The Royal Affent was given by commif fion to the three bills for raifing 9,500,000l. by Exchequer bills; their Majefties's Private Property Bill; the Hop Importation Duty Bill; the Bill for preventing Frauds in the Sale of Hops; the High Treafon Regulation Bill; the Infane Cuftody Bill; the Executory Devifes Bill; the St. Vincent's Merchants Loan Bill; the Dutch Navy Bill; the French Wine Importation Bill; firft refolution, viz. That the amount of the public funded debt on the ift of February, 1793, "was 238,231.2481. exclufive of long and thort annuities for lives, to the amount of 10,240,1001. of which firms, &c. &c. &c. The estimate for the last year's expences, he stated at 64,438,4881. The Chancellor of the Exchequer agreed with the Hon. Gent. that the difference be tween their refpective statements fcarcely amounted to any thing confiderable; and that it principally arofe from the different lights in which they had viewed the subject. Indeed, the topics of difference were fo mirure, that it was not neceffary to dwell upon them. He would therefore content himself with moving the previous question on the refolutions of the Hon. Gent. and inftitute his own in their ftead. The pre vious question on each of Mr. Tierney's refolutions being agreed to; Mr. Pitt próceeded to move his own, which were feve the Naval Stores Embezzlement Billy agreed to; being in number 22, and River Thames Police Navigation Bill; New Foreft Regulation Bill; the Indian Adminiftration Bill; the Pawn-brokers' Regulation Bill; the Bill for regulating Dif putes between Mafters and Workmen in the Coton Manufactory; together with feveral other public and private bills. On the motion of the Earl of Liverpool, the Bill for repealing the act of laft feffion, for preventing combinations of journeymen, was read the third time, and paffed. On the order for committing the Bill for eftablishing general rules relative to inclofure bills, The Lord Chancellor conceived that the fubject of the bill had not been properly digefted; and as it was neceffary to bring forward thofe regulations in a more perfect form, he would move to put off the committee on the bill for three months. Ordered. In the Commons the fame day, Mr. Jobnes underflood that an armistice had been concluded between the Emperor of Germany and France. He really thought, Ance it was only on Thursday Taft that they pailed Bill for remitting, money to Emperor, it would not be too much for Hon. Gentleman to inform them, whether this country was included in the sumiflice, or whether we were likely to be included in the preliminaries for peace. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied, he could not answer the question, confiftent with his duty, in his official fituation. The fubfidiaries were then voted to the different officers of the House, The debate upon the financial resolutions being refumed, Mr. Tiany aid, the difference between his ftatenient and that of the Chancellor of the Exebequer was not very material, and would he cafly feen from a perufal of the two Ratements. He concluded by moving his the total amount of which for the last year is 64,438,4271. ог LORDS. July 29. His Majefty came to the Houfe of Peers. Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod, was feut with a message from his Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their attendance in the Houle of Peers. The Commons being come this ther accordingly, his Majefty was pleafed to give the Royal affent to an act to repeat an act to prevent unlawful combinations of workmen, and to fubftitute other provifions in lien thereof; alfo to three other public, and two private acts. After a most gracious fpeech from liis Majefty (fee Vol. LXX. p. 790.) the Parliament was prorogued. In the Commous the fame day, Mr. askinfon prefented at the bar, an account of Lle volunteer corps, cavalry and infontry, diftinguishing the number of each. Ordered to he laid upon the Table. Mr. Wilberforce called the attention of the Houfe ui the fubject of incorporating into one act all the laws relative to mclofures. In confequence of the measure being loft for the prefent, hut feeling how neceifar y it was that fuch bill fhould pafs in fome effectual form, he rote to give notice, that he would, curly in next fellion, bring befure the Houfe certain refolutions concern'. ing agriculture. The measure he should propofe would embrace the fuggeftions of the grand jury for the county of York, whofe recommendation, as well as his own fenfe of the intrinfic importance of the fube jest, tad led him, very much of late, to confider, in all its various views, the state of the agriculture of this country. ́· The 1. The Antiquaries Museum. By Jacob Schnebbelie. (Concluded from vol. LXII. p. 741.) WE E