'Surely the foregoing letter wears the complexion of truth, and yet, either from envy or rigid scepticism, it has been held out by many as a matter of doubt, without one feasible authority or circumstantial argument that could render it so. Convinced of the infallibility of Dr. Harington's letter, I concluded on giving it a place here, refering the reader to the material and provident aid the song had often yielded to the King and State, in every critical situation when lurking Sedition had caused loud and dangerous murmurs to be daily heard in every house and every street, threatening defiance to the sword of Justice and her wise established laws, spurning at Majesty on his road to meet his mob-insulted Senate, or annoying him in his public pleasures; yet, has the wavering subject been often called back to his original duty to his King, and the harsh and clamorous voice of Anarchy lulled into a calm, by this divine, this popular, and national bymn.

"John Ward speaks of God save the King in his account of the Professors of Gresham College, published 1740, where he gives a catalogue of Dr. Pepusch's music as follows: No. XVIII, 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I. folio 56, God save the King, which is all that is there mentioned of it. It has been thought to be a variation of that gentleman's, composed on the above tune; but the Editor has not been able, at present, to meet with it."

Mr. Clark gives another "popular song, Rule Britannia !"

first sung at Cliffden, in a Masque ealled Alfred, before their Royal Highnesses the Prinee and Princess of Wales, on the 1st of August, 1740; written by Mr. Thomson and Mr. Mallet, and set to music by Mr. Arne.”

"The Glee Club was first held at the Newcastle Coffee-House, Castlestreet, in the Strand, December 22, 1787. The following gentlemen formed the original institution:-Robert Smith, esq.; Dr. Arnold; Dr. Beaver; Rev. James Hinckes; T. S. Dupuis, esq.; John Roberts, esq. James Heseltine, esq.; Theoph. Aylward, esq.; Charles Wright, esq.; Thomas Gregory, esq.: H. Desdier, esq.; Luff. Atterbury, esq.; Thomas Linley, esq.-Honorary Members: Mr. S. Webbe; John Dyne; Paul Hobler; J. W. Callcott; John Hindle; James Bartleman; Samuel Webbe, Jun.; Samuel Harrison.

"The Society removed to the Crown

and Anchor in 1788, and continued there till 1790; then went to the Freemasons' Tavern, where they held their meetings till 1791, and afterwards returned to the Crown and Anchor, where they have continued to meet and dine together on alternate Saturdays. The Subscribers, at present, are thirty in number, thirteen honorary, or musical members, and four perpetual visitors, and they meet ten times in the season; the meetings begin in December. The Society originally met twelve times. The hour of dining is half-past four o'clock; and the members take their seats at the table according to seniority, except the professional gentlemen, who always take their places in the centre of the table on each side. Each subscriber pays seven guineas for his ten nights, and is entitled to introduce one visitor on alternate nights, which visitor pays one pound. The professional gentler men have the same privilege with the subscribers. The perpetual visitors have an equal privilege with the honorary members. The business of the Club is conducted by a committee, consisting of the president, vice-president, treasurer, conductor, deputy-conductor, and the secretary, together with five other members, which five are balloted for annually. There is also a messenger, who delivers the letters previous to each meeting, and attends in the room for the purpose of handing the books to the conductor when any glue is called for."

Non nobis, Domine!'

"Of this solemn canon, used by way. the Editor presumes to remark, that of grace or thanksgiving after dinner, the learned Dr. Burney (page 39, Conimemoration of G. F. Handel) says, that the chorus of I will sing unto the Lord,' in the Oratorio of Israel in Egypt, has exactly the same intervals with the canon before-mentioned. Whe ther the subject occurred accidentally, or was taken by design, the Doctor does not know; but he adds, in either case, the notes are happily selected, and ingeniously used. As to the original inventor, or right owner of that series of notes, upon which the celebrated and beautiful canon (which tradition has given to William Byrde) was constructed, they have been the subject of fugue to Zarlino, and to old Villaert, his master, long before Byrde was born; and, indeed, constitute one of the different species of tetrachord used by the Greeks in the highest antiquity. It has been usual on some occasions to applaud,

after

after singing this grace; but the breach, rather than the observance, of this custom might, it is thought, be more decorous. 'Non nobis, Domine!' is a soleman act of thanksgiving, felt and expressed in the most divine strains, not intended to excite applause, but to inspire the heart with the deepest sense of gratitude to the Divine Being."

"Glorious Apollo.'

"On the authority of Mr. Webbe, this glee was written expressly by him for the Glee Club, when the original members had their meetings at their respective houses in turn, before they bad determined where to establish the Club. Hence he composed the music some time before he wrote the words. This glee is, invariably, the first that is sung after dinner."

