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by a brief Harmony of the Gospels, a Map of the Holy Land, &c. By the Reverend Richard Warner. 8vo. 6s. Sermons by the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, M. A. Vol. II.

A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Trinity in the Minories, on the last Fast Day. By Henry Ely, D. D.

A Letter to a Parishioner, upon some particular Questions respecting Tithes; containing Texts of Scripture, in Proof of the Arguments adduced. 8vo.

The Ground of Encouragement on the present National Danger; a Sermon preached at Clapham, Oct. 23, 1803. By John Venn, M. A. 8vo.

Goliah slain, and the Philistines put to flight; a Sermon preached at Cirencester, October 19. By the Reverend John Bulman. 4to.

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A Sermon preached before the Delivery of the Colours to the Corps of Durham Volunteer Infantry, November the 6th. By Reynold Gideon Bowyer, LL. B. To which is added, an Address to the Corps; by Lieutenant Colonel Fenwick. 4to.

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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BAPTIST MISSION IN BENGAL. LETTERS have been received from the

Missionaries at Serampore, containing some interesting intelligence. The dispersion of the Bengalee New Testament and religious tracts continues, it is said, to be productive of very happy effects. The sphere of Missionary labours had been greatly enlarged, and some of the natives had begun to preach, and, as is said, with some degree of success. Several more of the natives have been baptised, and many

others have come from different parts of the country for instruction. Four new Missionaries have been lately sent to assist their brethren in India. The periodical accounts of this society will be published shortly.

SOUTH AFRICA.

Letters have been received from Dr. Vanderkemp at Algoa Bay, in which he mentions that he had baptized more than two hundred heathens.

In the Account of the Moravian Missions given in our last Number are two mistakes. The congregation in Antigua is said to consist of 1734 persons: it ought to have been 10734. The Missionaries in Barbadoes are said to have encountered difficulties from the wegroes: we ought to have said that the negro congregation had encountered greater diffi❤ culties in that than in the other islands.

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VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN ON THE PRESENT CRISIS, EXTRACTED FROM A SERMON BY ROBERT HALL, A. M. REVIEWED IN THE PRESENT NUMBER.

"How it may please the Ruler of the universe to dispose the destinies of the two most powerful nations of the earth, which are at this moment laid in the balance together, it is impossible for us with certainty to predict. But when we consider how many of his sincere worshippers, how large a portion of his church, together with how rich a fund of wisdom, of talents, and of all those elements of social order and happiness which he must approve, are inclosed within the limits of this highly-favoured land, we cannot believe he intends to give it up a prey to his enemies. Our insular situation is favourable, our resources prodigious, and the preparations which have long been making, apparently every way equal to the danger of the crisis; but still we would place our ultimate reliance on Him who abases the proud, and exalts the lowly. We do not expect to add any thing to those considerations, which have already produced such a general movement in defence of our liberties. The cause speaks for itself: it excites feel

ings which words are ill able to express; involving every object and motive which can engage the solicitude, affect the interests, or inflame the heart of man. After a series of provocations and injuries, reciprocally sustained and retaliated, the dispute betwixt us and our enemies is brought to a short issue: it is no longer which of the two nations shall have the ascendant, but which shall continue a nation; it is a struggle for existence, not for empire. It must surely be regarded as a happy circumstance, that the contest did not take this shape at an earlier period, while many were deceived by certain specious pretences of liberty, into a favourable opinion of our enemies' designs. designs. The popular delusion is passed; the most unexampled prodigies of guilt have dispelled it, and, after a series of rapine and cruelty, have torn from every heart the last fibres of mistaken partiality. The crimes of those with whom we have to contend are legible in every part of Europe. There is scarcely a man to be found who is not most perfectly acquainted with the meaning of that freedom they profess to bestow; that it is a freedom from the dominion of laws to pass under the yoke of slaery, and from the fear of God to

plunge into crimes and impiety; an impious barter of all that is good for all that is ill, through the utmost range and limits of moral destiny. Nor is it less easy to develope the character of our principal enemy. A man bred in the school of ferocity, amidst the din of arms, and the tumults of camps; his element, war and confusion; who has changed his religion with his uniform, and has not spared the assassination of his own troops; it is easy to foresee what treatment such a man will give to his enemies, should they fall into his power; to those enemies especially, who, saved from the shipwreck of nations, are preserving, as in an ark, the precious remains of civilization and order, and whom, after destroying the liberties of every other country, he envies the melancholy distinction of being the only people he has not enslaved. Engaged with such an enemy, no weak hopes of moderation or clemency can tempt us for a moment to relax in our resistance to his power, and the only alternative which remains is, to conquer or to die.

