Their object is to point out and check the turbulent, difaffected fpirit of the Catholic Clergy, not excepting those high in office. Some circumftances alluded to in the later letters by the Chancellor are anfwered in notes. The Earl difcontinued the correfpondence. After fome interval it recommenced, and four letters were interchanged; but as the latter have not got into circulation, the fame motives do not exift for their publication as for that feries now laid before the publick. As foon as they are, they will be printed separately, for the convenience of those who may purchase the foregoing. The confidential correfpondence being, by fome perfons, communicated to fome of the Catholic Clergy, produced a defence of Mr. O'Neill by himfelf, fupported by a defence of his Diocefan, whofe letter on the fubject to the Chancellor, and the Chancellor's anfwer, terminate the whole. 119. A free and candid Examination of Pamphlet intituled "The Subflance of a Speech intended to bave been spoken in the Houfe of Lords by Richard Watson, Lord Bishop of Landaff, Nov. 22, 1803;" with Strictures thereon. To which are added, a few Remarks by the Author, arifing from the present Pofition of Affairs and Jome recent Occurrences. THE examiner objects to the general arming, in a moral view; to the difcharging the national debt, in an honourable view, or as a public benefit, and of ufe only to the land-owner or land-fpeculator; and even the practicability of it is doubted; and the propofition is compared with a fimilar one by Mr. Hutchinfon, mentioned by Hume. The dangerous confequence of his Lordship's propofal, refpecting paying the Irish Catholic Clergy out of the public money, and of repealing the Corporation and Test Act, is pointed out. The author concludes with pointing out the propriety of foreigners paying equally with natives to the income tax for their property in the funds; and a compliment to the prefent Administration, "upright" in their intentions, manly and open in their dealings, confcious of deferving it, they call for the judgment, and demand the confidence, of their country, how juftly, the unanimous fupport of a grateful nation teftifies." (p. 40.) the Five fufpended Members of the Council of the Royal Academy. By Authority. PAINTS, in minute detail, the unhappy effects of cabal and faction in a flourishing fcientific fociety, begun in the prefidency of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and, fince his death, carried to fuch a height as to make the Council, in a majority of which the whole authority is vefted, fubfervient to the General Affembly. 121. A concife Review of the " Concife Vindication," &c. &c. THE Reviewer, whom we fufpect to mark himfelf in the note, p. 25, as "he who had decorated and led forth the triumphal proceffion of Art and Philofophy," afferts the dangerous power of the General Affembly even to expel obnoxious members. 122. The Confeffions of J. Lackington, late Bookfeller at the Temple of the Mufes; in a Series of Letters to a Friend. To which are added, Two Letters on the bad Confequences of barring Daughters educated at Boarding-fchools. THESE mifcellanies of his own obfervations, with the fentiments of others, may be called the experiences and converfion of J. Lackington-very different from thofe of Jean-Jaques and very different from his reflections when in bufinefs at London and now in retirement at Alvefton-u Methodift! The hints on boarding-fchools are too juft. 123. The Revelation of St. John the Divine compared with itfelf and the rest of Scripture; with occafional Corrections of the Tranflations. THIS Analyfis is divided into eight I. Containing Chapters i. ii. iii. IV. Chap. xii. xiii. xiv. 124. An Appendix to the Revelation of St. John compared with itself and the rest of Scripture, &c.; containing a Recapitulation and Conclufions from the preceding Tract. THE Vifions are here ranged in as many periods; and a fhort fymbolical 130. A concife Vindication of the Conduct of dictionary is added. "The interpreter has has first to discover the epoch of the which is more than half the length of 1260 prophetical years of the Romifh the Advice, the former edition is deapoftacy; and, having found this, he fended; and it is obferved not to be will, in due time, overcome the lefs "a fit place to dwell upon the expedifficulties. Mr. Mede, Dr. H. More, diency of removing thefe political reMr. Jurieu, Sir Ifaac Newton, and ftraints, which feparate the profeffors Mr. Whifton, seem to me to have pro- of the different. perfuafions in the emved, beyond all doubt, that the epoch pire from each other*. Still lefs does required must be placed in or before it appear to be fit, or even rational, to the year 455 or 456. I must fatisfy blend matters of purely political conmyfelf with recommending to the cern with thofe theological controverreader their works after he has ftudied fies which, in almoù all other