equal in power and glory, would have been equally entitled to receive it, but to the Father only; all which things are totally inconsistent with any thing like equality, which, as it does not, nor can exist, cannot, in my humble opinion, as you suppose, be essential to all our dearest hopes, nor have the slightest influence upon them. To me it appears inconceivable, how any one, after duly considering and maturely weighing the plain and positive declarations I have just cited, standing as they do upon the highest and most indisputable authority, can help seeing, that it is the Father, and the Father only, who is the great author and sovereign disposer of all things, and ISHE CHERUVIMIJ, OR, that it is he, and he only, who claims, and is entitled to, the attributes of true Deity."-Pp. 99-101. The reader will now perceive that this is a work of no common merit, and that the Unitarians are under great obligations to this new and able defender of their cause. Since the preceding account of this valuable pamphlet was drawn up, we have received a second edition of it, increased by the addition of another letter into an octavo volume, of which we shall take notice in our next Number. POETRY. THE SONG OF THE CHERUBIM: Chaunted in the Russian Churches during the procession of the Cup. See the glorious Cherubim Thronging round the Eternal's throne ; Hark! they sing their holy hymn To the unutterable One! Living Spirit, praise to Thee! Here let all be peace and joy :- Heaven-directed spirits, rise OBITUARY. 1820. April 18, aged 84, JOSEPH LIDDELL, Esq., of Moor Park, Cumberland. He was an early pupil of the Rev. Hugh Moises, in the public Grammar School of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where, having made great proficiency in the Greek and Latin Classics, he became a student in Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was of the same year with the late Bishop Watson, with whom, till late in life, he kept up an intimacy: he was also the associate of Messrs. Thorp, Jebb and other distinguished ornaments of the University at that time. He was highly valued for his eminent classical learning, and also for acuteness in metaphysical and moral investigations; nor less for the integrity of his principles and the liberality of his mind. He afterward entered at Gray's Inn, and became a Barrister; but coming in early life into the possession of an ample fortune, he did not practise as a professional lawyer, though for the accommodation of the neighbourhood he continued to the last to act as a Commissioner in cases of bankruptcy, on which occasions, however, he generally gave his fees to the bank rupt if deserving, or otherwise disposed for the relief of distress. In many other ways he turned his legal knowledge to the public benefit. As a country gentleman he was a warm supporter of the political independence of his native county, and a steady friend in general to civil and religious liberty. From his early connexions, and from his subsequent intimacy with the venerable Bishop Law, his son the Bishop of Elphin, and Archdeacon Paley, as well as with several eminent Dissenting Ministers, (Dr. Henry, the historian, then minister at Carlisle, Messrs. Robinson and Miln his successors, Mr. Lowthion, of Newcastle, &c.,) it may be presumed that he was always disposed to apply his talents and learning to the study of the Holy Scriptures under the influence of an enlarged and liberal spirit; in the prosecution of which he was led to a full conviction of the Unity and Absolute Supremacy of the One God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to an humble dependence for the hope of eternal life only on the mission, ministry, death and resurrection of Christ. other words, he firmly believed in the appeal of Christ himself to his Father, that "this is life eternal, to know the one only living and true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent;" while to others there might be gods many and lords many, to him there was but one God, In and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Being obliged, for many years, in consequence of commercial engagements in which he was involved by friendship for several near connexions, to reside a good deal at Newcastle, he was an attentive and regular hearer at the Chapel in Hanover Square there. But his was not so much a speculative as a practical religion: like his Master, it was his desire to go about doing good; and those who came before him as objects of kind assistance, he was always reluctant to reject. Few, perhaps none, probably not himself, knew to what extent he assisted his friends, and bore disappointments and heavy losses with more than common patience.