The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

LONDON,

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FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
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University of Oxfwrd.--R. Heber. TA.. Master of Arts.
of Bruen Nose Collet*, fa the roost of the Rt. Hoe. Sit W.
Seem sow Heron Stowell, owe of the Peers of the milted
kiordossof Great Rriesie and Ireland.

Eotemissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant ofthe County of
Clackamas.
Claehmananshire Miikia.--J. W. Young, Esc to be Cap-
tain.
Clackmananshire Yeomanry Cavalry.--J. Tait, Gent. to
be Second Lieutenant. vice Stein, deceased; W. Geddes,
Geo./0 be Cornet, vice Tait, promoted.
Commissions in the Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed
by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby.
Cornet Reginald (Undo, Pops to be Lieutenant. vice
Balguy. resigned ; J. Gell. Gent, to be Cornet, vice Pole,
promoted; the Rev. W. Sitwell to be Chaplain, vice Wil-
mot, deceased.
Commission in the Northern Regiment of Northumberland
Local Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County
of Northumberland.
H. Colliagwood, Esq. to be Liestenant.Coionel.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
G. Lawrence, Stratford, EMI, silk-man
Sept. 8, to Sept. 29. at Guildhall.

r, from

•.%'KRUITCIEII 111171PERSZDED.

G. Warren. Bath. cheese and bacon factor.
T. H. Harris. Hinckley. Leicester, hosier.
J. Spence. Varin. York. grocer.
N. Driver, StainbridE is, Gloucester, clothier.
MANKIVPTS.

C. Wright. Ludgate-hill. wine-merchant. to surrender Sep.
4. It', Oct. 13. at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Noel, Gray's-
inn-place. Gray's-ion.
J. Hartland. Gloucester, mercer. Sept. 20, 21. Oct. 13. at
the George Coffee-house. Gloucester. Attorneys. Messrs.
Holbrook and Son, Ledbury ; and Messrs. Stevenson and
Bicknell, Lincoln's-inn.

R. Bowman. Manchester, grocer. Sept. 15. 17. Oct. 13, at
the Star Inn, Manchester. Attorneys. Mr. Hadfield, Man-
chester; and Messrs. Hard and Johnson. Temple.
W. V. Bethell, Liverpool. merchant, Sept. 6, 29. Oct. 13.
at the George-inn, Dale-street. Attorneys, Mr. Davenport,
Lord-street. Liverpool ; and Mr. Chester. Staple-inn.
R. Thomas. Rochdale. hat-manafacturer, Sept. 26,27. Oct.
13. at the Reed Ina, Rochdale. Attorneys, Messrs. Hurd
and Johnson, Temple ; and Mr. Baker, Rochdale.
R. Nlarshmats. Love-lane, cloth-factor. Sept. 22. 23. Oct.
13, at Guildhall. Attorneys, Messrs. Smith, Gen,' and Ro-
berts. New Basinghall-street,
S. Dais, Butts, Stafford, mangler, Sept. 2?1, 10, Oct. 13.
at the Littleton's-arms-ina, Penkridge. Attorneys. Mr.
Wheeler. Castle-street, Holborn ; and Mr. Smith, Walsall,
Staffordshire.

R. Cassels. Martin's-lane Cannon-%treet, wine-merchant.
Rept. S. tea, Oct. U. at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Thomas.
Fen-court. Fenchurch-street.

T. Bird. Solihel-lodge, Warwick. coal-dealer. Sept. 111,
29, Oct. 13, at the Littleton-arms-inn. Penkridge. Attor-
neys, Messrs. Hall and Willett, Dedfurd-row ; and Mr.
Shutt, Walsall, Staffordshire.
O. Drammen, IVlsitehouse, Sheffield. Ille-maruifecturer,
Sept. 11. It Oct. 13. at the Angel inn, Sheffield. Attorneys.
Messrs. Parker and Brown, Sheffield ; and Messrs. Blegrave
and Walter, t4tuond's-inn.

