pains to vilify Government, that they do not take equal pains to afcertain the facts upon which they found their flanders *.” P. 18.

Lord Fingall, however, joined them again, in ftill more violent proceedings in 1811. The Convention which they now thought proper to convoke would have amounted to about 473 perfons, and among them all who had ever diftinguished themfelves for factious meafures or fpeeches, as far back as 1793. The fuppofition of fuch a cafe happening in England is very juftly ftated.

"What would you fay, Mr. Speaker, if, in one of the Theatres in the Haymarket, there was a Convention reprefenting four millions of the people of this country, affuming all the forms of Parliament ? I am convinced, if fuch a thing were to occur, Gentlemen would rife from every corner of the House, and say it ought to be put down. If no law exifted to enable Government to difperfe fuch a meeting, you would inftantly pafs an Act to fupprefs it. If fuch would be the conduct of Gentlemen, and I am confident it would, (if the cafe were applicable to England), furely, they ought to feel the neceffity of giving the fame, or even greater fupport to the Government of Ireland: a Government that does not poffefs the advantage and fupport of a refident legiflature, and which has nothing to look to but its own vigilance and its own energy." P. 26.

We much regrer that we cannot, without further delay, give a more extended view of this excellent Speech, which contains a complete juftification of all the meafures in question. The fmall part of it towards the end, which treats of the Catholic claims, is clear, and, in our opinion, perfectly juft. A very remarkable proof is there given of the temper and juftice of a Committee of Irish Catholics.

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ART. 27. A Summary of the History of the English Church, and of the Seas which have departed from its Communion, with Answers to each Diffenting Body on its pretended Ground of Separation, by Johnson Grant, M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. In two Volumes. Vol. I. carrying down the Narrative from the earliest Periods to the Reign of James I. and including a Statement of the Grounds on which the Church of England feparated from that of Rome. 8vo. Hatchard. I 26. 1811.

To the well-directed and truly laudable exertions of the Society for promoting Chriftian Knowledge, and Church union established

A fimilar wish is ftill more ftrongly expreffed, and with high but juftifiable spirit, in p. 36.

in the diocese of St. David's by its excellent Bishop, we owe this very meritorious performance. The Society under his Lord. fhip's patronage, believing that we had yet to with for a fummary of the hiftory of the rife and establishment of the Church of England, a brief statement of the fects which have separated from it, and the substance of these admirable defences which have been written of its doctrines and difcipline, in the year 1807, offered a premium for the best performance on thefe fubjects. It was adjudged to the writer of the prefent volume. The fociety moreover, was fo favourably impreffed with this production, that they expreffed a wish to extend its circulation, and offered to affift its publication, by an engagement to purchase a confiderable number of copies. This encouraged the author to revife and extend his work into two volumes of which the firft only is yet published. In this prefent more correct and improved form, it will be found to merit the approbation of the public. The writer has confulted the best authorities, and made judicious felections from them, and he has alfo, in a relatively fmall fpace, comprifed a great deal of ufeful and valuable matter. The work, when completed, will, we have no doubt, be found fully to answer the purposes of the Society, under whofe patronage the enquiry was first instituted.,

ART. 28. National Depravity the Cause of National Calamity. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Woodbridge, Suffolk, by the Rev. John Morley, affiftant Curate thereof: on Wednesday, the 5th Day of Feb. 1812, being the Day appointed for a General Faft. 8vo. Is. 6d. Baldwin. 1812.

A well meaning difcourfe beyond all doubt, but certainly indicating no great vigour of intellect, nor diftinguished by any originality of remark. The preacher feems to live in a neigh bourhood, many of the individuals of which habitually abfent themselves from Church on Ash Wednesday from their dislike of the Commination ordained to be be read on that day. We have not heard of fuch a prejudice prevailing elsewhere.

ART. 29. Some modern Principles of Education confidered in a Sermon preached in the Chapel of the Afylum for female Orphans, at Lambeth, upon Sunday, the firft of December, 1811, and publifbed, in Compliance with the particular Request of the Committee of that Inftitution. By Laurence Gardner, M. A. Alternate morning Preacher at the Afylum, ofitant Preacher at St. George's, Hanover Square, and Rector of the fecond Portion of Westbury, Salop. 8vo. 31 pp. Is. Rivingtons, &c. 1811. This discourse is employed in arguing, 1. against those who hold that religion fhould not be taught at all in extreme youth; 2. against thofe who at leaft deny the propriety of inftructing them in creeds and catechisms; 3. thofe who would at all events

leave the talk of inftruction to the parents, and leave to publie education nothing but fecular knowledge; 4. against those who do not confefs that the national eftablishments of the country ought all to be closely connected with the national religion.. Thefe points are fenfibly and clearly argued, and the preacher, after having difcuffed them in a fufficient manner, addreffes himfelf particularly to the young women then prefent, who having been educated in the Afylum, were attending to receive the promised reward of good behaviour in their respective services.

There is much in this Sermon very ably directed against the loofe and latitudinarian principles, which unhappily are at present urged with fo much vehemence in various public meetings.

ART. 30. The Duty of Preaching the Word, a Sermon delivered at the Vifitation of the Right Worshipfu! Robert Markham, M.A. Archdeacon of York, at the Church of All Saints, Pavement, York, May 16, 1810. By the Rev. John Graham, Rector of Saint Saviour, and of Saint Mary Bishophill, fen. York, and Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst. Published at the request of several of the Clergy. 8vo. 17 PP. IS. York, printed; Rivingtons, &c. London. 1810.

