try require that you should maintain your family; and if you neglect or refuse to do it, you become liable to a serious punish

ment.

Prisoner.-I am willing to suffer all you think proper to inflict; I expect to suffer persecution; for the scripture says, those that will live godly in Christ Jesus, must endure persecution. I regard the laws of God only, and do not regard any other laws.

Court. You seem to have read the scriptures to very little profit, or you would not have failed in so plain a duty as that of providing for your own household.

Prisoner.-The scripture commands me to love my neighbour as myself; and I cannot do that, if I suffer him to want when I have the power to relieve him. My wife and children have all changes of raiment; but I see many others that are half naked. Should I not, therefore, clothe these rather than expend my money on my family?

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Court. But your family cannot live upon their raiment; they require also victuals.

Prisoner. They are able to provide for their own maintenance; and the gospel requires me to forsake father and mother, wife and children. Indeed it was contrary to the gospel for me to take a wife; and I sinned in so doing. Court. Have you any friends here?

Prisoner. I have only one friend, who is above.

Court. Is there any person here who knows you?

me.

Prisoner. Mr. Banks knows

Mr. Banks being called upon, stated, that he should suppose,

from the recent conduct of the prisoner, that his mind was not in a sane state. Formerly he was an industrious man; of late, he understood, that he had read the Bible with uncommon assiduity and fervency. He would absent himself whole days together, and retire into woods and fields, for the purpose of reading it. After some time spent in this manner, he went away from his family, and refused to contribute to their support. His family contrived to carry on the business, and he bought of them what pieces they made. He understood, that what the prisoner had said of giving away his earnings to objects of distress, was correct.

The court made another attempt to convince this deluded man of the impropriety of his conduct, but without the least effect: he replied to all their reasonings by quoting perverted texts of scripture. Nor would he even promise to permit his employer to pay to his family the small sum of five shillings weekly. He dared not, he said, make any promises or engagements of any kind. Nor was the attempt to work upon his feelings more successful; his fanaticism had, apparently, rooted from his heart all the tender charities of domestic life. When it was intimated to him that one of his children was in a decline, he seemed perfectly unmoved; nor did the tears of his wife, who implored him only to assist in paying the debts before he went away, in the least affect him. He coldly replied, that the landlord might distress for the rent.

The court asked some questions of the overseers as to the affairs of the family, the answers to which

the writer of this did not hear; but they confirmed what Mr. Banks had said as to the manner in which he disposed of his surplus earnings, and expressed an opinion that no benefit was likely to result from sending him again to the house of correction. After some consultation with the bench, the Recorder addressed him to the following effect:

"John Burnley, the court are disposed to deal leniently with you, in hopes that better consider ation will remove the delusion you labour under. For this purpose, I would advise you to read your Bible with still greater attention; and ask the advice of some intelligent friends, particularly the minister you attend upon. I would also beg of you seriously to consider, that all the rest of the world think it their duty to provide, in the first place, for their families; and you surely cannot suppose that they are all neglecting the care of their souls, and in the road to eternal destruction. This consideration should induce you to distrust your own judgment; and if you have any humility-and humility is a christian virtue-you would conclude, that it is more probable that you should be mistaken, than that all the rest of mankind should be wrong. Your wife has already expressed her wish that no severity should be used towards you. Influenced by these considerations, the court has ordered that you should be discharged."

the path of suffering; but it is the path which our Leader trod, and we must follow his steps.

Valencia de Alcantara, Oct. 10. Jose Pedrazuela, a native of Brunette, and late a resident at Madrid, was yesterday executed, for having arrogated the office of Royal Commissioner, and condemned 13 persons to barbarous deaths, with out authority or trial. His wife, a native of Madrid, also suffered the punishment of strangulation, as an accomplice in the horrible crimes of her husband.

The trial of these criminals, which took place on the 7th, excited a great deal of interest in the inhabitants of this city. At nine in the morning a court-martial, appointed by the General in Chief of the fifth army, was held in the Town-hall, which was also attended by a concourse of the principal people of this kingdom. The crimes proved against Pedrazuela were 13 assassinations, perpetrated by him under the assumed title of Royal Commissioner from our government. Scarcely had he announced himself in that character, in the town of Ladrada, when he was blindly obeyed by the guerilla parties of the district, and by its inhabitants. He began his functions by condemning the first three prisoners that were brought before him, without a hearing, without examination, or cognizance of their crimes. These had their throats cut with a razor ; and the rest, except one who was shot, were knocked on the head with the butt-end of a musket. These barbarous scenes were perpetrated at night; and though the executioners alone were witnesses, yet they excited more general terror than any legitimate punishments.