DI VI MENDS.
Sept. 49. W. Miles. Oxford-street. linen-draper—Sept.
N. T. Houllsrouke, High Holborn, linen draper—Oct. S. J.
Dorrington. Manchester, wine-dealer—Sept. Ai, 11. Rey-
nolds. Ormskirk. liquor-merchant—Sept. 17. W. A. b.
Fotiteringham, Plymouth-doek. eoal-merchant—Sept. 28, J.
Gilbert, Plymouth-dock, butcher—Sept. 44, T. and 11. Whit-
ney, Macclesfield. cotton-spinners—Sept. 46. W. Holmes.
North Shields, master mariner—Nov. 3, 11. Dowsland. jun.
and T. R. Davison. Old Broad-street, ship-brokers—Sept.
V. J. Imbrie. Bueklesbury. warehouseman—Sept. Y 4, F.
Hutchings, Glocester, chees.efactor—Sept. et, J. M•Master,
Norfolk-street, Mile-end Old Town, master mariner.
CERTIIICATCB.--8 E PT. 22.
J. Ford, Glocester, patent woollen-yarn-manufacturer
W. Lloyd. Paddington, victualler—T. Meadowcroft, Liver-
pool, merchant—J. Woods, jun., Portant, baler.

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GOD'S eiNGLIMIMpt 418ii*3T MURDERERS.'
(roost • eiwirliprea. iNptpx.-7-A. 74)
lass said Thom shit arse =ardor. Man. Chap. ads..*, 18.
Murder is a Ohm! 01 so deep adie ; it is so direct a
violation of thafsdiags Ismsaaity; it has something
is it so shochiorto the very nation; of man, that, at Gast
thought, it wool* appear wholly unnecessary to warn
men against the oiansteoisa of It; and indeed- deliber-
ately to set about sash warring,sad to remind men of
God's &muscle*a against the murderer, would, on a
cursory view of thi•matter, sews to be almost an insult
to a christian comasuldfyf
Unhappily, Isawevir, -skit warnings are necessary ;
for we but too often sie beings bearing the human form
capable of clippies"' their hands in human blood, mons-
ters so anfoliae, se brutal, as wilfully and aforethought
to cause, with their owa hands, that death, the bear
sight of which even when proceeding from natural I
causes, Is deeply affecting to all but callous hearts. With
such. indeed. all remonstrance would appear to be vain :
those who are deaf to the voice of nature, will hardly
listen to that of reason. But, there are Sturderees who
do not •slay with their owa hands; and there are ma-
ilers which are peepotsatol by means other than those,
violence of any sort committed on the body. The mur-
ders of this latter description, which are by far the most
numerous, are not so obvious, sot so plainly seen, as
those of the former. are disguised from the world;
they admit of no judTclist7proof ; they escape the utmost
vigilance of human laws; they set the just vengeance of
those laws at defiance ; they are reserve' for the ven-
geance of Hod, from whom the cool, deliberate, cruel and
hypocritical, smiling murderer cannot hide either his
deeds or his thoughts. • • •
Various are the ways in which the horrid crime of
murder is perpetrated. He who cawses death by unjust
means, deliberately used, is a murderer, let those means
be what they will. To kill your enemy in war, for in-
stance, is not murder; but, to kill him when he has no
longer the power of hurting you, is murder of the most
base and detestable kind. us remember the dentin-
ciation of DAVID. when on his death-hril, against 30A11,
I Kings, Ch. 1. v. 5. " Thou knowest," says tide dying
king to his son, 1, what Joab did to the two captains of
" the hosts of Israel, unto Abner and masa, whom he
" slew, and shed Me blood of war, IN PEACE. Let not.
therefore, his hoary bead go down to Me grace in
1" peace."
Nor is the crime at all diminished by the using of
aka means to produce the death of those whom the
chances of war have placed in our hands. It they die
of disease; if they perish from homer or cold; if, in
short, their death be caused by our ill treatment of them,
, they are murdered, and we are murderers. We shed the
blo.od of war, in peace; and the fate of the ferocious
Joab ought to be ours. We do not. like him, actually
put the blood upon our girdle and in our s!opes ; hut, we
cae:e Mr death; and the only difference is, that, what
Joab effected openly and by the s•vord, we effect by se-
cret, more cruel and more cowar..lo to a lc. • • •

