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you to present the enclosed
*WU to farliament,agaiett Mr. Brougham's Bill for
_tketstablishment and support of Parorhie; Schools, 1
at leave, on behalf of myself and Meads, to trouble
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YOU with a Tow lilies on the subject, stating our views
more explicitly that cook' well be done in the Peti-
tion. Theugh it".may be of no consequeuce to the
public at large. what the inhabitants of a small coun-
try town may this'.: respecting a measure of great aa•
tonal importance, the liberty of expressing our
. thoughts is a right of no mean value to the humblest
isdividual. And so far as theseexpressions may serve
tosseertaid the general sense of the comninnity, we
cannot suppose they will he wholly scortsed by an as-
sembly,.whose mesubers profess to meet and legislate
as the representatives of t'ie people.
With respect to the object of these Petition!, 1
think ire shall have the concurrence of the general
body of disseuters in stating, that we have no objec-
tion to legislative interference in making a ptovision
for the general education of the poor, provided the
mcalltres enacted for that purpose harmonise with the
spirit of the constitutiett, are adapted to the state and
religion: ilitferettees of the countro, and bring into
exercise means adequate to the design, by uniting
plblic benevolence aed a wise economy with the enact-
meats of the legislature.
It has indeed been shown. Sir, by several respectable
writers on the subject, that the data assumed by Mr.
Brongltaie. as the basis of his proposed measure, arc
ylry erron-ous in point of fart, and have considerably
ordecrated the means of gratuitous instruction already
provided, especially by Sunday Schools. The partial
sources from which the ilonottrablefientlentan derived
hi* information, and thespirit of hostility to dissenters
w' breathe,' in many of their cotnmunications,
would lead one to suspect a partial statement or a
totai sit, passion of tarts, in reference to schools ex-
c:es;volv supported by the dissenting' interest ; which
fert:er enq':iry would prove to be the case. Had Mr.
trronghatit thoneht proper to mhlres. his circulars to
Oir,euting ministers, as well as to the national clergy,
hive found them equally prompt in their
-ototnications, and equally disposed to facilitate any
;:teral and pairiotie measure; while such an applies-
tux .031,1 base secured the accuracy of his returns,
ar rcveoted some eg: 7Eci•ms blunders into which he
1.!Ilen. without discrediting his good sense and
literality of sentirusatt.
So far as the dissenters are concerned, we believe
it tv,nl,l not be difficult to prove, Sir, that by the sup-
port of Sunday and Day Schools, sufficient meant are
already provided for the instruction of their own poor,
sc:t‘. the addition of many who take no share in their
ffilent. In most places of any consequence. likewise,
where the dissenting influence has been considerable,
national schools have been established by the clergy
and their supporters, in a great measure sufficient to
include all who may wish to be instructed in the
principles of the Established l'lnt:ch. But in the
larger towns, whose overgrown population has out-'
stepped the efforts of benevolence, there is doubtless a
dcfciency of instruction for the poor, manrof whom,'
espek.ially among the must indigent and profligate.
arc kit to grow up in gross ienurance and barbarism.'
le many towns of inferior note also and the generality
of r.tirrd villages, where the spirit of dissent
and metliudism has hail no influence, scarcely
st-y attention has been paid towards the education of
poor children, by the parochial clergy or their opm
'tett parishioners ; but generations have been suffered
to sneered each other in the same brutal ignorance and
moral stupidity, neither availing themselves of modern
lo.proverneuts nor ancient charities; of which the de-
cared state of the generality of endowed schools affords
merle and humiliating evidence. So that, assuming
the most that can by admitted in favour of gratuitous
lestruction, we fear the actual and pressing wants of
the pupil cannot he provided for without some legis-
halve interference, either to enlarge the operation
and secure the perpetuity of the National, British, and
Sunday school societies now in being, or to establish
Some plan of general education in which all parties
c Equally co-operate and share. Cuusislering the
irstitution of such a measure in the highest degree
anspicions to the moral and civil interests of our coun-
try, we hailed with peculiar pleasure Mr. Brougham's
earliest inquiries and intimations on the subject, and
fancied the introduction of so promising a measure
would form an eta in our national legislation, in which
every christian, and every patriot might rejoice.--By
uniting all denominations, in one harrnonioes and
systematic effort against ignorance and irreligion. we
anticipated an improvement in the minds and morals
of the labouring classes, which should in some de-
gree corers:lmi to our national advantages, and from
which great benefit to the community at large might
arise. By diffusing knowledge more extensively
anon the people. and giving a firmer tone to their
moral principles, we indulged a hope that the condi-
tion of the poor would be gradually ameliorated,
the liberties' of the country secured against anar-
chy and oppression, by the stability of the constitn-
thin, and the wisdom of a timely and necessary
reform.
