ntelligent and active Magis'rates, should not have (as it ap pears tl•otn this report) presented itself to their minds, or to the attention of the Committee. We find no allusion to the defective state of parochial public aorsltip, of that Instruc• tion by the solemn and impressive Services of the Church of England, which is in fact, denied to the greater part of the people, and of these pastoral labours of the parochial Clergy, which cannot extend to a fiftieth part of the flock intrusted by the Law to their charge. " If the state of PAROCdIAL PURI.LC WORSHIP had been previously enquired into, or if it should now be caretinly in vestigated rand its deep importance certainly demands im mediate attention), the Root, the Source, the Productive Cause of the alarming Deterioration of Motels, and of most of these consequent Evils would have been, or would soon be, ascertained and disclosed. " These Evils, if they do not all originate in, are at least very much augmented by that injurious dearth and absence of Religious Principle, which has spread widely in conse quence of the very defective means of celebrating the public parochial worship and Services of the (larch of England. "The Palliative Remedies that may be resorted to in each of these several cases, can produce but a very partial allevia tion upon the partieuliar evil, and conduce hut very little to the improvement and security of the Community, unless they are applied in conjunction with wise and efficacious measures to give the means of public worship, and the benefit of paro chial Communion with the Established Church, to the vast masses of the population that are at present absolutely ex cluded front them. " The Police may, in the technical application of the word, be rendered stronger. But the vindictive Police of detection and punishment, hill still be found inadequate to the protec tion and defence of Public Order, without what may be term ed the Preventive and Corrective Pollee of the parochial and Constitutional Administrations of the Church of England,—a parish Church, a parish Minister, and a tine succession of parish Officers, giving efficacy and impressian to lite National Religion, and affording that aid to the Magistracy, upon is loch 4ts effiriency most chiefly depend. '• Without the -restraint of Religious Principle, Human taws are untia:ll to the task of steinming the torrent of tut.. balent and selfish passiuns. "Even the polislird and philosoplii,- Shaftesbury, as a Puli llcian, has observed. that • a llu.‘ , it and a Hell may prevail, -where a Jail and a Gallows are thought insufficient.' "It is also not unworthy of notice, that au acute en•l dis criminating observer of the early agents and pi ogress of the French Revolution, in writing upon the subject of PoEce, lota stated it as the result of his personal observation, that 's the people being wholly employed in evading or deceiving lbe Pollee, the Parisians became, by weans of the p a hee, the auost uispiisicipled, and most 'chattily wicked, of all man- We rejoice to find the Author's work, and the sub ject he so ably recommends, are seizing upon the mind of the people, and that those to w hose reigning au thority he has addressed himself, are likely to devote 'their due attention to his appeal. ,From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tmesday, July 29• WHITEHALL, JULY 16. His 'Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to grant unto Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. his Majesty's royal licence and permission that he may accept and wear the insignia of a Knight of the Grand Cmss of the Royal Sicilian Military Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, and also of a Knight of the Royal Sicilian Order of St..lanuarius, which his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilice has been pleased so confer 'upon his Grace, in testimony of the sense that Sovereign enter .llauis of his distinguished merits and brilliant atchievements. CROWN OFFICE, JULY 29. wittnta RETURNED TO SERVE 'IS THIS P, liamich—liight Hun. N. Vansinart. BANKRUPTS. 