—Of his charitable distributions he was never ostentatious but when he thought that any good purpose might be served by it, he was not averse to his name appearing. When he sent his second benefaction of £50 each to the Unitarian Fund, and to the York College, he wrote to the friend whom he employed to transmit it, "You know how much I abhor ostentation; but on this occasion I do not bid you conceal my name. I am not ashamed to confess before men, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers." His sun is now set, from a dignified but placid and calm retirement; illuminated in its descent by satisfactory reviews of a well-spent life, and carrying down with it the cheering light derived from the animating prospects of the gospel. He is come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in - 27, at his father's house in Lincoln'sinn-fields, Henry Cline, jun., Esq., aged 39, one of the Surgeons and one of the Lecturers in Anatomy and Surgery to St. Thomas's Hospital; eminent for his professional skill, and highly esteemed by an enlightened acquaintance for the liberality of his opinions, for the activity, vigor and inventiveness of his understanding, for his simplicity, integrity and benevolence.. Lately at Bromyard, Herefordshire, aged 76, the Rev. JOEL BANFIELD, 26 years minister of the Independent congregation of that place. INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. RELIGIOUS. The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty. THE Annual Meeting of this Society was held on Saturday, May 13th, at the London Coffee House, and although the meeting was not advertised, and the room was more capacious than the Hall at the Albion Tavern, where the former meetings were held, it was thronged to excess, and several hundred persons went away, unable to procure admission even to the passage to the room. Punctually at the early but appointed hour of eleven o'clock, Lord HOLLAND, introduced by the Rev. Mark Wilks, the Treasurer, the Secretaries, and the Committee, appeared, and amidst loud acclamations he took the Chair. He commenced the business by briefly adverting to the objects of the Society, and the cheerfulness with which he had attended to assist in their promotion: at the same time he stated, that he was not yet recovered from an attack of the gout, and was much exhausted by his exertions the preceding night in the House of Lords; so that he apprehended he might be unable to remain until the close of the meeting: but nothing except great exhaustion should induce his departure, as he should leave his heart if his person was withdrawn. (Loud applause.) THOMAS PELLATT, Esq., one of the Secretaries, then began to read the proceedings of the Committee during the past year, but was induced to suspend the reading on the suggestion of some friends, that as the crowd was great, the meeting would be satisfied with the detail which the speech expected from Mr. Wilks might supply. JOHN WILKS, Esq., the other Secretary, therefore rose amidst the long and cordial greetings of the whole assembly. He entreated their candour, from the disordered state of his spirits and his health, but proceeded to deliver an address that continued during more than three hours to captivate and astonish the audience; and which induced even the aged and the feeble, females and gentlemen, several hundreds of whom could procure no seats, to disregard all the pressures they endured. It would be a hopeless experiment to endeavour to report a speech that surpassed even the former efforts of that gentleman, which made the persons present laugh and cry, express abhorrence, and shout with applause, as the speech attempted to amuse or interest, to encourage or to excite them; and which, never allowing a suspension to a varying but continual excitement, was heard not merely with attention but with enthusiasm, and at length terminated amidst general regret. The outline only we can attempt. He first alluded to cases in which individuals and congregations improperly requested the interference of the Society. if a meeting-house was robbed of books if legacies were withheld-if trustees were negligent or hostile-if differences arose between ministers and their congregations-if private Dissenters met with private injuries, for which they might have civil redress, applications were made to the Committee, who could not interpose either with propriety or according to the rules of the Institution, and the gratuitous labours of the Secretaries were much and needlessly increased. For the Institution he did not wish to be an advocate; he would rather instruct than excite. He desired that information should be given which might enable ministers to advise their neighbours and their people, and that being instructed as to their rights and remedies, they might be able to act without requiring perpetual communications and advice. The nature and number of occurrences hostile to religious liberty during the past year would be not merely an apology for the Society, but a demonstration of its utility and importance. Among the cases that had interested the Committee might be first mentioned those of pecuniary demands, either illegally made, or as to which some alterations of the law were required. Demands of tolls on Sundays from Protestant Dissenters going or returning from public worship, had frequently been mentioned, in some instances submitted to and deplored, and in others resisted with success. The exemption from such demands depended not on a general act, but on each local statute regulating every particular road. In each case that statute must be consulted, and if advice was needed, a copy of that clause must accompany the application for advice. The exemption was important to the property and honour