Bat though, Sir, we should readily acquiesce in the
legistathe establishment of a truly national system of
education. there are many features in the proposed
',leisure which appear to us exceedingly objection-
able. Uu the score of expense, it seems altogether a
crude mass of miscalculation and e‘travagance. To
say nothing of the 'funds which would be necessary
fur the permanent support of the schools, including a
list of peossioned schoolmasters superannuated in the
prime of life, the measure would at once enable a few
individuals to impose upon the public an enormous
etpense In the erection of school rooms, without giving
the parishioners a doe contrast' over the expenditure.
The process likewise, by which it proposes to originate
the said schools. savours more of legal technicalities
than of statesman-like views, and would give rise to
endless litigation. animosity, and expense. And in the
present deptiised state of the country, borne down by
etressive taxation. and drained to the dregs by fiscal
greediness. it would be the height of iefateatioo a
.4k emdslity to harm additional burdens on time
ender the setae at booetoleace. fur the seaport • a

a monopoly ntisowet to of one
sari, by sacrificial( the liberty and prop/ego( others.
To reader the whole community, except pee denomina-
tion, to the other 01 a parish schoolmaster,
asap invest the clergy with an absJlate veto upon
the Owlet of their parishiettersin the appointment of
onothter to he supported 'by themselves, are ptopo-
sets which would have done credit to an Attorney-
(Wend of the sixteenth century. or which Wight even
now suit the meridian of Laybach, anal call forth the
applause of their Excellenries in the Vatican. But to
have them announced to the British legislatnre in the
nineteenth century, by a senator in whom the friends,
of Illurrty had placed their confidence. makes nu'
blush for the honour of humanity, and the bustetdl
Te-
finement and liberality of the age.
There was a time, Sir, when the announcement of
snch propositions in the British Parliament would have
been the moment of their extinction, consigning them
to the grave of the Capnlets, like the disgusting I
monster strangled in its birth. Though dressed off '
all the charms of a supertieial eloquence. surrior even
Ito the Honourable Mover's, the spirit of the measure
would have received from the consistent and intrepid
friends of civil and religions liberty, a castigation tin-
, der which it would have writhed awhile anti expired.
And thongh, as in a recent case, shouts of apolatsse
from the undiscriminating might have echoed the
speech of its advocate, the vanity of such applause
would have appeared in its speedy termination and
untimely decease. But, alas, Sir, the pnrP spirit of
whiggism which sustained the dignity of the British
Government anal Legislature, from the Revolution
through the early period of the Brunswick dynasty.
has long become languid and inefficient ! Thong)) it
lingered awhile in the bosom of a Chatham, a Fox,
and a Whithreatl, anal awed by their last appeals the
despotic and the time-serving, it found in coins- of their
sitivitors but a feeble support or a transient and pre-
carious eeistriscr. If their mantl. fell when they as•
eroded, it fell among characters drfieient either in
talent or in principle ; and, in same eases at least, left
the friends of eerfect religions liberty to the dubious.
counsels of untried. inadequate, or temporizing leaders,
unlike the band of Theban Patriot', sustained in con-
flict and led to victory- by theit brave Epaininonulas, in
the straits of Thermopylar. Such at heist have been
the fears of the writer, excited by humiliating facts:
though a bosom warm with charity, anal a frame of
mind disposed to thin!. well of all turn, would rake a
hope that the spirit of pure whiggism, which in former
ages saved our country. is not tleatl bat slreprth, and
will ere long, awake with renewed strength and greater
vigilance.