'SLIPPER .T. Crostwielt. Norfolk, carpenter, Aug. ig, 'l9, Sept. 9, at Norwich. Att. Mr. Tilbury, Falcon-street, Falcon-square. L'eNcrt I'. Liverpool, woolleu-draper, Aug. 11, 12, Sept. 9, at LiverpooL Att. Mr. Windle, Ju in...treet, Bedford-mw. BIDDLE J. Birmingham, factor, Aug. 12, 15, Sept. 9, at Birming ham. Att. Mr. Windle, John-street, Bedford-row. GRIFFITHS W. Beaumaris, currier, Aug. tt, 9, Sept. 9, at Ches ter. Acts. Philpot and Co. Marc-court, GREEN W. Albion-place, King,sland-road, underwriter, Aug. 2, 16, Sept. 9, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Lindsay, FL Thomas's-street. ELLIOTT G. Wondchurch. Kent, butcher. Aug. 5,9, Sept- 9, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Reilly, Clerncnt's Inn. Ws:tem:4 .1. Castle-court. Budge-row, warehouseman, Aug. 5, 12, Sept. 9, at Guildhall. Acts Walker and ('o. Old .lewry. ABRAHAMS M. Minutia., merchant, - Aug. 5, 16, Sept. 9, at Guild hall. Aft. Mr. Abn.haui. Jewry-street, Alcigate. LEE W. Rotherhithe, ship-chandler, Aug. 5.2.3, Sept. 9, at Guild. hal Att. Mr. Ingold, Jamaica-row, Bermondsey. DIVIDENDS. W. Birch and J. Luer.s, Fleet-street, piper-staineri, Aug. 19. J. E. Iloulboutn, Union-court, Broad-street, merchant, Aug. 19. M. Gaze, Mitcham, Surrey, brewer. Aug. 23. J. and .1. B. Phillips, Mortlake, ironmongers, Aug. 19. \V. Birley, jun. Longton, Lancashire, innkeeper, Aug. 18. T. Arnold. Rochester, grocer, Aug. tit. L. end .1 Phillips, High Ilidborn, ulass-mcrchents, Aug. 19. :tl. Pereira and 11. Gastellain, Old Bohlen), merchants, Aug. 19. J. Ilawkridge, Brearton, York. etttle-draler, Aug. 2u. It. Abbot:, l'overurv, mercer, Aug. It. Ilaines, Scott's-place.' hlington, wine-cooper, Aug. 19. It. Machell. Dewsbury, innkeeper, Aug. 2. J. Angell, Reading, draptr, Aug. 5. T. Euchmarch and T. 11. Rosh, George-street, 31inories, mer chants, 'Aug. 13. I. Borland, Liverrxd, merchant, Aug. 92. J. Land. Wakefield Outwoud, York, twine-spinner, Aug. 20. S. M. Bethman. 'Turnwheel-lane, merchant. Aug. 26. .1. Brennan, Ritseell-strat, Bermondsey, fellinonger, Aug. 26. W. Woalcombe, jun. tit. Michakl's-alley, in..urance-broker, Aug. t. T. Butt. 11alsron. stock-broker. Aug. 2. 0. Nlaitlard, New Bridge4kreet, merchant, Aug. 2. .1. Sweeting's-alley, bill-hruker, Aug. 19. ;• .r.q. Monmouth, mercer. Sept. Y. P. t, Biitsn, arwickshire, innhokler. Aug. 18. Ilillmorton, Warwickshire, fellmonger, Sept. 8. CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 19. G. Ilolditth and W. flannel, Bankable,. coal merchants--C. I.unn, Tamworth, butcbcr—W. Hawkir., ltieknell, Warwicksl.ire, far- Jaier—li. Hooper. Nrome Seßrood, Somersoehire, ce.inet-maker— j. Rhodes, Stockport. cotton-manufacturcr—H. Hodgson, Bidiop Wearrnouth, baker—C. Murray, Bath, stationer—R. Lane, jun. Norwich. bookeeller—W. Swift, Stavely, Derbyshire, grocer—Nl. Ctliktlll2. Blielington Quay, mater-maliner—M. 1.4 l'orte 31cmc, GL'. Jewry. VIrE NATIONAL REGISTER. SOUTH AMERICA. STATE OF VENEZUELA. Decßee IN FAVOUR OF BRITISH MANUFACTURES. The Supreme Execnsive Power of the States of Ve nezuela, desirous of proving its gratitude to Great Bri tain and the united states of North America, for the generous hospitality they afforded to the emigrants of the Republic, during the late eventful epoch, and for the strict neutrality observed by these Powers admit ing our vessels into their ports, and respecting our flag upon the high seas without preference to our enemies— has decreed, and hereby decrees the following:— I. All the productions of England and North America, their produce and merehandize of whatever kind, under their respective flags, will be received in the ports of the Republic, paying a duty of 6 per cent. in lieu of per cent. paid by other nations. 11. All productions and merchandize exported shall, under those flags, pay no more than is expected from the citizens of the Republic. 111. 'l be importation of arms, naval and military stores, in cluding munitions of war, and provisions of the first necessity, are declared free of all dirty as well on the importation as on the value of the returns. This Article extending to all nations during the continuance of the present war. IV. The vessels of the too nations are at liberty to navi gate coastwise, free of duty, and in the event of markets proving , unfavourable, they shall be at liberty, to quit the Re public without duty on the cargo. V. The Subjects of Great Ittitain and the citizens of the United States, now in, or who may hereafter arrive in, the territory of the Republic, shall be .especially devoured by the Go% Crilment granting the most ample civil, and religious libor ty, and affording every protection and encouragement to niee'iunies, agriculturists, secmen, and generally all classes of itud it: ions habits. VI. 