Those murders, however, which are the most wortliv
of our attention and watchfulness, are such as elude, in
most eases, the eye of man, and admit of a proof
sufficient to make the offender amenable to human laws.
• • • I • •

The parent that can so act towards a child as to pro-
duce its death, whether by want of rare, want of good
counsel, want of food, of raiment, of any thing within
the power of that parent to supply, most lie little short
of what we generally describe by the word monster. In
this case even slight negligences are criminal. What is
merelylatilt in other cases is here eriale. The duty of
the parent commences from the in out that the fruit
of gratification sees the light; and it never ceases lint
with the life of one or the other of the parties. We
have, however, instances now and then, not only of a
most profligate neglect of these dot ies ; hat of acts com-
mitted by parents towards children such as it is impossi-
ble to hear without a mixture of iniligmation and horror.
To abandon a child, in a state of known peril; to leave
that child to the mercy of strangers, and, perhaps, enc.
mies ; to leave a child to he comforted in its dying mo-
ments by those wholly unconnected with it by ties of
blood ; to suffer it, and wilfully suffer it, to sink into
the grave, without the torch of one kindred hand, with-;
out bearing the sound of one kindred voice; to know
that it is in imminent peril, and coolly to pursue one's
ordinary avocations, expecting every moment to hear
that the victim is in its shroud ; this, this of all the of-
fences of which a parent can he guilty; of all the crimes •
which can lie upon his head, is surely the greatest ; and,
whatever such parent may think ; however completely
the laws of man may be inapplicable to his ease,
that he is a murderer, and the basest anti amongst
the blackest of murderers the laws of Go] sufficiently
proclaim.
The duties, of parents and children are reciprocal.
These latter must consider all their words and actions,
as they affect their parents. A bad child, is not only a
bad man or woman; is not only guilty of offences
against society; but, moreover, of a particular offence
against the parents. If the parents hare faithfully dis-
charged their duty, how great is the ensue of the son,
fur instance, who, by his conduct, wilfully gives them
pain! And yet, how niany fathers', and, more especial-
ly, how many mothers' grey hairs are brought with sor-
row to the grave by the misconduct, the perverseness,
the profligacy, the drunkenness, or some other incite-t-
-ide vice of a son! Here there is not only the basest of
ingratitude; but a want of feeling; a want of the very •
best essentials of human nature. For what must that
breast he made of that can be insensible to the angitisli
occasioned in the mind of a mother by one over whose
life, health and happiness that mother has watched with
an anxiety ten thousand times greater than that whicta
she has ever had for her•own life ? Can such a son
see his mother on the death-bed to which he himself
has hastened tier without saying, t. I ant a murderer I"
It is a poor paltering with his conscience to say that
he neither stabbed her, poisoned her, nor wished for her
death. He k l s, that the mental affliction, the haras-
sing cares, the incessant alarms, the constant state of
uncertainty and irritation, the grief, the mortification
and torment which be has occasioned, have kiette the
deed. He has oceasianeiljn some cases a dread of po-,
verty and ruin ; in other eases humiliation too great to
be patiently borne; and in every ease that worse, than
viper's sting, the sting- of filial ingratitude. For such a .
son to weep over the corpse of his mother-is no comiten-
. sation; forms no atonement for his eistflnct ; his-crime
remains the same, simply with the addition of hypocrisy
to his other detestable Offence.
Still, however, there is one case, which sometimes
presents iteeif in the condivt of profligate and cruel
men, which if possible, surpasses in enormity that of'
the ungraibful and murderous sun ; namely, the
premeditated, perseseriug and inexorable cruelty of has-
bead tesettrdt wife. Here, there is every this,;: that is
bindinfeespon man. law 'rives am sect; ample.
powets of controul with regard to tin. wife, that there is
ebiolately no excuse for any thing hat can justify. or
apologize for cruelty on his part at any sabseilarnt stage
of the connexion. 11. can piratl nit injoves flow ca.
Friers, st-Licis hr has it in hie purer coustantly to cuu-

