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life and incorruption' were illuftrated by Jefus Chrift the first fruits---the fample and the pledge of the re-union of the fouls of the faithful to incorruptible bodies :---as fo finely explained in that moft fublime and myfterious chapter on the refurrection, (1 Cor. xv.) con taining a masterly and ftupendous outline of the grand evidences and fcheme of Chriftianity.

"A Sabbath-day, therefore, conftitutes an effential part of Chrif tianity, both by pofitive command, and by all the ties of private gratitude and public thankfgiving,--- for our creation, for our prefervation, and for all the bleffings of this life; but above all, for the inestimable love of our Heavenly Father, in the redemption of the world, by our Lord Jefus Chrift; for the means of grace [by the infpiration and guidance of his Holy Spirit,] and for the hope of glory,' [honour and immortality-referved in the heavens for them that love God.]

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"Although, therefore, to a true Chriftian,' living under an habitual fenfe of the Divine prefence, every day is a Sabbath,' a portion of which he will devote to the duties of private devotion, and public, when occafion will ferve-yet the Lord's day is paramount to every other, and accordingly was fanctified by the undeviating ufage of the Chriftian church fince the refurrection; our Lord's manifeftations to his Apoftles having been remarkably limited, on many occafions, to that day, on which they affembled together,' for the purpose of public worship to the Father Almighty, and of celebrating the Lord's Supper, according to his own exprefs and dying injunction, fignified, by the act of breaking bread,' to be celebrated often ;' thus fhewing forth the Lord's death until he come;' furely not only until the deftruction of the Jewish polity' (with Doctor Hammond and Archbishop Newcome)---but until his re-appearance in power and great glory an old patriarchal rite, even in Abraham's days, who was entertained with bread and wine, and folemnly blessed, by Melchizedek, King of Salem, and Priest of the moft High God,' whofe royal priesthood was revived upon an extended and infinitely enlarged fcale, by the apostle (Shiloh) and High Priest of our profeffion'---Jefus Chrift.

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"But the celebration of the Lord's Supper, alas! makes no part of Unitarian worship, and is too fatally and too generally neglected by profeffed Chriflians of the established Church: not confidering that they thereby difclaim their allegiance, as his faithful fubjects, and bar themfelves from all legal right and title to the propitiatory facrifice of the death of Christ, and to the benefits which we receive thereby." Pp. 87---91.

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"And now, after this fummary (and, I truft, not unfair nor intemperate,) infpection of only two leading articles in Mr. Belfham's letters, fent forth, like Pandora's box, for a new year's gift to an unfufpecting public, let the whole affembled corps of Monthly Reviewers revife, with what complacency they may, fitting in their armed chairs' (formerly arm- or elbow-chairs)-their general commendation of this publication :

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Taken altogether, (fay thefe liberal Reviewers,) Mr. Belfham's letters are not only extremely candid, but they evince a critical knowledge of the Scriptures, and a profundity of thought and reflection; and those who have read the Practical View' (of Mr. Wilberforce) ought, in juftice to themselves, to perufe this fpirited examination of it; which is written without any fear of man's judgement, but (in an entire confidence in the truth of the Chriftian. religion!!!) challenges the fullest enquiry.'

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Mr. Belfham (who, we are informed, is a ftrenuous Unitarian,'} ftrongly refents Mr. W.'s fevere reflection on Unitarianifm, as a fort of half-way houfe between orthodoxy and infidelity,' an expreffion which the Reviewers alfo reprehend as beneath Mr. W.-What will both fay to the INSPECTOR? who reprehends it alfo, as not half ftrong enough. Mr. W. might fafely have gone the whole way, without mincing matters. In thefe dangerous days,' and in the urgency of this preffing hour, when not the outworks but the citadel of Christian faith is affailed, by all the combined and formidable powers of genius and learning, wit, ridicule, methodifm, ribaldry, calumny, and blafphemy; we may well exclaim, like the intrepid Elliot during the last unrivalled defence of Gibraltar, waving a falute while the enemy's balls were whittling around :- Mind your bufinefs, gentlemen, there is no ceremony on a battery.'

