fairest prospect of removing them all. As it then will be no longer necessary to raise loans for the public service, the large sums annually issued by the Sinking Fund will operate as an increase of capital thrown into the general money-market; and even in the first year amply replace whatever accommodation the Bank may find it necessary to withdraw, in consequence of its purchases of Bullion for coinage. In the course of proving Mr. A.'s positions, he has very convincingly pointed out errors and defects in the Bullion Report, which we hope will not be forgot, when it comes to be discussed in the proper place. Why it should have been sent out among the publick without such a discussion, we have yet to learn. In the mean time, under such a revision as the present, it is less likely to be attended with inconvenience or alarm.

Bradney says, "I feel astonished. In p. "At the outset of the Report," Mr.

13, it states (wo circumstances for the depression of coin below bullion, which, in the judgment of the Committee, are the whole cause of that depression, &c. &c. I must be free to say that the Reporters bave completely inverted the order of things. They appear to have confounded cause and effect, and to have placed the consequent before the antecedent."

"The next circumstance, which, combined with diminution, is said to constitute the whole cause of this augmentation of value, is the difficulty of converting coin into bullion-because the law forbids it. Let experience and practice dictate a reply;. and, instead of the term difficulty, we may venture to substitute facility; for surely, in the whole range of mercantile commo-. dities, there is not one which can be so easily converted into profitable form;. none so free from detection. Every day apprizes us of the practice."

Mr. Bradney's observations on Coun try Banks are highly important. By

the

the evidence of Mr. Richardson, it appears that their number is 730; their annual issue 30 millions; and that not less than 7 millions of that issue have been borrowed by these wery Bankers.

"This cannot fail to open the eyes of the publick to the extreme hazard of countenancing so immoderate an issue on single security, when it is thus discovered, that these dealers in money, and money lenders, are themselves obliged to borrow one-fourth or one-third of their issues, over and above the deposits usually left in their hands as bankers. Deduct these deposits, and the money borrowed, how inadequate must be the general capital to currency so extensive!-Such a bolstering of credit is similar to the foul eruptions of a surfeited and morbid habit, tending to decay. The disorder has gained too much strength by neglect-perhaps a remedy may not yet come too late, if nothing violent is prescribed. A gradual reduction may operate as a gentle alterative, and restore the constitution to health and vigour."

After adverting to the good policy of a "cautionary reserve of coin," particularly as keeping up "that guard, which in former wars was so much wanted, to prevent professed dealers in bills from exhausting our coffers, whenever it suited their interest to export the coin of the country,” Mr. Bradney thus proceeds:

"The Bank of England has been compared to a pivot, as the centre upon which circulation turns; but the allusion is not a happy one. How much more sublime and appropriate than this cold inanimate instrument of mechanism is Sully's old analogy of the heart, which, in its central position, warmly distributes the blood with its nourishment to the extremities, and receives it again for renewed distribution in perpetual circulation. Such is the Bank of England. The chastity of its conduct cannot be more clearly evinced, than by the avowed disproportion between the issues of this Corporation, compared with those of the Country Banks. In short, it contains within it a palladium, which it would be madness to attempt to remove.→ The experience derived from Mr. Pitt's strict inquisition into its concerns, the happy result of the exposure, the confirmation of its validity, the great error committed by that eminent Statesman in trusting to the interested representations and private security of individuals, the fate of the Hambro' Bills this experience should be to future Ministers as a beacon tower, to warn them from approaching too near to that rock, on which the strong fortress of British security is built."

70. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of Elizabeth Prowse, late of Wicken Park, Northamptonshire; delivered in substance at Fulham Church, on Sunday, March 4, 1810. By the Rev. John Owen, M. A. Rector of Paglesham, Essex, and Curate and Lecturer of Fulham; 8vo; pp. 22; Hatchard.

From Job. v. 26. "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in, in his season," Mr. Owen has presented to his audience, and to the publick at large, some particulars of a worthy lady, sister to Mr. Sharp, the respectable character for whose memory he subsequently performed the same me rtiorious and solemn office, as noticed in p. 450.-The death of Mrs. Prowse has been before recorded in the First Part of our present Volume, p. 396.

