tells us

This

elsewhere; and the amount of the sub-
scriptions to it has been very considera
ble. The com a ttee for its management
has advertised an account of some meet-
ing in which the majority present were
bi hops, and the number of persons not
in orders was very small. They elected
a secretary, and passed resolutions of
bus ness the chief of which is the es-
ta lishment of corresponding societies in
different parts of the kingdom
latter measure is not only useful, but
absolutely necessary, since, as the chil-
dren are to be educated in the doctrines
of the established sect, there should be
some method by which it may be ascer-
ta ted that no other doctrines are taught.
This will be secured by a constant cor-
respondence between the primary and
the minor committees and as in the
primary committee is a number of
bishops a sufficient degree of attention
is paid to this part of the Institution. In
a very populous p ace a meeting has been
held, in which the in titution has been
approved of. At Manchester it has been,
resolved to found schools on Dr Bell's
plan and to con ur in the views of the
in titution. We trust that there is in
that place a school on the Lancastrian
plan, that the experiment may be fairly
made, where are so many good judges
of the subject under controversy. At
the s me time our friends will not be
inattentive to this interesting topic, but
endeavour to apply the merits of either
system to the educat on of their own
children -When the judgments of God
are on the earth, the people learn righte-
ousness: they are led to examine more
The education of
dil gently their ways
the low r classes is of great importance;
but, in the present state of our country,
there is a very large class of the commu-
nity to whom a sense of religion is pecu-
This is the army'
liarly necessary.
What an awful image does military
array, without any principle, hold out
to the world! Every attempt to instil
religion among military men is praise-
worthy, and we read with satisfaction
the circular of the Duke of York on the
appointment of Chaplains, with an im-
provement of rank and increase of duty,
notwithstanding the allusion in it to the
increase of sectaries, who are not of the
established sect. M. Repos Vol. vi. p.
735.) When we recollect however, the
number of Roman Catholics, Methodists,
Dissenters and members of the Scotch
sects in the army, we cannot but think,

it that ye will not take advantage of these
improvements, and give to the English
reader a translation worthy of the o gi-
nal? Be assured that this will be an
object of contention worthy of your-
selves, namely, to strive not merely to
increase your influence by distributing
books but to shew yourselves wo thy
of the Christian name, by making those
books as perfect as in your power There is
no want of learning in the sect establish-
ed, and we know no man better quali
fied than Dr. Marsh to co-operate with
other members of the two Universities,
whom we could easily pont out, in
giving to the public a translation of the
scriptures, that should do honour to the
increased scriptura! learning now in this
count.y. Dr Marsh, in his Letter, con-
tinues in his ustal strain of error n
connecting his sect with the state. and
menting, that religious discussion is,
in consequence of our mixed const.tu-
tion, clo ely connected with political
discussion. Religious dissention," he
becomes in this country, a
political evil." We can tell him of a
country, where no religious dissention
was allowed and ev ry one, who knows
any thn of the state of Spain, must
see, that rel g ou dissention is a blessing,
compared with that peace which the
tortures of the Inquisition gave to the
sect established in that unhappy country
So far from religious dissention being the
political evil that the doctor est ems it
to be we believe that there would not
be the least harm whatever in it, but
rather much good, if the state ga e no
preference to either of the cortending
parties. We will never allow this false
position of Dr M rh to pass current.
It may do very well for the phiegm of
the literati of Germany, who look upon
the scriptures as an object of mere cri-
ticism, I ke Virg 1 or Horace, who bow
to the religion of the state, whatever it
may be and who would, if they had lived
in the t me of Christ and the Apostles,
have considered them as a set of pes ilent
and seditious fellows, fit only for the cocr-
cion of the magistra e. In this island,
owing to religious dissention, there are
many, praised be God! who more highly
estinate sacred truths, and who lock
upon them as intended not merely to
enlighten the mind, but to purify the
heart - The institution for Education,
for ed by several members of the e ta
blished sect, has received great encou-
ragement in the two Universities, and