congratulate the admirers of genuine and unaffected merit on the completion (however late) of a work which will perpetuate the fair fame of one of the ableft draughtfmien of the English fchool; and, whilft we applaud the warm attachment which has prompted a furviving friend, at no inconfiderable expence, to bring forward fo valuable a work, it is with equal pleafure we can add that the fubjects are worthy of fo difinterefted a patronage. Thofe more particularly deferving commendation are, Hornfey, Whittington, Melton and Cold Overton Church Mowbray, the Hof pital of St. Crofs; the Revolution Houfe and Rectory at Whittington; the Holy Gholt Chapel at Balingftoke; Ampthill Crofs; a Tower at Streatham; Portraits of St. Peter, and of King Edward IV. and his Queen; with various Plates of Painted Glafs, feveral remarkable Monuments, and other rare Antiquities.. Of the merits of Mr. Schnebbelie, both as an artift and a man, our opis non has been given in vol. LXII. p. 189-to which we fhall now only add, that the fpecimens of his ability in the volume now before us fully warrant the warm encomiums in our Obituary. In the concluding plate is a handfome monumental infcription by one friend who well knew and properly ap preciated his talents; and by another refpectable writer the memory of Mr. Schnebbelie has thus been enibalmed: "I feem fated to deplore the lofs of fome valuable affociate and congenial friend in thefe purfuits at the close of this as of the former volume. In this I am to erect a bleness when the labours of the day were ended. To an admirable talent of drawing he had gradually fuperadded a happy talent. of diftings thing and comparing fubjects of antiquity. Let me not he accused of undue partiality, when I lay he was a true practical Antiquary; nor of vanity, when 1 add, we mutually inftructed each other. "We took fweet counfel together, and walked in the houfe of God as friends." In the five years of our acquaintance 1 fea nothing to blame in him, but that he had not accumulated a fufficiency for an amiable wife and a young family; or to regret for myfelf but that I had not more proofs of his abilities. I had planned a concluding view of monuments in England and Scotland, to have compared with thofe of our own country, and even with thofe in France; but, Oftendunt terris hunc tantum fata. "I hefitate not to buy, that in my fa vourite purluit of antiquarian refearch I have fuftained an irreparable lofs. I take the warning, and retire from the pleafing thofe who have gone before me for centatafk of immortalizing former generations, ries-to meditate on my own mortality, and, with the good abbot of St. Alban's "recordans melius et memorans, quomodo "diei mei vitalis tam mane tranfierat "quam meridies,, ficque pene fuitæ fint "vefperæ,. quod multum de prope inftat "completorii, juberem fterni milu lectum in quo pantando quiefcerem quoufque "fol vitæ fecundæ ite um affurgeret, re ducerque ad ortum. Gauch, Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain, vol. II. p. 9. 2. The British Oak; [aubieb, in its fallen State is the Caufe of England's Glory.] A Poem. this poem to be the production of "a WHEN the news-papers announeed Barrifter of Lincoln's Inn," we had a ready clue to its anonymous author. The "Life of Lord Mansfield had left too lafting an impreflion on our monument to that able antift and antiquary ideas to doubt a fingle moment of the Jacob Schnebbelie, who was pointed out prefent production being from the ver to me at the begining of this volume, and fatile pen of Mr. Holliday. "From who has burne his part of the pleafiig - grave to gay, from lively to fevere," bour through it. Iement his mild and would be a motto equally characteristic modeft manners, his ready eye, and ex- of both productions. If ever demonpreffive hand. His firft fpecimens were ftration and great public benefit were taken in the cathedral church of Canter deducible frour the loffoms of poetry, bury, in the year 173.7, when our ac- this ingenious author has happily uniquaintance commences, Ldave notes tated the utile dulci, and erected a monu ken by himself alone and, with me in va- ment of fair fame. His great objects rious churches, illuftrated with drawings of monuments and parts of architecture. O are, to promote the ademption or aho lition of tithes, on a liberal plan; to ten have I indu'ged an unlimited confidence in him by himself, often I received in introduce, as a necellary confequence, Atraction from his faggeftions, when we the improvement of 7 or 8 millions of vifited many churches together. His ununonltivated and wafe acres of land remitting zeal and energy was relieved by every denomination; and, laft, not the frankness of a cheerful companjonas leaft in our esteem, to prevent