Days 29 208 30 Sunday Shut EACH DAY'S PRICE Bank 3porCt.sperCent. 4perCt. 5perCt. 5perCt. Long Short India Stock. BkRed. Confols. Confol. Navy. 1797. Ann. Ann. Stock. fhut 50 a 2 hut 92/12 OF STOCKS IN APRIL, 1806. fhut fhut hut 183 India Exchequ.South Sea Ola Bills. Stock. Bonds. 1 a 2 dif. 2 dif. New Om- Irish Imp Eng. Lott. English. Ann. Ann. nium. 5perCt. 3perCt. Tickets. Prizes. fhut 19 19 01perCt.difc.. 208 207 fhutoa 61fhut 93 fhut fhut hut fhut 2 dif. par 2 dif. fhut fhut 60 19 19 01.perCt.difc.. 208 hut 615 faut -94 fhut fhut fhut 183 2 dif. par 2 dif. fhut fhut fhut 19 19 01perCt.difc. Good Friday. fhut fut 50k a 59% Thut 93 fhut fhut fhut fhut par dif. 1 a 2 dif. Thut fhut 19 19 01perCt.dife fhut 60 a fhut 9208 fhut 60 a 13 Sunday 14 208 fhut 60 a fhut 92 fhut fhut 15 210 hut 60 a fhut 923 fhut fhut 181. par 1 pr. par 2 pr. 64 faut 3 pr. fhut 19 19 0,1 perCt.difc. 16 210 hut 60 a fhut 93 fhut. fhut par 1 pr. par 2 pr. fhut 3 pr. 88 180 2 a 1 p. par 2 pr. 3 pr. 89 3 pr. fhut 19 19 3 pr 20 Sunday 21 211 22 211 23 214 fhut 60 a 59 fhut 922 fhut shut 59 a fhut 92 fhut par pr. 1 pr. par 1802 par 1 pr. dif.alpr. fhut 180 24 214 58 59 a 60 shut 92 fhut faut 179 par 1 dif. par 1 dif. par 1 pr. 1 dif. 2 pr. 2 pr. 25 213/ 50층 592 fhut fhut fhut 26 213 59 59 a 92 fhut par par 1 dif. par 1 pr. 1 pr. 2 pr. 2 pr. fhut 20 5 0 1 perCt.dife [Printed by J. NICHOLS and Sor, Red Lion Paffage, Fleet Street.] BRANSCOMB and Co. Stock-Brokers, 11, Holborn, 37, Cernhill, and 38, Hay-Market. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: LOND. GAZETTE GENERAL EVEN. Lloyd's Evening St.James's Chron London Chron. Brit.Prefs--Globe London Evening The Sun-Star London Packet EnglishChron. 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Wheat Rye Barley| Oats | Beans 2 Effex 82 637 Worcest. 90 1100 037 Warwick 90 700 033 829 646 5 Chefter 80 331 045 3 Flint 5 Cumberl. 79 961 030 5 529 241 9 500 0,00 0.30 200 0 00 000 045 600 000 147 030 400 046 1032 400 1 025 o Denbigh 93 500 630 613 11 Anglefea 70 000 600 033 11 28 1010 6 Carnarvon 85 Bucks 70 800 033 7.29 643 8 Merionet. 87 Brecon 94 457 746 424 0100 Montgo. 94 5:00 0.10 Radnor 80 5100 040 2 26 1100 8 31452 Average of England and Wales, Average of Scotland, per quarter. 70 8 34 230 723 11,35 8.00. 035 11 28 300 100 039 600 000 000 0133 323 1100 0130 831 639 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Glouceft. 88 6,99 039 726 644 Somerfet 87 400 8100 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For MAY, 1806. Mr. URBAN, T May 4. HE fate of Literary Adventurers, who at this period of univerfal authorship, fally forth to obtain territorial poffeffions in the regions of Parnaffus, is certainly very pitiable; becaufe the country to which their ambition directs them is now fo thickly inhabited, that no fmall degree of fkill and exertion is neceffary even to acquire a firm footing on the crowded foil. Yet, fince examples are ftill afforded us of eminent abilities lawfully acquiring an ample freehold in that defirable country, without injufiice or damage to the former fettlers, it fees. right that the prefent race of Authors fhould fo far remember the fundamental laws of Literature, and even their own future interefis, as to examine the validity of thofe accufations which are urged against Authors of eftablished reputation, with fcrupulous attention, and to refift all unlawful fpoliation of moral or lettered fame; though, by fuch refiflance, many an ardent fpirit may be prevented from vaulting into the vacant feat of dethroned Talent. Formerly fecond-rate Geniufes were contented with picking up the neglected fragments that lie fcattered round the ftately palaces raised by pre-eminent abilities; and, faftening thefe together with their own folder, they fabricated a fnug retreat," well calculated to hide their own littlenefs. But a bolder plan has lately been pur fued by thofe who have no inherent ftock of materials to build with, and yet are refolved to poffefs a confpicuous edifice. I do not allude to thofe erection's of ftraw and pafte-board, which only aim to catch tranfient approbation by a varnished outfide, and become ruins before they are finished; nor to thofe uncouth, builders whofe love for novelty induces them to try to realize the idea of an inverted pyramid, and who bury themfelves under the fragments of their own abfurdity; I fpeak of thofe defperate marauders who, like their political archetypes, refolve to become renowned by practifing the art of deftruction, and conceive that the heft poffible title to a tenement is a certificate that you have murdered its former occupier. But, Mr. Urban, I wish to know if the intereffs of Literature, Morals, or Religion, will be promoted by fanc tioning fuch depredations. Will thofe who build their fame on the fair ruins of another's name,” afford the public more wholesome instructions, or difplay a more beneficial brilliancy? Diogenes might gladly have moulded himfelf a new tub, from the fragments of Perfepolis, and out of it he would have harangued