a Whig Reformist, and writes against both the Anarchists and the Corruptionists. He has been addressing letters to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M. P., " on the Rise, Progress and Principles of the Party of the Radical Reformers.' From the last of these, dated Dec. 24, 1818, is taken the following extract, which Mr. Thelwall asserts, is in the very terms of his usual discourse, twenty-three years ago :Westminster has proved, that even among the poorest, the most uninformed and unaccommodated of her population, Anarchy has no party. Its red flag has been displayed, and its red bonnet has been mounted, and they and their mountebank apostles have been despised. Westminster will not forget the nation will not forget -that THE ENglish Cap of LIBERTY WAS ALWAYS BLUE-pure ethereal blue, the colour of that heaven, from which the blessing it typifies was first derived! and with your Lordship, and with all the house of Russell, with every true Whig, and every true Reformer, with every real friend of liberty and of man, the congregated realm will be prepared to echo-FOUL BEFALL THE RUFFIAN WHO WOULD DIE IT RED." MISCELLANEOUS. A VERY laudable society has just been formed for the protection and relief of virtuous female servants out of place, denominated The Provisional Protection Society, under the exclusive management of a committee of ladies. The public are under great obligations to a society which has existed some time, whose object is the Suppression of Mendicity. (We see not why they should have adopted so uncouth a word. They would have been better understood if they had defined their purpose to be the lessening of the number of beggars.) A number of individuals have recently formed a society auxiliary to this, with a view to the employment of the industrious poor. In a pamphlet lately published (say the newspapers) by the Rev. Prebendary Dennis, of Exeter, it is stated, that "as late as the summer of last year, the PRINCE REGENT avowed to the Clerk of the Closet, and authorized him to make known, his determination to refuse the Royal Assent, even should both Houses of Parliament pass a bill in favour of the Roman Catholic claims." This is scarcely credible. It appears to us to be, if true, an attack upon the independence of Parliament. Some member of the House of Commons will, we apprehend, bring it forward as a matter of privilege. In better times, at least, a discussion upon it would have preceded the consideration of the speech from the Throne. A distressing scene was exhibited at Edinburgh, last month, at the execution of Robert Johnston for robbery. From carelessness or inexpertness on the part of the executioner, the rope with which the criminal was hanged proved too long, and his toes rested upon the platform. Persons were instantly employed' to cut the platform away, but the spectators were outraged by the spectacle, and shouts of murder arose, and presently the officers of justice were driven off by stones. A person, genteelly dressed, sprung upon the platform and cut the rope. Johnston was still alive, and the populace seized his body and carried him off in triumph: meantime the coffin was broken up, and the fragments were used to demolish the neighbouring windows. The mob being without guide or direction, were presently discomfited, and the body recovered by the magistrates. It was carried to the Police-office, where the surgeon of the establishment bled the malefactor in both arms and in the temporal vein, and the half-suspended animation was restored. The unhappy creature was carried back to the gallows, under an escort of soldiery, and a second time hanged, though in so awkward a manner as again to provoke the indignant cries of the agonized multitude. The parents of the malefactor are said to be respectable people, who keep a shop at Edinburgh. His mother was nearly in a state of distraction, and no words can describe their feelings during the above proceedings, the report of the rescue being instantly carried to them. The Magistrates and High Court of Justiciary have instituted inquiries into this melancholy and disgraceful affair. are eager to disavow the bleeding. It was still thought necessary to offer a reward of £50 for the discovery of the person who cut down the body, and, it is said, that Mr. Jeffray, the barrister, and celebrated Editor of the Edinburgh Review, has laid an information against the young gentleman who committed the deed, in order to bring the cause to trial, and to make his defence. But this is denied. The time is surely at hand when the brutal spectacle of hanging a human being will be less frequent. All The disciples of Joanna Southcott are not yet quite out of heart. A company of them, to the number of thirty, paraded the streets of London with banners, on the 13th instant, to proclaim the Messiah. They were set upon by the mob, and a fray ensued, which ended in the apprehension, by the police officers, of the per sons forming the procession. Their leader, Sibley, a street watchman, talked in high language before the Lord Mayor, but a night's rest in prison brought an order we suppose from Joanna, that the procla mation should not be persisted in. By this intervention of the prophetess, the poor creatures were discharged. The watchman and his followers would, no doubt, mightily abuse any who should suggest to them the need of reason in religion. The most interesting feature of the month is the disposition shewn by the Juries in London, to lessen capital punishments, especially in the case of Bank-ofEngland forgeries. Questions, remarks, addresses in Court and publications in the newspapers, have all been resorted to by these respectable bodies of citizens to excite public attention, and to awaken the mercy of courts of justice and of the government. A deep impression in favour of humanity is evidently made on the public mind, and an amelioration of the penal code can no longer be effectually resisted: thanks to the two peculiarly British institutions, Trial by Jury and a Free Press! The conduct of