May.] 



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through the window again atten- 

 tively, she perceived the old house- 

 keeper apparently lifeless and 

 much bruised. An alarm was im- 

 mediately given, and the house 

 entered by a ladder, when it ap- 

 peared that the house was robbed, 

 and the two hapless women inhu- 

 manly murdered. The instru- 

 ments of destruction which it is 

 sujjposed were used were a cleaver 

 and a poker. The housekeeper, it 

 is supposed, offered no resistance^ 

 and was dispatched whilst asleep 

 in the chair ; but the younger 

 woman is conceived to have cou- 

 rageously resisted, as several of 

 the blows inflicted were sufficient 

 to have occasioned death. Six 

 men have been already apprehend- 

 ed, four of whom there is strong 

 reason for smmising will ulti- 

 mately prove the perpetrators of 

 the diabolical deeds of horror. — 

 Manchester Mercury. 



59. The grand jury of fyondon 

 returned true bills for high treason 

 against Arthur Thistlewood, gent.,- 

 James Watson the elder, surgeon; 

 James Watson the younger, sur- 

 geon; Thomas Preston, coid- 

 wair.er ; and James Hooper, la- 

 bourer. The bill against John 

 Keenes, tailor, was thrown out. 



MAY. 



8. Ghent. — There are now in 

 circulation munuscript copies of a 

 memorial presented to his Ma- 

 .jiesty by l!he Bishops of Cihent, 

 Namur, TournSiy, and tlie Vicar- 

 general of Liege and of ]Malines. 

 This memorial relates to the mode 

 of instruction jnescribed for the 

 Universities by the regulations of 

 the '25tii of last November. 



Xhc bishops state Hrst, that be- 



ing bound by their duty fo watch' 

 over the great interests of religion, 

 they are obliged to prevent the in- 

 trodiu'tion of a system of education , 

 which might corrupt youth and 

 violate the dogmas and the disci- 

 pline of the Catholic Church. It 

 is with this view that they re- 

 mark several points of tlie regula- 

 tions which have appeared to them 

 susceptible of producing this re- 

 sult. It is laid down as a princi- 

 ple, that it is to the Catholic 

 Church that the world is indebted 

 for the establishment of universf- 

 ties, which have succeeded to the 

 episcopal schools. The principal 

 object of this institution was to 

 propagate all the branches of hu- 

 man kno^vledge, and principally 

 religion. Abbe Fleury says, that 

 it was " to preserve the holy doc- 

 trine" that universities were 

 founded, ft is to preserve youth 

 from the contagion of philosophi- 

 cal errors that religion has j)re- 

 sided over all studies, imder the 

 intervention of the bishops, who 

 alone have received the power of 

 teaching, ot catising others to 

 teach, ecclesiastical science. 



The Catholic Sovereigns, wh:6 

 were themselves interested in the 

 maintenance of religion, them- 

 selves inroked the authority of the 

 sovereign Pontiffs, to direct the 

 high schools by wise regulations. 

 Thus was erected " the celebrated 

 University of Louvain, which ha^ 

 been to Belgiimi a nursery of men 

 whose names wilt be ever illus- 

 trioiis." Pope Martin V. in his 

 bull erecting it, speaks of the duty 

 Avhich is imposed on it, of en- 

 couraging, as ifitich as possible, 

 sciences of every kind, by the 

 means of which the science which 

 has for its object the maintenance 



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