"written and fent to A. B. C. &c." which, however explained, have only the effect of giving a ludicrous caft to a work truly ferious.

ART. 32.. The British Jubilee. A Sermon preached at the Scots Church, Crown-court, Ruffell-ftreet, Covent-garden, London, on the 25th of Odaber, 1809, being the 50th Anniversary of his Majesty's Acceffion to the Throne. By George Greig, Minifter of the faid Church. Published by Defire. 8vo. 36 pp. 1s. 6d. Hatchard, &c. 1809.

Though we cannot hope even to gain intelligence of every fermon preached and printed on the memorable occafion of the Royal Jubilee, we shall not willingly pafs by any that feem to have reasonable claims to notice. The prefent difcourfe is the compofition of a fenfible and methodical writer, and enlarges upon the following topics: Firft, the inftances of God's goodness to our King, and under him to the people; fecondly, the influence this goodness ought to have upon us. Under the former head, the preacher fpecifies, i, that God has caufed him to reign over an enlightened and chriftian people; 2. that he has mercifully preferved and lengthened his life; 3. that he has, in thefe awful times, preferved his crown and kingdom; 4. that he has bleffed his reign, in general, with internal tranquillity; 5. that he has blessed him with firmnefs to maintain his own principles and the rights of his people. To us God has evinced his goodness in the religious privileges we enjoy, in civil and religious liberty, in the progrefs of ufeful knowledge, in giving us abundance, in the extenfion of our commerce. The fecond part of the difcourfe recommends joy and gratitude for thefe bleffings, and concludes with arguments in favour of the Bible Society.

Allowing for a very few points in which the peculiar feelings of an English diffenter appear, we cannot fairly deny to this dif course our general teftimony of approbation.

ART. 33. The Duty of Church-Communion: a Sermon altered and abridged from Dr. Rogers, with additional Passages interspersed. By Edward Pearfon, D.D. Mafer of Sidney Suffex College, Cam bridge, and Chriftian Advocate in that Univerfity. 12mo. 32 pp. 6d. Hatchard, 1810.

The labours of Dr. Pearfon are always judicious and useful, always tend to the diffufion of right fentiments, on the great fub jects of faith and Chriftian unity. When fuch a writer condefcends to work upon the ground prepared by another Divine, and that fo able a Divine as Dr. Rogers, the refult muft be, an improvement of what was good before, the addition of new and valuable materials, and on the whole, a difcourfe probably as well adapted to its purpofe as can be wifhed or imagined.

On infpecting the Sermon here announced, we fee no reafon to abate any thing of that estimation which we had thus anticipated. We find it admirably defined, how far Church-Communion is practicable, and how far neceffary; and what are the advantages attending it ;-with occafional references, in a few short notes, to points on which we principally differ from the leading fchifmatics of the prefent time. The Appendix is taken from Bishops Burnet and Hoadly on the fame fubject. We heartily,' therefore, recommend this difcourfe, and wish it an extenfive cit culation.

ART. 34. A few Words on the Increase of Methodism, occafioned by "Hints" of a Barrifter, and the Obfervations in the Edin burgh Review. 8vo. 23 PP. Is. Miles and Co. 180.

"I am," fays this writer, "neither a follower of Whitfield nor Welley. My religious opinions do not accord with any of the hundred and four core fchifms, which Moreri informs us, had their rife from the Apoftolic age to that of Luther, nor with any of the innumerable ones that have had their rife fince :"no, Sir; but it is perfectly plain what you are. A Roman Catholic; who extol the Methodists, chiefly for the fake of depreciating the Eftablished Church; which you do often very unfairly..

Let us take one example:-"Who," enquires this Author, "diffeminate, at their own expence, tracts well calculated to pro mote focial virtue ?-The Methodists."

