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    that an appropriate military service might have bedn laid down , that should not * hock either party . Time only will shew haw far tne new system will answer the intended purpose . The chaplain is to have the rank of major ; and we should not be sorry to hear that he fat on courts martial , and attended the execution of every military sentence .

    In his attendance on the hospitals , he will have a good opportunity of witnessing the effect of severe floggings , and on this interesting topic , h . s obsdvations may be of great . utility . —Several occurrences have excited in the general mind very unpleasing sensations . Some atrocious murders have been committed , attended -with such horror in the execution df

    them , as seems entirely foreign to the English character . The mv « t dilgent earch has been made after the murderers : but when we consider the sentiments 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 io

    human nature ; it will be lon ^ before the kingdom of the Prince of Peace is established . *—A f raud by a Member of Parliament ^ arid the commitment to prison and the condemnation of the culprit , have afforded much conversation ! We

    have also had A melancholy instance how learning may be prostituted . In the prologue to the West minster Play , was the basest adulation of the Duke of York that ever met the public eye : the un happy occurrences which led to his dis * grace were represented as base arts , in which he had no eoncern ; and he was extolled as a most virtuous character . If

    the -masters of Westminster have such am opinion of morality , what are we to expect from the rising generation !—The King * s illness has rome to a crisis , even , in the opinion of the physicians . 1 hey have been examined before the

    Privy Council and the Parliament > and their answers to numerous interrogations have been published . Froth the answers may be gathered , that they entertain very slight hopes of a recovery ; and they said enough for the Minister to express the necessity there now was for

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    an arrangement , to which they have proceeded in parliament . As to the mere medical opinion , it does not seem that it was of much importance , and the opinion of the public was not

    at all affected by it . For , after the length of time that the patient had been affected , the number of attacks he had suffered , his age , and his blindness , where could be found a single independent and disinterested man , who could think it

    safe to the kingdom , or proper for the individual , that be should return again to the cares of royalty ?—The Irish are in patient suspense for their great cause , the Emancipation of the Catholics , in 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 conspiracy has appeared , but it is most likely to originate with the enemies of the Catholics . The principals of the latttr 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 infl iramatory papers , attributed to the Catholics , of which , we apprehend , the far greater part i * to he attributed to a \ cry different origin . — -The Parliament was opened by a speech from . the Regent , deliver e d by commissioners , in which was nothing remarkable ; ajiji an echo of it was passed in the House of Loids , as an address , without a

    division . In the House of Commons , tfyt usual routine did not take place j for ; Sir Francis Burdett , as a true representative of the people , opened the debate upon the speech I y 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 pf

    his speech he embodied m an address which he moved to be presented to the Prince Regent ; and m this be waj seconded b y his colleague , the other repreicnta'ive for Westminster [ jLord Ckchrane , } and his address was then read from the cixair . When this h * d hqqn done , the gentleman designed by tfec ministers to move an address got * £ > , and taking very little notice of what Sjr Francis had said , or of his address ,

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    $ Mt € of Public Affairs . 61

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/61/