To thee, all-conscious presence! I devote But, ah! how oft my lawless passions rove, With grief opprest, and prostrate in the dust, All pow'rful Grace, exert thy gentle sway, Shall ev'ry high resolve devotion frames, Calm Calm let me slumber in that dark repose, The following elegant Latin Ode was written by that ercellent Prelate and accomplished Scholar, Bishop Lowth ; and the accompanying Translation was the Production of the late Rev. . Mr. Du Ncombe of Canterbury Cathedral. Ad ORN Ariss IMAM Pu ELLAM. ANAP sit arti, sit studio modus, Ut fortuitis verna coloribus Utgue inter undas, inter et arbores, Jam vere primo dulce strepunt aves, Nativa sic te gratia, te nitor Ergo fluentem'tu male sedula, Ne savā inuras semper acu comam ; Quales nec olim vel Ptolomaeia Jactabat uxor, sidereo in choro Nec diva Mater, cum similem tuate Mentita formam, et pulchrior aspici NO longer seek the needless aid As the gay flowers, which nature yields, As the pure rill, whose mazy train Cease then, with idly-cruel care Not Berenice's locks could boast Nor Venus *, when her charms divine, OD's Defence and Protection of his People; a Sermon on the Thanksgiving. By the Rev. T. Rutledge, D. D. 8vo. 1s. 6d. A Sermon preached at Willsdon, Middlesex, on the day of the late Seneral Thanksgiving. By the Rev. J. Mutter, A.M. . A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Great Stanmore. By the Rev. A. R. Chauvel, LL.B. Rector, 8vo. 1s. Imperium Pelagi; a Sermon preached at Cirencester, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 1805. By the Rev. John Bulman. 4to. 1s. Letter to his Grace the Archbi*hip of Canterbury, on the proba * The author here alludes to the beautiful description of Venus in the first book of the Æneid where she meets AEneas, in the habit of a hunt***, as he was going towards Carthage: Cui mater media sese tulit obvia sylvå ble Number of the Clergy, &c. 8vo. 2's. A Letter respectfully addressed to the most Reverend and Right IReverend Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England, on Mr. Joseph Lancaster's Plan for the Education of the Lower Orders of the Community. 8vo. 2s. Letters from a Mother to her Daughter on Religious and Moral Subjects. By M. S. 12mo. 4s. 6d. Letters to Dissenting Ministers, and to Students for the Ministry, from the Rev. Job Orton, 2 vols. 8s. boards. Two Apologies, one for Christianity, in a Series of Letters ad AENEID i. v. 322. Wol. X. Churchm, Mag. for April 1803. S s dressed dressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. the other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine. To which are added, Two Sermons, and a Charge in Defence of Revealed Religion. By Richard Watson, D. D. F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Llandaff. 8vo. 9s. boards. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. PUBLICATION is about to appear in numbers, to be entituled, The Fathers of the English Church, or a Selection from the Writings of the Reformers, and early Protestant Divines of the Church of England. A work of this kind is peculiarly wanted at this time, to counteract the attempts of the Sectaries, and particularly to check the Pretensions of the Calvinists. The Septuagint begun by the late Dr. Holmes, will be completed without further delay by the University of Oxford. The Rev. Mr. Cooper, of Hamstall Ridware, has a Second Volume of Sermons in the Press. * The Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanam, Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William in Bengal, by the last Accounts from thence, was about to proceed to Cochin on the Coast of Malabar, for the purpose of examining the ancient Hebrew Manuscripts preserved in the Synagogue of the Jews at that place. The Manuscripts are represented to be of a very high Antiquity, being supposed to contain that portion of the Scriptures which was written before the first Dispersion of the Jews. A collection of them, with the European copies, has long been desired by the learned. Another object of Dr. Buchanan's mission will be, to enquire into the state of the native Christian Churches in the Provinces of Travancore and Malabar; particularly of the Thirty-five Congregations, denominated § the Roman Catho those antient Christians. have been governed for fifteen hun dred years by a regular succession of bishops. Another subject of literary research offers itself among When the Portuguese first arrived in India, they burned the Writings and Records found in the Christian Churches, and amongst them, says a Romish author, some apostolical monuments, in order to destroy the evidences of their antiquity, and force them to a union with the Church of Rome. But it has been stated, by a respectable authority, that certain antient manuscripts in the Chaldaic language a.e yet preserved in the country of Travan core. On the 30th ult. a new and sinply elegant Episcopal Chapel was - - - - oponed |