of Dissenters. It had been coeval with the introduction of Turnpike Acts, and was extended to them equally with the members of the Established Church. Their honour, therefore, required its perpetuity, and as the payment of tolls, doubled by most Acts on Sundays, withdrew many pounds from members of poor congregations, they were either compelled to abstain from worship or attend a church, or make pecuniary sacrifices they could not afford, or withdraw from their ministers contributions of which greatly they had need. The decision in the Wiltshire case was unfavourable, as in all cases where the words used were "going or returning to or from any parochial church, chapel, or other place of religious worship" the exemption could not be claimed if the place of worship was without the parish in which the Dissenter dwelt. In cases at Welford, Northamptonshire; Newport Pagnel, Bucks; Wareham, Dorset; Tenterden, Kent; Wrentham, Suffolk; and Brighton, the Committee could, therefore, afford no relief; but at Weymouth, an opinion was obtained for the Rev. Dr. Cracknell, who had liberally contributed to the Society, that Dissenters were there exempt, (although a different opinion had been given by Mr. Sergeant Lens,) and their right had been allowed. The Committee now, however, watched, at considerable expense and trouble, all renewals of Turnpike Acts, and procured the re-insertion of words of exemption that would be effectual, and that would restore gradually that state of exemption which, by Episcopal influence, had been intentionally, secretly, injuriously and extensively infringed. The next of the pecuniary matters affecting the Dissenters, arose from AsSESSED TAXES. Already they began to reap the harvest of past exertions. It ever afforded him pleasure to eulogize those excellent academical Institutions, in which intelligent, zealous, devout young men were prepared for the arduous duties of the Christian ministry. Those Institutions he loved, for he was a Dissenter. (Cheers.) No person could feel more attachment to the groves and halls sacred to the muses and to learning, for past pleasure and personal improvement, than he felt towards those abodes, whence proceeded men humble, but enlightened, unassuming, but well taught, who were to be the future guides and best instructors of Dissenters, and the world. (Loud cheers.) Never were they more needed, nor more useful. With those attachments and convictions, he reminded them with pleasure of the case of the academy at Idle, in Yorkshire, where the Commissioners seized the books from the library of the Institution for the Window Tax and House Tax of the apartments appropriated to students, and were compelled by the decision of the Judges to refund the levy, and to abstain from the re-assertion of their claim. (Hear, hear.) Encouraged by that decision, the Committee had, with pleasure, instructed the Rev. Mr. BULL, the excellent and indefatigable tutor of an academy at Newport Pagnell, and the Rev. Mr. FLETCHER, of Blackburn, whose talents they knew and admired, to resist similar applications; and so instructed, they had resisted similar claims, and convinced the Commissioners that they could not enforce their demand. (Applause.) Among other pecuniary demands, he had again to refer to the subject of POORS' RATES, charged on places of religious worship, belonging to Protestant Dissenters. The statement of the law on the subject, he would repeat, because he wished that they, and especially the Dissenting Ministers present, should be accurately informed. He believed it was now generally known, and universally regretted, that the trustees of Dissenting places of worship, or any occupiers beneficially interested in the receipt of pewrents from them, were liable to the payment of poors' rates in respect of the balance remaining after a deduction of the necessary expenses. His dissatisfaction with the law did not chiefly arise from the pecuniary payments extorted, although at all times, and especially in the present times, they were afflicting deductions from the incomes of men, whose recompence on earth was most inadequate, as their labours were above all praise. But his displeasure was excited by the trouble, expense and uncertainty of redress. Now on an appeal to the Sessions, the question to be decided. was the necessity of the expenses incurred. At those Sessions, Clergymen and High Churchmen officiated as Magistrates, for only Churchmen could be Justices. These men, unfriendly to Dissent-the systematic and local enemies of the appellants, were to appreciate and to fix a value upon the quantum of piety, and learning, and integrity, and zeal, and usefulness, possessed by Protestant Dissenting Ministers. (Hear, hear.) At York, the Justices had established a maximum of allowance, and affirmed, that, because some of the ministers of the Church of England accepted curacies, with salaries of £30, £40, or £50, therefore, that any further expenditure on account of ministers, among Protestant Dissenters, must be disallowed. Under such circumstances, the Committee had sometimes reluctantly advised their correspondents to abstain from appealing to the Sessions, and to endeavour, by preliminary measures, to prevent a painful