that an appropriate military service might an arrangement, to which they have have been laid down, that should not proceeded in parliament. As to the shock either party. Time only will mere n.edical opinion, it does not shew how far the new system will seem that it was of much importance, answer the intended purpo e The chap and the opinion of the public was not lain is to have the rank of major; and at all affected by it. For, after the length we should not be sorry to hear that he of time that the patient had been affectSat on courts martial, and attended ed, the number of attacks he had sufthe execution of every military sentence. fered, his age, ad his blindness, where In his attendance on the hospitals, he will could be found a single independent and have a good opportunity of witnessing disinterested nan, who could think it the effect of severe floggings, and on this safe to the kingdom, or proper for the interesting topic his observations may individual, that he should return again be of geat ut iity.-Several occurrences to the cares of royalty P-The Irish are have excited in the general mind very in patient suspense for their great cause, unpleasing sensations Some atrocious the Emancipation of the Catholics, in mu ders have been committed, attended with such horror in the execution of them, as seems entively foreign To the English character. The most dilgent search has been made after the murderers; but when we consider the senti ments expressed on these few murders, the horror that they have excited in every generous mind, we re at a loss to account for the apathy on the myr ads that fall a sacrifice to war. Would to God, that the same horror was felt universally on the slaughter of a fellow Creature, whether in the field of battle, or by the midnight assassin. But the time is not arrived for man to possess these feelings, the most honourable to human nature: it will be long before the kingdom of the Prince of Peace is established.-A Fraud by a Member of Parliament, and the commitment to pri son and the condemnation of the culprit, have afforded much conversation. We have also had a melancholy instance how learning may be prostitu ed. 16 the prologue to the Il estmins! Piay, we: the basest adulation of the Duke of York that ever met the pubic eve the un happy occurrences hich led to his disgrace were represented as base a ts, in which he had no concern and he was extolled as a most virtuous character. If the masters of West.inster have such an opinion of morality, what are we to expect from the rising generation'The King's illness has one to a crisis, even in the opinion of the physicians. They have been examined before the Privy Council and the Parliament, and their answers to numerous interroga tions have been published. From the answers may be gathered, that they entertain very slight nopes of a recovery; and they said enough for the Minister to express the necessity there now was for

which the Protestants now take a very active part. All their meetings concur in pra sing the conduct of the general committee at Dublin, and expecting from it the best results. A strange story of a conspir cy has appeared, but it is most likely to originate with the enemies of the Ctholics. The principals of the latter body took the earliest opportunity of giving information to government, which received their intelligence with unaccoun able apathy. It serves, however, to shew the little credit to be paid to those inflammatory papers, attributed to the Catholics, of which, we apprehend, the far greater part is to be attri buted to a very different origin-The Parliament was opened by a speech from the Regent, deliver d by commissioners, in which was nothing remarkable, and an echo of i was passed in the House of Lords, as an address, without a division. In the House of Commons, the us cal routine did not take place; for Sir Francs Burdeit, as a true representative of the people, opened the debate upon the speechy a view of the state of the country, in which he pointed out a number of things, particularly the state of the representation, that required examination and reform. The substance of his speech he embodied in an address, which he moved to be presented to the Prince Regent and in this he was secoded by his colleague, the other representative for Westminster Lord Cochrane, and his address was then read from the chair. When this had been done, the gentleman designed by the ministers to move an address got up, and taking very little notice of what Sir Francis had said, or of his address, moved, as an amendment, the address that was previously prepared, and which was, in fact, an echo of the speech. In