P. 20.

It is evidently meant to be implied, that the established Clergyand Laymen do not fo. Yet did this writer never hear of two extenfive Societies which have been exercifing this benevolence for more than a century, and are compofed entirely of Church. men? Other queftions are equally uncandid. We cannot hesitate therefore to fay of the tract, that it is an infidious attack, probably from the quarter above-mentioned, or from a Deift.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 35. A Hiftory of the Ancient Town of Shaftesbury, from the Founder Alfred the Great, partly felected from Hutchins. Containing an Account of the Abbey, Churches,, Nuns, Clergy, Reprefentatives in Parliament, Recorders, Mayors, &c. Alfo of the Eminent Perfons who have refided in the Town and Neighbourbood. Published by T. Adams, Shaftesbury. Crown 8vo. 221 pp. 58. Scatcherd and Co. 1809.

The use of these minor publications of local hit tory is confider. able; they are of eafy purchase, and they afford to the cafual vifitor all the information he can well require, without the la bour of examining bulky volumes, which befides are not always

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to be met with. Being easily reprinted, they may also be continued from time to time, fo as to keep pace with alterations improvements, and other mutable circumftances; but a plan of the place fhould always accompany them, which in this inftance is wanting. Anecdotes of eminent perfons are among the most pleafing materials of fuch compilations; and the following is we believe but little known,

"The Rev. James Granger, author of the celebrated Biographical History of England, was a native of this town; he was the fon of a heel-cutter. When a little boy he often carried out the monthly publications for a Mr. Woolridge, bookfeller; as a reward for his trouble, his request was the loan of the Gentleman's Magazine, and one penny to purchase a candle to read it." P. 67.

Such were the literary beginnings of Granger, of whom we are glad to fee it mentioned alfo, that he kept up a friendly correfpondence with Mr. Woolridge to the day of his death. The beautiful lines of Mr. Bowles, on leaving a place of refidence,” refer to Barton-hill in this town, which was inhabited and embellifhed by his Father; they occur in the first volume of his poems, p. 125. That an infcription fubjoined in this book, as beJonging to the fame place, was not there originally, appears from vol. ii. p. 17. W. Lifle Bowles is certainly one of the names which Shaftesbury will continue to record.

ART. 36 A Selection of curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine. In three Volumes. 8vo. l. 16s. Longman. 1809. 1

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The Gentleman's Magazine now extends to almost a hundred volumes. It commenced in Jan. 1731; in 1783 the plan was confiderably enlarged, and fince that period every volume has been divide into two parts. Nothing can be more notorious than that this feries of volumes contains a great number of articles of fubftantial literary value, and the adoption of a plan like this now executed, has often been fuggefted, as well by Mr. Gibbon, whofe letter to Mr. Nichols on the subject, is introduced in a note to the preface, as by other diftinguished cha racters.

Thefe volugnes are thus divided. The firft contains hiftorical and antiquarian refearches. The fecond, ancient and modern literature; critici im, and philology. The third, letters to and from eminent perfots, with mifcellaneous articles, anecdotes useful projects and in ventions. It is impoffible that fuch a compilation fhould not contain a prodigious fund of folid and interefting information, as well as of amufement. The copious fubject of biography is of aitted, as well as that of topography, for both which articles he Gentleman's Magazine has always been celebrated, and no undefervedly.

Criticifm on fuch a publication is out of the queftion. The

particular

particular articles will be found by the reader without difficulty, for a table of contents is prefixed to each volume, as well as a ceopious index at the end,

CART. 37. A Ratifical Synopsis of the Phyfical and Political Strength of the Chief Powers of Europe, dorun to the Peace of Vienna in 1809, with a Table of the Routes and Diftances from London to all the Capitals in the World. By William Ticken, Profelor of Mathematics, Geography, and Hiftory, and Author of the Hiftorical Chart of the Reign of George the Third. 4to. Se ven leaves. 28. 6d. Sherwood and Co. 1819.

paper and

As these few leaves confift chiefly of tables, one of which is engrayed, we must not complain of their price. There is perhaps as much information in them as can well be compreffed into fo fmall a compafs, and the labour of the compiler ought certainly to be paid for, as well as his Nor can we prefs.work. deny the praife of ingenuity to the manner in which these tables are arranged and compiled, A very curious circumftance imme. diately ftrikes the eye in the first table, where the territorial pof feffions of Europe are thrown upon a circular scale; namely, that thofe of Ruffia occupy more than the quadrant, or quarter of the whole circle; in addition: to: which we must reckon more than three millions of fquare miles for the territory of that empire in Afia. A vaft total!