lint what, let me ask this worthy investigator of
Alvin' chorine., this charnition Of popular education,
what civil delinquency ha. Ise discovered in the general
body of the Dissenter., to Ilitorialify them for su hum-
ble an occupation, :IS I hat of teat hing the element• of
useful kwon ledge to the poor ? One would think
there must be some special virtue, same mighty charm,
in taking the sacrament in the established church, to
utak, it the ground of eligibility or the term of
admission to all Offierrs of State, from the dignity of!
a Lord Chancellor, to the humble employment of an
Exciseman and a parish Schoolmaster. But if coo-1
fortuity to the rites of a particular church do indeed
possess the signal power of investing the whole body
of conformists with superior meutal and moral quails
fieationa, and if non-conformity be of so deleterious
a nature as to degrade the ntinils and morals of its vo-
taries, and disqualify them to serve the public in the
humblest capacity, 1 cannot but *appose, Sir, a gen-
tleman of your discernment would long since have as.
certained the fact in your acquaintance with the Dis-
senters of this county. If, however, this had been the
case, I cannot help presuming that, instead of deeming
them your worthy constituents, a regard for your own
character would have induced yon to decline their
most distant acquaintance and relinquish the station
which you fill with so much credit to yourself and
honour to the county, rather than sustain it by the
suffrages of a people, among wl not one is thought
worthy to he the master of a village school ! But the
respect which you continue to show towards the lii.
"enters, in common with the rest of your Constituents,
proves that you have not yet had te good or ill for
tune to nitness the cloven foot of dissent, or discover
those symptoms of incorrigible delinquency which Mr.
Brougham may be enppue.vi to have discovered, either
in thsfliyentere of his owe conntry, or in the half-
dreitninffictions of his own mind. But though, Sir,
I am proud to appeal to your own knowledge for the
moral and civil respectability ui the Essex Dissenters,
I will not admit that our brethren of the same persua-
sion in other parts of the kingdom. are a whit behind
us in moral worth, or have betrayed a .tote of charac-
ter which can justly be condemned by the national
• I Legislature.—(To Le continued.)
and

SCOTTISII ADMIRALTY Coca.r.--This bill enacts
that no process below 2M. shall be competent in
the Admiralty Courts, except in re-waretime—the
reasons of suspension of Admiralty decrees shall
be discussed upon the bill. Suspensions and re-
ductions of Admiralty decrees shall be loner House
processes ; the Court to have a power to remit with in-
strnctions. Reductions of Admiralty decrees to be
allowed on short inducia. In certain cases the Clerk
of the Admilalty to discharge personally the duties of
his office. The inducia clerk to be auditor of ac.
counts. The Judge•Aduairal to make regulations for
abridging the form of ?street. Ste., and a table
of fees, to be sanctioned by the Court of Session. No
price to be received for any appointment of clerk. lac. ;
compensation to be made to the clerk of the Iligh Court
of Admiralty, or his deputy. if they shall appear
to have sustained any loss from those regulations.—
Such is the state of the Hill, says The Rdiebatrea
Star, likely to be passed into a law in the coarse of a
very few days, isotwitbstanding every remonstrance
that has been made by the mercantile holies in that
country.
Every thing sown sad cultivated this seam. seems
mad prosperous. The Cacho, has already made his
appestsace.—(/raterfrti diems. April 36.)

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LONDON:
FRIDAY EYENtsco. MAY 4, MI-
The Parr papers anal letters of Monday contain
sonic article& of considerable interest. By private cor-
respondence, dated the 30th ult, we learn that two ordi-
nances had that day received the sign manual, which
elevate the Ex-minister Abbe Montesquien, and the
Count de Blacas, to the rank of Pukes, and that se-
veral military promotions will take place in conse-
quence of the baptism of the Duke of Bordeaux. "All,'
says the writer, "is bustle and preparation for to-
morrows fete. A great sensation has been excited
1
to-day by the King's re-appearance in public after his
long seclusion. His Majesty left his palace at about
half-past one in an open carriage, to the Champ de
Mars, where he reviewed all the troop now in Paris,
consisting of at least 20.000 men. His Majesty went
through the fatigue of the review, which lasted four
hours, without any symptom of pain of lassitade. The
Count trArtois and the Dtike of Angouleme accompanied
him on horseback % and thePnehesses of Angoulente
att.! Berri were in his cirri.tge with `the infant Duke
of Bordeaux.
