298 Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange. Table containing the Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange, from the 30th of August to Sept. 27th, 1814, shewing the Intrin sic Value of Bullion in Great Britain, and the Intrinsic Purs of Exchange, according to the Mint Regulations for the Value of Gold and Silver at the respective Places; shewing also the extreme High Price of Bullion, and extreme Courses of Exchange, occasioned by the extended Commercial Proscription that prevailed throughout Europe in the Years 1811, 1812, and 1813. [Oct. 1, Long Anns. 1611 16 65 5 82 95 16 1814 Bank India So. Sea So. Sca New S15 per Ct.34 per Dy Consol St. Lot. Stock. Anns. Sea An. Ind. Bon. Ex. Bills. DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM AUGUST 26, TO SEPTEMBER 24, 1814, BOTH INCLUSIVE. 3 per Cifa per Ct per Ct/s per Ct 5 per Ct Second Irish 3 per Ct Imp. Days Stock. Reduc. Consol. Consol. Navy. 1797. Aug.26 257 25666 6 66 52834 96 52 55 655555 27 65 29 66 30 66 31 255 654 Sep. 1 254 253,65 2 Holiday. 3 65 654 5 83호 643 158 13spr5s for Ac. Tickets. 621/198 Do. dis. 194 69 83 653 2s pr. 663 dis. 14 11 pr. 5 1 pr. 653 963 2 dis. 13 11 pr. 4 pr. par 662 6 Do. 97 647 2 dis. 66 13 12 pr. 4 pr. par 66 53 Do. 962 dis. 192 653 12 11 pr. 5 1 pr. 666 Do. 962 642 dis. 653 10 653 96 96 2dis. 5 12 11 pr. 5 pr. par 66, 5 Do. 13 pr. pr. par 166 8 5 Do. ว. 12 601 653 83* 96 96 14 12 pr. 4 1 pr. 66, 5: Do. 13 65 2dis. 6534 13 12 pr. pr. par 66 65 96 642 2 2dis. 13 pr.4 pr. par 65 Do. 65 953 633 24 3 dis. 65 13 12 pr. pr. par 65 65 Do. 642 213 12 pr. 5 pr. par 654 65 Do. 37 65* 65 95 3 3 dis. 643 13 12 pri pr. par 651 43 Do. 343dis. 52dis. 67 11 pr. 4 pr. 1 dis. 64 12 11 pr. pr. 3 dis. 64 3 Do. 63 Do. 3 per cent, Reduced, and 4 per cent. Consols, sell as above, with the Dividend for the opening. All Exchequer Bills dated prior to the month of August, 1813, have been advertised to be paid off, and the interest thereon has ceased. N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c. originally published by John Castaign, in the year 1712, and now pu lished, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, by JAMES WETENHALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel court, Bartholomew-lane, London, On application to whom, the original documents for near a pentury past may be referred to. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. Kept by C. BLUNT, No. 38, Tavistock-street, Covent-Garden, [Oct. 1 Barometrical Pressure. Temperature 24 SW 130 14 30 30 07 2926 27 SW 2 SW 29 SW 30 SW 31 SW Aug. 15 by W 29.90 29'89 29*593 2 SW 3 SSW 4 WSW 300 39.03 30.063 77 55 2969 29.695 71 51 62.6 Fair, Cloudy 9 NW 30' 29.50 29'93 Fair, Clear Fair 30.045 14 NW 81 59 29:965 70 55 29.085 68 35 W 29′53 29.83 29.83 71 55 62 Showery 21 ΝΕ 29.589 71 56 62 Showery Fair 27 WhyN 29:98 29'91 30.37 30.38 282 W 30.37 30.379 73 59 5 NW 30.12 30.12 30'12 30.25 30.282 74 58 30.25 30.25 80.213 70 55 61 Fair A 8 6WbyN 30 12 29 82 29*76 29 93 9 NW THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. 10.] NOVEMBER 1, 1814. [VOL. II. MONTHLY MAGAZINES have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. Tie intelligence and discussion contained in them are very extensive and various; and they have been the means of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which in a certain degree hath enlarged the public understanding. HERE, too, are preserved a multitude of useful hints, observations, and facts, which otherwise might have never appeared.--Dr. Kippis. Every Art is improved by the emulation of Competitors.--Dr. Johnson. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. On the INQUISITION and the JESUITS. SIR, TWO circumstances have resulted from the great change lately effected in the political state of Europe, neither of which I am convinced could have been anticipated by any intelligent observer, or, as I should hope, will either of them be contemplated with satisfaction by the people of this country, whatever may be their religious divisions or party prejudices. The indifference, however, with which these events have been treated, is far from doing credit to our judgment or liberality; for though we are not warranted in meddling with the internal policy of other states, yet where regulations take place which may affect reinotely our national honour and interests, it becomes us at least to give a public expression of our sensibility, if it be only to prevent the evil from spreading beyond its present limits. Having doue so much for the independence of the Spanish nation, and accomplished by our exertions the restoration of its legitimate monarch, we bad surely some claim to the gratitude of that government, and a fair right to stipulate in behalf of those persons who at a great risk, and with infinite trouble, exercised the civil and legislative functions during, what may properly be called the interregnum. While our blood and treasures were expended largely for the liberation of that people from a foreign yoke, the royal fainily and the heads of the present ministry were remote from the field of contest; so that the country being left in a state of anarchy might have fallen an easy prey to the usurper, had it not been for the protection which we gave to the Cortes and the regency, with who we of course were under the necessity of holding a regular diplomatic intercourse. Among other judicious measures adopted by the representative assembly in Spain, was that of abolishing the Inquisition, NEW MONTHLY MAO.