'Fli..t in no shape is it to be understood that the Govern ment of N'eliezinda Collfilles itself to the preceding demon strations of individual attachment ; but pledge itself most so lemnity to give a signal proof of attaclitin lit and gratitude to any other nation that shall he the 111.'4 to decide openly in favoor of oar cause—a cause uniting the industry of Europe ith the sail and minerals of America, stud in those the emu. mei cial rcldlions of the tam Id. For, if Spain herself, view ing her pr , >;' , ..:r interests, shall /1:1;11:don tier visionary rchetue of dominion , even she will be entitled to reap the fruits of her better policy. VII. To be puplislied and circulated for the information of those concerned. At the vat cf Government. Pampatar, New Sparta (Wand of Margaritta). May 27, 1817. It. GALICIA DE SENA, Secretary of War. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jet % 28. MisTNDER.ITANDING AGAIN AT CItE BAIL Mr. Leach came into Gut, and was about to move— The Vicc•Chancellor—" 1 have been occupied the former part of the day in (daring motions of Learned Counsel out side of the bar, and I understand it to be the order of the Lord Chancellor that they should not be interrupted." Mr. Leach—" I should rather suppose that your Honour has been misinformed, as my colleagues inside of the bar are ignorant of such an order having been made by his Lord ship." The Vice-Chaneellor—" 1 have always acted as if rid' an order had, but if his Lordship has not made such an order, I wish it should be discussed before Win, •and I am confident that he will give that decision A:lnch will be satisfactory to the whole Bar. As for my own pact, I will pay most implicit obedience to his decision, which I trust I have hitherto done ; and Itave no doubt the whole Bar•will be us anxious toobey as I wm." Mr. Barber—" The Lord Chancellor bas always acted as your Honour is now doing. It could not be contended that Learned Gentlemen, because they hail the honour of wearing silk gowns, should always have the precedence. His Lord ship has, %.% :thin these few (lays, where Sir Arthur Piggott (the father of the Bar) was proceeding with a motion, where the right was with a junior, stopped him.—(The circom stances of this misunderstanding have-already been laid be fore the puhlic.)-1 have no doubt that your Honour will do the same here." Mr. Treslove bore testimony that what his• Learned Friend had related as to what passed befuie the Lord Chancellor was correct. Mr. Agar—" Mr. Heald was, the other dqy, going to move, in the Lord Chancellor's Court, but on seeing Sir Samuel Romillyvome in, he allowed him to go on." Mr. Barber-" That was a matter of courtesy deservedly due to Sir Samuel, but ought by no means to be male a pre cedent." The Vice-Chancellor—" I regret those impleasant discus. • siont should ever take place. I really wish that an applica tion should be made to the. Lord Chancellor, and his decision, taken, instead of each Court being vexed and harassed from day to day." Mr. lw•ach—" You cannot, Sir, feel the hail consequences • of tlsese daily disputes more than I du. I would, therefore, suggest, that -you, Sir, would c ttttt muukeve with the Lard Chancellor On the subject, tied he, I ant sure, will make such an order us will put the frPtidioll to rest for ever. If' put ac- • cording to the practice ot•all thnCulnAA at Westminster Hall there would be an end to this jargou. 'With all deference to you, Sir, I deprecate such a discussion as you suggested be y re his Lordship," The Vice-Chancellor don't think the regulations of the Courts you have alluded to, Mr. Leach, have any thing to do with where 1 now preside. I ought to know the forms of one of these Courts (the Court of Exchequer) butt they are widely different from what are the regulations here. Until there is decision made on this point I will not alter the rou tine of the Court. , Let the Learned Gentleman outside of the bar proceed." PATENT WEAL) BnUcIiES.