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Stephens Greek Thesaurus, No. X.; to which is attached, a Reply to the Article on that Work in the Quarterly Review, A few copies belonging to deceased subscribers may be had at £1. 58. small, and £2. 12s. 6d. large paper. The prices will soon be raised to £1 7s. and £2. 158. Each part will now contain 200 pages on an average. Total subscription, large and small, 1085. The copies printed are strictly limited to the number of subscribers. The work will be comprised in thirty-nine numbers, or all above will be given gratis. The whole will be printed within 5 y ars from the present delivery.

An Inquiry concerning the Powers of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on that Subject. By William Godwin. 8vo. 188.

Scripture and Antiquity united in a Christian's Testimony, against the recent Publications of Mr. Belsham and Dr. Carpenter. To which is added, The Unitarian Catechised. By the Bishop of St. David's. 38.

The Trumpet of Liberty, a celebrated Patriotic Song and Chorus, now first published, with the original Music, arranged for the Piano-Forte. 1s. 6d.

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The Beauties of Mozart, Handel, Pleyel, Haydn, Beethoven, Rossini, and other celebrated Composers, adapted to the words of popular Psalms and Hymns, for one or two Voices; with an Accompaniment and occasional Symphonies for the Piano-Forte, Organ or Harp. By an Eminent Professor. 4to. £1. 11s. 6d. neatly bound.

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Amusements of Clergymen. By Bishop Stillingfleet. New edition. 58.

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Hebrew Harmonies and Allusions. By William Coldwell. 12mo. 68.

The Invariable Principles of Poetry, in Answer to Thomas Campbell, Esq., on the Poetical Character of Pope. By the Rev. W. L. Bowles. 2s. 6d.

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Augustus, or The Ambitious Student: being a brief Attempt to illustrate some of the various Effects of Literature upon the Mind, when deeply studied. 8vo. 9s. The Travels and Observations of the Wandering Jew; comprehending a View of the most distinguished Events in the History of Mankind, since the Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Titus; with a Description of the Manners, Customs and remarkable Monuments of the most celebrated Nations; interspersed with Anecdotes of Eminent Men of different Periods. Maps and Engravings. By the Rev. T. Clark. Second Edition. 88. Selections from Letters written during a Tour to the United States, in the Summer and Autumn of 1819, illustrative of the Character of the Native Indians and of their Descent from the lost Ten Tribes of Israel. By Emanuel Howitt. 12mo. 58. Vision the First; Hades, or the Region inhabited by the Departed Spirits of the Blessed. 3s. 6d.

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Jachin and Boaz or the Two Pillars of the Bible, the books of Genesis and -Daniel, not injured by Count Volney's "New Researches on Ancient History," or "Dr. Francis's Refutation of Bishop Watson;" a new Hypothesis in Astronomy, and a peculiar, new and irrefragable true Interpretation of the Weeks

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The Practical Tendency of the Doctrine of the Simple Humanity of Christ : delivered at Bridgewater, July 19, 1820, before the Western Unitarian Society. By William Hincks. 12mo. Is.

The Faith and Practice of Christians, tried by the Spirit of the Religion of Christ preached before the Southern Unitarian Society at Chichester, Tuesday, June 11, 1820. By John Morell, LL.Ď. 13.

A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester, at the Visitation in July and August, 1820. By George Henry Law, D. D. F. R. and A. S., Lord Bishop of Chester. 4to. 2s. 6d.

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A Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ely, at a Visitation, held in the Parish Church of St. Michael's, Cambridge, June 20, 1820. With an Appendix. By J. H. Browne, A. M., Archdeacon of Ely. 8vo. 2s.

The Scriptural Doctrine of Divine Grace, with Cautions respecting its Exposition and Application; preached before the University of Cambridge, Commences ment Sunday, 1820. By James Inman, D. D., Professor of the Royal Naval College and School of Naval Architecture at Portsmouth. 2s. 6d.

Preached at the Parish Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, May 5, 1820, be fore the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. By the Hon. and Rev. Gerard T. Noel, M. A, Vicar of Rainham, Kent. To which is added, The Twelfth Report of the London Society, with an Appendix. 28.

On the Death of Mr. and Mrs. Jocelyne, of Harlow. By T. Finch.

A Sermon, with Notes, in which is unanswerably demonstrated that the Christian Priesthood is a perfect Hierarchy,

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Anxiety directed; preached August 9, 1820, at Salters' Hall, before the "Home Missionary Society." By William Jay. 1s. 6d.

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OBITUARY.

Crediton, October 13, 1820.

