The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-03 00:00:00

DRAIN IP TIMIELCIL

This was annti,mr acting of trorer.
Mr. F. WILLIAM'S stated Ay Plaintiff to bo
homettly bet respectable shoerasket, OW Defendant a
Clergyman of the Established Chords. TM. action
araelsrought, Dot to recover damages, bet to tete\
("Seises and over smiles. mew that their enthusiasm
tarnished them with so nesse for intruding with

presomptios sod arrogsoce into the house, of their
neighbours. Ott ilk °cession the Plaintiff had kft
his house. it was to Imp munembereti, Shen he received
this visit from the Rev. Defendant. lie understood

diet the latter s•suned superior readily, that he
shored store anzieoy than the rest al his cloth to per.
form the tholes of his profession. This. perhaps,
.01 secant for the prying curiosity wish which he
Igad connected himself on the oension ; for, wept.,
h‘e person is influenced by tech a nudity, It were!
1 &Lek to brining what should induce hint I. he
guilty of so gins, e breech .f good manners as to pry
sbggt the room of a singer for books, and obits,
aneelhotieed, on put them into the i.e. Ist the pre.
woo use the Defendant had done this: ender pre.
lowest of a.trn.ling at she Plaintiff's, who was a new.
parishioner of his, he had r ith the Bost unjast.fiable
familiarity burnt ten boobs, solely b.teese he thiieght
'Wit, forsooth, likely to corrupt the morals of the
Pleinoilre site! I gily you my wrod, said the
Learned Gentleman, there is sot a page in there
books which as i..jere anybody ; but boo rime ills
Reverend Divine 1. knee what good or evil they

cnotoined ? Ile only looted at them for a minim, •r

two, before he side his aniesinnatile request.—
Other he had or had not read them. If be bad, they
were not Ilels to iojur• another mote than himself;
if be had not, why did he tarn cen‘ar and dews,'
them ? Religion can new be served by such ens.
duct as tin.: she is mild, cheerio', of the most !p-
-ineal spirit, and of a benignity which scorns offend-
iStst. Bus according to the enthasisais of the new
school. she Imam a Iffy different character. They
*weld home her so tight laced, tint she tumid be in
dallier of suffocation is their bands—so formal, that
her warm of attraction wamld tease to captivate—
MD Amid, that the s ivy of her frowns would tomtits
past! In item** the impious sod profane. The
lieorned Gentleman then celled a witness who proved
the facto of hit case as follows:
The Plaintiff keeps a tornpikti-Rate: be is a shoe-
maker. %Poem, a perfect stranger both to the
Plsint.ff and Defendant, happening to be alarmed as
she Nan going by the house of the former, turned
into it for ;naiveties. At that time Mr. Venable,
was is the IMP apartment, talking% as she tedd of
many good things, sad hoping that Mr. Drake would
keep his chards. This he said to Mrs. Drake, her
bashand not Swiss at home. He looked round sod
saw some books on the dresser. Otis, a sermon
, book, he said was eery good; bat the other two (it
never appeared who they were) he said were not it
to be perused. He only held them ten minutes is his
hands &s/ow he put the second book down, he
asked if he might bars the books. She answered
Ifirst of all, that she had given them to a blend. Mr.
%relight's sa.d he would -give her and her friend a
good book each I. the place of them, if she world
give him rinds/ion to barn these. Mrs. Drake said
it was a matter of indiffemsco to her; she 'Geld ra-
ther have a good book. Upea this he tore the leaves
out and pot them between the bars of the grate.
Gros..esamined.—Never saw a Gentleman con-
duct himself ebb mom propriety and civility, with
nothing of presumption or arrogance. Mrs. Drake
thanked him, and said she would call on his for the
books which he hail premised her.
Mr. Sorkin.* Pu.s, In rept,, said, that we lived
in very singular times, when she stream of popular
feeling 'not two mom opposite ditections. lie who
pretended to an attention to religion somewhat el-
eroding the Itikewarmness of those who practised a
a cold morality, was considered a Methodist : if,
on the other hand, the regard to nor religious defies
was lanaccompanied wish enthusiasm, It would in the
opinion of another party constitute as reprobates.—
The Learned Gentleman declared, that no esrtt.ty
motive Ilbostd base induced him to bring this most
anworthy action. Ile completely vindicated she
Defendant's character from the reproaches which
had been cast on it : where was there any cast en-
thusiasm or methedisat in his conduct ? He was in-
' deed grieved to find that • Clergyman is to be ors.
peeled of Wog ever rightroue, or of too sink a
i sect, heeler* he performs his boandett daty in shit.
ins his pa:tableau, sud seciti that they ate at poi.