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The memoir is indeed very interesting, as a display of various excellent qualities combined into one character; and will form a valuable model for the imitation of Christian students and ministers. We are satisfied that the preacher intended it to be literally correct; and are unwilling even to think it possible that an endeared intimacy of twenty eight years with the deceased pastor, may have animated him into a tone of panegyric in any respect too high. Recommending the publication itself to general notice, we shall admit only two extracts, referring to two distant periods of Mr. N.'s life.

The fear of God was not only the real,butwith out ostentation, the visible and prominent principle, by which he was governed. The fervour of youthful piety is often very great, and not unfrequently produces strong effects which afterwards subside. It was no: so with him. I have known many young professors far more lively and ardent, but I never knew one more uniformly humble and persevering. His conversation, in hours of confidence, on topics of experimental piety, and on the influence of divine truth over his own mind, was even at the age of seventeen or eighteen, judicious and edifying in a high degree. His acquaintance with the scriptures and his own heart was daily increasing. In exercises of private devotion he was most constantly exemplary. In his inquiries into divine truth he manifested a humble, patient, teachable, and improving mind. He hesitated in admitting conclusions, of which he had not diligently and impartially examined the premises. But having admitted them, he was ready to carry them into al their lawful consequences He embraced Christian principles as motives of action, and valued them most of all as the springs of acceptable piety. His whole behaviour, while in the Academy, was exemplary. A manly decision of character, mingled with the most unassuming modesty and the most generous kindness, marked all that he did.' pp. 25-7

Ye are witnesses, that he was often employed in holding up, as the only ground of a sinner's hope, "JEHOVAH Our Righteousness ;" and that he preached no other way of salvation, but that which is opened through the righteousness and sacrifice of the Son of God. At the same time, he was always concerned to vindicate the honour of the Holy Spirit, and preached regeneration and holiness, as well as pardon and justification. It was not a cold systematic theology, which proceeded from his lips. Nor was it, on the other hand,the unpremeditated effusion of honest but mistaken zeal, which he addressed to his auditors Accuracy of sentiment and representation formed the grand feature of his preaching, so far as it was doctrinal. But mere accuracy would never content him. He always laboured to place divine truth in the most impressive, as well as the most unobjectionable point of view; and his preaching was directed to those great ends, without which knowledge puffeth up." p. 35.

The address at the interment, by Mr. Jay, is very suitable and impressive. Art. XX. Youth Addressed. The Substance of a Sermon preached at Fulham Church, on Sunday, September 25th, 1808, in Reference to certain recent Occurrences among the Youth of the Parish and Vicinity. By the Rev. John Owen, M. A. Rector of Pagelsham, Curate of Fulham, 8vo. pp. 40. Price ls. 6d. Hatchard, 1808. "WE are so near the eternal state," says Dr. Doddridge, "that me

thinks nothing which looks like a call from Providence, directing to any opportunity of doing good to the souls of men, should be ne glected." This also appears to be Mr. Owen's sentiment. A year ago we

had to notice his Sermon on "The Uncertainty of the morrow: occasioned by an awful fire in the premises of John Ord, Esq. of Fulham, by which his principal gardener was burned to death." (Vol. III. p. 1026.) The "recent occurrences," to which Mr. O refers in the title of the present discourse, are the three following, the happy death of a little girl whọ had not completed her ninth year, the miserable death of a young man about nineteen years of age, who had ruined his character and health by excess, and at length became his own executioner,—and the sudden death of two young people by the sinking of a boat in the Thames. Mr. O. has chosen for his text, Eccles. xii. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. After a suitable exordium, he first exposes the indisposition of youth to attend to the admonition in the text, secondly, argues the necessity of their attending to it as what they owe to God, to themselves, and to others; thirdly, enforces these considerations by a reference to the late remarkable occurrences. We could gladly make longer extracts from this sermon than our limits will allow. Of the self-murderer he says, "Behold then this victim of his youthful lusts mangled, cruelly mangled by his own violence, and weltering with awful publicity in the stream of blood which his suicidal hands have spilt! Behold, not that you may gratify an unfeeling curiosity with so hideous a spectacle of horror and disgust-but that you may learn to believe and feel the solemn truth which every part of this catastrophe proclaims-"The wages of sin is DEATH.” In the conclusion of the sermon, Mr. O. addresses three descriptions of young people "those who are hardened in iniquity-the unguarded, improvident, and irresolute-and those who, through Divine Grace, are mindful of their Creator now in the days of their youth.' He concludes

