folatory to reflect, that the damage and lofs fuftained have been found to fall fhort of what our fears apprehended; that they are not fo exceffive and overwhelming as to be beyond the reach of the hand of charity to alleviate at leaft, if not to repair. And fhall we not be thankful for these things? It is of the Lord's mercies that we were not confumed." Praife the Lord, O our fouls, and all that is within us, praife his holy name. Praise the Lord, Oour fouls, and forget not all his benefits." P. 11.

We

The preacher then confiders and inculcates the particular duties incumbent on his hearers under their prefent circumftances. heartily with that this truly pious difcourfe may find many readers, and among them not a few charitable benefactors.

ART. 22. A Concife Manual of the Principles and Duty of a Chriftian; collected from the Scriptures, and arranged under proper Heads, after the Manner of Gaftrell's Inflitutes: and an Appendix," confifting of felect, moral, and devotional jalms, to be committed to Memory: with suitable Prayers annexed. By the Rev. John Maule, A. M. Rector of Horje-Heath, in Cambridgeshire; and Chaplain of Greenwich Hofpital. 12mo. 192 pp. Riving

tons. 1810.

The title-page fo fully fets forth the nature of this compilation,: that we have little more to do than to give Mr. Maule credit for. the pains he has taken; and recommend the book to all those who are able to appreciate the proper force of the following maxim of the great Chillingworth, very fitly infifted upon in the preface of the Rev. Editor; namely, that "we cannot speak of the things of God better than in the words of God." The felection and arrangement appear to us to be unexceptionable; and therefore we are happy to announce its publication, as well anfwering its own title, viz. that of a concife Manual of the Faith and Duty of a Chrif tjan."

ART. 23. The Duties of the Clergy: a Sermon, preached at the Vifitation of the Rev. James Phillott, D. D. Archdeacon of Bath, on Wednesday, June 27, 1810. By the Rev. R. Warner, Curate of St. James's, Bath; and Rector of Great Chalfield, Wilts. 8vo. 26 pp. Is. 6d. Wilkie and Co. 1810.

When we meet with the work of a perfon, from whom we have fometimes been obliged to differ, we are particularly pleafed to find, that we are for this time enabled to agree with him; which muft of itself repel the fufpicion of any thing perfonal in the cenfures we may before have beflowed. Such is the cafe with the prefent Sermon. There is nothing in it which does not appear to us found, and, in its way, excellent. The preacher very juftly explains the nature of Chriftian morality, and illuftrates the duties incumbent. upon the Clergy, both from his text, 1 Tim. iv. 16.) and from

04

another

another part of the fame Epiftle. In every part his arguments are clear, and his illustrations appofite.

ART. 24. A Sermon preached before the Rev. James Phillott, D.D. Archdeacon of Bath, and the Clergy of the Deanery of Bedminster, at Bedminster Church, June 28, 1810. By the Rev. William Shaw, D. D. Rector of Chelvey, Somerset, 8vo. 22 pp. Is. 6d. Longman and Co. 1810.

Another Sermon, produced on occafion of the fame Vifitation. In this publication, the first thing that ftrikes the eye is the long prayer prefixed. It differs a good deal from the ufual form of the prayer before fermons; but though we delight not particu. larly in fuch deviations, there is nothing in this objectionable.

The Sermon of this preacher is on the enquiry after truth; which he finds, where alone it can be found, in the Christian doctrine. He is very fevere against thofe, who, as he rather pedan tically expreffes it," preach Chrift to make ufe of his name as a charm, to erect his doctrines as the labarum and badge of a party, entertain you with unintelligible descriptions of an unintelligible faith, to abound in unfavoury fimilies ;" and he points out with force fome of their peculiarities. To other diffenters he is fufficiently liberal, and protests not only against pains and penalties, which we alfo renounce, but againft difqualifications alfo, which certainly may be made neceffary by circumftances; which our ancestors felt to be neceffary; and concerning which, before we undo the work of our ancestors, we ought certainly to take very mature delibe. ration.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 25. The County Annual Register; for the Year 1809. Containing the public and private Annals of the English Provinces, arranged under the Names of the Counties to which they refpectively belong, and divided into fix general Departments; viz. 1. Public Business. 2. Civil and criminal Jurisprudence. 3. Chronicle. 4. Political Economy. 5. Mifcellanies. 6. Bic graphy. Also the Principality of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies. Royal 8vo. 11. 4s. Longman and Co. 1810.

