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Who, to his promise ever true,
Display'd sweet virtue to my view ?.
And help'd her precepts to pursue?

Jehovah.

And next, in Life's advancing days,
Who watch'd, and mark'd out all my ways,
And on my soul shed Wisdom's rays?

But, ah! my erring heart! who, still,
Would draw thee from the paths of ill?
Who shews thee how to curb thy will?

Jehovah.

Jehovah.

The Scriptures, rich in heavenly lore:-

Who gives thee power their Truths explore,
And their great author to adore?

Jehovah.

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LIST OF NEW PUBLICALIONS.

Tin Caly Pol, or ansluted,
HE Apocalypse, Revela-

with Notes, critical and explana-
tory. To which is prefixed, a Dis-
sertation on the Divine Origin of
the Book, in Answer to the Ob-
jections of the late Professor J.
D. Michaelis. By John Chappell
Woodhouse, M. A. Archdeacon of
Salop. 18s.

Disunion in Religion, unfriendly to the Ends of Edification and Peace. Its Consequences, and the Means to check its Progress. By J. Symons, B. D. 1s. 6d.

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A Sermon preached on Thanksgiving Day. By the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

A Sermon preached on the Occasion of the late General Thanksgiving for the Victory over the Combined Fleets of France and Spain. By the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon, Bart. Rector of West Tilbury, Essex. 1s. 6d.

A Systematic View of the Revealed Wisdom of the Word of God; of which Wisdom the Hebrew Tongue is the pre-designed and appropriate Expositor. By the Rev. Raby Williams, of the island of Jamaica. 12s.

A Dissertation on the Supreme Divine Dignity of the Messiah :

Vindication of certain Pastges in

in Reply to a Tract entitled, “A

the common English Version of the New Testament." This Reply is proposed as a Fifth Appendix to the Third Edition of " Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament." By Granville Sharpe, Esq.

13.

Το your Tents. An Address to the Volunteers. By the Rev. Matthew Wilson, A. M. 6d.

A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Winwick, in the County of Lancaster, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 1805. By the Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, Rector of Winwick. 1s.

An Essay on the Excellence of of Christian Knowledge. By F. A. Cox, M. A. 1s. 6d.

A Sermon preached on the 5th of December, 1805. By the Rev. David Birchan, Minister of the Scots Church, Artillery-street. 1s. 6d.

Christian Politics, in Four Parts. By Ely Bates, Esq. 3s.

The Overflowings of Ungodliness, a Sermon on the Times,preachcd at St. James's Church, Bath, Jan. 19, 1806. By the Rev. R. Warner. 1s. 6d.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

DVICES recently received from Naples contain further details relative to the unrolling of the manuscripts discovered at Herculaneum. Eleven persons are at present employed in unrolling and copying these treasures. The manuscripts hitherto inspected amount to about one hundred and for ty, eight of which have already been interpreted and transmitted to the minister Seratti, in order that they may be examined by the academy, and directed to be printed. These manuscripts are, six of Epicurus, entituled Περὶ τῆς ΦυCEW, On Nature. Another is by Philodemus; its tile is Περὶ τῆς Opyns, On Anger. The eighth wants both the title and the name of the author. It treats of nature and the worship of the gods. The next four are almost entirely explained; but they have not yet been transmitted, because Mr. Hayter and the Abbé Foti, of the or-der of St. Basil, are jointly to superintend their publication. The Abbé Foti is first to collate the copies with the originals, to supply what is necessary, and to translate. Mr. Hayter collates after him, alters what he thinks proper in the supplements and translations, and delivers the copy to the Abbé Foti to be again transcribed. The delay occasioned by Mr. Hayter in his labours, is the reason why these manuscripts have not yet been sent either to the academy or the mini

ster. Their titles are as follow: one on logic entitled, On the Strength of Arguments drawn from Analogy

