INDEX INDICATORIUS.

Spenser, in his "Faery Queen," mentions The Egyptian Phao. Is this the Ægyptian Phtha, or elementary principle of Fire, which, by the way, was no improper mistress for the philosopher Ptolemy? If not, who else? Whence did Spenser borrow the tale? H.H. L. & M.D.

Beaumont aud Fletcher, in Knight of the Burnt Pest. Act iv. Sc. 1. say: "Cit. Why so, Sir, go fetch me him then, and let the Sophy of Persia come and christen him a Child. Boy. Believe me, Sir, that will not do so well, 'tis stale, it has been had before at the Red

King's Bench has decided that where a Stamp was higher than the proper value, it was equally invalid as if it had been lower." LERUS begs to be informed,bysome of our Legal Correspondents, whether the Noble Earl's assertion is correct, with respect to Stamps upon Law Proceedings, such as Deeds and Conveyances; and whether a Law bas not been enacted to render a Deed valid, where a higher Stamp has been used than that strictly required? Supposing Lord Stanhope to be right, what remedy can be applied in a recent case,

dull."-This diffi- where a Stamp above the proper value has

cult passage is passed in silence by Commentators. I would ask, Is it, not a fling at Shakspeare's Henry VIII. Christening scene.? Beaumont and Fletcher, were capable of seeing the ridiculous in Shakspeare, as is abundantly evident from many passages in this play. Si quid novisti rectius, &c.

E. J. C. inquires whether there be or be not such a uame as Napoleon; and whether it be not a mere invention of the deposed Corsican, and a substitution (as many have supposed) for the name of Nicholas Did any other person ever have this name, and has it been known beyond the limits of Corsica? In the French Calendars it has been foisted into the Catalogue of Saints. This, however, proves no more than that such, was the will of Buonaparte,

The following has been reported as part of the Speech of Earl Stanhope upon a motion for the committal of the Law Pro ceedings Stamps Bill; " The Court of

Day of

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been used?

Epistles, two volumes; each volume containing two Decads, by Joseph Hall. London, printed by A, H. for Eleazar Edgar and Samuel Macham," 1608," 12mo. This is a production of the learned and eloquent Bishop of Norwich, and is exceedingly rare. Is it reprinted in any of the late editions of the works of this pious Prelate? PISHEY THOMPSON.

"The Psalmes of, David truly opened and explained by Paraphrasis, translated from the Latin of Theodore Beza, by Anthonie Gilbie. Printed by Henry Denham, at the sign of the Star, 1581," in 18mo. My copy of this book is an exceeding fine one; I have never seen, it noticed in any catalogue. Who was Gilbie the translator, and is the book of very rare oc currence? PISHEY THOMPSON. {

With our next Number will be given a beautiful View of SELBY ABBEY, Yorkshire, from a Drawing by Mr, J. C. Buckler.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for July, 1815. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.

8. o'clock

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Morning.

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cloudy

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20

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22

60

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23

67

60

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12

25

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72

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68 55

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JULY,

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finement, that the old practice will be still adopted.

It must be matter of regret that in all Oxford Editions of the Bible, the verse, Luke xxiii. 82. "There were also two other malefactors," is still retained. For a very obvious reason the word other should be expunged.

I observe, R. C. has added a new word to the English language. Sanctimoniousness, though rather of uncouth sound, appears of sufficient importance to enlarge the Catalogue of English substantives, though hitherto omitted in our Dictionaries: I equally agree with him, to use the words of an old author, distinguished for his learning and piety, that true Religion" does not consist in the morosity of a Cynic, in the severity ofan Ascetic, or in the demureness of a Precisian; it is neither a drooping head, a mortified face, or a primitive beard; but it is something very different, and much more excellent *." Yours, &c.

J. C.

Mr. URBAN, July 8. TOU are particularly requested to You insert the following passage, taken from "Letters to Dr. Priestley," which were published in 1789 by one of his very learned opponents.

"But, if you think that, notwithstanding such repeated expressions, wherein divine titles, divine attributes, and divine works, are ascribed to Jesus Christ, the people would not conclude that Jesus Christ was God; I request you only to try the following experiment. On some Sunday when you go into the pulpit to preach to your own congrega tion, speak of Jesus Christ in the same manner as the Apostles have spoken of Him in the passages before mentioned †: make use of their very words, quote the places where they may be found, and leave it to your bearers to judge of the sense and meaning of them. And I

Essays by the Rev. J. Norris.

you

dare say that before the next-Sunday, will find it to be rumoured about in every place that you have changed your principles; that from an Unitarian you have become a Trinitarian; and that, as you formerly accounted Jesus Christ to be no more than any other man, you now look upon him to be God. This is a very easy experiment; and, if you will but undertake to make it, I am fully persuaded you will soon be convinced what it was that the whole body of the Jewish Christians believed concerning the Divinity of Christ when they heard the Apostles preaching in the same words.***

The title of the work from which this extract is taken is, "The Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, demonstrated from the Holy Scriptures, and from the Doctrine of the Primitive Church, in a series of Letters addressed to the Rev. Dr. Joseph Priestley, in Answer to his Letters to the Rev. Dr. Geddes. By the Rev. James Barnard."

