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fhe had cherished for his fake, and which he might remember, when a boy, he had planted from the acorn all about the eftate; but fhe thanked God, there were many yet left standing, which the hoped was a good omen, that he would overcome his misfortunes.

A good omen indeed, cried Mr. Stanley, if in nigh thirty years growth they are fo large as I wish them; for but a day or two ago, in the city of Briftol, I met with a person who was purpofely employed, and is making enquiry, with a great deal of earneftness, after found, young oak timber, a great parcel of which fort he is commiffioned to purchafe.

The end of the fory is, that upon examination they found above feventeen hundred fuch oaks as they fold for forty fhillings a piece, with which flock Mr. Stanley began a new trade, and became as confiderable a merchant as any in the Weft; and, in memory of this fortunate accident, he preferved from the axe about twenty of the trees which grew nearest the houfe, which trees (though the eftate is now fallen to another family) are known to this day by the name of Save-all Remnant.'

This example of a gentleman preferved from fuch ruin, in the middle of his life, by the innocent and unmeaning diverfion of his childhood, together with what is told us by the famous Sir Richard Wefton, of a merchant of his acquaintance who planted with his own hands fo much wood that he fold it in his life-time for fifty thoufand pounds fterling; thefe examples, we fay, are fufficient to excite a new vigour in our country gentlemen, who might eafily improve upon the hint, fo far as to eafe their eftates of a burden which often oppreffes, and fometimes deftroys them; we mean, where a gentleman leaves many daughters, for whose fortunes the estate is the fund, and ftands mortgaged to provide them.

How easily were this inconvenience prevented, if at the birth of a daughter but ten acres of land were fet out from the eftate, and, after being carefully enclosed, were well planted with timber-trees.

Suppofe, for example, they were fir-trees, which are found to thrive readily in all parts of England: four thousand fuch trees would grow twenty years together on ten acres of land without galling each other; at the end of which term they would, one with another, be worth twenty fhillings a piece for small mafts for veffels, and many other good uses; fo that here were falmost without lofs or expence) a fortune

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of four thousand pounds provided for the young lady by that time the grows marriageable, and her father's eftate not charged with a penny towards raising it.

The fame thing being done, only changing the kind of tree, planted at every new birth of a daughter or fon, would effectually provide for them all as fast as they grow up, like a plow kept at work for their benefit, even while they were fleeping: there is, we may hope, no elder brother in England who will diflike this particular part of this essay, whatever his opinion may be of the other.

Review of New Publications.

A Letter to Lord Grenville upon the repeated Publication of his Letter to the Secretary of the Society for Promoting Chiriftian Knowledge, in confequence of their Refolution with refpect to his Majesty's late Conduct. By the Rev. H. B. WILSON, M. A. 8vo. pp. 21. Rivingtons. 6d.

The members the Society for Promoting Chriftian HIS is a fpirited rebuke of his Lordship, by one of

Knowledge, and muft make him feel, if indeed he be capable of feeling, concern for his moft unwarrantable and infolent attack upon that venerable body.

The following is a home thrust:

"But my lord, the true reason of your hostility to the measure, seems to be the alarm which you entertain, lest the opinion of such a respectable body, as the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, comprising more than sixteen hundred bishops and inferior clergy, and six hundred of the peers and gentry, and thus form ing a truly ecclesiastical union of churchmen and laics, should bias the opinion of the country in favour of their King, and those ho

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nester men whom he has lately called to his Councils*. You affect to believe that this measure was designed to answer electioneering purposes. But without communicating with the respectable quarter from which it proceeded, I can take upon myself to say, so far as one man can answer for another, that it originated in no such unworthy motive. It originated, I am persuaded, in a sincere wish to gratify the Royal Feelings, and to discharge one of the noblest duties of which we are capable, gratitude for mercies received. And never, surely, was there a time when thanks were more due from men of all ranks and degrees in the Protestant Church to the earthly Head of their Communion, and Defender of their Faith, than when the exalted Personage who stands to us in those interesting relations, though at first imposed upon by his Privy Counsellors, and afterwards accused by them at the tribunal of his people in Parliament assembled, stood forth the undaunted champion of our holy faith, and vindicator of our real liberties.

