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ers. We must, however, refer them for farther particulars to the Report itself, which is sold at a very low rate. One very gratifying piece of intelligence, not contained in the Report, has just reached us, and we hasten to communicate it. A law entirely abolishing the Slave Trade has been passed by the new government in the Rio Plata. A similar law was enacted about two years ago by the revolutionary government of the Caraccas. Such facts

prove incontestibly that the Spanish Government can derive no plea from the apprehended disaffection of its colonies (with the exception, perhaps, of Cuba) to justify its refusal to prohibit the carrying on of this traffic by Spanish subjects, or under the Spanish flag.

The funds of this institution, we are sorry to say, are still very disproportionate to the extent and importance of its objects.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE,

GREAT BRITAIN.

&c. &c.

In the press: A new work by Mrs. H. More,
in 2 vols. entitled "Christian Morals;"-Sir
Philip Warwick's Memoirs of the Reign of
Charles I., with a Continuation to the Resto-
ration of Charles II.; with Annotations;
Particulars of the Life of a Dissenting Mini-
ster, with occasional Reflections, illustrative
of the Education and professional State of
the Dissenting Clergy, and of the Character
and Manners of the Dissenters in general;
A new edition of the Life and Prophecies of
Merlin;-Prophetic Records of the Chris-
tian Era, Sacred, Moral, and Political, by
the Rev. R. Clarke;-Studies in History,
Part I. containing an abridged History of
Greece, with moral and religious Reflections,
by the Rev. T. Morrell, of St. Neots;-A__
popular Survey of the Reformation and fun-
damental Doctrines of the Church of Eng-
land, in one vol. 8vo., by Mr. Custance ;-
and, The Lives of the Puritans, by the Rev.
B. Brook, of Tutbury, in 3 vols. 8vo.

Preparing for publication: (By subscrip-
tion) A History of the House of Commons of
Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest
Period to the present Time.

An application to Parliament is intended to be made, next session, to form a new street from Pall Mall, opposite Carlton House, to the south end of Portland Place, of the width of 100 feet. It is to run at right angles with Pall Mall.

The tessellated pavement discovered in 1811, at Bignor, in Sussex, was covered with earth to preserve it during last winter. It has been lately opened again, and the sur

rounding land dug up, for the purpose of further discovery. A series of apartments are now exposed, all paved with beautiful Mosaic, the most of it in the highest state of preservation, and exhibiting, perhaps, the best specimen of the kind in this country. The various figures are well defined and delineated; some of them very beautiful, particularly an eagle with Ganymede, a pheasant, a dolphin, and some others. Walls are erecting on the ancient foundations, the ruins furnishing materials, so, that the plan of the building may be tolerably traced. It no doubt has been the villa of some of the Romau generals, the chief city of the Regni, Chichester, where Vespasian fixed his headquarters, being within a few miles, and the ancient Roman road thence to London crossing the South Downs directly in front of the edifice. The surrounding scenery is very romantic, and must have been always interesting. The destruction may be dated from that of many other monuments of the power and splendour of the Romans at one time în this country, from the barbarous invasion of the Saxons under the ferocious Ella, who, irritated with the formidable opposition he met at Chichester, ravaged it and the surrounding country with fire and sword with the most unrelenting fury. So completely had time effaced all appearance of former habitation, that the same family have ploughed the field every year for thirty years past, without the remotest suspicion of the trea sure it contained, till last autumn the ploughshare came in contact with one of the large stones of the building..

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

A Sermon on the Sanctification of the Lord's Day. By the Rev. James Rudge, A. B. Curate and Lecturer of Limehouse. 1s.

Examination of Dr. Marsh's Answer to all the Arguments in Favour of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By J. Otter. 2s.

Considerations on the Life and Death of Abel, &c. By Bishop Horne. 18mo. 2s. Contemplations of an ancient Layman on the Christian System. By 1. Bradney. 18mo.

2s. 6d.

Sermon before the Anniversary of the Royal Humane Society, April 19, 1812, at St. Andrew's, Holborn. By the Rev. I. Garrow. 1s. 6d.

Sermon, January 22, 1812, at the Parish Church of St. Andrew Wardrobe. By the Rev. J. Horne. 1s.

A Reformed Communion Office for the Administration of the Christian Eucharist, commonly called the Lord's Supper. 2s. 6d.