If a premature death be regarded as a misfortune, (and such, moral considerations apart, it most generally is,) those in whom life is continued through all the nahere to do, with the termination of the tural stages, closing, as it is supposed last, may, nay must, be considered as inheriting a blessing. In pronouncing, however, this judgment on old age, both the promise in the text and our argument imply, that it is, if not altogether, yet in a very great measure, exempted from those infirmities which too frequently accompany and embitter the decline of life. The old age here presumed is a healthy and cheerful old age; inheriting as little of inconvenience and suffering, of incapacity and fretfulness, of labour and sorrow, as is consistent with the circumstances of a natural decay. It is, in short, not death anticipated, but life prolonged; with so much vigour, both of mind and body, reserved to the last, as may qualify the hoary individual for finishing so long and so pleasing a course with honour and joy. Add to this, that the fulness of age here treated of presumes, that the party attaining it has survived to a great degree, what in human language may be called the necessity and desirableness of living. The period of dissolution is supposed to be that, in which those who are fit for dying at all, would naturally wish to die: it is that period, when life has nearly ceased to be an advantage, and has not yet become a burthen. Had the individual been carried off in an earlier stage, the ties of family and friendship would have been forcibly rent, and the course of employment unseasonably interrupted; so that the event would have been productive of almost unqualified But a round grief and embarrassment.

pared both the party who is to be rethoved and those who are to survive the separation, for submitting to the stroke with the lowest possible degree of inconvenience and regret."-" Those whom Divine Providence carries to hoary hairs, and to whom it preserves the healthful exercise of their faculties, are expected to attain a proportionable ripeness in those fruits of righteousness which the grace of God may have qualified them to bear. Such an improvement of time is distinctly implied under the descriptive imagery employed in my text," "There only remains, to complete this portraiture of blessedness, the easy and happy dissolution by which the spirit of the favoured individual is to be finally translated to glory."

"Instances which exemplify the foregoing particulars do, it must be admitted, but rarely occur; and, when they are brought under our view, the glory of that grace from which they result, and the religious edification to which they are adapted, concur in recommending them as subjects of public and solemn commemoration, Such an instance has recently occurred in the case of an excellent and

much-lamented individual, whom we have but a fewdays ago accompanied to her grave. In her lengthened age, [77,] her exemplary character, and her happy decease, the beautiful imagery contained in my text was most faithfully realized she came to her grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in, in his season."

Mr. Owen, in proceeding to a more particular discrimination of the character of Mrs. Prowse, observes,

"Our excellent friend had the happiness to be born of parents, who considered a religious education the highest species of accomplishment with which their children could be furnished, and the most vaJuable patrimony with which they could be endowed. Her father united, in an eminent degree, the best qualifications both of a parent and a pastor. Her mother was distinguished by a correspondent excellence both of mind and heart: and discharged her portion of the parental duties with a more than ordinary exercise of piety and judgment. Thus mutually agreed, they imbued their offspring, from The very earliest years, with wholesome instruction; and trained them up, with exemplary diligence, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With what sucdess this holy discipline was crowned, in the case of the deceased, will be seen in that character which we are hereafter to unfold, What effects it produced on the other members of this family, may be sufficiently inferred from that conduct which has rendered them, in different degrees, the objects of public estimation as well as private regard, and given to their

very name a proverbial connexion with piety and beneficence."—" It was not till nearly the middle period of life, that the amiable person whom we are now commemorating, entered into the matrimonial estate; and the shortness of its duration, viewed in connexion with the influence which it had on her future circumstances and character, lead us to resolve into special purposes of Divine Providence, both the formation of that union and its speedy dissolution. For scarcely had she been made a wife, before she became a widow; and derived by inheritance a property, which rendered her the independent mistress of a considerable domain, comprehending (with very little exception) the tenantry and population of an entire parish. It is in this situation' that we are to observe her, unfolding those various virtues, which rendered her, for more than forty years, an ornament to Religion, a source of inexpressible comfort to her connexions, and an instrument of incalculable usefulness to that district over which she presided."