It was commonly reported that Pedrazuela had sacrificed more than 60 victims in this way, during a period of three months; and the inhabitants endangered their lives by breathing even a whisper against the despotic will of the Royal Commissary. This man figured like a little sovereign; and under the mask of patriotism, concealed designs which the sword of justice has cut short in their origin. His wife participated in all his brutal atrocities; and some of the witnesses represented her as even more hateful than her husband. The sentence of the court was, that Pedrazuela should be hanged, drawn, and quartered; and that his wife should be strangled.

13. Peter Sherring, a pilot, from Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, came as a passenger by the Deal coach, on his way to London, and stopped at the Chest Arms Tavern, Chatham, where he was persuaded to remain till the morning, that he might recover from the effects of a blow he had received on the head in consequence of a fall on Chatham-hill, whilst jumping from off the coach, being alarmed at the fall of one of the horses. He went to bed apparently composed, but at about three o'clock in the morning, a gentleman sleeping in the next room, awoke on hearing a strange noise, and going to the window of his room, saw the pilot hanging by his hands on the sill of the window, and heard him say, "She's sinking, she's sinking; now, my boys!" when he let go his hold, and fell into the street. An alarm was instantly given, when the landlord, Mr. Chany, arose, and sent for surgical assistance; but the unfortunate man was too much

injured to be relieved; his skull was fractured, and he died in about two hours after the accident.

14. Loss of the Pomone frigate. This frigate has just arrived from the Mediterranean, when, on this night, she struck upon the Needle Rocks, off the Isle of Wight, and instantly filled with water. Fortunately there was little wind at the time, and therefore pilot-boats from Yarmouth, and the boats of the Tisiphone, were enabled to go off to the assistance of the crew, by which means all of them were saved. It is feared that the Pomone, which was a very fine frigate, will be entirely lost. She brought dispatches from Cagliari, which are said to be of considerable importance.

Sir Harford Jones, our late ambassador to Persia, came in her, having been succeeded at the Persian Court by Sir Gore Ouse. ley.

A provincial paper gives the following extraordinary instance of somnambulism :-A boy, in the service of Mr. T. Fawcett, of Gate, Westmoreland, having accompanied his master in shooting all day, upon the moors, was desired by him in the evening to make the best of his way home. The boy proceeded on foot, but being much fatigued, sat down and fell asleep. How long he remained in that situation is uncertain, as, when found, he was in his own bed asleep; and a neighbour passing on the road early next morning found his clothes scattered in various directions nearly a mile off. The account he gave was, that he dreamed he had been at a neighbour's house, at a good supper; after which he supposed he went

to bed there. It appears that he actually walked three miles, during which he stripped off his clothes, walked home naked, passed the gate, and went up stairs to bed, the whole of the time being in a profound sleep.

15. A few days ago John Whitaker was fined in the penalty of 201. by a magistrate, for preaching in an unlicenced house, in the parish of Hanmer, Flintshire; and a like fine was levied upon Edward Welch, occupier of the house, who, besides, was fined one shilling, for not attending at his parish church on the Sabbath-day. Several of the hearers were also fined in the penalty of five shillings each, for being present at the meeting above-mentioned.

A fire broke out in Emanuel College, Cambridge, early on Tuesday morning, commencing in the rooms of a gentleman, a member of that society, who was awakened by the crackling of the fire in his outer room. It raged with such fury, that he was considerably scorched before he could make his escape, which he effected by jump ing out of his bed-room window into Mr. Blackall's garden. The flames were not entirely got under till nine o'clock, when the interior of that elegant edifice called the Founder's Range, or Lord Westmoreland's Building, was entirely consumed the stone front, and part of the inside wall, alone remaining. The picture-gallery was preserved; and, by a fortunate change of the wind, the flames were confined to the range of buildings in which they originated. The loss of the College is estimated at 20,000l. of which only 3,500l. were insured. Various articles of fur.

niture, and some watches, were stolen from the different rooms during the fire. Several persons also broke open the wine-cellars, and were seen drinking at the very time the flames were raging with the utmost violence. Some of the offenders were apprehended, and taken to the town gaol; and two men in a state of intoxication suffered for their depraved conduct, by falling from the top of the building.

17. The Prince Regent of Portugal has conferred the order of the Castle and Sword on Lord Wellington. A description of the order is as follows:-At the top of the star is a castle, and in the centre is a sword, with a wreath over it: at the bottom of the ribbon to be worn with it is a likeness of the Prince Regent. The order was established a short time previous to the Prince Regent leaving Portugal.

19. On this day a meeting of the general committee of Catholic Delegates took place at the theatre, Fishamble-street, Dublin. It was attended by nearly 300 members from all parts of Ireland, with a numerous concourse of spectators. The Earl of Fingal took the chair, when a petition was produced, which passed with universal approbation. The committee soon after dissolved itself, when two magistrates of the police arrived, who stated their business to have been to disperse the assembly as illegal. Its object, however, had been already attained, and the members all quietly departed.

By the last letters from Persia we learn, that his Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley, and his lady, occupied the Palace at Shiras, called the Takhti Cazar, as being a