" A programme is everywhere circulated of the cites
monies to be observed on the approaching fete, which ill
to last three days. On the first day (to-morrOw) the
royal Infant will, at II o'clock in the morning, he bap-
tized at Notre-datne: the King is expected to be present.
" On the second day there will be a grand ball at the
hotel ale Ville, at which all the Royal Family, with the
exception of the King. will be present.
" On the 3d day halls will be given at the public ex-
pense to the different trailing bodies of the metropolis.
liluininations, fireworks, and distributions of wine and
victnals wilt take place on all three days. The ut-
most precautions will be observed to prevent any acci-
dent ; and political disturbance or riot is ont of the
question, when it is considered that, besides the Parisians
inordinate love of pleasure, there are 20,000 troops, ex-
elnsive of the gendarmerie, mar to check those who
might happen to have a taste different from the great
body of their fellow-citizens.
" 1 hare very little political news for you ; the last
accounts from Italy state, that the King of Naples ar-
rived at Rome on the Wednesday before Easter Sunday,
and was expected to remain there for a week. A decree
.has been published at Naples, appointing four commit-
tees of censorship and superintendence over the conduct
of ministers of the chinch, of all persons connected with
the press, or with education, whether in public or pri-
vate schools; of all persons employed in judicial offices
of whatever class ; anal lastly. of all persons employed
in any public administration of whatever nature. This
is political jealousy with a vengeance."
The following are extracts from the French papers:
Pants, Aratt.3o.—Yesterday the King gave &private
audience to the Viscount de Chateaubriand, Minister
to the Court of Prussia. There was a brilliant and nu-
merous Court ; amongst those present were tbe Neapo-
litan Ambassador and the Prince de Talleyrand.
The two Piedinontese Officers who were arrested at
Lyons by superior orders were set at liberty on the 24th.
A letter from Florence of the tstlo inst. states, that a
conspiracy had been discovered amongst the troops of
the Grand Duke, and that an ()Ricer convicted of taking
part in it, had been sentenced to death by a military
commission.
It is said the Coronation will soon take place.
A Projet is, it is said, to be presented immediately to
the Chambers for authorising the necessary expenditure
for the construction of two fortresses in the interior of

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" laws, Amu. 23.
an approaching change are shot
the provinces of the Peninsula._
fitment, a new partisan, selgs is sca to be
1 h
.t- - -t0
atiir4 !moss.. zayAlta. thsgtlth
four leagnet from Vittclia. 'The natieosi
guard of that town proceeded agaidet•the rebels, and a
sharp action took phtre. After Terittsses righting, 4,
eatioaaltgtosid was compelled to yidla to Ittperito ow
bees, and satreitder thentselves prisoners of wir,.with
l'the exception 'of four men. These foot saes, 0,464
I return, spread consternation at Vittoria, and all the es.
?Whit linarth of the three provinces of Illicit vitt
' called out. On the 22d and 23d all the roads wave..
s-erc4l with them. The guards of San Sebastian, trot
Tolosa, and Bilboa were marched 'towards yittedo. '
We are in expectation of further results, but thine"
has spread alarm throughout the whole country.
" Private letters from Valladolid state that therris
another strong guerilla in Old Castile. This party vim
i on the 19th at Rio Seco.

is Holy Thursday had nearly proved a day of mama.
Ng for this country. Every year a 'eleuw pmeesain
takes place on that day throughout the whole of Sink.
The authorities take a patirtshneienyheritnhdgis isperredeipsed mndootnyi and
wmitphpear.ltbeheit
pproepsuelnaccee, ofp erthe r
iSvoi
13v
ge r et ihgant
the procession manifested dissatisfaction in a way al.
culated to excite apprehensiou of the greatest evils. it
was found necessary to surround the royal ?widens
with all the troops of the line and the militia. It was
announced that the King was prevented by iudispositin
runtuboenayfternnon, and the Wag
filmitatites
hondwin4g too.ctiloterkcei
post, whir+ is malty in by 9 in the mornings has re:
yet arrived. The journals are therefore wanting.
Malmo, APRIL Ifi.—The mail front France sal lit•
car has not arrived, and according to a notice posted ap
in the Post-office, it has been intercepted betwres
drigalejo and Derma.
