near becoming minister of Jewry Strect Chapel, and had purchased the organ, which was built for the little Minories Church." The names of the actual ministers of this Chapel, from the period of its becoming such to that of this publication, are William Aldridge, Richard Povah, and John Ball. Mr. Aldridge was one of Lady Huntingdon's students. He left her connexion and became in 1776 stated minister at Jewry Street, where he continued till his death in 1797. He published a funeral sermon on the death of his patroness, the Countess of Huntingdon, and " The Doctrine of the Trinity stated, proved, and defended." He was occasionally assisted by "a Mr. Bryan," also a student at Trevecca, who obtained holy orders from Erasmus, a Greek Bishop, who visited London in the year 1763, and ordained several persons that could not procure ordination from the English Bishops. Mr. Bryan became minister of a congregation at Sheffield, but "was afflicted for many years, at intervals, with an unhappy dejection of spirits, which bordered upon derangement." Mr. Povah was introduced to the ministry by means of Lady Huntingdon after his settlement at Jewry Street, he conformed to the Church of England and endeavoured to put the chapel under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London; this being resisted by the trustees, led to the resignation of his charge. He then became curate and lecturer of St. James's, Duke's Place; and has since, we believe, been harassed by proceedings against him in the spiritual court on the ground of his being heretical in his notions of baptism. 66 Mr. John Ball was designed for the water," and "spent a part of his youth upon the river Thames," but, diverted from his original calling, entered Dr. Addington's Academy at Mile End, and after various ministerial engagements settled at Jewry Street, where the History leaves him. "In 1807, Mr. Ball took up the cudgels in defence of the Rev. Rowland Hill," in a pamphlet in answer to "An Admonitory Epistle." (See M. Repos. II. 437. This pamphlet is said by Mr. Wilson to have been written in an ill temper." The importance of the former part of this article in the History, must plead our apology for devoting to it so many of our pages. Our notices of the remaining historical and biographical articles will be more brief; we anticipate less and less occasion for animadversions on the historian. ART. III.-A Solemn Review of the Custom of War; shewing that War is the Effect of popular Delusion; with a Proposal for a Remedy, 8vo. pp. 16. [Price 3d. or 2s. 6d. per Dozen.] Souter, Paternoster Row. Tracts of the Society for preventing HIS is the first number of the War. We hail the rise of such a Society, and insert with pleasure the three first Resolutions of the persons composing it, explanatory of its object:— "London Coffee House, "March 20, 1816. "At a meeting of friends to the principle of this Society, Sir Richard Phillips having been invited to take the chair, the following Resolutions were passed:— "1. That a Society be now formed whose object it shall be to circulate knowledge among all nations, on subjects of public morality, on the folly, inutility and wickedness of war, and on the obligations of governments not to appeal to the sword on slight occa sions, on questions of equivocal policy, or for the gratification of pride, revenge or ambition. "2. That to guard the proposed Society against misrepresentations, it is deemed proper to declare that its purpose is of a nature purely moral; that it addresses itself to no particular party, either religious or political; and that it will on no occasion mix itself with questions of temporary and local politics. "3. That some approved tract, tending to promote the objects of this Society, shall be published every three months." The only name as yet published in connexion with the Society is that of the Chairman, who offers to give information concerning the Institution to such as may apply to him for it. The same information may be obtained of the publisher of this tract, who is also appointed general publisher to the Society. We trust, however, that more efficient means will be adopted to make the Society known, and to secure the patronage of the moral and Christian Review.-Taylor's Letter to a Daughter.-Fox's Sermon for Dr. Powell. 