vowed the same doctrine, and defended it with an earnestness and an ingenuity which Dr. Gleig cannot but admire. How then are the real sentiments of the British Critic to be ascertained? On points of the very first moment to the faith of a christian he is proved, and that without any laboured effort, but by a simple statement of facts, to maintain opinions which directly contradict each other. What reliance then, I would ask, can any man be supposed to place on the decisions of this reviewer respecting points of theology? 2. The attentive reader cannot fail also to have been struck with the strange and unusual coincidence, not only of sentiment, but even of expression, subsisting between some extracts from the British Critic and certain passages in the very sermons of Dr. Gleig, which that critic has censured. The coincidence is of such a nature as could not have been the effect of accident; to what then is it to be attributed? As I cannot suppose the reviewer to have extracted the materials of his critique from DrGleig's Sermons, I am led to conclude that it must have been the production of that gentleman; and if the internal character of works be a real tangible subject of comparison; and if, not only a general similarity of sentiment and style, but a minute and exact resemblance in the turns of thought and expression, affords any evidence on which to ground such a conclusion, I shall not be thought to have hazarded an unfounded conjecture. But whether Dr. Gleig be the author of the review or not, he has surely some cause to complain of the treatment of the British Critic; for after having sanctioned the doctrines maintained in Dr. Gleig's Sermons, by their full and unqualified adoption, it was not decorous in the conductors of that work to censure Dr. Gleig for holding them. A charge of heterodoxy was but a poor return for the important help he had afforded them, particularly as the occasion on which the Doctor's services were employed is acknowledged, by themselves, to have been one of peculiar difficulty. The reader will understand this last expression, when I inform him that the article from which I have extracted the proofs of the inconsistency of the British Critic, is the review of "The True Churchman ascertained," by 3. The reader, who is acquainted with the scriptures and with the authorized documents of our church, cannot fail to have been farther struck. with the contrariety which exists between these and the extracts from the review of Overton, which have been given above. But as this was not the point which I had it in view to establish, I have omitted many passages that would have borne directly upon it. Enough, however, has been said to shew, that the representations, which the British Critic has made of that work, ought to be received with much distrust. Mv next letter will furnish plain proofs that, whatever be the errors of Mr. Overton, the British Critic is himself in error; and that in his zeal to discredit that gentleman, he has not only contradicted himself, but has opposed, contradicted, and misrepresented the holy scriptures, and the liturgy, articles, and homilies of our church*. A SINCERE FRIEND OF THE dence which our correspondent has pro*By means of the same kind of eviduced in this paper, it might be proved, that Dr. Gleig must have had a considerable share, at least, in producing another review of Overton's book which appeared in the Anti-jacobin. As a striking coincidence of sentiment is the ground of this presumption, it may lead those, who think Dr. Gleig unsound in his views, to suspect that his friends, the Anti-jacobins, may, his heterodoxy. They, it is true, loudly disclaim in their last number (p. 336), the disaffection to the church with which they have been charged in our "semi-methodistical publication;" and express theinselves" proud to stand firm upon the rock of faith." We should have thought that even a distant allusion to the meek and lowly Saviour, the rock of our faith, would have had the effect of restraining every expression of pride; but "woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil." We jacobin Reviewers to peruse, with attenwould earnestly recommend it to the Antition, the extract from Mr. Gisborne's Sermon in our present number, p. 227, col. 2; as well as a passage in Mr. Hall's Sermon on the Fast-day, which is noticed in our number for February last, p. 97, col. 2. E. D. on this occasion, have been infected with LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c. GREAT BRITAIN. IT is intended to publish, at the close of the present year, a new Annual Vade Mecum, under the title of The Literary and Scientific Almanack, in a closely printed pocket volume. The object is to present to students, and lovers of literature, such corrected lists and tables, both literary and scientific, as may serve the purposes of reference and enquiry on every subject of that nature. Among other lists, there will be the following: 1. Of all contemporary living Authors, specifying their names, titles, age, residence, and works.-2. Of Books published within the year.-3. Of Literary Journals and Newspapers, foreign and domestic.4. Of learned Societies, and the names of the members of the most considerable.5. Of Book Societies, Book Clubs, and permanent Libraries, with the name of their president, steward, secretary, or librarian. -6. Of Names of Booksellers in the united kingdom, and of eminent Publishers abroad.-7. 