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this he was seconded, as usual by the sity of probing the wound more deeply, other gentleman fixed on for this pur- of going to the root of the evil, of enpose. A very slight debate ensued. quiring into the causes of the increase Mr. hitbread would not support Sir and the atrocity of crimes, of the effects Francis, though he agreed in the greater of imprisonments in the hulks, and the part of his address and Mr. Ponsonby whole nature of our criminal la s. Mr. disapproved of the manner in which the Sheridan, also, in a strain of wit, for subjects were brought forward and on which he is particularly celebrated, turna division, there appeared only one for ed into complete ridicule the poor SecreSir Francis Burdett's motion, besides the tary's speech, and the negligence of his two tellers, the mover and the seconder duty, as first officer of the police of the of the motion. The gentleman's name kingdom. The whole House was moved is Cuthbert; and his name ought not to by the flagrant necessity of the case and be forgotten, as to be singular in a good the impotency of the measure proposed cause is far better than to follow the by government, and it was resolved leader in the beaten track of servil ty. unanimously, that a committee should Nothing, indeed, can be more con- be, and a committee accordingly was, temptible than the fashion of an address appo nted, to examine into the whole coming from the minis erial side of the state of the police. Sir F Burdett, who house; and we thank Sir Francis is one of the committee, moved afterBurdett for interrupting this silly prac- wards, for an account of the police offitice, and standing up for the people, and cers and their qualifications.The speaking the language of the people.- thanks of the country are due to Lord Mr. Creevey distinguished himself in the Folkstone, for bringing a very important following nights, by his observations on subject before Parliament, the state of the Droits of the Admiralty, the four and the Ecclesiastical Courts. The immedia half per cents. in Granada, and sine- ate cause was the case of a poor ignocure places and pensions, held by mem rant girl, thrown into prison, under prebers of Parliament, or those who had tence of contumacy, after having been been members. But he was not suc- excommunicated. The girl was a minor, cessful in his endeavours, any more than and the offence was trifling, calling a Mr. Brougham, who brought the sub- woman by a bad name. His Lordship ject of the Droits of the Admiralty be. gave a history of these courts, and profore the house, in a very long and la- duced several instances of oppression boured speech, in which the whole sub under them, finishing by a motion for ject was developed, with great clearness, an enquiry into the nature of their jurisaccuracy and precision. The doctrine, diction. Sir W. Scott entered into a however, of the king's personal claim to laboured defence of them, such as might these droits, was much weakened by be expected from a judge in them, and this debate; and it seemed to be pretty such as a grand inquisitor would plead generally recognized, that they were in support of the inquisition; but he subject to the controul of parliament. expressed a wish, that some other senThe Establishment of the King and Prince tence might be substituted for that of Regent occasioned much less debate than excommunication. Sir S. Romilly ex. the importance of the matter seemed to plained to the house what excommunirequire, and the plan was brought for- cation was, and the state of the poor ward in a very confused manner by Mr. girl under it, who had uttered an exPerceval. An increase of expenditure pression, coarse indeed, but most proto the nation, not a diminution, was bably true. He was happy, however, held out. But if this minister intro- to hear excommunication so reprobated, duced but weakly this important sub- and trusted that great good would reject, another was much more unfortu- sult from it, by a bill to put an end to nate, for after giving notice of a motion such a sentence. Sir S. corrected Sir. in consequence of the dreadful murders and horrid atrocities, committed in the metropolis, and expatiating on them in glowing colours, he ended by proposing a committee to enquire into the mightly watch of the metropolis. This brought up Sir Samuel Romilly, who stated, in a manly and energetic speech, the neces.

W. Scott on the power of imprisonment in the ecclesiastical courts, since they en oy it mediately, though not immediately, the temporal court always imprisoning upon their application. Sir John Nichol, another spiritual judge, allowed that excommunication ought to be abolished. After a few more speeches,

in which the ecclesiastical courts met be very successful, and to have sufficient with the reprobation they deserve, and room for exertion. Their population Sir W. Scott promising to bring in a increases rapidly, their agriculture inbill to abolish excommunication, Lord proves; and manufac ures are making Folkstone withdrew his motion, and a more rapid progress than is desireable. the case of the poor woman was to be All they can wish is to let the turbu brought up on a future day. We trust lence of the wicked spirits in Europe go that Lord Folkstone and Sir Samuel by, and to endure their wrong or a Romilly will keep their eye upon this time rather than involve themselves in question; and readers who w sh to now a war, which must tend to the injury of the nature of ecclesiastical courts, should their morals and their freedom..--Their consult the narrative of the persecu neighbours, the Mexicans, are far from tion of Hippolyto Joseph da Costa Pereira tranquillity. The pompous language of Furtado de Mendonca, with the bye-laws its viceroy does not secure peace in the of the Inquisition at Lisbon, just pub- interior, and hi boasted success has done lished. It teaches us, that the Inquisi- little more than give him the controul over tion is far from being abolished in Por- the capital, in which he is almost besieged. tugal, as the case took place within The Mexicans are following the plan these ten years, and a comparison be- of the Spaniards in the mother country, tween the laws of the Inquisition and and forming guerillas or war-bands in those of our courts, wil shew the cu- every part, which render extremely difrious manner, in which Protestantism_ficult all intercourse between the viceroy has steered its vessel, between the horrid tortures of St. Dominick on the one hand, and true Christian liberty on the other.--- Abroad, the state of affairs has not much varied. Reports are strong of approaching peace between the Turks and Russians The misfortunes of the vizir have had a serious effect upon the politics of the falling empire, and the abominable wickedness of the government, in the horribie massacre of the Mamlucks at Cairo, has far from produced the effects its contrivers expected. The expedition against the Wachabites moves on slowly so that the Turks, exposed to inroads in three quarters of their dominions, are litt 1kely to free themselves from the difficulties of their situation. The United States of America hold a language far from pleasing to he lovers of peace, but we prefer this language to the horrors of war. It is better that the malignant passions should evaporate in the war of words, than in the actions of Cain. They speak with great severity, and too much truth, on the conduct of the contending parties in Europe, but we hoped that the follies and wickednes, of the Old, would be a warning to the New World, not to pursue the same crooked train of policy. In other respects, the United States seem to