APRIL 17.—11 is said that the Government has die
patrhed today an express with orders to hlajer4leattpl
Don J. Martin el Foopecinado, to take under his esat•
gland the detachments destined to pursue the rebhn,
Merino, and the deluded persons whom he has sedeced.
This factious band is surrounded on all sides in the pee.
since of Bargoa, from VI bids it cannot escape, led when
these factions men will receive the punishment die is
their crimes. The National Militia, in all the districts
have tuanifeated, on this occasion, the horror they ini
at these wicked. men, who aim at destroying the Coat
tutional System, and think to make the nation ham
by plunging it in all the horrors of civil war.
APRIL IS.—Since an cypress arrived here on Selby '
from London and Paris, not a day passes without repent
concerning the contents of the tlisitatches which it
brought. Some Liberals say, that they remelt oen
of an alliance having been formed between all the
Powers of the South. The Servilrs, doubtless to nes•
tralise the effects of this good news, report that they
contain very bail news; for instance, of persaission
bating been given by the French °overawes% Me the
passage of a Russian army through France, of de*
moval of the Congress at Laybach to Lyons, &addax
similar absurdities. The truth is that both pettiest
wrong, and that the dispatches were wholly tangly
taut.
The political relations of Spain with the other Pen%
are on the same footing of good intelligence as they
have been hitherto, and as for tho alliance of the Seelb
ern Powers, it may perhaps be realised, but at pressen
is only a wish inspired by the necessity in which lir
rope is, anti whirls it will be obliged to carry late ant
to avoid the dangers that threaten it.
It appears that In the last Secret Sitting of lie CO
tea, in which the representation of the Municipality d
Valencia was discussed, it was decreed that there was
nothing criminal in the expression of that writiag, sad
justice was done to the patriotic virtue of that body.
His Majesty the King of Naples having left Moron
on the 14th, has since been followed by the Autos*
dors of Austria, Russia, France and Prussia. His*
jesty distributed magnificent presents to many:pesos
before he left Florence, not to mention numerous' acted
charity.
" MADRID, APRIL 19.—This day being holy Thaw
day, the King wade preparations for elitist t
churches indone
on t
u every
nd are'
greatt
wr aa
rs ya"oc pomp. as
endsrguaiattylvisytn
nounced that the King, baring been for some days
it
TSuhdedgeanrlyri"conn
bed. A report was then circulated that the Ministers
and it was ss•
disposed was at last obliged to confine himself to Ills
had received alarming news relative to the gaiety of the
King's person. One fact is certain, that two MSS WV
last night arrested in the court of the palace.
" The tiovertunent has received official iatellie
that the band of the Canon Morino is surromaelico
troops despatched to
seatdstroy it. The celebrated 1110
san the Empecinada the head of all their Inge

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BROCOH AM's RILL. FOR THZ ESTARLISHMEMP 331"frits 'Sir' • ills nel"4"l""t"ltiffitrarnVin . 3 ; Netlll.llllloo4
AND tst./ PPORT OF PAROCHIAL scnoots.
LFTTaII TIM FIRST. 'hi" supported by a eve. Isiyied equally flit* tholletbket oriati'iLe..7 •
it would prove in faro a poaieve and unconstitutional I.osxAns: re aiti
---e•losereeveringa TllollopolYotpower to Bielitidlicri of one IttoOtoettent. 1
--""41,11--e•Itt toßlbestittrfeit to Praia-rig enclosed Pe- sort, lot saerificiog the liberty and repine of *others, Irish bleurCant. •
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ill titions to -Parliansent,egsinSt Mr. Brougham's Bill for To reader the whole community, except one denoinina- -mune wrri—
ikill ta tab li sh me n t and support of PariwitiniSermait, t Lion, in-i't iiihle to the office ut a parish schoolmaster, gluon o
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---Vtilia-ve, on behalf of myself mill friends, to trouble itioll'e invest the clergy with an absalate veto upon
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you with aTew lines on the subject, stating our views 1.
