not have thought of the minifiry, or been thought of for it, but for the pious inftruction of his mother. For five years he performed three fervices every Lord's day, betides all the other duties of the three parifbes; and there is reafon to believe that his labours were not without fuccefs in bringing finners to repent, towards God and faith, towards our Lord Jefus Chriti. He was curate of two parithes to Mr. Stillingfleet, prebendary of Worcester, and of one to the Rev. John Cox, brother to Lord Somers, and afterwards only to Mr. StillingHeet at St. John's, Worcester. He was recommended, 1787, to John Oldham Oldham, efq. patron of Great Millenden, the income of which was 801. per annum; and in 1797 was nominated by the Lord Chancellor to the perpetual curacy of Lee, worth at laft, by augmentation of Queen Anne's bounty, 401. per annum: fo that, during the two last years of his life, his income was 1201. per annum, and his duty three times every Sunday, befides a Wednelday evening lecture at Lee. He confined his miniftry to his own neighbourhood, except once preaching to the Millionary Society, which fer was printed; his exertions ou which occafion haftened his death, June 11, 1803, at the age of 47, having, 1782, married a daughter of Mr. Jones, linen-draper at Shrewsbury, by whom he had ten children, of whom only three furvived. As the writer never had the pleasure of hearing Mr. N. preach, he cannot give any opinion on the fubject, except a decided one, that he preached the doctrines of the Scriptures, and thole of our Liturgy and Articles, fairly and literally interpreted. But he has heard, from competent judges, that his language allo was good, and his manner agreeable and very impreffive." 43. Lettres, critiques & charitables, d'un Habitant de Cnoudge, à M. ****, concernant l'In,bution pretendre Putterale de M. de Bogelin, ar bet que de Fours, et le Difcours add effe à Nap leon Buonapartè par les Quatre Cardinaux Confulaires. THE object of thefe letters is, to convict the Archbishop of Tours of bafely changing his politicks, from a panegyrick on the prefent King of France, delivered in a difcourfe in the new French chapel in King's-fireet, Portman fquare, to one on the Ufurper, whom, in a paftoral letter to the clergy of his new diocele, he compares to Charlemagne. It is aufwered, that M. Boifgelin was difappointed in his expectations of being admitted into the councils of the French Princes, and promoted, by their intereft, to the cardinalate; both which his grofs Hattery has procured him from the Uturper. The ipeech made by him and M. Belloy, Archonthop of Paris, advanced, with Felch and Cambaceres, to the purple, is next examined, and expofed in pointed and correct irony, concluded with ferieas inference, that these men encourage and fupport Bonaparte (who, in all his military and civil operations, was guided only by ambition, and, in all that he has done for religion, by policy) in all his crimes, and concur with him in betraying the canfe of religion and humanity, and become, with him, the profaners of a facred throne, the oppreflors of France, the defpair of nations, and the fcandal of the world; firengthening thus the hands of the wicked, that he should not depart from his way. Ezekiel." 44. The Divine Glory difplayed, by the Permiffion of Sin: A Sermon, preached at a Monthly Meeting of the Society for the Education of young Mon for the Work of the Mimfry among Poteflant Diffenters, Apri 7, 1803; to which are added, copious Notes and References. By John Pye Smith. THE author of this difcourfe, delivered during the abfence of Mr. Ford by illuets, elected the fubject of it by appointment of others, in which he had no concern, and is aflured fome of his friends will difapprove of his fentiments: he has therefore revifed the whole, and illuftrated it with notes; defining fin, or moral evil, to be a "want of conformity in the difpofition, the will, and the voluntary acts of a rational creature, to the only true rule of rectitude, the holiness of God, expreffed by the indications of his will." Its fole and proper origination is from the neceflary condition and circumftances of created and finite exiftence, which is deftitute of a fovereign prevention." "God's not interfering to prevent the occurrence of fin is an exercife, not of fovereignty, but of pure justice." "In feveral diftinguifhing and eminent respects the glory of God is difplayed by the permiffion, or rather the occurrence, of fin;" for, 1. "the infi nite fuperiority and excellency of the Divine Nature is difplayed by the permillion of fin. 2. By leaving created Nature to itfelf, fo that its effential defectibility has flued in actual defec'tion, Jehovah has manifefied his juf tice. 3. By not counteracting the defectibility of the creature, fo as to prevent the occurrence of fin, God has eftablished a fyftem of moral legislation und government in a world of free and accountable agents. 