It is not without regret that we learn from the title, and more par ticularly from the preface to this volume, that Mr. Wakefield has not been indulged, as before, with the privilege of printing his learned lucubrations at the Cambridge Prefs. It might have been expected that Mr. W.'s alma mater would have esteemed the honour of having produced fuch a fcholar a fufficient compenfation for a few heretical eccentricities, and would have done herfelf the credit of keeping him under her patronage;-and thus it was in better days :-but times are changed, and herely is now an offence for which no learning, talents, nor perfonal merit can atone. This, however, is not the cafe univerfally for we have the pleasure of adding, that one of the members of this feminary, Mr. Tyrwhitt, fellow of Jefus College, has generously taken on himfelf the whole expence of printing this volume. The author intimates a defign of adding one volume more to the work. For our notices of the former parts of this production, fee our New Series, vols. v. and viii.

E. Art. 69. A Cure for Canting; or the Grand Impoftors of St. Stephen's and of Surrey Chapels unmasked in a Letter to Sir Richard Hill, Bart. With a few modeft Hints to the Right Hon. William Pitt. By the Rev. W. Woolley, A. M. Chaplain of the Marshalfea. 8vo. 25. 6d. Jordan.

Art. 70. A Detection of Grofs Falfhood, and a Dijplay of Black Ingratitude: Being an Answer to a Pamphlet lately published by fome evil-minded Perfon under the Name of The Rev. W. Woolley, filing himself A. M. and addreffed to Sir Richard Hill, Bart. and to his Brother the Rev. Rowland Hill, as the two Grand Impoftors of St. Stephen's and of Surrey Chapels. By Sir Richard Hill, Bart. M. P. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Stockdale.

The Court of King's Bench has been before us, as we understand, in reviewing the former of thefe pamphlets, and has pronounced it a Libel; and our perufal of it has convinced us of the juftice of the decifion. The latter pamphlet is a vindication of Sir Richard Hill, and of his brother the Rev. Rowland Hill, against the fcurrilous falfhoods and affertions of Mr. Woolley, (prepared and almo? printed before the intention to profecute,) in which Sir R. fully juftifies his own and his brother's conduct: but in which we lament his imitation of the low and vulgar wit which appears in the pamphlet of their traducer.

The ftyle of the letters figned Wm. Woolley, adduced in Sir R. H.'s pamphlet, and that of the Cure for Canting," is fo very different, that Sir R. may well doubt their being written by the fame perfon.

For the trial of Mr. Woolley, on the diftinct profecutions of Sir R. Hill, and the Rev. Rowland Hill, for a libel, fee the fubfequent article. -The judgment of the court was deferred to the next term.

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Art. 71. The Trials of the Rev. William Woolley, Clerk, for publishing a Libel on Sir Richard Hill, Bart. and on the Rev. Rowland Hill, Clerk, intituled, "A Cure for Canting; or the Grand Impostors of St. Stephen's and of Surrey Chapels unmasked," &c. Before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury at Westminster Hall, Dec. 9th,

1794. Taken in Short-hand by Marfon and Ramfay. 8vo. 15. Debrett, &c.

Such a torrent of low, inveterate, and vile fcurrility, as that which came out in the course of these proceedings, is, we believe, unparalleled in the annals of libel and blackguardifm. That a poor, disappointed, and exafperated man, in the wretched fituation to which the defendant in this caufe had been reduced, fhould be provoked to fach extreme intemperance of language, may be expected from the depravity to which human nature is fometimes liable: but that Mr. W.'s profecutors could fo far forget what was due to their own characters as gentlemen, when they stripped to box with such an antagonist, is an uncommon inftance of felf-degradation. We do not here allude to the conteft in Weftminfter Hall, but to the previous correfpondence between the difagreeing parties. See our notice of the pamphlets on both fides, (previously to the law-proceedings,) inferted in the preceding article.

Art. 72. The Trial at large of Robert Gordon, Efquire, for Adultery with Mrs. Bifcoe, Wife of Jofeph Seymour Bifcoe*, Efquire; who was found guilty in five Thoufand Pounds Damages. Alfo the Trial at large of the Rev. Mr. Scoolt, Curate of St. Olave, Southwark, for feducing Mifs Reddie, a beautiful young Lady of nineteen Years of Age. Before Lord Kenyon, and Special Juries, in the Sittings after Michaelmas Term, 1794. Taken in Short-hand, by a Student of the Inner Temple. 8vo. Is. 6d. Ridgeway.

