ABSTRACT
The people hare heard what has been the treatment of innocent men under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. The Courier of Thursday has compared, in a scurvy jest, the men who have been imprisoned without trial,—perhaps on the accusation of Oliver and his associates, perhaps on no accusation at all,—to persons who have been convicted for different crimes, by Juries, and after fair trials. The dying Cardinal might here be supposed to have foreseen the grand Rebellion, the glorious Revolution of 1688, the expulsion of the Stuarts, and the Protestant ascendancy,—the American and the French Revolutions, as all growing out of Wickliff’s heresy, and the doctrines of the hellish Lutherans. In the Speech which was delivered the other day to both Houses of Parliament, as coming immediately from the Throne, an increase of Churches was particularly recommended; and the reason for this proposed addition was alledged to be the increase of population.