iii.e itoire or their parishienersin the appointment of en
more explicicirthOn could Well he done in the Peti- ett offieer to he supported .by theataelvee, are ptopo- •• Trig scoria gr
Lion. Thettgb it".may be of no consequeuee to the sale wbieh would
.hate done credit to an Attornee-
' pablic at large. what the inhabitants of a small coati- (Wend of the sixteenth et•ntitry, or which might even -•-••••-••••••••••••••"1
try town ruly limits!: respecting a 'immure of great nay now suit the meridian of Laybaels, anal call forth the
tioflal importance, the liberty of expressing our applause of their Forcelleueies in she Vatican. lint to MD
. thoughts is a right of no mean vane to the humblest hake them announced to the Britian lessislatere in the
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isdividual. Anal so far as theseexpressions may serve nineteenth century, by a senator in whom the friends
1 tom m
erevtain the general sense of the comunity, we
of liberty had placed their confidence. makes one sonic anklet of
cannot suppose they will he whet?). scorned by an as-
•
blush for the honour of humanity, and the boasted re-
sembly,ortio‘e numbers profess to meet and legislate finement and liberality of the asre. p resondence, di
as the reproaentatives of the people•elevate the
There was a time, Sir, when the announcement of "am had
EN she
With respect to the object of these Petition!. I
such propositions in the British Parliament would have
thiek Ire shall have the concurrence of the general
been time moment of their extinction, consigning them Omni de Sleet
body of dieseuters in stating, that we have no objet- will military
to the grave of the Capuleta, like the disgusting t
cloches of Owl]
flea to legirslative intetference in making a ptovision
monster strangled in its birth. Though dressed off in
for the general education of the poor, provided the
all ..
of . . ,
the writet
the charms a superbela m eloquence. surrior even .
meeattres enacted for that purpose harmonise with the
' to the Honourable Mo% et's, the spirit of the mensal-, I says
spirit of the constiottiota, are adapted to the state and
would have received front the consistent and intrepid morrow's fete.
religion: differettees of the countre, and bring into
friends of civil and religions liberty, a castigation tin- to-day by the
exercise means adequate to the design, by uniting
. der which it would have writhed .atr!aile anal expired. long seclusion
public benevolence aed a wise economy with the enact-half past one i
1 And thongh, as in a recent case, shouts of apolaose
meats of the legisluture. 1 from the undiscriminating might have echoed the
ft has imleed been shown, Sir, by several respectable Mars, where 1
. speech of its advocate, the vanity of such applanee
writers on the subject, that the data assumed by oir.
acute have appeared in its speedy termination and elmsistioll of ,
li Broneltaite as the basis of his proposed measure, are
untimely decease. But, alas, Sir, the pnre spirit of through the f
so, erron-ous in point of fart, and have considerably • . . • • . •
I Government
whorl) sustained the dignity of the British hours, withou
ere
the means of gratoitone instruction already
e. uovertiment and Leei lature, from the Revolution -
• provided, eapetially by Sunday Schools:. The partial • o t molt d'Artui
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him on horse)
sources froth which the Ilonottrablefientlentan derived
has long become languid and inefficient'. Thetigh.it
. hi* information, and theapirit of hostility to dissenters
lingered Cli
awhile in the 'moon of a ntliam, a Foo;
s I en.) Berri wt'l
set iris breathers in tuanv of their esenniunientions,
• and a Whithettl, anal awed by their last appeals the ' of Booleaux.
would lead one to suspect a partial statement or a 1 despotic 1 n and the time-serving, it found in scene of their i" A progra
total so, pression of facts, in reference to schools ex-
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survivors but a feeble %npport or a transient and pre- I monies to be
ca:a;volv supported by the dissenting interest ; which
I e niche eeistenee. If their mantl • fell
nt when they as to last three t
fert,er emptiry would prove to be the ease. Had Mr. '
eroded, it fell am'sng characters defieie either in I royal. Infant 1
r'rungllaum mimoutht proper to address his circulars to talent or in principle ; and, in same Case' at least, left, tiles, at Note
Olt.erutini; ministers, as well as to the national clergy, the friends so,
eerfect religions liberty to the dubious I
Fc wools' have found them equally prompt in their " on the s
counsels of untried. inadequate, or temporising leatlers, note)
ale viii
c, -.lalaanicatitatii, and equally disposed to facilitate any
• unlike the band of Theban Patriots, sustained in con-
exception of
;:tern: need pap-Mile measure; while such an applies- flirt and led to vietory by theit brace Epaininonslas, in
toot osetl,l hate eectirsol the accura of his returns, " On the :
•the strait' of Thertnepyl a,. `net at leust have been
ar I orevcated some eg: :lions blunder; into which he
I the fears of the writer, excited by humiliating facts; l'"se to the
liluminationt
toss ftllen. wit, ttttt t discrediting his good sense and
though a bosom warm with charity, anal a frame of
literality of setitituent.
