had a catch which she had picked
up, and which she would give to me if I would meet her. I
thought she might have the watch upon her, so took her to
Bridewell and had her searched; but it turned out that this
watch which she said was ' a good 'un to go,' had gone, and
that she had not a watch at all. She was rather intoxicated."
Mr. Hall—" She has been very facetious with you, 1 suppose.
(To the prisoner.)—Well, what do you say about this watch ?"
Prisoner—" Och, well, your hanner, I don't remember a ha'-
porth about it." Mr. Hall—" Well, you have had a night's
lodgings for your joke."—Discharged.
RESULT OF DRUNKENNESS.—Yesterday, at the Police-
office, a respectable looking mechanic, named Bond, was
placed at the bar, under a serious charge of assault. The
keeper of a wine vaults stated, that on Saturday night he had
a barrel in the street before his door, the bung of which he
wanted to get out, and a boy in his employment named Da-
vis, was trying, with a small hatchet, to get it out, when the
prisoner walked up and said be would get it out for him, and
he was allowed to take the hatchet. After striking three or
four blows with it at the barrel, it was seen that he was drunk,
and could not be of any service in getting the bung out, and
the boy Davis told him to stand out of the way and give bins .
the hatchet. Without saving a word, the prisoner struck the
lad at the back of his head with the sharp edge of the hatchet,
cutting through his cap, and laying his head open. The boy
was lying very ill from the injury. The prisoner said he was
so drunk he recollected nothing about it; but he had offered
to pay all the damages. The mother, who was present, said
he could never pay her child for the injury he had done him.
The Magistrates fined the prisoner £5 for the assault.
THE POLICEMEN AND THEIR STlCRS.—Yesterday, at the
Police-office, a female named Cameron, who appeared at the
bar, and a man named Holden, the ustler at Mrs. Stretch's,
at Kirkdale, who had been out on bail, were charged by
police officer 229 with violently assaulting him. The Police-
man stated that he was on duty on Saturday afternoon at
Everton, when he saw a drunken man coming along the road
in. charge of a cart, and the kinale prisoner following him, as
he (policeman) thought to rub him. The man's cart was
right across the road in the way of the mail which was coming
up, and he was so drunk, that he (policeman) was obliged to
take the cart out of the way. The woman then struck him
and gave him a black eve, and whilst he was scuffling with
her, the defendant Holden came up and struck him. The
female prisoner said that the drunken man was her brother-
in-law, and she was seeing him out of town he was so tipsy,
when the officer came up, and gave her a violent poke in the
back with bis stick, and when she remonstrated, he knocked
her down, and beat and abused her shamefully, She was very
severely injured by the blows she had received. Mr. Hall
directed the prisoner to be examined by a female, who on her
return stated that the prisoner's knees were black and blue,
the skin off, and much swollen, and she had a small round
bruise on her hip which she could not bear touching. On be-
halfof the other defendant. a number of witnesses were called,
who stated that the policeman knocked the carter down with
his stick and ill used the woman, knocking her down three or
four times with his staff, when the ostler went out of Mrs.
Stretch's yard, and told the policeman not to ill use the man,
but to take his number, when he seized him violently by the
collar and asked him what he had to do with it, and an hour
and a half afterwards went to Mrs. Stretch's, and took him
into custody. The woman had struck the policeman, in the
first instance, a blow on the face. The policeman persisted
in denying that he struck either the drunken man or the fe-
male. Mr. Hall.—" Here are no less than five persons who
were there by chance who say you were using that woman in
a very disgraceful manner." The policeman.—"l did not,
Sir." Mr Hall.—" The stick was given to you never to
use against an individual, especially against a woman;
it was given you for quite a different purpose. Upon
my word it is too bad. I am as anxious as any man
can be to protect the officers in the discharge of their
duty, but I will not allow a man to behave in this way. It is
very disgraceful. You bring the whole police force into dis-
credit. Such a thing as this would not be allowed in Lon-
don for one moment, and no police-officer in London would
ever raise his stick against a person unless be was about to
he beaten to the ground,
.and it was an act of necessity. My
brother magistrate quite concurs with me in the view I take
of it. We think it is doing a kindness to the police force if
we make a rule to discharge all officers behaving in this way ;
because when the office's know that the magistrates will dis-
miss them for such conduct they will cease to behave so. The
parties are discharged, and (to the officer) you are dismissed.
[A buzz of approbation ran through the court at this deci-
sion. This will be found the most efficient way to protect the
policemen themselves. At present, frequently the first salu-
tation a drunken foolish man gets on passing a policeman, is
a poke in the ribs with the policeman's stick; a retaliatotv
blow is most likely immediately given, a row ensues, three
or four policemen rush to the place, the man is conveyed to
bridewell with his head broken, and there is additional busi-
ness for Mr. Hall next morning to fine the drunken 'simple-
ton for assaulting the policemen. This is a crying evil, and
wants a stop putting to it. To use Mr. Hall's words, such
conduct is "too bad." Not only are individuals frequently
hurt and abused by it, but the policemen themselves often
get severely injured in the rows which they thus provoke;
and, what is worse, engender an ill feeling in the town
against them. The sticks ought never to be allowed to be
used except in cases of extreme necessity; and it ever they
are used without occasion, the policemen ought to be invaria-
bly punished, for taking the surest means of exciting a row;
for it is out of the question to suppose that men, if excited,
will tamely submit to be struck, or poked in the ribs b.
]icemen, any more than , y po-
by anybody else.]