Περί Κακιων και των αντίχειμε Voy Aperw; Treatise on Vices and the contrary Virtues.-Пegì αval, On Death. These three works are by Philodemus.-The -author of the fourth is Polistratus: Περί αλογο κατα φρονήσεως α δε

επιγραχέσι προς της αλογως κατα

On

unreasonable

θρασυνόμενες των εν τοις πολλοις
δοξαζομένων.
Contempt; that is, of those who de
spise unjustly what others commend.
This manuscript is the least da-
maged, and many passages of it
The
other papyri are in a great part by
are absolutely untouched.
Philodeinus, and treat of rhetoric,
of poetry, and of morality. The
publication of these manuscripts
cannot take place with all the ex-
pedition that could be wished, as
the originals are to be engraved be-
fore they are to be presented to the
public. This process requires much
time and money, and the want of
the latter will considerably retard
the publication. M. Rossini, bi-
shop of Puzznoli, to whom the
public is indebted for the fragment
of Philodemus on music, is the per-
son appointed by the court of Na-
ples to superintend the engraving
and the publication of these ma-
nuscripts.

On Sunday the 18th of December, about six o'clock in the evening, Mr. Firminger, of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, discovered a comet in the constellation Aquarius. To the naked eye, its appearance was similar to a star of the first magnitude when covered by a cloud, through which it might be faintly seen; or rather like what Jupiter would appear under similar

circumstances; but when viewed

through a night glass, it appeared

to have a bright nucleus surrounded the meridian, Mr. F. found that its by a coma. As it was approaching light was sufficiently strong to enable him to illuminate the wires in the focus of the telescope so as to observe its passage with great accuracy. Dr. Herschel observed the comet at Slough, about the same time that it was scen at Greenwich,

Mrs.

Mrs. Portia Young is about to publish by subscription, for the benefit of a fatherless child, "A Compendium taken from the Family Expositor of Dr. Doddridge; containing Explanations of the concluding Part of the History of our Blessed Saviour; to which will be added, A Harmony of the Evan

gelists, with Paraphrase and Notes, &c."

Mr. Hodson, of King's College, Cambridge, is about to publish a new translation of Juvenal.

Mr. Kidd proposes to publish a new edition of Homer, with collations of many manuscripts never before examined.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE AND CHURCH PREFER

M

MENTS.

OXFORD, JANUARY 29, 1806. R. Charles Thorp of University College, and the Rev. Joseph Richardson of Queen's College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts. Messrs. Charles Shipley of All Souls. College; James GibSon of Wadham College, and John Symons of Trinity College were adTitted Bachelors of Arts.

FEB. 4.-The Rev. James Hooke, B. LL. of St. Mary Hall, is admitted Doctor of Laws.

Messrs. John Buckland of Trinity College; Charles Dunne and Bennet Hoskyns of Baliol College, were admitted B. A.

13-The Rev. William Walford of Oriel College, and Thomas Harrison of Queen's College, were admitted M. A.

Messrs. Benjamin Cheese, William Fookes and John Griffin, of University College, Williamson Hawthornthwaite and Edward William Grinfield of Lincoln College, Robert Taylor of Trinity College, and Stephen Barbut of Merton College, were admitted B. A.

The same day the honorary degrece of Master of Arts was conferred, in convocation, on Samuel Tyssen, esq. gentleman commoner of Corpus Christi College, presented by the Rev. William Nicholas Darnell, M. A. fellow of the same .College.

14--Elijah Barwell Impey, B.A.

of Christ Church, was admitted Master of Arts.- Harvey Grey, esq. of Brasenose College, was admitted Bachelor of Arts, Grand Compounder. Also, Mr. William Con

greve Marshall, of the same College, was admitted B. A.

17. The Reverend Hugh Cholmondely, Fellow of Brasenose College, and Dean of Chester, was admitted Bachelor of Divinity.

18. The Rev. William Stamper of Queen's College, and Thomas Pinkard Phillips of Hertford College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts. Messrs. William Cousins, of Balliol College; Edward Booth of Lincoln College; and Thomas Phillips of Jesus College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts.