—METCALF C. THOM PSON. Mr. Tresloye moved in this ease for an injunetion to Fr grain the defendant, a well known, brash-maker, in Gray's lunehme, from pirating hi Oh; plahleitrO Uri/cation ; and the hid prayed that an at could might be taken of the number of • brushes Mite on the patent of the plaintiff, which the de fendant had made and sold, and to 45110 m they bad been sold; and also for an account of all the ninnies received therefrom, and that the defendant he nhligcd to deliver up to the plaintiff all such brushes as remniu unsidel. In Septenther, loie, theAdaintiff, by much ingenoity i had discuvered a new AT - CirT 4. kind of brush, by which, in consequence of the hairs in the brush, being placed in an nneven manner, while the one part of the brush cleansed the hair, the other part cicansed the skin of the head. This singular and useful ;••• had been a vast source of profit to the invemcr, end he 'gad obtained letters patent for the discovery. lut he found •ut that the fruits of his industry had been ~,,, —ken from him by the defendant,Thompson, who was also anxious, it appeared, to have a brush gecko's his scull. This he was informed of on the 18th of July last, and he soon after sent a friend of his, %4110 made an affidavit, to the shop of the defendant in Gray's liimlane, where the said friend was shewn a number of such kind of brushes, with the words •" Improved Patent Penetrating," and the letters" G. IL" with a crown, as if patent. The shopman told the plaintiff's friend that his master had sold a vast number of such brushes, and had a great number more in preparation. The Vice-Chancellor—Your client, I suppose, is satisfied the brushes are the same in nature he made ; hut really it is ludicrous to see a Judge in either Court of Chancery made a Judge of Brush making. Where are the brushes i as I should wish to see them, for indeed they must be rather curious. M r.Trrslove.—They are here, Sir. His Honour having examined the different make of the brushes, said, the plaintiff was without doubt mailed to the injunction. This case excited much laughter in the Cond. MIDSUMMER ASSIZES. VORIC. Tar. lunnrrEs.—The trial, of these deluded men who were engaged in the Yorkshireinsnrrection of the Bth of June, have terminated in the acquittal of the whole. Six of them have been tried at the York Assizes, on a charge of burgle riously taking tire arms from a house in the road, to Hudders field. The evidence of the witnesses against them did not satisfy the Jury of their guilt, and they accordingly found a verdict of acquittal. On Saturday four more, who were !op posed to be leaders of the mob, were upon their trial, and also acquitted. They were technically charged " with being present, counseling, aiding and assisting, a person unknown, in firing a loaded gun at Mr. David Alexander, ore of the Huddersfield Ycomar ry Cavalry, of Foley Hall Midge, near Huddersfield on the night of the Bth of June last." The Judge exhorted the pristine' to i w are of continuing in such dangerous courses. They had had a narrow escape, and might.rest assured, if they continued such practices, they would infallibly come to :111 untimely death. The pi bioners answered, simultimeomly, " We % ill, indeed, my Lord." William King. of the town of Sheffield, edge tool-maker, was in dicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Trippet, on the morning of the 4th ofJunc last, by giving her several wounds whit a tire poker, is his own helve in Sheffield on that day. Mr. Mauder addressed the jury for the prose: ration, and detailed the circumstances of this atrocious case. The erisoner was an edge tiol-maker in Sheffield; the deceased, though nut his wife, cohabit. ed with him as his wife, and bore hint two children. She had beets formerly married to a person who had subsequently enlisted into the army, and went abroad. Fur five years previous to her death. she hail cohabited with the prisoner. Iler husband heti returned in that interval, but owing to some compromise between him end the pri. Loner, site remained with the Litter ; and WS by the neighbours, who were not aware of the circumstances, eunsidered in every reeeect as his wife. No quarrel was heard of between them till the morning if the 4th cf .Ittne, when the dreadful act was perpetrated. The pri soner had slept at home the night previous, but t h oug h w hi t bad happened in the couree• of it was not known, he was seen by one of his neighbours, walking the streets, in an agitated stets, in