defign. 210. A Sermon, preached at the Church of St. Parliament finally put a stop - 213. To the great and learned among Ca 211. A Letter to a Member of Parliament, 212. Statement of Facts in favour of the intended London and Western Canal, lately called The Hampton Gay Canal. THOUGH the Legislature has deter mined the question, by rejecting this ca mal, there can be no objection to ftating the fuppofed merits of it. The line of this canal was intended to branch out of the Oxford canal, at Hampton Gay, in the county of Oxford, and to pafs by Tame, Avlefbury, Wendover, Great and Little Miffenden, Amerfham, and Uxbridge, to London, and then extended to the Thames, at or near ifleworth. The Grand Junction canal was to branch from the Oxford one, at Braunfton, co. Northampton, and through that county and Hertfordshire, to go by Watford and Harrow to the Thames, near Brentford, the town of Uxbridge making no part of he plan. The two undertakings were planned perfectly independent and diftinct froin each other; the Hampton Gay comprehending the Western, the Braunton the Northern trade. In their courfe through Bucks they were found to approach fo near each other, that it was prop fed to unite them, each party to cut to the junction, and have the profits of their own fection, and, after that, a joing-interef. This was, however, refuted, notwithstanding the hardships in which fuch refutal invoived the proprie tors of the Wettern canal, who offered this flatement of the butinefs before "THE whole intended to represent these innovations to public view in their true colours, and to fhew that attachment to the Chriftian Religion, as recorded in the facred Scriptures, is the best preservative for the peace of the ftate and the welfare of mankind." Advertisement to the Reader. "Church and State are words that have been long connected together, notwithstanding the furious affaults of their opponents. The following attempt hath been leveled to diveft the fubject of attachment to party, and to thew that the Chriftian Religion and the Peare of the State are intimately and infeparably connected; and that thofe men who endeavour, by their principles, to pull kings from their thrones, and the nobility and great men from their exalted stations, are acting confiftently, they having long fince endeavoured to degrade our bleffed Lord and Saviour, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, into a mere man; and, by comments, to undermine those holy Scriptures which are read in, and on which our national church is built. If this tract should produce a profit, the whole clear gain arifing from the first edition fhall be religiously ap plied, as the first fruits, to charity; and, as it is to ferve no private end, it is hoped that it will not be taken amifs that one copy had been directed and forwarded To You, with the request, that, if you approve of it, you will have the goodness to bestow the price (is part of the presumed profit of the futore edition) on the first object of charity which may prefent itself. If it should live to a fecond edition, Melfieurs Rivingtons, in whofe names it is entered at Stationers'-hall, have directions to pay one moiety of any profit arising from the fame, and of any fubfequent edition, to the treasurer of the charity for the relief of the widows and children of clergymen." The queftions to which a categorical antwer is required are, the Infpiration of Scripture, the Divinity of Chrift, the Atonement, the State of the Dead, the Divine Million of Chrift, the Existence of the Devil, Church Government, the Kingdom of God. Thefe are fupported by Scripture vouchers. Amid the va riety of good arguments, the point most happily touched is, perhaps, that fingular fentiment advanced by Dr. Priestley in his his funeral fermon for Dr. Price, that the interval between our death and refurrection being nothing at all to individuals, confequently the interval of feparation between Dr. Price and his friends is at moft but twenty years: "and fuch is the prospect that is now opening upon us, refpecting the enlargement of civil and religious liberty, and the extention of general happiness, that the longest liver will probably have the best news to carry him." "It will answer just the fame purpose, if we fuppofe the Doctor to have fallen into juft fuch a fleep as affects the dormouse, and that his friends, one after another, fall into a like fleep, and are all awakened together. You fay, he who continues longeft awake will have the best news to carry him; but the misfortune is, that you fuppofe all the difpatches to arrive at the fame time; and the poor Doctor would certainly be at a loss which to open, or, rather, of which friend to enquire firft. We must prefume one to begin. "Great news, Doctor; all the oaths our continental affociations have taken are dispensed with; nay, in fact, they have taken fo many oaths, that they