. _
A direct trade, which is thought" likely to turn out very
beneficial, has. lately been opened between Spain and the
Shetland Islands. 'Mr. Arthur Anderson, of the
.firm of
Messrs. Wilcox and Anderson, has been. appointed by the
Queen of Spain vice-consul of these islands.
The Rev. Joseph Wolff, LL.D., has been appointed Chap-
lain to Lord Lorton.
WHITE STARLINGS.-Mr. Charles Storr Kennedy-, of
Fair View Ulverston , has now in is possession two white star-
lings, (or, as they are called in that part of the country,
chipsters,) taken this season from a nest which contained
four young ones, but the other two are of the ordinary colour.
—Carlisle Patriot.

AWFUL VISITATION.—An elderly woman, named Mar-
garet Flynn, living in Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, was on
Thursday night last drinking in company with a bricklayer,
at a gin-shop in the neighbourhood, when a question was put
to her on the subject of some money, which the woman
denied having, adding, that if she had, " she wished that the
Almighty might strike her dumb." She was much intoxi-
cated at the time, and in a few minutes afterwards fell to the
ground in a state of insensibility. On being raised up and
carried home the wretched woman partially recovered, but
she had lost the power of speech, and to the present moment
has been unable to articulate a tiord.—Standard.-
HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.—The
Directors
of this Coln_
pang entered into contracts, on Saturday last, for the two
remaining portions of the line, viz., from the junctton with
the Leeds and Selby Railway at Selby, to the river Derwent
a •distance of,six miles; and from Melton to the Market
Weighton embankment, also a length of six miles. The
bridge over the river Derwent was let at the same time. As
the contractors are bound to commence operations imme-
diately, the whole of the works between Hull and Selby will
in a short time be carrying on,:and before the close of the
yearg 1839
all the contractors are to complete their respective
Theag Duke .
of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Jones, slept
e year [839 i
at Mr. Wallis's the King's Head Hotel, Derby, on Tuesday
night. As soon as it was known that his royal highness was
in ihs,town, the ringers at the several churches gave the royal
visitor a merry peal, and his presence created quite a sensation
in the borough; the desire to see him was so ardent and
general that we are afraid his royal highness was incom-
moded in his movements iu perambulating the town. He
left on Wednesday morning, when great numbers of persons
assembled in front of the hotel, and gave him a hearty cheer
on his leaving. His royal Higness passed through Matlock,
ou his way to Chatsworth. At this romantic place tie went
up the Heights of Abraham, to the Rutland Cavern, and ex-
ceedingly admired the sweet scenery and the extensive view
from that commanding height. On his return to the Old
Bath, his royal highness called at Mawe's Old Museum, ad-
mired the splendid stock, and made some purchases. We
understand he intends to spend some days in viewing the
scenery of this county.—Derby Reporter.
SELBY RAILWAY.—As an evidence of the increase of
travelling attributable to the formation of railways, at pre-
sent the number of passengers through Selby, on a moderate
calculation, amounts to 600 daily, whilst the number in a
corresponding season, previous to the Leeds apd Selby rail-
way, did not exceed 50. The great regularity of the de-
parture and arrival of the trains, together with the facilities
afforded for passengers, luggage, &c. is deservedly raising
the management of the undertaking in public repute; and
we are happy to understand, the business of the liue is
steadily on the increase.—llull Times.
BIRMINGUIANI, FRIDA Y.—Marshal Soult and a numerous
suite arrived by a special train on the railway in this town
at 11 o'clock this morning. A large concourse of people was
assembled to receive him, and the marshal was loudly cheered
on his arrival at the station. The train, which consisted of
several carriages, left Euston-square at half-past five o'clock,
and performed the distance to Denbigh-hall (48 miles) in 1
hour and 20 minutes. The distance from Denbigh-hall to