Mr. Clark's historical description of Madrigals, concludes with the following conjecture on the origin of that term:

"An original song of rejoicing in honour of the Virgin Mother, from madra, mother, and galdere; or madrigaldere, a rejoicing hymn to the holy mother."

From so extensive a range it would be easy to select innumerable instances of beautiful poetic gems; but we shall content ourselves with a

single example, taken principally for the purpose of assisting Mr. Clark in his inquiry; who says,

"Some pains have been taken to discover the Author of this beautiful Glee; but with no other effect than the following information, which the Editor had from Mr. Webbe himself:-He had sent his servant to the chandler's shop, who return'd with a printed sheet of paper enveloping the article bought. The beauty of the poetry induced him to set the words to music. The ideas are undoubtedly borrowed from sacred history."

"GLEE for Five Voices.-S. WEBBÉ. When winds breathe soft along the silent deep, [sleep: The waters curl, the peaceful billows A stronger gale the troubled wave awakes; [shakes. The surface roughens, and the ocean More dreadful still, when furious storms arise, [skies; The mounting billows bellow to the On liquid rocks the tott'ring vessel's toss'd, Unnumber'd surges lash the foaming The raging waves, excited by the blast, Whiten with wrath, and split the sturdy

mast.

coast;

to roar;

Safe are the seas, and silent as the shore. Now say, what joy elates the sailor's breast, [blest! With prosp'rous gales so unexpected What ease, what transport, in each face is seen! [serene : The heav'ns look bright, the air and sea For ev'ry plaint we hear a joyful strain To Him, whose pow'r unbounded rules the main.'

3. A Sermon on the Love of our Country, preached in the Parish Church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, on Thursday, January 13, 1814, (being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving.) By Joseph Holden Pott, A. M. Archdeacon of London, and Vicar of St. Martin's. Printed by Request. 4to. pp. 31. Rivingtons.

WE have now for many years been accustomed to meet this worthy Archdeacon, and excellent Parish Priest, in the course of our Critical

duty; and we always meet him with increased respect. We now see him, it is true, under new titles; and we hope, ere long, to see his pastoral labours still farther rewarded. Such promotions reflect equal honour on the Patron and the Divine.

An injunction of St. Paul to Timothy (1 Ep. ii. 1, 2.) is selected. by the Archdeacon for elucidation, as

carrying with it a just description of that spirit which must form the substantial grounds of peace and amity in all the world ;" and containing a plain rule, with relation to Society and Government, for regarding our own advantage, as it should at all times stand connected with the common welfare of mankind, and should tend to cherish and promote the benefit of other nations."

"Among the singular opinions," he observes, "to which the fickle thoughts of men have given birth, there is one which claims our notice on this subject. Attempts have not been wanting to make it questionable, whether the Gospel does at all encourage the love of our Country, or furnish any sanction to the generous and noble ardour of a Patriot Spirit. Nothing surely could

suggest

suggest this doubt to any mind not warped by some great prejudice, or possessed by some prevailing misconception. They who with unbiassed thoughts shall turn the page of Scripture, and consider its examples, may not stand in need of many cautions to preserve them from this groundless and injurious notion but the subject well deserves our best attention, lest we should be led at any time to lose sight of the just measure of our duty in this branch of our common obligation."

"A fitter moment could not be selected for the encouragement of a patriot zeal, on sound and righteous principles, than that by which we are now invited to lift up the voice of thankfulness with one heart to Almighty God; to bless his name for many a successful issue which has been furnished to us in a long protracted, arduous, and eventful struggle. If, indeed, it shall appear that, throughout all the contest, the Government and Councils of this Realm have displayed the just and equal temper which the téxt commends to us, and which constitutes the real glory of a Patriot mind, great cause shall we have to testify our gratitude in any prosperous hour, and to join together with unanimous expressions in witnessing this grateful sense before Him who alone can render our prosperity secure and lasting, and our civil strength conducive to our own good, and helpful to the benefit of others."

