AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended Oct. 16, 1824. London * Essex Kent.. Sussex. Suffolk Cambridgeshire... Norfolk Lincolnshire Yorkshire Durham Northumberland Cumberland Westmoreland Gloucestershire.. Cornwall. Dorsetshire Hampshire North Wales South Wales Wheat. Barley. Outs. S. S S. d. .55 4.34 2.19 7 .57 10...36 0.17 0 * The London Average is always that of the Week preceding. COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c. Norwich Castle Meadow, Oct. 23-There was a considerable supply of Stock of all kinds here to-day; and in consequence of the great quantity of feed, the greater part were taken off in the middle of the day; more business was transacted than for several weeks, at prices similar to those last quoted. Horncastle, Oct. 23.-Beef, 6s. 6d. to 7s. per stone of 14 lbs.; Mutton, 5d. to 6d.; Veal, 7d. to 8d.; and Pork, 6d. to 7d. per lb. Bristol, Oct. 21.-Beef, 5d, to 5d.; Mutton, 5d. to 6d.; and Pork, 5d. to 6d. per lb. sinking offal. Malton, Oct. 23. - Meat in the shambles: Beef, 5d. to 7d.; Mutton, 5d. to 6d.; Pork, 6d.; and Veal, 7d. to 8d. per lb. Fresh Butter, 13d. to 14d per lb.: Salt ditto, 45s. per firkin. Bacon Sides, 7s. 9d. to 8s.; Hams, 9s. to 10s. per stone. Morpeth market, on Wednesday, had a great supply of Cattle, Sheep, and Lambs: being many buyers, the former sold readily, at an advance in price: the latter continues much the same:-Beef, from 5s. 6d. to 6s.; Mutton, 58. 10d. to 6s. 6d.; Lamb, 5s. 6d. to 6s. per stone, sinking offal. Skipton Cattle Market, Oct. 19. Our Fair to-day was abundantly supplied with fat Beasts and Sheep; there was not so brisk a sale as last fortnight, and little variation in prices. Wakefield Cattle Market, Oct. 20. There was a plentiful supply of Be and Sheep at this day's market, especially of the former, and a great m were driven away unsold. Mutton supported previous prices, but Beef on the decline. - Beasts, 600; Sheep, &c. 3,360. asts * : VOL. 52. No. 6.] LONDON, SATURDAY, Nov. 6, 1824. TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEWERS. On the Religion of America; on their Doctrine relating to Manufacturing; and on their Opinions relating to Population. [Price 6d.. refer to your article on the works In your Review for the month of is, in this respect, far superior to July last, or, rather, that was pub- every other country in the world. lished in July last, there are some The state of America as to religion things, which I think it my duty would seem to be a state of perto notice. These things are men-fection in your eyes. "It is not tioned above, and form the title to all gold that glitters;" it is very this letter. Your publication, true, that the Government of the which is pretty nearly as old as United States, and, generally, the mine, has acquired, and I do not State governments also, have actsay unjustly acquired, a good ed with justice and with great wisdeal of weight with its readers; dom in this respect. It is also and, therefore, as those readers true, that a man's religion is no are unquestionably very nume- bar to the pursuit of any lawful rous, errors which are promul- interest, or any object of ambition. gated by you, it is the more neces- As far as the governnients are sary to endeavour to correct. concerned; and as far as public With regard to the first subject, matters can possibly have any above mentioned, the religion of thing to do with religion, there is the United States of America. 1 an impartial and perfect disregard T Printed and Published by C. CLEMENT, No. 183, Fleet-street. 1 of all sects; which perfect disre- rassed, and their pockets continugard on the part of the govern- ally picked by these fanatics and ments produces an absence of all knaves; and I cannot join you in rivalship on this account. But, Gentlemen, there are still religious evils in the United States of America, None that the Go believing, that, in this respect, "the Americans are at the head of "all the nations in the world." We must allow, I think, that vernment can be said to be an- there will always be religion of swerable for; but still they exist, some sort in every country upon of which, indeed, there is evidence earth, as long as people continue enough in the books, the review of to die. So long as this makes which has called forth this article part of human nature, men will from you. The country is overrun have a heaven to hope for, and a with wild fanaties and crafty hell to fear. This will be the knaves, disturbing the minds of constant habit of thinking of the the common people, and pocketing great mass of mankind. There their money in exchange. The will be some few, and a very few Government cannot prevent this; indeed, to reason themselves out but surely it is a thing that one of these hopes and fears. There would wish to see prevented; sure- always have been a few of this ly it would be better if there were description amongst all the naONE RELIGION, and only one; tions that we know any thing of. and if all these innumerable It is curious enough that every swarms of fanatics and knaves "infidel" writer; that is to say, could find no food whereon to every unbelieving writer, appears exist. to have the vanity to think that he I am not pretending that it has made a discovery. Mr. CARwould be wise in the American LILE and the Unitarians