These two trials, taken in connexion with the many late fimilar proceedings, too plainly evince the very alarming progrefs which the abominable vices of adultery and feduction have made in this country, even within these few years!-It is, however, to be hoped that the marked abhorrence of fuch a fhameful corruption of morals and manners, implied in the ample damages awarded by our juries in favour of fo many injured plaintiffs, will be fome check, though fhame may have no effect, on the rapid career of debauchery, among our unprincipled people of rank and fortune. The virtuous zeal with which Lord Kenyon has uniformly purfued this fpecies of delinquents will, in our apprehenfion, yield him immortal honour!

With regard to the trial of the reverend Curate of St. Olave, we cannot but obferve, in the words of Lord Kenyon, (as here given,) "This infamous man ought to be drummed out of fociety!" The trial is imperfectly reported.

SINGLE SERMON S.

Art. 73. The Duty of Allegiance enforced from its Connection with Benevolence and Religion. Preached in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Colchester, on the 29th of Sept. 1794, before the Mayor and Corporation, and published at their Requeft. By Thomas Twining, M. A. Rector of the faid Parish. 8vo. 15. Cadell.

The alliance between piety and loyalty has been frequently made a topic of difcourfe; while a third duty, equally important, and in

Mr. Bifcoe is grandfon to the late Duke of Somerset.

timately connected with the two former, has been overlooked. The author of this fermon very judiciously treats of these three duties conjointly, according to the fuggeftion of his text: "Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king."

The obligation of allegiance and fubmiffion to government he refts on its only true foundation, a concern for the public good, or, which is the fame thing, conformity to the will of God, which has for its object the happiness of his creatures. The difcourfe is in fentiment moderate, and in ftyle perfpicuous and correct. E. Art. 74. Civil Liberty guarded against Abufe. Preached Sept. 1, 1794, in St. Mary's Chapel, Brecon; before the Hon. George Hardinge and Abel Moyfey, Efquires, his Majefty's Juftices upon the Brecon Circuit. By E. Edwards, Archdeacon of Brecon. 4to. Wilkie.

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When the very phrase, Rights of Man, is in difcredit with a numerous clafs of politicians, it is no inconfiderable merit in the preacher of an affize fermon to give it an honourable place in his difcourfe, by making an explicit avowal of the principle, that these rights are the true and fole bafis of every legitimate government. Mr. Edwards exprefsly difclaims the lately revived doctrine of the divine right of kings; afferting that the fcriptures prefcribe no particular form of government, and reft all the right, and all the ftability, of civil power on its tendency to promote the general good. Yet, as if he would pull down with one hand what he has built up with the other, he difcourages every public exertion in this country for the purpose of rendering our political freedom more perfect, and afferts that the only reform which can give freth energy to our government, and thereby increase the national profperity, is a moral reform of ourselves. Timid, however, as the preacher appears to be on this head, he pleads the caufe of religion and morality with energy; ftrenuously maintaining that, without them, liberty itfelf would become a curfe. You might as well expect, (fays he,) to fave the ivy when you fell the oak it grows to, as the civil conftitution amidst the ruins of religion.'

Art. 75. How far Methodism conduces to the Interests of Christianity, and the Welfare of Society; impartially confidered. Preached at the Vifitation of the Right Rev. William Lord Bishop of Chester; holden at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, Sept. 2, 1794. By the Rev. Samuel Clapham, M. A. 4to. Is. Johnfon.

This attack on the methodists, in which Mr. Clapham accufes them of having made a dangerous divifion in the established church, confifts of three parts: 1ft, The preacher confiders what good, whether real or fuppofed, has accrued to Christianity and to fociety from the introduction of their doctrines. zdly, What are the evils, whether inherent in, or refulting from them? 3dly, Why methodifm has fo increased, and by what means it is fupported. Under these heads, Mr. C. offers many remarks which merit the attention of the clergy, and all rational Chriftians. While he developes the caufes and confequences of methodifm, he urges the clergy to a vigi

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lant discharge of their duty, to a judicious felection of fubjects for fermons, and to introduce in the place of afternoon-fermons explanations of large portions of fcripture formerly called poftillating, in the Scots church lecturing, and among diffenters expounding. He alfo recommends an attention to pfalm-finging; an engine by which he apprehends, (and, probably, with reafon,) the methodists attract many to their focieties. Moo-y.

Art. 76. Preached at Knaresborough, before the Royal Knarefborough Volunteer Company, Oct. 12, 1794. By Samuel Clapham, M. A. Vicar of Bingley. 4to. Is. Johnfon.

