that city as much as the schools. Whether it was in Edinburgh that he first got a fight of the follies of Behmenifm, we know not; but we do know that he attended a courfe of lectures in that University well calculated to cure him of the difease of religious myfticism on the one hand, and to ferve as an antidote against the poifon of Atheism, on the other. Perhaps he had not a fufficient knowledge of the elements of science to proît by these lectures; and if fo, his wide leap from enthusiasm was not unnatural; for he, whofe head is not fitted for cool investigation, never thinks that he can recede far enough from a fyftem of opinions, in which he has been made to perceive fomething of error.

Old and deep-rooted notions, however, are more eafily buried under the rubbish of new ones equally unfound, than completely eradicated from the minds of fuch men; and it is by no means improbable, that for the long period of fourteen years, during which Dr. Ckely was em ployed in compiling this fyftem of Atheism, he may have been cherithing fecretly, and almoft unknown to himself, fome portion of his original fire. If fo, the firft occafional caufe fitted to make him think would blow the latent fpark into a blazing flame; and that cause, we believe, was the neglect into which he fell as a medical practitioner, on the publication of his Pyrology. A revolution, fomewhat fimilar to this took place in the religious opinions of Mr. Francis Okely. "In his early years of piety, being unacquainted, he fays, with the fnare, and unhappily too much addicted to reasoning, and fyftematic religion, a fet of plaufible notions, according to the letter of Scripture, gradually ftole in upon him, and cooled his affection for the very awakening and enlivening HEART'S REALITY." From this dangerous ftate of reasoning he was converted by fecret whispers within, and induced to study the latter writings of Mr. William Law, and the myftical works of Jacob Behmen!

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But if we believe Dr. Okely to be a mad enthusiastiest, have we not, may be afked, employed too much of our time in the analysis of a work, of which the intrinfic merit is fo very low, as to place it far beneath our notice? In anfwer to this question, which is natural and reasonable, we beg leave to inform our readers, that contemptible as the Pyrology is, the Jacobins employ it, with fuccefs, to promote their diabolical purpofes. We know not that it is now to be purchafed in the shops; but it is in the libraries of moft reading focieties in Great Britain, and is, by the Curators of thefe libraries, circulated among fuch Tyros in fcience as are not likely to perceive the weakness of the author's reafonings; whilft it is carefully kept up from those who are known to be willing, as well as able, to expose its futility. Two friends of our's-determined Anti-Jacobins-wifhing to fee this wonderful performance foon after its publication, thought they might borrow it from the library of a private fociety, affuming a fcientific name, in the city where they refide. Sufpećting, however, that the application would be more fuccefsful if made by a third peron, one of them employed a friend of his own to request the ufe of he book, for a very few days, from the librarian of the fociety; but hat cautious guardian of the Jacobin-repofitory afking the gentleman employed,

employed, if the loan was for himfelf, and being told that it was not, but for Dr. *******, replied, " Then, Sir, you cannot have it." A fimilar request was made by our other friend, and in a fimilar manner, to the prefident of the fociety. The refult was the fame; the prefident adding, "It is not to fuch men as Dr. ***** and Dr. ******* that we lend Okely's Pyrology"!!!

MISCELLANIES.

THE ENDEAVOUR SOCIETY

FOR THE RELIEF AND INSTRUCTION OF THE POOR.

A

lity and Jacobiniím, have been established to corrupt the hearts and to pervert the minds of the lower claffes of fociety, it is with heartfelt fatisfaction, we witnefs the establishment of any inftitution which tends to counteract designs fo pernicious to individuals, and so destructive to the community. To afford temporal affiftance, and to communicate religious knowledge, to the poor, is a duty which every man is bound to difcharge to the beft of his ability; but this duty is, perhaps, beft performed by affociations, in which the united efforts of individuals have much greater fcope for exertion, and are, confequently, capable of producing a much greater effect.

The ENDEAVOUR SOCIETY, though it have been established fome time, and has fome refpectable names in the lift of its supporters, is not fo well known as it ought to be. Its design is, by means of an annual subscription of One Guinea, to raise a fund to be applied, in various ways, to the relief of the indigent; to advance fmall. fums, without intereft, to perfons in bufinefs; to supply medical affistance to the fick; child-bed linen and all other relief (including delivery) to lying-in women, at their own habitations; to inoculate their children; and, in fhort, to remove the wants, and to contributę to the comforts, of the poor, as far as its circumstances will admit.