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"Remember" thus " your Creator in the days of your youth ;" and so shall it be well with you. Peace shall accompany you every step you take; the blessing of your parents, of your friends, and of all good men shall come upon you; "yea God, even our own God, shall give you blessing. If the period of your life be extended or abridged; if you expire in youth, or in age; by the decays of nature, or the stroke of accident; on the bed of sickness, or in the bosom of the waters; you will in neither case be disappointed of your consolations, or defeated of your reward. He, whom you have remembered, will never forget you; he, whom you have served, will never leave you, never forsake you. His goodness will adapt itself to all the circumstances of your case, and all the changes of your being. Here, he will be to you every thing you can desire; hereafter, more than you can conceive; on earth, the strength of your heart; in heaven, your portion for ever.”.

It can hardly be necessary to acquaint 'our readers that a sermon of Mr. Owen's is evangelical in sentiment,if this had been still more explicitly so, we would not have censured him, or that his diction is elegant, and his cadences regular and melodious. We think he will be self-convicted of an assault on Priscian's head, when he examines his use of the word exempt," p. 10.

Art. XXI. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of
Middlesex, at the Visitation in May and June, 1808. By George
Owen Cambridge, A. M. F. A. S. Archdeacon of Middlesex, and
Prebendary of Ely. 8vo. pp. 34. Price 1s. 6d. Cadell and Co. 1808.
T THIS Charge is, in great measure, an architectural lecture; in which
some of the causes of decay and ruin to churches in general, and es-

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pecially to those within the Archdeacon's jurisdiction, are succinctly stated, and methods are pointed out of counteracting their operation. Mr. C. is not entirely inattentive to the stability and beauty of the spiritual church; he gives some very proper, though very superficial and inadequate advice to his reverend brethren, on the duties of their office; and seasons it with compliments to them on the subject of "right and lawful minister," as also with a few of those sarcasms against " itinerant preachers and sectaries" and their pernicious doctrines," which may now pretty generally be found in discourses on similar occasions.

Art. XXII, An Authentic Narrative of the Causes which led to the Death of Major Andrè, Adjutant General of his Majesty's Forces in North America. By Joshua Hett Smith, Esq Counsellor at Law, late Member of the Convention of the State of New York. To which is added a Monody on the Death of Major Andrè, by Miss Seward. Svo. pp. 356. Price 8s. bds. Mathews and Leigh, 1808. THIS book is not what it pretends to be: not one half of it is occupied

with the story of the unfortunate Major! On the contrary, it is in effect the story of Joshua Hett Smith, Esq.; who at this late period finds it convenient to publish an exculpation of himself from the double charge of treachery both to Andrè and the American Congress, and having shared in the disasters of the lamented hero, has a mind to remunerate himself by sharing his honours, and inscribing his own obscure name on a tablet which has been consecrated by the public pity. The disingenuous trick of hoisting false colours in the front of a book, and thus smuggling an article on the reader totally different from what he had a right to expect, is become so common, that it is no longer safe to believe in title pages. But of all persons in the world, we should have supposed Mr. S. would be the last to be guilty of such a deception, when attempting to vindicate his dishonoured character, and requiring the public faith to his "authentic narrative." We admit, however, that great part of the narrative is "authentic;" every fact of any material importance was perfectly well known before-as to the unworthy motives and conduct, however, which are ascribed to General Greene and others, we must have less exceptionable evidence than that of an illiberal and exasperated partizan. Mr. Smith had an undoubted right to publish, if he chose, the danger to which he was exposed in being tried for his life as an accomplice with Major Andrè and General Arnold, the sufferings he endured in his hairbreadth escape from detention, the loss he sustained in the death of an amiable wife, who fell a victim to her tenderness for him,--and his history would have gained the attention it deserved; but he should have brought it forward in a candid manly way, instead of intruding it, as an enormous episode, in a tale which has long gone by,and which he is totally incompetent to adorn with the expression of feeling or the graces of style. Indeed, both the sentiments and diction of the book are below criticism.