and injurious defeat. (Applause.) To his friends, the Dissenting Ministers who were present at that meeting, he would say, when you receive an intimation of . the insertion of the chapel in the rate, immediately demand a copy of the rate, for if an appeal should not be made to the next Quarter Sessions, after the making of the rate, all future proceedings in respect of such rate, would be unavailing. For such copy of the rate, only 6d. could be charged for every three hundred words. (Hear.) When that copy was obtained, the first measure which should be adopted, would be to invite the assistance of some friend conversant with the parochial property. See, said Mr. Wilks, whether any property be omitted; look for the glebe; see if any pews which may be let in the Church be rated; (hear, hear, and laughter;) see whether the parsonage-house be rated; (hear:) see whether the property of the churchwardens and overseers be rated; see if any be inadequately assessed; and if any such omissions be discovered, an appeal might with propriety be commenced, and would be successfully prosecuted; and he generally found that those who had been the first to do the wrong, had been among the first to retire from the contest. (Applause.) It was a fortunate principle in our nature, that the very same money-getting, pitiful, contemptible spirit, which would stimulate to evil, repelled us from that evil which we meditated, when it would re-act upon ourselves. And he had never known a case, when that spirit of investigation had acted with vigour and promptitude, in which it had not been crowned with success. (Applause.) It had, indeed, been said, that the burden was but light. Such was not the case, for to many congregations, in villages and small towns, tottering beneath a weight already scarce sustainable, another atom made them sink; the poors' rates had increased to an extent which was most alarming; "its appetite grew ravenous with what it fed upon." (Applause.) During the past year, the Committee had received a letter from a gentleman at York, who was actively concerned for a Dissenting Chapel in that city, which he would take the liberty to read. He so read it, because it supplied to him a practical illustration of the force of principle, and of the influence of attachment to religious truth. (Hear, hear.) That letter stated, that the poors' rates amounted to between £2. 10s. and £3, per quarter, although the debt on the chapel amounted to £1500, and the receipts were far short of the expenditure. That gentleman was one of the trustees of the chapel, and with the just and honest indignation of a man of feeling, he had asked, "was that the beneficial interest, the profitable occupancy which their wise opponents had said the trustees of chapels possessed in them?" (Applause.) During the past year, applications had been received from Rev. Mr. MANNING, of Exeter, and from the Rev. Mr. ALEXANDER, of Norwich. At Moberley, near Knutsford, in Cheshire, where the salary of a minister from a small congregation, amounted to not more than £10 a-year, a vestry had been called, and it had been determined, that the little meeting-house should be rated. To the Committee the minister applied, but as Cheshire was a county distinguished for high-church politics, they advised the excellent man from a hazardous expenditure. To the advice he had assented, he admitted that Cheshire might be considered as the aristocracy of English aristocracy, and that, though it would make some diminution in his income, yet to that diminution he would submit. (Cheers.) He They had heard of the case of the Rev. ROWLAND HILL, and of the reiterated attempts which had been made to assess Surrey Chapel, and of his ultimate success. He, indeed, then wore the laurel of triumph-not the laurel stained with blood-but such a laurel as he, though a minister of the gospel of peace, could have no objection to wear upon his brow. (Applause.) The case of Mr. SLATTERIE, of Chatham, was also important. had resisted to that hour every demand for payment which had been made, and in such resistance he was determined to persevere. There was also a case of Rev. Mr. GILES, a Baptist minister at Chatham, which had been submitted to the Committee. The circumstances of that case were peculiar. Mr. Giles received a regular salary from the congregation, and as he knew that intellect was not assessable, that professional emoluments and salaries were not rateable, he had advised resistance, and he understood the attempt had not been renewed. (Applause.) From Lincoln an application had been received by a gentleman on behalf of a Wesleian Methodist Chapel in that ancient city. The Committee hesitated to interfere, not from any disrespect to that body of Dissenters, but because amongst that denomination a society was established for the defence of their peculiar rights; but from that gentleman the advice requested had not been withheld. Again would he repeat, that a firm and wise resistance would generally be attended with success. (Applause.) Nor could he better illustrate this truth than by a case at Malton. There it had been determined, that property of that description should be rated. But how did the people act? They understood that the |