the of t glory of of England from being tarnished by the baneful practice of permitting timber-trees to outlive their vigour, and either to fink ill-fated into gradual decay, or, what is equally humiliating, to feel the murdering axe, and ignobly to fend their hollow, unfound, and mutilated trunks to feed the flame of a ha ker's oven. Though.to the notes, which difplay much legal and hiftorical knowledge, we are bound to give the palm of praife, the poetry contains many mifcellaneous and curious topicks; and the following fublime invocation of, and apofirophe to, the Goddefs of Li berty, may be claffed among the beau ties of didactic poetry. They pleafe the imagination, and improve the mind. "Guduefs of Liberty, my Mufe Illumine, thon who canft infufe Thy heaven-born joys, with purest grace, And elevate the human race: Without thee! what is tranfient man? Fleeting his hours, his life a (pan; The dancing hours midst storms of life, In flothful eafe, or favage ftrife, Dire to unfold-are all mis-fpent, Deep buried fies the talent lent, Without improvement, or difguife, His life a blank, without a prize: No ftimulus, no focial joy, The demon, Anarchy employ Go anarchist, and Freedom's foc, To fair Poniona docile go; The Goddef will thy fancy fire, And with thefe truths thy breaft infpire. When the four Crab tre gives delight, Let Afric wash her Ethiops white; By grafting, by the pruning knife, 3 he tree's improv'd, affumes new life, By culture nourish'd, kindly plac'd, Gives fruit delicious to the tifte" The following is an analyfis of the contents of this extraordinary poein: "Cheadle Park, in the county of Stafford, has for many apes given nutris ment to a venerable oak, which, from its fize and fymmetry, is fuppofed to have heen planted there feveral ages before the diffolution of monafteries, and, to have lived in five or more centuries, Its circumference near the parent-foil is 14 feet 7 in ches; and at the commencement of its wide-fpreading arms the circumference is 16 feet. The dillolution of monafteris leads to the difcuffion of tithes, and the prominent features of commutation.-The Landing of King William in South Devon, and the happy confequences flowing from genuine liberty, are contrafted with the die effects of anarchy.-Hooker's fublime definition of law. An addrefs to Britannia, as the emprefs of the main, the proactress of merit, and the promoter of equality among men of feience, concludes the first book." "The fecond branch, or divifion of the British Oak records the marriage of the firft Duke of Newcastle with the fole daughter and heir of William Baffett, of Blore, efqufre, whofe ancestors were for feveral centuries lords of the manors of Cheadle, and Cheadle Park.-The addrefs the affumed character of guardian of the of Hymen, and of the age-worn oak, in wood. A picturesque view in the moorlands of Staffordshire in a fummer evening. And a loco-defcriptive view of the fmall yet rapid river Churnet. The Druids are fuppofed to have refided in this wild part of Satfordshire. A monody on the death of a friend concludes the fecond book." "The third and laft divifion of the British Oak opens with the wonderful appearance of r floating Druidical Temple, conducted in a stately barge, many miles along the river Thames. This antient temple was removed, at a confiderable expence, by Ge neral Conway, from the Ile of Jerfey to Park-Place, near Henley, where it is carefully preferved, and of which a correct view has been taken by a celebrated Antiquary. Wetley Rocks are defcribed. The Honourable Mrs. Damer, fole daughter and heir of General Conway, having, with a pure fpirit of loyalty and praiseworthy liberality, offered to prefent the City of London with a portrait of the magnanimous Lord Nelfon either in Bronze or marble; this pleafing and uncommon effort of her genius introduces the animating fuhject of the gallant admiral's victory. An apoftrophe to the Lords Saint Vincent and Nefon, the favourite fons of Neptune, the British Nifus and Euryalus, fucceeds. And the thiral divifion terminates with an adju dication by old Father Thames of the prize of merit to Strawberry-Hill, the unique, picturefque, and elegant feat of Mrs. Da mer." 3. A concife Vieru, from Hiflory and Propheon, of the greas Predictions in the Sacred Wri tings that have been fulfilled, also of those. that are fulfilling, and that remain to be acComphed. By Francis Dobbs, Efq. Membei for the Borough of Charlemont, in Ireland: In Letters to bis tidefi Son. MR. D. has already published, in & finall volumes, price 3s. @dcach, fewed, the great events that have taken place in the world down to 1715; the ninth will come out in the courfe of this year, and brag and complete the hiftory to the prefent day. In the Preface