Miss Seward's Monody on the death of Andrè is too well known to admit of comment from us; and the letters of the Major serve only to shew, what was never questioned, that in him were sacrificed the germ of ge-' nius, the glow of sentiment, and the candour of rectitude, to the horrid Moloch of War.

ART. XXI. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

. as accentuated or connected. 3. The Changes in Sound and Sense produced by the Addition of the Letter e; the Shades of Difference being pointed out and noted as in Walker's Dictionary.

On Monday Evening, January 2, 1809, will be published, the First Number, Price Ninepence, of a New Weekly Paper, intitled The Family Gazette. This Paper will be adapted for Families and Seminaries, by a strict Regard to Decorum, Utility, and sound Principles; and for General Readers, by the Quantity, Variety, and Arrangement of its Contents. It will be printed in Imperial Octavo, in Thirty-two Columns, on good Paper, and the Presswork executed with particular Care. Supplements will be occasionally published, so as to present the Reader with all important public Papers at full length, and with a satisfactory Digest and Abridgement of Parliamentary Proceedings. An Index will be given at the End of each Year; and the Whole will constitute a complete Annual Register of Public Affairs.-All Persons interested in the Education of Youth will find a special Regard paid in this Paper to the rising Generation: sound Principles, in Morais and in Politics, will be invariably inculcated. The Arrangement will be superior to that of any other Paper, as every particular Subject will be found under its appropriate Head, and not in the d sjo.nted Manner in which they usually appear. Agriculturists, and Persons connected with Trade, will find fully detailed the latest. Accounts of the Price of Corn and the State of the Markets, from the Saturday's London Gazette, and from Inteligence received by Post on Monday Morning.-Orders for this Paper may be addressed to the Publisher, L. B. Seeley, No. 169, Fleetstreet, who will punctually forward it, Postage-free, on Payment being appointed in Town; or to any of the Newsmen throughout the United Kingdom.

The Translation of the Scriptures into the Persian Language, so long in Preparation, and by many thought to be abandoned, has been for some time in the Press at Newcastle upon Tyne, and is expected to be ready for Publication in the course of the Year 1809. It will form an elegant Quarto Volume.

Mr. John Murdoch, of Hart-street, has nearly completed a Work which he intends to publish by Subscription, to be intitled, The Dictionary of Distinctions, which is to consist of three Alphabets; containing 1. Words, the same in Sound, but of different Spellings and Signification, including such as have any similarity of Sound, 2. Words that vary in Pronunciation and Meaning,

The Board of Agriculture proceed in their Design of completing the County Reports. Berkshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, and Derbyshire, are in the Press, and are expected to appear before Christ

mas.

Mr. Alexander Walker, Lecturer on Physiology, &c. has issued a Prospectus of a new quarterly Work, to be called the Archives of Universal Science. The grand Object of this Work will be, by giving in detail all those Subjects which other Journals embrace, and by involving also all those other Subjects of Science which they do not embrace; to exhibit, either in valuable original Communications, or in critical Analyses of every Work containing new and important Observations, the. Progress which all the Sciences and Arts are every Day making throughout the World and further also, by assigning to each Dise covery, its Place in a natural Arrangement, to appreciate its Value, and pont out ts Influcuce upon the Sciences, and its Application to the Arts.

Mr. George Montagn's Supplement to the History of British Shells is nearly ready for Publication.

The Rev. R. Nares will shortly put to Press a Dictionary of the Middle Language of England, or of the Age of Shakspeare, on the Plan of Johnson's Dictiomary.

Dr. C. Burney has nearly completed, at the Cambridge Press, his very learned Work on the Clorusses of Eschylus, which will soon be published.

Mr. Plumptree, of Clare-hall, has in the Press Four Discourses on the Stage, preached lately at Cambridge.

A new Edition is in the Press of Quarles's Meditations, called Judgement and Mercy for afflicted Souls. It will be the Reprint of the first Edition of 1646, with the Errors of the Press corrected. The introductory Part will contain a Life of Quarles, by his Widow Ursula; Testimonies of his Character and Talents, with Specimens of his Poetry and Prose, the Whole will form a handsome crown octavo Volume; to which there will be affixed a beautiful Engraving of the Author's Head, from the Original, by Marshal.