•• • mind disposed to think well of all men, lyould raise a victnals ail
So far as the dissenters are concerned, we believe
hope that the spirit of pure whiggiatn, whirls in former most recant
it woclai not be difficult to prove, Sir, that by the sup-
I ages sated our country, is not sleatl bat %north, and dent ; and t
port of Sunday anal Day Schools, sufficient meant are -.
will ere lone. awake with removed strength and greater question, wit
' I already provided for the instruction of their own poor, . . lone,
vigilance. inordinate lc
svo‘o the addition of many who take no share in their
But what, let me ask this
t - dissent. In most plans of any (-moquettes.. likewise, worthy investigator of elnsive of th
where the dissenting influence has been considerable, abusedcharities, this chamoion of popular education, might happt
' national schools have been established by the clergy what civil delinquency lose he dierovered in the general Ludy of Biel
and their supporters, in a great measure sufficient to body of the Dissenter,.. to al'oaarialify them for so hum- " 1 have a
t . include all who may wish to be instructed in the
principles of the Established Chtech. But in the ble an occupation, :as that of tea' hing the elements of
useful linos% ledge to the poor ? One would think accounts fro
rived at Rot
laroer towns, whose overgrown population has out-
there must be 'unit special virtue, eome mighty charm, and was ref
stepped the efforts of benevolence, there is doubtless a in taking the sacrament in the established church, to
, . claciency of instruction for the poor, manrof whom, make it the ground of eligibility or the term of )'as been pa
espeaially among the must indigent and profligate, admission to all Officers of State, front the ministers
the dignity of tees of cens4
use left to grow up in gross ignorance and barbarism, a Lord Chancellor, to the Isumble empleyntent of an
the press, of
140 1 le many towns of inferior note also and the generality
• li Sa•
Exciseman and a parish lsoultnaster. But if con-
vale school:
formity to the rites of a particular church do
of r.tired village', where the spirit uf dissent
ossess the signal power of investing the whole Lod fetes;p of whereto
mot metbudism has had no influence, scarcely
is-a• attention has been paid towards the education of of conformists with superior meutal and moral (plan- in any pub)
poor children, by the parochial clergy or their opu. ficationa, and if non-conformity be of so deleteritms is political
tort parishioners ; bitt generations have been suffered a nature as to degrade the minds and morals of its co- The toll
to succeed each other in the same brutal ignorance and tanks, and disqualify thou to serve the public in the Pasts, .0
1 cannot but suppose, Sir, a gen- audience lc
moral stupidity, neither availing themselves of modern humblest coPocitys
t tleman of your discernment would long since have as. to the Con
• leiproverneut% nor ancient charities; of which the de-
cayed state of the generality of endowed schools affords eertained the fact in your acquaintance with the Dia• tueroti% Col
asrple and humiliating evidence. So that, assuming *enters of this county. If, however, this had been the yaw, Amy,
the most that can be asimitted in favour of gratuitous case, I cannot help presuming that, instead of deeming The tae
them your worthy constituents, a regard for your own Lyons by s
lestruction, we fear the actual and pressing want' of
the pupil cannot he provided for without some legis- character would have induced you to decline their .
1 letter
naive interference, either to enlarge the operation most distant acquaintance and relinquish the station
conepiraeY
Red !secure the perpetuity of the National. British, and which you fill with so much credit to yourself and;
_i.e. „rand
r Sunday school eocietie% now in being. or to establish honour to the county, rather than sustain it by time "
il Some plan of general education in which all parties suffrage' uf a Peoples among wi not one is thonght 1 parta
1
P'AC equally co-operate and share. Coueidering the worthy to he the master of a village school ! But the : "' in it
issio
i
f
.
