SO6 for bothe nave not ihr• knowledge of Uud. 1 speak this to your shame. (d) For clergymen to appear in courts of law, is at all times soiscenily, and to array themselves in defence of what cannot be justified, savours but little of Chi istianity : but as Minis ters of that Gospel we profess, and disciples of Him who was all meekness and submission, let us obey his divine precept. —" I say unto you, tint . ye resist not evil ; but whosoever shall smile thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." (e) Some are anxious to be relieved from what they consider an oppression, but wl.at tke state intended as a wholesome cor. ?retire.' " ror world . judze ourselves we should not be judged." (f) 11:F!rad, therefore, of forming ASSOCIATIONS or siac tET I Es, fnr th , . purpose of resistance, we ought ra'her to meet together it this season of peril and danger to the vital interests of the Church, exhorting each other to works of elm , ity, ical, and diligence in our labours, and a more sedulous discharge of the sacred otlice to which we have been cilled, subduing our adve!saries by forbearance and prayer And that ye study to be quirt, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands." (0 None can deny there is ton much laxity in most of our present ministers, and even in Mee who or!• plcre.:l in aulho illy ore,- us. Pride and vanity are so predominant, that the discipline of the primitive Church. seems to he forgotter. Degrees and dignities do not of #l:einselves qualify a U:ris flan pastor, but le.irning, temperamee, charity, fisting, and player. St. Paul sa‘s, "A Bishop must he. tlomeless, as the steward ,'f God , not sr!,:zi!!.,(l, not soon azwry, not gik ent to vine, 210 striker, no! !rice,: to filthy lucre; but a !over of hos pital/1h a 'arc/ . 11101, soler, just, hay, teniperote ; to. , t Mefoithful word as he bath been taught, that he ?nag de able by sound dertrine Loth to exhort and 1.• convince the ,7oinsayers" (11). NV hat will Ire the end of our continue d indiflctenr e to spiritnal duties, I dread to contemplate I Let us hope the evil I dread may never overtake us : and as the means of averting the divine wrath from us, " Let us 'walk honestly as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ." (1) And " let your light so shine before men that thvy tnay see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven."(k) Then will the Ministers of the Gospel be esteemed and respected, and our drooping Church revive, which is the fervent prayer of AN OLD CHURCHMAN. Christ Church, IlLtrch 7. (a) Rom. 13 c. 1 aml 3v. (b) Matt. Fc. 21 v. (c) Gal. sc• 9v. (d) 1 Cur. 11 c. 33 34 v. (e) Matt. 5 c. :19 v. (1) 1 Car. 11 tr. 31 v. (g) Mess. c. 11 v. 0)1'4. 1c.7,8, 9 v. (i) Row. Rom. 13 C. 13 14 v. (►:) Matt. 5. c. 15 v. The following lines have been addressed to Messrs. ROWL AND and SON, proprietors of the celebr e ated MAC ASSA R 01 L, on Witnessing its inestimable virtues:— Uo on and prosper, your labours justly claim, The well-earn'd treed of an immortal name; From Hindustan transplanted now we see, The grail Teets produced by that tree, 'Which, planted on Macassar's fruitful soil, Produc'd . our I aniouq . , tree l'usuous A preparation singularly rare, To make the growth and beautify the hair: Where biome sparing in her gifts has been, A growing crop is very 14liortly seen. kile toed Princess tf our farmir'd isle, Creels your distoicry with a gracious male. Btaim, Lincoln, Woo). 27, 1813. W. C. Igo THE NATIONAL _REISTEft; MARCH V. SUFFERINGS IN GERMANY. A meeting was yesterday held at the Freemason's Tavern, for tit* purpose of promoting a subieription for the relief of the inhabitants of Germany who had suffered during their late struggle against the tyranny of the Emperorof France. His Royal I !Witless the Duke of York in the chair. At one o'clock his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Duke of SnsGex, the Archbishop of York and Canterboty, the Bishops of London, Durham, Chichester, Ely. Oxford, N.:rwich. Mann, &c. The Earl of Buckinghamshire, Earl Hai row by, Earl of Bridgewater, Lord Kenyon, &c. mitered the room amidst hind appl, i n.e. The Royal Chairman ha% log taken the chair, he addressed the meeting in an appropriate speech on the objeets of their assembling, and rmatked, that the suth rings of the. Gelman people were too well-known to every one who heard him to retinue ary comment from him. Their sollirings only repnred to In kiic - IVVII to be pitied, and that pity, lie was satisfied, would beaet a desire to alleviate the distresses which were known to exit, _ I%!r. Allen, the secretary to re committee for managing the city stilm.riptions, then read to the -ieetime t; variety of memorials from the inhabitatiti'of (Ml...lent towns in (icrinaoy, who had suffered in the late campaigns in that country, in which toe miserie• with y had been visited were depicted in the most gl u wing C o. I curs. Mcotion was also made in an a;;peal from Levin) of the pa !l ;fltie conduct of the !Idles of that town, %vim had not only sold t!n trinLets to raise a fund for the wounded Austi tan and Prits ,ian soldiery, but had attemied tiscir sick pillows with a tenderness to 1:e UN pec:ed 010 y from relation , . A series of re , ohitiorv, indicative of the feelings of the assembly on this occasion, declaratory o' . heir intention immediately to enter into a subscription for the relief or the sufferings which had been de. 'bed, were then lead and agreed to. A committee of distmenWied characters was ulso appointed for the management of the tioseription. Mr. Allen afterwards read a letter o'6m Lord Sidnimith, in which he stated that he had it in command from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to declare, that it was the intention of his Royal Higlmets to contribute 5001. towards the object of the uttering. This was received with the most unbounded applause, alnd a vole of thanks was immediately passed to his Royal Highness fur his liberal donation. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Doke of Sussex then made eloquent appeals to the meeting, and exhorted them to open their hearts and purees on this interesting occasion. Votes of thanks were then passed to the illustrious chairman and the Duke of Sussex; after which the meeting broke of. Upwards of SOuol. was subscribed by the presons present. a LAW INTELLIGEfiCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, MARCII t 6. EX•TARTS EDWARD! IN tilE MATTER EDWARDS. Sir Samuel Rollinly moved to have a commission of lunacy, is sued in this case set aside. The gentkrnan against whom the com mission was issued, is a clergyman of great respectability, and pos sessed of very valuable livings. At the time of the application for the commission, he laboured under couniderable depreskion of spi' ts, which was heightened by the circumstance of his having been ap pointed executor to an estate, from the execution of which office he apprehended great personal risk. Since that period, however, the matters of the estate in question had been arranged, and the symptoms of disordered intellect having subsided, ilk ti ientls were desirous of having the commission. which in prudence they had thought proper to obtain, discharged-4U commission was dis. charged aceordiogly. POLICE. MANSION-Hous a. —PICKPOCIEST.—John Lee, an aired man in the costume of a butcher, was charred by Lyon, an officer, with picking the pocket of a gentleman named Thwaites, in Wrote, yesterday morning. The prisoner, who is well known to the officers, was perceived busily engaged in attempting to commit der red the whole of the forenoon, and was at length canAt in the vci of taking a book from Mr. Thwaites' pocket, which contained notes to a large amount. As he had an accomplice in come whom the officers said they could find, he wai remanded for ther examination, in the hope that his fellow labourer migl Joined with him lu a bill of indictment. latiors ;ry act Bank- npany, • a fur- ;ht bc