4. By permitting the occurrence of moral evil, God has provided an occation for the exercife of infinite mercy, and for the difplay of all the fupereminent glories of Redemption. The wifdom of God is glorified in providing a Redeemer, and in the triumphs of the Gofpel over the fublimeft human wifdom and the philofophy of the world, by inftruments of an exterior appearance the most defpifed and unpromifing. In the method of falvation, revived in the Gofpel, the power of God is eminently glorified by the incarnation, miracles, death, and refurrection, of the Son of God; the fuccefs of the Gospel, the prefervation of the Church of Chrift to his eternal kingdom." The Gofpel is the most glorious difplay of Divine Benevolence, fovereign, free, and gratuitous. The plan of mercy in the Gospel gives fupreme glory to the holiness of God; and in the Cofpel his juftice has its fulleft honours. The Divine Veracity is allo glorified in the fulleft manner.' " The application of this long dif courfe, in the delivery of which the preacher acknowledges that "he nearly exhaufted his own ftrength," is, that the candidates for the miniftry fhould make themfelves fully acquainted with the doctrine of the Crofs, and, by preaching it, earnestly oppofe the dreadful ravages of Sin. In a long note the author vindicates his hypothefis from objections, earnestly with ing that the affirmative evidence produced in his difcourfe may be fairly and impartially weighed. "The doctrine which afcribes the occurrence of evil to that which is demonftrated, to be efsential to, and infeparable from, created existence, and which teaches that the permiffion of that occurrence on the part of God was nothing but a glorious exercife of his juftice and equity, is furely not lefs honourable to God than the hypothefis which imputes the defection of angels and of an to an independent and felf-deter mining liberty (improperly called "the freedom of their own wills"), which every confiftent Calvinift and Necefiarian muft know to be among the grofleft of abfurdities. The objections which appear moft formidable against our doctrine (fuch as that by tiating actual defection to be the neceffary confequence of an exercife of God's juftice we make him the author of fin) are exactly the fame, and have exactly the fame degree of force, as the common objections of Libertarians and Arminians against the doctrine of the abfolute and eternal decrees of God, or Chriftian and philofophical neceffity. We inay go farther, and affirm, what has been proved by every good author on the Neceffarian fide, that thofe very objections prefs with equal force on all who believe the prescience of God, though they deny the doctrine of Necellity." 66 Against Dr. Pricfley's character of a confiflent Calvinift Mr. Smith maintains, that the confiftent Calvinif will not allow the liberty of indifference with regard to any action or event; and he confiders the doctrines of a particular Providence, and of fovereign and efficacious grace, as both equally parts of the great, irrefragable chain of efficient causes and certain events, as are the opinions of the laws of matter and motion. He fees God in every thing, and confiders his omnipotent energy, as exerted in every cafe, phyfical, intellectual, and moral, in a manner adapted, with unerring wif dom, to the nature of the effect to be produced. Thus he views the glorious Deity as "the caufe of all caufes, and whofe energy gives efficacy to every intermediate agency." (p. 83.) On Dr. Priefiley's obfervation, that it was a piece of artifice in Mr. Edwards, the coincidence of the philofophical doctrine of Neceflity with the gloomy notons of Calvin, he reflects as a charge highly "meriting expofure" (p. 84); as he does on the difplay of mifreprefentation and calumny" in Mr. Robiafon of Cambridge of St, Auguftine's memory, with a virulence of outrage not before attempted," in his Hiftory of Baptifin," &c. (p. 68.) 66 45. A feau curfory Remarks upon the State of Parties during the Adminiftration of the Right Honourable Henry Addington. -By a near Obferver. THESE remarks have been by fome afcribed aferibed to the Minifter's brother, the Secretary, by others to Mr. By, a gentleman difappointed in his expectations of diplomatic employ under the late Premier. They, certainly are the work of the Miniiter's friends, fingly or jointly, and of course may be confidered as a vindication of his ad miniftration. 