the morn ing, about six o'clock. Immediately after, he returned home, and had not been in the house above half an hour, when the neighbours were alarmed with dreadful shrieks and groans. The door was, in consequence, broken open, anti the prisoner was found in an upper chamber, palely undressed, standing over the led in which was the mangled body of his wife, with a blotely poker clenched firmly in both his hands, while the evidences of the h.errid deed which he had just committed, were seen in the blood that sprinkled the windows, and the brains of the deceased, which were scattered over the bed-clother, and beside his two infant children. The person who first saw Lint, was terrified at his menacing attitude, and ran down efair. tie; his oe tt safety. Nor did he relent when the deed was perpetrated. When he heant that there were still more symptoms of life in the deceased, he replied by saying, he hoped not, and scented to glory in the mur der. 'l'he facts would be proved beyond a doubt. 'I he only question was, as to the prisoner's sanity : but unless the atroeity of crone was an evidence of ineanity, no other prof could be found, after the most active search antong his neighbours, previous to this deed, end the most vigilant observation of his conduct since hit committnent. lie was extravagant and &liken, when he was enabled to gratify his propensities by high wages, but there was no other impeachment of his understanding. The Learned Counsel ptoceded to call witnesses -who supported these facts. Mr. llama Wood summed up, and the Jury instantly returned a verdict of Guilty. The Judge immediately passed sentence of death, ordering thepri caner to be execute' on Thursday, .loly 51, a gind his body to be ven to be dissected. " After a long and patient investigation," stud his Lordship, addressing the prisoner, '• you have been found guilty by a jury of your country, of the crime of murder. The Milne is at all times the most horrid that can he conninitted by a criminal, or pu nished by the law ; but in your case it was accompanied with circum stances of peculiar atrocity. The woman whom yon have most ceuelly destroyed, was a peewit with •whoni you coluibited, and to whom you ought to have afforded protection. .Instead of this, you not only murdered her, but seemed to exult in the deed, and to carry your malice even beyond death. The act w Itieh -made every one shudder, produced no impression upon you, but a desire to renew it. Pray,ahreafore, to God, during the short period you . have to live, that he may extend that metcy to you in another world. which you refused-to one whetn you ought to !Lore protected in this." The pri soner heard the evidence of his trill, and this concluding address, without betraying any symptoms of contrition or emotieo. CHELMSFORD. ELSINGITAM GANG.—Williatn IVelsh, one of the dosperategarrg', several of whom were convicted) at the last Atizes, was indicted for maliciously shooting at James Dennis, at Elsinhham, on the soth of September last. The prisoner was part of a desperate gang who committed several robberies and burglaries in this county. The prosecutor, Mr. Den . r.is, a farmer. resident at Elsinghatn, in- thiscounty, stated, that ott themight of the 30th Sepzcniber last, about twelve O'clock. after his family had retired to bed, he was..alarnied at a noise a - forcing one of his lower windows, upon which he got tip and saw several int n in the yard. Ile hallooed out •• Who is there?" llfpnn which ems of them exclaimed, 't D—ti you, you old hullhr, we will let rati know." 1k said, " 1. will fire at you," and called up his man. - Soon afier his maid bmt:::lit a light, and he went down below, when a gun , or ;dr ted was tired E. the window shutter, mid two she:seam: through the etc.. ciccuf the shutter, and struck him under the eve and near the rat-e, but he could not identify any of: the parties, but saw that-there.werfs several men. The two witnePtes who detailed the whole transaction were Eliza beth Clark and Thomas Meet; the farmer of whom was the mnther of one of the men who was hen ;ea after the last Assizes. They stated that, on the night of the :Toth of Sevtei aher, last, persons of the tuttnes of Miller Gißiu, Wm. Clarke, and James Clark, together with t . e wit Biert,itnct at Ile4ly, at old CIAILItt's house, on the lic-,11t.0f