the Bank of England in its prosecutions for forgery is now severely scrutinized, and the Directors have encountered no little odium, on account of the slovenly make of their notes, which admits so easily of counterfeits, of the witnesses whom their agents have employed, of whom some have been proved to be not only accomplices, but also seducers, and of the power which they have recently assumed of selecting from their victims objects of mercy. In a cross-examination at the Old Bailey, on Monday the 18th, Lees, one of the Inspectors at the Bank, stated, that sixty or seventy forged 66 notes were taken at the Bank within three years." On the 16th, an indictment was presented to the Grand Jury, at the Old Bailey, against John Carlisle, for publishing Paine's Age of Reason; and a true bill was found. The trial has been moved into the King's Bench. Christianity wants not the assistance of crown lawyers; but no one can sympathize with a fool-hardy publisher, who, probably, on a calculation of ultimate profit, provokes the vengeance of the civil power, and thus strengthens the hands of the administration for the time being, who take advantage of an example of licentiousness to invade the boundaries of constitutional liberty. IRELAND, The Irish Corporations (says the Freeman's Weekly Journal, of Dublin,) are verging fast to dissolution. The chief amongst them, that of Dublin, is considered insolvent. And it is no longer a secret that an effort will be made to place the local taxation of the city in other hands. At all events, the conduct of this body will be submitted to the investigation of Parliament, and good will be done by an offcial exposure of the system, to which the eity of Dublin, and it would not be too much to say, the people of Ireland, are indebted for so much vexation. A better spirit is prevailing in Ireland. The government has shewn a commen. dable regard to the feelings of the majority of the Irish people, who in the proportion of four-fifths are Roman Catholics, by the appointment of Mr. Grant, a well known advocate of the Catholic claims, as Secictary of State, in the room of Mr. Peel, who, by taking a contrary course, had rendered himself obnoxious to the Irish. All parties, except the Tories, who whimsically enough march under the banners of William III, aud hoist the Orange colour, have united in compli menting Mr. Grant upon his appointment. The Lord Mayor and Sheriff of Dublin (the latter is, we understand, brother to Mr. Alderman Wood, of London) have set a good example of charity by excluding initating toasts from their public dinners, though for so doing they have been insulted at their own tables. A still more decided proof of the growth of liberal sentiments is exhibited in the fact that the Protestants of Ireland are meeting to petition the legislature to grant relief to their Catholic brethren. This is the true way to put down Popery, which in a bad sense is only bigotry armed with power or striving for it. FOREIGN. TRANCE. POPULATION-A new census has lately been taken throughout the several departments of the French monarchy, whereby it appears that the total population amounts to 29,327,388 souls. Of the departments, that of the Seine, comprising the capital, is of course the most populous, PARIS containing 713,765 souls. A complete change of ministers has been made by Louis XVIII. The new ministry appear to be attached to liberal principles, and to devote themselves to patriotic measures. One of them, Baron Portal, the Minister of the Marine, is a Protestant: he was formerly a merchant of Bourdeaux. The ministry of police is abolished, and with it, we hope, is done away that system of espionage, which, on account of its convenience to weak statesmen, has been sometimes imitated out of France. The Minister of Finance, Baron Louis, officiated as archdeacon at the celebrated revolutionary mass! One of the last acts of M. Laine, late Minister of the Interior, was to present to the King a report on the interior condition of France, which, amongst other things, recognizes the classification of prisoners in the goals. The increase of crimes in 1816, was 6857, and 9185 in 1817-an increase frightful enough, but less than in England, amongst a smaller population, during the same periods. The French journals treat us, every now and then, with the public confession of some convert to the Church of Rome: an English convert is plainly considered a treasure. "Miss Clare, the daughter of an English minister," is the last "pearl of great price" which the Romish Church bas found. No sensible Protestant will envy the Catholics their acquisitions of this kind, whilst they confine themselves to spiritual means of conversion. The value of converts will fall in proportion to their number; and our Calvinists at home may learn from the example of Romanists abroad, that the efficacy of a system in OBITUARY. 1818. Dec. 22, at his house in Saint James's Square, aged 78 years, Sir PHILIP FRANCIS, to whom public attention had been for some time drawn as the reputed author of Junius's Letters. 1819. Jan. 3, in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, Mr. DANIEL LOVELI, proprietor and Editor of the Statesman Evening Newspaper. 