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It neceffarily requires fome attention to comprehend all the contrivances of the author in the first plate; but when rightly understood they will be found to convey a vaft variety of itatistical information. For its correctnefs the evident diligence of the author must be a good pledge. The whole is tranflated from a German work, and forms an excellent book for reference on such sub jects.

ART. 38: The World difplayed: or the characteristic Features of Nature and Art, exhibited on a new Plan, intended for Youth in general, as an Outline of the maft ftriking Parts of useful Informa tion, and as a Remembrancer to thofe of riper Years. By Job Grieg, Teacher of Mathematics, Geography, &c. Author of the Heaven difplayed, Sc. Sc. Cradock and

Joy. 1810.

12mo.

Price

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We have hardly ever met with a volume containing fo much information in fo fmall a compafs. A more proper prefent for a young perfon cannot be found, for every thing which may be fup pofed to excite curiofity from a furvey of the world; its geography, the manners of different nations, remarkable incidents, curiofities of nature and productions of art is here exhibited in miniature, but with diftinctness and precifion. There can be no hesitation in recommending it to thofe who are engaged in the inftruction of youth;

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and indeed every reader may dip into it with fatisfaction and að. vantage: maps would have made it more perfect, but must ne. ceffarily have increased the expence. The author refers to Walker's octavo and Oftell's quarto Atlas, which laft alfo contains Maps of the Grecian and Roman Empires. We cannot help wifhing fuccefs to this comprehenfive compilation.

MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

DIVINITY.

Remarks upon a Report of the Judgment delivered by the Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl, Knt. LL.D. official Principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, upon the Admiffion of Articles exhibited in a Cause of Office promoted against the Rev. W. W. Wickes, for refufing to Bury, according to the Rites of the Church of England, a Child baptized by a Diffenting Minister. Price 2s.

A Second Letter to Lord Teignmouth, occafioned by his Lordship's Letter to the Rev. Chriftopher Wordsworth, D. D. with Remarks upon his Lordship's Defence of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By a Country Clergyman. Price 1s. 6d.

TOPOGRAPHY. HISTORY.

The Hiftory of Lincoln, ancient and modern. Embellished with numerous Wood Cuts of the principal Buildings, &c. 12mo. 7s. 6d.

Sketches taken in Portugal and Spain during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army in 1808 and 1809. By the Rev. Wm. Bradford, Chaplain of Brigade. 4to. 71. 7s. Super Royal 111.

BIOGRAPHY.

A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers containing Biographical Sketches of the moft celebrated Artifts, from the earheft Ages to the prefent Time. To which is added, an Appendix, comprising the Substance of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting. 12mo. 10s. 6d.

An Account of the Life and Character of Alexander Adain, LL.D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh; Author of Roman Antiquities, &c. 5s. 6d.

LAW.

The Defence of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bell, of the First Battalion of Madras Artillery, on his Trial at Bangalore, before a General Court-Martial, as it was read in Court by his Counfel, Charles Marth, Efq. 35.

A Report of the Trial of an Indictment, the King againft Benjamin Tanner and Captain Nicholas Tomlinfon, of the Royal Navy, for Forgery; whereby the Navy Office was defrauded of a Sum of Money. By T. Jenkin, of Gray's

Inn. 15.

The Trial at large of an Action brought by Edward Loveden Loveden, Efq. against Thomas Raymond Barker, Etq. for Criniinal Conversation with Mrs. Loveden, Monday, July 3, 1809. Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. 6s.

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MEDICAL.

A Familiar Differtation on the Caufes and Treatment of the Difeafes of the Teeth; with Inftructions for their Management, to render them white and firm in their Socket, and to preferve them from caries, tooth-ach, &c. By J. P. Hertz, Surgeon Dentist. 25.

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