A new Edition, with Additions, of the Dialogues on Chemistry, by the Rev. J. Joyce, is nearly ready for Publication.

The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London will shortly publish the first Volume of their Records. It will contain some very valuable Contributions from Practitioners of first rate Eminence in the Metropolis.

Mr. G. Burnett has in forwardness for Publication, in two duodecimo Volumes, The Beauties of Milton's Prose, with preliminary Remarks and Criticisms. It is the prime Object of this Volume, to give an extensive Diffusion to the Sentiments of Milton, by selecting such of his Pieces, as deserve to have a permanent Influence' on Public Opinion; thus connecting the Prose Writings of our great Poet into a popular Classic.

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The Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Percival Stockdale will make their appearance early in next Year. They will include many Anecdotes of the illustrious Men with whom he has been connected; the Work will also abound with social, moral, political, and religious Observations, and contain a particular Account of Marseilles, Gibraltar, and Algiers, at which Places the Author for some time resided.

The Author of the Military Mentor is preparing for Publication three Volumes

of

of Essays on the Art of War, and on modern Military Tactics.

Mr. Carmichael has in the Press a Second Edition, much enlarged, of his Essay on the Effects of Carbonate and other Preparations of Iron on Cancer, with an Inquiry into that Disease. Among the Additions are a Number of interesting Cases, a Disquisition on the Uses of the Oxyd of Iron in the Blood, and Remarks on such Diseases as may depend on its Excess or Deficiency, or in any Way bear a Relation to Cancer; with an Attempt to answer the Queries of the Medical Society in London, for investigating the Nature and Cure of that Complaint.

We understand that in a few Days will be published Dr. Williams's long promised Essay on Divine Equity and Sovereignty, which proposes to cast some new Light on many important Points of moral Science, scriptural Theology, and personal Religion.

The History of the Dissenters, by Rev. Messrs. Bogue and Bennett, is said to be in such forwardness, that the two first Volumes may be expected to appear in a few Weeks. Those who intend to subscribe for the Work are recommended to apply with out Delay to one of the Authors, as the Price will be considerably raised to Nonsubscribers.

ART. XXII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUblished.

AGRICULTURE.

The Norfolk Farmer, 8vo. 5s.

BIOGRAPHY.

Life of George Morland; by Collins. 5s. Memoirs of Horatio Lord Walpole, selected from his Correspondence and Papers, and connected with the History of the Times, froin 1678 to 1757. By William Coxe, M. A. F. R. S. F. A. S. Archdeacon of Wells, and Rector of Bemerton. 2 vols. 8vo. Illustrated by Twenty Portraits, the Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, 11. 12s. bds.

CHEMISTRY.

A Dictionary of Practical and Theoretical Chemistry, with its Application to the Arts and Manufactures, and to the Explanation of the Phenomena of Nature; including throughout the latest Discoveries, and the present State of Knowledge on these Subjects. By William Nicholson. 8vo, with Plates and numerous Tables. 11. 1s.

EDUCATION.

A Key to Joyce's Arithmetic, containing Solutions and Answers to all the Ques

tions in the Work. By the same Author. 2s. 6d.

The Academy; or, A Picture of Youth. 3s. 6d.

Exercises on the Globes; interspersed with some historical, biographical, chronological, mythological, and miscellaneous Information; on a new Plan; to which are added, Questions or Examination, designed for the Use of young Ladies. Fourth Edition, with Additions. By William Butler. 65. bound.

JURISPRUDENCE.

A short View of Legal Bibliography," containing Critical Observations on the Authority of Reporters and other Law Writers; by Richard Whalley Bridgeman, Esq. 8s.

A Catalogne of Modern Law Books arranged in a perspicuous Method: corrected; to Hilary Term. 1808. 3s.

GEOGRAPHY.

An Introduction to Mr. Pinkerton's Abridge m nt of his Modern Geography for the use of Schools; accompanied with Twenty Outline Maps, adapted to this Introduction, and suited to other Geographical

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