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REVIEW OF MR. MILNER'S HISTORY OF

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

AGREEABLY to our promise we have revised our review of Mr. Milner's instructive History of the Church of Christ, and we take the earliest opportunity of acknowledging the errors into which we have fallen.

1. In stating (Christ. Obser. Vol. II. p. 614) that Mr. Milner had omitted, when speaking of the condemnation of pluraliues by the Fourth Lateran Council (p. 42), to advert to the effects of the non obstante clause in rendering void the salutary provisions of the council, we ought to have noticed that he had distinctly mentioned that clause, with its injurious conse

quences, in other parts of his work. (p. 5 and 53.)

2. Our censure of Mr. Milner for having failed to give a luminous view of the ecclesiastical history of the fourteenth century, (Christ. Obser. Vol. II. p. 677,) is certainly inapplicable. It would not have been consistent with the peculiar plan of his work to have done so.

S. The charge of fatalism preferred against Wickliffe (Christ. Obser. Vol. II. p. 679) stands, as we now think, on insufficient evidence. And Mr. Milner's quotations from the writings of that reformer (Appendix, p. 23,) certainly seem to lead to a contrary conclusion.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c.

GREAT BRITAIN. MR. ARTHUR YOUNG is about to publish a fifth edition, corrected to the present time, of his Farmer's Calendar, which is to include the modern improvements in agri

culture.

Major RENNEL has been recently employed in comparing the Geography of Scripture with his own local observations, which have fully established its accuracy. It is to be hoped, that the public will soon receive the benefit of this important investigation.

The Second Volume of BARROW's Travels into the interior of Southern Africa, will be Soon published. In this volume the author fully discusses the political importance of the Cape of Good Hope as a military, naval, and commercial station.

Mr. BARROW is also about to bring forward the Account of his Travels in China, hitherto delayed by the duties of his public situation at the Cape of Good Hope, and by the several journeys which he performed, by order of government, from the settlement into the interior.

An edition of Herodotus, in 7 vols. 12mo. is printing at Edinburgh, under the care of Mr. PORSON; where also a new edition of Thucydides is proceeding, uniform with Parson's Herodotus, superintended by the Rev. Mr. ELMSLEY..

An Essay on Drunkenness, and its effects on the human body, by DR. TROTTER of Newcastle, is in the press. The subject is treated in a scientific form,

MR. WATELY has in the press a work entitled, An improved Method of treating Strictures in the Urethra,

In the press, and shortly will be published, a volume of Sermons, chiefly designed to elucidate some of the leading doctrines of the Gospel, by the Rev. EDWARD COOPER, Rector of Hamstall Redware, St ffordshire.

Amount of Bank of England Notes of £.5. each, and upwards, including Bank Post-bills, payable seven days after sight, in circulation.

On the 1st of June, 1803, £.12,847,540 1st of August, 1803, 13,013,180 1st of October, 1803, 12,570,500 25th of Nov. 1803, 13,520,690 Amount of Bank of England Notes of and £.1. each.

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£.2 On the 1st. of June, 1803, £.3,253,600 1st. of August, 1803, 3,721,330

1st. of October, 1803, 4,052,010 25th. of Nov. 1803, 4,429,240 During the course of the year 1803, about twenty-three inches of rain fell in the neighbourhood of London, and about twenty-seven inches in the north of England.

A large collection of books in the Chinese language has lately been imported for sale by DR. MENTUCCI, and may be seen at that gentleman's house at Pancras.

The trustees of the British Museum have succeeded in purchasing DR. COMBE'S collection of early English Bibles, said to be the most complete in the kingdom.

SIR JOHN SINCLAIR recommends feed, ing calves with hay-tea as a cheap plan, and as a means of saving milk for other purposes. In order to make this tea, take one pound of red clover bay, well got in, and six quarts clear spring water, boil

them together till reduced to four quarts, then take out the hay, mix a pound of barley, out, or bean meal in a little water, put it into the pot and keep it stirring till thickened; when cool, give it to the calf, adding as much whey as will make a sufficient meal.

The Bedfordian Gold Medal will be presented to the author who shall, before next November, produce the best essay, founded on experiment, on the nature, properties, preparation, and application of ma

pures.

Of Mr. Stock's annual donation of ten pounds each, to ten poor curates of the Church of England, the following distributions have been made in Wales:the Reverend Maurice Anwyl, of Towyn, Merionethshire, aged fifty years, five children, income £.35.; the Reverend David Davies, of Llanthoysaint, Carmarthenshire, aged forty-seven years, seven children, income £.20.; the Rev. Howell Davies, of Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, aged forty-three years, eight children, income £40.; the Rev. John Hughes, of Llandrillo, Merionethshire, aged forty-four years, eight children, income £.40.; the Rev. John Jones, (blind) of Llanishen, Glamorganshire, aged seventy-two years, eleven children, income £.22. and one in Monmouthshire, viz. the Rev. Hezekiah Jones, of St. Brides and Coedkernew, aged

fifty-two years, six children, income £.30.: the other four, in England, are the Rev. Cornelius Cooper, of Powick, in Worcestershire, aged forty-three years, nine children, income £.60.; the Rev. James Marshall, of Ireby, Cumberland, aged fifty, ten children, income £.25.; the Rev. Joseph Rooke, of Barmby on the Marsh, Yorkshire, aged thirty-six years, four children, income£.20.; the Rev. Joseph Rogers, of Caldbeck, in Cumberland, aged fortyseven years, eight children, income £.40.

The Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools in England and Wales have lately published their half yearly report, by which it appears that during the preceding half year they had added fifty-one schools to the number patronised by them, and that since the commencement of their institution in 1785 they had afforded aid to two thousand two hundred and thirty-two schools, containing two hundred thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven scholars, for whose use they had distributed one hundred and eighty-four thousand two hundred and forty-eight spelling books, forty-two thousand six hundred and eighty testaments, six thousand five hundred and eighty-three bibles, and £.4,112. 6s. 5d. in money. The society, considering the narrowness of their funds, appear to have been most extensively useful.

POPULATION ACT.

SUMMARY OF THE ENUMERATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, TAKEN IN 1801, PURSUANT TO THE POPULATION ACT.

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SUMMARY OF THE POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES IN ENGLAND.

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SUMMARY OF THE POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES IN WALES.

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SUMMARY OF THE POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES IN SCOTLAND.

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OBSERVATIONS.

No returns have been received from the united parish of Kilfinchen and Kilvicues, from the parish of Tyree, and from the Islands of Rum, Canna, and Muck, in Argyleshire; from the united parish of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, and the parish of Risolis in Cromartyshire; and from the parish of Dalserf in Lanarkshire. The population of these places is estimated to exceed the number of eight thousand six hundred and ninety persons.

FRANCE.

Professor PROUST has discovered a new but very dangerous fulminating powder, which is a mixture of oxigenated muriate with arsenic: it takes fire with the rapidity of lightning, and he thinks it would be very dangerous to attempt to make any use of it. "If," (says he), "two long trains be made on a table, one of gunpowder, and the other of this mixture, and they be in contact with each other at one end, so as to be fired at the same instant, you will see with surprise that one appears like a flash of lightning, while the other seems to burn with extreme slowness."

Another shower of stones is said to have fallen with a tremendous noise, in France,

on the 8th of last September. One of the stones, which resembles those used in paving, and is about a foot in circumference, has been presented to the National Institute, and by that body deposited in the Museum of Natural History. The stone has a fetid smell, resembling sour milk, and when struck with steel it yields a few sparks.

GERMANY.

A decree has lately been issued at Vienna, that, in case of the death of any person possessing a library, such library shall be sealed up, and one of the licensers sent to examine the contents, and take away all prohibited books found therein.

It has likewise been ordered that all books published by permission of the li

eensers under the reign of Joseph II. shall be subjected to another revision. The board erected for that purpose has begun their work by prohibiting all the editions of the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Helvetius. His Imperial Majesty has likewise decreed that the religious books of the Protestants should not be considered as belonging to the class to be prohibited;

but that such of them, however, as contained Socinian doctrines or principles, or attacks against the Roman Catholic religion, its ecclesiastical and hierarchial constitution, its discipline and ceremonies, should be prohibited generally, and consequently even the Protestant subjects of the Austrian dominions debarred from the use of them.

AMERICA.

RETURN OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE YEAR 1801, TAKEN PURSUANT TO AN ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED 28TH FEBRUARY, 1800.

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*In 1791 the total number was 3,929,326.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

A SERMON preached on the late Fast Day, at Hatton. By Samuel Parr, LL. D. 2s.

A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. George, Hanover-square, on the late Fast Day. By Robert Hodson, A. M. is.

A new Edition of the last Anniversary Sermon of the Royal Humane Society, By R. Valpy, D. D. To which is added, a Preface, containing Observations on the British Critic. 25.

Two Sermons preached before the Corps of Somerset Place Volunteers; the one on the last Fast Day; and the other, on the Presentation of the Colours, October 27th. With a Prayer, used on the Occasion. By James Davidson, D. D. 2s. 6d.

The Protection of God our best ConfiCHRIST. OBSERY, No. 26.

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A Sermon preached, as Preparatory to a General Fast, October 16, 1803, at St. George's, Hanover-square. By the Rev. Archer Thompson, M. A. 1s.

Elements of Religion; containing a simple Deduction of Christianity, from its Source to its present Circumstances. By Mrs. Marriott. 4 vols. 12mo. 18s. boards.

The English Diatessaron, or, the History of our Lord Jesus Christ, from the compounded Texts of the Four Evangelists, according to the authorized English Version. With Notes; accompanied

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