CAMBRIDGE, JANUARY 27. The Right Hon. Lord Palmerston of St. John's College, was admitted M. A. in right of nobility.

The Rev. Thomas Bennet of Jesus College, was admitted M. A. and, Mr. Thomas Crawford of Trinity College, Bachelor of Arts.

The late Dr. Smith's two prizes of 25. each, for two commencing Bachelors of Arts, the best proficients in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, are this year adjudged to Mr. Frederick Jonathan Pollock of Trinity College, and Mr. Harvey Walter of St. John's.

Messrs. Charles Blomfield and Richard Ward, of Trinity College, were elected into the two Classical

Scholarships founded by Lord Cra

ven. And Mr. Thomas Fallowfield of Peterhouse is elected into the Scholarship founded by Sir William

Browne.

Lord Henry Petty, chancellor of the Exchequer, has been elected representative of this University

in

in the room of the late Right Hon. William Pitt. The unsuccessful candidates were Lord Althorpe eldest son of Earl Spencer, and Lord Viscount Palmerston,

The King has been pleased to grant to the Rev. H. Cholmondley, M. A. the Deanry of the Cathedral Church of Chester, void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Cotton.

The late Lord Chancellor (Eldon) has presented the Rev. Edward Mansfield, son of sir James Mausfield, to the vicarage of Bisley, Gloucestershire.

The Rey. Peploe William Ward, B. A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, is instituted to the vicarage of Winston in Suffolk, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Ely.

The Rev. Thomas Sampson, D. D. of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, to the Rectory of Groton in Suffolk.

The Rev. Townley Clarkson, M. A. Fellow and Bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Ely, to the vicarage of Swavesey in Cam

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bridgeshire, on the presentation of the Master and fellows of the said society.

The Marquis of Stafford has appointed the Rev. Thomas Butt, M. A. to be his domestic chaplain, and has also nominated him to the perpetual curacy of Trentham, void by the resignation of the Rev. T. C. Woodhouse, M. A. Archdeacon of Salop.

The Rev. William Lade, M. A. late of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has been presented by John Lade, esq. to the consolidated livings of Goodnestone and Graveney, in Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. Athelstan Stephens.

The Rev. John Mounsey, B. A. Chaplain to the Earl of Ashburnham, is instituted to the rectories of Authorp and Withern, in Lincolnshire, on the presentation of Robert Vyner, Esq.

The Rev. John Swain, Rector of Taxall in the county of Chester, has been inducted to the vicarage of Elvaston, near Derby, on the presentation of the Earl of Harring

ton.

MONTHLY OBITUARY.

T Ghazeepore, in the province of Benares, in the East Indies, on the 5th of October last, the most noble Charles Marquis Cornwallis.

He was born December 31st, 1738, and seems to have been in tended from the cradle for the military life. He accordingly entered into the service at a very early age; and we find him in 1758, at a period when promotions were less rapid than at present, a captain in Colonel Crawfurd's light infantry, under the title of Lord Brome. Three years afterwards he accompanied the Marquis of Granby to the continent as one of his aids-decamp, and was of course attendant on the person of that gallant nobleman during the campaign. It was thus in the fields of Germany, and under the most skilful generals,

that his lordship acquired the rudiments of the art of war, and prepared himself to command, by first learning to obey.

In 1761 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and as the same time he was elected into parliament for the borough of Eye.

On the death of his father in 1762 he succeeded to the title of Earl Cornwallis. In 1765 he was nominated one of the lords of the

bed-chamber, and about the same time was appointed aid-de-camp to the king.

In 1766 he was promoted to the command of the thirty-third regis ment of foot; and two years afterwards he married Miss Jones, who possessed a large fortune. With this lady, who brought him two

children (a son and a daughter), he enjoyed every felicity the connubial

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