counand analyzed the Apocalypfe itfelf; tries, have long been configned to reand fhall exhibit a feries of facts, with- pofe, even by the minifters of the reout the knowledge of which the Reve- fpective fyftems of faith. It behores lation appears to me, in fome parts, us now to provide the means of giving unintelligible; but which being admit-compactnefs to the ftrength of the Emted, the interpreter, I apprehend, will be much affifted toward the more perfect understanding of the divine book, which, as Mr. Mede, p. 582, expreffes it, " appears for the frame and quality of the admirableft prophecy in Scripture. And, as much as the divine revelation of fpiritual truths in the New Teftament furpaffes the Old, for evidence and clearness, fo the prophetical part of the New, for the fabrick and fureness of the grounds of interpreta tion, exceeds all the prophecies of the Old *." MR. S. feems more afraid of modern Philofophy than of old Popery, and very juftly prefers the Ignorance of the latter to the falfe Illumination of the former. The former edition of his. work, published in Auguft laft, has "The writer does not mean to vilify A view of pire, of employing all hands, concilia- *See, on this head, the writings of the Rev. Mr. O'Leary, the Rev. Dr. Milner, Mr. M'Kenage, Mr. Newenham, &c.; alfo, Mr. Plowden's Hiftory of Ireland down to 1801, faid to have been compofed at the inftance, and under the aufpices, of the prefent Prime Minister. even probable overthrow of French invation if our population be thus mifled, alienated, and exafperated." 126. Admonitions to the People of the British Empire, on the prefent Crifis. THE Royal Bookfeller will never be reproached with neglect of patriotic duty. Sat patriæ Priamoque datum: f Defendi poffent, etiam hac defenfa 127. Brief Remarks on the Mahratta War, and on the Rife und Progress of the French Establishment in Hindoftan, under the Generals De Boigne and Perron. THE Mahrattas, as a people poffelling weight in the political balance of India, are of very modern date; they took root and flourished under the diffractions of the Mogul Empire, till at length they menaced the Imperjal Court of Delhi, and ultimately ufurped the power, and imprifoned the perfon, of the rightful Sovereign. The efficient fovereignty of the Mahratta nation began in Shahjee, and continued in his fon. Sewajee, till a Peshwah or prime niinifter abforbed it, and was recognized as the lawful head and chief executive power of the united empire, till the feudal chiefs became independent princes. The firength of the Mahratta ftates was divided between three of them at the breakingout of the late war. On the arrival of Marquis Wellesley in India, 1798, his attention was immediately attracted by the French intrigues begun with the Mahrattas by De Boigne, who, 1784, gave up his commiflion in the Company's fervice at Madras, and wandered into Bengal, and, when Mr. Haf tings was at Oude, pretended to proceed, by Iran and the Cafpian Sea, to Ruffia. He foon joined and affifted Sindia and his nephew Dowlat Row, the French army in whofe fervice was commanded by Perron. De Boigne fettled in England, whence Buonaparte invited him, and received from him information on the ftate of India. Under pretence of re-occupying Pondicherry, 1400 of the bett troops, 200 of them picked men, and a frong na val armament, were fent out, who foon found them felves circunferibed by the prefent Governor-general, who concluded an alliance with the Peth wah, thereby counteracting the medi tated fchemes of treafonable aggreffion against their lawful fovereign by the confederated chieftains Sindia and the Raja of Berar. It became the imperious duty of the Governor-general to protect the empire committed to his charge, and, by all juftifiable means in his power, to establish British_influence paramount to that of French. throughout the Mahratta empire. The early defection of Perron is accounted for from the circumfiances of his cafe: attacked fooner than he expected, he was taken unprepared, and by fubmiffion preferved his final faving of 650,000 1. fterling. The estimated ftrength of Sindia's regular infantry, exclufive of garrifons and irregular infantry, was 72 battalions, amounting to 39,050 men, with 4600 Allygools, or country troops, or total number in the brigades 43,650, and 464 guns; and the revenue appropriated to the fupport of the French military force in India 1,632,2611. fterling. 