that Doctor Chisholm is ill, but that is of no consequence to us; we are informed, and believe, he belonged to a society, and was one of those that persecuted us almost to ruin. We dare his family to come forward-they know all we have said to be true; or why did the son come and threaten us on the day of publication, and then proceed to Mary Heales, the mother of his father's bastard, and give her two pounds, and say "that the business might have been hushed up, but for this d-d book." We also know that the Bishop of London sent our letter to Doctor Chisholm, who received it; and we hope the Bishop of Bristol will send him also the one we have found it our duty to write him. Mr. Fullilove is the name of Mary Heales' landlord, who demanded the arrears of her rent at the door of the church; and, in fact, we know so many more corroborations of our account, that only for want of room in this Number, we are deterred giving names and facts more disgraceful than those we have already published.

LIFE A-LA-JEHU ;

Or, the Horse-dealing Divine.

A complaint, which has caused a great deal of conversation in Bath, was made by a French gentleman, named Lafir, against a Parson in Bath. The magistrate advised the matter to be brought into a court of law.

The Frenchman's account was as follows: I go to buy a horse from him, and he ask me 40 guineas; I say, no, by Gar! I no give dat. Well, say de Priest, you have him for dirty-five guineas, but d-n mine eye and limb, you no have him for less.

Magistrate. How could you think of dealing with a Clergyman so ready to swear.

Frenchman.-Oui, I did; I thought a Priest swear only true, so I give him de money. Well, I got on him, and he go beautiful; but I ride him next day, he go upon tree legs. I ride him again, he go upon tree and a half. I give him doctor-but by Gar he go upon his knee.

Magistrate. Then you mean the horse was unsound.

Frenchman.-Oui, he got the gout.

Magistrate. The gout! horses don't have the gout.

Frenchman.-Oui, oui! he vas a priest's horse, and dey both have de gout; the horse's leg vas swell, and so vas de master's.

Magistrate. Well, I suppose you returned the horse.

Frenchman.-No: he swear d-n his b-dy eye he no have him. I keep him in de stable for twelve week; and what do you think I got for him? by Gar, 15.

Magistrate. Well, I think you received more than you had a right to expect, in a transaction with this jockeying Parson.

Frenchman.-Receive! I no receive nodding at all; I got de £15 to pay for de dinner-for de horse's dinner for twelve weeks, to Mr. Bell.

REMARKS.-We have not been able to find out the name of this infamous horse-dealing parson, nor is it of much importance; he is too infamous almost for public reprobation. The above has found its way into all the London newspapers, and as it is a police report, we entertain no doubt but one, that is, that the story is given much too favourably, as few newspapers meddle spiritedly with a Parson's infamies.

If the Frenchman carries this roguish transaction into a court of justice, as the magistrate recommended, it must come to the Bishop's ears, and deaf as these mitred gentlemen are to complaints against their pastors, we do not see how he can avoid stripping this holy cheat of the gown he has disgraced. A red jacket and a jockey cap is his proper suit; his very language is suited to the meridian of the stable; or, indeed, it would degrade the scavangers of the dung-hill, and disgust a veteran from the perlieus of Drury Lane.

His sins cry aloud to heaven for vengeance, and in common justice to themselves, the clergy of Bath should join in a memorial, to have this fellow delivered up, bound hand and foot, to ecclesiastical vengeance. If such a transaction had taken place among ostlers and chanters, the offending wretch would have been kicked out of every public-house parlour or tap-room in Bath; and are the divines of that fashionable, learned, and elegant place, less refined in their feelings, and moral in their opinions, than The scum of the streets, whose souls have never been penetrated by a divine ray from above?

We hope not-we dare hope that one Parson will be found bold, manly, and sufficiently religious, to vindicate his profession, and avow the senti ments of indignation he must feel at his jockeying brother, riding roughshod over all moral decency; and in brazen guilt, standing as a cheat and impostor at the bar of a police office at least, if he was not there in propria persona, it was conscious guilt that kept him away, and the fear of an instant committal for having obtained money under false pretences. We like not to find fault with simple errors in a magistrate's judgment, but are of opinion, that had the case been heard at Bow-street, a warrant would have been issued for the apprehension of the criminal, and high bail demanded for his liberty. In fact, such a fellow should not be suffered to go at large; he is a wolf amongst lambs, repacious, greedy, and cruel; a spoiler of his fellow men, and a disgrace to his holy calling; and it is a great addition to his foul crime, that he selected for his prey the stranger, who unsuspectingly confided in the truth of a British Parson. In France, the name of a Protestant Clergyman will be blazoned abroad-become

synonimous with cheat, and for the infamy of one, (if uncondemned by his fellows) a multitude will suffer, whose lives have been hitherto considered without stain.

REVEREND CONSPIRATORS AGAINST FREEDOM,

Priests are not what they seem to vulgar eyes,

In our credulity their value lies.

There is no circumstance in the efforts of corruption more disgusting than the zeal of the militant clergy. The strange discrepancy between their religious and political creed, the sugaring over worldly passions with expressions of peculiar sacredness-the low-fawning, and base prostitution of their public flatteries—and the eagerness with which they outrun other panygarists of slavery, are more nauseous than the servilities of lay expectants, or the open denunciations of proffligacy. Far be it from us to contend, that he who assumes the sacred office should cease to exercise the rights, or perform the duties of a citizen, when he throws the spirit of his creed into his political conduct, he is worthy of the highest respect; but when he uses his profession as a cloak for maliciousness, or when he debases the sanctity of his faith, into the base engines of unhallowed power, he becomes the most despicable of panders.