and the extremity of the province Every thing wears the appearance of final independence; and in the Caraccas and Buenos Ayres, it is almost all but acknowledged. In short, Spanish America is more and more likely to withdraw itself from the European yoke. As to Spain and Portugal, they go on in nearly the same state. The English are at their ease in Portugal-the guerillas are harrassing the French in Spainthe Cortez at Cadiz is doing nothingdifficulties have arisen between the English and the government there; there is a perfect want of a commanding energy; and the French are continuaily increasing their influence and territory. Valentia is however not yet taken. It is invested on all sides, and very little prospect appears of its being relieved.-In India, the British arms have been very successful. The island of Java, as far as it was possessed by the French, has submitted, and the troops were made prisoners of war. Batavia is a rich prize, and the French are now excluded from every port to the east of the Cape of Good Hope. In such a situation, it becomes us more and more to read the prophecies on Tyre, in the Old Testament, that we may not fall into the same condemnation.

NOTICES.

A Proclamation has appeared, di- nesday, the 5th of February, and in Scotrecting the observance of a GENERAL land, on Thursday the sixth. FAST in England and Ireland, on Wed

Mr. NIGHTINGALE, Author of known or supposed author, and the time the "Portraiture of Methodism," is pre- and the occasion of its being written. paring for the Press, A Portraiture of the Roman Catholic Religion. (See the i rapper.)

The Rev. THEOPHILUS BROWNE, Editor of the "Selections from the Old and New Testaments." is preparing, as a Sequel to the above a work which wil comprise every part of he Apocryphal Writings, the meaning of which is instructive and important, with such corrections of the common version as the Greek and Latin originals will authorise, accompanied with Notes, explanatory and practical, and an account of each book, its

The HUL EAN PRIZE, in the University of Cambridge, for the last year, has been ad udged to Francis Cunningham, Esq. Fellow Com oner of Queen's College-Subject- A Dissertation on the Books of Origen against Celsus, with a view to illustrate the argun ent, and to point out the evidence they afford to the truth of Christianity." The following is the su ject for the Hulsean prize for the present year :— "An Inquiry in o the Rebious Knowledge which the Heathen hilosophers derived from the Jewish Scriptures"

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We are sorry that in the first Number of our present Volume, we have to announce the death of MRS. LINDSEY, he widow of the late reverend and venerable Theophilus Lindsev, of E sex Street. Of this interesting and excellent woman, some account may have been looked for in our preceding pages: we had prepared for insertion in them a short obituary, chiefly taken from the Morning Chronicle, which however, we have four d ourselves unable to bring within our prescribed limits: the omission will, we trust, be amply supplied in our ensuing Number.

Various other articles (of Review, Obituary and Intelligence, have been excluded from the present No. from the sme same cause. We particularly regret our inability to report the proceedings of the RMAN CATHOLIC in IRELAND, especially at the Dinner which they gave in Dublin to the Friends of Relious Liberty, where, by nobles and gentlemen, soldiers and lawyers, Catholics and Protestants, Presbyterians and Quakers, there were asserted the most enlarged and generous sentiments on the Fights of Conscience, worthy of the most enlightened assembly in the mo t liberal age and country of the world. We may, perhaps, hereafter, recur to this subject; but in the mean time, we have great pleasure in referring our readers to the DISSENTER, a Weekly Newspaper, which seems to make a point of recording all proceedings, bearing upon he question of Religious Liberty: we can with the more propriety recommend this well-written and promising paper, as we are totally una quainted with its projectors, proprietors and conductors: we were not amongst those who augured well of the publication from its title, but while it perseveres in the course which it has begun, we deem it fairly entitled to the support of the friends or Christian freedom.

We acknowledge, as desired, the receipt of the following subscriptions to the UNITARIAN FUND:

Mrs. A. Hughes, Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, ann.
Mrs. Warter, Cruck Meole, near Shrewsbury, anu.

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Jan. 30.-On arriving at the conclusion of our present Number, we find our selves obliged to exclude more of the articles prepared for it, than we had apprehended: we regret particularly, the omission of a paper on the Toleration Act; a subject which some recent proceedings of the inferior courts, and some decisions of the higher, have rendered of fearfu: importance to Protestant Dissenters, we pledge ourselves to take it up in the next Number, and to pursue it, if necessary, through the Volume.