128. Strictures on the Second Report of the Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry under the Abufe Act to the Honourable House of Commons, relative to Chatham Cheft. By an old and late Governor of that Inftitution. A VINDICATION of the Governors of that Cheft now, after its funds had been administered, fixed, and confirmed by a decree and commiffioners under the Great Seal of England; a copy of which was tranfmitted to the Commitlioners of Naval Enquiry, but omitted in their report, and the inqui fition only thewn; is now removed to Greenwich, and the governors charged with culpable mifinanagement: on which account the eftates of the Cheft were ordered to be fold, which, this writer proves, had been improved, and the expence transferred from the Cheft to the tenants of the farms. "Since its removal to Greenwich, in addition to the propofed establishment, as fanctioned by Parliament, a fecretary to the fupervifors has been nominated and appointed, with a falary-of what? for it cannot be fuppofed he will give his labour gratis. And when to the foregoing we add the purchafe-money of the fee-fimple of the premifes to pull down, whereon to erect the new Cheft, offices, &c. which, when completed, will be little fhort of 80001. of capital, all which, with the intereft thereon, would have been unneceffary had the old eftablishment at Chatham been ad hered hered to-I fay, fo far from its being leffened, the new eftablishment has quadrupled." (pp. 5, 6.) 129. A Sermen, occafioned by the Death of the late Rev Dr. Jofeph Priestley; delivered in the Diffenting Chapel in Monkwell Street, on Sunday Evening, April 15, 1804. By John Edwards. IT was but a juft tribute due to the memory of the man whom Mr. E. fucceeded on the rebuilding of the New meeting-houfe at Birmingham, after its demolition in the riots, that Mr. E. fhould be foremoft to pronounce his panegyrick. He has done it in ftrong, nervous language. "Thus lived, thus died this learned, religions, and virtuous perfon, who was not only all thefe himself, but who, in the great hand of God, was peculiarly intrumental in the promotion of learning, religion, and virtue, in the minds of his fellow-creatures, and thofe, I may fay, not merely of this or that family, not merely of this or that fociety or cougregation, of this or that city or king dom, but throughout the whole of the civilized world: nay more, I will fay, not merely of this particular age and generation in which he lived, but through all generations and all time, till time fhall be no more: being dead, he yet fpeaketh.' Confider him as a member of the community of Great Britain, and you fhall find in all his writings, affording fcope for expreffions of patriotifm, an ardent love of his country, which no fufferings or feparation could extinguifh,and that too founded on an intimate acquaintance with her law and with her hiftory. So that, referring to his admiration of the English Conftitution of Kings, Lords, and Commons, it was truly faid of him, that, though an Unitarian in religion, he was a Trinitarian in politicks. This at leaft was the cafe during his continuance in this country. After he had refided fome time in America, there is reafon to believe he became a Republican. The prophet, it is true, How Mr. E. came to quit this fitoa tion is not for us to fay; or how, having one in London, for afternoon fervice, he has opened another chapel at Edmonton, for the forenoon, where he is now en gaged in a courfe of lectures "upon fubjects of belles lettres, tafte, genius, wit, humour, ridicule, memory, imagination, beauty, grandeur, fublimity;" or how he paffed his time in the interval. had, comparatively speaking, but little honour in his own country; though now, we truft, that error is paffed away, and his country, repentant and grateful, will enthrine his memory along with that of her noble ariny of fages, heroes, and martyrs, and hid the genius of the fculptor place his monumental honours next to thofe of Verulam or Newton. And then, what Science is there that muft not weave a chaplet to adorn his brow, or hang a wreath of cyprefs on his tomb?"Mr. E. concludes with thus paraphrafing his text: "They that be wife fuch was our departed friend and revered inftructor-fall fhine in the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many unto righteoufnefs greatly infirumental hath he already been in this moft excellent, weighty, and glorious work, while he yet lived: his dying hand did execution; and his writings will turn many more now that he is dead, for there is not one line in all his volumes, which form of themselves a library no, not one line that is not hoftile-may I not fay that is not pernicious, that is not deftructive to error, to ignorance, and to vice?