are determined to wash their hands from all, and are raising a glorious fabrick." O, fays another, let me tell you, Doctor, they have cut the throats of many thousands of unrefifting prifoners.' "Pray hold your tongue," fays a third; "you began fleeping in 1791; I was awake till Michaelmas 1792; I left them debating whether they should try the King; they all agreed that he was guilty before they talked of trying him." We must then fuppole many to begin at once, ende vouring to open their glorious news. The Princels of Lamballe's head-The Thuilleries forced by the brave-No national religion-They have called you the Apostle of Liberty-No king -I left Paris in a state-Monfieur le Duc- Monfieur Egali'é➡. The Doctor at laft ftops his ears, and addreffes them: "Meffieurs, I humbly thank you; but be so kind as to have a little pity on me, and let me request you feverally to confult together, and particularly to ascertain the order of time in which you feverally dozed; or, if you will have the goodness to afcertain whofe eyes were open last, I would beg of him to prefent me with a fummar as my whole ftock of calculations will not enable me to afcertain to which exprefs I am to pay the first attention, as I find, to my difcomfort, that, although you have fet out exprefs at fuch diftant times one from the other, you have, unhappily, all arrived at a moment together" (PP. 39, 40). The writer concludes: "In the book of Revelations (xix, 20) you will perceive that it is poflible for mankind to be fo hardened by unbelief, and all wicked- 214. Stonehenge; a Poem: inscribed to Ed- "It was at the inftance of the gentleman to whom the following piece is infcribed, that it is now published; but the whole of the infcription, as it applies to himself, or the baronet his brother, was unfeen by him until its prefentation at the tribunal of the publick. Nor has the general fubject patsed any other review, excepting one gentleman befide." The poem, opens with the following lines, which we fuppofe to be the infcription alluded to: "Come thou, to Nature juft, by Truth de Who add the grace that ornaments the Virtue too thoughtless cloister'd or betray'd ; Now thine to bid th' ennobling paffions rife, frown'd, Yet for her reign their willing homage pay To Jerningham, who bade thofe beeches rife, convene, Stretch out their living arms and fan the skies. Till Night her poppies drops entranc'd to hear; Which braves the wreck of time and swift decay, That fweeps the labour'd domes of man away. Tune, that from brafs doth chal acters efface, And drops the cloud-bid turret to its bafe, Throws the fymmetric temple to the ground, Its feite forgot, nor marble columns found," &c. &c. We will venture to pronounce that, if Mr. J. had feen the infeription, he would not have used many inftances for its publication, unless he understood it better than we profefs ourfelves able to do. The words which we have taken the liberty of printing in Italics are not our leaft difficulty. We are at a lofs to render the third and fourth lines into profe, which is the only way to make poetry intelligible; we mean, when it foars to fuch fublime heights as the prefent. There are other beauties above our comprehenfion : Science feels its vanquish'd thought." "Modern Art quits the ponderous theme cnwrapt in thade." "Odin might obteft the fkies." "Obfequious chief devote their herds to bleed, [meed." Their gods immortal feafts the promis'd Chanting echoes fill the multitude." - fubterranean palace darts furprife, As flaming tapers throw the mineral dyes, Folated columns fratch the vivid light." "Or mortal art that fwelled the huge compond!" The warmth from fan&lion'd virtue," that raifed thefe ftones, compared with "the maniac train of rioters in 1780, who affailed Augufta's iron domes, and o'er tl ole domes prevail'd." Thefe muft b. St George Savile's and Lord Manffield's iron pailijates. "Even patriot Rapture merves the liflefs frame In nations leag'd with Violence for fame; Whofe fervid effort can a purpose quin, Which cool inductive Reaton deem' as vain" round, And frighted Echo billowed at the found; Is it potfible Mr. J. could have given his fiat to fuch verfes for any other reafon than to get rid of the verifier or is this fome hardened poet, who, without having the dread of Criticism before bis eves, has once more pierced the shade of "Led by a ray which foots the realm of disappointed Obfcurity, and put himself Night." "Difparting" "Their strong bails in murmurs meet my cars." the attuning minstrels play, Commixt with bands who tell the memory'd lay." "The anciers of fans they now precede." Sublimitate fublimius! "Each tribe its chief an eagle's plume allows." "File their fquadrons · #Sufpended now the adulatory ftrain.” under the protection of Mr. Jerningham ? 