Simpson's Plea for the Deity of Jesus, and the Doctrines of the Trinity; with a Life of the Author. By E. Parsons. 8vo. 12s. The Cottage Library, in 4 vols. 12mo. 163. Legislative Authority of Revealed Grace. By J. Bennet. cr. 8vo. 7s.

Attempt towards a New Historical and Political Explanation of the Book of Revelation. By W. Brown. 8vo. 8s.

The Second Exodus; or Reflections on the Prophecies of the Last Times, fulfilled by late Events and now fulfilling, by the Scourge of Popery, in Preparation for the Ending of the Indignation, and the Conversion and Restoration of Israel. By the Rev. W. Ettrick, M. A. late Fellow of University College, Oxford. Vol. III. 8vo. 7s.

Ecclesiastical Researches; or Philo and Josephus proved to be the Historians and ApoJogists of Christ, of his Followers, and of the Gospel. By John Jones. 8vo. 12s.

Here followeth the Coppie of the Reasoning which was betwixt the Abbote of Crosra guell & John Knox, in Mayboill, concerning

the Masse, in the year of God, a thousand five hundred thre score and two yeires. Imprinted at Edinburgh, by Robert Lekpreuk, & are to be sold at his hous in the... Netherbow. Cum priuilegio, 1563. Reprinted 1812: Black letter, frum types cast on purpose, at private expense. Small quare to. 12s.

A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Peculiar of the Deanery of Hereford, July 50. By George Gretton, D. D. Dean of Here. ford. 1s. 6d.

Ane Oratioune, set forth be Master Quintine Kennedy, Commendator of Crosraguell, ye yeir of Gode 1561. Black letter: from the original MS. in the Auchinleck library. Small quarto. 7s. 6d.

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The Reciter; a Work particularly adapted for Schools; consisting of Pieces moral, religious, and sacred, in Verse and Prose. By the Rev. E. Ward. 12mo. 78.

A Breefe Memoriall of the Life and Death of Dr. James Spottiswood, Bishop of Clogher in Ireland, and of the Labyrinth of Troubles he fell into in that Kingdom, and the Man ner of the unhappy Accident which brought such Troubles upon him. Published from a Manuscript in the Auchinleck, Library. Small 4to. 10s. 6d. sewed.

Tirocinium Medicum; or a Dissertation on the Duties of Youth apprenticed to the Medical Profession. By W. Chamberlaine, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Fellow of the Medical Society of London. 7s.

Outlines of a Course of Natural Philosophy. Part I. By John Playfair, F. R. S. London and Edinburgh, Professor of Natu ral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Vol. I. 9s.

Burke's Works. Vol. V. 4to. 11. 12s. 6d. Few plain Questions and Observations on the Catholic Emancipation. By W. Brom ley. 1s.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR.

The First Report of the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor, in the Principles of the Established Church, has been published; and we rejoice to witness the great and successful efforts which it has made to accomplish its object. About 16,000% are stated to have been raised by

the Central Society in London, and upwards of 24,000l. by the Diocesan and District Societies that are united with it. The largeness of this contribution, the fruit of only a few months' exertion, sufficiently marks the mighty power of the engine which has thes been erected. Besides the whole bench of Bishops, upwards of one hundred lay Lords of the first consideration in the kingdom have

become members of this association. Under these circumstances, we trust that they will not confine their views to what any one society (whatever number of affiliated societies may be joined to it) can accomplish; but that they will at once go to the Legislature with a plan for educating the poor, which shall embrace every parish in the kingdom (we had almost said, in the empire), and which shall enact, that wherever there do not already exist sufficient means of educating the poor in the principles of the Established Church, such means shall be provided, by a parish or other rate; the whole, being subjected by means of regular reports to be made to the Privy Council, to the superintendance and observation of the legislature and the public. A measure of this kind, while it would secure the means in every place of educating the poor in the principles of the Established Church, would at the same time leave every one perfectly at liberty to pursue such a course of education, or to forin such institutions, as he might deem eligible: and this, we apprehend, would take away every reasonable objection which could be made to the plan by dissenters from the establishment. How much more efficacious would such a legislative act as we have suggested, prove, in extending and perpetuating the blessings of a Christian education throughout the land, than all the labours of all the voluntary societies for instructing the poor in the kingdom. Supposing this plan to be carried into effect, then would the National Society be of the most essential benefit in supplying the parochial schools with schoolmasters properly initiated into the new methods of tuition.