While the attention of the fociety has thus been directed to the adminiftration of relief to the bodily wants of the poor, they havẹ been equally vigilant in inftilling found principles of religious and civil duty into their minds. This has been effected, by the establishment of a library for their use, containing fuch plain books of divinity as are comprehenfible by every understanding, and by the occafional diftribution of cheap tracts, and a fet of prayers, for the morning and evening, ftuck on pafteboard, to be hung up in their bed-chambers. By this means, the poor are enabled, in a certain degree, to defeat the arts of the numerous fectaries who are affiduous in their attempts to feduce them from the established church; that kind of ignorance which facilitates feduction is removed; and a firm fenfe of duty implanted in the mind. Whenever the funds will admit of fuch an extenfion of their plan, the fociety mean to establish a Sunday school, to be conducted, according to the intention of the original founders of fuch schools, on the true principles of the Church of England. These institutions, in themselves ex

cellent,

cellent, have been grofsly perverted by the arts of fectaries, and, in many instances, we fear, rendered inftruments of hoftility to our establishments, both civil and religious.

This is a brief outline of the ENDEAVOUR SOCIETY which comprehends other useful objects, and which is unquestionably entitled to public encouragement. It affords the means of doing great good at a trifling expence; and thefe furely are times which call for every exertion from the friends of exifting inftitutions, and the enemies of innovation in Church or State.

Subscriptions are received at the Anti-Jacobin Office, Peterborough-Court; by Meffrs. Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and by Mr. Pears, treasurer and apothecary to the fociety, Rockingham-Row, Newington-Butts, at which places, the plan and rules of the fociety may be had.

The following is the Form of Prayer ufed, in confequence of the late attempt on the facred life of his Majefty, by the Scotch Epifcopal Church, whofe members are not more distinguished for the purity of their religious, than for the foundness of their political, principles.

FORM OF PRAYER, with Thanksgiving, for the prefervation of his MAJESTY's facred perfon, from the late horrible attempt to take away his life.-[To be used in the congregations of the Scotch Epifcopal Church.]

"OALMIGHTY and ever-living LORD GOD, who dwelleft on high, yet humbleft thyfelf to behold the things that are done in heaven and on earth; whilft we gratefully adore that wise and gracious Providence, which hath established the authority of Kings, and watcheth over the persons of Princes, we most humbly befeech thee to accept this our public tribute of thanks and praise, as for all thy mercies vouchfafed unto thy fervant, our SOVEREIGN, fo efpecially for the prefervation of his facred perfon from the late horrible attempt to take away his life, a life fo juftly dear to all his faithful fubjects. Infpire our hearts, therefore, O gracious GOD, and the hearts of all his people, with a just sense of this thy great goodness, fo fignally manifefted in the continued protection of our KING and GOVERNOR. Be thou ftill his GOD and guardian in the hour of danger; and in all that he has to do for thy glory, and the welfare of his people, let thy wifdom be his guide, and let thine arm ftrengthen him. Defend him from the gathering together of the froward, and from the infurrection of wicked doers. Keep him always under the fhadow of thy wings, that the fons of violence may not hurt his perfon, nor the clamours of fedition difturb his reign. Direct and bless the counfels of his Minifters, and grant that fuch wife and falutary measures may ftill be adopted, for maintaining the order and good government of the kingdom, that his dutiful fubjects may lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all godlinefs and honefty-for this is good and acceptable in thy fight, O GOD, our SAVIOUR; to whom, even to Thee, O FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT, the adorable Three in One, be all glory and honour, thanksgiving and praise, henceforth and for evermore." Amen.

POETRY.

THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.

A Poem. In Sixteen Cantos.

BY MR. POLWHELE.