347 public. Subscriptions are invited for the sake of enabling the Society to make a gratuitous distribution of their publications; these will not we dare say, be withheld; but they cannot be expected to any great amount, unless the several officers of the Society give their names to the world. This step, therefore, we recommend them instantly to adopt; taking it for granted that the names are wisely selected, so as to preclude the suspicion of party views and interested motives. The Solemn Review, as we learn from our correspondent, Mr. Scargill (see p. 332), is an American publication, the first-fruits of the Massachusett's Peace Society. The English Society could not have chosen a better tract to head their publications. It is wellwritten and ably argued, and though temperate, contains such appeals to the better feelings of mankind in favour of peace as can scarcely be resisted. We hope that there are few of our readers who will not procure it and put it in circulation. The American Peace Societies (for we reckon that they have multiplied since the date of the last dispatches from America) have originated in New England, amongst that part of the people of the United States, who opposed the late war with England, and who have generally been distinguished from the majority of their countrymen by their Anglican predilections and politics. If in England the same institutions should be established by persons not usually concurring in the public policy of the government, the fair conclusion will be, not that peace and republicanism are kindred objects of desire (history has shewn them commonly dissociated), but that the objection, on whatever grounds, to any particular war, sharpens the understanding and quickens the feelings, to a perception of the injustice and an abhorrence of the iniquity of all war, by whomsoever and wheresoever and for what purposes soever waged. The English have for years been accustomed to extol the wisdom and virtue of the American New Englanders, and we trust that they will not abate in their admiration and esteem of that portion of the population of the United States, now that they are happily converting their politics into morality, and sublimating the spirit of party into pure philanthropy. The Society announce for publication on the first of August a second Tract, consisting of Extracts from Grotius on Peace and War, in the same form and at the same price, as the "Solemn Review." ART. IV. The Value of a Child; or, ter. By John Taylor, D. D. of Norwich. 12mo. pp. 34. Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor. Sold by R. Hunter, St. Paul's Church Yard. 1816. HIS treatise, now presented anew THIS to the public in a very elegant form, by the hand of filial piety, was written by Dr. Taylor in 1748, and addressed to his daughter, Mrs. Rigby, of Chowbent in Lancashire, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Taylor, of Norwich, on the birth of their first children. It has been long out of print and sometimes anxiously inquired after. In so small a compass, it is impossible to imagine more sound moral instruction. We recommend the tract especially to those who are entering, or have but lately entered, into the parental relation. The following maxim is worthy of Dr. Taylor's well known liberality of spirit: "The justest notions attended with the virulence of bigotry are but as generous wine turned into the sourest vinegar." P. 28. ART. V.-A Sermon delivered at the THIS HIS is an elegant tribute of affection and respect to the memory of a gentleman who seems to have been worthy of the choicest offerings of friendship. There is prefixed to the sermon the interesting sketch of Dr. Powell's life and character, by an able pen, which appeared in the obituary of our last number (p. 298). Bade on her guests the friendly mansion smile; A husband's happy hours who late would share, Or every grief with lenient arts beguile. Her's was the charming sympathy of joy, Yet her's full many a piercing pang to feel, As long beside a sister's hapless boy, She watch'd life's quiv'ring lamp with all a parent's zeal. And now, affection's soothing arts to prove, love, Shall with thy sire's departing pray'r aseend. Nor vainly lavish'd thy maternal care, rays, If virtue, knowledge, health, our offspring share, And, haply, theirs to welcome brighter days. Yet meddling men.'ry, busy o'er the past, The truth severe 'twas ours, alas! to know. And still the silent sorrow we partake, Till number'd days expend our tale of time; Oft as lov'd scenes regretful thoughts awake, That widely wander o'er a distant clime. Yet, hail the light from heav'n-the vision fair, That raptur'd seers to human hope display; Lo! man restor'd-the end of pain and care, less child, For all the former things are pass'd Yet hark! what strains the heav'n-taught Poetry.-An Aspiration.-Evening of an Unimproved Day.-Vale Crucis. 349 That erst, by Tigris' or Euphrates' stream, Bloom'd life unwith'ring o'er the favour'd ground: Since hope, illumin'd by a ray divine, Can the new Eden's verdant bow'rs explore : Say,-could'st thou, fearless, yield thy breath, And, tranquil, lay thee down in death? There shall, again, earth's sever'd pilgrims Thy feet have run th' appointed race? join, A. The Evening of an Unimproved Day. Beyond the western bound'ry bright, The radiant sun retires; And fading with the fading light, Another day expires. Now deep'ning shadows veil the sky, And if in fair proportion just, The pictur'd form appear; Thou, conscience! faithful to thy trust, If passion's wild distorted mien If sloth be there, with languid eye, And forms of sorrow and of shame Lo-thrall'd by sloth, enchantress strong, O rouse thee yet! while yet from heav'n Is lent a day-an hour! Thou know'st that not to thee