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"O Sun!-O Moon!-ye Stars, that move on high, To sounds of heavenly minstrelsy,

In mystic dance; and ye that silent beam,

Join all! O Earth repeat the song;

And thou, O heav'n! the grateful strain prolong, While all creation lists the joy-inspiring theme.

"Hail then again, all hail, ambrosial Light!
That, darting thro' the mists of night,
Fill'st all with joy, around, beneath, above;
Hail to thy heart-enlivening beam,

Fair emanation of the Light Supreme;
Emblem of bliss diyine-of more than mortal love.

"For as thy radiance, breaking on the night, Puts all her shadowy hosts to flight,

Thus at the dawning of Religion's ray,

The darkling mists of Ignorance shall fly,

The Light himself shall shine, and bending from the sky, Bid spread th' ethereal blaze in one unclouded day!"

INSCRIPTION

Placed over the grave of Miss SOPHIA MANT, daughter of the Rev. Dr. MANT, of Southampton, who died on the 17th of June, aged 24 years, and was buried at that place.

Here within this hallow'd earth,

Near the spot which gave thee birth,

(So thy parting voice desir'd)

Sleep from public haunts retir'd.

Sleep beloved!--footstep rude,

Never on thy rest intrude!

But we thy friends will softly tread,
And bless the ground where thou art laid.

O! then the stealing tear shall tell
The worth of thee we lov'd so well;
And holier thoughts shall soothe our care,
While thus we breathe the humble pray'r.

Harmless

Harmless as was thy life's brief day,
So pass my peaceful hours away!
And when my evening shall decline,
May my last end be calm as thine!

CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.

E beg leave earnestly to re

Wcommend at this season, a

very excellent Institution, established in London in 1802, under the name of the COAL SOCIETY, for supplying the poor with fuel during the inclemency of the winter months. The general subscription to this benevolent charity being only half a guinea a year, will enable every humane person to bestow

essential comfort on that useful class of society, the labouring poor, at a little expence.

Plans and rules of the Society may be obtained gratis of Messrs. Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church-yard; Mr. Hatchard's, 90, Piccadilly, and of Mr. Pears, Rockingham-row, Newington-butts, (where the Committee meet).

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Sermon preached in the past church of St. Mary's Stafford, at the Visitation held by the Archdeacon, August 8, 1804. By the Rev. Edward Whitby, vicar of Seichford, pulished at the request of the Archdeacon, 8vo.

Dissertations, Essays, and Sermons, by the late George Bingham, B.D. to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, &c. &c. by his son, Peregrine Bingham, L.L.B.

Baptismal Faith explained, a Ser mon preached before the University of Cambridge, April 1804, by Robert Tyrwhitt, M.A.

The Religion of the Closet, a Sermon preached at a meeting of the assembled churches of Hampshire, held at Gosport, October

1804.

A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures, being an attempt to explain the Bible, in a familiar way, adapted to common apprehensions, and according to the

opinions of approved Commentators. By Mrs. Trimmer, Author of Sacred History, &c. &c.

Sermons altered and adapted to an English pulpit, from French writers, by Samuel Partridge, M. A. F. S. A. vicar of Boston, &c. 8vo.

A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's on Monday, November 5, 1804, by the Rev. Henry Phillpotts, M. A. of St. Mary, Magdalen College, and vicar of Kilmersdon in the county of Somerset, 4to.

Sermons on the mission and character of Christ, and on the Beatitudes, comprehending what were preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1803, at the Lecture founded by the late John Bampton, M.A. canon of Salisbury. By John Farrer, M.A of Queen's College, rector of the united parishes of St. Clement and St. Martin Orgars, London, 8vo.

UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, AND ECCLESIASTICAL

PREFERMENTS.

William Hodge, of Baliol College; George Wood, of Oriel; Powell Chichester; Guise, of Christ Church; and Mr. J. Llewellin, of Jesus College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts. Messrs. Reginald Heber of All Souls; John Harward of Trinity; and John Oliver, of Exeter College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts. Sir George Bowyer, bart. of Christ Church, was admitted B. A. Grand Compounder.