"The two main errors which we have to notice and avoid, are placed in opposite extremes. The first is, that which the Jewish people in their worst times, and the Heathens in the best days of their early growth, were led to entertain: for indeed, that which was a gross error in the Jews, who had the precepts of the Lord for their direction, proved a brilliant and imposing misconceit in unenlightened countries....The Jews thought that the love of their country consisted in cherishing their vain and extravagant opinions of their own prerogatives, not only as a favoured people, for they were so; but as the only people to be favoured of the Lord, which was a mistake indulged in full contradiction to the teaching of their own inspired instructors...In the GrecianStates, the love of their soil and government, their fellowship and kindred, was as manifest as that of the most partial of the house of Israel could be; and no less evident were its excesses. By them, all other nations were beheld as mere Bar

barians, not less contemptible than if they had been separated from them by a different species. St. Paul found it necessary to tell the men of Athens, what, it seems, they had quite over

looked, that God had made of one blood all the nations of the earth.' The Athenians boasted that they sprang from the soil of their own region, and they took an emblem to denote this: so that the great truth which our Lord's Apostle set before them was particularly proper to them. The Spartan Commonwealth distinguished itself above all others by high notions of themselves, and carried this mistaken zeal to the extremest pitch. Their pride and insolence became, of course, intolerable. The whole education of the young among them was formed upon this plan, The child was taken from the parent, that it might acknowledge no father but the State, and be ready at all times to encounter death on that account. Yet, for want of Justice and Equality in the Patriot Spirit, what were the fruits of all their zeal for liberty and independence, for their customs, laws, and national importance? The result was this enormous contradiction to a free and generous spirit, that of all people upon earth they were the most arrogant and unsocial, the most rude and repulsive to strangers, the bitterest foes to every neighbour, and the hardest masters when they conquered. The base people under whose ignominious yoke Greece languishes at this day, cannot exceed them in this kind of pride, or surpass them in this insolent contempt. Singular indeed it is that they who are the present masters of the soil of Greece, and who rank low indeed among men in all good attainments, in all improvements intellectual or moral, adopt the same extravagant pretensions to a national importance, and shew the most ridiculous disdain for those who excel them in such manifest degrees. The opposite extreme to that which has thus been considered, is the more modern fancy that the love of our country is entirely superseded by the laws of general benevolence, which the Gospel so forcibly inculcates. But our Lord himself, who never trampled on the ties of nature, had many a touch of the tenderest compassion for his countrymen in particular. Among the bitterest tears which he let fall, were those which he shed when he drew nigh to Jerusalem, and contemplated the near approaching doom of his country and his countrymen."

After having noticed "the several extremes which it hehoves us to avoid" the Archdeacon proceeds "to frame, in compliance with the text, a just view of the noble principle which it was [his] purpose to illustrate and apply;" which he lumi

mously

nously expounds under three distinct divisions.

"That " prayers and supplications should be made for all men.' That 'prayer and thanksgiving be made for Kings, and for all that are in authority.'

"The whole theatre of this Globe, and Europe in particular, has undergone eventful changes; and the task, therefore, of the Civil Power in each State, and in our own especially, which ranks so highly in the scale of Nations, has been proportionably difficult and trying. Whatever may be the design of Providence, whatever may be the Sovereign Will of God in conducting these events, let us be careful to cultivate, as our only stay, the favour of Almighty God. Let us cleave to this ground of good hope, as the only means of profiting amidst all events, whether they be prosperous or adverse. And this leads to the last particular which the text presents. It sets forth the true end of every duty which we have to discharge, as serving to promote peace and good conduct among men, that we may lead our lives in all godliness and honesty.'.

"Let us be ready to unite at all times in earnest prayer and faithful services for the furtherance of harmony and concord in our country, and for maintaining the just respect and honour of the civil sway; that we may not be found among the number of those who are regardless of the benefit of social order. The word of Truth and Revelation, so far from erasing from the hearts of men these natural impressions, serve to fix their real limits; and in proportion as that light is truly entertained, will be the real fervour of a Patriot Zeal, founded upon liberal views, upon disinterested judgment, upon a self-denying temper, upon forbearance and endurance, all which form the genuine features of the patriotic character."

religion, the governments, the distribution of kingdoms, undergoing not simple modifications, but complete alterations and subversions. The recent general uproar in the world has given a greater shake to the minds of men than to the kingdoms of the earth. The notions of mankind, in politics, in morals, in short in the various objects that occupy their faculties, have taken a different turn. History perhaps cannot furnish us with a similar instance of a change so vast and momentous, and at the same time so rapid, in the complexion of the world. Into the immediate or proximate causes that conspired to produce these notorious effects, and what ulterior causes may arise from them in general, it is not here our business to inquire. And in this respect, were we to give our heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly,' we should only discover with the sagacious Monarch, that this also is vexation of spirit.'-But into the consequences that may eventually proceed from such changes to the vital interest of Christianity, as it is within our province, it is no less our important duty to inquire. Every cause which acts in the natural or moral world, may be considered as an instrument of the divine will; and those which to us appear the most irreconcileable, and to act in the most opposite directions, are all at the same time executing the great designs of Providence, and make part of one uniform and complete system.There is perhaps nothing in which the hand of God is more evidently to be distinguished, than in the dispositions of nations and empires, and the changes that are continually happening to them. The things indeed which are of the utmost consequence to mankind, often depend on these changes of the conditions of nations and empires. These are circumstances with which the moral character of men is intimately connect-1 ed. Nations polished with liberal arts, and enlightened with useful knowledge, become more susceptible of virtue, better qualified to receive those truths which God may be pleased to reveal to them of himself, and according to their public situation may be more or less fit to have true religion committed to their charge. No doubt can be entertained that the public transactions of countries, since the period of the planting of the Gospel, have continued to