against the pride of "Perfia's Lord" with more malignant and unfocial, yet not lefs invincible ar rogance. And, on the ruins of Britifh Literature, fome Quack in Morals may erect a ftage, from which he may vend the deleterious compound of fentimental metaphyfics, myftical fanaticifin, or fallen difcontent, under the affumed names of purer religion, or more liberal enquiry. This deferyes confideration. I have been led into these remarks by perufing fome Ellays lately publifed by a gentleman of the name of Folter, who claims an extraordinary degree of zeal for the honour of God, and for the general diffufion of Chrif tian principles. Far be it from me, Mr. Urban, to infinnate that this zeal is affected. I only know, this writer by his publication; and, while I fincerely hope that he is a well-meaning man, whofe life is a favourable comment on the principles he profeffes, I may be allowed to queftion the utility, or even the honefly, of the means he has adopted to awaken mankind to a clearer view of their religious duties. His ftyle, though florid, is energetic; and he unquestionably, poffeffes infor mation He dwells particularly on two, as in mation and fenfibility but it appears to me, that the former has not inculcated thofe principles which would have preferred the latter from frequently verging to the brink of mifanthropy, in which abyfs, exuberant benevolence is frequently ingulphed. Refpecting the great and fundamental truths of Chriftianity, my belief is as firm as this gentleman's; but, while he contemplates the ineflimable benefit of our Saviour's, fufferings, he apIpears to me to fall into thofe errors which peculiarly diftinguish thofe who now, exclufively, apply to themfelves the much-perverted term of Evangeli-who lived in a world where the nocal, as a mark of feparation from, and bleft caufe which that world ever faw fuperiority to, their Fellow Chriftians. invited their affiftance, and that this Inftead of depicturing man as a frail caufe vainly fought even their neutra and feeble being, they depravity, till they afflcant on his lity. They are gone into Eternity, him with Devils; thus, unintentionally I trufi, they give the wort of our fpecies an excufe for the greatest crimes, and degrade every excellence which has been always thought entitled to the esteem of our fellow-creatures, and well pleafing in the fight of our Maker. Be fides, by thus ex ending the myflery of Redemption beyond Scriptural authority, they give a handle to Deifts to reprefent our Holy Religion as inimical to thofe ideas of juftice and wifdom which we must ever afcribe to. the Univerfal Creator; who cannot be fo partial to one of His works, as to give a ranfom of infinite value for one Face of His creatures, and leave another without hope of mercy. If men and devils are, as thefe devout authors defcribe them, totally worthles and abfolutely depraved, why did the Son of God die for Man only? Mr. F. goes on to enquire into the caufes why men of talle have an averfion to Evangelical Religion; and, after condemning the ftudy of Heathen Authors, by fhewing its pernicious influence on the imagination, he proceeds to the Literature of our own country; in which he finds, to ufe his own words, with comparatively finall exemptions, an immenfe vacancy of Chriftianized fentiment." Obferve, this cenfure is not pointed at thofe immoral or deiftical authors who are a difgrace to our language, but exprefly at what may be called British Claffics, at our Effavifts, Hiftorians, Poets, Writers of Fiction, and Moralifts *. * Even our Divines are glanced at, wol. with the guilt refting on them, of having employed their genius, as the Magicians did their enchantments against Mofes, to counteract the Saviour of the World." I mean to confine my firictures to thefe two Worthies, whom I have ever confidered as faithful Soldiers of Chrift; and will enquire if direct annoyance, or even neutrality, to the Chriftian caufe can be proved against them. But let us firft rehearse the peculiar accufation. "The various interefting fets of fhort effays, especially the Spectator and Rambler, must have had, during a feafon at leaf, a very confiderable influence on the moral tafte of the publick; and probably they have a very confiderable influence till. The very ample fcope of the Spectator gave a fair opportunity for a ferious writer to introduce, excepting fcience, a liule. of every fubject connected with the condition and happinefs of men. How did it happen that the ftupendous circumfiance of the Redemption by the Melliah, of which the importance is commenfurate with the whole interefts of man, with the value of his immor tal fpirit, with the government of his Creator in this world, and with the happiness of Eternity, fhould not have been a few times in the courfe of that long work very fully and folemnly exhibited? Why fhould not a few of the moft peculiar of the doctrines comprehended in the fubject have been cloathed with the fafcinating elegance of Addifon; from whofe pen many Mrs. More. perfons |