-therefore we believe that he will fine as the ftars for ever and ever.” 130. Honeft Apprehenfions; or, The unbiaffed and finere Confeffion of Faith of a plain, boneft Layman. THE fimple title would lead us to conceive of thefe honeft Apprehenfions in a political and patriotic light. They are really "Apprehenfions" of a fuperior kind, relative to our best hopes and profpects. The author may be difcerned on a very flight view: but, while we commend his "apprehenfions," founded on actual texts of Scripture, and on that authority alone, we may be permitted to difcriminate his "mifapprehenfions." In p. 19 he difapproves the idea of "fubftituting vicarious fuffering in the room and in the flead of any offending penitent finner;" and confiders "fufed. God," which appears to him "a fering of torment to appeafe an offendmoft fhocking idea.' Yet, in the following pages, he undoes all this, and fays, I do believe that, without the coming of our Lord the Meffiah, in infinite mercy, and according to the appointment of God the Father, to be born as a man upon earth, and to fulfill the whole law, and all righteouf nefs, nefs, and to offer up the dread atonement for fin, by his molt tremendous and most precious death and bloodfhedding on the crofs, no fleth could have been faved. And that, if Chrift had not fuffered on the cross, I muft have endured all the dreadful future confequences and punishment of unforgiven fin, and muft have perifhed everlastingly." If this is not vicarious fuffering of the moft tremendous kind, we would ask what is, and what can be plainer than the language of Scripture which expreffes it? Our author repeatedly fpeaks of "the bitter fufferings and cruel death" to which Chrift fubmitted that he might ranfom the fouls of man." (p. 56.) Another "apprehenfion" of the perfon of Chrift, taken fingly and in the Trinity, is liable to fome contradiction. "I do believe, that, as it is grofs idolatry against Almighty God the Father to pray to any other fuppofed God than the one, alone, omniprefent, amnifcient, true God, fo it is as grofs idolatry against Chrift to pray through the fuppofed mediation of any being whatever, except.of him, Jefus Chrift of Nazareth, the one, alone, ever fpiritually-prefent Mediator between God and man." (p. 40.) "And I believe firmly that God the Father--the Chrift and the Holy Spirit-are ever infeparably united, and to be worshiped and glorified as one God." (p. 45.) "And I pray to Chrift Jefus of Nazareth, our Lord, to be aided by his holy interceffion; and I do defire of the Holy Ghoft to be aided, guided, and infructed by his facred, holy* influences." (p. 45.) "This confeffion of my faith and hope, in plain, unadorned words, I think it a duty to make at large; because I am well aware there are thofe who may wish to know, in the fulleft manner, what the fentiments and most fecret apprehenfions of a plain, unbiaffed contemplative man may really be; and alfo thofe to whom fuch a developement may poflibly be fomewhat ufeful." (p. 75.) We could have wifhed the price of this Confeffion had placed it within the reach of all ranks of readers. 131. A Sermon, preached at the Parish Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c. &c. Jan. *What is the difference between thefe two words? 8, 1804, being the Day appointed for adminifiering the Holy Communion to the Members of the Corporation. By the Rev, John Perring, M.A Student of Christ Church, Qxford, and Chaplain to bis Lordship. "IT is evident, from the account of the occafion of the text, that the word Vanities, there ufed as chiefly relating to the worship of idols, is not in that fenfe ftrictly applicable to the prefent audience, But, taken in a metaphorical fenfe, and fuch as is repeatedly ufed in Scripture, it may perhaps be applied, it is to be feared, to fome perfons of congregations in general. For, when any of them worthip Mammon, or Riches, when they worship Pleafure, when they worthip Honour, any idol of their hearts, they cannot at the fame time truly worthip God; and they may well be warned to turn from fuch vanities unto the living God, and worship him in fpirit and in truth.' But there are various other paffages in the Sacred Writings in which the word Vanities is found as more particularly and literally applicable, without the ufe of metaphor; and fome of thefe fhall be fpecified towards the latter end of this difcourfe. If fo, it may well be afked, for what reafon I have made choice of the text? In truth, previously to drawing from it found doctrine, a material part of my defign is, however imperfect the execution, in humble imitation of a certain worthy and venerable Member of this molt refpectable Corporation, to endeavour to lead one of the Fine Arts into the fervice of Religion. It would be needlefs to enlarge on facts fo generally credited that the gentleman alluded to, laudably impreffed with an ardent defire to add to the honour of his country, and to the improvement of morals, has moft liberally expended hundreds of thoufands of pounds in promoting and encouraging the liberal arts. He has attempted to establish here the curious art of Engraving, and has fucceeded in his undertaking. He has alfo, at great expence, adorned with prints a magnificent Bible*; and, in a grand gallery, he has exhibited a very great number of the beft historical fcenes. Thefe have chiefly been taken from the works of that dramatic author whofe genius has proved the boast of this country and the admiration of * An unfortunate miftake for Macklin's exertion in the fame caufe. the |