46. Reflections on the late Elections in the Of the himself by his oppofition. Mr. Addington is commended for having refifted the furrender of Malta, which has preferved for him a hoftage for his country, and his own fecurity;" alfo, for his reply to Mr. Fox refpecting the naval flag of Great Britain, and his rejection of the interference of Rutlia: but he is to be blamed for the abortive peace, for checking the rife of the volunteers, and perplexing the levies, and for his attack on the funds. Sir Henry Peyton is cenfured as "deferting the County, and giving them to Ariftocracy, as the Manners or the Yorkes may be predominant, and rendering fruitless the combination of the freeholders of a county for the nobleft purpofe, the vindication of their freedom: he betrayed them in the moment of victory." (pp. 39-41.) "Mr. Hawkins Browne, that eloquent job-promoter, was at the head of the committee on the Nottingham election, which established a precedent which fhakes the foundation of the conftitution." (p. 43.) 47. An Antidote to the Alarm of Invasion: A Difcourfe, delivered at the Meeting-boufe in the Old Jewry, on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1802, being the Day appointed for a General Fast. By Abraham Rees, D. D. F. R. S. Editor of the new Cyclopædia. DR. R, taking for his text the words of Nehemiah iv. 14, which others have applied to the fame occasion—“ without adverting to the origin and primary caufes of this war, which, perhaps, all circumflances confidered, was unavoidable, or difcuffing queftions of a poli tical tical nature, which, happily, is reniote from our province, we fhall confider the conteft as actually begun, and as likely to be decided on our own fhores" -confiders, firfi, the nature of the content in which we are engaged; 2. the character and views of the enemy with whom we have to contend; 3. the important and invaluable objects which depend upon the conteft in which we are engaged; 4. the advantages which are likely to refult from the profperous iffue of the prefent conteft; 5. the means for our defence; 6. that, in the caufe of juice and felfdefence, we may fafely rely on Almighty God: concluding with a preffing exhortation to amend our lives and awaken our indifference. 49. 4 Sermon, preached in the Cathedral Chur b of St. Paul, before the Right il murable be Lord Mayor, &c. &c. on O&tober 19, &c. By the Rev. John Hutches, M.21. Chaplain to bis Lordship. THE Chaplain has chofen for his text one already handled, to " point out the neceffity of activity in all the affairs of human life, in the promotion of our temporal concerns, in the furtherance of our Spiritual, and for the prefercation of the United Kingdom from the malignant and defperate attempts of an unprincipled and fanguinary enemy." 50. The Royal Soldier: A Sermon, preached at the Parish Churches of St. Laurence and St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Stree', before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, Recorder, and Sheriffs, of the City of London. By William Beft, Minister of the faid Parifkes, and Rector of Kefton, in Kent. "THE original fermon, from which this is printed, being felected from many for its animated language, was preached before the Lord Mayor, &c. affembled for the reception of the Holy Sacrament, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 1745; and, foon after, the Doctor publifh 4 ed the fame, under the title of The Royal Solder, meaning his Roval Highnefs William Duke of Cumberland, to whom he dedicated it when his Highnefs was (or had lately been) fuppreffing the rebellion in the North, The fermon is of confiderable length, containing 27 pages of a quarto fize; but, in an advertisement at the end, the author informs us, in juftice to the audience before whom this fermon was delivered, it is here confelled that feveral parts of it immediately preceding the conclufion (the fervice beginning later than ufual, . and the weather being very fevere) were palled over unrepeated.' The Doctor thus acknowledged he added more than was preached; fo, with the like liberty, the printer now curtails fuch parts of the Doctor's difcourfe as appears fuperfluous, or inapplicable to the prefent times; in which attempt he hopes he has fucceeded to the fatiffaction of the publick, his zeal being equal to that of the reverend gentleman, exclufive of the pleasure of calling himfelf, in the Gravefend Company of Light Infantry, a loyal volunfeer." We must commend Mr. Po cocke's intentions more than his execntion in re-preaching this fermon to his fellow-foldiers. 51. A Sermon, preached at the Parib Church of Hurley, in the County of Berks, en Snday, July 10, 1803. on the Occafier of forming a Corps of Volunteers. By the C rate of Hurley. THE modeft curate, concealing his name, informs his readers that he preached this fermon with great effeet;" and fhould not have thought of publishing it had not Sir William Eaft, whofe feat is in the parish, ftrongly recommended the publication of it as a work likely to be very generally ufelul. Text, 1 Sam. xi. 2. Bucks. Accompanied with copious De. feriptions, and a brief Sketch of the Poet's Life. AFTER the full review given of Mr. Hayley's Memoirs of this Poet, we hesitate not to say that this abftract contains all that is effential to be known of his life and writings, and is embellished with twelve beautiful and pleating views of his favourite fcenes, by Storer and Greig, engravers, at Pentonville. 