It may be necessary here to guard ourselves from misconception. If we are zealous for the extension of education on the principles of the “Liturgy and Catechism” of the Church of England, it is not because that church happens to be established by law-happens to be the national church; but because we believe it in our conscience to be, without any exception, the best form of Christianity which is professed in the land; the best adapted for training both the young and the old to knowledge and virtue, and for marshalling them in the way to heaven. Having said thus much, we shall now proceed to give an abstract of the Report.

Having already given some account of the formation of this society, it will be unnecessary to recur to that part of its history. Soon after its institution, a temporary school was provided at Holborn Hill for the reception of one hundred scholars, and Dr. Bell's

assistance was requested in regulating it. Dr. Bell has given his aid to the society gra tuitously,and has acted with great zeal in their service. The Committee intended to form a number of schools in and near the metropolis, under their own superiutendance; but it was finally considered as more eligible to confine their immediate superintendance to a large central school of one thousand children, projected in Baldwin's Gardens (and since established), and to give occasional as sistance and encouragement to other districts and parishes. In pursuance of this plan, they had given 200l. to a school in Orchard Street, Westminster, with the view of enlarging it so as to contain one thousand scholars, and were deliberating on other applications of a similar kind.

The Committee specify the noble institution of the Military Asylum at Chelsea, founded by the Duke of York, as an example of the system of instruction which they wish to establish. And certainly it is impossible to conceive an institution which is more admirably regulated, or which more exactly answers the end for which it was formed, the Christian education of youth.

We were much pleased with the following article in the Appendix. It refers to applications for aid from Mr. Procter of Newland, and Mr. Berkin of Mitchel Dean, in the forest of Dean.

"At Newland they began to erect a new school in June last. The chief subscribers to the building were the Duke of Beaufort, the Bishop of Gloucester, and Mr. Secretary Ryder; but the estimate of the expence far exceeded the amount of the subscriptions at that time. Mr. Procter, however, was proceeding in the work with great zeal; and the Duke of Beaufort and Lord Glenbervie had promised an annual subscription towards the salary of a master.

"At Mitchel-Dean a school has actually been built, and was opened on the 1st of January last. The building was undertaken by Mr. Berkin, at the first, at his own risk. He has since been assisted by his private friends, and in particular by a liberal donation from the Duke of Beaufort, who has also promised an annual subscription. But a considerable proportion of the expence still rests upon Mr. Berkin himself.

"An estimate may be formed of the good likely to be produced by these schools from the information which has been furnished by this zealous promoter of the education of the poor. At the first opening of his new school he had 140 scholars, and the number has since increased to 350. When Mr. Berkin

prove the mischievous tendency of the general circulation of the whole of the Scriptures, is nothing more than a revival of the popish arguments against the Reformation. He will find all of them ably answered by anticipation, in the Tracts of the Bartlett's Buildings' Society. We will content ourselves with naming a few of them, to which we would refer our author:-viz. Plain Directions for reading the Holy Scriptures; Archbishop Synge's Charitable Advice to all that are of the Communion of the Church of Rome; Questions and Answers concerning the two Religions; Archbishop Tillotson's Dissuasive from Popery; Protestant Catechism, &c. &c.

We know, however, of no better answer to those popish arguments, which would deprive the poor and unlearned of free access to the well of life, than is contained in the Homilies of the Church of England. "If you be afraid," says the church, "to fall into error by reading of Holy Scripture, I shall shew you how you may read without danger of error. Read it humbly, with a meek and lowly heart, to the intent you may glorify God, and not yourself, with the knowledge of it; and read it, not without daily praying to God, that he would direct your reading to good effect."-" Presumption and arrogancy are the mother of all error; and humility needeth to fear no error." "Therefore, the · humble man may search any truth boldly in Scripture, without any danger of error. And if he be ignorant, he ought the more to read, and to search Holy Scripture, to bring him out of ignorance." And, concerning the hardness of Scripture," "whoever giveth his mind to Holy Scriptures, with diligent study and burning desire, it cannot be that he should be left without help; for either God Almighty will send him some godly doctor to teach him,""or Himself from above will give light into our minds, and teach us those things which are necessary for us, and wherein we be ignorant.'