Rugby (34 miles) was posted in 2 hours and 14 minutes, and
the remaining line of railway, from Rugby to Birmingham,
(28 miles) in 1 hour. Thus the whole distance from London
to Birmingham, including the stoppage of nearly an hour
at Rugby, where the marshal and his suite breakfasted, was
performed in 5 hours and 34 minutes. The marshal, on
alighting from the London and Birmingham carriage, en-
tered one of the Grand Junction mails, and in the course of
10 minutes the party left the yard for Liverpool, amidst the
loud cheers of the populace. He looked remarkably well,
and appeared highly gratified with his reception. He is to
he in Birmingham on Monday, when he will be publicly
received and entertained by the authorities.—*** We be-
lieve Marshal Soult started from London at half-past four,
instead of half-past five-.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—He is almost invariably
to be seen among the first who make their appearance on the
opening of the doors, and he is usually among the last to quit
the house. He is usually wrapped up, close to the mouth,
in a narrow cloak, which does not reach the length of his
knees. He is a man of whom the tory party may well be
proud; he is in every respect a credit to that party. Most
assiduously and heartily does he labour in their service: not,
indeed, with the view of promoting party purpose; btit, be-
cause he deems toryism to be heaven-born, and, consequently,
most conducive to the interests of the empire. I have no
idea that any other consideration than that of a persuasion
that he is acting for the welfare of the country, would ever
operate on his mind. Mistaken, as I regard himitsoqubjed,,edin,
many points of essential importance, I cannot resist the con-
viction, that he is actuated by the purest motives. I cannot
conceive that anything but genuine, even if n 3
patriotism could induce such active exertions in a man who
has attained the advanced age Of 70; who has so distinguished
a reputation; and who is, moreover, so advantageously cir-
cumstanced, in reference to pecuniary matters, as the duke.
'lt is no less gratifying than surprising to see a man who has
reached such an age, and undergone so much anxiety, of
mind, and great physical fatigue, looking so well, and in such
excellent spirits. 'Nothing but an extraordinary energylof
mind, and a constitution of the most robust kind, could 'have
enabled the duke to service the curcumstances in which he
has been placed, and the hardships he has undergone.. There
he sits, night after night, with his arms usually folded on his
breast, and his right leg thrown over his left, listening most
attentively to everything which is
passing in the house, and
looking as fresh and vigorous as if he were still in the prime
of life. His grey hair, approaching to Nrhiteness, is the
prhich incipal, if not the only index to the accumulation of
,years
w has gathered on his head which ltic personal aspect
affords. If one might judge frdm pre-acit appearances,
though in such matters we all know how cluceptice appear-
ances often are, the conclusion would t* that the duke is
destined to live for many jears to cOrati.-"—,jfiandom. isocOloo7
tions of the Lords grid Commons, Second Sir les.

Vottrp.

MY MOTHER'S NAME.
Lines occasioned by hearing a Lady say her NAME was ANNE,
ET THE AUTHOR OF THE " SUMMER NIGHT'S LAY."

THERE is a NAME that charms me when
i'm wounded with the world's keen spite:
'Tie sweet as songs from woodland glen,
As morning ends the reign of night.
O'er many a land and many a sea,
'Through many a foreign city's throng,
I've wandered, cold as heart could be,
Alike unsoothed with love and song.

But soon as that sweet NAME has come
~,....:Acros‘ to y me.tn"ry lika a. dream
Alv heart has felt aglow of home
As pure and warns as summer beam :
Yea, like the fav'rite song of one
Whose singing first subdues the mind;
That NAME my wither'd soul comes on
As bland as woman's love is kind.

That NAME! oh! 'twas my mother's NAME!
Who loved me with the fondest love!
Through health and sickness still the same,
Like von unchanging sun above.
Oh ! with that NAME, my moTnutt's form,
In all its bloom and beauty, glides
A heavenly vision 'mid the storm
That roughens life's unsettled tides.