5, MARIANNE, the wife of the Rev. George KENRICK, of Hull, and youngest daughter of the late Rev. Richard Hodgson, of Doncaster. (For an account of whom see Mon. Repos. XI. 243.) She was interred in the choir of the High Church, on Sunday, Jan. 10, after which a funeral discourse was delivered at the chapel in Bowl-Alley Lane, by the Rev. John Kenrick, of York, from 1 Cor. xv. 49: "And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." Besides numerous relatives and a select circle of intimate friends to whom she had greatly endeared herself, she has left behind her one unconscious sufferer by her loss, an infant daughter, born thirteen days before the death of its parent, and another conscious sufferer in the writer of the present article. In her religious principles VOL. XIV. K she was strictly Unitarian, and often made considerable efforts to attend the worship of one God, even the Father, at periods when indisposition pleaded what most persons would have deemed quite a sufficient excuse for absence. During a long period of infirmity, which advancing years brought upon her venerable father, she distin. guished herself, by the scrupulous and unwearied watchfulness, of her attendance upon him to the latest hour of life. "To the hushed chamber of disease retired, To watch and weep beside a parent's bed, Catch the faint voice and raise the lan guid head." The warm benevolence of her heart is attested by the steady attachment of her chosen friends. In an age when dissipation or fanaticism pervades all classes in society, it is no small praise to her, that she was invariably distinguished by a domestic disposition and sober religious principle. How completely her heart was devoted to her heavenly Father, and with what overwhelming tenderness it overflowed towards the object of its earthly attachment, is known to only one human being. Jan. 12, aged 28, Mr. JOSIAS STANSFELD, of Leeds. Not many weeks since, friendship offered her feeble tribute to the virtues of the father, [Mon. Repos. XIII. 772,] and would now endeavour, though with a dim eye and a trembling hand, to trace some faint memorial of the son.Truly may it be said of this father and son, as of the King and Prince of Israel "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." The same mildness of disposition, urbanity of manners, kindness, seriousness and purity of heart, characterised them both. All the gentler virtues, those which are, if possible, more peculiarly Christian, as having their immediate source in the benign spirit of love, reigned alike in the breast of each. Theirs was a relation not of blood merely, but of spirit: their hearts and minds were kindred and congenial, and for this reason we might conjecture, (were it not a presumptuous and vain attempt to sound with mortal lines the fathomless counsels of the Almighty,) it seemed good to the Supreme Disposer, that they should not be long separated. As a professional man, Mr. Josias Stansfeld will long be remembered, with deep regret, both by his medical brethren, and by those for whom his useful art was at all times so kindly, skilfully, diligently and beneficially exercised. The former will testify that, though called at a very early age to fill a most arduous and responsible situation, he was not found by any means unequal to its duties, but discharged them with a zeal and fidelity that could hardly be exceeded, and with an ability and skill which, in most men it would have required much longer practice and experience to bestow. The batter will bear witness that he did not treat them as a mere operator, but that his hand was as gentle as it was steady, that he never willingly inflicted a moment's unnecessary pain, never aggravated suffering by harsh words or looks, thus adding mental to bodily torture; but while he probed the wound of the sufferer, still poured, as he found opportunity, the balm of kindness into his heart. Such was Mr. Stansfeld as a medical practitioner, while as a man and a Christian he was every thing that sorrowing friendship could wish to record. The love of God and man, the exalted motives that Christianity, and Christianity alone, supplies, glowed in his heart and influenced his conduct. A firm believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, he studied it carefully, much more so, it is to be feared, than most persons of his early He was elected one of the surgeons of the Leeds General Infirmary, on the 13th January, 1813. standing in life, and endeavoured seriously and earnestly to imbibe its purifying spirit. He was not one of those who are for confining the study of the Scriptures, with their glorious doctrines, pure precepts and inspiring promises, to the privileged members of a particular profession. He thought that the Bible was every man's book, the liberty of studying it every man's privilege, and religion, in all its branches, every man's profession. Without presuming, therefore, to condemn others, or to question either the good sense or the good faith of those who differed from him, he thought it right on this all-important subject to search and judge for himself, according to his opportunities and ability. In religious sentiment, he was an Unitarian-though to use his own words in speaking of his late excellent father," he ever considered points of doctrine as subservient to practical Christianity." How far his religious principles and feelings operated upon his heart, his uniformly upright and amiable conduct, his filial, fraternal and social virtues, deeply registered in the memory of mourn. ing relatives and friends, will sufficiently declare that those feelings and principles were his comfort and consolation, his strong and animating support in his last hour, those who were present at that trying season, and stood by his peaceful bed of death, know well, and can never forget. Excel. lent and amiable young man, suddenly has the promise of thy youth been blastedrather I should say, early hast thou been removed to a land where promise cannot fail, nor hope be disappointed! May the memory of thy many virtues live after thee! May it not be in vain for survivors to have witnessed, or thy friend to have recorded them-or if in vain, still be the fruitless office mine. His saltem accumulem donis et fungar inani Munere. Lately, at West Bromwich, near Birningham, MRS. KENRICK, the relict of the late Rev. T. Kenrick, of Exeter, and sister to the Rev. T. Belsham, after being long oppressed by the infirmities of age. ALSO, at Liverpool, after a short illness, MRS. YATES, wife of the Rev. John Yates, and mother of Dr. Bostock. Jan. 13, at his apartments in SomersTown, in the 81st year of his age, Dr. JOHN WOLCOT, so well known in the literary world under the name of Peter Pindar. We fear that his biographerswill be able to ascribe to him no other good quality than wit. 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