"And what is Unitarianifm? After the moft diligent infpection, for fome years paft, I can compare it to nothing but the heteroge neous monfter, or Mermaid, defcribed by Horace, with a fair face and fish's tail :--

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Definat in pifcem, mulier formofa fuperne.' Whence Milton appears to have borrowed his famous description of Sin." Pp. 97---99.

After this, he proceeds to farther difquifitions on Unitarianifm, that are well worthy the attention of the reader.

The writer of this work is, unquestionably, a perfon of learning and acutenefs (if we mistake not, he is a dignitary of the established Church in the fifter-kingdom); he appears to be well read in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, and in all the erudition belonging to biblical purfuits; he is verfed in mathematics, and poffeffes a competent knowledge of general literature. It feems, that an abundance of reading, an eafy retirement, and a love for religion and his country, have fpurred him on to the prefent work; and we hope it will be fo received as to encourage him in proceeding. It is, in the main, very good; and few perfons can lay it down, without having received inftruction or amufement; but we muft repeat, it has a quaintnefs that will not generally pleafe, nor entitle it to the character of good writing: this fingularity, however, may be more impreffive than more legitimate

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legitimate compofition; and, if fo, may better answer the virtuous defigns of the author..

We admire the paffage which the author tranflates in Pp. 4, 5, of his Addrefs, and gives as a quotation from Demofthenes. We faw the paffage in Greek, where he, no doubt, faw it, in the "Purfuits of Literature," where it is quoted, as from the oration we σTεDav8: but, upon looking to that oration, we could not find, as far as Reifke's Index would affift us, any more than the latter words of the fentence, way!" UDE THE Αλήθειας ακριβολογεται, και διεξέρχομαι. It feems, that the author of the Purfuits, c. has fabricated all the reft of the paffage, to adapt it to his purpose. We think he has made a good piece of Greck of it; and we have adopted it, without fcruple, as the motto to the prefent number of our Review: it expreffes the humble attempt made, in our periodical labours, to fupport the laws, religion, and government of

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ART VI. A Voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the Purpofe of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries, and other Objects of Commerc by afcertaining the Ports, Bays, Harbours, and Anchoring Births, in certain Iflands and Coafts in thofe Seas, at which the Ships of the British Merchants might be refitted. Undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett, of the Royal Navy, in the Ship Rattler. 4to. Pp. 179. Price 11. 4s. Egerton, London. 1798.

NAPTAIN COLNETT is an officer of great experience

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and much fervice. So early as the year 1769, he ferved on the quarter deck of the Royal Navy, he acted as midfhipman in Cooke's fecond voyage; he was firft lieutenant to Captain Marshall for many years; has a long time been acquainted with the North Weft Coast of America, and was one of the officers detained at Nootka Sound by the Spaniards, and imprifoned fifteen months by them, at St. Blas, in the Gulf of California. At the conclufion of the year 1792, in conjunction with Meffrs. Enderley and Son, he purchased the floop Rattler, from the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Navy, and, with the concurrence of the Lords of the Admiralty, by whom Captain C. was furnished with fome inftructions, he failed from England, in January, 1793, on a voyage to the Southern Ocean, in which both the advantages of the whale fifhery, and the advancement of navigation were confulted. The burthen of the Rattler was 374 tons, and was only manned with feventeen, officers and feamen, three landfmen, and five boys; though the complement of the crew of a

veffel of fuch dimenfions in the Royal Navy, confifts of 130 men. Captain. Colnett was fupplied with the best nautical and aftronomical apparatus, two of Arnold's chronometers, a marine barometer, which he found of great advantage in enabling him to carry proportionate fail when tempeftuous weather approached; and it was his practife on every opportunity during the voyage, not only to give the longitude and latitude of places, by reckoning and the time-pieces, but to correct fuch account by obfervations on the fun, moon, and ftars. The two great objects which Captain Colnett was inftructed to afcertain, and which he appears in a great meafure to have accomplished, were the best means of failing round Cape Horn, and the place where the fpermaceti whales are found in the greatet abundance. On these two points then, we will give fome extracts from the publication.