"Hence that unexampled unanimity which distinguishes the present season. In other wars we have been a divided people: the effect of our external operations has been, in some measure, weakened by intestine dissension. When peace has returned, the breach has widened; while parties have been formed on the merits of particular men, or of particular measures. These have all disappeared; we have buried our mutual animosities in a regard to the common safety. The sentiment of self-preservation, the first law which nature has impressed, has absorbed every other feeling; and the fire of liberty has melted down the discordant senti⚫ments and minds of the British Empire into one mass, and propelled them in one direction. Partial interests and feelings are suspended, the spirits of the body are collected at the heart, and we are awaiting with anxiety, but without dismay, the discharge of that mighty tempest which hangs upon the skirts of the horizon, and to which the eyes of Europe, and of the world, are turned in silent and awful expectation. While we feel solicitude, let us not betray dejection; nor be alarmed at the past successes of our enemy; which are more dangerous to himself than to us, since they have raised him

from obscurity to an elevation which has made him giddy, and tempted him to suppose every thing within his power. The intoxication of his success is the omen of his fall. What, though he has carried the flames of war throughout Europe, and gathered as a nest the riches of the nations, while none peeped, nor muttered, nor moved the wing; he has yet to try his fortune in another field; he has yet to contend on a soil filled with the mo numents of freedom, enriched with the blood of its defenders; with people who, animated with one soul, and inflamed with zeal for their laws and for their prince, are armed in defence of all that is dear and venerable; their wives, their parents, their children, the sanctuary of God, and the sepulchre of their fathers. We will not suppose there is one who will be deterred from exerting himself in such a cause, by a pusillanimous regard to his safety, when he reflects that he has already lived too long who has survived the ruin of his country; and that he who can enjoy life, after such an event, deserves not to have lived at all. It will suffice us, if our mortal existence, which is at most but a span, be co-extended with that of the nation which gave us birth. We will gladly quit the scene, with all that is noble and august, innocent and holy; and instead of wishing to survive the oppression of weakness, the violation of beauty, and the extinction of every thing on which the heart can repose, welcome the shades which will hide from our view such horrors.

"From the most fixed principles of human nature, as well as from the examples of all history, we may be certain, the conquest of this country. should it be permitted to take place, will not terminate in any ordinary catastrophe, in any much less calami tous than utter extermination. Our present elevation will be the exact measure of our future depression, as it will measure the fears and jealou sies of those who subdue us. While the smallest vestige remains of our former greatness, while any trace or memorial exists of our having been once a flourishing and independent empire, while the nation breathes they will be afraid of its recovering its strength, and never think themselves secure of their conquest till our navy is consumed, our wealth dissipated,

our commerce extinguished, every liberal institution abolished, our nobles extirpated; whatever in rank, character, and talents, gives distinction in society, culled out and destroyed, and the refuse which remains, swept together into a putrifying heap by the besom of destruction. The enemy will not need to proclaim his triumph; it will be felt in the more expressive silence of extended desolation.

"Recollect for a moment his invasion of Egypt, a country which had never given him the slighest provocation; a country so remote from the scene of his crimes, that it probably did not know there was such a man in existence; (happy ignorance, could it have lasted!) but while he was looking around him, like a vulture perched on an eminence, for objects on which he might gratify his insatiable thirst of rapine, he no sooner beheld the defenceless condition of that unhappy country than he alighted upon it in a moment. In vain did it struggle, flap its wings, and rend the air with its shrieks: the cruel enemy, deaf to its cries, had infixed his talons, and was busy in sucking its blood, when the interference of a superior power forced him to relinquish his prey and betake himself to flight. Will that vulture, think you, ever forget his disappointment on that occasion, or the numerous wounds, blows, and concussions, he received in a ten years struggle? It is impossible. It were folly to expect it. He meditates, no doubt, the deepest revenge. He who saw nothing in the simple manners and blood-bought liberties of the Swiss to engage his forbearance; nothing in proclaiming himself a Mahometan, to revolt his conscience; nothing in the condition of defenceless prisoners to excite his pity, nor in that of the companions of his warfare, sick and wounded in a foreign land, to prevent him from dispatching them by poison, will treat in a manner worthy of the impiety and inhumanity of his character, a nation which he naturally dislikes as being free, dreads as the rivals of his power, and abhors as the authors of his disgrace.