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trout' There can 6e ne extravagance,. no expensive fol-
lies, which he has It not completely in his power instant-
17.1tvebeellt ifuet wheats prevent. For every devil'.
bon from the path of thy, the law gives bum not ouli
effectual batspeedy redress. It is 'in fact a creature ut
more delicate frame, of quicker sensibility, of feelings
more tender and more ardent, placed under his abeolute
guidance and command. One, moreover, that has been
selected by.himself, or received with his assent. The
connexion is so strictly personal as to admit of no ade-
quate description; and the fate, the happiness or misery
(for there is no medians) of this being is so completely
within his power, that it appears next to impossible that
he can have any ground of complaint, not, in a greater
or less degree, ascribable to some act or some omission
of his own.
These things duly considered we must know the fact
we must see the proofs with our own eyes or bear them
with oar own ears,to believe it possible,that there are men
capable of being guilty of deliberate, malicious barbarity
towards a wife. Yet. unhappily, such things we do
sometimes witness. The story of Amnon and Tamar
presents us with a true picture of human brutality,. The
first act of this profligate man was sufficiently detest-
able; but, when he drives the disconsolate daratel from
his presence; when he bids his servant rudely to push
her; rom the door, the blood boils in our veins and we
wish the savage ruffian upon the spot that we might in-
stantly indict on hint some dea.lly blow, as the best ven-
geance we can take in behalf of the injured lady. Well
aught she say, " This evil in wallas- me away is greater
than the other thou didst unto me. But he would not
hearken unto her. Then he called his servant that minister-
ed unto him, and said, Pat nowthis womaa out from me,
and bolt the door after her. And Tamar put ashes ou
her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that
was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on
crying." 2 Sam. ch. xiii. v. 16, 19. This picture, of
brutality on the one side and of distress on the other, ex-
cites feelings which the tongue cannot express. We
thins for vengeance on the unnatural, the cold-blooded
offender ; and when we come to the 29th verse of ttle
same chapter, and see Amnon assassinated by men pr )-
vided for the purpose by the brother of the iojareil.
Tamar, we cannot forbear to exult at the perpetration it
thedeeil, black in itself, and, under ordinary circuut-
stances, calculated to till as with horror.

Brutal, however, as was the conduct of Amnon, can
less be said of the conduct of any husband who treats
wife after the same manner ?

If, in the union of the parties a sacrifice has been mal.
to considerations of wealth, of ambition or of a2v other
object, the attainment of which was thotrAit
there is, at least, a contract the most solemn, a vow I).e
most awful, that the man wiil love, cherish and honour
the wife. To make her any thing approaching a COMe
pensation for the surrender of her freedom and her per-
son, for the surrender indeed of every thing but life i;-
self, demands the complete and literal fulfilment of this
vow on the part of the linshand. What then must tip
man be. who can a t the part of Amnon, even after he
has vs I intarily bound himself by the marriage vow
Nav, will° can do even more than it was in the power of
Amnon to do ; who can keep the wretched wife bound
by her vows to the end of her life; leave her exposed
to every species of calumny; hold her up as a mark for
the scorn of the unfeeling and the suspicion of
the uncharitable; while he himself, a libertine at larre,
sets at defiance morality and religion, and makes a merit
of that profligate demeanour, the bare suspicion o:
which is regarded as sufficient to sink his wife into in-
t.:troy