A PRIEST OF THE ESTABLISHED
CHURCH.

Mr. URBAN,

July 13.

THE language, which Mr. Bel-
hold respecting the Established Clergy,
leaves no room for surprise at the
conclusion of his Answer to
my Se-
cond Address. What claim to "the
common courtesy of civilized life"
has a Writer, who refuses to shew
such courtesy to a whole profession?
to the whole Ministry of the Church
of England? whom the wise and good
of other countries universally respect
for their learning and virtue; but
whom Mr. Belsham calls "impostors,
and bigots, and persecutors,"
"with
whom "truth is necessarily an object
of aversion and abhorrence?" What
claim can he have, who, in contempt
of all law and decency §, calls the Re-
ligion of his Country "the wretched
+"At the beginning of this letter."

Isham has been accustomed to

In Gent. Mag. for June, 1815, p. 500. "Another species of offences against religion (says BLACKSTONE) are those which affect the Established Church. And first of the offence of reviling the prdinances of the Church. This is a crime of much grosser nature than the other of mere non-conformity; since it carries with it the utmost indecency, arrogance, and ingratitude: indecency, by setting up private judgment in virulent and factious opposition to public authority: arrogance, by treating with contempt and rudeness what has at least a better chance to be right than the singular notions of any particular man. However, it is provided by Statutes 1 Ed. VI. c. 1. and 1 Eliz. c. 1. and c. 2. &c. The terror of these Laws (for they seldom, if ever, were fully executed) proved a principal means, under Providence, of preserving the purity as well as decency of our National Worship. Nor can their continuance to this time (of the milder penalties at least) be thought too severe

and

relick of a dark and barbarous age?" What right has he to complain of dis courtesy on my part, who calls me a Bonner, and a persecutor, because I have thought it my duty to make my public protest against the repeal of the Law against Blasphemy,-against the publication of blasphemous and antichristian doctrines? Unitarianism is a system of unbelief, which I have shewn to be founded on misrepresent ation, prevarication, and falsehood; and to be wholly antichristian. In the dissection of such a system, and of the means by which it is supported, the courtesy, which conceals its deformities, and thus tends to render doubtful the truths, which the Scriptures have recorded, and the Primitive Church has transmitted to us, appears to me to be nothing less than a compromise of truth and duty.

Bp. Horsley's, and the latter, an in vention of Mosheim's. The traces are obvious enough to persons conversant in ecclesiastical antiquity. I will, in a subsequent communication, bring proofs of the fact long previous to the time of Mosheim. In the mean while Mr. Belsham "has done." He retires from ground which he finds no longer tenable. His system is indeed utterly untenable, but by means to which the cause of truth bas never oc casion to resort.

Mr. Belsham says, he has taken his leave of me." The calumniator of the Church of England, and of the Clergy, complains of discourtesy, with the same policy, and with just as much consistency, as Buonaparte used to clamour against "the tyranny of the seas," at the very time that he was barassing the Continent of Eu rope with the most horrible and vex ations oppression.

Mr. Belsham has "taken his leave of me." But he will not acknowledge, that the system, which he has adopted, is untenable; nor will he do the jus tice that is due to the Established Church, by confessing that his objections to her doctrines have been proved to originate in false principles, opposed to the authority of Scripture, in misconception and perversion of Scripture, and in ignorance of ecclesiastical antiquity.

Mr. Belsham says, "he has done." He has done his utmost (I have no doubt) in defence of Unitarianism. But he has not done what the publick had a right to expect from him. He has left uncorrected his suppression of the authority of Tertullian, an authority which is essentially adverse to his opinions of Christianity. He has made no reply to the alleged evidence of the orthodoxy of the Church of Jerusalem, both before and after the time of Adrian, though that or thodoxy annihilates the pretended Unitarianism of the Primitive Church. He does not yet perceive, that "the question whether the Church of Elia consisted chiefly of orthodox Hebrew Christians, who abandoned the rites of the Law, for the sake of sharing the privileges of the Elian colony," is no part of the main question respecting the faith of the Primitive Church. He challenges me to discover any traces of that fact, previous to the time of Mosheim, though it was Dr. Priest ley's and his business to have proved that there were no traces of it, before the former bad called it a forgery of and intolerant; so far as they are levelled at the offence, not of thinking differently from the National Church, but of railing at the Church." BLACKSTONE'S Com mentaries, vol. IV. p. 49. ed. 1803.