"I have doubled Cape Horn in different feafons; but were I to make another voyage to this part of the globe, and could command my time, I would most certainly prefer the beginning of winter, or even winter itself, with moon-light nights; for, in that feafon, the winds begin to vary to the eastward, as I found them, and as Captain, now Admiral, Macbride, obferved at the Falkland Iles. Another error, which, in my opinion, the commanders of veffels bound round Cape Horn commit, is, by keeping between the Falkland Isles and the main, through the Straits Le Maire; which not only lengthens the diftance, but fubjects them to an heavy, irregular fea, occafioned by the rapidity of the current and tides in that channel, which may be avoided, by pafling to the eastward. At the fame time I would recommend them to keep near the coaft of Staten Land, and Terra del Fuego, because the winds are more variable, in with the shore, than at a long offing.

"If it thould be obferved, that a want of wood and water may render it neceffary før veffels to stop in the Straits Le Maire, I fhall an fwer, that there is plenty of water at the Falkland Isles; and Staten Iland not only abounds in both, but poffeffes feveral excellent harbours. I first vifited this place with Captain Cook, in the year 1774; and, on my out-ward-bound paffage to the North West coast of Ainerica, in the year 1786, as commander of the merchant ship, Prince of Wales,* I wooded and watered there, and left a party to kill feals. For my own part, I do not perceive the neceffity, according to the opinion of different navigators, of going to 60° South. I never would myself exceed 57° 30', to give the Ifle of Diego Ramieres a good birth, or, if winds and weather would permit, make it, for a freth departure, had I not taken one at Cape St. John, Staten Land, or the east end of Falkland Ifles. Staten Land is well fituated as a

*To the owner of this fhip I was first introduced by one of the most eminent merchants of the city of London.

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place of rendezvous both for men of war and merchant ships; while the harbours on the north and fouth fides, which are divided by a fmall neck, would anfwer the purpose of fhips bound out, or home. But the north fide offers the best place for an establishment, if it should ever be in the view of our government to form one there.*" Pp. 19, 20.

The Islands of Galapagos are reprefented as the general rendezvous of the fpermaceti whale, from the coafts of Mexico, Peru, and the Gulf of Panama. These iflands are fituated betwixt 89 to 90 degrees longitude, weft of Greenwich, and from one degree northern to two degrees fouthern latitude, or in other words, exactly under the equator. Of this cluster of ifles, an excellent map is executed by Arrowsmith, from the drawings of Captain Colnett, on a very extensive fcale. The following is the defcription of the centre of the fpermaceti whale fishery.

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Narborough Ifle is the higheft land among the Gallipagoe Inlands, lying near the centre of Albemarle Ifle, which almost furrounds it, in the form of two crefcents, and making two bays. The apparent point of divifion of these islands, is fo low on both, that I am in doubt whether they are feparated. On the next morning we faw fpermaceti whales, we killed feven and got them along fide; Rock Rodondo bearing eaft 22° fouth, the northernmoft land bearing eaft 18° fouth, and the fouth weft land bearing fouth 28° eaft. The weather was hazy, and the latitude by obfervation 00° 27′ 13′′ north. Here we cruifed till the eighth of April, and faw fpermaceti whales in great numbers, but only killed five,, of which we fecured four. The current ran fo ftrong to the weftward, and the winds were fo light, that after laying to, to fecure the whales and cut them up, we were feven days in returning to the ground from whence we drif

"If the navigation round Cape Horn fhould ever become common, fuch a place we muft poffefs; and, agreeable to the last convention with Spain, we are entitled to keep poffeffion of it, and apply it to aby purpofe of peace or war. Great advantages might arife from fuch a fettlement, from whence the black whale fisheries might be carried on to the South Pole, in the opinion of all the North Greenland fishermen, with whom I have converfed on the fubject. Befides, it is one of the eafieft land-falls a failor can make. In order to render this place a defenfible, and protecting fettlement, many experienced men, lieutenants, in his Majesty's navy, might be found, at a very little extra expence to government, to live in a fituation which would be far preferable to many ftations in Norway that I have seen. The officer placed there should be invefted with full powers to regulate all fithers, fishing in thofe parts, or navigating round Cape Horn, that ftop at the port."

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