There are several varieties of character among the clerical enemies of freedom; of these the least offensive, is the mere tool, the decent sensualist in orders, who quietly sits at good men's feasts, and cringes delightfully at their smiles; he is not perpetually acting a new scene in 'The Hypocrite,' his life is only one uniform lie: he has sworn that he was moved by the Holy Ghost, to undertake the ministerial office; but he does not voluntarily repeat the pious appeal, unless it is necessary to his promotion; he does not pretend to an active faith; no proselyting zeal disturbs his repose -he resigns his own mind to that of his patron, but the offering is of no great value; he gives his vote at an election, or asks that of another, or utters the common-place dogmas of absolute subjection to the great, as mechanically as he eats and drinks. For this, among the rest, was he ordained;' his prejudices at last appear principles, and he creeps almost innoxious into the grave.

Not so the more solemn and haughty Episcopalian Aspirant; he clothes his inward meanness with a garb of priestly pride, ready at all times to execute the will of those above him. He takes peculiar delight in unhallowed wars, and palliating the most criminal excesses by his logical subtlety, he runs riot in paradox-he rejoices to wrest texts to the destruction of rights, to point the lightning of heaven against all who oppose him, and beat the

sword of the spirit into fetters. His eye is fixed, not on the skies, but on the mitre, while he enforces the charities of his faith with all the meekness of hypocrisy.

There is, however, a character more despicable even than this, where real fanaticism mingles with worldly ambition, and lends influence to its exertions. He professes to live in the immediate sight of the Almighty, yet bows down to earthly power; eulogises war, and all its horrors, in the name of the Prince of Peace, and represents the universal parent as commanding submission to the deadliest tyrannies; he lulls the spirit of enquiry by his honied tones, or scares it by super-human terrors; he expatiates on the mysteries of eternity, yet would employ them for worldly gains. He would change the pure gold of christian grace into worthless metal; at his touch, humility grows dishonest, patience sinks into abjection, humanity is contracted into party spirit, and contentment settles into despair; bigotry in religion gives vitality to his political violences, and renders them more dangerous and disgusting.

There is always some excuse which may be given, for supporting established authorities, but what can be said of Parsons, who sustain a factious association, which tends to inflame political animosities into a quenchless rage, and to destroy every lingering feeling of good-will in the hearts of opposing parties. Are they aware, that in this act, they violate at once every principle taught, and every feeling exemplified in the life of their great Master; let them refrain from the use of celestial armour-let them cease to point the sneer of the infidel by their own practical infidelity, and they will need no degraded aid from Attorney Generals and special juries against blasphemers; still less will they find it necessary to associate with those whom they accuse of blasphemy, the names of men, whose offences are, that they have decreed persecution for opinion; advocated the removal of corruption, and cried out for enquiry, and for justice against the perpetrators of foul and atrocious crimes. We have been led into these remarks by perusing a list of

THE BERESFORD MONOPOLIZING POLITICAL PARSONS, A Family made rich by the Corruptions of the Church, and doing dirty work

for Ministers.

We here subjoin a moderate enumeration of the immense revenues which this rapacious family derive from thepublic purse; these are the causes why some have asserted that the Church of England is a trade carried on for the benefit of particular families; some hundreds of which have contrived to get the helm almost exclusively into their hands, and care not what hazards they run if it benefits themselves; nay, it is possible they would run the bark of religion on the rocks, if they were sure of having the plunder of the wreck to themselves.

The most Reverend George de la Poer Beresford, prelate of the order of St. Patrick, visitor of Trinity College, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland, his incomes are valued at £150,000 per annum.

The Honourable William Beresford, Archbishop of Tuam, and Primate of Connaught.

The Right Reverend George de la Poer Beresford, D. D., Bishop of Kil.

more.

The Right Honourable and Reverend George de la Poer Beresford, Provost of the Archbishop of Tuam, Vicar-choral of Cork and Ross, &c. &c.

The Honourable and Reverend William Beresford, Rector of Cloyne, with 323 acres of glebe, Prebend of Laceagh, Vicar of ditto, and of Baldare, Kilcoala, Liskerry, Adregoole and Clare.

The Honourable and Reverend George Beresford, Rector and Vicar of Feenagh, 708 acres of glebe.

The Reverend Charles Cobb Beresford, Rector of Ferman-manguish, &c. 400 acres of glebe, Rector and Vicar of Kiliasheer, 1,300 acres of glebe, &c. &c.

Reverend I: H. Beresford, Prebend of Kilsonaty, Rector ditto, and of Ahern and Ballynoe.

John Beresford, Register of the Consistorial Court, Kilmore.
Reverend H. I. Beresford, Curate.

Having exhibited this family picture to the public, we leave it, with all its gross and corrupt features, to their inspection; it will, no doubt, excite a generous indignation; and what renders the thing coarse is, that not one of these plunderers has the least claim, on account of talents, or zeal in their vocation; they are proud, ignorant, selfish, and profligate, infamous by their conduct at elections, and ruling the poor with a rod of iron.

If these things do not demand reformation we know not what does, and in our future numbers we shall hang up in effigy some of the Beresfords, no less celebrated for their Political practices than their private vices, and who even dishonour the name of corruption.

To the Editor of the Crimes of the Clergy.

SIR, It is my disposition and general maxim to give every one an opportunity of correcting errors and propagating truth; though the latter sometimes may not be so pleasant, especially to those whose actions have introduced my name into one of your Numbers, an article, headed "The Rev. Parson Bateman, who employed a person to murder Ex-sheriff Parkins." I avail myself of a leisure moment to give you a correct statement of that circumstance.

Your informant has given a very classic and correct description of Gilsland Spa, which is situated on a small estate purchased for Major Mouncey, from an unfortunate young prodigal named Carrick, by Mr. Robert Moun