The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-28 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN:

TEST ACT-Mix!' CATHOLICS.

Jeremy Taylor, in considering whelk" it be Issasl
for a Prim:* to gists tolorttion to several religions,
observes, that, " it is no more than whether he muy
lawfully pPlPpretie any man for not being of his opi-
; Wen." And Sir Richard Steele makes this distinction
between the Church of Rome, end the Church of
; England—'o the forme. -r..tends to be infallible ; end
the ether (says be) el ads io the right." We de
not neck approve of In. eine the Stuart., bet in this
cm it wield be better, than in others, which may be
thought more agreeable. Anthony Wood, on the
viiit of James 11. to Ostord. says, " Then the King
going to the great door behind the Theatre in Car•
ditch to take coach, 1.6 turned aside to the Vice.
Chancellor end Doctors, and said: I most commend
onto you against, love and charitie, that there be a
right undetstanding among you. I most tell yew,
that in the King, my father's time, the Church of
England's men, end the Catholics loved each other,
and were, es 'were all one; bet now there Is gotten
• spirit, which is quite contrary, and what the tresses
is, I cermet tell. There are some among your, that
are the occesies of those things, bet I know theni,
and shell eke notice of them is fetere."—(Athens
Wow p. call.)

LLIDILITY of LANDLORDS ro POOR'S

RATES.

By " An Act to amend the fees for the Relief of
the Poor," pasted on the 31st of lest month, it is
enacted " that from and after the Ist of Jimmy,
1820, it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of any
parish, in vestry assembled, and they are hereby
empowered, to resolve and direct, that the ;wiser or
outlets of ell hmises. apartments, or dwellings iu
each parishes, being the immediate levier or lessors
of the Weal occupier or occupiers, which shall re-
spectively be let to the occupiers thereof, at any rent
or resits rot exceeding twenty pounds, nor less then
six pounds by the year, for any less term then one
year, or on soy agreement by which the rent skill be
reserved or made payable at any shorter period thee
three months, shall be awned to the rates for the
relief of the poor, for or in respect of such heases,
apartments, or dwellings, end the out-Mouses end car-
tilages thereof, instead of the actual occupiers; end
the inhabitants so assembled In vestry may and they
are hereby authorised from time to time to rescind.
renew, eery, and emend every such resolution and
direction, as they shell see occasion, so as no such re-
solution or direction shall extend to mess or cite rg• the
owner of any house, spartmebt,or d trellises, hich shall
with the oat-bosses end cartilages thereof be let
at • greater rent than twenty pounds or less
than els pounds as aforesaid; end the church.
wardens and overseers of the poor of every such
parish are hereby empowered and required to carry
leto elect all such resolutions and directions of the
inhabitable in vestry asreashled, and in mimeo sad
esecution thereof, in all Rates to be by them made
for the relief of rbe poor, to assen bye fair and equal
pound rate the owner or owners, being the immediate
lessor or lessors of the actual occupier or occupiers,
of every house, apartment, or dwelling, to which
each 'reflation sod direction shall tweed, for, or in
respect of the same, according to the ecteel rent at
which every such hoes., apartment, or dwelling shall
be let, after making a reasonable deduction from such
rent, not exceeding in any case one.balf of the some ;
and epee aoto-peynient of the sum or semi so to be
assessed, the someway and shall be levied upon, and
the payment thereof be enforced against such owner
end owner", lessor sod lessor., so to be assessed, and
his end their goods and chattels, it like manner as
rates for the relief of the poor may by law U. levied,
and recovered, and the payment thereof enforced
upon and.against any actual occupier en whom thel
same are charged."

A gentlemen of Farnham, riding down a ►ill in
the neiehboerhond, en one of the new hobby-horses,
the Iwo raw away with him, or, more properly
speaking, it proceeded with etch velocity that be
could est succeed in stopping it. Unforistiately, he
came in minted with • post, by %hit!' means the ma.
chine was erre set, acid the Grn•lea.3o broke'hi! sate.

NIDDLRSEX SRSSIONS,4pitn27.

It most he frmb is pant tecollectioa. that in November last
a rase of child-dropping/ was losewiemed at the Pabhc-.dire
is lhatio•Aloream. io which a widwife and m female of respect-
able rimealam (amber of the child) were .apposed to be
Implirated. The odicen of the parish w the proclaim of which
the child was Valid. croweisiag the cow to be of sorb a ware
ai to th-assad p Vac lasestigastoo. dem aimed to Wine It before
a Cows aid Joey, mil this day the midoife sad she mother of
,he Waist were iadksed fora romping, to drop she child $ bat
alter a oriel which lasted several Mama. it OMB
I:eoce was adduced abide mad at all correct the alissber with
the espasore or detertiim of the child. lier wly sohj,tt. as tar
ns she was rammed, appeared to hare Ivra to c.a.'s', if pow
sibk, Ike birth of she child from her telaillies.
The Joey. after or flogger appeal from Mr. Scanherr, as
behalf of she mother, mat from Mr. evolution, spa Ms part of
the nide*, resumed a verdict of—Not Guilty.