Whitehaven Gazette Oct. 18, 1819 News Articles | News Articles |
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| Whitehaven Gazette - Oct. 18, 1819 | |||||
Page 1 of 3 NEWS ARTICLES. ****** FEVER HOUSE. November 8th. - One patient discharged since Monday last. Remaining in the House, 2. ****** It appears by the following which we copy from that spirited and well written paper the Liverpool Mercury, that a still more striking instance of servile Radical Loyalty than to that which we briefly alluded in our last has been exhibited: - "Political Sermons. - It has been our invariable rule altogether to abstain from theological controversy; but when a clergyman takes a pitiful advantage of the pulpit, where he knows he cannot be answered, to abuse a political creed, which it may be his temporal interest to denounce, as it does not lead to the loaves and the fishes; when such a man, and one too, of doubtful character, quits the gospel for politics, he is, in his political capacity, a very proper object for public animadversion; and we are only sorry, that the letter of Inventi (sp.) upon a sermon preached in our town on Sunday last, contains some objectional passages which render the whole inadmissible. If the writer would favour us with a personal interview, the Reverend Slanderer shall not pass without his merited castigation. The sacred cause of liberty can suffer little from the mouth of a man whose own notorious character is the best antidote to his slander; and the advantage of a privileged, precluding all possibility of immediate reply, will not avail a hypocrite, when brought to the bar of the press, where '---- alteram partem' is the motto. We, ought, perhaps, to plead guilty ourselves to a deficiency of taste and gallantry, in not having been amongst the admirers of what are called Female Reformers; but when we are told that the Reverend Gentleman alluded to has publicly branded them as "strumpets," such grossness, in the pulpit, fully warrants the question suggested by our correspondent, who, well aware of the character of this Anti-Reformer, asks the following question, with which we must conclude the present chapter: "Now, Sir, will you have the goodness to inform us, how you have ascertained that the female alluded to was really what you represented? Perhaps, in the plenitude of your prolific kindness, you graciously condescended to lend a helping hand to make her such?" ****** A Loyal Protest against the Norfolk Meeting signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county, Lord ORFORD. Lord WODEHOUSE, John WODEHOUSE, Esq. &c. Has been put forth. In this Declaration, they deprecate a prejudiced crimination of individuals whose conduct is to be decided by the legal tribunals of the country. They further declare, that they feel it their duty to "withhold their support from such a Meeting, more particularly as it may become the means of increasing, at the present moment, the spirit of insubordination already too prevalent, and of weakening that respect and attachment which people of this country, have always felt for the constituted authorities of the realm." ****** |
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