was giv'n Spell-bound, in death-like sleep it lies; Burst with strong hand the galling chain, Look up to thy Almighty Friend, His sov'reign aid implore; All good, all perfect gifts descend From his benignant pow'r. Now to thy silent couch retire, And may these thoughts thy breast inspire When new-born morning glows. VALE CRUCIS, S. Written for The Welsh Songs, by William Stanley Roscoe, Esq. Vale of the cross, the shepherds tell, Vale of the cross, the shepherds tell, OBITUARY. On Tuesday the 28th May, at Belvedere House, Bath, aged 12 years and 9 months, FRANCES, youngest daughter of Mr. ToMAS FISHER, of Dorchester, a child in whose ingenuous mind the opening buds of every virtue had promised an abundant source of comfort and enjoyment to her affectionate parents and friends. She was for the first time absent from the paternal roof, and had been under the tuition of Mrs. Broadhurst only two months, when, apparently in good health, she experienced an attack of epilepsy, which soon terminated her happy life: two days after the Brst seizure, unconscious of the presence of her adectionate relatives who surrounded the dying pillow, her pure spirit bade an eternal adieu to the sorrows of mortality, and returned to God who gave it. Her afflicted parents do not-cannot murmur that this choice blessing is withdrawn from them; it is the will of heaven, and they desire cahaly to resign her to her God. It is not wished ostentatiously to eulogise the memory of so yonng a person, by describing the attractions of a peculiarly amiable disposition, engaging manners, turd a sweet susceptibiky to all that was endearing, vir nous and good, but the recol lection of these interesting characteristics is highly edusolatory to her parents. Over such a tomb wature and affection are all lowed to weep, and longer would they weep, but, thanks to the înfinite goodness of our gracious God! the sun of righteousness arises to dissipate the sepulchral gloom, and the exulting hope of immortality leads parents, children and friends to anticipate the glorious morning of that eternal day which will reunite them in the regions of permanent and purer love. An additional consolation would it afford them, if this instance of sudden removal from the bosom of earthly affection, should induce any young persons so to regulate their tempers and habits, so to cultivate a fitness for the future state, as to ensure their surviving relatives the delightful hope of witnessing and enjoying their progressive improvement and perfection in another and a better world, which is to them the greatest possible source of comfort. Long as the memory of this lamented object of their affection will be cherished by her parents and their surviving children, they cannot fail to associate with it the kind and sympathizing attention of those to whose care she was entrusted, and the affectionate solicitude, the maternal tenderness of her instructress, which so well compensated for an own mother's love, will ever claim their warmest gratitude and respect. June 14, after a short illness, at II”inkfield Green, near Bradford, aged 67, the Rev. DAVID EVANS, of Bath, upwards of forty years Minister to the Society of Unitarian Dissenters at Marshfield, Gloucestershire. A correspondent says, “the remembrance of his virtues through life, and pious resignation in the hour of death, is the only consolation that can be offered to those now mourning his loss. His life was spent in the acquisition of liberal and useful knowledge, and in the cultivation of those strong and vigorous powers of intellect with which he was endowed. He was a firm believer in Christianity, not upen the authority of creeds and councils, but from an attentive and diligent perusal of the Sacred Writings. In him civil and religious liberty, and freedom of inquiry, have lost one of their most zealous and enlightened advocates." Examiner, June 23. We have the melancholy task of inserting among the Deaths of the month, that of our respected friend and valued correspondent, the Rev. JEREMIAH JOYCE, of Nighgate, Minister of the Unitarian Congregation, Hampstead, Secretary of the Unitarian Society, and Author of many useful and popular Works. He died quite suddenly on Friday evening, tire 21st instant. In the morning of the same day, he had written to us a friendly letter on the subject of the article on Natural Theology, of which he was the author, and which he promised to continue next month! How strikingly is vanity written upon all that is human! We shall hereafter, doubtless, insert a more full account of our lamented friend. INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. RELIGIOUS. Unitarian Fund. The Anniversary of this Society was held on Wednesday the 5th instant. The religious service was carried on as usual in Mr. Vidler's Chapel, Parliament Court, Artillery Lane. In the absence of Mr. Vidler, through ill health, which we lament to say has been of long continuance, Mr. Rees officiated in the desk. Mr. B. Goodier, late of the Unitatarian Academy, prayed |