This, Sir, is the real story of the only two British officers who are at present in the service of Ferdinand. Generals, Roche, Dyer, Whittingham, and Carroll, have all quitted it; and General Doyle is said to be on the point of doing so. Then Sir John Dcunie will have all the honors of that service to himself, and much good may they do him. he has in the Isla De St. Leon, near Cadiz. He has for years resided there, and during all the various changes, he has still continued in his eccupation, of finding arms and clothing from England for the Spanish forces; in which arduous employment, report says, he has amassed a large fortune. Of Sir John Lounie perhaps the following little history (of the authenticity of which you may rest assur- There can be no doubt of the dreadful ed may not be unacceptable. He possessed state, in which that delightful country early in the peninsular war, a very is now plunged, owing to the tyrannical inferior appointment in the commissariat government, with which it is at present department, and gained a great deal of afflicted. Ferdinand is literally without money, by sending home Merino sheep. a single minister; he employs the priests Finding he had but little chance of who surround him, occasionally in the promotion in the commissariat, he en- different offices of state, but there is no tered a volunteer into the Spanish service, department regularly filled. The reat the time when the provincial junta, sponsibility is ali upon himself, and a gladly gave any thing to all adventurers dreadful one it is. His old friends have who offered. He proposed to the junta all deserted him. The Duke of St.Carlos, of Estremadura to raise a legion, which to whom he owed his very life, who had being of course accepted, he came to followed him into captivity, and shared England,and succeeded in obtaining from it with him, is banished to a small the British Government, either clothing country house in the Sierra Morena, a for them, or money to purchase it with. desolate mountainous waste, which About this time, the French broke up separates Andalusia from Castile. The from before Cadiz, and, in the month of Luke of Infantado, who was some time July or August, 1812, he accompanied ambassador in this country, is also in disColonel Skerrett, (who was unfortunately grace, banished to an estate he possesses killed in the late affair at Bergen-op-Zoom) about thirty leagues from the metropolis. in his advance upon Seville, near which The Duke of jar, whose duchess is at eity an engagement took place in which present in London, and one of the best Colonel Dounie was wounded. He then friends Ferdinand ever possessed, is returned to England, and, as it is said, also banished. In short, not a single at the request of Lord Fife, the Prince man of either rank, taient, or public conRegent knighted him. On his return to sideration, remains about the court. Spain, the Cortes gave him the cross of The priests fill every department, and the third class of Charles the Third, and the lowest adventurers have caused the the rank of Brigadier General. After removal of every friend to the country. which he went up to the army then in Thus" the church" has been the cause the Pyrenees, but as he did not obtain of all the evils which oppress this unhap-. employment, he went to Madrid, where py country. It is impossible to describe be remained until the return of Ferdinand. the miserable state in which it is placed; We hear no more of him, until the news- distrust and suspicion, pervade all ranks: papers in England, produce some long no man is safe; the priests have so compaid-for puff paragraphs, of bis having pletely become masters of every thing, been "selected by the king," to act that nothing can be done but thro' under the Inquisitor General, in convey-their intervention. In an arbitrary going the members of the Cortes to the pri-vernment, of the most despotic order, sons of the inquisition. Ferdinand, per- there is, of course no regular taxation; baps not well pleased with the man, the king imposes what imposts he who he might think would do any thing,pleases by royal edict. But affairs are soon neglected him, and he “obtained hourly getting worse; the loss of the “permission to retire," to Seville, where he American colonies will be a death blow held an appointment as a sort of goaler in to him. General Morillo has been for a little prison in that city, which he pom-four months at Cadiz, endeavouring to pously designates with the high sounding assemble there something in the shape title of "inspector of the royal palace." of an army, to reduce to obedience the rebellious colonists. This officer was politics or religion, I take the liberty, as INSPIRED WRITINGS. SIR-As your Register is open to cool and dispassionate discussions, either on the Rev. Jer. Jones on the canon of the New " wish to be informed of those historical means, whereby I may know, by whose authority those books, when formed into their present collective state, were designated holy inspired scriptures. It is my firm belief that if these books were more candidly examined, and more rationally considered, the truth, and rationality of christianity would be better understood; but instead of which, the schools teach their youth to read and think according to the creed of their respective Church: thus it is that the mind is nurtured into an established prejudice, superstition, and bigotry, which will ever remain so, unless reason, by free inquiry, resumes her government. ON RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION. LETTER VII. Remember that the disorders of the Soul are not to be cured by force and violence." Cardinal de Camus.