"Though these are undoubted truths, and ought to be seriously considered, yet we would rather choose to appeal to sentiments more elevated than such topics can inspire. To form an adequate idea of the duties of this crisis,

it will be necessary to raise your minds to a level with your station, to extend your views to a distant futurity, and to consequences the most certain, though most remote. By a series of criminal enterprises, by the successes of guilty ambition, the liberties of Europe have been gradually extinguished: the subjugation of Holland, Switzerland, and the free towns of Germany, has completed that catastrophe; and we are the only people in the eastern hemisphere, who are in possession of equal laws and a free constitution. Freedom, driven from every spot on the continent, has sought an asylum in a country which she always chose for her favourite abode; but she is pursued even here, and threatened with destruction. The inundation of lawless power, after covering the whole earth, threatens to follow us here; and we are most exactly, most critically placed in the only aperture where it can be successfully repelled; in the Thermopyla of the universe. As far as the interests of freedom are concerned, the most important by far of sublunary interests, you, my countrymen, stand in the capacity of the fœderal representatives of the human race; for with you it is to determine (under God) in what condition the latest posterity shall be born; their fortunes are entrusted to your care, and on your conduct, at this moment, depends the colour and complexion of their destiny. If liberty, after being extinguished on the continent, is suffered to expire here, whence is it ever to emerge in the midst of that thick night that will invest it? It remains with you, then, to decide, whether that freedom, at whose voice the kingdoms of Europe awoke from the sleep of ages, to run a career of virtuous emulation in every thing great and good; the freedom which dispelled the mists of superstition, and invited the nations to behold their God; whose magic touch kindled the rays of genius, the enthusiasm of poetry, and the flame of eloquence; the freedom which poured into our lap opulence and arts, and embellished life with innumerable institutions and improvements, till it became a theatre of wonders; it is for you to decide whether this freedom shall yet survive, or be covered with a funeral pall, and wrapt in eternal gloom. It is not necessary to await your determination. In the

solicitude you feel to approve yourselves worthy of such a trust, every thought of what is afflicting in warfare, every apprehension of danger must vanish, and you are impatient to mingle in the battle of the civilized world. Go then, ye defenders of your country, accompanied with every auspicious omen; advance with alacrity into the field, where God himself musters the hosts to war. Religion is too much interested in your success not to lend you her aid. She will shed over this enterprise her selectest influence. While you are en

gaged in the field, many will repair to the closet, many to the sanctuary; -the faithful of every name will employ that prayer which has power with God; the feeble hands, which are unequal to any other weapon, will grasp the sword of the spirit; and from myriads of humble and contrite hearts, the voice of intercession, supplication, and weeping, will mingle in its ascent to heaven with the shouts of battle and the shock of arms."

FRANCE.

The First Consul has lately laid before the legislative body a view of the state of France, both in her internal and external relations. The public works of various kinds and the other national improvements which are carrying on in that country, even to the repair of a decayed bridge, are detailed with great particularity. The finances are represented to be in a very flourishing situation, and to exceed the expenditure. It appears that some distur bances had taken place in La Vendee, but their nature and extent are not mentioned. Spain and Portugal are spoken of as neutral. Switzerland is stated to be left to herself, the French troops being withdrawn from it. Of the other powers nothing very material is observed. England is mentioned with an evident degree of irritation, but with none of those vaunting threats on the subject of invasion to which our ears have of late been so much accustomed; a circumstance which we are not to attribute to any dereliction, on the part of the First Consul, of his meditated attempt on this country, but to an affectation of magnanimity. In the mean time there is every reason to believe, that his gigantic preparations are advancing to their completion, and that we shall in no long time have to measure our strength with his on British ground. About thirty gun-brigs carrying four to ten forty-two pounders, and from seven to eight hundred gun-boats carrying three eighteen and twenty-four pounders, and capable of containing seventy or eighty men each,

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A decree was lately passed by the Batavian government, intended to stimulate the officers and soldiery to every act of desperation should they land in this country. All who should be made prisoners were to forfeit their pay; the time they might continue in prison was not to be taken into account in the period of their service; not returning when released, they were to be treated as deserters; officers were to be debarred advancement, and to be superseded by those who do not permit themselves to be made prisoners. This decree, however, was so universally obnoxious to the army, that the government have thought it prudent to repeal it. It sufficiently indicates, however, their temper towards this country.

EAST INDIES.

The last accounts from CEYLON are of a disastrous nature. Candi, the capital of the island, which had been taken possession of by our troops, was attacked in the midst of a truce on the 23d of June last, by a body of Candians who forced the garrison to capitulate. Soon after the fort had been evacuated, all the English soldiers belonging to the garrison were treacherously murdered in cold blood.

The MAHRATTAH war is likely to prove tedious and expensive, notwithstanding the great activity and exertion of General Wellesley who conducts it. The species of desultory warfare which the Mahrattahs are accustomed to carry on, is peculiarly harassing to European troops. They are a people also so jealous of their indepen dence, that they will probably seek to put an end to those intestine feuds which first gave occasion to our interference, in order to prevent, by an union of their force, our obtaining any footing in their country. The Bengal army is said to be in motion in order to assist the army of Bombay, which, though every where victorious, has yet experienced some severe conflicts,

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