I
. irstitution of styli a measure in the highest degree
anspicions to thus' moral and civil interests of our coml. respect which you continue to show
•towards the Dia ; It is sal
sente,s, in common with the rest of your Constituents, i
try, we bailed with peculiar pleasure Mr. Brougham's proves that you have not yet had the good or ill for A Proje
• the Chant!
earliest inquiriee and intimations on the subject, and tune to nitness the cloven foot of dissent, or discover for the co,
fancied time introsittetion of so promising a meassure
would form an eta in our national legislation, in which
e those symptoms of incorrigible delinquency which Mr• i trance.
Brougham may be sinpputs.al to have discovered, either Letters
eery Christian, and s•very patriot alight rejuiee,--By in tho./042entere of his owe country, or in the half- delivered
uniting all denominations, in one barrnonioon and dreitnittf fictions of his own mind. But though, Sir, parts.
0 systematic effort against ignorance and irreligion. we lam proud to appeal to your own knowledge for the The Os
l s • anticipated an improvement in the minds and morals moral and civil respectability ui the Essex Dietenters, Officers It
of the labouring classes, which should in some de-
gree corers:viol to our national advantages, and from I will not admit that our brethren of the Sallie risme. to Prince
sion in other parts of the kingdom. are a whit behind A lett,
4 which great benefit to the community at large might
us in moral worth, or have betrayed a state of charac- merit of
of:
s . ‘,I arise. By diffusing knowledge inure extensively
t -I
,
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li:thi
i •
• ,
i......,g the people, and giving a firmer tone to their ter which can justly be condemned by the national {rouse
moral principles, we indulged a hope that the rowel- Legislature.—(To be continued.)
lion of the poor would be gradually ameliorated, and MEMNIPIM•II In cm
the 10).411,0 of the country secured against soar- Scorrtsu ADMIRALTY Coyao.—This bill enacts agltati°l
eby and oppression, by the stability of the constitn- that no process below 25/. shall be competent in such hil
thin, and the wisdom of a timely and necessary the Aritniralty Courts, except in re-warttinsw—the may, di
reform. reasons of snspension of Adiniraltt decrees shall Ames. a
Bat though, Sir, wethould readily aequieece in the be discusaes) upon the bill. Suepensions and re- nerstitiu
legssaatise establishment of a truly national system of ductione of Admiralty decrees shall he loner House • led 1
i 11 edue•ition. timer* are many features in the proposed processee: the Court to have a power to remit with in- tal o
• measure which appear to us eiceediugly objection- strnetions. Reductions of Aslutiralty decrees to be will be
able. On the score of expense, it seems altogether a allotted on short indacia. In certain cases the Clerk lion. 1
i ',i crude mass of inisscalculation and extravagance. To of the Admilolty to discharge personally the duties of tonia,m
s:,,y nothing of the•funds which would be necessary his office. The inducia clerk to be auditor of ac- Lettei
for the permanent support of the schools, including a counts. The Judge•Adruiral to make regulations for say. ss I
list of peorsioned schoolmasters superannuated in tbe abridging tie form of extract. Ste., and a table petted 1
al prime of life, the measure would at once enable a few of fees, to be sanctioned by the Court of Session. No rests wl
s individuals to impose upon the public an enormoue price to be received for any appointment of clerk. &c. I *one fel
I elpeate lo the erection of school rooms, without giving compensation to be mode to the clerk of the High Court .
....
Or, the parishioners a due controul over the expenditure. of Admiralty, or his deputy. if they shall appear I,)*_„*"."
The process likewise, by which it proposes to originate to have sustained any loss from those regulations.— witmt•
the said schools, savours more of legal technicalities Such is the state of the Bill. says The Edinburgh older I
than St statesman-like views, and would give rise to Ster. likely to be passed into a law in the coarse of a 'France
endless litigation. animosity, and expense. And in tile very few days, notwithstanding every remonstrance proprir
preeest depritised state of the country, borne down by that has been made by the mercantile holies in that bag orr
Baron
A 0
1 • 1 etremive taxation. and drained to the dregs by fiscal country.
1 I 1:1 fi ireadialvse. it would be the height of infatuation ari Every thing sews sad cultivated this seams seems bees p
1 Tailltinut
the
1897 addition
bsse,sleathefroder
to
sea the et mod prosperous. The Cacho, has already made his bees n
Mart • a appostrasee.—VraterjOrd Mirror. April 30.) the at
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