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13. The Rev. Robert Wright, M. A. of Brazennose College was admitied to the accumulated degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity, Grand Compounder. The Rev. Thomas Brooke, student in law, of Exeter College, was admitted Bachelor in Law. The Hon. Lawrence Pleydell Bouverie, B.A. of Merton College, was admitted M. A. Messrs. Charles Warneford, of Exeter College, and Thomas Carpenter of Worcester College, were admitted Bachelors of Arts.

Cambridge, Dec. 21. Sir Henry Smyth, bart. of Trinity Hall; the Hon. Hugh Percy, of St. John's

Fey; The Hon. George Lambe, of Trinity College, son of Lord Mel bourne; and the Hon. Philip Sydney Pierrepoint, of St. John's Col lege, son of Lord Newark, were admitted honorary Masters of Arts.

Mr. William Wavell of Caius College was adınitted Bachelor of Physic; and the Rev. Joseph Stephen Pratt, of Trinity Hall, and the Rev. Charles Hawkins of Trinity College, to the degree of Bachelor in Civil law.

The Rev. Thomas Barrow, M. A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, is presented by the Provost and Fellows of that Society to the valuable rectory of Greenford Magna in Middlesex, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Manle

The Rev. William Thistlethwaite of Thurston, Leicestershire, is appointed one of the domestic chaplains to the Duke of Roxburgh.

The Rev. Thomas Butt, M. A. of Christ Church, Oxford, is instituted to the living of Talgarth, in Brecknockshire,on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Wind

sor.

MONTHLY OBITUARY,

truth.

The two Royal

ATCypenham, in bis 89th year, tions of From and Love's Founda

occasioned by a razure against a
chair in reaching a book off the
shelf, Jacob Bryant, Esq. famous
for his extensive learning, erudi-
tion, and profound researches after
Vol Vii, Churchm. Mag. Dec. 1804,

Cambridge, boast, and with great reason, of this great scholar and ornament of his age. He was elected from Eton to King's A. D 1736; and proceeded to the dePpp

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grees of B. A. in 1740, and M. A. in 1744. He attended his Grace the present Duke of Marlborough and his brother Lord Charles Spencer, to Eton as private tutor, and instilled (as might be expected) the best principles into the minds of his noble pupils, who have both steadily pursued the paths of virtue and honour and piety. The present head of that illustrious house is an example of excellence and dignified worth. Mr. Bryant proved a most valuable acquisition to that noble family, who well knew how to appreciate his worth, and rewarded him accordingly. The late Duke of Marlborough loved and esteemed him; and Mr. Bryant as private secretary, accompanied the Duke till his death in his campaign on the Continent, where his Grace had the command of the British forces. His Grace also promoted him to a lucrative appointment in the Ordnance-office, when he was Master-general, Mr. B's first work published was his "Observations and Enquiries relating to various Parts of ancient History; containing Dissertations on the Wind Euroclydon, and on the island Melita; together with an Account of Egypt in its most early State, and of the Shepherd Kings, 1767." But his grand work was "A new System, or an Analysis of antient Mythology; wherein an attempt is made to divest Tradition of Fable, and to reduce Truth to its original purity. Vol. I. II. 1774, III. 1776, 4to." His Reply to the Dutch review of it. In this analysis is given an history of the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Canaanites, Helladians, Jonians, Leleges, Dorians, Pelasgi, &c. Various were his other useful labours, the fruits of which have appeared from time to time in the literary world. He was engaged deeply and earnestly in the Rowleian con