This preacher is by no means a new acquaintance of ours. Several years ago we reviewed a Defence of the Church of England, which he printed in 1800*; and fince that another fermon. In the prefent difcourfe he maintains the fame doctrines which he had before vindicated, but his indignation is here particularly directed, in his notes, againit a preacher or preachers who had taught what he confiders as Socinian doctrines, or fomething approaching to them. But exclufive of the controverfial matter, the author well explains the neceffity of preaching affiduously the whole doctrine of our religion, and points cut the fanctions by which that duty is enforced upon the clergy. If he had not, however, before difclaimed the Calviniftic opinions, we fhould have thought that in fome paffages he betrayed a leaning towards them. Near the conclufion of the difcourfe, he thus ably exhorts his brethren.

"Let us fpeak to the understandings of the people. Let us endeavour to awaken them to their state and danger, and engage them to prepare for eternity. Let us labour to convince them of the depravity of their hearts, and the finfulness of their lives; that they may fee their need of the merits of Chrift, and of the fanctification of their nature by the fpirit of God. Then let us lead them to the crofs of their dying Saviour, that they may receive remiffion of fins, and an inheritance among them that are fanctified through faith which is in him. Let us diligently fhew

* See Brit. Crit. vol. xvii. p. 182, &c.

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them how the grace of God' which they have received, teaches them to deny ungodlinefs, and wordly lufts, and to live foberly, righteously, and godly in this prefent world." Let us exhort them, by an exemplary difcharge of duty, in every ftation of life, to glorify God, to adorn regligion, to benefit mankind, and to become meet for the kingdom of Heaven." P. 16.

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MISCELLANIES.

Hortus Elginenfis: or a Catalogue of Plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated in the Elgin Botanic Garden, in the Vicinity of the City of New York. Eftablished in 1801. By David Hofack, M.D. F.L.S. Profeffor of Botany, and Materia Medica in Columbia College, Member of the American Philofophical Sciety, &c. The fecond Edition enlarged. 8vo. 65 pp. New York; Printed by T. and J. Swords, Printers to the Facilty of Phyfic of Columbia College, No. 160 Pearl-ftreet. 1811.

This very elegant book, came to us as a prefent, a favour which we are proud to acknowledge, and fhould be happy if we knew how, to requite. As it does not appear that it has been reprinted in England, we know not how to direct our readers to obtain it; which we should imagine many among them would be defirous to do.

The advantage to Botanical Science to be expected from a garden established in fo fine a climate as New York must at once occur to every philofophical man; and this Catalogue offers abundant teftimony that it is established with liberality and conducted with zeal as well as knowledge by Dr. Hofack. Of this fact a pleafing illuftration occurs in a very fhort note on the last page, which we thall therefore tranferibe.

"Since the foregoing Catalogue has been printed, I have re: ceived from that diftinguifhed botanist, M. Thouin, Profeffor of Agriculture and Botany at Paris, a third collection of feeds, amounting to 300 fpecies, of fuch plants as are not contained in this collection. The unceafing exertions of that gentleman, for the promotion of Science in this country, as well as his own *, deferve a greater tribute of praife than I am able to bestow."

"The improvements which may hereafter take place in this inftitution, and the additions which may be made to the collection of plants, will in future be regularly publifhed, as anannual report to the Legislature and the Regents of the Univerfity." DAVID HOSACK." The Catalogue is already very full, and is arranged in alpha

And doubtless any where elfe, where he might be permitted to it. Rev.

betical

betical order under the generic Latin names; a complete Index of English rames being added. A very elegant frontispiece eprefents the Botanic garden itself, with its principal ho-houses; and the whole is very neatly printed. The preface defcribes the crigin and progrefs of the Inftitution.

ART. 32. New Dialogues in French and English; containing Exemplifications of the Parts of Speech, and the auxiliary and active Verb; with familiar Converfations on the following Subjects: Hiftory; Arithmetic; Botany; Aftronomy; the Comel; the Opera; Singing; Hippodramatic Performances; Italian; Painting ; Mufic; Mr. Weft's Pi&ure; Country Life; Picturesque Defcrip. tions; Dinner Party; Politeness; Accomplishments, &c. &c. The Whole calculated to advance the younger Branches of both Sexes in the Attainment of the French Language. Defigned for the Ufe of Schools, and private Inftruction, and intended as a Second Book to the "Infructeur François," By W. Keegan, A. M. Mafter of Manor Houfe Academy, Kennington, Author of "Le Negotiant Univerfel," in French "Commercial Phrafeology," &c. &c. 12m0, 180 pp. 38. bound. Boofey. 1811.

Mr. Keegan is a very diligent man, and we have noticed feve. ral of his former works. It is certainly true that dialogues, written for the purpose of inftruction, confift chiefly, as he obferves, of common place phrafes, on trivial fubjects, and that the speakers are ufually the taylor, the fhoemaker, the hair-dreffer, &c. be forgets that fuch common things, adapted to common fituations, are just what would not be taught at all, without the aid of such dialogues. Books that teach good principles, and exemplify good writing, give no affiftance for the common purposes of life; and à pupil might read from Telemachus, through all the best books in the French language, without learning how to accoft a friend, or to afk for bread or beer at table. That confideration is fufficient defence for the common ftyle of dialogues in grammars.

That there fhould also be dialogues for initiating the scholar into a higher and better ftyle of converfation, we readily agree; and it appears fo to us that Mr. Keegan has, with great propriety and fuccefs, fupplied the deficiency. His fubjects, though rather more elevated, are fuch as are very likely to be handled in converfation, and his style of dialogue is at once eafy and elegant.

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Lectures upon Portions of the Old Teftament, intended to illuftrate Jewish Hiftory and Scripture Characters. By George Hill, D.D. F. R. S. E. 8vo.

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