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    ers thinks , that there is another court , to which an sippeal may be made , &n& this rs what is vulgarly called the court of honour . Our ideas ou tftis court are well known , and duelling * on any occasion will never be advocated by us . Ar poor murderer was saluted , hy the chap * Iain the other day , oa the * , signal ma <|« for the drop to fall , with tluese- words : " Whosoever sheds Bias ' s , bipod s b . y , hint shall his Wood foe , shed . " This , expression will h& applaud ^ h % , man . ^ who , ; will not permit the n * to ? lie used in a ease of honour : as if th& faking , away , of the life of msui ^ u nder the * influe nce ; of one had passioa , was worse than taking , it

    away uMer tba& of another . ; and which indeed , proved , perhaps , as ? depj 3 , ve 4 a heart in the man of honour , as he . is falsely called , as in the man who , forfeited his life at the gallows for * bis crime against the laws of his covatry , and hia sin agakwt Clod .

    One of th& sufferers undei the su& # en > sion of the Habeas Corpus ^ cha llenged t , ord < SkUnoutb fo * b . ia-. conduct , but the challenge ¦ was not accepted ; . Instead of gTpJng ; into the field to meat his atttagonisv the noble Lord we n * to * the court of law , laid his complaint before , * it , and the challenger was takea up , anxjbis to ., -take his tnial for the offence . The men * of .

    honour , as they are called , are not perfectly agreed Jt seems , , on < the ^ pro priety > of tin s challenge . They say , that ac minister is not to be catted . out b y ^ any man ,, M * ho deems himself injared .. by 1 the : necessary ac * s of government , and that , a , pjctvy counsellor is to be protected * against such- a design * It would he . well- if prircy

    counsellors would , attend to this maxinri ^ and that two of them had not appeared iu the field under the wici : eda » d / detestarile pretence of g-iviag andv reaeiying-f satiafiaction . They have set a , very bad example to the public , and itr is not to be wondered at , if others should tttiuk tbemsebres justified in calling out a cabinet minister , when , cabinet ministers haire ainoreda . ball

    dt each other ' s heart , and o * e of ^ theni ^ every day he sits down , i « reminded < of the wound indicted upon hnn , by hi& present dear friend ; companion and associate . Sins are not to be palliated in this man * ner . Thie higjier : the * mak f the greater ought to be the sense of what isM due to God ran < L niaa .

    There are at present three persons ufldeje confinement for , ttvee nxouths and a fine , for being engaged in a duel ) in which a life was . lost . The . ? « m » ii * eir in which this attempt at due Vis . treated ^ iu our law courts , maj afford inulter . fox future remarks . Whaterer may have been the injury done or supposed ia have been done

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    by Lord Sidmouth , he was perfectly right iji prot ^ ctiag himself by law : and if he has done wrong , it tironld be folfy in the extreme to iijci ease that wtong , by taking away the life of his adversary . France has exhibited nothing new in its legislature ; A shatf iiredat the Duke of Wellington , has excited a great sensatioH at Paris $ but whether the , assassin was * excited by political or private motives is not ascertained . The- infernai machine , by which Buonaparte ^ life was . assailed ^ if it was really fabricated by Breach hands ,

    might have prepai ^ ed us for the attack that has ? been - ma . de ¦ : bui whatever may bWth-e vices of the French , assassination , is net a conwnottpxactice among them * . Thoogfr the : act is . sufliciently base , even if it were grounded on what most affects the feelings o £ many . y ^ t it , is better that it . ; should- be on such . a motive than oa , political causes The latter would a&eet * the gsEuei ^ . 1 trawqiullityofv Europe ; . .

    ^ A curious cause gives a trifling interest to . their lajv proceedings . A roan iis > upon trial , for . pretending ta be the sou of the late kingj , and his conduct might be that even o £ , the . person *^ he pretends , to * "be ^ whose education was , sadly , it is said , neglected ^ and he- was put to . a most

    ignominious t- se r , v ice . Their manner of tvyjog 1 this causes appears very strang-e to us , and they ? failed in oae . point rwhich . woiild ^« pi ^ peap vei-y ; important to . usi The youngf woman biougbtfo ^ ward ; as-his sister , would not swear that he was her brother , and ihi » casts a cloud ton much of the evidence that

    has been adduced . It isvery extraordinary that the tin > e aiid mode of the death ofr the real Dauphin liave not been ascertained If he ia really alive , it : would , not * be at all : surprising ^ that be should , be * in- the state of imbeeillity in . which , i the present pretender is represented to be j . The Duchess of Angoaleme ? could at once put an end ta all doubts on the subject .

    The affairs of the imnirgentSvin America do not appear to be prosperous . It seems tar be clear ,, that Mina has failed in his enterprise ^ and has- fallen < a sacrifice to his attempt . In the Caracca * also , they hane received : a .-cheek . In the South however . , they , are more successful ; Great care is taken that they should not receive assistance * in armsv and . ainakunition from

    Europe . A strange tale is told of the barbarity of the Dey of- Algiers y with what trutli . it is difficult to ascertain , but it is evident that the'late chastisement hasvnot produced the effect that was . expected * - At any ; time i t is , sufficient to raise , au , outery against the Christians ta excite the- Turks and Bleoxs , and all hopes of civilizing that unhappy race seem far . distant .

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    State of Biiblic Affairs . 151

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/71/