54. The Imperial Guide; with Picturesque Plans of the Great PA Roads, containing Miniature Likeneffes, engraved from real Sketches, of the Cities, Torns, Villages, Seas, Ilands, Mountains, Public Edifices, and Private Buildings, fituated in and near fuch Thoroughfares. Also, a new LetterPrefs Defcription of all the celebrated S.enery and Local Events conne&ed with the abovementioned Subjes; and interfperfed with Biographical, Chronological, and Hiftorical Anecdotes, and all the iportant luftrations that will be obtained by the most affiduous Investigation and Survey. By J. Biker, Author of the "Picturesque Guide through South Wales and the Marches. Vol 1." OF Mr. Baker's former publication we have spoken in our Magazine for January laft, p. 56. In an addrefs fixed to the prefent work he fays, pre "I was induced to my Defcription of South Wales because, during a long refidence in that part of the principality, [ found many of the internal beauties were as little known, and as fellom vifited, as the fnow-top'd acclivities of the Alps; and my chief purpofe was, that my obfervations might attract to the fubject the attention of authors more eminent and more competent to the tafk.' Since that period, numerous indeed have been the tourifts who have traverfed thofe pleafing mazes of nature and antiquity; and I flatter myself the signals i advanced were not wholly ufelefs. I only with fome of thefe tourifts had been le's tardy in their undertakings, as it would have faved me much uaproductive labour. My work was begun up on a very expenfive icale, in the days of profound peace, when the arts flourished moft; their's in the midst of an exhaufting war, and upon plans adapted to the temporary preffure of the times. From thefe circumstances, fome unforeseen disappointments, the unexpected advance on printing paper, and other caufes, I was difabled from proceeding farther in my first work than a completion of the two voInmes of a Defcription of South Wales and the Marches, now before the publick; and I had recourfe to the lefs arduous and GENT. MAG. March, 1804, lefs expenfive task that is here offered to the publick. In this, my first intention was only to go through a defcription of thofe roads which led immediately from London to the principality, till a happy change of circumstances might enable me to carry on the above undertaking to its full extent; or, failing in that hope, I flattered myself my prefent production might be acceptable to the subscribers to the former, in as much as I give defcriptions in it of those plates of landfcape views in North Wales which I had published and diftributed with my letter-profs defcriptions of the South. Thus rendering all the fatisfact.on in my power to those numerous nobilcy, gentry, and others, who first favoured, and have ftill continued to countenance, my endeavours; and I already find my purpose fo far to have fucceeded that much anguish is removed from my mind.” This honeft and pathetic statement is fufficient to difarm the feverity of Criticifin, if the work were fuch as to require it. But we are really pleafed with the performance; and can travel on paper over reads which, having ourfelves not unfrequently explored, we can atteft to be fufficiently well delineated to give an idea of the nature and fize of the feveral townfhips, feats, &c. and their respective diftances from the main road. The firft Iter is from London to Ho lyhead, which occupies fix plates, and ten clofely-printed pages of letter-prefs defeription. Two other plates form a Guide from the Holywell Road to Birmingham, Walfall, Stafford, &c., from the Manchefier and Carfifle Road to Warrington and Liverpool; from Mancheter to Carlifle, &c. A fecond Iter carries us from London to Reading, and through Bath to Bristol, &c. A third, from London to Oxford and Briflol; a fourth, from Oxford to Cheltenham, Gloucefter, Malvern, and Wales. Excurfions alfo are given from the Bath and Brifiol Road to Henley, Oxford, &c.; from the Oxford Road to Abingdon, Farringdon, Lechlade, Fairford, Cirencester, &c. Continuation of the Wefern Road from Hounflow, Staines, &c. to the Land's End, Cornwall, &c.; the Coaftway from Exeter, through Dawlish, Teignmouth, Brixhan, Dartmouth, &c. to Plymouth; the Weltern Road from Plymouth to Truro, and a Coafway thither by East and West Looe, &c. Thele feveral tours employ feven other plates. The |