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vency. He wonH absent himself whole 
days together, and retired into woods and 
iields for the purpose of reading it. After 
some time spent in this manner, he went 
away from his family, and refused to contri¬ 
bute 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 cor¬ 
rect. 
The court made another attempt to con¬ 
vince this deluded man of the impropriety of 
his conduct, but withcut the least effect j he 
replied to all their reasonings, by quoting 
appropriate texts of Scripture, Nor would lie 
even promise to permit his employer to pay 
to bis 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, appa¬ 
rently, rooted from his heart all the tender 
charities of domestic life. When it was in¬ 
timated to him that one of bis children was 
2 n a decline, he seemed perfectly unmoved ; 
nor did tlic tears of his wife, whc implored 
•him only to assist in paying the debts con- 
Sracted before he went away, in the least 
arrect him. Ke 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 dis- 
]>03ed of his sulplus earnings, and expressed 
an opinion that no benefit was likely to result 
from sendi.Tg him again to the house of cor¬ 
rection. After some consultation with the 
bench, the recorder addressed him Co the 
following effect : 
‘‘ John Burnley-—the court are disposed to 
deal leniently with you, in hopes that better 
consideration will remove the delusion you 
labour under. For this purpose I would ad¬ 
vise you to read your Bible with still greater 
aciention, and ask the advice of some intel¬ 
ligent friends, particularly the minister you 
attend upon. I would also beg of you seri¬ 
ously to consider, that all the rest of the 
world think it their duty to provide, in the 
first place, for their families; and you, sure¬ 
ly, 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 judg- 
and if you have any humility, and 
humility is a Christian virtue, you will con¬ 
clude that it is more probable that you should 
be mistaken than that all the rest of man¬ 
kind should be wrong. Your wife has 
strongly expressed her wish, that no severity 
should be used towards you. Influenced by 
these considerations, the court has ordered 
that you should be discharged.” 
Friswer, The Scripture saltb, that dark¬ 
ness covers the earth, and gross darkness the 
people. And again, in another place, th.ac 
the whole world lieth in wickedness. I 
know that the way of duty is in the path of 
suffering ; but it is the path which our leader 
trod, and we must follow his steps. 
Married.} At Hull, Mr. Henry Stamper, 
of Spaunton, to Miss J.awson. 
Mr. Richard Miles, merchant, of Yarum, 
to Miss Cuitt, of Spenithorne. 
Capt. Burgess of the West Kent Militia, 
to Miss Jane Maria Foster, of Spring Head. 
Mr. Crossley, of Bradford, stapler, to Miss 
Eliiabeth Edwards, of Spring Heaa. 
Wm. F Lowndes, esq. to Caroline, second 
daughter of Sir Wm. Strickland, bare, of 
Boynton. 
John Telford, esq, to Miss Hailstone^ 
both of York. 
W. G. Frith, esq. of Sheffield, surgeon, t9 
Mrs. Thomas, of Mount-street. 
Mr. Wm. Clark, of Skelton Grange, to 
Miss Slater, of Boroughbridge. 
William Coulson, of North Milford Hall, 
to Miss Catharine Rhodes, of Mickiefield. 
Mr. Samuel Booth, to Miss Mary Opdy, 
both of Farnley, 
Mr. Caleb Fletcher, of Kirbymoorside, to 
Miss Eddison, ofHolbeck. 
Mr. Hobson, of Shipton, near York, to 
Miss Skilbeck, of Bilton, 
Mr. Samuel Greenwood, of Brighouse, to 
Miss Hannah Bentley, of Law-hill. 
Mr. John Frankland, to Miss Phebe BoI« 
lough, both of Woodhouse. 
Mr, Anby Beatson, of Huddersfield, to 
Miss Sikes, of Folly Hall. 
Viscount Ranelagh, to Caroline, only 
daughter of the late Colonel Lee, of York¬ 
shire. 
Mr. Jeremiah Gaunt, jun. of Bramley, to 
Miss Farrar, of Gildersorae. 
Mr. William Storesby, jun. to Miss Lock- 
wood, of Whitby. 
Mr. H. Bower, of Ridlington, to Miss Ann 
Dale, of Marishes. 
Mr. Thomas Rayner, to Miss Casson, of 
Hull. 
William Pearson, esq. of Hull, surgeon, 
to Miss Jennings, of Park Hill. 
Mr, John Carr, of Stourton, to Miss Eliz* 
Finningley. 
Rev. John Birt, of Hull, to Miss Susannah 
Savery, of Bovey Tracey. 
Mr. Wainwright, to Miss Mary Bowser, 
late of Hull. 
At Warmsworth, the.Rev. Alex. Cooke, 
rector of Warmsworth, to Miss Catharine 
Esther Buck, daughter and co-heiress of the 
late Samuel Buck, esq. recorder of Leeds. 
Mr. D, Broadhurst, of Manchester,to Sarah, 
third daughter of the late Thomas Tootal, 
esq. of Chevet. 
James Richardson, of Wakefield, M.D. to- 
Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Samuel Potter, 
esq. of Springfield. 
Robert Welford Coupland, esq. to Emma, 