-Pastoral Instructions.1688. then reading daily. In St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Chap. XV. verse 4. he says, "For whatsoever things were written afcretime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Here it is evident, that those scriptures which Paul speaks of to the Romans as being of comfort to them, were written" aforetime; "long before this letter of his to them; therefore this epistle (could not be then scriptures of the Romans. In II Timothy Chapter III. verse 15 and 16. St. Paul tells his friend Timothy that "all scripture is given by inspiration of God; and," that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures." This epistle of Paul is a part of the New Testament, but St. Paul does not here tell his friend Timothy, that this lettter of his, which he was then writing to him, was to be considered as a part of the holy scriptures; no, because Paul only alludes to those scriptures, which his friend Timothy had known from his childhood. Hence, I think that nothing can be more clear, than that the authors of those narratives, and those admonitary letters, which comprise the book of the New Testament, do not any where assett, that what they were writing should be considered as a part of the holy inspired scriptures. Not only from the clear evidence of those books themselves but likewise by comparing them with other historical docuiments, it will be found that the apostles only alluded to those holy inspired scriptures, which did then exist, (the Old Testament) because the New had no being at the time. Morcover some of the apostles were dead before the others had written; consequently many of them were ignorant of some of those books: and all of them were unacquainted with them collectively, as they had no existence in such a state 'till more than a century after the death of the anthors. It is not what may be thought of those books, from their intrinsic consideration that I solicit your attention, but because I have the opinion of many able writers, such as Mr. Evanson, Dr. Watts, D;. Priestly, Dr. Horsley, &c. all of whom, I have no doubt, I will not suffer them to be dragged to were sincere christians, and of unques- "the Altars, nor the least wrong to be oftionable erudition and abilities; yet "fered them. They are rather mad they all differed very widely in their" than wicked. Let us endeavour, if it is judgments of those books. I only possible, to make them hear reason JULIAN, the Roman Emperor, who flourished in the fourth century from the Christian era, and when that religion had long been established in Rome, observing that wild beasts were less furious against mankind than the generality of christians towards those christians who thought differently from themselves, was determined to restore the ancient pagan system, which was particularly mild and tolerant, and, according to his views, better calculated to insure peace and harmony. to society. For this he has been designated the Apostate by all christian wri ters since that period; but whatever epithets they may please to give him, or whatever abuse their spleen may bestow on his memory, they cannot deny that he was a great philosopher and a very acute and sensible man. His life, if written impartially, would afford much instruction; but christians are not likely to do him justice on account of their prejudices. His writings evince great judgement and discrimination, and will amply repay the Student for his labor in perusing them.-In his third Epistle, speaking of the christians by the name of Galileans, he has these remarkable words: 66 "and to gain them by gentle means; we breathed with regard to the late Mrs. "ought not to hate, but to pity them. Southcott. But perhaps his wisdom has "They are already but too unhappy by taught him to turn a deaf ear to their deceiving themselves in the most essen- thoughtless malice.-I am willing, in the tial thing upon earth."--Now,although I present, instance, to consider him possam no courtly parasite, and have the mis- essed of sentiments as amiable and liberal fortune to be devoid of that superstitious as those of Julian, which I have quoted veneration for kings and princes, which as my text, and to allow that he acts acdisables many people from holding in just cording to the dictates of sound policy. abhorrence the tyrannical Villain and He knows that there is no species of suthe public Robber, because, forsooth, perstition that human credulity will not he is disguised from his fellow men by embrace, if it is presented in the shape of some high sounding but unmeaning nick-religion. He is well aware too, of the name; is waited upon by a set of servants dressed like merry andrews, and rides in a gaudy chariot besmeared with the most ridiculous pictures called coats of arms. Although, I say, I cannot pay a stupid homage to a set of worthless drones, merely because they are concealed | beneath the pop of title and the splendour of equipage, yet I trust I shall ever have the candour to praise merit, even when discovered in the Augean Stable of a Court. manner in which we receive all our ideas; and consequently is convinced that the errors of the mind are not voluntary errors, and, therefore, can, never be cured by constraint or persecution. He is fully sensible that if these people are deluded, TIME, the tryer of all things, will do more to open their eyes than violeat opposition, which would only strengthen them in their faith, because, like the Saints of old, they would deem it an infallible evidence of the truth of their sys Royalty is a soil seldom congenial tem.-As an enlightened christian, and to virtue and talent; consequently a single one whose mind soars far above the slatrait of goodness, or ability, in the cha- vish priest-led-herd who bear that name, racter of a Prince, should attract our at- he is conscious that religious persecutitention as the brilliant gem of the glow on cannot be defended upon the pure worm, shining with more lustre through and simple principles of our holy religion the dark night of corruption. I am as taught by Jesus, and therefore has deabout to praise our gracious Prince Re-termined that these people should be left gent, because it strikes me that he pos- to themselves, and permitted to worship sesses a mind superior to vulgar preju- the Gods after their own manner, indices. I cannot conceive him entirely stead of listening to the cry of "Crucify, ignorant of the sentiments promulgated Crucify," from an ignorant, bigotted, and by the time serving writers of our daily misguided populace.-It is because I Journals, or of the opinions of the great choose to consider that our good Prince bulk of society, relative to a particular has been governed by motives like these, Sect of Christians, and the celebrated that I attribute to him sentiments as female, whose name will be handed down amiable and as wise as those of JULIAN; to posterity as their founder, with as but lest the illnatured, or envious, should much eclat as Arius, Socinus, William deny him the approbation I would give Pean, or John Wesley. The Newspapers him for christian charity, or philosophic have been continually attacking both her liberality, I will endeavour to prove that and her followers, in the most scurrilous he deserves the same meed of applause manner, and calling for legislative inter- for the enlightened policy his conduct, ference to suppress her doctrines; and on this occasion, has displayed.