-No. 10. that tremendous engine of persecution, which had for several ages been the disgrace of their country, and an object of detestation to the enlightened part of the world. It would confound the ingenuity of the subtlest casuist in the church of Rome to frame a plausible argument for the original establishment of this institution, but it would be a downright insult upon the common sense of mankind to offer an apology for its revival at the present era, when every thing ought to be done by the different powers of Europe to remove or correct those abuses which have in fact endangered their very existence. By bringing thought into a state of bondage, the restorers of the Inquisition may contrive perhaps to maintain the craft of superstition for a while, but let another revolution break out, and they will find to their cost that the light thereby kindled will be as quick and destructive as the fire of heaven. The Holy Office, as this invention of Dominic is impiously termed, may succeed in impeding the progress of inquiry in Spain, and in keeping for some time longer the people there in a state of mental vassalage, but the very means which bigotry has thus adopted will tend to weaken the papal influence in other countries, and to bring the credit of the Romish religion into disre pute, even among those who have derived its tenets from their parents and instruc tors. For ourselves I should hope, that the present proceedings of the head of that church, will have the effect of making us cautious in trusting to any professions which may come from that quarter, tending to recommend a change of our legislative system in favour of those who regard the papal decrees as the mandates of Christ. One of the first acts of his Holiness on the recovery of the pontifical throne, has been to sanction the restoration of the Inquisition in Spain, though he well knew that such a measure must be particularly VOL. II. S s 302 Dr. Watkins on the Inquisition and the Jesuits. offensive to the nation which had replaced Ferdinand on the throne of his ancestors, and given to Rome its conclave and its chief. The very reason assigned for the reorganization of the Inquisition in Spain is an addition to the iniquity of the deed, for the royal edict justifies the act on account of the foreign sectaries who for some years have been spread over the Peninsula. This is the liberal manner in which the Spanish government treats our brave veterans, after shedding their blood to purge that soil of an unprincipled horde, who entered into the kingdom by treachery and subsisted there by plunder. But now, when the great work of deliverance is accomplished, and the schismatics have placed the tiara on the head of the pope, the first use made of his authority is to expose his deliverers to the fangs of those who will do what they can to bring them to the stake. These sectaries, as they are called, which is a soft word for heretics and infidels, will receive no more indulgence from the holy inquisitors, than the unfortunate Spaniards who may chance to have been perverted by their conversation, or corrupted by their books and language. Should an English resident in any part of that kingdom take upon him to read the bible to his domestics, or enter into free discourse on religious subjects with his neighbours, he will stand a pretty good chance of being visited by the familiars of the Holy Office, in which case the name of bis country would prove but a sorry protection. It deserves remark that in the sixteenth century a terrible persecution raged in Spain, excited by the Inquisition, chiefly against many noble and learned persons, who, as having lived in Germany and England, were suspected of being contaminated by the poison of Lutheran principles. An ecclesiastical historian of that very communion who lived at this time in Spain has the following remarkable observations:-" In former times the prisoners that were brought out of the Inquisition to be burnt were mean people, and of a bad race; but now in these latter years, we have seen prisons, scaffolds, and stakes, filled with illustrious persons of noble families, and, with others, who, as to all outward appearances, had great advantages over their neighbours, as well for their learning, as for their piety. Now the fountain of this, and of many more evils, was the fact that our Catholic princes, owing to their great affection for Germany, England, and other countries that [Nov. 1, were not in communion with the church of Rome, sent many learned men and preachers to those parts, hoping by their sermons to have converted those who were in error, and to bring them back to the way of truth; but such was their misfortune, that instead of reaping fruit by their diligence, these missionaries, who were sent to give light to others, returned home blind themselves." In another place the same writer says"All the prisoners in the Inquisition of Valladolid, Seville, and Toledo, were persons abundantly well informed. I shall here pass over their names in silence, that I may not by their bad fame stain the honour of their families; so numerous, however, were they, that had the check which was put to the evil been delayed two or three months louger, I am persuaded all Spain would have been put in a flame by them." The first victim who fell upon this occasion was Mr. Nicholas Burton, an English merchant at Seville, in which city he was burnt and all his property seized. His friends and creditors in London, on hearing of his misfortune, sent out one Mr. Frampton, a Catholic, to recover his papers and effects; but the officers of the Inquisition, after putting him off from time to time under various frivolous pretences, laid hold of him at last on a charge of heresy, and it was not without considerable difficulty that he escaped the fate of his countryman. The plea for reviving the Inquisition at the present time is of the same nature with the apology which the Spanish historian makes for the persecution in his day; and therefore whatever changes may have taken place in other respects an incontrovertible but melancholy evidence is here given, that the church of Rome remains the same, being neither improved by benefits, nor softened by calamity. But to put the matter beyond the possibility of cavil, let us turn to the other remarkable circumstance which has characterized the restoration of the sovereign pontiff to the chair of St. Peter. When Clement XIV. was urged by the princes of his own communion to issue a bull for the suppression of the Jesuits, he acted with great deliberation, and it was not till after a diligent and impartial inquiry had been made into all the charges brought against this ce lebrated order, the members of which neither wanted the ability nor the means of conducting their defence, that this mild and virtuous pontiff promulgated the decree for its extinction. As a con |