215. A Difcourfe, preached on Sunday, December 30, 1792, at the Parish church of Kenton, on the following Words of Ifaiah Ixi. 1, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach goed tidings unto the meek; he hath fent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prifon to them that are bound." By the Rev. Richard Po'whele, Author of Difcourfes on various Subjects, in 2 Volames, &c. &c. Published at the joint Re the Parishioners of Kenton and Pow n. P, having heard Mr. Swete, a dary of Exeter, preach from thefe werds on Chrifimas-day, fet himself to compofe a difcourfe from them between Tuelday and Sunday, and dedicates it to the Bishop of the diocefe, as the earlieft offering with which he has an op portunity of approaching him on his acceffion to his new dignity."-" Of the people who have embraced the religion of Chrift," Mr. P. fays, "the moft difcerning feature is, courtesy of manners, not a mere fuperficial politenefs. It inAuences, indeed, the modes of behaviour; but it affe&s more than the exterior. It is a courtefy that flows from the heart, and operates on the condu&.” "Hence an enlarged humanity was obferved to characterife the British people. Nor can I help oblerving, that we have recently fhone forth with an enviable radiance, while we ftrenuouly exerted ourfelves in the hope of mitigating the hardships attending flavery; difpofed, by every rational method, to alleviate the burthens of those whofe claims of kindred we generously allow, as the defcendants from one common parent (p. 15). In a note here Mr. P. obferves, the minigation of thofe hadhips hath been, in fome degree, effected. The abolition of the flave-trade might proba-. bly be attended with confequences in which Hemanity would by no means rejoice; and it fhould be confidered, that the meft c'amorous on this fubject are thole *w.hoic end and aim' it is to diftrefs Government." Mr. P. breaks out into a rapturous apoftrophe to Mr. Howard, p. 16; and, after conera ulating his countrymen on their liberal warmth and generofity, contrafts the prefent fate of France, whofe "civil government is not only difturbed by anarchy, but their religious fyftem is dafhed to atoms by daring infidelity" (p. 19); from which he draws this conclufion: "Who, therefore, repofing in the Providence of Cod, will not readily' embrace the opinion, that this fiend of darknefs, which I have called the demon of licentioufnefs, is let loofe by the permiffion of the Almighty, to burft the bands of tyranny, to faap afunder the chain of fuperftition, at the fame time that he avenges the fins of a people whofe meafure of iniquity is full?"-"Popery is fo wretched a depravation of our holy religion as scarcely to retain a feature of the Chillian character. Thus then was the true religion difguifed in France, and the mafk is now thrown off. But the infanity that actuates the multitude, that renders every obje&t indiftinct, as floating through a mift, permits them not to difcriminate its amiable features. Yet the time will shortly come, we truf, when this people thall fee with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and shall underband the truth' And though convulfions, too fhocking for contemplation, feem to have reduced their political and religious government to total anarchy, we have every reafon to indulge a hope, that from the ruins before us will arife a more beautiful fyftem. In the mean time I would with you to be aware, that the difparity between the English and French, with refpect to their political confiitution, is as 'fweet and bitter, as light and darknefs.' To compare the condition of the French and English is one of the moft palpable abfurdities Nor are the French at prefent erecting a ftru&ture that promifes durability. it contains within itfelf the principles of a fpeedy diffolution; and the republick muft vanish, ere long, like the bafelels fabrick of a vision. It is a precipitated work; and it is probable that a monarchy, confiftent both with civil and reigious liberty, will be formed in France before a century is elapied" (pp. 25, 26). Such is the fubftance of this hatty difcourfe; and, had its author cloathed it in lefs flowery diction, and been lefs free of hackneyed quotations from Shakspeare and modern poets, let off by inverted commas, his ftyle would have been fuitable to his fubje&t, and, perhaps, to the comprehenfions of his audience. In the lift, annexed, of his publications, among which are his two volumes of fermons (fee vol. LIX. p. 534), his poems, the English Orator (LV. 548, LVII. 56, LIX. 53+), his tranflation of Theocritus, &c. and Poeins by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall (LX. 743, 833), we obferve the fit volume of three folio volumes of THE HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE, now in the prefs, will be ready fr publication as foon as the engraver has finished the plates to be inferted in it. We hope the author will adopt a ftyle more fuited to antiquarian and topographical fubjects than that which he has employed in the prefent cempofition. 