Mr. Belsham has "taken his leave of me." But it will be some time before I shall take my leave of him. I have already provided ample materials for his consideration, which have not yet attracted his notice, and I have more in reserve. My inquiries into the grounds of Unitarianism did not commence from personal reasons, nor will they be prevented or impeded by personal obloquies. I shall pursue my way through evil report and good report" and confine myself chiefly to the writings of Mr. Belsham, with this single view, that I

In the following Sermon and Tracts: "The truth, to which Christ came into the world to bear witness; and the testimony of Christ's contemporaries to his declaration of his Divinity, confirmed by his discourses, actions, and death: A SERMON preached at Llanarth and Carmarthen." 2. "Evidence of the Divinity of Christ, from the literal testimony of Scripture, containing a Vindication of Mr. Sharp's Rule from the objections of the Rev. Calvin Winstanley. Second Edition." 3. "The Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the Religion of the Church of England; being an Answer to the Letter of an Unitarian Lay-Seceder." may

"I was very unfortunate in not have ing opportunity to meet you when in London, that I might have paid my debt for the bookes sent (had I known the value, I would have left it) and enjoy'd a few minutes of your good company; but I was soe hurried about with Businesse, having been long absent from the town, that I had noe time att my dispose. I remember the last time I had the happinesse to see you, you had some thoughts of sending for a collection of seeds of herbaceous plants from the King's Gardens, to Monsr Tournefort. I should be glad you those in

tentions; but they must now be speedily perform'd, the season coming on apate. If soe, I must be a beggar for a few; for I have been disappointed of severall sent one particularly I lament, because know well collected, sent forward by Dr. Sherard, but came noe farther than Lyons, where Dr. Carr, who brought them, died, as I had lately advice; and others expected from Carolina, lost in a shipwreck on the Isle of Wight; soe that I am like to be poor this year if not assisted by some of my friends. I beg par don that I could not stay for you longer on Saturday morn; for I had a pressing occasion, which call'd me away, and when I came where I design'd, met there fresh businesse, which sent me back to the other end of the town again, and gave me a very wearysom journey before I gott to Enfield att night. Your servant, when I call'd upon you, seem'd to signifie you had some commands for me; shall be readier to assure you of a willing if you please to lett me know them, none complyance therewith than, Sir, your oblig'd and most humble servant,

ROB. UVEDALE,

Enfield, Jan. 11th, 1698."

Mr. URBAN,

T

June 24.

It is recorded, that when Sir Chrisá topher Wren schemed his famous column on Fish-street-hill, so well known by the name of The Monument, he formed it bollow, to serve as a tube for an astronomical purpose, which he laid aside, on finding it liable to be shaken by the continual passing of carriages along the street below. This discovery appears to be of so momentous a nature, that it is to be lamented, as well as wondered at, that it did not induce him to give up the choice of a pillar altogether, as well as his astronomical application of it. But, perhaps, the business might then

* Vol. LXXXIV. Part II. p. 206.-Some account of Dr. Uvedale may be seen in Dr. Pulteney's "Botanical Sketches," vol. H. p. 30, and a description of his garden at Enfield in Archæologia, vol. XII. article XVI. in which volume is a short account of several gardens near London, with remarks on some particulars wherein they excel, or are deficient, upon a view of them in December 1691, by J. Gibson. When Enfield Church was repaired in 1789, the batchments were removed; and the hatchment containing the arms of Dr. Uvedale impaled with those of his wife, (Mary, second daughter of Edward Stephens, esq. of Cherrington, co. Gloucester,) is now in the Church of Langton juxta Partney, co. Lincoln. One of the escuteheons used at the Doctor's Funeral is now in my possession; as is also the very cur rious funeral escutcheon of Oliver Cromwell, which Dr. Uvedale (in 1658, when at Westminster under Dr. Busby,) snatched from the bier of the Protector; and an account of which is given in Gent. Mag. vol. LXII. p. 114, vol. LXIV. p. 19.

Where are several other Letters from Dr. Uvedale to Sir Hans Sluane, &c. also two Letters to Sir Hans Sloane from Mr. Uvedale, the translator of that valuable work, "The Memoirs of Philip de Comines,"

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