I transmit you a memoir of the late Rev. WM. HAZLITT, who died at this place on 16th July last, at the advanced age of 84; after having for upwards of half a century laboured in the promulgation of the simple Unity of God, and the general rationality of gospel principles: and who may, therefore, be justly regarded as one of the fathers of the modern Unitarian church. From all that I have been able to learn of his general character, as well as from my short acquaintance with him, he was a man of sterling and inflexible principle; one who made every worldly interest submit to a steady and faithful adherence to what he conceived to be the path of rectitude; one who could not be deterred by the frowns, nor seduced by the smiles of the world, from maintaining a conscience void of offence: hence it followed, as a natural consequence, that throughout the whole of his useful life, he was the steady and inflexible advocate of the cause of civil and religious liberty. To this he sacrificed every earthly consideration, for this he lived, and for this he was ready to die-the determined enemy of every species of political tyranny, as well as spiritual domination; as his many contributions to your valuable Miscellany, both in its first and present series, as well as to other periodical works, sufficiently shew.

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The venerable subject of the present memoir was born at Shraun Hill, near Tipperary, Ireland, the 18th April, 1737. At about the age of 19 he went to Glasgow University; remained there five years, and obtained the degree of Master of Arts. Though brought up in orthodox principles, it is supposed that he gradually imbibed rational views of religion: and at the time of his quitting the University, he may be considered as possessing general Unitarian sentiments. His first settlement was with the Presbyteriau congregation at Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, in the year 1764, where he remained for the space of two years; during which he formed an acquaintance with the daughter of Mr. Loftus, of that town, and which soon after his resignation of his charge in that place, was further strengthened by matrimonial ties and by whom he had seven children, three of whom, with their mother, now survive him. From Wisbeach he removed to the charge of the Presbyterian congregation at Marshfield,

To him the admirable words of Watts Gloucestershire, where he remained about apply with great propriety: four years and a half. His next settle

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ment was with the congregation in Mitre Lane, Maidstone, Kent, where he remained for about the space of ten years; during which time he enjoyed the acquaintance of the Rev. Dr. Caleb Fleming, of London; of the Rev. Mr. Bourn, of Norwich; of Thomas Viney, Esq., of Tenterden, where he several times had the happiness to meet with, and enjoy the society of the great Dr. Franklin. From Maidstone he removed, in the year 1780, to the charge of a congregation at Bandon, in the county of Cork, Ireland, where he continued three years, during which time (as he had always shewn himself a zealous advocate for American independence) he exerted himself in behalf of the American prisoners confined at Kinsale near that town; and his manly exposure in the public prints, of the wanton cruelties exercised towards them by the soldiery, produced a considerable amelioration of their condition. On the conclusion of the war with America, he removed from Bandon to New York, with his wife and family, where he arrived in May, 1783, and soon proceeded to Philadelphia; and on his way to that city, the Assembly of the States General for New Jersey, then sitting at Burlington, sent a deputation to invite him to preach before them, with which he complied. At Philadelphia he stayed fifteen months, and besides preaching occasionally at various places of worship there, he delivered, during the winter, in the College, a course of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, which were exceedingly well attended and received. From Philadelphia he went by invitation to preach to a congregation at Bostou; but a report of his heterodox principles arriving before him, prevented a settlement among them. Mr. Hazlitt's visit to this town was not, however, in vain; for in a short time he had the satisfaction of being chiefly instrumental in forming the first Unitarian Church in Boston, and thus laying the foundation of the present flourishing state of Unitarianism in that place. While in Boston, the University there offered to confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, but which he declined; and during his stay in that place, which was about four years and a half, he published various tracts in support of Unitarian principles; and after having thus prepared the way for the subsequent exertions of Dr. Priestley, (whose acquaintance he enjoyed, and by whom he was presented, at different times, with copies of his works on Electricity, and some other of his valuable productions,) he returned with his family to England, and became pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at Wem, in

Shropshire, where he resided for upwards of 26 years; during which time he published three volumes of Sermons, with which, from their rapid and extensive sale, the Unitarian public must be too well acquainted to need any description. In the middle of the year 1813 he retired from Wem, and, through indisposition, from the ministry; and resided some time at Addlestone in Surrey, afterwards at Bath, and finally at Crediton in Devonshire, where, after a residence of ten months, he was released from the cumbrous load of mortality, and his remains were interred in the parish burial ground of Crediton: and the following Sunday, the circumstance of his death was improved in a sermon delivered in the Unitarian chapel in that town by the writer of this memoir, from Job vii. 1: "Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?" In closing my account of this excellent and venerable man, I cannot, perhaps, sum up his chaacter better than by referring to a striking portrait of religious excellence drawn by one (well known to the literary world) to whom his memory will ever be most dear, I mean the son of our departed friend, in his Political Essays, p. 284; in which, though put in the plural number, I have undoubted reason to believe he had his venerable parent expressly in view. The passage is as follows:

"But we have known some such in happier days; who had been brought up and lived from youth to age in the one constant belief of God and of his Christ, and who thought all other things but dross, compared with the glory hereafter to be revealed. Their youthful hopes and vanity had been mortified in them, even in their boyish days, by the neglect and supercilious regards of the world; and they turned to look into their own minds for something else to build their hopes and confidence upon. They were true priests. They set up an image in their own minds, it was truth: they worshiped an idol there, it was justice. They looked on man as their brother, and only bowed the knee to the Highest. Separate from the world, they walked humbly with their God, and lived, in thought, with those who had borne testimony of a good conscience; with the spirits of just men in all ages. They saw Moses when he slew the Egyptian, and the prophets who overturned the brazen images; and those who were stoned and sawn asunder. They were with Daniel in the lions' den, and with the three children who passed through the fiery furnace, Meshech, Shadrach and Abednego; they did not crucify Christ twice over, or deny him in their

hearts, with St. Peter; the book of Martyrs was open to them; they read the story of William Tell, of John Huss, and Jerome of Prague, and the old one-eyed Zisca; they had Neale's History of the Puritans by heart, and Calamy's account of the Two Thousand Ejected Ministers, and gave it to their children to read, with the pictures of the polemical Baxter, the silver-tongued Bancroft, the mildlooking Calamy, and old honest Howe; they believed in Lardner's Credibility of the Gospel History; they were deep-read in the works of the Fratres Poloni, Pripscovius, Crellius, Cracovius, who sought out truth in texts of Scripture, and grew blind over Hebrew points; their aspiration after liberty was a sigh uttered from the towers" time-rent," of the Holy Inquisition; and their zeal for religious toleration was kindled at the fires of Smithfield. Their sympathy was not with the oppressors, but the oppressed. They cherished in their thoughts—and wished to transmit to their posterity-those rights and privileges for asserting which their ancestors had bled on scaffolds, or had pined in dungeons, or in foreign climes. Their creed, too, was glory to God, peace on earth, good-will to man.' This creed, since profaned and rendered vile, they kept fast through good report and evil report. This helief they had, that looks at something out of itself, fixed as the stars, deep as the firmanent; that makes of its own heart an altar to truth, a place of worship for what is right, at which it docs reverence with praise and prayer like a holy thing, apart and content; that feels that the greatest Being in the universe is always near it, and that all things work together for the good of his creatures, under his guiding hand.

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This covenant they kept, as the stars keep their courses: this principle they stuck by, as it sticks by them to the last. It grew with their growth, it does not wither in their decay. It lives when the almondtree flourishes, and is not bowed down with the tottering knees. It glimmers with the last feeble eyesight, smiles in the faded cheek like infancy, and lights a path before them to the grave."

G. P. HINTON.

August 9, at Liverpool, Miss MARGARET M'AVOY, whose faculty of distinguishing colours, &c., by the touch, gave rise to so much discussion about three years since.

Sept. 5, at Paisley, HUGH THOMSON, Esq., a gentleman of piety and benevolence. Among other bequests, he has left to the British and Foreign Bible Society, £200; to the London Missionary

Society, £200; to Hutcheson's Charity School, Paisley, £200; to the Paisley Sabbath School Society, £200; and to the Paisley Dispensary and House of Recovery, £200.

16, in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, the Rev. CHARLES EDWARD. De COETLOGON, M. A, Rector of Godstone, and a magistrate for the county of Surrey. He was son of the Chevalier Dennis De Coetlogon, Knight of St. Lazare, Member of the Academy of Angers, and author of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, published in 1740. The son was educated at Christ's Hospital, whence he proceeded to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; B. A. 1770; M. A. 1773. He was patronized by the late Earl of Dartmouth, and Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, and was appointed assistant Chaplain to the celebrated Martyn Madan, at the Lock Hospital, in which situation he became a popular preacher. His opinions were highly Calvinistical, and he bore also the character of an exceedingly loyal divine. He was an associate of the late Rev. W. Romaine, and in 1795 preached and printed his funeral sermon. Besides this, he published, during a long course of years, many single sermons, all bearing the stamp of orthodoxy, in relation to both Church and State. He is the author also of a volume of political sermons preached before the Lord Mayor, (Pickett,) to whom he was chaplain in 1789 and 1790; of another volume on the Fifty-first Psalm; of two volumes, entitled "The Portraiture of the Christian Penitent;" of "The Temple of Truth," 1800; and "Studies adapted to the Temple of Truth," 1809, which were extended to three volumes. He was the Editor of The Theological Miscellany, in seven volumes; and to his, is ascribed the bringing into notice of President Edwards's works.

On Thursday, Oct. the 5th, at Stoke Newington, aged 62, the Rev. JOHN FARRER, M. A., formerly of Queen's College, Oxford; Rector of the united parishes of St. Clement's, Eastcheap, and St. Martin Ongers, in the city of London, to which benefice he was presented by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, in testimony of their sense of his merits as author of the Bampton Lectures, in 1803, and a volume of Sermons on the Parables of our Saviour. His remains were accompanied to the grave by many of his clerical brethren as pall-bearers, by his relatives, and several of his parishioners, who had desired to attend as mourners, as a token of respect for the memory of their departed Rector.

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