--Some the populace have been constantly wish-persons may say that the conduct of ing that the holy prophetess herself was either burnt, or imprisoned for life. These matters cannot have escaped the attention of a prince, whose business it is to make himself acquainted with every thing which concerns the people who sui fer him to be their head servant. He must be aware of their clamour, and the persecuting spirit which they have princes ought to be attributed to their advisers; but they should recollect, that it is their foolish and wicked actions alone that their ministers are accountable for, and that every act of grace, wisdom, and clemency, usually proceeds from the monarch himself. Upon this principle, therefore, I think proper to applaud the judgment and prudence of our prince, in preventing any legisla-nexation to the United States, was the declared tive interference with regard to the new object of the American Government. If, in consemillenial doctrine of our prophetess, quence of a different course of events on the contiand shall proceed to give my reasons nent of Europe, his Majesty's Government had for so doing. been unable to reinforce the British armies in Cana Our Prince (acting for his father is the sovereign head of the church, or state religion of this country, and "Defender of the Faith. " This faith is a branch of a system called christian, from the name of its founder, and first instituted, as the almanacks tell us, about 1815 years ago. (To be continued.) AMERICAN DOCUMENTS. Continued from page 192. NOTE FROM THE BRITISH TO THE AMERICAN da, and the United States had obtained a decided superiority in that quarter, is there any person who doubts that they would have availed themselves of their situation to obtain on the side of Canada important cessions of territory, if not the entire abandonment of that country by Great Britain? Is the American Government to be allowed to persue, so far as its means will enable it, a system of acquisition and aggrandisement tothe point of annexing entire provinces to their dominions, and his Majesty to be precluded from availing himself of his means, so far as they will enable him, to retain those points which the valor of British arms may have placed in his power, because they happen to be situated within the territories allotted under former treaties to the Government of the United States? Such a principle of negociation was never avowed at any period antecedent to that of the Revolutionary Government of France. If the policy of the United States had been essentially pacific, as the American Plenipotentiaries assert it ought to bé, from their political institutions, from the habits of their citizens, and from their physical situation, it might not have been necessary to propose the precautionary provisions now under discussion. That, of late years at least, the American Government have been influenced by a very different policy: by a spirit of aggrandisement not necessary their own security, but increasing with the extent of their empire, has been too clearly manifested by their progress ve occupation of Indian territories— by the acquisition of Louisiana; by the recent attempt to wrest by force of arms from a nation in amity, the two Floridas; and lastly, by the avowed intention of permanently annexing the Canadas to the United States. If then security of the British North American dominions requires any sacrifices on the part of the United States, they must be ascribed to the declared policy of that Govern ment in making the war not one of self defence, nor for the redress of grievances, real or pretended, but a part of a system of conquest and aggrandisement. The British Government, in its present situation, is bound in duty to endeavour to secure its North American dominions against those attempts at conquest, which the American Government have avowed to be a principle of their policy, and more GHENT, Sept. 4, 1814. "The undersigned have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Note of the American Plenipotentiaries, dated the 24th ultimno.---It is with unfeigned regret that the undersigned observe both in the tone and substance of the whole Note, so little proof of any disposition on the part of the Government of the United States to enter into an amicable discussion of the several points submitted by the undersigned in their former communication. The undersigned are perfectly aware, that in bringing forward those points for consideration, and stating with so much frankness, as they did, the views with which they were proposed, they departed from the usual course of negociating, by disclosing all the objects of their Government, while those which the American Government had in view were withheld; but in so doing they were principally actuated by a sincere desire of bringing the negociation as soon as possible to a favourable termination, and in some measure by their willingness to comply with the wishes expressed by the American Plenipotentiaries themselves. It is perfectly true that the war between his Majesty and the United States was declared by the latter power upon the pretence of maritime rights alledged to be asserted by Great Britain, and disputed by the United States. If the war thus declared by the United States had been carried on by them for objects purely of a maritime nature, or if the attack which had been made on Canada had been for the purpose of diver-which, as such, will undoubtedly be renewed, sion, or in the way of defence against the British forces in that quarter, any question as to the boundaries of Canada might have been considered as unnecessary; but it is notorious to the whole world that the conquest of Canada, and its permanent an . whenever any succeeding war between the two countries shall afford a prospect of renewing them with access. The British Plenipotentiaries proposed that the military possession of the Lakes, from Lake Ontario to Lake Superior, should be |