"But having said this, my Lord, which it is not in your Lordship's power to disprove, I will go a step farther, and ́ declare, that since matters have been thus injudiciously brought by you to this crisis, if the resolutions of the Society, in the first instance, or any vindication of them in the sequel, should tend but in one place to open the eyes of electors to the danger in which you have involved the Protestant Establishment, and induce them to return men, whose opinions are decidedly adverse to the party of which I fear you are to be considered the head and chief support, I should rejoice. It is my earnest prayer to that Beneficent Being, who rescued us in the loins of our forefathers from the dominion of the Court of Rome, that our next Parliament may be a truly Protestant Parliament. And would to God that a man of your Lordship's ability had not so far implicated himself in the views and interests of the Romanists, as to render it almost unreasonable to hope that he should ever contradict and oppose them, in any future scheme of inno vation."

On the dishonesty of the leading Members of the late Ca binet, see those excellent Letters addressed to Lord Grenville, and Lord Howick, upon their Removal from the Councils of the King, in Consequence of their attempting the total Repeal of the Test Laws, now in Force, with respect to His Majesty's Army and Navy, by a Protestant, which appeared at first in the Morning Post, and have been since collected, and republished in a more permanent form.

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Mr. Wilfon has recently published a judicious "Addrefs to Men of all Orders and Degrees in the United Church of England and Ireland, refpecting the Papifts,' which fhews him to be a found member and a zealous minifter of the Church. He is alfo about to print a Volume of Sermons, by fubfcription, to which, from the fpecimens of his abilities afforded in thefe tracts, we heartily with encouragement.

Preparation for the Holy Order of Deacons: or, the First Question propofed to Candidates for the Holy Order of Deacons, elucidated, in a Charge delivered previously to an Ordination. By GEORGE ISAAC HUNTINGFORD, D. D. F. R. S. Bishop of Gloucester, and Warden of Winchester College. Cadell and Davies. 8vo. 1s. 6d,

N the epiftolary addrefs to the Rev, Archdeacon Vigor, prefixed to this admirable Charge, the learned prelate gives the following account of his defign.

"To elucidate a very material part in the Service appointed for the Ordering of Deacons, and thus to facilitate a right conception of it, is the principal object of the following work. If either in the manner, which it has pursued, or in the matter, which it has introduced, it should be inadequate to the purpose intended; still however on account of the design, with which it was delivered, and is now published, this Charge relies with confidence on your candour and goodness for a favourable reception.

"Although this is not the place to enlarge on the interpretation which the sequel will give to the question before us; yet a brief intimation of it may not here be improper. It is then to be observed, that the compilers of our Liturgy and of our other religious Formularies, were accustomed to adopt language emphatical and of wide acceptation. The restricted sense, in which their terms were to be taken, they concluded would be obvious to all who were conversant with the Holy Scriptures. The "Confession," for instance, acknowledges the general corruption of human nature, and the moral depravity of man, in these words: "There is no health in us." An expression this, which does not mean to say, there absolutely is not in man any virtue or goodness of any sort,

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kind, or degree whatever. Its import is this: strictly speaking, no man is perfect: speaking comparatively, and with reference to the all-perfect and adorable attributes of God most Holy, every man is sinful. This one example will be sufficient to illustrate and justify the opinion, that in many passages where the diction is strong, a qualified construction is to be admitted. And such, it is apprehended, may be the case, in the Question which the following Charge considers.

"It cannot be conceived, that those who are legally appointed and apostolically authorised to ordain ministers in our established Church, should expect in their candidates extraordinary designations, which even St. Paul himself did not expect. By him were required those attainments only, which to diligent cultivation of the understanding, to moral discipline, and to habitual prayer, the grace of God will usually impart. In addition to approved and well-attested character, he required ability and inclination to teach others; command of irascible and concupiscible passions; circumspect conduct; humane and devout affections. Recommendations and endowments more than these, by no Bishop can reasonably be demanded. Acquirements and virtues less than these, by none can be wished; consistently at least with that solicitude which he ought to feel, for the right knowledge of Scripture, the due preaching of the Word, the example, credit, and consequent utility of the clerical order."

These two points, as connected with the question propofed, are first confidered, viz.

1. It is compatible with the power and consistent with the wisdom of God, to influence the human mind.

2. The imperfection of man's nature requires Divine aid."

On the question itself the learned bishop does not give any new explanation of his own, but contents himself with ftating the opinions of fome of the most eminent divines of our church, as Tillotfon, Nicholls, Collier, Burnet, Secker, the pre fent bishop of Meath, and Mr. Gisborne.

The following is a fummary of the whole Charge:

"You are not asked, if you think yourselves inspired, or constrained, or borne away, by an irresistible power of divine grace You are asked only, if you trust you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost? How, with respect to the PRECISE Circumstance of your wishing to be ordained, the Holy Spirit may have influenced your minds; whether immediately, or remotely; whether directly or indirectly; whether in a primary or secondary way; the question does not demand of you to declare. On this point,

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