If other NAMES have charmed me long,
And won my heart's intenser love,
Repeated after in in% song,
Through m:tny a flow'ry garland wove;
Yet none awakens in my mind
A melancholy half so sweet
As does my sioIHER'S: ever kind
It seems with peace my soul to greet.
Oh! moonlight on the placid lake!
Oh ! morning sunshine on the sea!
And nightingales, when first they wake,
Their thrilling midnight minstrelsy;
And Nature's thousand other things
Seen over this terrestrial round,
Just as they touch the hidden strings,
Which in my untold heart are found,
Give joy : but upon sea and land,
Mid moonlight ray, and summer flame,
There's nothing meets my soul so bland,
So gentle as my MOTHER'S NAME.
Edyehill, Liverpool, 20th July, 1838.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

WHIG APPOINTMENTS.
( From the Morning Herald.)

Lord Melbourne (it appeals by the Brighton Ga-
zette) has, lately, appointed Mr. Henry S. Chapman,
a member of the commission of inquiry into the state
of the hand loom weavers.

Mr. Chapman is a friend of M. Papineau, and has
been a sort of sub editor to Mr. Roebuck in his vari-
ous publications. He has therefore been, as a matter
of necessity, an applauder in chorus with Mr. Roe-
buck, of the proceedings of the Canadian traitors—if
not, like Mr. Hume, a direct instigator of their trea-
son. Such is a sample of the men on whom the whig
government bestows its patronage !
We own that we incline to feel surprise at the fact,
that Mr. Roebuck himself has been passed over, in
the various appointments which have taken place,
since his valiant, although somewhat feeble advocacy of
those injured " patriots," Papineau and Mackenzie !
We can only solve the difficulty under which we la-
bour, by supposing that no place-good enough for the
acceptance of so distinguished a perionage as Mr.
Roebuck has, within the period we have spoken of,
been at Lord Melbourne's disposal. Or, perhaps, Ca-
nada is Mr. Roebuck's destination. An influential
position in Lord Durham's council, were such assigned
to Mr. Roebuck, would, doubtless, exercise the most
favourable influence on the loyal dispositions of our
Canadian fellow-subjects.

The movements of our rulers are, it must be ad-
mitted, in admirable harmony—be the scene of their
operations Canada or Ireland. Mr. Shell, as a reward
for preaching sedition, during ten years, and for pas-
sively resisting the law during four, is singled out for
the especial approbation of the cabinet, and for the
enjoyment of a lucrative sinecure commissionership.
Mr. O'Connell, as a reward for his enmity to England,
and in acknowledgment of the justice of the sentence
passed upon him by the House of Commons, as a
slanderer and calumniator, has been, recently, offered
one of the highest judicial appointments in Ireland.
Parliament is about to pay (for the second time) the
tithe debts of the resisters of tithe law in Ireland!

Lord Melbourne has, moreover, just appointed Mr.
Chapman—the friend and eulogist of Papineau—to a
lucrative commissionership ;—a commissionership, of
which the duties will consist in hashing up Malthusian
doctrines into the form of a report. Mr. Chapman,
in short, will pocket Xl,OOO or X 1,500 a year, for tell-
ing- the starving hand-loom weavers, in the slang of
the economical school to which he belongs, that par-
liament, which has robbed them of the market for their
labour, can do nothing to lessen their miseries.
Strenuous, however, as have been the efforts of Lord
Melbourne in exalting the friends of law and order
to their proper elevation, the first movements of Lord
Durham give promise that he will not be easily sur-
passed in the judicious and becoming distribution of
patronage. Already have Mr. Turton and Mr. Wake-
field been advanced to posts of confidence and emolu-
ment. Mr. Thomas Duncombe, too, has lately started
for the court of the dictator—no doubt, for the purpose
of sharing the duties and blushing honours of Messrs.
Wakefield and Turton. Mr. Roebuck will, probably,
form the next of the ministerial exports to Canada.
His presence there may, doubtless, be of use in "con-
ciliating" the disaffected, and checking the progress of
treason :—nay, the elevation of Mr. Roebuck to office
in Canada may, perhaps, counterbalance the loss which
England must sustain in the retirement of Sir John
Colborne !

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN CANADA,
(From the Standard of Saturday.)