If fome works fail from a deficiency of materials, this is more likely to be overwhelmed by the redundancy of them. Nor fhould we differ from the eminent critic mentioned in the preface, who expreffed" unqualified furprise that a publication of fuch obvious utility" fhould hitherto be wanting, except from the extreme difficulty of having it properly executed. It would, however, be injuftice not to fay, that in this firft fpecimen a vast deal has been done. The arrangement is excellent, and it has been in

moft

moft inftances well filled up. There is a further divifion into fix parts, which is not noticed in the title. Part 1. contains Middlefex alone; the next three parts an irregular, and, as it appears, accidental divifion of the rest of the English counties. Part 5. Wales. Part 6. Scotland and the Colonies. This has probably been done for the convenience of printing different parts at once. The columns are numbered inftead of the pages; but there is an irregularity in one or two places, which prevents us from afcertaining the exact number. It seems to be a material ómiffion, that no diftinct part is given to the Eaft Indies. An index feems alfo to be much wanted to fuch a work, but difficult to form. Perhaps an index to the biography would be the most defirable part to the public at large, and might be eafily made.

Errors, in fo various a work, must be unavoidable; but the chief which has ftruck our attention is the putting Mifs Seward, the poetefs, in Warwickshire, with which the had no connection. She was born in Derbyshire, as the Memoirs themselves ftate, and lived and died in Staffordshire; namely, at Lichfield. We muft fay, however, that great diligence feems in general to have been ufed in this department. One difgraceful feature of this volume is owing lefs to the compilers than to the times. It exhibits the detail of all the foolish proceedings on the addreffes to Mr. Wardle, of which, we thould fuppofe, even the agents in them muft now be afhamed. But they muft thank themselves that they are thus "written down," as Dogberry fays.

ART. 26. A Minute Detail of the Attempt to affaffinate His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland; and of the Facts, Circumftances, and Teftimonies of numerous Perfons, relating to that Event; in a Letter to W. I. Efq. preceded by the Depofitions before the Chief Magiftrate of the Police, and the Coroner; with a Plan of the Duke's Apartments in St. James's Palace. 8vo. 109 pp. J. J. Stockdale. 1810.

To revive in the minds of our readers, the recollection of fo horrid an event as that here commemorated, is to us a painful tafk; and we should accordingly have declined to notice this pamphlet, had not fome publications, as we are well informed, appeared, tending to faften on innocent perfons the guilt which undoubtedly attaches to the deceafed affaffin, and probably to him alone. The circumstances detailed, and the testimonies recorded in this work, are therefore worthy of attention, not merely as a fubject of curiofity, but as tending to protect innocence, and to promote juftice, No perfon can, we think, confider them with impartiality without being convinced that the guilt of the wretched Sellis was proved, almost to demonstration, and that his murderous intention was confined to his own breaft. Those readers, therefore, who have not feen any clear account of the tranfaction, may find it here, elucidated by a plan of the Royal

Duke's

Duke's apartments, where the fcene took place, and accompanied with remarks, (generally fpeaking) appofite and juft.

ART. 27. Legs d'un Pere à fes Filles. Traduit de l'Anglais. Du Dr. Gregory, d'Edinbourgh, par C. Douffet. Londres.