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The original proprietors of this work, comprising the principal booksellers in London, have, in consequence of these proposals, announced as in the press, genuine Editions of Johnson's Dictionary, in two volumes quarto royal and demy, in four volumes royal octavo, and in four volumes superfine royal octavo; to be published in parts and numbers, with similar embellishments. The fourth volume of Mr. TURNER'S History of the Anglo Saxons, relating chiefly to their literature, and which will com plete the author's design, is in a state of forwardness. Mr. NEWENHAM is engaged upon An Inquiry into the Progress and present Magnitude of the Population of Ireland. The waste lands in Yorkshire are calculated, by Mr. TUKE, junior, to equal the extent of nearly the whole county of Norfolk. In the North Riding, he estimates 442,000 acres, of which he considers 228,435 capable of cultivation, or of being converted into pasture; and the remaining 213,435 incapable of being improved except by planting. In the West Riding, he states that there are 405,272 acres of waste, 265,000 of which are capable, and the remaining 140,272 incapable of improvement except as before. In the East Riding, he finds but 2000 acres of waste, all of which are capable of cultivation, or of being converted into pasture. Mr. G. LINDLEY, of Cotton, Norfolk, has succeeded in saving a crop of Swedish turnips from the fiy, by sowing radishes with the seed, about four pounds per acre. The radish was found to be the particular object of prey, and where numerous, the turnips were all safe and vigorous. The long salmon radish should be used, being mild and of a quick growth. A drag-rake should be drawn over the ground every other day, for four or five times, which both disturbs the flies, and contributes to the growth of the turnips. Mr. PERKINS, of Stockton, Durham, has invented a Thrashing Mill, upon an improved plan, capable of thrashing twenty bushels of oats in one hour, and twelve sheaves of wheat in less than four minutes. FRANCE. LA HARPE'S elegant and useful Cours de la Literature is now complete in fourteen volumes. M. PALISOT BEAUVOIS, a celebrated French Naturalist, who, in the year 1786, made a Voyage to the Kingdom of Benin in Africa, has prepared for the press an account of this voyage, and a description of Benin, in a geographical, statistical, political, and moral point of view. New editions of MILTON's Paradise Lost, and of GOLDSMITH's Poetical Works, have lately been printed at Paris, by BARROIs, who intends to publish there a collection of English Classics. JANSON, of Paris, has published PETER CAMPER'S Anatomical Description of a Male Elephant, with twenty plates. The plates are executed in the first style, and the description is the most interesting and satisfactory account of the different species of elephants hitherto discovered in Africa, Asia, or America. M. LEBRUN is said to have invented a new method of preparing hemp and flax, by which he obtains from these raw materials a kind of cotton and silk thread. His CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 28. cotton is superior, for every purpose of utility and taste, to imported cotton, as it easily assumes and retains any colour; and, by the labour of a few persons, a thousand pounds of tow may be converted into cotton in twenty-four hours. A second preparation gives to the tow all the fineness and brilliancy of texture, which has hitherto been peculiar to silk. In consequence of the particular value attached to Engraved Stones, it has been often wished that some matter could be discovered easy to be worked, and at the same time uniting beauty to solidity. With this view, a trial was lately made in France of STEATITES, which has perfectly succeeded. This matter, in consequence of its softness, can be cut and turned with great facility; and, being composed of very fine parts, the greatest accuracy may be observed in the operation. The stone is worked in its natural state. It is then put into a crucible covered with a tile, and the tile being luted with clay, the whole, surrounded with charcoal, is put into a furnace. It is exposed to a slow fire, and kept at a white heat for two or three hours; after which it is taken from the fire, and suffered to cool gradually. By these means the stone becomes very hard, strikes fire with steel, and wears the best files. Messrs. HAZARD and TESSIER have been for some time trying at Rambouillet, the result of suffering the wool to grow for several years in succession on a few sheep, Last season some of these sheep were shorn for the first time these three years. It appears that the wool was not only three times the length of that of a one year fleece, but that it produced a larger sum in proportion. M. Delarue has manufactured very beautiful kerseymeres with this wool, for which he obtained a medal, at the exposition of the works of national industry. ITALY. M. ZOEGA, author of a valuable treatise on Obelisks, has prepared for the press found in the library of Cardinal Morgia at a Descriptive Catalogue on Coptic MSS. Rome, Messrs. FRANCIS and PIERRE PIRANESE are preparing for the press, the rich materials which their deceased father collected for a work, entitled, The Antiquities of Magna Græcia, now the kingdom of Naples. 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Professor PELT, of Helsingoen, has invented a machine to preserve persons from drowning. To try the effects of it against the united currents of the North Sea and the Baltic, a person equipped in it lately crossed the Sound to Helsinburgh in Swe den, a distance of eight miles, in less than two hours; and returned shortly after in the same manner to the Danish shore. The machine weighs but seven pounds. It fastens round the waist of the wearer, and allows the full use of the arms. RUSSIA. From the following authentic particulars, our readers may form a pretty accurate idea of the commercial prosperity which ASTRACHAN has attained. This city contains a plantation for silk worms, twentyfour silk manufactories, eighty-one of cotton, five of morocco leather, seventyfour dyeing houses, twenty-four brickkilns, ninety-two vineyards, two hundred and twelve mills, &c. 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