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"Nevertheless, for the hardness of such places, the reading of the whole ought not to be set apart. By the Scripture, all men be amended; weak men be strengthened, and strong men be comforted. So that, surely none be enemies to the reading of God's word, but such as either be so ignorant, that they know not how wholesome a thing it is; or else be so sick, that they hate the most comfortable medicine that should heal them; or so ungodly, that they would wish the people still to continue in blindness and ignorance of God."-Homily on reading of Holy Scripture, Part ii.

We are tempted, before we quit this part of our subject, to send Dr. Maltby, for farther instruction upon it, to two of our modern poets. Mr. Crabbe, in the true spirit of a Christian minister, speaking of his illiterate country school-mistress, remarks:

"And what her learning? 'Tis with awe to look

In every verse throughout one sacred book: From this her joy, her hope, her peace, is sought;

This she has learned, and she is nobly taught."

In the same strain, the seraphic Cowper describes

"Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins, all her little store""Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible

true,

A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew : And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes

Her title to a treasure in the skies.”—
"Oh bless'd effect of penury and want!
The seed sown there, how vigorous in the
plant!

No soil like poverty for growth divine,
As leanest land supplies the richest wine.
Earth gives too liule, giving only bread,
To nourish pride or turn the weakest head.
Seems, what it is, a cap and bell for tools.
To them the sounding jargon of the schools
The light they walk by, kindled foin above,
Shews them the shortest way to light and
love:

They, strangers to the controversial field, Where deists, always foil'd, yet storn tu yield,

And never check'd by what impedes the

wise,

Believe, rush forward, and possess the prize."

COWPER's Truth.

Of the many extraordinary circumstances connected with Dr. Maltby's work, it is surely not one of the least surprising, that the ultimate bearing of his pamphlet is to extol the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. What, then, is the reasonable inference? Does the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge maintain that the whole of the Bible is neither "necessary nor intended for the use of all classes of mankind?" That "out of sixtysix books, not above seven in the Old Testament, nor above eleven in the New, appear to be calculated for the study or comprehension of the unlearned?" That" the mass of mankind ought no more to expect to understand the prophecies of Ezekiel, or the Epistles of St. Paul, than the tragedies of Eschylus, or the Letters of Cicero and Pliny?" and, by consequence, that many portions of the Scripture, appointed to be read in our churches, should never reach the ears of the poor? Would the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge propose to substitute for the entire copy of the Scriptures "a volume judiciously selected from Cappe's Life of Christ "the work of an avowed Socinian? Are these the arguments by which they would expect to recommend themselves to the patronage of a Christian public? Are these the measures by which they intend to form the principles of the rising generation; to train them to all virtue and godliness of living? No: we are well persuaded that the Society will not lend themselves to so unworthy a system. The attack of Dr. Maltby on the Bible Society, is also an attack upon them: they, too, have dispersed the whole of the Scriptures for upwards of a century, without note or comment; and even to this hour, they circulate the Book of Genesis, and the Psalms, and the writings of the Prophets and Apostles, without one apparent

feeling of remorse, or any expectation of evil. Yet we know not by what rule of consistency some opponents of the Bible Society could censure our conduct, if we should charge upon the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, the strange language which has been held by certain of its advocates. If an injudicious assertion, whether correctly reported or not is of very little consequence, should be attributed, even in the columns of a newspaper, to a friend of the Bible Society, some doughty controversialist is always at hand to visit the offence, not upon the individual merely, but also upon the institution: the Society' itself seems to be considered as responsible for all the sentiments, or alleged sentiments, of all its friends. If the advocates of the Bible Society should adopt the same rule of judgment, is there any absurdity, whether of fact or reasoning, which they might not charge home upon the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge? The articles of their belief, and the divergencies of their reasoning, if extracted from the conflicting creeds and irregular sallies of their friends, would be highly amusing: and Dr. Maltby himself would add not a little to the entertainment. into that subject we will not enter: and the only reason which has induced us even to mention it, is this: to display the extreme unfairness with which the Bible Society has been treated in certain recent publications; and, if possible, to introduce a better taste, sounder principles of reasoning, and a more correct distribution, whether of censure or of praise.

But

There is, however, another view of the subject, which we are unwilling to omit. It has lately been very much the fashion to attack, as en thusiasts, as enemies to good sense and good works, a certain body of men, who are known by the title of Evangelical Clergymen. The way in which the attack is conducted is this: All who agree in some general principles, such as the doctrines

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