think that Government, to take any measures they have made a wonderful disfor causing these crowds of fana- covery. The former, indeed, gives tics and knaves to be put down, to MONSIEUR DIDEROT the merit and to cause one single faith to of discovering that there were prevail; but, still, I must deem "three great impostors; Moses, the existence of these bands of fa- "Jesus Christ, and Mahomet." naties and knaves a great evil; The Unitarians are quite witty on I must lament that the minds of their discovery, that "none but honest people are incessantly ha- "fools can suppose that God, the "creator of us all, could be born has not novelty to recommend it, " of a virgin." The vanity of these gentlemen will receive a little check, when they are told that those discoveries were made, at the very least, seven hundred years ago. One of the charges of Pope GREGORY the Ninth, against the Emperor Frederick the Second, was expressed in these words: "He has said that "the whole world had been de and Monsieur Diderot was a plagiarist from the Emperor Frederick the Second. There have, then, always been a few to set religious belief at defiance; but, as long as men continue to die, there will be religion; and this religion will always have a very considerable effect upon men's feelings and conduct towards their neighbours, as well as towards the State "ceived by three famous impos- to which they owe allegiance and "tors, Moses, Jesus Christ, and obedience. Is not this, then, a "Mahomet; still putting Jesus matter for Government to meddle "Christ, crucified, beneath the with? Would it not be a happy "two others who died with ho- thing, if there were but one reli"nour; he has, besides, dared to gion in one and the same country? "say, that none but fools can be- I by no means blame any of the "lieve that God, the creator of governments of the United States "every thing, could be horn of a for their not meddling with the "virgin; that man could be born matter; but I cannot think, that, " otherwise than by an union of in this respect, those States are as "the sexes; and that nothing well situated as those nations of " ought to be believed which was Europe are where there is but one. "not agreeable to natural rea- If the Government decline to med"son." Upon this charge, toge- dle with the matter, and make no ther with others, the Pope at- provision for a priesthood, it is tacked the Emperor with all the very clear that religion will bethunders of the church; and in a come a TRADE; that, like other short time, he compelled him to trades, it will produce COMrecant, to publish his profession PETITION; that, like the selof faith, and to talk of Jesus lers of liquors pleasing to the Christ, Moses, and Mahomet, as appetite, one religion-seller will a Christian ought to talk. strive to outdo the other in his So that, at any rate, the doc- commodity; and, you yourselves trine of the conceited Unitarians state, that "fanaticism of every L2 i "description seems to rage and the people so much money, (to "flourish in America; that they say nothing about the harassing " have their prophets and pro- of their minds) as they now have "phetesses, their preaching-en- to pay in consequence of the re"campments, female preachers, ligious competition. The pay"and every species of noise and ments, indeed, which they now " of nonsense." These cannot be make, appear to be voluntary; good things. Every one must al- but they are by no means quite low that it would be better if there voluntary, in some cases, as you were but one religion. It cannot and I could wish. I do not wish be a good thing, that the common you to go, each of you with your people should have their minds wife and family, to settle in some distracted and their pockets picked township in America, where you by these eager competitors in would be constantly under the the trade of religion, the whole of observing eye of your neighbours. whom must preach falsehood, ob- I wish you to stay here and to serve, except one of them, and write reviews; otherwise, I perhaps that one too. should really like to see you, Therefore, Gentlemen, I cannot comfortably sitting down, each in help thinking, that there are many some pleasant village north of the states of Europe better off than Capes of the Delaware. And, America in this one respect. If in one of these villages, having the Government interfere and an Episcopal Church, a Presbycause the religion to be one, there terian, a Baptist, a Methodist, a must be an establishment, and an Lutheran, and, perhaps, another establishment must have a pro- or two. I should like to see Mr. vision made for it in some shape JEFFREY, for instance, thus seated or other. Then arises this ques- down, with a couple of sons betion: Which is best for the com- ginning to look out for wives, and munity: to make this provision, a couple of daughters beginning the extent of which is known, or to look out for husbands. Underto defray all the charges arising standing all about religion much out of the competition in the trade better than the preachers in these of religion? I much question "houses of God," he would, very whether a Roman Catholic priest- likely, not think of giving a good hood, maintained at the public handful of dollars every year to charge in America, would cost one of the preachers. Still less |