to the prefent work he tells us, that he intended to have gone at fome length into hiftory and the facred predictions, in the Houfe, when voting for the Union June 7; but confited himself to fuch Its own name alfo denotes that it is to be the fcourge of a wicked world. The Giant's Caufeway feems an emblem of the ftone of Daniel, it being in fact compofed of pillars of ftone, picely jointed into each other, cut out of the mountain that overtops it without human hand. And, befides all this, the Jews were never perfecuted in any degree in Ireland; and their perfecutors have been, and are to be, peculiarly punifhed. (p. 200-202.) fuch paffages as will fupport three pofitions: 1. the certainty of the fecond advent of the Meffiah; 2. the figns and manner of it; and, laft, that Ireland is to have the glorious pre-eminence of being the first kingdom that will receive him. "Feeling as I do, that we are living in the molt momentous and eventful period of the world; feeling as I do, that a new and better order of things is about to arife; and that Ireland, in that new order of things, is to be highly diftinguifhed, indeed this bill has no terrors for me." The figns of Chrift's near approach are, " the fall of the papal power, and the very high degree of infidelity. The flone, which Daniel foretold was to be cut out of the mountain without hands, and to fall on the feet of the image, and break the whole image to-pieces, cannot be found in any country that is a part of the image! therefore, all the countries that were comprized in the Babylonifh and Allyrian empire, in the MedoPerfian, the Grecian, and the Roman empire, are pofitively precluded. The Meffiah, Ifa. xli. 25, is to come from a country North of Judea. The new world is out of the queftion, being no where a fubject of prophecy; and, as the image is excluded, it can only be in the Ruffian empire, or in the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, or Ireland. That it is Ireland, Mr. D. thinks demonftrated from Rev. xv. 2, where, by the fea of glafs is meant an ifland; xiv. 2, by the harp, the arms of Ireland; xvi. 16, by Armageddon, Armagh, or, as its old name, Ardmagh. The beft Hebrew fcholar in the college of Dublin thinks the true meaning of Armageddon is the Mountain of the Gospel. Now, the English of Ardmaccaddon is the hill or mountain of the great teachers All the empires of the image rofe Weft of each other, and the laft kingdom that completed the image was Great Britain; and the ftone is first to fall on the feet of the image, fo that Ireland feems to be fitted in all refpects for this great purpofe, from its being full farther Weft, and from its vicinity to the laft toe of the image. The exemption of Ireland from the ferpent kind is ftrongly emblematic that Satan, the great ferpent, is there to meet his firft deadly blow. The crown of Ireland is the apoftolic crown; and it has been imuneinorially called the Ifland of Saints, though certainly it has never yet deferved that appellation a We cannot follow the fpeaker in his, arguments for this happy privilege of Ireland, whofe independence as kingdom is deftroyed by this bill, which can never be an operative law, the independence of Ireland being written in the iminuable records of Heaven; yet he means to deinand from all who are fprung from him, or over whom he has the leaft influence, to pay it the molt implicit obedience, tilt the Meffiah fhall in perfon demand their obcdience. The refult of Mr. D's obfervations on different periods, in his 14 letters to his fon, leads him to give the preference in all improvement to Great Britain, which, he feels himfelf warranted to fay, is not the fecond but the first country on the face of the globe; but I must add, that the is hecome profligate and corrupt when compared with what the was in 1715. The great body of the higher orders are notorioully unbelievers in Revealed Religion. As to the duties due to their country, to their fellow-creatures, and their God, I appeal to the feelings of any honeft man who reads this work, whether they have or have not performed them." (p. 169.) He allows, however, that England is infinitely lefs vicious than France; and, in proportion to the extent of her wealth and empire, perhaps, freer from guilt than any other now exifling nations; but her faults are of magnitude enough to make her think and tremble. In letter XV. he compares the prefent age with the Auguftan; and obferves, that nothing diftinguishes the periods we now live in from the fate of mankind at the death of Auguftus but Chriftianity. But, if we are to truft to outward appearances, that religion is rapidly vanifhing from the earth. How are we to hope that mere human reafoning fhall, in the prefent depraved flate of nations