Rise, O my soul, with tributary praise Th' inglorious silence break; 'tis heaven demands--- The Gentile princes round my banners pour'd For troops puissant and the din of war? Why came not GILEAD? What so great delay Methinks I view, full imag'd to my thought, His high pride blasted, wither'd all his hopes. From angry heav'n,-now bounds the warrior steed, O'er O'er-whelm'd with ruin..Delug'd KISHON pours Rise then my soul, renew the votive song, But hark, what horror echoes through the sky, In th' flow'r of age their blooming honours shorn, For ever virgin names enroll'd among, The vanquish'd king, on noble deeds intent. Anxious the while the tyrant's mother sits Forth from the bower The champain wide, if haply she might catch "Ah say, she cries, my virgins what detains So long my absent prince? why comes he not Where rove her thoughts? her prince returns no more In th' heroine's tent, ennobled by his fall, Be Berish'd thus all nations that disclaim JEHOVAH'S power, and scorn the Almighty's law; In war, confusion craze their chariot wheels, And sorrow ruffle all their calms of peace. While ISR'EL in her heroes' grateful breasts, Bears the great cause of justice, heav'n shall crown Her warriors with success, and raise her throne Queen of the righteous nations. As when morn Unbars the rosy gates of light; the sun Stoops o'er the cloud-topt hills, all vapours dank And night-collected mists before his rays Fly diverse, high he rears the cheering lamp, Shrin'd in his radiant car, then piercing fills The wide expanse, and beams on distant worlds. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Bp. Hall's Works, vol. 4, being the last half of a" Paraphrase on all the hard Texts of Scripture." 8vo. 8s. boards. The Condition and Duties of a Tolerated Church,a Sermon preached in Bishop Strachan's Chapel, Dundee, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 1806, at the Consecration of the Right Rev. Daniel Sandford, D. D, to the Office of a Bishop, in the Scotch Episcopal Church. By the Rev. James Walker, A, M. late of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1s. 6d. A Serious Call to the Christian World, to consider the present State of the Jews, with some Thoughts on the Prophecies of Daniel and St. Paul. 1s. An Address to the Lower Class of his Parishioners, on the Subject of Methodism, from the Minister of their Parish. By the Author of a Letter to a Country Gentleman, on the same subject. 6d. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Aversity versity of Cambridge is shortly to set out on a mission to Syria and Palestine, with a view of making such researches into the geography, topography, and natural history of those countries, as may serve to elucidate the Holy Writings. Among the works which have been lately printed under the commission for the public records of the kingdom, the last is the Calendarium Inquisitionum post mortem; or Escheat Rolls, during the reigns of Henry III. Edward I and II. Of the nature of these records the following account was given to the Commissioners, by Mr. Astle, in his return, relating to the records in the Tower. "These records are preserved in bundles, chronologically arranged: they were taken by virtue of writs, directed to the escheators of each county or district, to summon a jury on oath, who were to enquire what lands any person died seized of, and by what rents or services the same were held, and who was the next heir, and of what age the heir was; that the king might be informed of his right of escheat or wardship: they also shew whether $ P Vol. X. Churchm. Mag. June 1806. the tenant was attainted of treason, or was an alien, in either of which cases, they were seized into the king's hands: they likewise shew the quantity, quality, and value of the lands of which each tenant died seized, &c, and they are the best evidences of the descents of family and of property." A letter has been read to the Society of Antiquaries, from Mr. Morris, at the Cape of Good Hope, containing accounts of the different English inscriptions found on stones there, relating the arrival and departure of Sir Henry Middleton's fleet of East Indiamen, 1604 and 1609, being the fourth voyage to India. The inscriptions are on stones, placed on a conspi cuous part of the shore, and designed as a notice for other English ships that might touch there. The same writer says, that he has seen the fluke of an anchor on the sunmit of Table Mountain, a height to which no human effort could probably have carried it. Mr. Parkinson's second volume on the Organic Remains of the Antediluvian World, is in considerable forwardness. A new edition of Dr. Vincent's Voyage of Nearchus is in the press. The Endeavour Society are about to publish a Manual of Orthodox Divinity, on Religious Principles, in plain and easy language, in support of the doctrines of the Esta blished Church. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE AND CHURCH PREFER OXFORD, MAY 28. MENTS. MR. Robert Morris, Common er of Jesus College, has ⚫ been elected scholar of that so@iety. 30. Mr. Edward Orlebar Smith, born at Halote, in the county of Bedford, is elected scholar of Corpus Christi College. June 4. This being the first day of Act Term, the Rev. Edward Seagrave, of Magdalen Hall; Messrs. Robert Newton, of Brasenose College; Thomas Davies, of Oriel College; William Price, of Pembroke College; and Andrew Ducarel Morrice, of Christ Church; the Rev. Robert Stephen Stevens; of Wadham College; and Walter Wilkins, of Jesus College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts. Mr. Nathaniel Ellison, of University College, one of the gentlemen who distinguished themselves in the extraordinary examinations of the present year, was admitted a complete Bachelor of Arts. Messrs. William Beauclerk Robinson, of Magdalen Hall; Richard Stephens, and John Edward Tarleton, of Brazenose College; Charles Edward Grey, of Univer sity College; John Lightfoot, and Francis Dyson, of Merton Callege; Charles Parker, of Pembroke College; William Cooke, of New College; Edward William Auriol Hay, William Hanbury, Edward Henry Owen, and Edward Vernon, of Christ Church; William Dowell, and John Mervin Prower, of Wadham College; Philip Jennings, of Worcester College; Edward Morgan; of Jesus College; and Henry Lloyd Loring, of Magdalen College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts, 5. John Surtees, Esq. of Univer sity College, was admitted Bachelor of Arts, Grand Compounder. |