OF this poem, the first cantos are already before the public. The remaining fourteen, in MS. have been fubmitted to our perufal by the author: and, (as it is not his intention to publish them immediately) we think we fhall amuse our readers by a few excerpts from the MS. and do no differvice to Mr. P. by thus anticipating a part of its contents. It may be neceffary to premife, that the first (published) contains a description of the mansion of Andarton; of the family refident there from the highest antiquity; the characters of Sir Humphrey de Andarton the present poffeffor; of Mifs Prue, his only child, (by his first wife, Bridget) on whom his eftates are entailed in case of no male heir; of Harriet, Sir Humphrey's fecond wife; of Rachael, his maiden fifter and houfekeeper; of Ned, and Jenny Jerkairs, brother and fifter to Sir Humphrey's firft wife Bridget. And that the fecond (published) canto difplays Sir Humphrey and his family in various fituations of private life; brings forward the Knight in public; introduces us to the acquaintance of Herbert the curate; and concludes with Harriet's pregnancy, and the long-wifhed-for birth of a fon, ALLAN-DE-ANDARTON, the future hero of the piece. We ought not to omit, that the guardian genii of the houfe of Andarton, are affigned their different ftations in the protection of the family. The third canto (MS.) exhibits to us ALLAN in his infancy; the death of Rachael, Sir H.'s fifter and housekeeper; the management of the family ufurped by Mifs Prue (the Knight's daughter by his first wife) and Jenny Jerkairs; Allan, at a grainmar-school at Molfra; Herbert the curate, his mafter; his ftudies and amusements; little Henry and Juliet his favourite companions; as he grows older, his folitary and romantic purfuits; his fondnefs for the old pictures in the Andarton-gallery; Sir Humphrey explaining the pictures to his fon; particularly that of Algar, who, with Eldred his brother, fettled in the Weft of England; having founded the house of Andarton on the banks of the Fal, whilft Eldred built an abbey elfewhere. The poet proceeds to represent Allen as arrived at the age of puberty; exhibits him, at a fox-hunt, accompanied by his relation Neville, and rudely treated by Sir Harry Hawirop, a nabob just feated in the neighbourhood; introduces him at a Twelve-day feaft in company with Ned and Jenny Jerkairs, Geoffry Squintal of Trevalfo, Efq. and Alice wife of Squintal, and their daughter Juliet; defcribes Alice as the aunt of Laura, a young heirefs of Landor-abbey, whofe father and mother were both deceased; Allan's partiality for Juliet; his birth-day; ruftic maidens running for a wreath, and Emma, a poor girl of obscure parentage, winning the prize, and crowned by Allan; Emma, the favourite and companion of Juliet; Allan's attending them on their walks; Allan enquiring

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for Juliet, and furprising a stranger (with his dog) at Emma's cottage; Sir Humphrey faft declining; Sir H. cautioning Allan against the artifices of Sir Harry Hawtrop (who hath an eye to the neighbouring borough, Molfra), and Squintal Squire of Trevalfo and town-clerk of the borough; Sir Humphrey on his death-bed advising Allan to vifit Laura, the heirefs of Landor-abbey ;. Sir Humphrey's death. Of this canto, the following excerpts may be accepted as fpecimens:

From every

ALLAN at School.

"There, as at first he heard with mute furprize,
desk the mingled murmurs rife,
With equal wonder he furvey'd as show,
All, all, like pendulums, wag to and fro;
Whilft thofe a tedious task appear'd to ply;
Faftening on each hard word the unvarying eye,
And thofe, whom brisker fancy might engage,
Flung but two glances to devour a page;
And others feem'd to hunt with anxious look
A fhadowy fomething through a bulky book;
As backwards now, and forwards now they turn'd
The tumbled leaves, and with vain ardor burn'd.
Yet here a dunce by heavy mifts opprefs'd,
Quits his dull work, to interrupt the reft;
And there, with darts, a wicked wit, bumproof,
Hits fage Minerva figur'd in the roof,
Or pins infixes in tenacious pitch,

To pierce, by fmart furprife, a brother's breech.
Thus, as one general buzz falutes the ear,
Through lucent glafs the glowing bees appear:
All seem to kindle with inceffant toil,
From cell to cell, and rear the waxen pile :
Here, too, flow drones the vivid labours mar,
And, there, a wicked wafp provokes the war."

ALLAN's opening genius.
"Meantime, the boy to Herbert's curious gaze
Difcover'd genius brightening to a blaze:
An eye, that fparkled at the eccentric thought,
Or glisten'd, fudden, with a tear-drop fraught;
The quick fuffufion at his mafter's glance;
A fpirit darting like the lightning's lance;
The foul within itself retir'd, and (round
Though mingled voices' rofe) unheeding found."
"Attach'd to lone retreats, the dingle deep,
The long-drawn dale, the mountain's fky-clad fweep,
If, where the raven fhap'd her ancient neft
Amid fome beech's folitary creft,

He fcal'd, exulting at her angry croak,

Its trunk, and through the topmost branches broke ;

'Twas