troversy, in which he was assisted by communications from his learned and excellent friend, the late Dr. Glynn, of King's College, Cambridge, who may truly be styled the Delicia of that famous University. Mr. B's treatises against Dr. Priestley and Thomas Paine must not be omitted; and, amidst all his other works, we must distinguish with peculiar regard, his treatise on the Christian Religion, in the possession of which every family would find its advantage. His "Dissertations on Balaam, Sampson, and Jonah," are extremely curious and admirable; also his "Observations on famous controverted passages in Josephus and Justin Martyr." What has more particularly of late engaged the attention of the Literati is hiş "Dissertation on the Trojan War and the Expedition of the Grecians, as described by Homer;" together with that on a description of the plain of Troy by Mons. Le Chevalier, and upon the vindication of Homer by J. B. S. Morrit, Esq. The first volume of the exposition of the Duke of Marlborough's splendid edition of his invaluable collection of Gems was executed in Latin by this learned gentleman, and translated intą French by the late Dr. Maty. The Latin exposition of the second volume his Grace devolved on Dr. Cole, prebendary of Westminster; and Mr. Dutens translated it into French. Mr. Bryant was never married. He was of sedentary habits in his riper years, though active and expert in youthful exercises as an Etonian; when, by his expertness in swimming, he had the happiness of saving the valua ble life of Dr. Barnard, after wards provost of Eton. Mr. Bryant preserved his eminent superiority of talents to the last days of his long life, which was devoted to literature; and his studies were

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for the most part directed to the detection of error and the investi

gation of truth. His conversation was full of spirit, pleasing, and instructive. His acquaintance and friends were choice, yet numerous, as his society was courted and enjoyed by al distinguished literary personages in his neighbourhood. Such was the high character he sustained, that even Majesty itself has frequently condescended to visit the humble retreat of this venerable sage at Cypenham. He was uniformly a faithful and true servant of God, by whose mercy he was blessed with fulness of days, comforts, and honours. His attainments were peculiar to himself; and, in point of classical erudition, he was perhaps without an equal in Europe. He had in his life-time presented many of his valuable books to his Majesty, and his Caxtons to the Marquis of Blandford.

The titles of such of his publications as are not already enumerated above are,

"A Vindication of the Apamean Medal, and of the Inscription NOE; together with an illustration of another coin struck at the same place in honour of the Emperor Severus." In the Archæo logia, vol. IV. art. 21, 22. and 23; and a separate 4to, 1775.

"An Address to Dr. Priestley, on the Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity illustrated 1780." pamphlet, 8vo.

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"Vindicia Flaviana; or, a Vindication of the Testimony given by Josephus concerning our Saviour Jesus Christ, 1780," 8vo.

“Observations on the Poems of Thomas Rowley; in which the authenticity of these Poems is ascertained, 1781," 2 vols. 12mo.

"Collections on the Zingara, or Gipsey Language." Archæalogia, VII. 387.

"Gemmarum antiquarum delcctus ex præstantioribus desumptus in Dactylotheca Ducis Mariburiensis 1783," fol, The gems ex quisitely engraved by Bartolozzi.

"A Treatise on the authenticity of the Scriptures, and the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1792," 8vo.

"Observations upon the Plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians; in which is shewn the Peculiarity of those Judgments, and their Correspondence with the Rites and idolatry of that people; with a prefatory Discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt, 1794," 8vo.

"Observations upon a Treatise, intituled, Description of the Plain of Troy, by Mons. Le Chevalier, 1795," 4to.

"A Dissertation concerning the war of Troy, and the Expedition of the Grecians, as described by Homer; shewing that no such Expedition was ever undertaken, and that no such city in Phrygia existed, 1796, 4to.

"The Sentiments of Philo Ju-`* dæus concerning the Aorož, or Word of God; together with large extracts from his Writings, compared with the Scriptures, on many other particular and essential Doctrines of the Christian Religion, 1797," 8vo.

"Mr. B. had a youthful fancy and a playful wit, with the mind and occasionally with the pen of a poet. His first publication was calculated to throw light on the history of the ancient kingdom of Egypt, as well as the history of the Assyrians, Chaldæans, Babylonians, Edomites, and other nations. It contains dissertations on the word Euroclydon, and on the island Melite; together with an account of Egypt in its most early state, and of the shepherd kings, with a statement of the time of Ppp 2 their

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