It is possible, that cases may arise, when the inc)m-
na•ihilitv of temper is so great as to render a dissolution
of the connection a matter of mutual relief. This
he An extreme vase, indeed ; for, contracts of no sort
are mule to he broken, and especially contracts of s
solemn a character. Before such a contract can be in-
fringed on in the smallest degree, every effort should b
made to prevent it ; and in no case, except that of an
appeal to the law, should such infringement orkinAte
with the man, who is not only the most powerful of the
parties, hut who ran suffer nothing from the change,
while the wife must, in a greater or less degree, be A
sufferer to the end of her life.

At any rate, the unhappy clremnstance having ore:tr-
eed, nothing should be done to add to her unavoi ;able
affliction. In short, whether, in this way or to arty
other, a bosh:rod is guilty of cruelty towards a wife, he
is fullly answerable in the eyes of God for all the effects
of that cruelty. In the eves of man, too, however in-
e:rectual the law may be to reach hint, he will not go
wholly free front punishment. Persevering malignity
towards one to whom we have vowed constant affection
for life, is, in the first place, a scandalous breach. of fide-
lite. Stich a tout may talk of honour; but the [wawa
which he possesses would be a disgrace to honest men.
His conduct is that of a barbarian and a coward. T.,
strike a woman; to lift the cane, or draw the s•v•ost
against her, would consign any man to'infaany; bat, t,)
do this is far short in point of cowardice as well as of
cruelty to the treating of her in a manner that• is coil-
stunk? harrassing to her mind, that humbles her in the
eyes of her neighbours, that makes bar ashamed of her .
situation, that robs her of all the pleasures of life, anti
that hastens the termination of that life. To do
tleliberatelv and coolly to persevere in gnat a line of
conduct,bespeaks a heart destitnte of every generous sett-
timent, selfish, cult' and base ; and if the possessor of that
heart escape chastisement from the hand of man, let
him remember that there is a (iod to pu4ish the violater
of vows and the murderer of the innoccift. Let him not
putt forward his paltry defence, that he did not use the
dagger or the poison. It is he who sends the dag,ser
to the heart : it is he who administers the Imhof); -4,1
as in the case of the profligate and ungrateful S'on,l: a is
guilty of a murder a million times more heinous than
that of slaying a man capable of conthatting'againss
him. There is a meanness in cruelty towards r wife
that is more odious and more detestable than.any other
quality, which, perhaps, it is possible for man to attri-
tante to man. It far-surpasses the drawing of n sis. 4•4
upon a woman, or the smiting of her on the cheek. 'lt
sinks man beneath every thing appertaining even to the
lowest am' most degraded state of humanity; and when
we contein;ilateit we caw hardly persuade ourselves
we are looking at the conduct of any thing that hears
the name of man. The wretch would almost appear to
be bene.stii the notice °Mat Creator. - .
Thank Got!, this species of offence; Oils kitidnf blintita
depravity, bat rtir.4v makes its oppearanceln. the world.
Amongst other innrtierers, however,the- harharons bass
hand was not to be o4i!ed,.lest it should be'strppoied
that this enormous si3 had not attrarded to it a suitalole
punishment. It is these unseen; tires* disriiissrl min •
tiers, that are most worthy of our attention. Per the:
common eut-th root, the laws of every conntrY proaidit
speedy •reprobation and 'punishment; .bet; tlre,sireeers._.
the disguised. the slow-moviog,• .Ibe:.pereevering, the.'
smiling murderer is to be punished,. id this world, only
by the'just opinions, the deep hatreil.tantt the general -
execration of tuanicind; to form, therefole, those Nij..
nions, to-entertain that hatred'aind to 'piffle 'fora* %live
exeertstions is A sacred duty taSsards 4itni• and acfrards
oar neighbour.