216. Appendix, containing Obfervations concern. ing Foreign Prifons and Hofpitals, collected by Mr. Howard, in bis concluding Tour ; toge ther ther with Two Letters to Mr. Howard, from John Haygarth, M. D. "THE papers left by Mr. Howard were brought to England by his fervant, and by him delivered, with the rest of his effects, to his executors. To the larger memorandumbook, confifting of a fair tranfcript of his daily notes and obfervations, the following notice was found prefixed, written upon a blank leaf therein: If thefe rough notes fhould ever he thought proper to be printed, they should be corrected and revised by my friend Dr. Price, or Dr. Aikin, and the latter to correct the prefs. JOHN HOWARD.' "In confequence of this direction, the papers were fent to Dr. Price, at the time when he was unfortunately incapacitated, by the illness of which he died, from attending to them. At his defire they were forwarded to me, and I loft no time in performing the task committed to me of fitting them for the prefs. Dr. Haygarth's excellent letters to Mr. Howard, on lazarettoes, were, with his concurrence, fubjoined at my request, by the JOHN AIKIN. publither. Great Yarmouth, Dec. 1, 1791." This appendix may be confidered as its benevolent author's laft legacy to the world. The book to which it belonged was reviewed in vol. LIX. p. 825., Dr. Haygarth's first letter contains a plan for building lazarettoes in England; his fecond fuggests them. 217. The Life of Thomas Paine, the Author of the feditious Writings intituled "Rights of Man" By Francis Oldys, M. A. of the University of Pennfylvania. The Seventh Edition, corrected. THIS feventh edition is intended for berer circulation by reducing the price of the fif. It is the best detection of a wretch whofe character is fufficiently notorious, and who has not found attention even in France, where he appears an ho neft man among rogues and villains. 218 Fulfebood, Paine, and Company, difarmed by Truth and Patristifm, and a Dring to the Addraffer of the Addrefs to the Addreffers on the late Proclamation;" alfo, a friendly Caution to the Friends of the People benovelent Ketahation, or, Good for Evil; a Divifion of France into feveral free States recommended; and a prophetical Fragment, refpectfully dedicated to all true Britons. By Timothy Shavectofe, Efq. an Enemy to Blafphemers, feditious Levelers, and ambitious Hypocrites. 1793. 219. The Afs and the Sick Lion; or, The cruel and infulting Mercies of Thomas Paine, the Stay-maker, towards the late King of France, exemplified in an Analyfis of his Reasons for wishing to preserve the Life of Louis Capet, lately published. By Timothy Shaveclofe, Efq. THE titles are a fufficient abftra&t of the contents of thefe pamphlets, the first of which "was ready for the prefs feveral months ago, but retarded by unfore feen and unavoidable circumftances." 220. Perfonal Nobility; or, Letters to a young Nobleman on the Conduct of bis Studies. FRANKNESS and virtuous principle are the characteristicks of this epiftolary correfpondence, which fome do not hefttate to afcribe to Dr. Knox. Without abolishing Nobility, or the Conftitution of his country, he fecks only to reform it. But, though a fenatorial reform is moft devoutly to be wifhed, yet the unreformed flate is to be preferred, with all its evils, to continued violence, rapine, bloodshed, and univerfal confufion. Let Reafon, not Force, triumph. Though her conqueft over Prejudice be flow and gradual, it is ultimately fure. The tree of Liberty is planted already in England. May the molly concretions be rubbed off its branches, and the thorns and briers removed, which impede its vegetation! I wou'd plant by its fide the tree of Peace, the fruitful olive. May they both flourish together, watered by the.dew of heaven, comforting the people with their shade, and enriching them, to their hearts' content, by its abundant fertility" (pref, p. xxx). 221. A Trip to Holyhead in a Mail-coach, with a Churchman and a Diffenter, in the Year 1793. A FAIR and free difcuffion of the Toleration Act, pafled in 1689, the enlargement of that act, 1779, the American war, the question of a reform, the Jare applications for a repeal of the Corporation and Teft laws, and the French Revolution. The parties who fupport the argument are moderate in their prin ciples, neither a high-churchman on the one hand, nor a rational and liberal-diffenter on the other; confequently, the latter readily grants that certain doctors of his perfuafion have done more harm than good to their caule, were it only by leading the uninformed and over-zealous on the other fide to fuppofe that they fpeak the fentiments of dillenters in general. This opinion we have always held; and though perhaps the diffenter, in this converfation, faid lefs than we expected towards vindicating his brethren from |