We can have no hesitation in recommending this little work to the notice of the public, not only on account of the great merit of the original, the spirit of which is admirably preferved in the tranflation, but as calculated to be of great ufe both to teachers and learners of the French language. The motives which induced M. Douffet to engage in fuch a work, as flated by himfelf in the preface, will beft explain what we mean. He tells us, that having often had to fuperintend the attempts of his pupils, to render into French the original of Dr. Gregory, he has been fometimes too haftily compelled, as it were, to find for them equi valent terms, which for want of time and confideration, have not afterwards appeared to him fo full and perfect as he could have wifhed. It is obvious that this is a cafe likely to happen to any inftructor in foreign languages, and it is no matter of wonder therefore that many of them fhould feel, what M. Douffet can, didly acknowledges to have felt; namely, that with all his care during the limited allotment of time in a common leffon, he had left imperfect tranflations of a good book in the hands of his pupils.. To remedy this evil, by applying his leifure moments to the ob ject of a more careful and perfect tranflation, he has gone through the whole, in a way more fatisfactory to himself, and we will venture to fay, of confiderable utility to thofe for whom it is par ticularly defigned; namely, young ladies juft entering into the world, and defirous of making a proficiency in the French language...

ART. 28. British Chronology: or a Catalogue of Monarchs from the Invafion of Julius Cæfar, to the Conquest of William, Duke of Normandy; to which are added Chronological Tables of English Hiftory, from the Conqueft to the present Reign. Calculated to afford Alliance to Young Students of either Sex, who are defirous of attaining a Knowledge of the Annals of their Country. By the Rev. George Whittaker, A. M. Domeftic Chaplain of the most Noble the Marquis of Lansdown, and Master of the Grammar School in Southampton. 12mo. 72 PP. Is. 6d. Law.

1808. :

Mr. Whittaker's is indeed a very humble attempt in the hif torical or rather chronological line, the first part of which confifts entirely of a few lifts of names, eafily copied from any history of England. The fecond part contains a chronological fketch of

each

each reign from the conqueft, with lifts of remarkable events and of eminent perfons. The loyal conclufion of the account of the prefent reign we cordially approve. The book may certainly ferve as a good manual for the initiation of very young pupils, and beyond that cannot much be recommended.

ART. 29. Inftructeur François, in French and English, defigned for Schools of both Sexes, and Private Learners. Intended to fimplify, by a progreffive Series of Eafy and Familiar Leffons, the Pronunciation, Spelling, Reading, and Conftruction of the French Language. By William Keegan, Master of ManorHoufe Academy, Kennington Lane; and Author of "Le Negociant Univerfel," and "Commercial Phraseology for Schools," &c. c. 12mo. 155 PP. 23. 6d. bound. Boofey, &c.

1808.

The prodigious number of grammars and initiatory books, which from time to time is produced, naturally fuggeft the idea that every teacher of any celebrity finds it anfwer beft to manufacture his own implements. Mr. Keegan has been juftly praised for his "Negociant;" of his prefent book it is fair to fay, that it is a methodical and convenient French Spelling Book. He is very careful in explaining the founds of the French letters, and we think he is in general fuccefsful: but we hefitate in the very firft vowel. He directs (as all the old books alfo do) that the French a fhould be pronounced like our aw in law. If so pâle would be founded exactly as we fpeak the proper name Paul, and fale like Saul. But will any perfon fay this, who hear the language fpoken by the modern French? Is not their pronunciation of it much more like the found of our interjection ah? Certainly by no means fo broad as our aw. The utility of the leffons partly tranflated, with gaps left here and there for the fcholar to fill up, does not very forcibly ftrike us; but Mr. Keegan may perhaps find it useful in practice.

MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

DIVINITY.

The Second Part of a Courfe of Lectures, containing a Defcription and Syftematic Arrangement of the feveral Branches of Divinity, accompanied with an Account, both of the principal Authors, and of the Progrefs which has been made at different Periods, in Theological Learning. By Herbert Marth, D.D. F.R.S. Margaret Profeffor of Divinity. 38.

The Palms evangelized, in a continued Explanation; wherein are feen the Unity of Divine Truth, the Harmony of the Old and New Teftament,