The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

Cape Madeira, very go.od 90s. per dos.
Do. surpassing in devour an,l quality, 1144. per doz.
01 tiers sent free of carriage, within ten miles of London,
Hampers Is. per dot. Bottles 3s. Same money allowed
when returned.
Dames et platens usor.--llon.
Thy house, and (in the cup of life,
That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife.
00CRATItS, by his Discolirse on Marriage, so enrap-
tnred his 'editors with the subject, that the married
men flew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened to be
wedded ; and The Spectator" has affirmed, that the word
" wire" is the most agreeable and delightful name in nature.
The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the
desideratum of our enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap-
piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize
with bliss hereafter.
Previous, however; to entering Into this hallowed obli-
gation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate
the passicns, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those
impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may
have eatalled upon it. To the neglect of such attention ere
attributable, many of those hapless instances, whic.i while
they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also
impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luxurious habits will effeminize the body —a residetleela
the tropics will reisx the elastic fibre—but more especially
does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently cons-
promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from
whence the agonited sufferer more than doubts the chance of
relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering
hope—energy—muscular strength—felicity: nor will our
ads antes appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the
multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience.
The ensy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by
the suspension of those blessings whic4 concentrate the
nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often constitutionally
weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy im-
proved into functional power.
In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as In every
relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability
fp cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to
Expel the unfeeling empiric from the position so presumptu-
ously taken up, we deviate from general principles with less
hesitation ; and confident in our own honourable integrity
as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the suffer-
ing community of either Sex (especially those entering into
matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attend-
ance is given for personal consultation; and letters from tne
country are immediately answered ; these must contain a
remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be forward-
ed to any part of the world, however distant.
GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons,
No. I I, Bouterie-street, Fleet-street, London.

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A most extraordinary occurrence took place last night
(Sunday, 29;h tilt.) between nine and ten o'clock. A
coach v,te observed coming a'ong the South-bridge,
with the end of a coffin pro'ruiling nut at one of its
window. which circumstance roused suspicions in Diose
who witnessed it, that a churrh•v'ard had Leen viol:aril,
and a cry was instantly set ep that a corpse was carry
lug to some disseeting-room. Despite of all remou•
strance, the mnh dragged the carriage to the police-
, office, into which the coffin was removed, and the horses
unharnessed. Not satisfied with this. however, the pi,.
puttee, headed by some drunken fellows, proceeded to
dr.:w the coach along the Ntreett until they reached
the fo•t of t..e Mound, where they threw it over, an
set i• on fire. dancing round it, while burning, like a
b,nd of Indians round their prey. On inqiiiry, we
were informed that the coffin was intend►d to receive the
remains of a respectable medical praetitione-, who died
a day or two ago in the environs, aid that the aro sch-
man was merely employed to retry it out to the country
lodging in which the deceased bad been residing.—
, (gdisborgh Observer.)

Your petitioners would earnestly represent to your
[Right] Honourable House, that our holy religion has borne
uninjured every test that reason and learning have applied
to it, mil that its Divine °stele, its purity, its excellence.
and 14 title to universal acceptation, have been made more
manifest by every new examination and discussion of its
nature, pretensions, and claims. Left to itself, under the
Divine-blessing, the reasonableness and innate excellence
of Christianity will infallibly promote its influence over the
understandings and hearts of mankind: hut when the an-
gry passions are suffered to rise in its professed de-
fence. these provoke the like passions in hostility to it,
and the question is no longer one of pure truth, but of
power on the one side, and of the capacity of endurance on
the other.
It appears to your petitioners that it is altogether unne-
cessary and impolitic to recur to penal laws in aid of Chris-
tianity. The judgment and feelings of human nature, tes-
tified by the history of man in all ages and nations, incline
mankind to religion ; and it is only when they erringly as-
sociate religion with fraud and injustice, that they can be
brought in any large number to hear the evils of scepticism
and unbelief. Your petitioners acknowl-ilge and lament
the wide diffusion amongst the people of sentiments un-
friendly to the Christian faith ; but they cannot refrain from
stating to your Honourable douse their conviction that this
unexampled state of the public mind is mainly owing to the
prosecution of the holders and propagators of infidel opi-
nions. Objections to Christianity have thus become familiar
to the readers of the weekly and daily journals, curiosity has
been stimulated with regard to the publications prohibited.
an adventitious, unnatural, and dangerous importance hat
been given to sceptical arguments, as suspicion has
been excited in the minds of the multitude that the Christian
religion can be only upheld by pains and penalties, and
sympathy has been raised on behalf of the sufferers, whom
the uninformed and unwise regard.with the reverence and
confidence that belong to the character of martyrs to the
truth.
Your petitioners would remind your [Right] Honourable
House, that all history test ties the futility of all prosecutions
for mere opinions, unless such prosecutions proceed the
length of exterminating the holders of the opinions prose-
cuted—an extreme from which the liberal spirit and the hu-
manity of the present times revolt.
The very same maxims and principles that are pleaded to
justify the punishment of unbelievers would authorize Chris-
tians of different denominations to vex and harass each
other on the alleged ground of want of faith, and likewise
form an apology for Heathen prosecuti ins against Christi-
ans, whether the persecutions that were anciently carried
on against the divinely-taught preachers of our Religion, or
those that may now be instituted by the ruling party in Pdl•
gen countries, where Christian NI stionaries are so laudably
einn,l6)eil. in endeavouring to expose the absurdity, folly,
and mischievous influence of idolatry.
Your petitioners would entreat your [Right] Honourable
House to consider tint belief Jars not in all cases depend
upon the will, and that inquiry into the truth of Christianity
will he wholly prevented if persons are rendered punishable
for any given result of inquiry. Firmly attached as your
petitioners are to the religion of the Bible, they cannot but
consider the liberty of rejecting to be implied iu that of em-
bracing it. The unbeliever may. indeed, be silenced by his
fears. but it is scarcely conceivable that any real friend to
Christianity, or any one who is solicitous fur the improve-
ment of the huinsn mind, the diffusion of knowledge, as it
the establishment of truth, should wish to reduce any por-
tion of marlin(' to the necessity of concealing their honest
judgment upon moral and theological questione, and of inek-
ine an outward profession that shalt be thcousistent with
their inward itersuistun.
Your petitio ,ers are not ignorant that a distinction is
commonly made between those unbelievers that argue the
question of the truth of Christianity e.sl nly and dispassien-
rawly. and those that treat the sacred subject with leii y and
ridicule ; but although they feel the strongest disgust at every
mode of discussion whiad appr iaciles to Indere ,cy and pr.,-
(*ernes., they calm' help thinking that it is neither wise nor
safe t constitute the manner and temper of writing an object
of legol visitation; inasmucti as it Is impossible to define
where argument ends and evil speaking begin,. 'lle reviler
of Chrietianity appears to your petitioners le he the least
formidible of its enemies; because his scoffs can rarely fall
of arousing against him public opinion, than which nothing
more is wanted to detest his end. Between freedom of dis-
mullet; and absolute persecution there is no asiisplablat taw
diuna.—Aud nothing seems to your petitioners more i•nroll-