In the House of Lords last night the Bishop of
Exeter accompanied some questions upon the ecclesi-
astical policy pursued towards Canada—addressed to
the Colonial Secretary—by observations equally pro.
found and just. The questions of the right rev. lord
concerned the neglect of a provision for the members
of the Established Churqh generally, and the marked
favour extended to the Church of Rome in the Lower
Province. The bishop's observations referred to the
injustice to British settlers involved in this neglect and
this favour. We beg to extend the consideration, as
we have done before, to the case of the many, very
many, British subjects who are not settlers, but who
would be settlers if the state should render the colo-
nies a fit residence for Christian Englishmen. We
speak from our own knowle,:lge when we affirm, that
the want of an adequate religious establishment deters
hundreds, nay thousands, annually, from fixing their
lot in these young, and, as well as soil, climate, and
temporal circumstances go, most inviting provinces—
where their loyalty, industry, and habits of mortality
and order, would, beyond calculation, augment the
wealth and strength of the empire. Do not these men
suffer a grievous injustice ? In common with their
fellow-subjects they pay for the defence of the colonies
from which they are shut out, and have paid their full
share of the cost of acquiring them ; but the injustice
to the empire is still greater, if possible. The neglect
of providing the means of religious instruction limits
emigration to classes by no means the best in any
sense—to classes the least regardful of education or
of manners, or of whatever civilises man—the least
attached to British habits and the British connection,
that men of British birth can be.

The presence of a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, within an easy distance of every family of colo-
nists, would be a guarantee that the manners and prin-
ciples of civilised and gentlemanly life would not fall
into disuetude—that the advantages of education, and
the taste for letters, would be still held in sight of the
rising race. The presence and services of such a man
would offer a constant check to the tendency to li-

centious and irreligious habits inseparable f-rom the
wild life of the woods—that tendency which is hurry-
ing back the rural population of the United States to
primitivebarbarism. Is it to be supposed that without
such a guarantee, thoughtful and moral Englishmen of
the higher, or even yeoman class, will abandon Eng-
land, its soft and secure and enlightened society, its
decent parish churches and orderly population, for a
continent where, perhaps, taken as a whole, the wild
native Indians supply the best home-raised examples
of life and morals ? And are settlers so indifferent to
the faith of their fathers as flippantly to dispense with
this guarantee, likely to prove the most attached subi-
jects of the British crown? In Rome, when political
feeling, the amor patrur occupied the place which re-
ligious feeling happily holds among sincere Christians,
the 'dent sentire de republicd was held to be the most
secure and the only infallible bond of friendship. How
much stronger bond is the idom sentire de veritate in
our age, ws nobly proved by the conduct of the Ame-
rican loyalists during; the war of separation—is proved
by the unsuaken loyalty of the Irish Protestants under
the provocation of a thousand wrongs and insults from
this country. This Principle has preserved Ireland to
the empire for three centuries—this principle would
have prevented the alienation of the United States,
had it. been effectually and honestly applied—this prin-
ciple will vet ensure
a greater empire in the remaining
American colonies if it is boldly and liberally acted
upon. If, however, we send out no colonists but those
who are so indifferent to the services of the church as
to dispense with those services in pursuit of temporal
convenience or some temporal, gain, the fate of the
United States will tell us the destiny of the adjacent
Provinces—the colonists will have proved their indif-
ference to the British soil, to British habits, and to the
religion of Britain. While the connection may seem
to offer present advantages, they will, perhaps, sullenly.
submit to it ; but let this appearance of advantages
cease—let temptation from any other quarter offer,
and, bound by no patriotic, religious, or other moral
tie, they. will disclaim the link—the link of merely
worldly interest, the only that
]edged, and
one that will
that
n. ollon_gerto exist. We
own that it is in this view s
of Lord Durham. we took with most alarm
in the conduct nrham. How can the patron
of Messrs. WakefieldTurtoinnsatoitdutlons?E assume the patron-
age. of religious
Even if he should sin-
cerely wish to promote the •
moral d and religious im-
provement of the colon Lord iesDurham has.disqun:
lified himself for doing so by
co
present his best exertionsin that benhatl'fctaswachitschof
grosswould
hypocrisy.
mr. Jefferson, uoder
a constitution that

leaves it to every man to choose his religion or his no
religion without even the intrusion of advice, might
consistently, perhaps, profess his disregard of the mo-
ral and religious character of the agents whom he
should call into the public service; but with us the
morals and religion of the people are, as they ought
to be everywhere, a part of the business of the govern-
ment; and the sovereign, or minister of a sovereign,
who, either by his own conduct or by the selection of
those upon whom he confers favour, proves himself
careless in this respect, disables himself from discharg-
ing one of his most important duties. Still, as Lord
Durham may be induced to retract his wretched ap-
pointments—as his lordship at least is not to be always
Governor of the American colonies—we may hope
that these colonies will be made, sooner or later, Church
of England settlements facsimiles of British so-
ciety, and, as such, inseparable members of our em-
pire, the affluence and the power of which, rightly go-
verned, they may multiply fourfold.