bear the same kind of relation to Chris

tianity, and are still directed by Pro

vidence with the same views. It is a plan carrying on to the consummation of the present world; and when we contemplate it, it seems like one great

drama

drama connected in all its parts, and conducted by the almighty Author and Governor of the universe. To execute the divine purposes, ambitious men have been merely instruments. They have been the rods of his anger, and the staff in their hand has been the weapon of his indignation;' they have been themselves insensible of the purposes for which they were employed; they have thought of nothing but extending their own power and gratifying their ambition; they have looked no farther for the success than the numbers of

their forces and the prowess of their arms not considering the unseen hand which bore them along, which made every thing fall before them, but which could in an instant check their progress and finish their career. Such men have enjoyed all the glory with which in the language of worldly flattery conquerors and heroes are invested, and have reached the very summit of human greatness; when, if we coolly view their actions, stript of all this parade, we must look on them with detestation and horror. For, turning to those who are the subjects of such victories and triumphs, is to see the dreadful extremity of human distress in all its forms; to see multitudes of persons involved in one common fate, and having their fortunes, their lives, and whatever is most dear to them, sacrificed to military violence. Yet it is by such events, full of suffering, desolation, and slaughter, that the purposes of God are accomplished in the greatest transactions of the world. The events of war and the revolutions of empires bring with them some of the most severe and general calamities to which mankind are subject, and at the same time are the events in which his hand seems most visibly to interpose. The conclusion, therefore, to be drawn from all such considerations is; not, that God is unjust in permitting these evils to befall his creatures, but that they are designed to answer particular purposes of his providence, with which we cannot possibly be acquainted. And when we see, that in some remarkable instances this is certainly the case, there is the greatest reason for us to infer that it is so always."

5. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Luke, Middlesex, before His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and the Committee of the Royal Institation for the Education upon the British System of One Thousand Children of the Poor of all Religious Denominations, in the Wards of Aldersgate,

Bassishaw, Coleman-street, and Cripplegate, in the City of London, and in the Parish of St. Luke and Liberty of Glasshouse-yard, in the County of Middlesex, on Sunday, March 13, 1814. By the Rev. William Tooke, F. R. S. Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. 8vo. pp. 22. Printed for the Use of the Committee.

of London, nor that of his Chaplain, NEITHER the office of Lord Mayor at least in this glorious and eventful year, can be considered as a sinecure. Independent of the numerous attendances on Princes and Sovereigns in the City State Coach, and the Festivities at Guildhall and the Mansion-house, the present worthy Chaplain is called on, again and again, to labour in his proper vocation, and to plead for the young and the helpless. Were it in our power as easily to dispense Ecclesiastical Preferment where it is so well merited, as it is to give praise where praise is justly due, Mr. Tooke would not be long without at least a Prebendal Stall. But we must attend to his masterly discourse.

"The fault of which we are cautioned in our text (Eccles. vii. 11.), of censuring the temper and manners of the times, and disparaging their value in comparison of the former, is of so old a date, is so deeply seated in the nature of man, and admits of being so plausibly palliated by such obvious imperfections of the present, that it is rather a hopeless task to persuade the advocates and abettors of this practice of their unreasonableness and partiality, The pen of the satirist has in all ages been employed in censuring and vilifying the present times, and charging them with a variety of follies and extravagances, which to the former are said to have been unknown. The tongue of the garrulous old man expatiates with peculiar complacency on the. delightful theme of the days that are past, of those of his youth in derogation of the present. It is in some degree founded in the very nature and constitution of man; seeing he forgets nothing more easily than frailties and follies in which he himself bore a part, and therefore judges nothing more severely than errors and deviations which have now 110 more charms for him. Even the real and undeniable imperfections, by which every age, and our own in particular, is marked, may furnish some specious arguments in extenuation of this fault. For instance, if we advert solely to the scepticism, the incredulity,