and of men, prevent fimilar calamities,, tyranny, ignorance, and flavery, to what filled the Auguftan age? (p. 114.) There T There is, however, a glorious difference between thefe times and the fummit of the heathen world. There are now on the earth 144,000 true believers and followers of Chrift ready to receive and obey the commands of their mafter. These are the falt of the earth, and by thefe it will be faved." (p. 117.) In letters XVI. and XVII. the writer explains the various prophecies; and in XVIII. points out the certainty of a perfonal Antichrift, as well as a perfonal Mefliah. This was the firft beaft, or the Roman monarchy, and Antichrift was Auguftus. That emperor was an able, polifhed villain; and under him was the fummit of the heathen or fatanic world. This eighth perfonage, who was of the feven, is alfo to put on exterior appearance of virtue for lies, to have two horns like the lamb, but to act as the dragon." He is of opinion that this fecond beaft and the falle prophet then to accompany will not act till Chrift again appears on earth. (p. 191.) tr In the title of letter XX. it is faid, that all men, both good and bad, now upon the earth have lived before;" and, p. 205, all who compofe the ariny of Chrift, and who are ftyled the fift fruits by St. Paul, were dead, and have been born again." Thefe are the 144,000 of the Revelations, chap. vii. "in the ordinary way literally to be born again." (p. 211.) The perfonal Antichritt will appear in one of the ten kingdoms that compofe the image of the fecond chapter of Daniel, and in one of the ten into which the Wefiern Roman empire was broken, and this is France, where that man fhall appear who leads the wicked world." (p. 218.) Mr. D. indulges a fingular opinion that all men who live now have lived before. This he infers of the followers of Antichrift, from Ifaiah xiv. 9. "From this paffage we have every reafon to believe that, as all the beft men who have ever lived are to be upon the earth, to are all the worft; and all the mighty villains that have lived, from the creation of the world to the prefent day, will mite with the Antichrift. So we find that all who were immediately, inftrumental in the death of Chrift are to be again on the earth at the fecond coming, from Mark xiii. 36, Matthew xxvi. 69; from which laft he infers, "the high priest must be e again upon the earth and from Rev. 1. 7, that they who were concerned in his cru cifixion muft alfo be here. It therefore becomes a lie queftion, as to the very wicked and the very beft, in what way they are to be again upon the earth; and I think it is by coming literally through the womb." See Ezek. xxxvII. 11-15, 24, 25, Palm xc. 3, 4, Haiah xxvi. 29, Matt. xi. 23, xxvii. 12, 18. Living more than once in the ordinary way in the cafe of John the Baptift exemplified beyond a doubt. See alfo John iii. 3-12, 1 Cor. xv. 22, 23, 45-49. That men live more than once in the ordinary way of being/ born again, is ftrongly confirmed by Rev. xiv. 18. From the reft of that chapter the text applies only to the times of the fecond coming, and those events fubfequent thereto; and I think there is no way of explaining it but of living more than once. See alfo Dan. xii. 1. I now proceed to point out the plan that I conceive is leading to the great confummation of the purposes of this world. I apprehend no man has lived fince the Flood who was not in cxiftence before it, and that all, both good and bad, have been born again fubfequent thereto. The word were, regenerated in the line of Ham, and particularly in his fon Canaan ; which will explain that paffage where it is faid, Curfed be Canaan, a fervant of fervants fhall he be to his brother." The left were brought again into the world in the line of Abraham and his fon Haac, and his grandfon Jacob; and though not then capable of the pure worthip ordained by Chrift, they were able to receive a preparatory to it, and the belief in one God, as revealed in the Mofaic difpenfation, but all but that race were idolaters, and were incapable of being otherwife till another flage of their exiftence. Agreeable to this order of things, Lconocive that all the beft and worst of mankind were actually born again, and living at the death of Chrift. At the commencemept of the millenium there will be multitudes on the earth of all nations aud languages, who, though not yet capable of that immortality which the 144,000 fprong from Abraham have obtained, yet they fhall live on without difeafe or mifery, and die with the certainty of eternal life and happiness; and fo will thofe fprung from them, till all who are, capable of happiness have perfected their falvation. And then comes up again the generation of vipers, and the devil, being then loofed at શ |