ever were his motives,) of thus attempting the total ruin, nay more, the life of a fellow creature, from the mere chimeras of his own brain, or (as Mr. Holland evidently views his conduct) the suggestions of a bad heart.

Mr. Holland seems quite astonished to think that a clergyman could be guilty of such infamous conduct, under the impression that his religion would teach him better. This is a very erroneous conclusion. The Clergy of every religion are nothing more nor less than a set of privileged individuals, who take out licences to commit, under the venerable garb of sanctity, every atrocity, every species of debauchery, to which their evil passions may incline them. Some few, perhaps, retain some vestiges of humanity and virtue, and when contrasted with their less conscientious brethren, appear to the credulous laity as harbingers of peace on earth and future happiness in heaven. These, however unintentionally, are the cause of more mischief than the former, by inducing the People still to revere a villainous system of religious tyranny and devastation. Mr. Holland says, "I ask you, Sir, if the Scriptures teach you those things? and when you learnt in your Catechism your duty towards your neighbour, if it did not teach you to love him as yourself?" The Catechism certainly says all this, but then Mr. Holland forgets that Mr. Emeris has also studied the New Testament and Bible, the latter of which inculcates murder, fraud, adultery, and fornication, or at least speaks of those crimes as having been committed by the order of God, who of course could not order a deed which savoured of criminality. We have just now upon our minds a recollection of a story related in the Bible, of King David, who was "A man after God's own heart." Good heavens! what blasphemy! This said man after God's own heart was very ill, and nothing would serve his turn but a wench, and accordingly a young and handsome girl, a Shumite, was brought to his bed side, from whonce she was quickly introduced beneath the blenkats. David was mightily pleased with his repast, and shortly afterwards regained his health and strength. The young Shumite, however, to whose wondrous caresses this great cure was entirely owing, must not be forgotten, and therefore David, resolving to introduce his young physician to better practice, recommended her to his OWN SON! Yes, reader, to his own son, who, accordingly took her for better for worse, and she became his wife. Whether David had ever. afterwards any occasion for her professional assistance, does

not appear, or whether he occasionally availed himself of it, to prevent a relapse, we are equally left in the dark about: probability is in favour of the latter conjecture; but is it not blasphemy to denominate such debauchery as this the Word of God? Jews and Christians, blush, blush, for your wilful impiety, in crediting such tales; tales which calumniate the greatness, the unsullied glory, and the unspotted virtue of your Creator. From this Mr. Holland may very readily perceive that the study of the Bible is not likely to make a man virtuous in any sense of the word; and that clergymen are, like other folks, liable to all the frailties of humanity. We must express our opinion, that it is the imperious duty of the Bishop of Lincoln, to strictly examine into this affair, and if Mr. Emeris, be upon enquiry guilty of such a flagrant crime, to suspend him from further duties, and from their consequent emoluments. We trust that his Lordship will be alive to the interests of the diocese, from. which he derives a Princely Revenue for doing-NOTHING. Underneath we subjoin Mr. Holland's two Letters.

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MY LORD, Lincoln, Oct. 20, 1819. Ar the request of some of the most respectable men in this country, I inclose a Copy of a Letter sent by me to a clergyman who has some livings in your Lordship's Diocese; they consider it an indispensable duty to the Public, and a respect due to your Lordship, not to suffer you to remain uninformed of it, and under this impression I take the liberty of laying the facts before you. I have the honour to be, with the highest respect,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most humble

and obedient Servant, HENRY HOLLAND.

TO THE REV. JOHN EMERIS, OF LOUTH.

SIR, Lincoln, Oct. 18, 1819. According to the desire of Counsel and the request of some Noblemen and Gentlemen, a Solicitor is come down here, to make inquiry into my case, which has been represented to them by a most respectable man in this county, who has been well informed how wickedly and shamefully I have been used; this Gentleman 1 saw last night, when he copied me this Letter, and desired me to send it to you, as he wished to avoid all communication with so infamous

a character. I have now to inform you, Sir, that, from the evidence we have before us, we can prove you to have been active in calumniating me, and I am happy to say, that very you will, with several other inhuman monsters, be prosecuted for a conspiracy, that might have taken my life. You have charged me with setting fire to a person's property, when it can be proved, by more than fifty people, that I was at that time in a large town in Yorkshire. My blood boils at you!-and I now inform you, that I think you one of the most malicious, wicked villains that ever disgraced this or any other country. You, Sir! a clergyman of the Church of England, going about the country with your slandering lies, seeking to take away the life of an innocent person, and to stain your hands in his blood. I ask you, Sir, if the Scriptures teach you those things? and when you learnt in your Catechism your duty towards your neighbour, if it did not teach you to love him as yourself? also in your Church Service, when you come to the Ninth Commandment, if your wicked conscience does not upbraid you? I must also tell you, that, if convicted, you will be very heavily fined, imprisoned, and perhaps have to stand in the pillory.

The whole of this case will be, by a Nobleman, laid before His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, as one of the most infamons cases of slander ever heard of. I had a good home and farm under one of the best and kindest men in the kingdom, and have been driven from it by the base arts of you and your colleagues in iniquity. I shall now conclude, with expressing my indignation and abhorrence of those secret and villainous projects which have been contrived to ruin me.

I am, Sir,

Yours, &c.

HENRY HOLLAND.

ON THE BIBLE SOCIETIESr

Spoken Extempore.

It has beeh said when monuments are placed,
Where lie the sons of WISDOM SCIENCE TASTE,
Who lived on earth neglected, and unknown,
They asked for BREAD, and they received a STONE!
As barren a reward the Poor now brook,
They ask for BREAD, and they receive a Book.

came,

You, whose duty should call you to tutor your flock
In virtue and truth, how it each one must shock
To hear you, by lies, from the pulpit of truth,
Stamp hate upon us on the hearts of your youth;;
A hatred, which firmly, when once settled there,
From their bosoms no argument ever will tear.
When you bid from the pulpit your audience remember
The Papist's foul trick on the 5th of November;
At the same time, good Gentlemen, why do you not
Inform them who 'twas that discovered the plot..
That Royal Monteagle the trick did unfold
To Cecil, who knew it before he was told;
For from his brain of mischief the project first
On purpose to blacken the Catholic name;
Pray, who was Monteagle? a Catholic Peer,
Who surely from Papists had nothing to fear,
Who might from the house have been absent that day,
And saved his own bacon by staying away.
Again, you protest, we are bloody and cruel,
And of Protestant bodies we long to make fuel;
And yet, when you meet us, you smile in our faces.
In which you discover such barbarous traces.
Pray, Gentlemen, why this hypocritical grin,
If you think us a mass of corruption and sin?
Nay, rather pass by, and apply to your noses
Some lavender water, and essence of roses;
That as you are by us, you may now take in
The Popish effluvia that comes from our skin.
Now, Gentlemen, I could say more than all this;
But, lest your refinement should take it amiss,
I one little virtue will just recommend,
And to my address I will then put an end.
This virtue is charity, which will subsist
As long as th' Almighty himself will exist;
When Faith will be swallowed up by intuition,
And hope will expire in happy fruition.o anos 9.

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No. 13, Vol. 1.] Wednesday, December 1st, 1819.

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A sight for his fatherly eye,
"Tis that of a PEOPLE with banner unfurl'd,
Resolv'd for their FREEDOM TO DIE.
"Tis a spark of the Deity bursting to light
Through the darkness of human control,
That fires the bold war arm in Liberty's fight,
And springs from the Patriot burning and bright,
Through the eye of an heavenly soul.

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