This fermon contains a view of the virtuous and benevolent tendency of Chriftianity; a condemnation of French politics; an exhortation to dutiful conformity to the laws of our country; and a diffuafive from agitating our minds with vifionary projects on equal reprefentationuniverfal fuffrage-annual parliaments,-and the reduction of the national debt. Mr. C. does not with the people to reafon on these and fimilar topics, yet he trufts that Reafon has refumed her empire in the minds of the inhabitants of this favoured island :—we knew not that she had loft it.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To Clericus. Morell's Thefaurus Græca Poefeos, we know, is very scarce. An edition of it appeared at Venice in 1767. A work with the fame title was published at Mentz in 1614, in 8vo. by CAUSSIN; and in 1651 and 1668 was printed at Frankfort PETRI COELEMANNI Opus Profodicum Græcum novum: 8vo. in which, verses are quoted in order to decide the quantity of fyllables, with a Latin tranflation on the oppofite page: but it contains neither Synonyma nor Epitheta:-it resembles the Latin Profodia of Henry Smetius.-With refpect to Greek accents, either Fofter or Primatt will answer our correfpondent's purpofe; the latter is moft diffufe: but for brevity we would recommend an edition of FRANKLIN de Tonis, published by Richardfon. He might alfo confult the account of accents in the Port Royal Greek Grammar; and there are feveral other works on this fubject, e. g. HENNINII Hellenifmus, Utrecht, 1684. LABBAI Regula Accentuum, Paris, 1693. WULFSBURGII Accentuum Græcorum Exequia, 1702. LAMBERTI Bos Regule Accentuum, 1733; and ESTRUCHE, in his Differtationes Philologica, 1750, treats of Greek Accents.

+++ H. C. fays that he has in vain fearched for the Conditions prefcribed by Teyler's Theological Society, in our Review for January 1779. He will find them, however, on the blue cover of that number, if the cover of it can now be obtained. We cannot give any opinion refpecting the probable state of this Society under the prefent alteration of affairs in Holland.

+ Mrs. Howorth, who publifhed a tranflation of Haller's Poems, (fee Rev. for December laft,) modeftly informs us that she can lay no claim to the merit of having tranflated a German writer, as the exe

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cuted her talk from a French verfion. The advertisement, which ftated that the work was a tranflation from the German, was published without her knowlege.

ISH If M. N. will confult the end of the introductory address in the publication about which he writes, the fuppofed imperfection will be explained. Johnfon gives authorities for the ufe of were in the fense in which M. N. queftions its propriety.

sts On reading the temperate letter from the Editor of " the Lounger's Common-place Bock," we are equally surprised and concerned to find that, by haftily quoting a paffage, (fee the last Review, p. 76. 1. 16-19.) without attending to the antecedent, we had imagined his meaning to be totally different from that which the whole period bears. The fentence runs thus in the book:

"In every tranfaction of Government, let it clearly appear that the happiness of the people, and not the fordid interefts of a cabal, intent only on places and penfions, is ftill the great purpose, as it was unquestionably the originally foundation, of all governments.

Lounger's Common-place Book, vol. iii. p. 104. The reader is therefore requested to erafe lines 16-22 inclufive, p. 76. of the Review for January.

tlit A Conftant Reader' fays, I have been a good deal struck by reading, in your laft APPENDIX, Profeffor Schultens's interpretation of the paffage, "I know that my redeemer liveth," &c.; and I think his reasonings convincing, that the paffage does not allude to the Chriftian doctrine of the refurrection. I have never feen noticed the incongruity between this paffage, and another in our burialfervice, "But fome man will fay, how are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come, &c." Thefe, and the followingwords, plainly feeming to argue against the refurrection of our prefent bodies, at least in their prefent ftate, while the former paffage has at leait always been fuppofed to countenance (and appears introduced for that purpose) the oppofite doctrine.'

**M.C. deems the account, in our last APPENDIX, of Profeffor KONYNENBURG's inquiry into the Nature of the Prophecies fo, very interefting, that he ftrongly recommends a tranflation of that work.

St§ Hypodidafcalus, alfo, from reading our late APPENDIX, much wishes to fee a tranflation of ENEA's Elements of Arithmetic, which we there commended: fee p. 519, &c.; and of EULER's work on Algebra, incidentally mentioned in p.521.

** The tract on Grammar, mentioned by G. W. was duly réceived, and will foon be noticed.

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