The animated Preacher, after observing that "to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, may be considered as the standard of religious excellence," examines the conduct of the deceased under those several rules of duty. But we have only room for one remarkable trait:

"It was a love of mercy which led her to select, for her own use, the services of those whom others would have rejected, and to give offices in her establishment to those victims of infirmity, whom almost every one but herself would have been not only unwilling to employ, but ashamed to acknowledge. It resulted from this principle, that her lawns were mown, her fields were cultivated, her garden was dressed, by those whom time had superannuated, or misfortune had crippled, and who, but for such provident and compassionate kindness, must have hung upon society as pensioners, or infested it as beggars. Nor let it be supposed, that these sacrifices to mercy embarrassed, in any measure, the orderly course of her domestic affairs; on the contrary, few persons were more regularly or effectually served. The objects of her protection made her interest their own: they performed their duties with a willing mind; and compensated by superior diligence and faithfulness for the defectiveness of their other qualifications."

We take this opportunity of correcting a mistake into which we have fallen in a few instances, in referring to the Second Part of the Volume for the present year as Vol. LXXXI. It should have been referred to as Vol. LXXX. Part II.

AN

On a throne of soft turf, deck'd in sweet rural state, [sate With chaplets and perfumes her Majesty By Corona imperial her tresses were drest, And Abigail Iris had fashion'd her vest. A canopy, form'd by fair Jessamine's aid, [loving maid, The Woodbine's, and Clematis', bow'rIn easy luxuriance hung o'er her head. By his mistress's side, with a star on his breast, [the rest; Stood Chamberlain Sun-flow'r, surveying While Sir Clement the Usher, a gay Golden-rød, [the Queen's nod. Class'd and order'd the guests to receive The Daisy attendants were scatter'd around, And Dew-drops, rich jewels! bespangled the ground.

Like a virgin o'ercome with each modest sensation,

The meek blushing Rose had the first presentation.

The

With spruce lords and ladies, by Arums well-known, [place shone. And Bachelors'-buttons which round the

The DRAWING-ROOM over, the Queen left her seat, [treat; Each Courtier then hied to his former reBut first, in the anti-room joyful he found, Fresh nectar by Butter-cups handing around. J. D.

Sussex.

ON A LATE AFFECTING INCIDENT.

near! [dear! Parent belov'd! my King! my Father But, when those eyes no more AMELIA [me!

see,

Though the cold grave inclose, remember Long and extreme the penal pangs I've borne,

[toru!

E'en now my sinking frame is piecemeal But Hope, bright Hope! bids shadowy terrors flee, [me! Still thy lov'd Daughter cries, remember Yet, ere the solemn, welcome word is giv'n, [heav'n, Ere my freed spirit seeks its opening Accept this relick:-this memento be A sign, a token, you remember me! "On two fond breasts my fleeting soul relies : [sighs: My Father- Sister-claim my parting And these, I feel, when here I cease to be, With tend'rest love will still remember "Oh, my lov'd Mary! name for ever dear!" [near,

[me!

My kind, unwearied friend! at all times When this faint head no more reclines on thee,

Thy kindred soul will still remember me! And sure, if disembodied spirits know What passes here with those most lov'd below;

If guardian angels they 're allow'd to be, My Father-Sister-I'll remember thee! So spoke the filial Fair-nor knew the dart [heart! Parental anguish fix'd in BRUNSWICK'S

On MURAT'S Summons to Sir J. STUART te surrender SICILY, in order to spare the Effusion of Blood.

so tender,

SAYS Murat to Stuart, "Of blood I'm [surrender." I beg, without fighting, your force you 'H Says the Hero of Maida to Murat-" Ex[amuse me : And much your fine feelings amaze and Here determin'd we stand, you may come when you will, [spill! Every drop in our veins we are ready to Aside mutter'd Murat, "Parbleu! when I sent,